THE NAUTICAL INN, LAKE HAVASU . . .

Last weekend we went to Lake Havasu for my Grandma's 80th Birthday party (post to follow), but rather than just driving up and back on Sunday for the party ... we decided to make a weekend out of it and headed up there Friday night instead. This gave us a full day of play time at the awesome beach front resort as well as a chance to visit one of our most favorite places in the world, The Turtle Bar & Restaurant!!! We were joined by Aunt Lacey & Cody as well as Grandma and Aly & Cort!! All of this equaled FUN FUN FUN and more FUN!! Here is the view from our balcony!!

All the cousins hangin: Trey, Rhett, Cortney, Charlotte, Alyson & Rilyn!!

Little Miss Beach Babe, this girl got more looks than anyone on the whole beach (and Havasu host's some pretty tuff competition)!!!

All the kids were begging and begging to go out to the floating water park ... so of course Grandma & Aunt Lacey gave in and forked out the cash and it wasn't long before they were out there playing with them ... hahaaaa ... just a couple kids themselves!!

Daddy & Trey Mo!!

Rockin' Aunt Lacey's hat and snackin', what Rilyn does best!!

Now I am jonesin' even more for our Anniversary trip in October!!

MR. & MRS. BRADLEY INGRAM

Well it has been a little over a month since the big day, so yes I am a slacker, but here are some of my favorite pics from Brad & Lorie's big day ... and what a BEAUTIFUL day it was!!! (I am still working on uploading the entire album to Shutterfly and will share once it is complete!) Congratulations Brad & Lor, love you guys!!

To many many years of love & happiness!!

MOTHERS DAY

So I know I am almost a whole week late on this post but my computer these days is anything but quick, therefore its messin up my whole world in the picture dept!!!! For Mothers Day we got invited by the Skaggs to go riding at the river bottom and all I can say is what an amazing day!!! Mothers Day could not have been any more PERFECT . . . the riding was AWESOME, the weather was BEAUTIFUL & the drinks DELICIOUS (thanks Jaime!!). The kids loved it too and I cant wait to go back!!! Nothing better than being able to ride and have some fun in the sun by the water all at the same time! Thank you Skaggs Fam for the invite and introducing us to this little piece of heaven on earth!!! Yet another Skaintz adventure!!

The 3 most beautiful bestest kids in the whole wide world . . . so happy to be their momma!!

Our little bathing beauty, Rilyn Kate, who was such a trooper all day!!

The boys rompin' their RC Jeep!

The bestest big brother ... EVER!!!

I had no choice but to share this picture .... Sooooo, let me just take a minute to introduce you to our good friend, Mr. Byrne Skaggs, who as you can see dressed himself for mothers day!! Hahahahaaaaaa!! (Sorry Byrne had to do it)!! Classic!

CAMP TREY

For Trey's 6th birthday party this year we did a camping theme ... which I have to say I had the most fun planning than any other party I've ever hosted!!! For the decor, I went totally rustic. With the help of my boys, Trey & Rhett, we gathered up some random pieces of wood that we had laying around the property and made wooden sign's, along with mason jars, twigs, pine cone's, picnic tables, lanterns, etc .... And of course we had the tent!!

We started the party off by making pinecone bird feeders!! Each kid got a pine cone that they spread peanut butter all over and then we rolled them in bird seed, attached a name tag and hung them from a tree!! These were also the favors that each kiddo got to take home with them!

Next it was time to go fishing in "Lake Beezy"!! I had cut out laminated fish from card stock and then glued a magnet to each fish and put them in our pool, I mean in the lake for the kids to catch!!! We then made fishing pole's out of wooden dowel's that we tied a string too and then also attached a magnet to the end of the string!! So each kid got to go fishing and then which ever color fish they caught was the team they were on for the scavenger hunt that followed! The fishing ended up to be much much more of a hit than I ever expected and I even had kids fishing for fish the next morning!!!

Once everyone had caught a fish and was separated into team's we went out for a scavenger hunt . . . each team was equiped with a bag, a pen & a list of random items to find out in the desert around our house!! I was only able to get 2 of the 4 teams to slow down and get together for a photo op so here is Team Bass & Team Trout!!

The birthday boy wanted brownies instead of a cake for his birthday, so brownies it was!!! Aunt Lacey did an awesome job decorating Trey's brownie complete with a tent, fire pit & fishing pond!! So so cute!

After singing Happy Birthday, grubbing down brownies, and opening presents ... it was time for a little campfire and Smores .. so we headed out to the fire pit and cooked Smores!!

When it was finally time to settle down, the kids that were spending the night (about 10 all together) snuggled up in their sleeping bags in the tent and we put on a movie to end the night!!

The next morning, bright and early, we were up making pancakes & bacon for breakfast and everyone was picked up around 9:30 - 10ish!!

Hope everyone enjoyed Camp Trey and thank you all for coming!!!

CELEBRATING OUR MOM'S . . .

THE TWO MOST AMAZING WOMEN I KNOW. Clay and I always talk about how lucky we are to have the best momma's in the whole world and even luckier to both have gained another mom that we love like our own, not to mention the fact that our mom's get along so well too!! Since we already had plans for Sunday we decided to celebrate mothers day with our Momma's on Friday instead, so we all met up at Desert Ridge and hung out letting the kids play in the fountains while we all sat around and bs'ed and then we walked down to Rock Bottom for some cold beer's and dinner!! It turned out to be a perfect afternoon/evening that was both relaxing and fun!! So here's again to our
amazing mom's, we love you both so so much!!! Happy Mothers Day Mama & Grammy!!!


Sandy (Grammy), Me, and Momma (Grandma)

Me & all my beautiful kiddos ... waitin for our table!!!

Me & my handsome just recently big 6 year old ... the sweetest boy I know!!!

BBQ'in

We have had plans to build this bbq for a long time but have been putting it off, mainly because I did not want my back patio torn apart for days and days thru the building stage!! We finally decided to start the project and get it done and believe it or not it didn't take too long at all!! The beautiful granite counter tops were installed last week just in time for Clay and I to enjoy a Dos Equis and bbq for Cinco De Mayo!!! Now all that's left to do is stucco, paint & stone venir!! Clay did such an awesome job, he still amazes me at the stuff he can do!!!

YELLOW BELT

Last night Rhett had his very last class for this session of karate and it was awards ceremony night!!! The kids put on a little performance for us and showed off some of the moves they have learned and then it was on to awards and new belts for those who were moving up a rank!!! Our little man moved up from a white belt to a yellow belt and he was so stoked ... he had the whole famous Rhett Man open mouth grin going on that he couldn't even control!! Love him and so proud of his accomplishment!!

As you can see we ended up with seats on the oppositte side of where Rhett was lined up which didn't make for the greatest video, so please excuse the man's face and the ladies head that are a constant fixture in this clip, but I had
to share it anyways!!!!

Before the ceremony started we had some time to kill which allowed us to get in a little park time, one of Rilyn's most
favorite things . . . slides slides slides!!! She even suckered Grandma into going down the slides!!!