Friday, April 22, 2016

Girls' Weekend

So this was pretty awesome.  Cody put together a fantasy football league with some super fun friends of ours.  We called ourselves the Creekside Ballers.  He split the division into guys vs. gals, and the winner of each division played in the championship.  Winner was awarded a weekend away!:)  Well I happened to draft a stellar team (with the advice and help of my husband of course), and they totally dominated!  No trades necessary.  Cody was on it each week in helping set up my line-up while still maintaining his own team (amongst others).  Well my team came out on top, and so the girls won a fun weekend to ourselves!:) Thank you, Cody, for organizing the league, helping me draft a fantastic team, being on top of my line-ups every week, and then still being totally cool with the girls taking the title of champion!:)  You rock my world.  And us girls had a rockin' good time.

After arriving at our sweet resort, we piled into Shelley's truck and hit the road.

checking in for our massages at the massage therapy school

out for dinner

wedge salad is my new favorite thing

shopped 'til we dropped

I think the best part of it all was talking late into the night and just hanging with such fab ladies.  Life is just that much sweeter when surrounded by wonderful friends.

Saturday, April 9, 2016

glimpses

A glimpse into Cutler life lately:)

Miss Bri is a new Sunbeam!  She was more than ready and absolutely loves being in Primary with her big brother.  Jaden holds her hand each week to take her to the primary room after Sacrament meeting.  Warms my mother heart:)  Brielle loves her teacher and her teacher loves her dearly.

1st day of primary (J in CTR 6)

We've been doing a temple date swap with our awesome neighbors.  So here we are with the whole crew while the Smiths attended the temple.  We love these kids, and love even more how well they all get along.

this was our little pow-wow to decide on our next adventure:)

play dough and painting it is:)


Lucky Brielle had a little outing with Daddy to Home Depot, then on to his office for a few afternoon patients.  She kept busy in his office with some coloring and a show:)

Then she got to hop on for a turn in the dental chair.  She rocked it!

I had a friend design and create this longboard for Cody's 31st birthday.  We were going through possible ideas for the bottom of the board and settled on the name of Cody's high school band!  We assumed it was the coolest of the cools to have featured;)

The kids thought it would be hilarious to try on some of Landon's clothes! 
...or see if Jaden could still squeeze into them;)

this would be a long sleeve hoodie and long pants on Lan

Brielle too!

giving the selfie stick a try


late night movie on the trampoline
The kids had spent the day out here playing house... putting up blankies for walls, picnic table, mini kitchen set, pillows, etc. 


How many can you squeeze onto a trike?

100th day of school!


These cuties whipped out their scripture stories after spotting the accompanying DVD.  They had so much fun following along.

and Landon was cheesing it up!



Jaden learned how to make these fun little spider treats at school, and was so excited to show us how when he got home.



Speaking of school, this kid is totally rocking it!
Here he is reading to his class (Green Eggs & Ham).

  He loves to read, and has qualified for the Enhanced Learning Program starting in 1st grade!
I was so very proud to find he scored high in all three areas of testing.  You only need to score in the 97th percentile or higher in at least one category to qualify!

Boot Camp wrapped up at the end of February.  Melissa is giving her attention to her family needs for a time.  I was totally missing these girls, and then Jen had the brilliant idea of just working out together anyway applying what we've learned.  So we meet 3x a week and have fun encouraging and motivating each other.  It's fabulous, and I just love these ladies!

These two... they play so well together.

and it's pretty typical to find Brielle in a princess dress:)

Just hanging in the play area at the doc's office.



She's pretty good at this accessorizing stuff:)

Two cute little bugs showed up at my door after school one day.

love me some girl time!

can't get enough of the Arizona sky!

movie night with friends... and then they spotted this massive turtle dude.


boot camp shenanigans

making some grass pie out back


my world

This girl has taken quite a liking to the piano, music, dance, etc.  Loving catching her jamming out.


Superhero buds

a little dance workshop just for fun



Lan wasn't feeling too well here.  He was happy just chilling with his cheerios and watching a little Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.

This is how a snowball fight is done in Arizona... just pre-order the snow!
Brielle has such a great preschool and teacher!




Her hair gets full of static whenever she jumps on the tramp... picture doesn't quite show the extent of it.

and a Jaden selfie

Monster Jam truck show with Dad



J dominated me in Monopoly Jr!  He is the dog character, and had to borrow some from the boat to mark his property:)

getting ready for church

look at her all girly...  and J all silly:)

and Lan all cheesy:) love them!

I finally snuck an old microwave (Cody had held onto since college!) onto the bulk trash collectibles truck!  Woot!

She matched her doggies "hair" to hers... side bun for the win!


bedtime stories... love this family of mine.

We've spotted quite a few hot air balloons, but this one was close to home!



and this one too!

put together a block party to get to know our neighbors better... so fun!


This is the brother to one of our neighbors... he was like a celebrity to the kids!
(and the cute little toy stand across the street... the kids were all over it!  little trinkets at a great price is every kid's dream!)

Jaden bought this magnet set from the toy stand.  He has loved learning all about magnets and how they work.


These cuties set up a nap time for themselves and their stuffies in my closet of all places:)


can't forget Olaf!

these goofs




Jaden and Bri are really enjoying their tumble classes.  Look at this sweet set-up!


I spy my hubby in the nutcracker over a dozen years ago!:)

and a little music play at 'Let's Play Music!'



There ya have it!