Other March Highlights

-Happy Birthday Mike and Juli!

Juli is a wonderful mother and grandmother- she makes each grand child feel that they are the greatest invention alive. We are all blessed to call you Mom and Meme :)

-Um, besides Ohio, that is basically it for our other March Highlights.

-Oh, and my old high school drill team review.. I stole this picture off of Kristy's blog. I don't want to sound all super-seniory, but I love these girls and my old coaches. Even though our lives were always and are still extremely different, we went through a lot together and had some amazing times and memories! We're missing Hilary (she was having a cute baby.. kind of a big deal).

-Oh, and St. Patrick's Day too--every year since forever, my mom makes a "green" dinner and we go on a Leprechaun hunt, but we were all in different states on the 17th. My mom celebrates holidays religiously, so it was kind of devastating that we weren't all together.

-We had a great month, but April in St. George is my absolute favorite time of year, so here's to hoping for sunnier weather and a tan.. Ha ha.. a tan. Like I have ever been able to tan.

Spring Break in OHIO 2011

Juli, Ellie, Matt, Me and Aubree Grace were able to go visit the Losee's in Ohio over the break- we had a blast!  Meeting new little Logan was the best!  His baby blessing was given while we were there and we were so glad we could be apart of it. Here's a recap of our week...

{Wednesday}

Our plane left at 7:00 a.m. from Vegas- I was so nervous Aubree would have a hard time but she did amazing on the plane ride. We arrived in Dayton and Jen and little Logan buddy came to pick us up. My heart melted seeing that baby!! I love him! Oh, and we love Jen, too :) We missed the kids so much and were so excited to see Abbie, Drewness and Lainey Lou! That night we just played, talked, ate White Cheddar Cheetos (we went through 3 bags in 5 days.. totally wasn't all me, ok?) and celebrated an early birthday for Juli.

{Thursday}

Ohio is the birthplace of Aviation. The Wright Brothers built and flew their first plane in Dayton. So, we had the opportunity to go to the Airforce Museum. It was HUGE and really cool. We saw replicas of the very first plane ever built all the way to modern aircraft.  I was amazed at how well the kids did there, and all week for that matter. We drug them around everywhere and they did awesome. After that, we went to dinner with the fam at a really fancy restaraunt called Red Lobster :) I love Red Lobster, but in Ohio that's about as fancy as your going to get.

Speaking of fancy, on the way home from the museum, Mark took us to White Castle Burgers. Luckily we didn't go inside because my "are you kidding me-ness" probably would have kicked in. It was interesting, to say the least. The food is brought to you through the drive-thru like your money would be given to you at the bank. The burgers are tiny, steamed with onions and then put on a similarly tiny bun. Matt and Mark at 5 each, I had half of one. It's an acquired taste.

{Friday}

We went to Jungle Jims, the biggest grocery store in the world. You're not allowed to take pictures, but I snuck a few in (the picture of Matt looking mad is him telling me not to put the camera away). They had every food item you could think of! They had isles dedicated to different countries, 2 isles of hot sauce and of course, our favorite, the bakery. Oh and that cheese I'm holding was like, 45 pounds. We bought all sorts of things to try at home.

{Saturday}

We went to an antique place on Saturday. There were a lot of these in Ohio. They are warehouses full of antiques. It was enormous. Everything was really expensive so we just had fun browsing. On our way home, we stopped to eat at another fancy food place, Frich's Big Boy. We saw real live mullets there, ate really greasy food (mine was actually pretty good) and enjoyed people watching. Picture Denny's... but more... country like? Jenny turned to me during lunch and said "Welcome to Ohio Megan." Haha- I shouldn't be rude, but in all honesty, it really is different in the outskirts of Ohio! Later that night we played games and just hung out with each other. We made sure to love on Logan as much as we could before we left. Aubree loved playing with her cousins. They were all so cute!

{Sunday}

Sunday was our last day :( We went to church that morning for Logan's blessing. It was so sweet. Logan is the 10th grandchild of Juli's and he adds so much to all our lives! We loved being with all the kids- they are all so darling and fun! It was not fun leaving, but we really had such a great time and are glad we made some amazing memories! Our flight left at 8:00 p.m. Ohio time and arrived in Vegas at 1:30 a.m.  Oh boy, it was a LONG flight, but once again, Aubree did so good; besides one minor meltdown. We flew on Frontier Airlines and each plane has a different picture of an animal on the tail. The flight attendant gave her normal welcome and told us that we had a lioness and her cub on the plane. I turned to Matt and was like "Matt, there are lions on the plane! How cool is that? I wonder if they are doing a new show in Vegas..." Matt just looked at me and said, "Megan.. seriously? She meant the tail of the plane, that there is a picture of lions on the tail." I guess we all have our blonde moments.. I was with 5 blondes on the trip, what do you expect? :)

Thanks Losee family! We love and miss you!!

All About Aubree

{14 Months}

-She is SO much fun right now (a relief from last months teething episodes).

-She is such a diva.. like mother like daughter. I'll own up to it.

-She LOVES everyone.. like seriously, everyone. I'll be grocery shopping and she'll want to go to the cashier or the woman standing behind us, she'll go to people at church, and any of our family members. Anyone that looks at her she reaches for. I think we got a pretty awesome deal on our new bed because she reached out for our saleswoman. She comes in handy :)
-She hates getting her diaper changed.
-She loves music; anytime music comes on that has a beat she starts going nuts! She bounces and waves her arms. It's funny because she'll only do it to a particular sound of music, like techno or, dare I say, a "hip hop" type of sound. No, I do not let my child listen to Kanye or Flo Rida.
-Aubree is obsessed with pulling things out of drawers. She looks at us like "I'm doing you a favor." Haha- her current favorite is Matt's sock drawer.. oh and that pile of clothes behind the chair.

-She still loves books.

-She has her own little language. It is so cute!

-She loves looking in the washing machine as it's running.

-She likes playing with Matt's drum sticks. She mostly likes to throw them around.

We love your face Aubree Grace!!

What we dig...

{I currently and will most likely forever dig Adele- her entire album is amazing!}

{Matt and his buddies are obsessed with "Call of Duty Zombie Mode" or whatever it's called. They take pictures of their high score and send it to each other hoping to beat the other person. I don't understand it but I don't expect Matt to understand most of what I do, so "game on" as gamers would call it.. right?}

{Matt got me a gift certificate for Vday to get Shellac done on my nails and I love it!}



{Aubree loves this little talking Nursery Rhyme book and basically any toy that makes noises. She also loves my old stuffed bear from when I was 1- she talks to it and kisses it. She's pretty cute if I do say so myself.}