Recapping

I feeling like gossip girl when she stops blogging everyone's every movement right now... I have been MIA a bit here. Lets recap so I can start fresh with life! 

Aside from our typically park dates, we have gone to the lake to feed the fishes, we have been to in n out (probably more than I would like to admit) and we have been trying to do be more adventurous. ( which takes a lot of patience) it's not always the easiest getting the 3 divas out of the house, and while sometime I dread it and think what's the point... The point is that we are making memories. And that's what life is about. I get so caught up in the everyday chores, the laundry that never ends, the floors that constantly need swept that I don't get us out to run around and have fun. I'm trying to find a happy medium but I have decided that the chores can wait! 

Sweet sisters always holding hands

Feeding the fish (disgusting fish might I add) 

Ahh fresh air

The twins turned 12!!! So crazy that they want hollister and Abercrombie now!

Weekly trader joes visits 

Allyson's Mickey Mouse drawing 

My children request "selfies"

Stella holding her sweet cousin kason 

Stelly bean started WALKING!!! Finally only took her 17 months!!

Swim time!!

And they take selfies while shopping at target ( guys I'm in trouble) 

Stella was very patriotic on Memorial Day 

And my brother thinks he's clark kent. 

Alright a little view into our lives the past few months. 

Xoxo-the jones' 

Stella Mae 16 months

Stella is getting smarter by the day. I would say bigger but she is such a little teeny pipsqueak that name has been a total for for her. At our last dr appt she weighed in at 19pounds7ounces which surprisingly is her gaining weight. She was also 31 inches long, which is kinda long and explains why all of her pants are to short ;) I don't ever want to forget her milestones so maybe every couple of months I will give her, her very own post!  

Stella 16 month-isms:

* Stella Mae is still not walking.... Yes you read that correctly she does not walk. She will stand and balance on her own she will walk around while holding onto something but she refuses to walk by herself. 

* Stella has been THE best eater we've had. She will eat anything but loves any fruit! 

* Stella talks so much she says "this?" When she's wondering what something is. She also says mommy, daddy, papa, sssiiiiisss (ally), rrrrrr (ruby), mamamama ( please), cat, woof, tweet, shhhhooosssee, la la la (that's what elmo says) elmooooo, also whenever she sees Ariel she starts singing aahhaahaha

 * Stella reminds me so so much of Allyson. They are both so stubborn and think they know the right way to do everything. However with them being so much alike they butt heads so much just the other night, they were fighting over Stella's blanket and I look over and Stella is yanking Allyson's hair, it was the funniest thing ever. 

* she loves to color, if she sees paper she thinks it time to color 

* you can find her basically where ever mommy is 

* Stella still loves daddy best though 

* Stella is a dancer & loves singing the girls primary songs

* she likes bath time now & enjoyed trying on her puddle jumper we will see this summer if she likes the water better this year. 

* Stella loves her little giraffe blanket and paci and her little elmo

* teeny feet she wears an infant size 3!!  

Bebe's birthday 

Stella loves animal, and uncle koles cat is her fave 

Sisters make the best friends

  

Twins born 3 years apart 

Coloring time 

On Wednesdays we wear pink

another handsome nephew!

March 19th Kason Christopher Hall joined our family! He came into the family at the perfect time. I love that sweet handsome little guys cuddles more than he will ever know! He is a little toe head boy and seriously so so cute!! I love being an auntie! I can't wait to see you grow kason!! 

Your only officially a member of the family when your uncle takes a picture with you with a mopar car ;) 

Ally got to visit in the hospital because she is a big girl 

Look at that sweet perfect baby hand!! OBSESSED! 

Allyson is pretty in awe of him as well. 

Oh and why aren't there any pictures of Stella and Kason? Because as I expected she wasn't a total fan yet, especially if mommy was holding (or even talking) to her sweet cousin. She does have the word "baby" mastered now though :) 

FIVE years of wedded bliss

On April 17th kyland and I celebrated 5 years of marriage! I got out of the groove of blogging so this is a bit late. 

I am so grateful for my husband. I am so grateful that he is my eternal companion and that we will be a forever family. We have had some trials and they only brought us closer when they could have torn us apart. I know that kyland is the most perfect man on this planet for me and I'm so thankful everyday that he is mine to infinity and beyond. Marrying my high school sweetheart was the best decision I've ever made, even when some thought it was crazy. 

For our anniversary we went down to the linq which they just built here in vegas and it has the largest observation wheel. I'm not to impressed by that because I think looking at Las Vegas is pretty boring ;) but what is super cool about it, is that kyland actually worked on it for months!! So it was fun for him to be able to see the finished product. They have a kitson down there which I love. They also have a sprinkles cupcake, they originated in Beverly Hills and I have been waiting 9 years to try one. I was a bit disappointed but I'm willing to try again. They also have a Polaroid bar that will take any of your pictures and turn them into Polaroids. It was fun getting to be just me and kyland seeing as how we don't get much alone time. ;) 

All of my best memories have him in them

High roller in the back 

My very own sprinkles cupcake 

Clearly I was ready to devour my cupcake ;)

valentines day

Ahhh the day of love. Probably a close second to being my favorite holiday. I don't know if it's all the pink and hearts or what but Im obsessed with love day. Which is silly because you should express your love for each other everyday, but that is besides the point ;) we did all of our traditional things like pink nails and pink Starbucks drinks, but we didn't have our traditional Panda Express dinner. At first we wanted steak and shake however we drove all the way to south point and the line was so crazy long we stood there for 10 minutes and we didn't move, so we bailed on that Idea and decided that it was a sign we shouldn't have changed tradition HA so we go to panda and Allyson was SCREAMING so at that point we just went to in n out burger. Once we got the girls to bed we watched no strings attached because of course valentines day is not complete without Ashton Kutcher. We have only done crazy gifts for valentines our first one dating, so I figured this year was no different. Kyland is the best daddy/valentine and got the girls new markers and coloring books which I love, and he made me cutting boards!! He knew I wanted a small one I can keep on the counter for little stuff. And they turned out so amazing! 

Woot love and holidays 

I've been doing the "Miley" long before she started it 

Love of my life 

My perfect cutting boards! He did such a great job! 

two months ago... it was december

remember how i said i would update decemeber/christmas a tad late?? ya well here we are almost at valentines day.. better late than never is my favorite phrase ;) okay so hopefully my super awesome (insert sarcasm here) mommy brain can remember all the crazy stuff that went on that month.

okay so soon after thanksgiving we got the house all decorated for the season with full on traditional christmas tree! but kyland made sure that i still had my charlie brown tree also ( love how that guy thinks). kyland was so excited for christmas lights and he did a perfect job hanging them, he's already thinking about what we can do next year. our ward party was polar express themed which the girls loved because they totally got into that movie this year, they got to ride the polar express all the way to the north pole and got to say hi to santa. a&r were over the moon to be able to see the big guy, stella was less than thrilled. We went to the live nativity which is my fave fave part of the christmas season! i wish i could make it each night ;) the girls LOVED getting to see baby jesus and when it was over allyson was clapping and said "hooray hooray for baby jesus!!! BRAVO!!" so she kinda loved it. We also had lots of performances we go to go to, Uncle Kole had his orchestra concert, uncle bubba sang at town square, and auntie K had her dance performance! We also went and saw all the fun lights at the cactus garden, over at ethel M. The girls thought it was the most perfect night! normally looking at cacti is not at the top of my list but all decorated they looked really pretty! we are going to make that an every year thing! Stella turned ONE in december. Her actually birthday fell on a Monday so that night we drove around neighborhoods looking at all the beautiful christmas lights. The big girls loved getting to point out all of the Olaf's (snowmen). We spent Christmas Eve over at the Jones' and had a fabulous yummy dinner! (go H for cooking such a delish brisket). that night the girls were so excited for "santa" to come. Kyland and I totally woke up christmas morning before all of the girls so we woke them up and they all were really excited to open their presents. They had been itching to do it since i had wrapped them. Which by the way who came up with the idea that we should wrap up a bunch of presents?? i can tell you it was someone who didn't have 3 little girls all ages 3 and under, because let me tell you... nobody has time for that ;) i got to open my present form kyland last and can i just tell you that the boy totally went crazy?? I'm typing on my gift as we read... did you guess what it is?? a MAC computer!! mostly i just stare at its beauty in awe, but i am getting the hang of some of it! after we opened prezzies we headed to my parents house to have the traditional monkey bread and loco hot coco breakie feast! and we(the girls) also had a mound of prezzies to open up there! we finished up our year by seeing the movie frozen with nan and the kids and bebe, which allyson and ruby loved! all i hear is "mommy can we buy the frozen movie yeeeeeeeetttttt." We had a an awesome december and since i am a lame loser and did not get christmas cards out i wish all of our friends and family a happy healthy wonderfully fabulous 2014, i think its going to be one of the best years yet! xoxo

                decorations!! so fun

        the night of the polar express

         kylands christmas party for work!

          time to make (and eat) cookies

        my little who's

 looking at the goods from santa

     guys its way to early for pictures

 hmmmm maybe this kinda cool

     just two days before christmas i was the meanest mom EVER because i promised she could have this book. id say she was pretty stoked about it

         roobs openign her doc mcstuffens dr bag, we've had the greatest dr ever since christmas day

i promise i wasn't smothering my sweet baby, but christmas is exhausting ;)