Unloading the camera.

We took the ladies to Baby Animal Days
It's smelly.
Crowded.
Full of grumpy adults.
And overpriced food and entertainment.
But the ladies love it.

Hands on hip-check.

Hip popped out-check.

Knee bent-check.

Sweet smile-check.

Top Model Adyson.

Do you think I'm raising vain little ladies?

We held bunnies.

And chicks.

And ducks.

And rode ponies. Sienna was too busy fidgeting with her helmet to really enjoy it.

Adyson was thrilled she got to ride the pony with the braid. Of course.The other day Adyson's class was painting Scenery for their upcoming opera and I was able to go and help for a while. I just love watching her learn and grow. Kindergarten is amazing.
Silly faces.

That's all I got.

The end.

Trav's Easter Message

Travis has to write the message for our ward bulletin every few months. I just loved what he wrote this month, and wanted to share it. Have I ever mentioned how awesome my man is? Now you can see for yourselves.

I love this time of year. As spring pushes away winter, life begins again. I love clearing away the last of the dead flowers to reveal new green buds sprouting out of the ground. Feeling the sun after what seemed like an eternity of absence. I can't wait for the smell of fresh cut grass and spring rain. It is a great time of year. It seems like the perfect time to celebrate life and the resurrection of our Savior.

When I think of Easter my mind tends to wander to the picture of the Savior kneeling against a tree in Gethsemane. There he is feeling the weight of the world on his shoulders. All of mankind's flaws pushing down on someone who had never had to endure this kind of anguish, because of his perfect existence. He was there with purpose, wishing for the pain to end, but understanding that his mission had to be fulfilled to save us all. My mind then moves to the scene of the cross, where after a full night of suffering he had to be humiliated in front of peers and strangers and die with robbers. A man who had loved, healed and even brought back the dead was forced to hang with common thieves.

Then the Savior of the world rises again. He overcomes death for all of us. All mankind is given the gift of life forever. One day we can all overcome death because of him. As I tell my wife often, I get to dump this "rental" body and get a perfect replica. What an amazing gift! President Gordon B. Hinckley once said, "No event of history has been more certainly confirmed. There is the testimony of all who saw and felt and spoke with the risen Lord. He appeared on two continents in two hemispheres and taught the people before His final ascension. Two sacred volumes, two testaments speak of this most glorious of all events in all of human history. But these are only accounts, the faithless critic says. To which we reply that beyond these is the witness and the testimony, borne by the power of the Holy Ghost, of the truth and validity of this most remarkable event. Through the centuries untold numbers have paid with the sacrifice of their comforts, their fortunes, their very lives for the convictions they carried in their hearts of the reality of the risen, living Lord."

I know that Jesus Christ suffered for each of us. He felt each of our burdens so he could lift us out of our own personal winters and help us find our spring. He will always be there for us if we let him. That is why we can lean on him; trust him to guide us. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

View our Easter Weekend below.

Easter Weekend.

Easter Weekend started with my good friend and neighbors inviting the ladies to come over and go hot tubbing with cute Avery. Oh my, they loved it! Adyson came home and told us that "We HAVE to get a hot tub."

Keep dreaming Adyson.

Thank goodness for neighbors.Oh to be a kid again!Saturday brought my favorite weekend of the year! The girls shopping trip. It's slightly pathetic how much we look forward to this weekend. Here is my mom, Breje, and Heather. Aren't they all beauties?And me and Amy (and Lucy's joined us via Amy's belly). Yes, we like cheesecake. We managed to get each of us a slice to take home, and a slice for our hubbies (since they stayed home with the kids all day). We just cracked up when she brought the cheesecake out and it barely fit on the table. And we didn't have a whole lot of room in my trunk for shopping bags...but it was fun indeed!

Travis and the girls went to his moms during the day for the Kidman Easter Egg hunt. My mother in law texted me loads of cute pictures testifying to the fun that was had, but I have no idea how to get them off my phone and onto the computer! (Want to e-mail me some Lorraine??)

When we got home from our shopping trip, we found some time to die Easter eggs at my moms house. It's always a good balance of chaos and fun. Can you tell mom left early in the morning and the ladies didn't have to get their hair done? They loved it!Heather brought some ties for us to die eggs with, and you can't really tell (due to my awesome photog skills) but they were really, really cool. I can't wait to do it again next year.Easter morning brought the hidden basket, with a chocolate egg (Sienna's been begging for one since they started stocking them at the grocery store), sidewalk chalk, a coloring book, some fun little odds and ends, and a little candy. Adyson's favorite thing would have to be her magnifying glass. She's our weird little science nut.
We usually keep Easter simple. But we've wanted to get the girls a Barbie jeep to drive outside for a while now, but really wanted to give it to them as a gift to share. If we would have gotten it for Adyson for her b-day, she wouldn't be so keen to let Enna drive it, and visa versa. So The Easter Bunny delivered. (The ladies have already had a chat about how next year he might not do so much....

They were shocked, and screamed loudly.

Somehow I don't have a pic of the ladies in it together, but rest assured, they've both spent hours riding around in the Jeep. This morning my house was oh so quiet inside! Well done Easter Bunny!!!

Sunday in between sessions the kiddos got to go on another Easter Egg hunt at my parents house. Here is a pic of them begging for us to open the doors and let them out.
3 at one time! Adyson was thrilled.
Sienna, in her whale slippers of course. (she rarely takes the things off!)All the cousins. Goodness they are just so cute!

Our weekend was lovely, although we would have liked some sunshine. I hope you all had a fantastic weekend as well.

Sienna's Special Day

This little lady (who just posed like this on her own; DIVA), had her special day at school yesterday. She was pretty excited about it, and woke up early, ran into my room yelling "it's my special day mom!" I think the timing was perfect because we've been celebrating Adyson so much the past week, she deserved a turn.

First she sat on the stool while teacher told a few special facts about Sienna. Like her favorite color (red), foods she doesn't like (candy canes), and what she wants to be when she grows up (a mom, cute).

Then she showed the class her poster with fun pictures of her on it. She's been pretty excited to show it off for the past week.

We sang a song about her, she introduced us to her friends, and then she passed out Easter Eggs filled with candy to them. Trav and I just watched beaming with pride. We just love our little Enna bug.

She got to lead the class out of the room, and was wearing her lovely crown. Don't you love the fro underneath?
We agree that Sienna is pretty special and had a great time letting her have a day dedicated just to her. Sienna always makes us laugh, and surprises us. She is such a brave little thing who is willing to try anything and we love her for it. I can't imagine life without her!

Adyson turns 6!!

Watch out world, this little lady turned 6 years old! Do you see the excitement on her face? Adyson's birthday was on Thursday, and being the awesome mom that I am, I hadn't planned anything for her till Thursday night. A friend of mine smartly decided we at least needed to take her to lunch, and it turned out to be quite the affair! And my kids thought the day was even more special because I got them (squeal) the whole kids meal. (This cheap mom usually orders off the dollar menu). Here's a few of her little buddies at lunch. I apologize to anyone who was there and not in our group at the time for the noise... The boys got a table of their own. (Happy to be away from those silly girls). Thursday night Adyson had dance, so she took a little snack for everyone there and came home to pizza, cake and ice-cream and presents! Again, do you see the excitement? It's contagious!

Opening her gifts. She really wanted a camera, and has filled up her memory about 8 times since she got it. Sigh.

Lexi stopped by just in time to eat some cake, making Adyson's b-day even better. She loves Lex!
The day after her b-day her cousin Rheagen performed her first solo at USU and we were able to watch. Isn't she about the cutest thing you've ever seen? She took Queen, and totally deserved it. We Love you Rheagen!
Saturday was Adyson's birthday party with her friends. She chose to have a flower party, and it ended up being a really easy theme to run with. (Any very fitting for Adyson).
I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty proud of my cupcakes. (I felt pretty domestic!)

We made flower necklaces, decorated flower's with flower stickers, and painted flower pots and planted flowers inside. Here they are painting. She has some darling little Friends! Here's Adyson handing out flower suckers to the girls after playing pin the stem on the flower.

I had to laugh at how dizzy these girls get after 3 spins. Some of them missed the mark by a mile!
And present time! Wahoo! She got spoiled rotten. Thanks to all her friends (and their moms), I never have to shop for toys again.
The whole group. Adyson's pretty lucky to have a neighborhood full of great friends. Aren't they all just adorable?

One of her friends gave her a darling spa set, and Sunday morning they put it to good use. I loved these pics, and had to share. Them playing nicely like this can be quite rare!

Painting the nails.

Make-up.
Lovely.

And buffing the heels. This was quite entertaining to watch!Sunday brought the family party. (Are you partied out yet? I am.) She got more gifts, more food, and more cake. Have I mentioned before how much I love to celebrate b-days?

She loved her darling flower cake her Grandma Lorraine made. Complete with sugar bees. Pretty cute, huh.

Sienna was oddly not too jealous of all this Adyson attention. I mean, it just meant more cake for her each time we celebrated. (And she really loves cake!)I think our b-day girl had a really great week. She keeps reminding me it's not totally over because she still gets a gift from her Aunt heather and Uncle jody...spoiled rotten I tell you!

We sure love our little Adyson and think she's pretty special. She makes us laugh constantly and we are always amazed at what a smarty she is.

I plan to now freeze time so she stays 6 and stops growing!

Anyone??

My sister in law is selling 2 tickets to Thursdays NCAA games in Salt Lake.

They are $108.00-if anyone is interested, I know she'd really like to get them sold!!

Our Week.

It's been pretty boring around here since we've been back. I spent like a week catching up on laundry, and we all sat in mourning for a while, but now we are happy to be home and enjoying the beautiful spring weather. The ladies have spent hours outside with their friends, and I am enjoying the rare moments of piece and quiet inside the house. I just LOVE this time of year.

Here's how we have spent the past week.

A few days after we got home we found our little Adyson snug in her bed, snuggling with her levi sundress, dolphin from sea world, and her sun hat on her head. It gave us a good chuckle.

I found Sienna and Simon hiding under the desk in the kitchen drawing pictures for each other. I just love watching these two cousins grow together. They are such cute little buddies and Sienna was pretty excited to be back with her Simon.

Travis and I had a good laugh after finding Sienna had got herself dressed in her raincoat, favorite red boots and helmet to go play outside. She wore that outfit for the rest of the night. This pretty much fits our Sienna to a T. She's got such a fun little spirit and a style all of her own.And that's just about it....

We will have an exciting week though because our little Adyson turns 6 this week, and you all know how much I love to celebrate Birthdays, right?!