Giggles

Today I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. The last couple of days have been bad Fibromyalgia days and so when I woke up in so much pain that I couldn't walk normally I was grumpy. I had to take Natalie to preschool this morning and as we were driving something caught the kids fancy and they all just started giggling and couldn't stop. After we dropped her off Malaya and Steven were sliding down the stairs and giggling. I didn't realize that their sweet little giggles could lift my spirits so. I am so blessed to have such sweet, beautiful kiddos.

Easter 2012

 Easter is always a little crazy around here.  Scott is not really home in the morning on Sunday so we started doing Easter baskets on Saturday morning.  Our kids don't believe in the Easter Bunny so it was fun to get the credit for their baskets this year :)

 

When Scott got home Sunday evening we colored Easter eggs. 

Happy Birthday Bugs

My baby turned 7 yesterday. I can't believe that it has been 7 years since we brought her home. She is such a fun girl. She loves to read and going to school. She is a wonderful helper and loves her siblings so much. She is taking piano and is doing really well. She is spunky and sweet and I love having her as my daughter.

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Happy Birthday Malaya!

Annual Train Show

Scott is a huge fan of trains. We have train pictures, train books, train movies, toy trains and even our own model railroad in the garage. So my kids pretty much love trains. We decided to be brave and take all four munchkins to the train show in Ogden. They loved looking at the retired locomotives, playing in the caboose and seeing all of the interesting layouts.

Getting good pictures of the kiddos is always a challenge...

...add dad and your guaranteed goofiness!

Happy Birthday...

... a few weeks late.

Scott turned 32 on March 22. He wanted a day "off" for his birthday so Wednesday night we squeezed a birthday party in between my primary meeting and his Bishop appointments so that the kids would feel like they were part of his birthday. Then Thursday (his actually birthday) we got a sitter and went out for a nice dinner by ourselves and then we went to a couple of hardware stores and Walmart. Not exactly what I would have done for my birthday but Scott was in heaven. It was really nice to just be out the two of us and not have to worry about the kids and getting back home.

Happy Birthday!!! We love you!

My husbands favorite post!

Scotty is always giving me a bad time about blogging about him, but today I have permission:) We have been remodeling our yard for the last couple of years. Doing as much as we can before time and money run out. This year (hopefully) is the big year where we get to do sprinklers and grass!!! I haven't had grass for 4 years! But before we can get to that we have to build a shed so that we can get a bunch of stuff out of the garage. Scott loves to build things so he designed his own shed and we have been working on it. The weather here has been bi-polar so working on the shed has been interesting.

The kiddos love to help out! Even the neighbor kid:)

And this is why we need room in the garage!

Book of Mormon Heroes

This year as a primary presidency we decided that we wanted to make the Book of Mormon come alive for our kids so... I built a time machine and we bring a new hero each month. Our ward members have been great at helping us out and so far the kids love it.

Nephi

Ammon

Abinidi

They didn't even mind when the time machine fell on my head and Abinidi lost his skirt :)