American Idol May 2012

 

Anyone know me knows I am a die hard fan of this show...and yes I own all Coldplay music too...

 

 

 

Awesome Day #1

 

Seeing Coldplay was pretty AWESOME!

Coldplay was performing on American Idol one night but they had to tape him with a live audience the morning of instead since he was due for the Weenie Roast in the Evening. I had signed up to get tickets for any American Idol taping and when I got this in my email I jumped on it! It wasn't an American Idol Episode but this was gonna be pretty darn cool I thought and it was! I brought my sis in law April, our friend Anna and her daughter Mckenna... He performed two songs for us, each of them twice ; 'Paradise' and 'Every Teardrop is a Waterfall' He was so crazy and he danced and was pretty chatty between takes...Very cool for a free little mini concert...And yes the crowd went wild when he changed his shirt for the next song/take hahahaha...Oh  and Mckenna was chosen to be in the 'Pit' with all the cute young girls screaming at the stage...She almost didn't wanna go but we moms made her {We were a little jealous} {ok a lot jealous} ;) She loved it...After the show we went and had lunch at The Cheescake Factory at The Grove in Hollywood.

 

See our cool little bracelets...They lit up in different ways during the songs...

 

 

Awesome Day #2

 

 

Scored more tickets from my friend Jen to go see the Finale show where these two {Jessica and Phillip} battled it out for the title of the next American Idol. This time since it was so last minute just us three SCV girls went and stood in line, got our tickets with seat numbers on it and then went and had lunch at The Yardhouse and then saw a movie 'Girl in Progress' while we waited to go into the Nokia theater...Our seats were pretty good. We were in the front row of the first balcony...not too bad...Phillip was my pick...They liked Jessica...They both were awesome! I knew he would win tho...;)

 

 

Anna, Mckenna and me

 

 



Awesome Day #3

 

Morning of the Finale results show I open up an email with Tickets to the show! I debate back and forth of whether or not I should go...Anna couldn't go, April couldn't but I really wanted to go...I decide to just go for it so I bring my little buddy Dalen. Totally unsure if we will even get in since the day before we got there around 10am and got balcony seats...Me and Dalen are gonna show up around 3:30pm. oh well I said, if we don't get in NBD. we'll go out to dinner just me and him... We get to the line and they are waiting for a number from the guys at the theater. The number is how many filler seats to hand out...We get two tickets...YES! hmmm wonder where we are sitting. I look at the tickets and it's floor seats!!!... We get to our seats and they are smack in the middle just a little left of their big camera stage setup about 30 rows back from the stage...It was awesome and best part was seeing Phillip Phillips win LIVE!

Spring Break

This was one crazy week with some very crazy fun friends...

Spring Break 2012!

Monday we did the Los Angeles Zoo with Brooke and kids and Becky and kids and while we were there we bumped into Mindee with her kids...

Then we had Brooke and her kids over to swim and my mom and Pat met us out here to visit...

Tuesday we went out to the beach with Brooke and Mindee and all the kiddos...First time to the beach without hubbies and we did it! It was way fun!

And yes of course we did Magic Mountain on Wednesday with all of us moms...and all the kids...I think if I can remember correctly there were 6 of us moms and about 30 kids! It was crazy but fun! We would break off into groups and some moms would stay with little ones and little rides while some moms would take bigger kids to bigger rides! It worked out pretty well and no lost kids that day!

 Lexi backseat driving with her girlfriends Darby and Ashlynn...

 Who are these three little stinkers...wait we are missing Noah here...hahahaha...Elijah, Noah's partner in crime and his baby sister Emberlyn...

One day me and Lexi went to the mall ;)

and Lexi and Noah went to Bailey's doggie themed birthday party!

Josh had Thursday and Friday off and we just relaxed and went and saw The Lorax as a family and had a nice Easter with the grandparents and cousins!

Easter 2012

First we went to Church with the family and had a great Sharing Time in Primary about all the symbolisms of the Resurrection...The kids would find an egg and open it to find an item in it...We would talk about what it represented from the Easter Story.

Then we headed to Simi Valley for the day to have lunch and an egg hunt with my parents and then dinner with Josh's family and swimming...

 Lily with Grandma (my mom)

 The Easter Egg Hunt...

Lexi and Maddie...Mom's best friend Linda's granddaughter ;)

The Girls...

The Boys...

Our Good Friend Pat helping Lily find Eggs...

 Swimming at Grandma Miles with all the cousins...

Laker Game

In March, Josh went to a Laker game with his Dad, and brothers Jesse, Jason and Jared

They bought 4 tickets five rows back from the court plus one ticket right behind Jack Nicholson! hahaha...They all took turns throughout the game in the hot seat! Funny guys!

Miles Family Photo Shoot 2011-12

Miles Photo Shoot 2012

This one made it to our wall this year ;) Usually we always take our family picture before Christmas and send them out in a Handmade Christmas Card wich is always well thought out all month of November long complete with a cute synopsis of our year...---But this year we were happy to have a photo shoot even if it was in March of this year...Still came out awesome...Thanks Cherie!

Dalen turned 10 years old and just completed the 4th Grade...He was tested for the Gate program. He is such a great babysitter and is really taking a shine to cooking. We love to watch fun cooking contest shows together and he loves doing "fancy restaurant" for the kids when we go out for date night...He will start up Soccer this Fall with his good friend Braden {hopefully they will be on the same team}...He is enjoying being the oldest and sometimes I have to remind him he isn't a third parent hahaha ;) He also loves to play Starcraft in his spare time or with his brothers...Right now their favorite game is T-Rex Dinosaurs...

Deveon just turned 9 years old and is such a cute little guy! He completed the 3rd grade and also was tested for gate... He is following well into the footsteps of Dalen with becoming an awesome little babysitter. He can change diapers, and cook some simple meals too! He loves to play with all his siblings and has such a fun little personality. He also loves to play Starcraft and is learning how to play piano from daddy... 

 Lexis is turning 7 in two weeks! She is such a beautiful and sweet little girl. She completed the 1st grade and had awesome grades! She has made lots of new friends this year and is such a great helper with Lily and Noah. She is taking a break from beauty pageants for a while but is looking forward to trying cheerleading and dance this fall...She loves living close to her cousins Maya and Bree and has taught herself to swim last summer and is quite the little fish this summer.

Noah is 4 and a half years old and is quite the little charmer and spunky little kiddo... He loves playing with his brothers and Lexi and Lily...He has a great personality like Deveon that meshes well with others. He LOVES the iPad and always knows where it is hahaha... He is a great helper with Lily and has grown up a lot in this last year. He will be starting preschool this fall and already knows how to add and count to "100" ;) Noah also signed with an agent this year and we are just in the process of getting all the details worked out so we will see where it goes! He is our little Bunkaroos!  

 

Lillian is 22 months now and is learning and growing so fast...She is talking and running with the kids and keeps all of us on our toes. She loves to boss all the kids around especially Dalen. She loves to watch Little Bear and Sponge Bob and loves to dress up in my shoes anytime she sees them lying around...She is very girly and always has some kind of bracelets on...She was a little stinker at our photo shoot but thats how she was at that age...;) Our little Lilypie -- She looked good tho hahaha

Me-- Last year I reached my goal of completing a Half Marathon at Disneyland {13.1 miles} I actually ran that distance a total of three times while training for it. I just signed up for the Tinkerbell Half Marathon at Disneyland this January... I turned 30 this past September! and reached another goal of being completly done with having babies by 30!  I am now focusing on getting in great shape and maybe possibly becoming a fitness instructor. I have been leading a zumba class on Thursdays at our Church's Boot Camp Excercise Group and I am loving it! Finally I can make up dances again and use them for something!!! ;) I really loved to do this in High school for our Cheerleading Squad and have missed stuff like that...I am also serving in the Primary at church {kids age 18mos-12years} as first Counselor to the President and am helping out with Cubscouts for the boys in our Primary {ages 8-11} ;)

Josh is 32 years and has 3 marathons under his belt. He ran the Tough Mudder in Squaw Valley for the first time last year with his brother Jesse and brother in law Eric and just completed his second Tough Mudder this past weekend here in Snow Valley. He also started working for a new company last year. He said goodbye to Cardinal Health {6 years} and said hello to City of Hope this past August which meant we moved to So Cal! We lived four months with Josh's parents {with our five kiddos--thank goodness for a big almost empty house at his parents'} while we sold our house and bought here in Santa Clarita! He is loving his new job and is Elders Quorum Prez again at Church...   

XOXO Miles Family ;)