Easter

Better late than never right. Easter was a good one for us this year. Tried my best to get some photos. Enjoy!

GIRLS WEEKEND

So what do you do when you buy a ticket to Arizona to go visit some besties and then a couple days later both besties break the news that they won't be in Arizona when you come (long story-love you girls!) Well you beg your friends to make it a girls trip!!! Thank you so much for being the BEST neighbors and friends a girl could ask for-REALLY! And thanks to Blake for being such a fun dad and taking care of the kids so I could go relax!!

Love Love Love my Sprinkles!

You can tell by this picture we all came from COLD Utah-all of us are burned!

This is Kristin. Kristin is moving. I am sad.

Don't be jealous of our rental car!!! Nothing but the best for us!

Love these girls.

While all riding in the front seat. There was a third seat belt. Once again, don't be jealous.

Such a fun hike up Camelback. If you have never done it-do it! We got to the top in 44 minutes!

Best pizza joint ever and even better when you haven't eaten for like 8 hours!

Tessa nine months + other stuff

Miss Tessa is now nine months old. She is 15 pounds that is 3% percentile and she is 27 inches which is 38 %. She is a very very very good baby!! She hardly cries...really..she has had 2 bouts of double ear infections and I had no idea until I took her to the Dr for unrelated visits! She eats tons of cheerios and food. She crawls all over. She sucks her thumb with her blankie! She is starting to pull herself up and walk around furniture and just yesterday she stood up all on her own for at least 10 seconds! We love her personality and Owen and Ella couldn't be better siblings to her.

Alyson and I (my friend) were talking about how cool it would be to have a lemonade stand..a cool one..and next thing we know her dad whips one up..awesome! We put it out last Friday and despite the cooler weather it was a hit (thanks to Alyson texting everyone she knows to come by:))

This sweet girl was our very first customer and you know what..she bought one lemonade and gave us 5 dollars and said keep the change..how awesome is she!

Hazel and Owen getting ready to sell sell sell!

This is Owen on Circus day..his last day of preschool.

I can honestly say Ella is my clown. She came down from her room wearing this. I love her. On a side note she completely potty trained herself which is quite amazing!

Mothers Day 2011

While I would love to post a great picture of my kids and I on Mothers day with all three children cooperating perfectly...it's just not going to happen! Mothers day started off rough for me. Blake is out of town in Taiwan and I was trying to get all kids fed and dressed and fed again before out the door to church. Well I'm certainly not perfect and I ended up losing my patience way too much and then on the way to church tears started to flow! SIGH! But the day ended wonderfully and as I got a moment to reflect I realize I am so blessed to have three beautiful, healthy, and fun-loving children. Owen is my fire cracker, dare devil, monster truck loving, dinosaur studying boy! Ella is my singing, dancing, lotion wearing, funny, funny, funny girl! Tessa is my mild mannered, smiley, giggling, starting to stand up on he own baby! So I have to say that motherhood is the greatest blessing I have been given! My children make me HAPPY!

Pleasant Grove

Thanks to my good friend Katie, we got to go to her family's little tree farm and take some pictures! It was a fast little trip but it was great and we both decided living somewhere like this would be so much fun for kids!!

This is Katie's boy Lance. Owen and Lance attend preschool together and Katie would agree that they couldn't be more opposite in personality!

Owen was beyond mad that I made him be in this picture so he is taking it out on the tree branch in his mouth!

I love how she is posing in this picture. I did not tell her to stand like that. She did it all on her own!

ZOO

We went to the zoo today with a great friend. She is moving. All my friends move. Don't get me started. I am however very grateful to have gotten to know her and love her very much! We started a tradition a while ago that we always try to go to the zoo on our kids birthdays and then we eat lunch at Red Robin. It's great fun and it was Chase's birthday. It has just slowly gotten a little more difficult since we keep adding more children to the mix!

Owen is obsessed with spiders lately and this little idea in his head that we are getting him a tarantula for a pet. Well folks that just ain't happening!

This is Kristin and Chase!

This owl is full grown..so cute!

Spring Tease

We had couple of warm days here and then snow! But we sure took advantage of the warmth while it lasted.

They are going to be the best of friends!

I use to LOVE these merry-go-rounds. Now you never see them anymore!

My little cheeser!