Megan's major first haircut!

April 20, 2009

Today I gave Megan her first major hair cut. She has always had so much hair and I have trimmed it a few times, but today I cut about 2-3 inches off. She had her Pictures scheduled for tomorrow so I thought it was about time. I cut Katie's hair too about the same amount.

Megan smiling after I was done cutting!
After her hair cut we did her hair to see how it would look for her pictures.

She looked cute!

Smile! Nice pose! You are sure looking grown up!

Happy 4th Birthday Katie!

April 15th 2009

Today we celebrated Katie's birthday! What a glorious one too. Katie has been through so much in her life but is such a happy little girl despite it. She is a beautiful, talented and one amazing person. I love her so much and couldn't imagine our family without her. Katie LOVE'S animals and it shows. Most of her presents were animals of some kind. We love you little princess happy 4th birthday!

Katie with her presents! Mom and dad gave her a new princess swimming suit, Stuffed animal dog, princess slippers, room decor, and a car (from Justin).

Katie with her cake. She wanted a horse cake so we did a carousel horse. She loved it and it turned out pretty cute!

Horse cake!

Katie with the dog she really wanted. It does things when you play with it. Shakes your hands, wags it's tail, barks, etc. Needless to say she fell in love with it at the store and has wanted it ever since she saw it when we went shopping for Megan's birthday.

She also wanted this baby that swims (which she got from Robs parents), along with princess Aurora doll and dress up kit, a new dress and another outfit.

Katie in her new dress!

Katie in the other outfit she got.

Katie really wanted to go to Arctic Circle for her Birthday! (We usually let the kids decide where they want to go and take them out). Here are the 3 kids there!

Katie at Arctic Circle she had fun!

Katie also had a little birthday party with all her friends at preschool! She got some fun presents and blew out her candles!
Katie with her cake at preschool!

Happy Birthday Rob!

April 13th 2009

Today we celebrated Rob's Birthday! He wanted to go shooting for his birthday so he and his brother went and did that over the weekend. Rob is a great dad and husband and I want him to know how much we appreciate and love him. Have an awesome birthday!

Rob loves stargate so he got season 6, The Ark of Truth, a new white shirt, Pj,s, and money to go towards his GPS he wants.

The kids made a birthday welcome for dad on the front driveway as he drove in!
We love you dad! Justin, Katie and Megan!

Celebrating Rob and Katie's Birthdays with family!

April 2009

When we celebrated Easter with our families we also did some Birthday celebrations too. In my family it was Rob, Katie and Steph's Birthdays (we did Megan also since she was sick last month). Below are some pics of us at my parents then we did the same with Rob's family on Easter as well with pics to follow where we celebrated Rob and Katie's birthdays as well.

Happy Birthday everyone!

Katie got a new sleeping beauty princess dress, she was so excited!
Rob got a gift card to REI perfect. And Megan a baby, and an airplane.

Blowing out the candles!

Katie eating some cake at Rob's parents for her birthday!

Rob and Katie blowing out the candles on their cake!

The cake Happy Birthday Rob and Katie! (Notice the candles on one side there are 4 for Katie and on the other 32 for Rob)!

Give away today

Ok so for all of you that LOVE a good FREE contest I just added this Give away today to my blog. I have been entering for a week or so and have yet to win but am hopeful that one day I will. They have super cute stuff they give away EVERY day. So anyone interested should check out their blog it's kinda fun! Good luck! (giveawaytoday.blogspot.com)!

Easter fun!

April 2009

Easter time! We had such a busy Easter this year. But a fun one. We started off with our visit to Rob's Grandpas for a Easter hunt. My kids got there late so they missed it but they won the big purple bunny in the raffle so they were happy. Below is a photo with grandpa and all the grand kids that came.

Later that day we went to Rob's parents for Easter egg dyeing, and a kid and adult Easter hunt. Very fun. I found an egg with a $5 bill in it so I was happy, don't need candy anyway. Below are the kids doing the eggs.

Katie loved dyeing eggs!

And so did Megan and Justin!

Then on Sunday after church we went to Nicole's parents for another Easter egg hunt there. Below is Justin with his basket. He got some new shoes, clothes, candy, and a ball.

Katie with her basket. She also got some new shoes, clothes, and a bunny.


Megan with her basket. She got clothes, shoes, and a bunny also.

The kids after church in their Easter clothes.

Outside in the Easter outfits before church! Katie, Megan, & Justin.

Sunday morning seeing what the Easter bunny left. Mom left some stuff too. I left a movie called He is Risen about the Savior and the resurrection that we watched with the kids. I always try and do something to bring in the true meaning of the holiday and not all just the commercialized stuff. The kids enjoyed the movie and I think it helped them get a better understanding of what Easter is really about.

Family!

April 2009

I just loved this picture of Justin and Megan. They are really good friends and I love watching them laugh and hang out together!

Birthday party fun at Boondocks!

April 2009

Today Justin went to a birthday party with our new neighbor and friend Aiden. They went to Boondocks fun center and the kids had a great time.

Justin and Aiden
The kids at the party. It was a star wars theme. Justin loved playing laser tag and the games.

Justin in the kiddy cove!

Katie in the kiddy cove. She loved this.

Megan in the kiddy cove. She had fun too but had a harder time getting through all the mazes, not quite tall enough yet.

Megan growing up!

April 2009

Megan is looking so grown up to me lately. It must be turning 2. I snapped these of her after church today and she just looked so cute. Love ya kiddo! The hardest thing is I remember when Katie wore this dress and I can't believe it's fitting Meggy now. It makes me want to really enjoy all the time I have with my family, time just goes way to fast.

Adorable

Silly

acting shy

innocent

I threw this one in too. I saw her on the couch on Monday looking all comfy watching tv and it was so cute.

Fun with Knex!

April 2009

Justin and his friend Landyn have been so creative and having such a fun time building with Justin's knex. I love this toy it builds so much creativity in him and he has built so many amazing things with them. This is a house they built together and were so proud of!

Wow I feel big!

April 2009

Ok so I will be the first to admit I hate pictures of me when I am pregnant, but I realized I don't have many pictures of me pregnant so I should take a few. So here I am with about 7 weeks to go. Wow time is flying. I feel huge!

Creative time!

March 2009

While Justin has been off track we have tried to do some fun activities. This is one of them. I love to see the kids creative side. Today they wanted to paint so we got them all ready and they had a great time creating wonderful works of art! Great job kids!

Megan, Justin, and Katie!

Sleeping like a baby!

March 2009

I don't know why but it seems like little Megan has gotten one illness after another since her birthday and it has just gone through each one of us one at a time, then back to the baby again. I came home from church one Sunday and found dad and daughter sound asleep (as they should be) together and though she was so sick I still thought it was adorable of them.