SCHOOL'S - OUT - FOR - SUMMER

Well its so hard for me to believe but the school year has come and gone and now the shock of having my 1st baby starting kindergarten has turned into shock that it is already over!!! Trey had an amazing school year and excelled on so many levels with a report card to prove it!! I was able to go to his end of the year celebration and Mrs. McMahon says that he is definitely ready for 1st grade and she knows he will do awesome next year!! I am so proud of him and it has been amazing watching him grow into the little student he has become, from his reading to math and making new friends! It was pretty cute, we were counting down the days til summer break, and once we got down to 3 days left ... Trey was like "wait, I don't want school to be over, I like going to school"!!

80 YEARS YOUNG

Here is a big ol' happy birthday to one of the GREATEST & SWEETEST people in the whole wide world, my Grandma, who just celebrated her 80th birthday!! My Aunt Kay & Aunt Judy put together a fun little party in Lake Havasu for the whole family to get together and celebrate her being 80 years young. It was so nice to see everyone and we had a great time complete with singing(we even got Grandma to yodel for us!!), laughter, tears & good food!! We love you so so so much Grandma, you are the bestest!!

My Grandma is a total hat person and has been known to rock some pretty fancy dancy hats in her day, so I absolutely loved that my Aunt Donna brought her this special birthday hat to wear on her big day!!!


Great Grandma had quite the audience while opening her presents and reading her cards as all the kiddos were surrounding her!!!

Lacey came up with the awesome idea to have all the Great Grandkids make her an apron to add to her collection. (Grandma pretty much always wears an apron when she cooks and is known to get lots of comments from people walking down the boardwalk or nearby neighbors for her unique collection of aprons!) So we had all the great grandkids put their handprint (dipped in paint) on the apron and then painted each of their names on their handprint!! It turned out so awesome and she loved it!!!

My Grandma is from Texas and very proud to be a Texan so Aunt Kay & Judy wrote a song all about her to the same beat of the song "Yellow Rose Of Texas" which we all sang aloud to her!! I have to admit when I first caught word that we were going to be doing this, I thought "Really ... Come On ... We All Have To Sing"!! But it turned out awesome and perfect and Grandma absolutely loved it, even brought a little tear to my eye!!

It looks like Rhett is getting a good ol' fashioned Freddy C. talk here!!! I'm sure Great Grandpa is teasing him about something or giving him some kind of a pep talk!! Hahaaa!!

Here are a couple shots from the party of my two most favorite little one year old's in the world ... Rilyn & Colton!!

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!!!