We made it through the Ist year - we only have forever to go !!!

So for Our first Anniversary Chance and I went to the supercross in Salt Lake. On our honeymoon we were in Vegas and got tickets to the Supercross finals so I think this will be a tradition for us- I don't think he will mind :) But I think that is the least that I can do for him after all he does for us!! He is honestly the BEST husband in the world - and if I ever forget that my mom and sisters are reminding me how lucky I am to have him. He puts up with me when I am having one of my days where I am mad at everyone and he knows just what to say when I am hard on myself. He won't let us go to bed angry with each other and he won;t let me walk away from an argument until everything is ok - he honestly just gets me and knows exactly how to handle things to make me feel safe. He is such a great dad!! And not just with our sweet girl but he loves Parker honestly as if he were his own. Sometimes I catch myself watching and listening to him when he is with Parker when he doesn't know that I am. I am very protective of Parker - I feel like he has had a very different life then little Elley will ever know - which is a great thing but I feel the need to protect him all the time. And Chance was the only guy even while we were dating that felt the same way about him that I do. The bond that he has with him is so coolest thing I have ever seen - and I am so grateful that he came into our lives when he did because I don't think me or Parker could have done it alone. It is making me cry to think about - lol but I truly did not know life until I met him!! Corny , right?! I love him so much and all that he does for us!! I love the little things he does for me like hugging and kissing me at 4:30 when he is leaving for wok even though I am so out of it I just grunt at him , and on his days off he moves the baby monitor over to his side of the bed and wakes up with elley and does everything he can to keep the kids quite so that I can get an extra hour of sleep, and the fact that he listens to Parker talk about his real dad and never says a bad word about him even though I know sometimes it has to break his heart!! Ya I know I am pretty lucky huh!!




Here is our guy - we love Chad Reed!!!


Love you Babe!!!!


How lucky am I - look how cute these guys are!!


What a stylin babe!!


My little man!!!

What a good Easter!!!

Heading out for the big easter egg hunt - Doesn't elley look excited lol

The Favero Fam - love you guys :)

Elley and Daddy - they are best buds!!

Can you believe all these eggs? That whole bucket is now full of candy - yeah cavaties( how do you spell that word?) He was so fun this year - he loved finding the eggs and was so good at helping his sister find them too !!

Parker and Elley's Early Easter Gift !!!

I have officially gone crazy !! So what sold these for me is that they are mini chickens - people actually have them as domesticated pets lol can you believe that? And they are show chickens so Chance thinks it will be fun for Parker to show them in the fair. I only wanted one but when we went to get them they told us that they are very lonely animals so we have to take atleast 2 but they had 3 left so that last little chicken couldn't stay alone in the cage so they all came home with us!! YEAH lol!!
I always joke about our house being as crazy as a farm with our dog and goat and cows - so now that we have added chickens I think it is official!!



This is what made it all worth it - this little mans face when we brought them home. He said mom I might just cry right now I am so happy!! He already named them - Jack Black, Cream Puff and Jackie Sue lol!! What a goober :)


And i had to throw one of our princess in to!! it has been so nice outside we just hang out in the yard all day!! How cool is she in her sunglasses - I was pretty impressed that she actually kept them on !!

Parkers first soccer game!!( and the new song is for you mom)

Look at how handsome he is in his uniform!! His game so fun to watch - I played all through high school so I love watching soccer and it was really cool to see him do something that means a lot to me :) He was really good at chasing the other players around but has not really grasped the idea that he is trying to get the ball. His team is really good - they won 9 to 0. Parker yells during the game," look coach we are taking the team in green down to china town huh?" lol thanks grandma for teaching him that one.





Here is our next little soccer player!!

Here is dad trying to contain our little monster during the game!! It was really hard for her to sit still - she wanted to run out and play with her brother!!

A fun birthday party followed by a trip to the E.R :(

I can't believe I am posting about Elley's first birthday -where did the time go? We had a party for her at my mother in laws house - thanks Laura for letting us invade your space :) Chance made a really cute slide show of Elley's first year - because what is a party with out some tears right? We had a lot of Elley's favorite people there and I am so glad that they came to celebrate with us. Thank you to everyone who traveled from Logan to come I know it was a yucky drive.
This is the birthday girl!! She was so cute when she opened her presents she smiled every time we got to a new one. She got so much stuff - some really cute outfits and lots of new toys!!

Here is Elley with her Aunt Loren !! I think they will be very close when she gets older - as soon as loren walks in the door she runs for Elley and she is one of the few people that Elley will actually go to without a fight!! She also has a very special relationship with Parker and he calls her his girlfriend. He said to her the other day when I get home from being a super hero will you be there to make me dinner ? lol silly boy

Here is my mom with the girls!! We all can't wait to see what happens when they grow up - we wonder if they will be best friends or get on each others nerves? They love to play together and can't keep there hands of each other now so hopefully that is a good sign!!


SO.... now that I have shared all the fun party pictures , this is where the night went bad!! She was good during the whole event but she seemed off - my mom thought she might be getting a head cold because her eyes and nose were watering. But as the night progressed she acted really irritable and kept coughing - which is never a good sign. She just got over having a mild case of strep throat and ear infections -where we found out the hard way that she is allergic to amoxicillin. So I was really hoping she was not sick again , especially so close to her birthday!! Well she seemed ok when we put her to bed but I woke up to her weezing on the monitor and I knew something was really wrong. She was having a really hard time breathing and her lips were purple- then she started throwing up . So we rushed her to the E.R
They gave her a breathing treatment and took x- rays. Then they gave her a nasty steroid shot . As you can see by this picture of our happy baby with puffy eyes the medicine in the nebulizer worked wonders :)They think she has a form of the croup - which is good new compared to all the other really bad things that kids can get sick with these days.

Just some pictures :)

I love my mom!!! She is such an awesome Grandma! Parker thinks she is a reading machine - he makes her read books to him every time we see her !

Sweet baby :)

I love this sweet little face so much!

Super bowl !! I am glad we got this picture - getting a normal one with all 4 of us is hard work! If you look close you will see that Parker and Chance have the same fo -hawk, care of free hair cuts at home by Mom!!

What a pair these two are!!

I FLY !!!!!! And our brave little man:)

My step dad has been telling Chance he will take him sky diving forever so to prepare for that he took him to try the I FLY simulator for his birthday. It is a really cool experience and it's not as pricy as you would think - I want to go back and try it next time!! As we were watching the people before them take there turn Parker decided he wanted to go to :) Here is Chance and Parker all suited up - my son is very weird about clothes, he hates anything that is tight and it takes me 30 minutes to convince him to put socks and shoes on so to get this suit on him with out a fight was an experience in itself! We told him it was his Spiderman suit - he loved it and never said a word!!

How cool is this!! His claw hands are the best part- I am not sure why he thought that was a good idea but he had that move down!!

I had to show you this one because you can see the slobber all over his chin - they told him to keep his mouth closed when he got in there - but he must have forgotten that part. His goggles and the instructors goggles were covered with spit! Poor guy!!

This is the last shot we got before the big melt down! He kept telling the instructor that he did not want to go high and that he would freak out if he took him up higher then this( he kept showing him with his hands) The instructor really wanted to try it out and just see if Parker was serious I guess - but Parker was not messing around. He started throwing his arms around and when they were all done he told the guy - see i told you i would freak out !! LOL

Here is Chance taking his turn at it !

Chance was a much better sport then Parker at the high part :)

Here is the IFLY crew - Chance, Alexa, Parker , Grandpa Mike and Brayden. They look pretty good in those outfits :)

Grandma and Grandpa came to watch the big event to. Here is Grandma Laura with Elley Belly!!!

Here is Grandpa Buddy - he looks like he got in a bad fight with all those scratches on his face! He smiled the whole time I think he wanted a run at it too!!