A question . . .

It looks like Blogger changed some things and now I can't figure out how to change the font colors on my blog. Can anyone tell me how to do that? I would greatly appreciate it! :)

June Birthdays . . .

June is a busy month for us, with Craig's birthday, Father's Day, Our Wedding Anniversary, and Ambree's birthday. . . But it's a fun busy! :)

For Craig's 30th Birthday I surprised him by having one of his good friends from optometry school fly out for the weekend. The look on Craig's face, when his friend, Jeff walked around the corner to the backyard (which is where Craig was at the time that he arrived to our house) was priceless! He was so confused and surprised! We had a fun weekend visiting with Jeff, and to celebrate Craig's actual birthday, we just got together with Family and had a little party in the great out doors! Here is some of the company . . . Cade, Ambree, Jacob (nephew), and Leila (niece).


Cade and Dallin (Craig's youngest brother)
Adam (craig's brother), Andrew (craig's brother), Jeff (Friend), and Dallin (brother)
Cade and Andrew
The lunch . . . Tin foil dinners . . .
The Cake! This is the first cake I ever made from scratch and it was delicious! I have never been too much of a cake fan. Now I realize it's because I always used a box mix! :/ If you want an amazing choc. cake recipe, use the Hershey's choc. cake recipe. The frosting was homemade too. It was just a basic butter cream recipe and I added about a cup of peanut butter. Sooo good!

The little family! Happy Birthday Craig!! :)

For Ambree's birthday we did a Princess themed party. Here she is with some of the guests/princesses . . . Macy and Beth. . .

A yummy pizza dinner (Ambree's request) with red punch (not sure what I was thinking there)! Luckily we only had one spill all night.

The Castle Cake that I slaved over! Lol! I was worried for a while about it turning out, but it actually turned out pretty well in the end.

More of the guests and the cake . . . Apparently hardly anyone wanted to look at the camera! :/

The Castle Pinata . . .

Blanket from Grandma Carol . . .

Ambree seemed to have a great time at her party and felt like a real princess! Happy fourth birthday Ambree! :)

Cade's a graduate!

At the end of May Cade graduated from Pre School! He has had a great year in the Little Discoveries Pre School with Ms. Heather as his teacher. I tried to up load a video of him saying what he wants to be when he grows up (An Astronaut), but it didn't work. :( Any tips on how to up load vidios on a blog. It's been so long, I think I might be doing it wrong.



Funny side note: Cade has been saying he wants to be an astronaut when he grows up for a couple months now (I'm sure it's because of Buzz Lightyear). The other day I said that we needed to clean up the living room before dad gets home. Cade asked why and I said, "would you like to come home to a messy house after working hard at work all day?" He then said, "Do you think my kids will clean the house for me after I have been out flying in my spaceship all day and walking on the moon?" Lol!



Here is the handsome graduate in his cap and gown. . .And the diploma . . .

Here he is with his teacher, Ms. Heather. She was so nice and good with the kids. We absolutely loved her! I am sad that she isn't teaching next year. I would have loved for her to be Ambree's teacher as well. :(

The graduation cap cookies that I made for the celebration! They were super easy and everyone thought they were so cute! It's just mini reeses peanut butter cups stuck to choc. covered grahm cracker cookies. Just stick them together with frosting and then use frosting to make the tassels. I have also seen people make the tassels using licorice rope, which was cute too!

Here is Ambree being the supportive sister by getting ready to eat a cookie . . . I think she is happy about it!

Cade has loved Pre School this year and made some great friends. His best friend in Pre School was Diego. Cade thought it was cool that Diego knew Spanish, just like the Diego in the cartoon! :) He also had his first kiss with a little girl named Emma! He said she chased him and kissed him. I asked if it was on the cheek and he said no, it was on the lips! He acted as if he didn't like it, but then a few days later he said he chased her and kissed her! So, I gave him the talk on not kissing girls until after his mission. Do you think he will listen? Let the fun begin! :/

After Cade's last day of pre school, which was a swimming/pizza party I asked him if he was going to miss his teacher and kids in his class. He said, no, I will get new ones when I start kindergarten! Well, I guess that's a good way to look at it. He must me a boy! Lol!