Wedding Bells?!?

So the other night at dinner the girls started asking me about getting married. They were asking me about my dress and all that good stuff. I told them that I still had my wedding dress and after dinner they could look at it if they wanted to. They were all so super excited to look at it and wanted to try it on. One of my own personal memories is trying on my moms wedding dress.... it was so much fun. This memory is one of the reasons I really wanted to buy and not rent a wedding dress and also why I have kept it for so many years.

Here's Lexi being Lexi. She knew we would think this was funny so she had to do it!
Makenley really got into the posing and loved having the dress on.
How freakin' cute is she!! Maycie has the best smile ever!
Adelyn took this very seriously. Kinda freaked me out and made me a touch emotional (I am not sure if it was the thought of them getting that big or thinking how my pocket book is going to shrink when paying for 4 girls weddings!!) Thinking of shopping for my own little girls wedding dress'! Crazy....luckily I still have at least 15-20 years....hopefully!
This was super fun! They all felt so big and grown-up!

Highlights and Lowlights

So I know it has been forever!! We have had so much going on. Some good some not so good! Lets start with the low light so we can end on a high note! Corey's Aunt Angie passed away a few weeks ago. This is his moms second sibling to pass away in the last six months. It has been a little rough! My Grandma Darrington passed away. This is a high and low. High because she has lived a great life and has been relatively healthy. The low is that it is always hard to have someone die and miss them. My Dad had open heart surgery about 2 weeks ago. He is doing really well....but it was really scary!!! I have never been so scared of losing one of my parents as much as I was then. It was awful to see him after the surgery he looked terrible! I tried so hard to keep it together while I was in the hospital room, but I defiantly lost it as soon as I walked out! I went to see him Monday afternoon and he look amazing and he said his heart feels better than ever so I guess that is a little bit of a highlight that he is doing well. All of the death and illness has made me think and rethink about a lot of things. Life is just way to short to be wasted on silly, petty things! It helps me to remember that my family is the very most important thing in the world to me! I want to spend as much quality time with them all as possible. It also makes me think about my health. I have a renewed outlook on exercise and eating right. It has always been important to me but I have an even greater desire to do it just to insure that I stick around to see my great grandchildren! It also makes me want my kids and hubbie to be healthy so that they will be happy and healthy!! So on to the highlights!! We have had a lot of fun swimming parties with lots of friends and family. Corey's sister Kaycie came in town for a few weeks which is always a blast! My girls absolutely love her to death. She and I are super close and love to talk and play Cities and Knights for hours and hours! Grandpa Don came into town. The girls always have fun with him and you can't really beat Don's milkshakes! My sister Keli found out that she will be able to adopt the two little girls she has been doing foster care for!! She has had them for over a year and I am super excited to have them be permanent nieces!! There is nothing sweeter than seeing a little family be sealed in the temple. I look forward to that in the next few months!! We really have had some fun this summer and lots of good news! I promise some pictures and another post really soon!!

Ahhh......Summer

I can not express how excited I am that school is done!!! I was so ready for the routine of life to change a little! Anyway the girls had a fun last week of school with lots of activities going on. Addy and Kenley both had field day and a dance festival. The dance festival is super cute. Each grade performs a dance routine. It was really fun. The theme this year was the Old West. Kenley had a little cowboy(or should I say cowgirl?) hat on and danced her little heart out. Adelyn's grade did a dance to Life is a Highway. Let me just say that she has a lot of Zimmerman genes in her she is a PERFORMER! She loves to dance and especially in front of a crowd. Some kids are just doing the motions....not Addy it is full out and a huge cheesy grin on her face! I am glad that she does not get nervous in front of people. It was super fun to watch both of them. The only down side of school being over is that both Addy and Makenley had the best teacher ever!! Seriously they were both super nice but firm and I feel like both girls learned a ton!

I am looking forward to lots of fun this summer swimming, going on "field trips" and just playing with the kids!!

Yeah for SUMMER!!!!!

Preschool Graduation

This is Lexi's super sweet teacher Ms April. She has got to be one of the best preschool teachers ever!! There was not a class that went by that Lexi did not come home talking about something she had learned and she was constantly coming home with the best art projects!! She does a new theme each year for school this year it was Pirates...Argh! I don't know how she does it but I am super thankful to her. Lexi will sure miss preschool. Lucky for us Miss April lives right next door to us so Lexi will still get to see her!!
Here she is giving her part. "Our grandparents came on a very special day. We sang sea chanteys and got to play". Say that ten times fast! She did awesome.
Here she is with her cute graduation hat! Kind of a little silly that they make such a big deal of preschool graduation, especially considering she will go again next year....BUT how can you argue with how cute she looks in that hat!
During their program the kids sang lots of songs for us. Lexi has come home many a day singing new songs. One of her favorites...My Bonnie lies over the Ocean...I am sure because of her Aunt Bonnie.
Oh Lexi were love ya girl!

Locks of Love

Adelyn decided a while ago that she wanted to grow her hair out to donate to Locks of Love. So we were very patient for many months for those 10 inches to grow!! At the beginning of April we measured...sure enough it was long enough!! Not only was I excited for her to be able to donate, but I was also really tired of brushing through her hair everyday a few times a day!! So many tangles...so little time!!

Here she is holding up her first cut.

Look at the two sides....holy cow she is so brave! We are so proud of her!

The finished product! She was so thrilled to have it done! When we got home we were looking at the website for Locks of Love and Addy saw some of the kids who had received wigs from the donated hair. She said it made her feel really good inside knowing that someone would be able to have her hair. How sweet is she?? She defiantly got that from her Dad or someone else....I am so proud of her!!!

The big 30 cruise!!

OH my goodness did we have some fun!! We went on the cruise because Rick gave it to Lacey for Christmas and we all convinced Corey it would be a great 3oth birthday present! We were so right! We had a great time! This was the night we decided to celebrate my birthday, I really not 30 for a few more days!! I will hold on to them for dear life!! I really just want to stay "in my twenties", however the cruise was a great way to get ready for the big 30!!
Here we are at the NOT so newlywed game. It was entertaining....I was so grateful our name did not get picked! Sorry Corey I know you wanted to play!
This is Cabo. It was by far the prettiest place we stopped at. We went on a Catamaran ride to a snorkeling spot, which was not great, I decided I am just to spoiled from snorkeling in Hawaii. The ride over was super pretty and we even spotted some whales so that was really cool.
OH this is not the greatest shot, but it was the only one of us on the boat. The scariest moment for both Corey and I came on the boat ride......we both got locked in the bathroom!! No we are not retarded....the lock was funky! To start with you the door locked on it's own so you had no idea how it locked in the first place. Then it was this little black button that you had to lift up to unlock the door! Luckily Corey and Lacey found me before I got to scared!!
Lacey and Rick on our second formal night(I don't have any on my camera of our first one, I guess you will have to check out Lacey's blog for those!)
OH Lassie after all these years you still do it for me!!
Corey and I on our balcony

Here we are looking way to hot in our gear for the zip line!
On the way to the zip lines we stopped at a Tequila factory. Let me just tell ya how excited we were about that!! The highlight of the stop was that the grounds were really pretty and the stupid guy on the bus that couldn't stop talking about getting his "free shot" the whole ride there could finally shut up! It is amazing to me how important a few drinks are to people!
Off she goes. There were 9 zip lines total.
Corey and I waiting our turn. It was a blast. It was not pretty as you can see from the pictures it was mostly dead trees but it was so so fun!
One morning there was nothing going on so Corey and I decided to do a little dance class before we went to the gym to workout(which happened a whoppin' one time!). Here is Corey showing Lacey some of his moves! He has mad skills...but for real I love that Corey will try anything! Thanks for being a good spot sweets!

This was our ship.
Here we are chillin' at a resort in Puerto Viarta.
This was the pool. It was super pretty.
This is all of us eating lunch. Love the balloon hats, I know we look H-O-T!! Yummy food!
I don't know how to flip pictures once they are on the blog-my bad! This is Corey and I at he dance class.

We really had sooo much fun. It was so nice to get away from real life for a little while. Hanging out at the pool, eating, dancing, napping, eating, playing with friends, no cellphone service, going to shows oh and did I mention eating! When there was nothing to do that was our fall back! A great big THANK YOU to Lacey and Rick for inviting us and an even bigger THANKS to Ashley for taking care of our kids for the week!!

Easter Sunday

I just can't resist new easter dresses!! Not that Maycie or Lexi need one more dress....so many hand me downs! BUT as my sister always reminds me it is fun for them to get something brand new too!!