St George and Sundance

What a fun weekend we all just had! I decided to take the kids to St George with my mom and play over the Holiday weekend. We had a really good time! I am so lucky that my mom is so fun to be with and that she really enjoys being with my kids, as do they with her! So except for a few sleepless nights for me is was a blast and really nice to get away with my kids and focus on just playing with them and lots of laughing instead of having all the other stuff to do around the house. This weekend also really brought my gratitude up a level for both my mom and my kids. I was really blessed growing up to have a wonderful life and now I can instill those value in my kids that were taught to me. I have really great kids with big hearts and who know how to have fun. We ate out a lot, played at he park, went up Snow Canyon and hiked a little and played at the sand dunes there, we went to the dinosaur museum, watched movies, played a Pirate Island Pizza and just played games at the house.Fun filled days... and now I am exhausted!

At the sand dunes

Mason and Grandma made it to the top

Claire is just chillin


At the park

At the dino museum
So in the mean time while I was with the kids, Ryan and his brother, Sean, were "employees" for his sister Jen up at Sundance throwing parties for the celebs up there (she has a great job! and she hooks up her bro all the time!) I'm supposed to self-incriminate myself now by writing what I did at Sundance. My job was to keep the bars wet and the girls...I mean celebs...happy. My wife contests there are no real pics to prove this, but isn't that the idea. I kept the bar tenders supplied with whatever they told me to. I did actually consume alcohol for the first time. I was helping to pre-mix some of the specialty drinks and apparently got some on my fingers because a couple minutes into it, I wasn't thinking and licked one of my fingers and man does that stuff burn ;). Didn't feel anything people. The guest list was pretty fun, they had Paris Hilton (who cares), Makhai Phifer (you spell it), Anthony Keidis, Bryan Thicke, Wesley Snipes, Kim Kardasian (who I pretty much forced into hugging me...j/k she was really nice), T.O., Cuba Gooding Jr. (we spent about 5 minutes in the garage talking to him-he is awesome), and on his birthday: JIM CARREY who actually got up and danced with 50 cent while he was rapping. He was hilarious. It was fun getting to meet all these guys and have them be cool and not jerks-refreshing. It was crazy. Bye.

Ry, Jen and Sean

MAJOR MILESTONES: Claire had her 4 month check up this week... she weighs 16 lbs and is in the 90% for weight and 80% for height. She is doing great! She is such a joy, and total drool queen and I think a bit of a diva already... but oh so cute! I am so grateful to have her in my life. Ella is doing great with potty training... she is pretty much done. It was awesome... What a champ. She made it much easier than I thought it would be!
QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Some of my favorite things I hear almost daily from Ella and Mason are... Ella will run up to me with her arms open and give me a big "skeeze" and say,"I lav you sooo much mommy!" and Mason upon either going to school or going to bed will get teary for just a second and say, "But i don't want to go to bed (or school) I miss my family too much." Too sweet