The weekend before school started Zach's mom flew into town and we were able to spend some time with her. Zachary and the girls love their grandma so much! It was a good visit and I got to go with her to a doo whop concert that was really good! The time we get to spend with Grandma always seems to be too short but we make the most of it and the kids are always sad to say goodbye, but gives them something to look forward to in the future!
Ok so my baby girl Maile decided to grow up over night and now she is a beautiful, outgoing, stubborn and sassy 4 year old little girl. This is the hardest birthday that I have had to to deal with so far, it makes me sad that I will never have those baby years back with her, she is only going to get bigger. But I can say I am thankful for that too. It is so exciting to see her discover herslef and the world around her. Maile is my silly girl who loves to goof around with her Daddy and brother. She also loves to boss her little sisters around and is pretty much at the helm of most destruction around this house. I adore Maile so much, even if I am hard on her. I know she is growing into an amazing person and I feel so lucky to have been blessed with her in my life. Happy Birthday Maile! I love you more than words can describe!
For the most part my kids are probably like most kids when it comes to interacting with their siblings. More often than not they are fighting over toys, hitting each other, pulling hair, tattling on each other ect. They do play well together for all of 10 minutes before someone ruins the fun by stealing the others toy or something else to that extreme. With all that said I can honestly say that some days I think it is just hard plain frustrating having three girls (think attitude city) so close together and I don't always handle it well. This all leads me up to the main point of this post. Even with all the fighting, yelling and crying they really do truly love one another and some of the things they do and say prove just that. I love when I hear concern for one of their sisters like, "Maile are you ok?" or "don't worry Betta (Becca)" or "I will get your doggie, Lexi". These little sentiments that I get to hear fill me with love and give me hope that one day they will love each other as much as I love my sisters. I remember when we were kids and then teenagers how much we fought but now I feel so lucky to have such great sisters. I know Maile, Alexis and Rebecca love each other dearly and so I hope I can guide them to show that more often than not.
We started the day sweating like crazy, making super long trek to the parade out in Summerlin. (We will get their earlier next year so we can park closer! ) Even though we got there somewhat close to starting time we still got pretty good seats. Nothing like a curb and some sidewalk! Actually is wasn't bad and it was a perfect spot for the kids, they ended up getting tons of treats and were able to run out to see the floats and balloons. I am so glad we decided to skip sleeping in and get up early for the parade because the kids loved it and Zach and I got to hang with our good friends for the morning! 
Next we headed home for some lunch and a nap. We have to make sure that we have some downtime during the day or else we would never make it for firework time if we didn't! 
After naps it was time to go to Auntie Lezlie's and Uncle Dustin's for a BBQ. It was delicious! After dinner we loaded up the trucks and headed out to Boulder City for the firework show. We got there at about dusk and the kids were able to run around for a bit and play with some sparklers before the big show started. Last was the grand finale of the night. The firework display was amazing. The best I have ever seen, even better than last years. It is so worth the drive out there because it was perfect! The kids all loved the fireworks and only were "scared" of the loud noises. 
Overall we had an amazing day. I am so thankful to live in this country that allows me the freedom to make choices. We truly are so lucky to be American! I am also so thankful for all my family and friends who make day's like these so fun. I hope everyone had an amazing day!
Happy Birthday Mom aka Grandma. My mom is pretty awesome so she defiantly deserves to have fun on her birthday and we did just that! Lezlie and Dustin had us all over to celebrate and it turned out great. The kids played and played and so did us big kids. Nothing like a fun game of Taboo. Good food, great company and lots of fun hopefully made this a special day!
Seriously in my house Daddy is the favorite. I love seeing their faces when he walks through the door and how excited everyone is to tell him about our days. They love to follow him around to see what he is doing and they want to be right at his side. It makes me so happy that I married a man who is so devoted to his kids. He would spend every moment of everyday playing with his kids if he had the chance. I love the example of hard work and dedication that he teaches our kids. Zach truly is an amazing Dad! He is everything for our kids that I cannot be and that is what makes our family so great! 
Saturday night we took the girls to the district to ride the carousal and the trolley. The weather was great, a little warm but still nice and the whole evening turned out to be a lot of fun. I love getting to go out all together as a family and especially when the girls are in such great moods! 
Last night was my final soccer game of the spring season and it was for the championship in our bracket. We won!! After a really rough start this season, 3 losses and 1 tie we turned things around to win every game after that. I think it just took a few games for us to get to know each other's playing style's and now we got it down! Soccer has been a really great outlet for me to relieve some of the stresses of every day life. I always look forward to our games on Thursday night! Only thing I realized last night after I was laid out on the floor with the wind knocked out of me and my neck and ribs in pain was that I need to calm down just slightly, I am a mom now and can't afford to really injure myself. Next season starts in one week and I can't wait!
