Viva Las Vegas!

This weekend I am headed to the City of Sin with my Mom and brother, Rich.  My Mom and I are spending a few days with my sister for her Birthday and I am SO stoked!  The first event on our agenda?  Going to see 'Phantom of the Opera' tonight!!  I am beYOND excited, I have never seen it on stage so I'm sure I'll just be grinning with my mouth open the entire time.  Rich will be hanging out with my brother-in-law and the girls will be staying at a Hotel on the strip.  It will be a weekend full of shopping, laughing and carbs. If you would like to join us, just look for the silly trio that can't stop talking or using our credit cards.  Have a great weekend!

What I'm Loving Wednesday

Provo

Say what you will, I love this City.  This Summer Kate and I were driving around taking pictures for the Annual Ladies Soiree and chatting about memories.  I came across these pictures today and thought, "Man, this is such a pretty place to live".  Enjoy!

...for some reason I am craving a slurpee right now...

Pirate Party

Last night we had a Pirate Party for Captain Cache!  It was so much fun - lots of people came and Cache had a blast.  Here are some photos -

I made this little sign for the front door - the pizza delivery guy was pretty impressed.

A little table decor...

The cake

Captain Cache!  I should mention that he referred to himself as 'Captain Cache' all night.

All the guests were given a pirate bandana, a pirate necklace and an eye patch.  Our niece Amber rocked the ensemble a little too well.  Here she is enjoying some popcorn before the pizza arrived.

Cache's pirate booty.  Instead of tying his gifts with ribbons, I wrapped his presents with craft paper and drew treasure maps.

Another goofy expression from Cache...but I think he was irritated that I was taking another picture instead of getting down to business and giving him some cake.

Opening his gifts with Dad.

Thanks to everyone who came!  It was a fun party and Cache wanted to go to bed in all his pirate garb.  As you can imagine, pirates are a pretty rowdy bunch so I have some cleaning up to do and some pirates passed out on the couch...yarr! 

Happy Birthday Cache!

Cache Clyde Jolley

Today is Cache's 3rd Birthday!  So cliche', but I can't believe that it's been 3 years already.  It goes so fast - look at all these pictures!  So cute.  He's such a great little boy...

Happy Birthday, buster!  We love you so much and we love having you in our family.  Thanks for being such a good kid and being very patient with your parents...we still don't know what we're doing.  We love you - Happy 3rd Birthday!

Weekend

What a weekend!  Friday night I went to see 'The Thrillionaires' with Hannah and had SUCH a blast.  When we weren't in sheer awe of their genius, we were laughing our heads off!  If you ever get a chance to go, you must - absolutely radical.  Afterwards we said 'hi' to the cast and kept gushing about how great they were - we could easily have been mistaken for groupies.  And that is in no way depressing.  Afterwards we had a yummy dinner at Ruby River...oh how I love Girls Night.  

Saturday we had lunch with my family for Cache's Birthday (which is on Monday)!  Everyone was able to come, it was awesome.  Nothing like a little get together at my favorite Burger Joint.  My parents gave Cache a train set (he loves trains right now) and my Dad set it up on a table next to us.  My parents were busy holding Cole and playing trains with Cache, so Cody and I were able to catch up with Marty, Jess and Rich.  It was so much fun.  Thanks for coming everyone!

As I mentioned, Cache's Birthday is tomorrow and I'm excited.  Possibly more excited than Cache is!  We got him some great presents and I think the party will be fun. The only thing I'm not excited about is we're in the middle of painting Cache's room, so his stuff is ev.ry.where.  Have a bit of cleaning up before the guests arrive tomorrow!  While Cody and I were shopping for his b-day pressies, I came across this...

Just the other day my sister was asking why they don't make Hamster wheels for kids.  Ummm...turns out we just weren't looking hard enough!  Now I'm off to bake a cake and work my party magic for tomorrow - hope you had a great weekend!

Silly Things

Have you ever sat down and thought about the silly, trivial things that can just make your whole day?  For example, the other night after Cody and I went to see some friends and have cake for Marty's Birthday, we had to stop at the store to pick up a few things (turns out spending our life's savings at Costco didn't quite cover everything we needed).  Cole was sleeping, so Cody and Cache braved the produce and I waited in the car.  Cody comes out with the groceries, we come home and put the kids the bed and I got in the shower.  When I come out, there are a dozen roses on the bed.  How the stealthy gentlemen was able to get the roses into the car, the house and our room without me seeing is totally beyond me.  The man is a magician.  Magician I tell you!  I mean, no reason roses...is anything better?

Cache loves chapstick - he loves to carry it around, open and close the lid, put on multiple coats, he just loves the stuff.  Currently his flavors of choice are cherry and mint.  Like most curious kids, he loves to twist the stick so it's almost completely out of the tube...then he tries to put on the lid.  This, of course, creates cherry and mint build up in the lid top.  We're all familiar with this, yes?  The other day Cache asked me to help him put the lid on his mint chapstick and I noticed the mass amount stuck in the lid.  *sigh*  So I pull out a few q-tips (1001 uses and counting!) and clean out the smushed chappy.  Yesterday Cache walks proudly down the stairs and says, "I cleaned out my chapstick!" and he's holding the cherry tube.  All I can think is, "Oh great...I don't even want to know where I'm going to find little chunks of that cherry stuff".  I mean, who knows what he used!  His bedsheet, a toy, his socks, I have no clue.  I sort of forgot about it and when I went to empty the garbage in my bathroom, I found this...

...a bunch of q-tips with cherry chapstick on the top sitting in the garbage.  How cute is that?!!?  I know, I actually have a picture of garbage on my blog, but I could not resist - I nearly died.  He went upstairs, remembered that I had used q-tips to clean out his other lip lid and did the same thing he saw me do!  Granted, he used like 40 of them.  No lie, I nearly burst into tears, such a cutie.  I came downstairs and showered him with praise, for which he was most grateful.  

And finally, talking to my sister today - always a joy.  Especially when we begin quoting 'Clueless' and are laughing so hard that we are silent for many seconds.  I love her.  Have I mentioned that my mom and I are spending next weekend with Andrea in Vegas for  her Birthday?  That definitely makes my day!

Happiest of days

It must have taken a great occasion in order for me to bump down my Summer post...and indeed it is!  Today is my brother's Birthday.  Marty is my older brother who is one of the most stellar men I know.  He and my brother Rich (The Brothers Patch) work together and are best friends.  They are such amazing people - I feel very honored to have them as brothers.  I saw them both last night at a little get together for Marty's Birthday and they are so hilarious, so great.  So!  To my older brother Marty - I hope this day is the greatest!  I love you and look up to you, you are truly an incredible, amazing man.  Hott-tee Burt-dees! 

In other news, do you know what tonight is?  'Tis the premier of A.I.

Oh yeah...it's on.  Will you be tuning in?  I have some things I need to get done today (all of which are simply too boring to post about, so I will spare you) and now I have to get them done in time so I can watch all the auditioning glory!