Needing to document!!

My friend the other day posted a little excerpt from her mom's journal. The excerpt was about my friend as a toddler and her defiance in potty training. I thought it was the coolest thing that my friend had that record of herself from her mom. I so wish I had that for myself. I definitely want to do that for my kiddos. So here I go, an attempt to blog again. I am doing this for the single fact that I want to keep this record of our precious life. I enjoy reading our past posts so much and so do the kids (and JOSH!:)

**I am realizing that blogging is more fun when you aren't concerned about who is reading and how many comments you get. The lamest blogs in the world get so many comments.

Today was a milestone for little Charlie. We went to the park for the first time this year since it has been such a bitter cold winter in Utah. Charlie was able to reach the monkey bars so he was very interested in them. He would dangle, then drop. I said, "I bet by the end of the summer you will be able to cross". The next thing I knew he was crossing!! Here is the video:

It got a little windy so he worried for a second, but plowed across like a champ! So proud! Next stop: kindergarten registration!!

The big news!

 So so excited!! We said we were done, but we were wrong! A lot changes when you settle into a home and stable life. The due date is early August, but we are waiting for the doctor's visit to know for sure. We could have another July baby on our hands!! Just after I found out we were expecting, I was called to be Primary President in our ward. We are going to be busy! But we love it.

Our First Big Trip!

One of the coolest perks about Josh's new job is that they go on trips and cruises to get to know different people in the company. We were fortunate enough to be invited on a cruise the week before Christmas. We flew to Miami and set sail from there. It was so exciting to get on our giant Royal Caribbean boat sans kiddos! After lunch we explored the sip. The upper deck was the best part. The rest of the boat had kind of a casino feel.

 We had a suite with a balcony so we could sit outside our room and check out the view.

Renting a scooter was probably our favorite thing to do on the island. We had death defying adventures!

 One of our hang outs

 Hot guy in the water

 Our last stop was in Key West, Florida for some shopping and exploring. It was such a cute place.

Two happy campers

 We started missing the kids like crazy on day 3 of the 5 day cruise. It was so great for us to spend time together, though. It was more of a honeymoon than our honeymoon (Scottsdale, AZ in the summer if you recall)!

Christmas in Utah

It wasn't hard to get into the Christmas spirit this year. We were surrounded by family and weekend activities to get us so geared up for the big day. One weekend we took the new front runner train from Provo to Salt Lake and went to see the lights at temple square.

 City Creek's lights were really pretty too!

 Family pic in temple square

 Josh's brother, Jason and his family

 Christmas bokeh

 Cuties

We spent Christmas Eve night and morning at our house. Here is Charlie's reaction to his first peek at the presents. This was at 5:30 am!!

 Opening presents!

We had a wonderful holiday!

Charlie on Video!!

This is from probably around May 2012 when we still lived in Daybreak and Bossy was more puppy like (soo cute!):

This was just the other day in Denise's back yard. Charlie was first scared of this swing, now he is obsessed with it!

July Birthday Luau

Since we lived in an apartment complex that had a fabulous pool, game room, and theater room, we decided this year to have a luau birthday party for the three kiddos. It was so much fun!! Thank you dollar store for providing perfect luau props :)

 Love these guys!

 Such a treat to celebrate with family!

 Denise made the awesome Hawaiian volcano cake!

We had a photo booth of course. I loved it, but I think I'm officially sick of photo booths!:)

I love what good sports everyone was. Hee hee.

My Art Curriculum!

As you may know, I have been working for the past six months at a preschool/daycare as an art teacher. You can see the cool video of me here. It has ben a fabulous experience. I really loved working there. It was such a great transition from being mainly a stay at home mom. Charlie got to come to work with me and go to his own preschool class. Then I got to move around from class to class with my art history/technique lesson. The kids were so cute and always made me feel like the most fun person around! :) Since we are moving to Provo, I got a new teaching job down there (mainly working one on one with kids in reading, but I will also be doing art as the semester gets underway).

As a way to keep track of all my art lessons, I am putting together an art curriculum blog. Since I taught such young children, these lessons are very simplified, but can be adjusted for older age groups. Check out my blog and hopefully you can be inspired for projects with your kids at home :) Go to tereseart.blogspot.com