Markie's Going Away Party

Markie is my amazing "favorite cousin" and she has moved away to Arizona :( I will miss her very much, but I know this is the best situation for her right now. I absolutely love Markie with all of my heart......she's like the sister I never had. So of course we had to go out with a bang! On April 4th we had a going away party for her at the Longhorn in Auburn. It was alot of fun....a few of Markie's friends, a few of mine and JR's friends and Matt & Whitney & Clay were all there. Only good things can come from close friends and family and some alcohol.....hahaha!

Here's me and Fave...how could you not love this girl! We waited over an hour for Markie and her friends to get there.....can you tell we were so excited to see eachother?

This is all the girls, obviously a little tipsy :) Markie, Amy, Sarah, Anna, Me and Whitney.

And then there's Clay, I couldn't get that boy to smile for anything. All I wanted was a nice pic of brother and sister and this is what I got. Dork!

This is right before the pianist was going to play a dedication song for Markie. We told the guy to come up with a song on his own and that she was moving away. Markie was soo excited.....and then that's when it happened. The most rediculous so I've ever heard. I can't even really tell you what it was about, but what I got from it was there is a son or daughter that didn't like their dad and was singing all about it. Weird!

We all had a great time, even after the weird song. This is the pic right before we left, minus JR (who for some reason just couldn't wait to go to the bathroom) Clay and Josh (Markie's friend). It was nice to go out with family and friends and leave the kiddos with the grandparents :) Thanks mom and dad...you're the best. I'll never forget this night!

A hiking we will go!

So, it's been a while since if written. I've been wanting to tell all about our events from 3 weekends ago. It was when the weather was so beautiful for the first time. It was so nice out, so we decided to go on a family hike. We ventured down to the Dash Point State Park trails, it was so much fun. There were tons of people with there kids and dogs....even people on their bikes.
Here's Aiden checkin' out the scenery.....so cute in the backpack! He didn't actually smile that much, maybe he was just trying to take it all in :) This is his first real hike. We hiked these trails a couple times while Aiden was still in my belly.Here's Devyn on one of the big bridges in the trails. He kept saying the bridges were soo cool :) Devyn loves to go on the trails....he always runs way ahead of us. My husband is soo funny...I love him soo much. Can you tell he's having fun? He was, I swear....I'm sure he'd rather be riding his bike though.
This really made me nervous, but I had to get a picture of it. They look so cute together! Did I metion they were standing on a cliff looking down at what a huge drop it would be if they fell....scary!
And then of course taking a picture of myself. I can never get JR into taking pictures...he's totally not a camera guy, so I always have to get close ups at semi-okward angles. But here we are.....me and my bubba. I had an amazing time with my family out in the beautiful weather, I can't wait to do it again! I absolutely love the outdoors, especially hiking.

8:30pm to 6:15am

JR went to Alaska for the week, which usually means I have a really stressful week. I normally take care of all the kid stuff and JR cooks and cleans, but when he's gone I have to do it all. Monday was okay....Aiden only woke up two times on Sunday night. Then there was Monday night and he woke up at 11, 2, 5, and 6:30. I thought for sure that is what the whole week was going to be like....tiresome, stressful and busy. Then last night happened. We all had a wonderful night of uninterupted sleep! Aiden slept for almost 10 hours straight 8:30pm to 6:15am....Wahooo! I'm bright eyed and bushy tailed as ever today...I love it!

I have so much more to write about, but I can't do it until I uplaod some pictures and have time after work. We had an amazing weekend...it was filled with all kinds of fun events. Stay tuned :)