A Summer of Posts Part 1

MAY: My Birthday

I celebrated my 27th Birthday with a nice crab dinner made by Zac thanks Sweetheart! Zac surprised me with a ticket to go see Carrie Underwood with one of my best friends from Newport Sara and My mom sooo excited can't wait!!!

Had to add this picture because it was so cute Hudson said I had to have something on my cake so he went and got a superhero toy to put on top! loved it soooo cute

Sara had this all set up with a little helpful package from my MOM thanks mom it felt like you were with us even though you were miles away!

We had a fun girls night with yummy food, and fun watching Bachelor it was a great night thanks Sara and Mindy and MOM:)

June:Twin GIRLS shower for KIM

Kim came to visit for Father's Day and Mom and I and Amanda got to throw her a baby shower for her Twin baby GIRLS Paris and Vienna! can I just say we had soooo much fun preparing for this shower! It had been a while since we had a Girl shower and we def. pulled out all the stops honestly how could we not :) so we had a nice brunch and had made two diaper cakes I love how they turned out and the shoes LOVE THEM. Can't wait to see the Beautiful Girls in Sept!

Kim look fabulous btw Amanda and Kim are due 5 days apart except Amanda is have just 1 a Boy can't wait babies babies babies for our family!

My gift to Kim I made Tutu's for each little beauty and matching headbands it was hard for me to part with them! can't wait to see them in pictures of the Paris and Vienna sooo excited

Payton's 2nd Birthday

The same day of the Shower was Payton's Birthday so after the shower we headed to the Movies and what movie were we all sooo excited to see you guessed TOY STORY 3 My mom (Nana) was awesome and got all the kids shirts to wear to the theater thanks mom your the best!

Best picture of the kids we could get all together what cute cousins so much fun to celebrate together

We went to Red Robin for dinner we were celebrating Payton's and Zac's birthday (sorry no pics of zac's birthday) but they both got their sundaes and Payton especially enjoyed his:)

Came home and had Payton blow out the candles but it was tooo late to enjoy the yummy cake so we enjoyed it the next day. ( even though it killed my mom to not let Payton have some that night but I guess I am a stickler :) It was a great weekend and we loved being with family

JULY: 4th of JULY

My parents were able to come to Newport for the 4th of July! we had soooo much fun we celebrated with Mom, Dad and Nick and then our good friends Mindy and her son (her hubby was with their darling little girl ) Sara and Stu and their fun boys!

We took my parents down to the Bay Front and zac rode his bike with Payton, Payton loves his little bike seat he feels like he is riding himself sooo cute!

Andrea and Billy's Wedding

My friend from High School got married and Zac and I were able to go! She was a beautiful Bride loved her dress! she had one of my best friends Sarah in the wedding and her best friend (also from high school) Sara in the wedding it was a hot but beautiful day! Congrats Andrea

I had the opportunity to go to Girls Camp with my parents ward for 2 days! A lot happened on the way up to Camp the U-haul with all the food and stuff from the different wards had caught on fire and sent us all back home , it was sad but such an amazing experience to see the girls come together and all the help that was received it was a blessing and set the mood for camp. What an amazing spiritual experience. I loved being able to go with them and I loved getting to know the girls, I was so sad that I wasn't able to stay longer but maybe next year :) July was a crazy busy month and August wasn't any different but I will post that month later.

Stormtrooper Party! Hudson's 4th Birthday

I know Hudson's Birthday was in April and this is a little late! But here is his Party he had a STAR WARS BIRTHDAY PARTY

When all the STORMTROOPERS arrived they all got t-shirts and Light Sabers, we had them each bring their invitation that was the Stormtroopers mask!

Here they all are having fun My good friend Mindy let us use her house that they were renting and it was so great it had a mini dance studio so all the boys could see themselves in the mirror during their (training) Thanks Mindy=)
After their Training I set up an obstacle course first they had to go through the bubbles (which was a gift from Papa Kevin and Nana Dolly) move the boxes, somersault and go through the tunnels around the chairs outside and back to the main room and out side the door to find their Stormtroopers bracelets.(it was very good activity to get their energy out)

Last after finding their bracelets DARTH VADER made an appearance and all the STORMTROOPERS had a chance to defeat Darth Vader!(they loved it)

All the boys got to make magnets with Star Wars character on them and take them home

and of course we had to have a Pinata and star ships one and all the boys got to first hit the pinata with their light sabers then they all pulled the ribbon and it was crazy candy everywhere!

We all enjoyed YODA SODAS and had cake afterwards

We sang Happy Birthday and Hudson blew out the candles what a great birthday! We love you Huddy and are so proud of the big boy you are becoming!!!!

(I don't have pictures of Hudson's birthday (our camera was in the shop) at home but for records sake he got a cool bike and a stormtrooper Helmet that he can speak into!)

Easter

Okay so I know I am a little late but I have to post some Easter Pics also our camera had to be sent in so I had to use my friends camera at times anyway we had a great Easter the sat. before we invited some friends to do a big Easter Egg hunt and since it was RAINING we decided to have it at the church which actually worked out great! so Our family and our good friends the Cowies, and a another great family in the ward the Phillips got together the fun part all of our families have 2 boys around the same ages so the kids had so much fun. First we dyed Easter Eggs which Hudson did about 2 and Payton loved it and would have done all of them if he could I however was in heart attack mode with Payton and the dye so once Zac took over I was able to watch and enjoy him dying the eggs:)

(three musketeers: Ben and Spencer Cowie, Hudson)

(picture sent from my phone)

We had a wonderful Easter , we got the opportunity to watch conference and be together as a family, and celebrate what Easter is really about Our Savior Jesus Christ and knowing that HE LIVES!

Our life in Newport so far....

Okay so Here are some random pictures of our life in Newport! We love it and I promise I will get some pictures of our place I am just waiting to have it all set and decorated (it takes time:) but in the mean time here are some fun pics of in-door soccer, beach, and getting settled in

The boys love to color on their desks I just love this pic too cute!!

Hudson enjoying his and Payton's Toy room We LOVE having a toy room!!

The boys helping dad put the bed together what hard little workers

Playing on the four wheeler with our good friends the Cowies!

It has been great they have 2 boys as well and we hang out all the time we are loving all the new things we get to do in Newport! and loving the friends we are meeting

Hudson loved In-door Soccer and he was on a team with his friends Ben and Spencer Cowie so much fun!

Payton CAN'T WAIT till he can play Soccer he is always ready to go and play when they have a break!

Hudson and Mom at Nye beach its about 2-3 minutes from our house we LOVE IT!!!!

I know this is soo late but here is Christmas

Payton & Hudson's first time sitting on Santa's lap at our ward Christmas Party!

Hudson was ready to visit the Santa Claus at Bridgeport Mall Payton fell asleep and wasn't in the mood to sit on Santa's Lap

This year it was the "on" year with my family so everybody was together and the first night was Gingerbread Houses soooo much fun and we had our famous BINGO game which always has great prizes(DVD's, cash, gift cards, and chocolate bars which I always end up getting grrr.)

A great friend of our family was able to come and do a family photo shoot! We were all so happy with the pictures and the weather cooperated with us it was COLD and Foggy but turned out beautiful!

Christmas Eve my parents decided we were such a big group we also had my cousin and his wife and cute kids come so we had Dinner at the church and it was great we didn't have to worry about decorations getting ruined or kids getting into stuff very stress free! The kids played with toys and basketballs and Payton of course loved to walk along the wall crazy boy it gave me a little heart attack but he LOVED IT.

We opened up PJ'S and got ready for Santa to come!

When the boys came down the stairs this is the first thing they saw a present from Mom and Dad they LOOOVED IT! it was fun to do a gift for the both of them to SHARE!!

then on to what Santa brought Payton loved his slide

and Hudson well he was sooooo excited its the only thing he told Santa he wanted he loved his Batman house!

Hudson kept telling my mom that he wanted a "hamster" he says"not a real one a pretend one" so my mom among the crazy's was out looking for a zhu zhu pet before Christmas and she found one whoohoo his name is Friday and he is in the pink part of the house in the pic.

Matthew and Hudson and Talmadge playing don't spill the beans so much fun! The rest of the day was relaxing and playing Rock Band (a family gift)

Kim, mom and Britney and I went shopping the day after Christmas gotta love Washington Square mall (mom was taking the pic!)