Vegas

Happy Birthday to my Hubby! For his birthday I took him to Vegas for a 2 night stay.  We stayed at Treasure Island and started our mini vacation out right by getting upgraded to the 35th floor.  That was awesome!  We had fun shopping, eating at amazing places and just spending time together.  The kids stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Whitney and I have to give them a Huge shout out for watching them for us.  They had a blast and we appreciated it so much! It was so nice to get away but it's even nicer to be home with our kiddos.

 our view

 Cale's huge piece of Red Velvet Cake it was delicious!!!

 Here we are having fun with us time!

We brought our kids some treats while we were gone.  When we got home we put those treats to good use with a movie night watching Wreck it Ralph. We love our kiddos!

Spring Break, Soccer and other Fun Stuff

The kids had Spring Break a couple of weeks ago and spent the week down with Grandma and Grandpa Whitney.  Cale was down there with them and they had a blast.  They were able to play outside most of the time and loved it.  The weather was beautiful and honestly who doesn't love spending a week with grandma & grandpa?!!!  I got to spend the week working so I was home by myself.  I'm not gonna lie it was kind of nice but I missed my kiddos and hubby.  I did get to spend time with Dan and that was a lot of fun and something we should do more often. :) 

 Brex riding the four wheeler and climbing trees

 Soccer season is in full swing and both Trey and Elle are doing awesome!  Elle scored this past Saturday and we all went crazy.  Trey's team is very fun and he's having a blast. He got to play goalie this past game but his team played awesome so he didn't see any action.

While at the grandparents house Cale was trimming their trees and Trey decided to saw part of a branch.  He was so excited and very proud of himself when he sawed the piece of wood apart.  He's such a cutie!

Happenings

It's been a couple of weeks since I've updated the blog.  So here's a quick view of what we've been up too.

-Trey and Elle have started Spring Soccer.  Practices the first week were on Tues, Wed and Thurs with the games on Sat.  Poor Brex keeps asking where his team is at.......in the fall buddy we'll get you on your own team.
-Elle had her 1st grade program this week and did amazing.  It consisted of all the first graders and after the program Elle had her friend Tasha's dad come up to her and tell her he was so glad to finally meet her and what amazing little girl she is and how proud he is of her & Tasha for starting the Sparkle Club.  He said things like this are what makes a daddy cry.  I thought that was an awesome thing for him to do.

-Trey, Brex and I have all battled the flu/croup and sinus infection.  We are finally on the mend.....well the boys are well over it I'm finally on the mend.
-We have spent some time at the park enjoying our beautiful weather.  It's so nice to be able to spend time outdoors again.
-Both Trey and Elle have made the school's goal of reading for 3500 mins they got an award today in school.
-Elle finally lost her front tooth.  That thing was so stubborn. I'm so glad it's gone!!! Yippee!!
-We are about to venture into Little league in the next couple of weeks and will be going between soccer and baseball.
-We had SEP's for the kids last week and both are doing awesome!  Trey's teachers told us they wish they had a whole classroom full of Trey's. They absolutely adore him! Elle's teacher said that she is above where she needs to be and told me that she lets Elle pick her spelling word list each week.  Seriously she can either pick the super hard list or the easy and my girl goes for the hard words!!
-I have been super busy at work with budgets and HR evaluations.  So glad it's finally over.
-We are now officially on Spring Break.  I think it will be a nice change.
-After Spring Break we are looking forward to Cale's Birthday, the Duckie Drop, Easter and Brex's Birthday.  

Dogtown 5k

Trey ran his first 5k today.  He loves to run and so we signed him and uncle Dan up to run this 5k.  He had a blast! His time was 28.07 and was amazing.  I'm not gonna lie, I teared up a little bit after he took off running.  We didn't think he was going to be able to run this weekend because he got sick this week.    When he woke up Wednesday morning puking the first thing he said to me was "Mom what about the race?"  He's wanted to run for such a long time and we finally got him into a race.  He did amazing!!! Uncle Dan said he ran the whole time and didn't cough at all.  We are proud of him it's such a great feeling to see him achieve one of his dreams. Thanks Dan for running with him! You are such an amazing uncle to my kids and we love you!!

 Great job Trey and Uncle Dan!!

Now what race is next?! 

 Trey getting ready to leave the house at 7am

 Getting to the starting line a little after 8am

5 mins before show time!

Starting to run.  

Finish line!!! 28.07!!! Uncle Dan's time 28.08(He kept a slower pace for Trey.)

Dan took 2nd place in his age group. 25yr-29yr old group

Trey took 15th in his age group 1yrs-19yrs old. All the kids that beat him were 11 years old and up.  That's an awesome stat right there.  Go buddy!!!

Valley of Fire

Over Presidents weekend we went on a picnic to the Valley of Fire.  We went with Cale's parents and had a blast.  I been there once but our kids haven't been at all.  The kids had a blast climbing and playing and having a good ol' time.  It was a beautiful day and we had such a nice visit.  We can't wait to go back for another visit.

 The kids kept Cale hopping by climbing and climbing and climbing.

 My cute kiddos

 They loved to explore all the nooks and cranny's 

snow & swimming

This past weekend we went up north for our last State Swim Meet.  Aunt Paula made it to state in 4 events and we had to be there for the last Gibson Hurrah as this ends the era of swimming for us.(At least until the grandkids pick it up.)  We also celebrated Grandpa Gibson's Birthday.  We went up on Friday in a blizzard and man was that fun......we made it in time to watch Friday's events and than the kids went to aunt Shari's house to play while Cale and I went out to eat with my parents and sisters. Saturday we finished at the swim meet and took the whole gang out to eat and than went back home to rest before we played games that night.  The kids had a chance to play in the snow which they LOVED!!! They came in with frozen hands and big grins.  I have to admit that it was fun to be in the snow I miss it..............sometimes.   

 Brex Playing in the snow.

 Elle Belle

Trey(he wore his hat almost the whole weekend.)

 Elle, Lexie, and Codi at lunch.

 Zack, Trey and Brex eating their cotton candy at lunch.

Sparkle Club makes the newspaper

Elle Belle ended up in the newspaper with the Sparkle Club.  A reporter came to her classroom and interviewed her and some of her fellow Sparkle Club Members.  Here is the article link below.  This group of kids are amazing!


http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20130202/LIFESTYLE/302020005/Sparkle-Club-spreads-smiles?nclick_check=1