Arlee had a birthday shout HOORAY!

Here are some pictures from Arlee's 2nd birthday!

 Arlee sleeping her birthday away... waiting for Hans to come home from his rotation

My mom and Kasiah with Arlee opening the present my parents gave her. TOY STORY 3 figureens

On Arlee's birthday we invited a couple people to Jungle Jims. The following came: My mom, Kasiah, Brock, Amy, Landon, Laura, Jon, Gage and of course me, Arlee and Hans. Here are some of the moments that the kids had.

 2nd car: Arlee, Brock and Kasiah (the favorite ride for Arlee I think.)

Arlee being the cow girl that she is on the merry go round. Me too! Giddy up: )

 We just did simple cup cakes for Arlee's birthday since Kali was making her a cake. Plus they are a whole lot easier to do for little kids.

 Jon and Gage (Laura didn't want to be in the picture)

 Amy and Landon

 Brock showing off his tash!

 Hans and Arlee (the frosting could have been lighter to not stain their clothes, but it has been noted for other affairs.)

 Arlee and Gage (Arlee saying Vroom Vroom Mommy!)

 Okay this was actually really funny. Brock was riding the bumper cars and he thinks that you just drive them and not run into anyone. The other kids had a different look at it.  As you can see here, brock is pretty upset. This happened again and again and... again. Each time he would upset, but he wanted to keep riding them. I guess you could say the lesson was not learned, but it was sure funny for all that was watching. HAHAHAHAHAhahahhahahhahah aaaaaa!

Arlee and Gage. At first, Gage was not liking the idea of the rides, but when we were about ready to leave he wanted to ride... figures! Just joking. It was a lot of fun seeing him and Arlee riding together.

This is the Woody that we gave Arlee for her birthday. She loves watching Toy Story 3 so it was a huge hit. I actually got the idea from my nephew, Jayden. He has a Woody just like this one.  Come with the pull string and an interactive hat. When you take off the hat it says some different phrases like "Where did my hat go?" "A cowboy with out a hat is like a yoodle with out a hey-he-oo." Arlee loves the last comment and it is so funny to hear her say it. When you put his hat back on: "You found my hat! Thank you, thank you... THANK YOU!"

The day after her birthday (26th) we took Arlee to the Living Planet Aquarium for the 1st time. Here are some of the pictures.

Arlee sitting on the giant toad/frog (not exactly sure the difference with out reading something)

 Hans and Arlee by one of the exibits.

 As most 2 year olds... Arlee was pretty excited to see the NEMO fish from another popular movie

 She loved looking at this huge turtle as well, but didn't think of CRUSH off of Nemo. : P Also in this tank there were some sharks that would swim right next to the glass. They kept surprising me and Arlee as we were usually looking at something else.

Arlee saw this fish (NEMO) and tried ripping it off to take it with us. We told her it was stuck and she had to leave it there. 

 Family picture. They really captured Arlee's favorite past time. haha

Here are some pictures of my side. Arlee's birthday party.

 The Jessie cake that my little sister Kali made for Arlee. Arlee loves Jessie and Woody as you may be able to tell.

 Kali and Arlee (I didn't get a good picture of them both, but I figure Kali would care more if she was the one not looking her best.)

Arlee cheesing it up. LOVE IT!

Arlee tried grabbing the candle after not being able to blow it out and WAAAALAAAAA!

Hans ended up blowing it out. (she did blow the cup cake one out though) I was sitting with her so this didn't happen, but I was toooooo tooo too late. Darn it.

Other than that it was generally a happy birthday experience for her.

Happy Birthday Cakes!

Love,

MOM

Happy Birthday Bug!

Love,

DAD

We love you so much. MUAH!



Landon's 1!

Hans' nephew is now 1.  Here are some pictures for the family and friends if ya wanna look too.

Arlee, Landon, Amy and Brock opening the presents

This is what we gave him

Arlee loves TOY STORY 3! Landon got something from the movie (can't remember), but she loved looking at it.

Landon is getting so good at walking. Still falls down a lot, but for being 1 I would day that he is doing pretty well.

DIRT CAKE! Delicious...

The monster truck was on top of the cake along with some gummy worms.

Happy Birthday Pants!

Play Time!

Arlee was able to have her friend, Gage come over. Gage is one of my best friend's little boy. They are 2 weeks apart exactly. They have so much fun together. Here are some pictures from their day.

Gage and Arlee at the table. Arlee loved his Mickey doll.

Arlee being goofy

Arlee doing her excited face

This is what Arlee does when I say make faces at me

At this point Arlee was in the house trapped with most of her stuffed animals that Gage had been putting in there.

(kind of blurry) Arlee poking her face out for air. : P

They started helping me make cookies and then decided to play in Arlee's room. Snicker Doodles! YUM

The Day Has Come...

The day has come to make my little girl official. Hans and took Arlee to get some "prettys" as she calls them. Yes, we are the type of parents that think it is okay to pierce their little ones ears. We got them done on Saturday, March 5th. Arlee wasn't too sure about some stranger coming to close to her, but she did pretty well.

Arlee sitting in the BIG chair waiting for the ladies to be ready to pierce her ears. This is a sad face, because she didn't want to sit there by herself. I got to be the one to hold her while they made the marks for the correct spot. This took a little bit since she wouldn't look at the lady's nose. Hahaha.

Arlee is now doing a little bit better sitting there by herself. (These first two pictures were before I held her on my lap.)

This is Arlee and Hans about two minutes after getting them done. She was fussy until we asked her if she wanted a sucker. Now when you talk to her about her earrings she will say "Ow-ie!" Sometimes she will say that and then right after she will say, "All better" She was so much better than I thought she was going to be and I am grateful for that. I am glad Hans was up for it too. When I would talk to him about it when she a  little bit younger he would ask, "You really want to get them done?' I would always say yes. When we were talking about her birthday presents. Hans mentioned, that he thought we would get her ears pierce for her birthday. I thought that might not be the best present for a 2 year old so we got them done a head of time and we'll be giving her something else.

It seems weird that she will be two in less than two weeks. I am not sure what we are going to do about her birthday party, but I will have to figure it out very soon.

OUR 4TH ANNIVERSARY!!!

Hans and I just celebrated out 4th anniversary together. I know that it isn't really that many years compared to other couples, but to all those single people or people that haven't been married as long as us... We know it all. Just joking.

The day started off with Hans going to his rotation (I know right). The pharmacist that is in charge of him wouldn't let him have it off even though he is going there four other days of the week. It is OOOOkkkkay though we still had a good time together. Here are some pictures and brief descriptions.

We went to eat at Joy Luck. It was delicious. Hans is looking at the menu here as you MAY be able to tell. : )

Me and Hans waiting for our food.

I forgot to take pictures of our soup, but I had egg drop and Hans had hot and sour.

This is a picture of my pineapple chicken. That is in a pineapple! So CLEVER. Hans ate my Shrimp Prawn since I don't like fish and all. (Arlee ate mine last time)

Hans' food (forgot what it was called)

I know it looks very filling doesn't it? We ate all but one, before I remembered to take pictures. Our delicious Cheese Wontons.

After dinner we went to the Commons in hopes that we could see a more adult kind of movie at 6PM, but instead all that was on was Gnomeo and Juliet. This is a movie that Arlee would have liked I think. I wanted to ditch it and watch a different one, but Hans would rather stick it out. Too bad, I say. Anyhow the 3D effects were pretty cool. : ) 

Hans and I will be making up the downer movie this weekend I think. 

This is our present to ourselves. We got it a couple days late, but it was okay since we knew what it was anyway. You may be thinking, why did they get a surround system while they are in an apartment still? I really don't think that we even know other than it was a really good deal and we won't be much longer. So there you have the events of our 4th Anniversary.

Hopefully, by our next one comes it will include a little one either here or one the way very soon. Honestly, I am hoping for any other month than March, but I will take anything I can get.

Just a side note: Today was my due date for the one I miscarried, but I know that things happen for a reason and having another child before Hans has a pharmacist position and in an apartment would have made things a lot more interesting. This I know for sure.

Thank you Kali for watching Arlee for us. I am sorry that it wasn't the easiest time, but we sure appreciated it.

Peters Here= Playtime

My sister, Lyndsay came into town with her family. When they are in town most of the family if not all gathers to have some fun with them. Here are some pictures from our adventures with them.

Jump and Bounce (7800 S and about 4100 W in West Jordan): This place was full of balloon slides where not only the kids could have fun, but the adults too. It was a blast and not that expensive either.

Hans and Arlee

Arlee getting ready to go down

Jayden posing for a picture

Arlee just loved the slides

This slide was by far her favorite. She needed help getting up the part on the right in order to go down, but we loved it too.

Jake with Dallon and Kasiah

Arlee dancing to the music. Katy Perry's firework song.

This one hurts your feet at the end, because it was so steep. We tried really hard to avoid getting hurt on it, but it didn't work.

Arlee riding the blow up animal

My brother, Jake being all sorts of crazy.

Kasiah, Me and Arlee taking a breather for the camera.

My brother in law, David would throw Kasiah in the air to land on the arch here. They loved it.

Jayden being tossed!

(no one was hurt in the insanity)

Trying to get all the kiddos up so they could slide down together. This thing was steep!

Jayden going down the slide

Jayden and Kasiah stopping to grab a slice of pizza (which we are all pretty sure that we got sick from it.)

Next item on the agenda was bowling. At All Star Bowling Lanes. This was Arlee's first time bowling and she really enjoyed it.

David helping Jayden

Kali

Arlee's first bowl ever! Check out the pins!!!!!!!!!!!

Kali and Arlee... Arlee is happier than she looks too I promise

Hans with the great form

Hans assisting Arlee with her bowl.

This was the guys 2/2 games. Jake's was a bad game too. Crazy huh?

Arlee's first ever game and she didn't hit the bumpers all that much either. It was insane. Good times for sure and it will be happening again.

The Peters left early Sunday morning and weren't able to stay for Jake's birthday dinner, but here are some pictures.

Braxton and of course me.

Jake and Kasiah. Note: Kasiah loves to help blow out everyone's candles... me however, I like to blow out my own. : P

Kasiah playing with this play dough that never dries out. It is pretty weird feeling.

Jake and Kasiah (Jake didn't realize I was taking the picture I guess.

Arlee not saying cheese for one of oodles of pictures. I hope this is not a trend seeing that I absolutely love it when she smiles.