My grandma came to visit. This is our four generations pic.

Landen's first Day of school. I can't believe he is already in kindergarten. He is loving school!

We had a really big storm a few weeks ago and we had a lot of flooding. 

 The wash down the street from us

 The park by our house

 Landen's school

There usually isn't any water there. Three washes all ran into this spot.

 They boys have loved having a park close by to ride their new toys to.

 

 Dade riding his new scooter

 Zoey playing in the sprinklers

Landen on his new bike

Here is our house as we were moving in.

 the office

 

 back patio

 Landen's room

We have finally found our house and are signing the papers tomorrow!!! I have been packing for the past few days and still have a lot of packing to do today so here are some pictures and I will post more later. Thank you everyone for all your prayers, encouragement and support. I also want to thank my parents for putting up with us for the past year. :0) I love you both.

 

There is a lot that has been going on this last month that I keep forgetting to update on so there will be a lot of pictures.


On March 29th around 10pm Drew got in an accident on his motorcycle. He was driving home from work on a back road and hit a javelina. Drew ended up tearing some ligaments in his ankle and his knee and  bruising both his legs quite a bit. Luckily that was the only damage to him but his motorcycle was totaled.

 Here are some pictures from Easter.

Landen and Dade have a thing about hitting their mouths on everything. Landen has already hit one tooth twice that is now black. He was running around in the house and fell hitting his mouth on the tile floor and hit the same tooth loosening it. With in a month Dade fell and hit his mouth on the ottoman and scraped up his gums pretty bad. It really grosses me out just looking at the pictures.

Landen

  Dade

  
Landen's preschool went on a field trip to a miniature pony farm on April 19th. Dade and I were able to join them. Landen got to walk around in the corral with the ponies and pet them. They had some baby goats the kids were able to hold. Dade held a little one that he loved and the goat was perfectly content sitting on his lap. Dade is usually not an animal person so this was a big surprise.

 

 

Zoey is getting so big. She is almost 5 months now. She is a big trouble maker and has a mind of her own!

 She fell asleep like this. I don't know how she does it but she sleeps in some awkward positions. 

AdvoCare

Drew and I have been looking for products that would help me lose the weight I have desired and help him gain muscle and definition. We just finished the AdvoCare 24 day challenge and were both amazed by our results. Drew lost 9 pounds that he didn't know he had and gained muscle. He has received definition that no other product has given him. I have lost 7 inches and have more energy than I have ever had. I use to feel drained by mid-afternoon and now I still feel energized long after the kids go to bed. We are so excited to continue seeing results the AdvoCare products can offer us.

School

Drew got an e-mail from ASU saying he got accepted to the Marriage and Family Therapy program!!! I am so excited and happy for him. He will be starting school in August. We are ready and super excited to get started on this next step in our lives.

One day of success!

I am so proud of Dade right now. We have been working on potty training for the past year with no success. Yesterday we went to the mall to walk around and I asked Dade if he wanted to try wearing a pull-up. Usually pull-ups are just like diapers to him so it was more just for fun. As soon as we got to the mall we went to the family bathroom which has a little toilet for kids. Dade is not a big fan of big toilets and will only use his own potty at home. So with a little coercing I convinced him to try to go potty on the little toilet, which he did. After that we went to the play area and to my surprise he came up to me and told me he had to go potty, and he did so 3 or 4 more times before we left. Today when he got up I told him he could either go without a diaper or wear a pull-up, he told me he wanted to wear underwear. We have tried this a few times before again without success but I let him wear underwear. We went all day without any accidents! I am hoping we are finally making progress.

CAKES!!!

I wanted a way to show my cakes without using our family blog so I have created a new blog just for my cakes. The blog is alyssa-sweetdelights.blogspot.com. I also have a link to it under my Blogs I Like. I posted a lot of cakes on there so be sure to go to older posts to see them all.

Crazy times

Things have been a little crazy with Drew starting his new job, getting Zoey and celebrating Dade's birthday. Drew's new job is going really well. He just heard back from ASU the other day and has an interview for the Masters program in March. Please keep him in your prayers.

We have had Zoey for 4 weeks now and she has already gained 6 pounds in those 4 weeks. She is growing so fast and has a lot of energy. The boys love taking her to the park and playing with her. She has been a joy (and a challenge) for our family.

  The boys playing with Zoey after we brought her home.

 

 Dade playing with Zoey at the park

 Some pictures of Zoey a few days ago already getting a lot bigger.

 Dade just turned 3 on the 13th and had his birthday party the fallowing Saturday. Grandma and Grandpa Raley and Grandma and Grandpa Pease were there and Courtney and Tavia surprised us by coming that weekend. Dade was so excited about his presents that he kept asking if he could open them about every 5 minutes. He wanted a Thomas the Train theme (again) for his party so he got a lot of Thomas toys and a play tool set that is Dade and Landen's favorite. I made Dade a Thomas 3D cake. It was my first time sculpting a cake so it didn't turn out as good as I would have liked, but not bad for my first time. I still can't believe Dade is already 3; time has gone by so fast. He is growing so much and is already 3 feet tall. He is opening up a lot more and talking all the time. He use to be so quiet but now he is quite the copy cat and likes to do and say whatever Landen does.

 Dade opening his presents.

 His Thomas the Train cake.

We have been looking for a house and "thought" we found one. This house was everything we had been looking for so we put an offer on it. It had been on the market for 5 days and already had 7 offers. They ended up going with another offer. We were pretty disappointed and have had a hard time liking any of the other houses we see now but we are still looking no matter how discouraging it is.

Here are some recent pictures of the boys.

 

 Drew and Landen playing soccer.

Drew has been doing really good with the camera. Here are some pictures he took of our family and of the boys.

 This one of the boys I took.