First Summer Trip to Lake Powell

We are so excited to have the kids out of school and a break from dance (only for another week). We went to Lake Powell with my parents and my brother and sister-in-law (My Best Buddy) and there 5 1/2 kids. We had a blast. I love being around the water and my kids were born in Lake Powell molds. They love love love to play on the beach and jumped in the water like it was 100 degrees. So much to look forward to in the Summer time!!

We also this week went to my Unlce Bobs funeral. I have been reminded through this that I want to love people like he did everyone, everyday, everytime we came into the room. I also was reminded from a talk given by my cousin that "We always want to make more memories when there is no more time to make them" I have taken this to heart. I am going to try to love each day and make memories with my sweet husband and cute little children today. My family has been blessed to know my Uncle, I know we will see him again.

Happy Birthday Hailey Bug!!

This picture is actually Sadie (I thought it was Hailey) They look so much alike. And I cant figure out how to get it off so enjoy!!

Haileys birthday at Lake Powell

Hailey is 3!!! Wow it seems like I have had her more than 3 years. Hailey was definatly a surprise for us (Kaden was only 5 months old when I surprisingly got pregnant) But she is very predictable to me know. I love her so so much. She is my first to throw an official tantrum, you know the kind you read about in Parents Magazine. She was my first to not have red curly hair, but not my first to love bottles (she still loves them).

Five things I love about her

-She loves to go shopping anywhere with me.

-I love the way she talks baby talk to Sadie

-I love her overbite smile that she flashes

-I love that she loves her family very very much

-I love that she pretends to talk on the phone all day long to the same people, cinderella, grandma and aunt Brittany

Five things you probably dont know about her (unless you are with her for 5 minutes)

-She ALWAYS is singing very very loud. So at her preschool graduation I think we all heard her over anyone else.

-We call her velcro, she loves to be with me, even when other kids are over she will hange out with the adults.

-She always wants to dance and thinks she knows Madisons Trio so I have to sing those songs about 100 times a day. I am so glad she made a team so we can add new dances for her to do for us.

-She always likes to wear sweats (I wonder where she got that from). Its hard to tell her no when I am always in sweats.

-She has thought she was 5 years old for about a year know. She has grown up fast. When she was 3 months old she decided she did not want to be a baby any more and she sped through everything.

Happy birthday we love you!!!

Miracles do happen!!!!

Goodbye Diapers!!!
Hello Big girl Hailey bug!!!

Oh yes everybody, the day has finally come, I cant believe that I am even saying this but Hailey is potty trained. I think I tried everything to get to this point. I took away everything that ment the most to her, I promised her the most stuff, but do you want to know what finally worked? Going to a big girl dance class like Madison. I never wanted to use dance as a threat or a reward, but they were having tryouts where Madison takes dance and I told her she could go to the clinic if she wore panties. So she whipped out the panties and put them on and has not gone back to diapers ever since. WOW, I am so proud of her. What a great day in the Bay household.

Madisons last performance

Haileys hot outfit, backwards shirt nice 80's leggings, what a cutie!!
I guess that I thought you would like to see this one two times!!! WHoops

Well it was Madisons last performance this weekend. She is sad she wont do those same dances ever again. What a fun year we have had with dance, I dont know who likes it more her or me. (If you ask Rob he will tell you that I do) I have made such good friends, and had fun with friends I have been friends with for 10 plus years (I feel old now) Madison has had so much fun, she loves to dance and especially to perform.

The picture of Hailey is funny to me because she ALWAYS puts her clothes on backwards, so I decided to take a picture this time. She is a funny girl. I am sure one day she will hate these pictures of her with the most random clothes on, but what she wears is just not a battle that I chose to fight.

What would our husbands think?

So Me and Rob are the very best friends in the world and we tell each other everything, and we are maddddly in love. But I am wondering how many of us stay at home mothers let our kids do things that our husbands would not really love?

Check out the picture of Kaden and his little buddies playing with about 100 of Robs golf balls. I dont think that he would love this!!!

DISNEYLAND!!!

So we took the trip with everyone else in Utah to Disneyland with the three older kids. Thanks to the many volunteers to take Sadie, she stayed home with lots of love!!! We all missed her so much, but I have to say that we could not have done what we did with our super crawler.

We got in the car at 6am on Sunday and it was surprisingly pleasant until the last 2 hours. Hailey screamed and we pulled off every exit we could to gain our sanity.

We quickly forgot about that and had so so much fun in our hotel swimming and loving disneyland. I was in heaven watching our kids on the rides and loved watching madison and hailey dance for the whole crowd while waiting for shows or the parades. Madison got to practice cartwheels in the streets of disneyland. (They are a bit more scary for me to watch her whip out a good old cartwheel with hundreds of people trying to walk by) Any body that knows Madison will know that she whips cartwheels out in the mall, movies, home, wherever. I think her feet have sensors on them. She usually does not hit many things!!

This was our first trip we have ever taken our kids on with out friends or family. It was great to get to spend this special time with just us. I will treasure the memories forever. I think it is the happiest place on earth, I love walking through the Disneyland streets with the happy music playing and the smells of treats.

My Sleepy Baby

My tired little baby girl


Picnic Pajama friday night!!!!

I know we all have these pictures of our kids falling asleep wierd places, but these pictures are from the past 3 days. I think she must be tired from crawling around trying to keep up with her big sisters and brother. She is such a joy in my life.

I loved conference this weekend. I especially was touched with the talk from Elder Ballard about mothers in the Sunday Afternoon session. I think he wrote that talk for me. Here are some things that touched me about his talk.I loved that he talked to us young mothers with little children. When he says "its crucial to focus on our kids for the short span that we have them" Its crazy to think we only have them 1/4 of our lives. "Recongnize that the joy of motherhood comes in moments." I hope that I can remember this every day.

Dont overschedule your children. Does it count if we have bonding time where Madison takes dance in the hall? Water cannot be drawn from an empty well. I love this, I love that he suggests that mothers need to replenish themselves through dates and time away from the everyday things we do .Pray, Study and teack the Gospel. What a wonderful talk this was. I cant wait for them to print it so that I can read and re-read it often.