any suggestions????

So here's the problem. My 2 year old daughter has decided that she doesn't want to go to sleep at night, and when she finally falls asleep she wakes up 4 or 5 more times during the night. They aren't pleasant wake ups either. Sometimes she's totally freakin' out and other times she just wimpers. I wonder if she is having nightmares but how do you know and what do you do about them? Needless to say we're not getting any sleep at all and neither is she. She is moving from bed to bed and can't seem to get comfortable. We haven't been letting her take her day naps in hope that she will fall asleep at a reasonable time and sleep through the night but that isn't working. Anyone have any suggestions?? We have tried everything we can think of and I am now drawing a blank on what to do next.

baby coleman

i am an auntie once again. my brother cliff and his wife kim had their baby on st. patty's day. his name is coleman and he is a cutie. congrats you guys!! also my sister kelz is home from her mission!!! we've had a busy month with the homecoming of a sister and the birth of a new baby!! we've also had quite a few birthday's this month. so happy b-day to our nieces codi and shay, kim(congrats new mommy), and of course my hubby's is on sat. what a blessing it is to have families!!!

6th pic tag

so the tag is you go into your 6th folder and get the 6th picture and post it. this is elle when she was 5 months old. what a cutie pie!!! now i tag: April, Brittany, Lara, Sarah B., Joanna, and Kacie!!

braides and baseball

this weekend i braided elle's hair and thought it was so cute. we also played baseball and trey is such a hitter!! we found an awesome frisbee and played with it for hours. we caught a gopher(grandpa caught it) and trey was trippin when we went to throw it away. elle got dragged behind trey's truck(she fell and wouldn't let go of it) and doesn't have a scratch. the wii was played and funny faces were made and now it's time for some cinnamon rolls. too bad it's sunday and the whole week starts over again. hope you all had as much fun this weekend as we did!!

bike ride

what a bike ride. the picture says it all.



lastnight we had a fire in the backyard just like curious george. we roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. the kids had so much fun and trey said now all we have to do is sleep outside. i think we'll wait til it gets warmer :)

finally some pics

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

lions and tigers and mermaids???

yesterday i played hookie from work j/k i actually got to take most of the day off because i am working on sat. anyway we decided to take the kids to vegas to have some fun. here we live only a few hours away and we've never taken them down there. we went to silverton to the big aquarium there and saw stingrays, sharks, fish, and this is where elle got to see the mermaid. in the afternoons a girl dresses up in a mermaid costume and dives into the tank with all the fish and entertains the little kids. elle loved the mermai.d she played peek a boo with her and gave her a high five and knuckles and was super entertained. they also have a big pro bass shop here and trey and cale had fun checking out all the stuffed animals and gadgets that they have. they've got a little shooting range with toy guns and the kids(by kids i really mean cale :) had a blast!! we also got to see some ducks in their water feature. this place was great! next we headed to MGM grand to see the lions habitat. they weren't out because of feeding time so we walked on over to their rainforest cafe and ate dinner. this is where the kids got to eat during a thunder storm and got their balloon hats. trey's was a pirate hat and elle's a tiara. they also have a ton of fish tanks all over and a water feature that had rainbows. it was like eating in a rainforest for sure! after dinner we went back to the lions habitat and they had a male and female lion out. we got to walk right under the female lion while she was chewing on a bone. it's crazy that you can get that close to one. next it was off to M&M world. that's right folks we went to the world of m&m's and got to see the kyle busch race car and i don't believe i've ever seen so many m&m's before in my life. we went up all 4 stories and looked outside at all the lights and all the people that were underneath us. i think the kids went into overload with everything that they got to see yesterday. I mean when you look at it they got to see:lions, stingrays, sharks, fish, mermaids, duck, airplanes, and tons of other thing. they also had a blast going on the escalators. over all it was fun and not to shabby for a 5 hour trip to vegas!! i will post more pics later.
us at the aquarium
by the M&M car
more of the aquarium
at m&m world
shooting at the range