Time to Celebrate!

We definitely had reason to celebrate this weekend.  After 5 years of night school, Brad has graduated with his MBA!  Whoo Hoo!!!  We will be celebrating this for a looooong time, but to start off the celebration I threw him a little dinner party in his honor.  We are so proud of him and so excited for this new chapter in our life.

Then Saturday the kids had more soccer games and inbetween games we went browsing through the hot tub sales and ended up buying one.  Woo Hoo #2!  It was delivered today and I can't wait to try it out!!!  We got spoiled with our last one that Brad's parents gave to us when they moved here about 8 years ago.  It finally died (beyond fixing this time) over the winter and we have missed it tremendously.  Yay for a hot tub!

And to top it all off, I got my own special day where I was allowed to kick back and relax.
What a wonderful weekend! 

Laurels

I got to go with the Laurels in our ward to the temple last night and take some pictures.
What a fun group of girls!

Check their pictures out on my photo blog.

Easter Morning

Last night Alex got to stay up and help the Easter Bunny get the baskets ready.  She was such a great helper she even hid a bunch of extra eggs around the house for Johnny to find in the morning.  It's cute watching her play a role in making things special for him on the holidays.  They were so cute in their new spring outfits their Grammie got them.  My favorite part is Johnny's tie, although he will only wear it for pictures and then it comes right off.  We had stake conference this morning and I pulled a couple of eggs full of jelly beans and about a dozen bouncy balls out of Johnny's pockets before we left.  I can only imagine what church would've been like if I hadn't frisked him before we left.  In a little while we'll be heading over to their cousins house for Easter dinner, an egg hunt and to celebrate his buddy Ethan's 6th birthday.  I'm just glad the sun is shining!  Last year it was raining and we had to have the egg hunt indoors.  Not very springy. 

Happy Easter!

Soccer Season!

The kids have started soccer again.  We have been off and on each year but this year they are really loving it.  Even with freezing wind, rain and yes, even a little hail during practices the kids are giving it their all and the games are a lot of fun to watch.  Johnny even has his cousin Ethan on his team this year which makes it that much more fun for him.  Check out my picture album for a couple of pages I put together of their first games.  I also added pictures in there from skiing, Alex's piano recital and more!

Baby McKay

McKay Henry Castleton
Born April 5, 2011
8 pounds 1 ounce, 22 inches long

My newest little baby nephew.  Such a doll!  To see more pictures I took of him click here.