School Pics

I know I say this all the time, but honestly I say it because its true my photographer is the best!!!  Tammy Hicks does such an amazing job with my kids, and I just love her.  I hope you enjoy these wonderful pics of my kids, because I certainly do!! 

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Utah Mom's

9 yr Wedding Anniversary

Yep, that's right we have been married 9 years as of June 6!!  Crazy how time has just flown by.  I couldn't be happier with my 9 years being married to my best friend.  It seems like I have known him my whole life, but actually we met for the first time 11 years ago.  I love him more and more with every passing anniversary.

We spent 10 lovely days in sunny St. George with no kids!  It was so quiet, calm, and relaxing.  We didn't take many pictures because we did a lot of lounging.

This is Dave at Smashburger with a yummy rootbeer float!!

This is Dave on our Anniversary.  We went to dinner at Anasazi.  It was pretty cool, we got to cook our meat at our table on a stone that was like 700 degrees.

This is me showing off my new neon pink skinnies!  Love them, they are my absolute favorite!

Minus the fact that we had some car problems we had an excellent trip.  We went shopping, we saw MIB3, we went swimming, ate lots of yummy food, found a butcher and made some really amazing steaks and brats, and just lounged around and did absolutely nothing!!  It was a great way to celebrate 9 fabulous years being married!!!

Vika's 4yr Pics

The last Saturday in April we got family pics taken by our wonderful photographer Tammy with Captured Photography.  She is amazing and my kids just love her.

We decided to stay true to our 'roots' and stay in good ole EM to do our pics.  We found 3 great locations and got some wonderful shots.  

Even though it was super windy and freezing the kids did great and still smiled for camera.

We got some really good family shots and actually really enjoyed ourselves despite the cold weather. 

I'm still having a hard time adjusting to the fact that my baby is 4.  She just has grown up way too fast.  She didn't stay a baby for very long, and so she acts a lot older than she should.  We love her and wouldn't want to live life without her.

Vika's 4th Birthday

I can't believe my little baby girl is already 4. Where in the world did the time go? I just love her to death, and I don't even want to think about life without her in our family. She is very spirited, opinionated, and just plain LOUD. She is also very tender hearted and caring, and she is always complimenting someone!! Her personality is getting really big, but she is staying very small and petite.

Happy birthday Vika aka Bebs!! We love you! Enjoy a few pics of her past birthdays!! :)

Vika when she turned 1! I miss all that chub!

Vika when she turned 2! Still very chubby!

Vika when she turned 3! She started thinning out, and honestly I don't think she is much bigger than that today!!

Wordless Wednesday

Jr. Jazz

Conner has been playing Jr. Jazz this year! He has been so excited, and just loves to play around with his friends. His team is made up of boys from our ward, and boys he has played sports with before. He was the most excited that his best friend Damon is on his team!

He is still getting the hang of actually playing basketball and not just trying to get the ball. His games are Saturday mornings, and he is either tired or hungry every game. He has been the entertainer, and just making everyone laugh. He is the kid that runs to the other basket to shoot, even if its the wrong basket. And he is also the kid that looks like he has no idea what is going on. He likes to talk to his friends on the bench, dance around, basically anything but play basketball.

This is Conner warming up before the game! Isn't this a 'normal' warm-up exercise?

There, now he looks like a basketball player!

He really does have his moments when he tries his best to play. He is good at blocking, but when it comes to offense he gets shy and timid. He doesn't like to shoot when there are lots of people at the basket even in practice and warm-ups.

Interviews with the kids

I decided to interview my kids, mostly because I have never done it but always wanted to. For future reference I need to interview them separately and not in earshot of each other. They were trying to answer for the other person, and getting some their answers from the other person. I had a lot of fun and I am thinking about doing this more often!!

I only asked what their favorite things were.

Conner Edward Armstrong:

Favorites-

Food: peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Drink: diet coke, diet dr. pepper, pepsi

Cereal: honey nut cheerios, honey nut chex, and green chex (Corn chex)

Snack: pretzels, fishies, fruit snack

Fruit: apples

Vegetable: green pepper, red pepper

Book: Spiderman, Batman, Super Hero Squad, Avengers

Game: hunting game (Cabella's Safari on XBOX 360)

Movie: Avengers, Tron, Phineas and Ferb

Thing to do: be funny

Thing to wear: cool clothes

Sport: a lot of sports

Thing at school: everything

Thing to say: nice things

Place to go: St. George, McDonald's, Grandma Teri's, Jojo's

Friend: every boy, and Addie (Willmore), Genevieve, Manessa (girls from school)

Primary Song: Book of Mormon Stories

Thing in Primary: talking about Jesus and Moroni and Joseph Smith

Restaurant: McDonald's

Song: the song from Avenger's

Breakfast: a lot of cereal

Lunch: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Dinner: Chicken-on-a-stick (chicken satays from Costco)

Sandwich: Peanut butter and jelly

Viktoria Jane Armstrong:

Favorites-

Food: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Drink: soda

Cereal: honey nut chex

Snack: candy

Fruit: grapes

Vegetable: carrots

Book: Froggy Eats Out

Game: candyland

Movie: Rapunzel (Tangled)

Thing to do: be silly

Think to wear: This shirt. All the time. (pink long sleeve)

Sport: Conner's basketball game

Thing at school: play blocks and color

Thing to say: Nice words like, can you please stop? like that

Place to go: McDonald's

Friend: Shaylee, Hunter and Lucy (preschool friends)

Primary Song: I am a Child of God

Thing in Primary: just be silly and be quiet

Restaurant: McDonald's

Song: Firework (Katy Perry)

Breakfast: pancakes

Lunch: peanut butter jelly sandwich

Dinner: noodles (top ramen)

Sandwich: Peanut butter and jelly

I hope you all learned something new about my kids, because I certainly did!!

New Year's Celebration!

We had the best New Year's party! Grandma Teri took our kids for the WHOLE weekend while Dave and I stayed home and just did nothing. It was amazing! We even went to see the kids on Saturday evening to see if they wanted to come with us to our party, but they wanted nothing to do with us.

We went to my little brother's new house for our party. Everyone brought their kids but us. It was so nice to not have to worry if our kids were being mean, or breaking things. We just got to enjoy everyone else's kids. And man they are so cute, and have pictures to prove it. I didn't get all the kids so I am sorry if missed some, but they were too busy having their own fun!!

Here is Miss Jocelyn! I love this girl with all her attitude and spunk!!

Little Miss Reecey Pie! She is an awesome dancer, and I love her to death!

Nolan in all his cuteness! Love him!

I love Landon too, but he wouldn't let me take his picture without his mommy!

We had an excellent game of Hedbanz going! His card was by far the best of the night. Some of his questions just made for lots of laughs for everyone, but him!! Thanks for all the hilarity Steven!!

It took me far too long to guess this one.

Ringing in the New Year with a kiss from the best looking guy at the party!!

The kids loved the poppers and noise makers! It was REALLY loud!

I also got a kiss from someone else! Thanks Landon!!

I hope you all had a great New Year's night. And that your New Year is starting out great!!

Christmas 2011

We started our Christmas celebrations on Christmas Eve. For lunch we went to Dave's Mom's house. We had excellent food and even better company. Teri planned some fun crafts for the kids to do. The decorated their own popcorn bowl, and we all got to decorate our own tree ornament!

We then went to my Parent's house for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner. We had a lot of food, and a lot of people. We were pleased to have 2 very special guests come to visit: Santa and Mrs. Clause. Most of the kids were extremely excited to see them walk through the front door. Reece ran downstairs and wanted nothing to do with them, and Nolan was ok as long as his mom was holding him. Funny kids! We were all so excited that no one pulled out their camera. Luckily, Dave gave Conner the Go Pro to wear, so we do have some video footage of them!! We then had a massive gift exchange that started with the kids, and then the parents and then the grandparents! What a fun night we had. We let the kids open their new Christmas pajamas because it was late and they would be asleep before we got home.

I normally like to just get a pic of the kids on the stairs waiting to go open presents, but Vika was really not happy to find out that Santa came while she was asleep and she didn't get to see him. She really loves him. So after us talking her through it, and me taking pics with them she was happy and ready to see what was left for her.

Conner wanted to tear through everything as fast as he could, but we made them take turns opening one present at a time. I'm mean!

Vika is the slowest present opener EVER!

Conner got 4 Ninja Turtles movies! And thats Dave with the Go Pro on his head.

Vika got a pretty new skirt that is just a tad too big. She is just so skinny.

Vika also got new pants, that DO fit her!!

I just love her face here. She holding her very last present waiting for the ok to open it!

Conner is such a stud. He got a new hat that just goes really well with the huge amount of tattoos all over him!

She was ecstatic to open her rapunzel dress! Sadly, it is way too big right now and falls off her.

He was so excited to open his V-neck shirt. This pic doesn't look like it, but he did ask Santa for a V-neck!!

We let the kids ask Santa for only 2 things each. Conner asked for a 2-wheeler bike, and a v-neck. Vika asked for a pink, sparkly bike, and a princess dress! They both got their bikes, but they rode them around the house before we thought to take pictures of them. They were super spoiled and got way too much stuff.

Dave's 30th Birthday Party

I was so excited for Dave to turn 30 because that meant only one thing. We got to dress up 80's style to celebrate! Words don't even come close to describing how much fun we had!

Here we have My 2 sisters and Me, and No we didn't plan to all wear purple it just kind of happened! The back drop was all thanks to Deb, isn't it amazing?

Left to Right: Deb, Nicole, Me

Dave's Mom Teri and her sister Stacy! Teri came pregnant because in the 80's she was pregnant with Dave!

My Mom and Dad! My Dad's hair is normally combed down, but he messed it up just for the party!!

My little brother Steven and his wife Breanne! Sadly, these 2 were born at the end of the 80's so missed out on most of the radness that happened in that decade!

Here is the birthday boy himself! He came dressed as a paper boy from the movie Better Off Dead. I made him his newspaper holder!!

Here we both are: Me doing a glamour shot and Dave doing his stunts!!

I would like to say thank you to everyone that came to his party it was a lot of fun, and meant a lot to Dave to have people here that love and care about him! We had a lot more people here than we have pictured. Not everyone wanted to get glamour shots! We did have some awesome games that we played. I found Trivial Pursuit 80's Style-we just did trivia questions girls vs. boys and the Girls won! We then played Pin the Glove on Michael Jackson. I found a cardboard cutout of Michael performing Billy Jean at a party store, and I made gloves (paper hand cutouts with gemstones glued to them). It was a very funny game. People were supposed to pin it to his glove hand, or his crotch area. You can only imagine the hilarity that ensued.

Happy Birthday Dave!

Halloween 2011

I realize that this was so long ago, but I just barely got my pics off my camera. I will be posting a bunch of events from last year so stay tuned!

We had a great Halloween! If you can't tell Conner is Batman, Vika is Sally from Nightmare Before Christmas, Mine was very last minute but I called myself a Nice Vampire, and Dave was the guy from Teen Wolf (his name has slipped my mind)!

The reason my costume was so last minute was because the costume I was making for myself didn't turn out. I made Vika's dress, yes thank you very much! And I was trying to make one just like it for me, but I wasn't very smart about it and didn't try it on until I was almost done with it. I know I am very smart some times! And I do have my fair share of 'blonde' moments!

Halloween night we invited my whole family to come have dinner and trick-or-treat with us! People were a lot later than expected so it just ended up being me and my 2 kids and my sister Deb and her 2 kids. When we got done everyone was at our house FINALLY! We had a lot of fun even though it was a school night, so it was a very shortened version of the norm. Thanks to everyone that came out and brought food!!