Allie and Peyton

We have spent the last couple of days with my mom and Wendy (my sister in law) and her two kids, Jordyn who is almost 2 and Peyton 6 weeks old. Allie is quite smitten by little Peyton!! She say's "I just can't pull myself away from her"! Allie has held the baby or begged to hold the baby the entire time we have been with them! I just thougt it was too cute, she is quite the little mommy!

Helping out

We had to patch some spots on our lawn in our backyard last weekend, and daddy had a little shadow that followed him around all day wanting to help in any way that he could!! Noah is truly the happiest and so much in his element outside and not to mention with his daddy.

Noah turns 2!

My baby turned 2 on Sunday!! It's crazy how fast the years fly by!! He is the most curious and busy boy ever!!! And we love him...Happy Birthday Noah!!

School is out!!

School is OUT!! Allie is officially in 2nd grade..weird for me. She is way excited though, and Hadlee is very excited to be going into Kindergarten as well. As summer was approaching I thought to myself Hmmmmmm....I'm going to need lots of fun entertainment for outside activities, so we went to target and bought a slip and slide ( that brought back some memories!) and water balloons and some other things to keep us occupied, but what has the first week of summer brought us wind and rain and 50-60 degree weather. Seriously!! We want our summer to start, and stay!! But I guess I should be thankful for the rain!!

Happy May Day!!

Happy May!! This is what we awoke to this first day of May!! Just a dusting of SNOW welcomed in the new month!! It seems like just yesterday we were wearing shorts and flip flops....wait....we were!!! This has sure been a spring of unexpected weather. Every morning my kids ask, "is it warm or cold mommy"? Good question!! because you never know these days. Oh well... we can only hope the weather will become more predictable, and then it will be DARN HOT, and we will wish for cooler daiz....I guess the grass is always greener over yonder!! Hope everyone has a great month!!

Allie turns 7!!!

Allie got her first grown up watch from Nana, of coarse it is Hannah Montana!
Allie and Gracie at Classic
Hadlee and Allie at Chuck E Cheese
Allie, Makenzie, and Gracie at Mcdonalds

Our sweet Allie turned 7 on the 17!! It's hard to believe that she is already 7 finishing up her year as a first grader and now looking towards being baptised! I remember when she was born, Kevin would look at her and say "I won't let you get any older than 6!" and I always thought to myself "that is SOOOO far away, we won't have to worry about her growing up". But in the middle of now and then she began to grow up and she is doing it beautifully!! We had quite the week of celebration, since it was spring break....on Monday we went to the zoo, on Tuesday Allie had a special date with her Papa, Wednesday played with friends all day, Thursday was her birthday and we went to lunch and then went to Classic Skating to play in their jungle area and then went to Chuck E Cheese, then on Friday she had a sleepover with her two friends Grace and Mackenzie. Whew!! what a week! It was nice to have the girls home all day with Noah and mom. We had alot of fun.

I thought I would end this entry with some fun facts of Allie

1. Loves Steak!!

2. Loves to read "Chapter Books"

3. Her best friend is Gracie

4. Favorite princess is Sleeping Beauty

5. Such a sweet little girl always willing to help

Happy Easter!

the morning egg hunt

All 3 smiling (Priceless...)

Family Photo #1

Family Photo #2

The evening egg hunt!!

This year since the girls are getting older and understand more we had lots of talks about Christ and the Wonderful gift he gave us I am so proud of them and there eagerness to learn!!
We had a wonderful Easter this year. We have a great tradition that the kids look forward to every year, on Saturday before easter we go over to Great Gram's house (Kevin's Grandma) and color eggs with all the cousins. It's lots of fun and the kids have a great time doing it. Then on Easter Sunday we have our own easter egg hunt before (or after) church depending on the time. And this year Nana and Papa from Arizona sent the kids some special baskets as well that they found in the hunt at our house.

Then its over to grandmas house to get their easter baskets from grandma and papa. My kids are very spoiled I know..from there we go back over to Great Grams house for another easter egg hunt with the eggs we colored the day before, with a special twist, each grandchild under the age of 16 gets to find a special chicken egg that great grandma has filled with something extra!! The one with the penny in it is the grand prize!! We didn't find the penny ( I think our cousin Julia has found it the last 2 years HMMMMMM.....) but Allie and Hadlee and Noah all got 10 gift cards to either chick fil a or Mcdonalds!!! What a Great Gram we have!! It's always fun to get together with family and have fun. We are very lucky to have such a great family here and in Arizona who love us!! Hope you all had a Happy Easter!