Family Vacation!

Hi Everyone!

This last weekend Ryan and I were able to take Isaac, Jace, Jay, and Lois to Scottsdale Arizona!! Every 4 months our Herbalife business has a Leadership Development Weekend (aka LDW) where we go to get motivated and learn how to make our business grow! It was AMAZING!!!! We stayed at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa! It's a 5 star resort that gets booked out every October for weddings and we were able to get an AMAZING deal for the 4 nights we stayed there. If you hadn't noticed I FINALLY have a family picture! Not exactly the best, but it's the most recent. We are standing outside the resort waiting for the shuttle to take us to the mall 1/2 mile away. That's how far the entrance is to the resort!

We left home Thursday and flew US Airways to Arizona. It was Jace's first plane ride and he LOVED it! I loved it too because he fell asleep once we were in the air. Looking out over Phoenix was incredible! It seemed the houses would never end! I didn't realize how HUGE a city it is! When we got to our room we put on our suits and went swimming! They had at least 5 pools! 1 was a "Lazy River" type where you sat in a tube and let the drag you around the circle pool. It took at least 5 minutes to go the full circle!
Friday morning we went down stairs and had a buffet breakfast at the Blue Sage. Everything was organic and tasted incredible! They had fresh fruit, fresh squeezed juice, they even had someone standing behind a counter just to make fresh omletes!! They had every breakfast food imaginable! Cheese blitz's, cereal, salmon (Yuck!) sausage, bacon, potatoes, muffins, bagels, and mush! (I still lost 2 pounds on this trip!) After breakfast we left Isaac and Jace with Jay and Lois, and went to our meetings. This is basically what we did the entire time until Sunday evening when training was done. Then we partied the last night and flew home EARLY Monday morning.
It was an amazing trip and thanks to Jay and Lois to joining us and making it possible to take our boys with us!

In four months we go again, only this time it will be in LAS VEGAS!!!!! Anyone want to join?? :)

Chop Chop!

I cut Jace's hair today! I think I did a pretty dang good job. What do you think??

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Happy 32nd Ryan!!!

Ryan's birthday is on the 16th this month, so before things get too busy, I decided to do his birthday post now. HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!!!!!


No one is more happy about his birthday than Isaac and Jace. They've been daddy's boys from the start and they love to make daddy smile and laugh. Jace has recently started remembering what Ryan's work place looks like, so when we drive to go visit him, when we pull in the parking lot he starts saying, "da...da, da?" as if to tell me this is where dad works and I'm going to see him soon right?

Isaac bought Ryan a present this year. With his OWN money!! He only had $12.00 but wanted to get him something he uses everyday. So we went to Staples and Isaac bought him 10 highlighter markers. Ryan uses those all the time and Isaac was excited that they only cost him $8.00 total!


Ryan is such a big kid at heart! He loves to wrestle with the boys every chance he can. Usually when the boys start wrestling, I turn my head and do other things around the house. That way when one of them gets hurt I can honestly say I didn't see what happened. Well, when it was play time with Jace today, I laid on the floor and he came and SAT on my HEAD! ON PURPOSE!! THEN as if to say he got me, he put his hands on my face and rolled my head back and forth as if to smoosh me further into the floor AND then he jumped up and down on my face!!! I was laughing TOO hard to do anything about it! I know that anyone who tries to mess with him in the future will probably end up like me on the floor. Oh well...


Here are my top 10 favorite things about Ryan: (since 32 is too long a list for people to read) (and for me to make) :)

1: Ryan works above and beyond normal to provide for his family!
2: Even though he tends to act tough, he has the biggest caring heart for everyone he knows!
3: Ryan loves to watch "chick-flick" movies with me!
4: Ryan knows how to make me laugh...(he once put on my swimmingsuit) :)
5: He knows how to keep secrets (like presents) away from me. (I did once, but I had to leave his present at my mom's house wrapped in duct tape!)


6: Ryan wrote in his senior year book he wanted 10 kids!!
7: Ryan knows how to bring out the best in people.
8: Ryan is the smartest person I've even known! His common sense is out of this world!
9: He knows how to make money work for him.
10: He knows how to dream with me!

HAPPY 32nd BIRTHDAY RYAN!!! MAY THERE BE AT LEAST 32 MORE!!!