A Big Surprise from the BEST Husband

Last Saturday night, Garrett surprised me with concert tickets to go and see Tim McGraw (one of my favorite singers) and Lady Antebellum was opening for him. I only know a few of their songs, but I really like them. AND he didn't just get nosebleed seats like we usually go for. He got me FLOOR seats--4th row!!! Neither of us has ever been on the floor at a concert, so I was really excited to go. Now getting these was a big deal because Garrett is not a fan of concerts at all, so this was super sweet of him to do this for me.

We had such a fun time--Garrett said that that was the only way to go see a concert, because the artist is right there in front of you. And you're not just watching a tv screen. I agree. Neither of us was prepared for how loud it was though. Wow--I kept thinking about my poor unborn baby who may either come out not being able to hear or just like country music a lot. :) Our ears were still ringing the next morning; but it was worth it, it was so fun. Here are a few of the shots we got. Of course, our camera battery died right after Tim McGraw came out...just our luck. So we both had our iphones, but they don't zoom at all and the video we took there doesn't sound good because it was so loud. But we still got some good ones.

One of the guys from Lady Antebellum

Good Ole Tim McGraw

Preschool Graduation

Getting her diploma

The set up for the graduation program

Paige and her good friend Ella

Paige and her friend Hayden

Teacher Chris

Teacher Linda

Last Friday, after two years at Wonder World Preschool, Paige graduated!! We have loved this school (Lydia went here for two years as well.) and we really love the two teachers, Linda and Chris--they were so great and supportive. We are getting excited for kindergarten!!

Beverly Beach State Park

This past weekend we took the trailer out again down to Newport to go camping with some good friends, The Kelley's and the Heintz's. The campground we stayed at was Beverly Beach State Park and it was beautiful. It was a huge park with tons of spots for tents, trailers and a lot of yurts (kind of like little cabins). The weather was absolutely beautiful! It was sunny with NO Rain, sometimes a little chilly, but we couldn't ask for a nicer weekend! We had a lot of fun just hanging out and talking while the kids played. We played at the beach, played at the playground, hung out by the fire and ate lots of good food.

Hanging out by the fire

Most of the kids (minus the two little girls) Maggie, Rayden, Blake, Lydia, Paige and Kolten

Tim and Garrett

Colin and Jaycine

At the beach: Blake, Maggie, Rayden and Zenna

Paige

Bella and I

Kolten and Paige

Rayden and Blake climbing the hill

Colin following to make sure they don't slide down

They made it to the top!

Climbing trees

Playing at the park

Having a silly string war

Garrett got me good!

Tim and Blake

Cooking fajitas
and peach cobbler

Our last campfire

Mothers Day

I had a great Mother's Day thanks to a wonderful husband and girls. And the awesome weather helped a bunch, too. After church, Garrett and girls fixed me a mother's day lunch. It was going to be a dinner, but since he was barbecuing we thought we better do it for lunch so we could enjoy it in case the weather changed. I was able to talk to my parents while lunch was being prepared which was nice. Then we enjoyed some seriously YUMMY fajitas! Thanks Garrett! Then while the girls played outside, I was able to kick back on the patio and sit in the sun and read. It was really nice.

Later that night, before we dipped strawberries and marshmallows in chocolate fondue, I opened my presents. From my parents, I got some really yummy chocolate candies from Idle Isle (a Utah thing, I think) and a nice card.

The girls always make things at school and church that I love. Here are Maggie's:
She planted the flower and one of the cards at Activity Girls and made the other card at school. Then she made me some coupons, which include: doing ALL the laundry, vacuuming the playroom, living room and front room, a massage, loading and unloading the dishwasher, and making my bed! Nice!
Lydia's:

At school, Lydia made me a box out of paper (pretty cool, I thought) and had a picture of herself in it with some Hershey kisses and a note that said, "I love Mom. And if I be mean give me hot sauce." That's saying a lot because she HATES getting hot sauce!! Then she drew that cute picture of herself (she's a fabulous artist) and then gave me some great coupons that includes: doing the dishes, cleaning the mirror, cleaning up the front room, living room and the play room, sweep the floor, another massage and make my bed.
Paige made these cute pictures for me at school:
The pink one was an angel and the body was a packet of "Forget me Not" seeds that we planted in our back yard. This one on the bottom is a picture of me. She is also becoming a great artist. She is always coloring and drawing pictures of us.

This one was from Garrett and he had all the girls sign it as well.

He got me a nice new video camera that I have been wanting for a while. It's so tiny compared to our old one. Our old one still uses those little tapes. And then we were mostly using our regular digital camera to record little videos, but it wouldn't zoom very far and wasn't the best quality, so I'm really excited about our new video camera.
Before letting me open it, he videoed each of them telling me a little message about what they love about me, which was really sweet. I'm trying to watch that in the picture below, but was laughing because Bella was knocking me out of the way trying to see, too.

I really love being a mom and being able to raise my kids and stay at home with them. There are a lot of areas to improve in, but I'm still working on that. I'm so blessed to have 4--pretty soon 5 amazing kids. Thanks to my cuties and my wonderful husband Garrett for taking such good care of me today!
And thanks to my mom and mother-in-law for their great examples! I love you both!