Lovely and White

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

We Survived and it was a success

If you read my blog post about a month back, I was pretty nervous leading up to my association's convention. This event is enormous, the best way to describe it to someone would be to say plan on having four weddings, four days in a row that range from scale to style in every way. Good news all of the planning, tears, and stress over planning leading up to it all actually paid off. We had a successful convention! Now some things did go wrong as to be expected but all in all it was a huge victory and relief that some how in the end the whole event came together. I think my favorite and best surprise was the Zermatt Resort surprised me and my little girl for her first birthday during the UOA Carnival. It seemed very fitting since my water broke up there last year for this and we missed the whole shebang! I am so blessed with a husband who can handle our babies and allow me to enjoy what I do for a living. All was good, enjoy some pics!

Happy Birthday Sweet Kinsale!

Quinn's first carousel ride with his Papa and his Godfather

New head shots from convention

My new 2016-2017 board

Love,

The Whites

Durango, Colorado

We have officially started a love affair with Durango, Colorado! If you haven't already checked out this little mountain town, you need to. We went there this last Memorial Day to visit some of our besties, the Hallocks and meet their new little guy Oliver. The drive there from Utah isn't too bad about 6.5 to 7 hours and actually pretty scenic since you drive through Moab and then into pretty scenic area of Colorado.
We had a blast when we were there, both Sara and Zane grew up there and now have a gorgeous house out in the country that has horses in their back yard, you can see a real steam train from their front porch and don't mind the spectacular mountain view as well. Now that its not just the four of us adults and there are four additional children, the trips are pretty different but lots of fun. We had lots of hang time with babies and hanging in the backyard. The kiddos were all about the water table, pool and having our first fire pit with s'mores. We did manage to get some amazing adult time in as well, the boys got out for rides two days, us girls made it downtown for some great shopping and cocktails and the four us adults got out downtown Durango minus babies for a raging night (raging in toddler hood means 11pm, and flights of whiskey).
I will let the pics tell the story but it was a great weekend, can't wait to go back for either the brew train or Polar Express.

Little girl on the drive there

Meeting Mr Oliver for the first time- HELLO baby fever

Bren out biking

The beautiful Sara

Kinsey now fits the dress Sara bought her a year ago!

Downtown Durango, having too much fun!

Gummy Bear dance party

Quinn was helping....

Front porch waiting on the train for the Beat the Train Race!

Anxious little boys waiting for the steam train

Bubbles!

Boys out biking

Girls out shopping

Durango Colorado

My ragamuffin babies

Quinn liked the horses

Our very first bon fire with S'mores

Leaving the train museum

sophisticated dinner time with toddlers

The boys!

The GIRL

Amazing train museum in Durango

It was awesome trip!

Love,

The Whites

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Two Weeks Away

Its so crazy to think that in two weeks I will be back up at the Zermatt getting ready for our HUGE convention for work. It takes event planning to whole other level because it goes on for 4 days with large events each day and over 400 people who have flown in from all over the country for this. I am responsible and in charge of it ALL. I have been surprisingly not super anxiety filled about this, how could it get any worst case scenario them me going into labor up at the Zermatt last year and missing everything. I am sad that I won't be waking up to see my sweet baby girls face on her first birthday but she will be up there later that evening for the picnic, we can convince her its a party for her!
This summer is jam packed for our family but we are pretty excited. Since both kids are older we feel like we might get some more hikes in, lots of pool time (Quinn starts swimming lessons) and some camping. We also have started planning a trip to Scotland and London for mid summer too that should be incredible.
Bren has been good and has been under a lot of stress at work but handling it all like the champ he is. You know you picked a winner when he is at work until 8pm (he had a work dinner) then gets home puts his grubbies on and starts working on his car because there was a bolt missing on his tire. The fact this sexy man of mine can do all of it and still snuggle his babies makes my heart sing!
Just like I enjoy putting up my Christmas decorations on black Friday there is something that truly marks the beginning of summer like planting your summer planters. I did this last week and so enjoyed digging in the dirt and planting some good stuff. We had gorgeous weather Friday and Saturday and the whole family got to enjoy hanging out in the backyard. Can't wait to see what we get up to this summer.

Love,
The Whites

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Change of Seasons and So much FUN!

April, my official Birthday month has blown by! I swore to myself that by the end of this month I would get a blog update in. 33 is awesome, time isn't slowing down but I am trying to take it all in and enjoy more. This month has had a lot of special events, we went to Colorado to see the Mays for Easter, I had my St George Conference successfully for work, My Mommy and Fairy God Mother came to town to help babies, we went to Jamaica and my other Mom Kathy watched my babies, We found out Quinn and Kinsale are getting a Utah cousin (Hooray Tommy and Brandy) and I had a great Birthday. Life is good, feel like this post would be best captured by pictures!

Colorado