Mother's Day and makeovers

My Mother's day was lovely!  Saturday night after the kids went to bed, the husband surprised me with these amazing chocolate covered strawberries.  Yum!   

Then Sunday morning I slept until 9 a.m. (!)  and woke up to these beautiful flowers and a yummy breakfast. 

We had a nice relaxing day and I loved that I didn't have to lift a finger.  ha ha  For dinner the husband made lobster tail, filet mignon, with couscous and asparagus.  Geeze he can cook!  He knows the way to my heart is through food.  Sad but true. 

I love my sweet boys so much! 

We've been working on a few home improvements lately.  The backyard has come along nicely.  Finally got rid of the stupid planter box.  Here are a few before pics:

After:

I've also been working on painting the cabinets in my bathrooms.  Well I've only done the guest one so far.  But I love how it is turning out!  Looks so much better, and such a cheap fix.. rather than getting a whole new vanity. 

Before:

This is the best before I could find!  you can hardly see the cabinet.  But it was ugly, builder's grade oak. 

After:

The husband has been working late a lot so that's what I've been doing.  Good times!

April

Drew Started T-ball!

It was so fun to watch him play.  He gained more confidence through out the season and really loved it.

Coloring Easter eggs with my sweet boys.

Easter morning:  The easter bunny brought buckets and shovels and sticker books and way too much candy. 

All ready for church:

My parents also came for a visit in April. Always good to see them! They got to go to one of Drew's games, which Drew absolutely loved. My beautiful niece, Siera, came with them. She is 13 and was an awesome help with the boys. She watched them on Friday so my Mom and I could go shopping while my Dad golfed, and Ral was working. Then Saturday my Dad was AMAZING and helped Raleigh put together his shed. It was so hot outside. They had to take a lot of breaks, but we were so thankful that my Dad was in town to help. Not sure how we would have done it otherwise!!

We also got lucky and happened to see Thomas the Train while driving through Boulder City.  The boys were so excited!  Too bad we didn't have tickets to ride him (although I was not about to buy tickets at $18 per kid, even a 2 year old!) 

March

March was a fun, busy month for us!

Grandma Lu, Papa and Grandma Smith came to visit.  We had a lovely time playing games and shopping, while the Papa and Ral went to Nascar.  I even got to take the lovely Lu and Grandma Smith to the Beatles, Love show at the Mirage.  Good times! 

They were so lovely and let us get away to celebrate our anniversary on Friday night, March 9 (actual anniversary is March 12.. 10 years baby!!) We headed down to the strip for an INCREDIBLE dinner at Mastro's Ocean Club at City Center.  Holy crap it was delicious and way too expensive (see you in another 10 years Mastro's! :))  Then we stayed over night at the Vdara.  It was so lovely to get away with my cute hubs.  Oh how I love that man!! 

 view from the room

 view of the gorgeous husband.

My cute sister Cindy and her son, Noah came to visit the third weekend in March while Raleigh was off snowboarding with some work buddies in Southern Utah.  Noah was so awesome with the boys.  He watched them on Saturday afternoon so she and I could go shopping.  He was great reading to them and building train tracks.  I felt so bad because the weather was not the greatest while she was here (actually raining!?) so some of our plans got foiled.  Wonderful to see them though!

Sorry for the crappy Cell pics. 

The last weekend in March we took the boys to the "touch a truck" show at the Orleans Arena.  Wow they were in truck heaven.  Basically they have tons of different kinds of trucks there and the kids can get in them and honk the horns, etc.  They also had this cool transformer looking monster truck that picked up a car and smashed it and ate it.  It made the boys a little nervous but they could not stop talking about it for days after. 

February

Built train tracks all over the family room:

Finally finished Andrew's race car room:

Had a surprise visit from my lovely sister Kristi and her family!  (cell phone pics from the restaurant, so nice to have the beautiful niece there to babysit so we could go out!)

Ran the color run 5K in downtown Vegas with my friend, Susana and her sister.  We had a great time! 

We're rockin those 80's plastic sunglasses! 

January recap

I suck at blogging..

Here's a few highlights from January.. 

Hiking on Sunday morning to pass the time before 1 p.m. church:

Just a little paved trail at a park near our home in Henderson. 

A sunny day in January.. we played at the park and had a picnic in the backyard!

One random Friday I took my babies on a lunch date.  We went to ride the carousel at the outlet mall and then went to Raising Cane's for lunch..  (Yes, maybe I just REALLY wanted Raising Cane's that day!)  The boys had a good time.  Oh how I love these little stinkers!

mmm...  chicken.

We also got away to St. George the last weekend in January with the lovely Wayments.  We hiked, Played at the sand dunes, played games, sat in the the hot tub, the boys golfed, etc.  Good good times!

I freaking love this last picture.  I need to blow this up and frame it.  They hold hands unprovoked!  Love those little buddies. 

And that was January in a nutshell!