V day

Hope you had a happy day full of love yesterday! Valentines Day is my second favorite holiday (with Halloween being my first) and we milked the whole day by filling it with endless smooches, card making, present giving, snuggling, and a sugar induced coma come seven o'clock that night. what can I say, we love love over here at the Reynolds house!

(forgive the nose trimmer gift. Talis broke DJ's a while ago so it was more of like a long over due replacement gift)

(we ran into good friends getting supplies for sugar cookie making and Talis and Brazia greeted each other with some Valentines smooches)

(pan 1/5 of sugar cookies, I never want to eat a sugar cookie again....)

Thanks for the flowers my love!

xoxo

Halloween 2012

Sadly my favorite holiday has came and went this year but the good news is we celebrated it to it's fullest. DJ built an impressize haunted walkway up to our door so that we could easily scare all the neighborhood kids. We had our families over for chili, cornbread and cider and sat out in our driveway during the night passing out candy. The only unfortunate thing about our celebrations is that we waited too long to take our family halloween picture so sadly we only have a shoddy shot like the one below. You can still see how cute Talis is and how amazing DJ's last minute Shredder costume is so enjoy! Only 363 more days till Halloween again...

Fathers Day

These last few days have been a whirlwind. With everything from packing,flying, and being involved in a friend's wedding (with my cousins wedding following a few days behind) it's nice to have a day to remember how great fathers are. In my case I thought numerous times about all the great fathers in my life. My hardworking grandfather who can rival any storyteller I've ever met, my ever faithful mom who has played the father role in my life, my soft spoken father in-law who has endless amounts of patience, and of course to my husband. Fatherhood never looked so natural for a person. Happy fathers day to all those men (and single moms) out here showing sons how to be men and daughters how to be loved by them.

memorial day two weeks later

I'm finally getting around to writing about what we did on Memorial Day weekend because Dj finally got around to transferring his phone pics to the computer (I never seem to have the camera charged when I need it). Josh and Carlie stayed with us while Annette, Jeff, Juelaine, and Puna stayed with my mom. It was so fun getting to see Talis and Jayla hang out all weekend together. We spent the weekend with the Noa family relaxing, bbq-ing, and playing games. We spend actual Memorial Day taking the babies to the Phoenix Children's Museum with Josh and Carlie. The weekend went by way to fast for my liking and as usual we are left wondering why we all live so far away from the Noas. We love you guys!

happy mothers day!

Happy mothers day weekend to this beautiful woman! No one is more caring, more selfless, more nurturing, more patient, more hard working, more spontaneous, and more faithful than you are. For all the encouragement and support given, the sacrifices you've made, the volleyball games/practices/tournaments/camps you've driven me too, all the fun family vacations you've planned, all the hours you've worked, all the surprise trips you took to Utah when I was a college freshman having a hard week, all the meals you've cooked, all the last minute babysitting of Talis you've happily agreed to, and the infinitely long list of everything else you've done and continue to do for me. I love love love you!

And a shout out to my awesome mother in law who in my opinion did a fantastic job at raising a gentleman of a son :). Happy mothers day to all you mothers, soon-to-be mothers, and future mothers out there!