Love 'em

A lot of times when i drop off Charlie for preschool Kenya get's a bit sad and has said a few times in her sad little voice "I miss my Charlie." On this particular day when we got home I decided I'd try and cheer her up by painting her nails. It did the trick, she loves getting her nails painted and loves showing them off.


Charlie lost his first tooth yesterday! It's been loose for a few weeks and he's been very anxious to have Mark pull it. He came in our room yesterday morning and asked Mark again to pull it. We decided it was probably loose enough and Charlie was nervous about how bad it was going to hurt but he was tough about it. Mark had to get the tweezers out to pull it since the tooth was so little and his fingers are so big

Bleeding just a little. :)

The tooth fairy didn't end up taking his tooth that night because he kept waking up when she would come into his room so she decided to come the next day during his nap when he wasn't expecting her!

Can't believe how fast these kids are growing up. I got a little emotional yesterday when we were at Lagoon (remember I'm pregnant,) and Kenya and I were watching Mark and Charlie on his first ride on the swings. Charlie looked so old and grown up. It made me a bit sad, he was kind of over all the kiddie rides too he just wanted to ride the big rides. I guess it's time to let go and enjoy the next stage!

Oh and I finally ordered my blog book for 2009! I upgraded this year, spent twice as much money on it but it was worth it! This book is so nice, for those of you who haven't done this you have to turn your blog into a book, the website is blurb.com. It's a little time consuming but very easy!

Front cover

Dinosaur Park

Charlie had a field trip to the Dinosaur Park, it was the first time we'd been there and the kids loved it!
His preschool teacher is incredibly organized. They all wear their preschool t-shirts when they go on field trips, makes it easy to spot them all. They also have matching back packs with their names embroidered on them. She gave them all fruit snacks and a car bingo game for the ride up their, she thinks of everything!

Friends Kenzie and Sam.

Sam slipped off as I was taking the picture.

Kenya was not very excited I made her sit under this dinosaur, brave girl though!

They loved this part where the dinosaurs looked real and were kind of moving and growling at each other. These are their scary faces.

Who Am I Sir

A Utah man am I!!

We took the kids to the Utes spring game again this year. This was actually the first time I went but Mark has gone for a few years now. It was such a beautiful Saturday and it was packed! I pretty much stood in line with Kenya the entire time for some over priced hot dogs but it was just nice to be outside with my little family. By the time this season starts I'll have three kids and Mark still has only one season ticket, it might be a long season for me! Charlie is going to be heart broken, he's really getting into it, so is Kenya actually. They love the fight song. Go Utes!!

Making their "U's"

A friend of ours turned 40 and had an 80's birthday party, this is what we came up with at the last minute, scary I know!

My Sweet Oma

My mom's mom, my Oma was here in town for ten days to do some geneology. Some is really an understatement. She comes down from Washington once or twice a year, stays in Salt Lake and goes to the geneology library all day long. I find it quite amazing really. She is very dedicated and believes that this is one reason why she has stayed in such great health for her age. She turns 87 tomorrow and is pretty sure she'll be sticking around until her geneology is done, I told her she better do it slowly in that case.
I think the girls out number the boys just a bit on my side of the family, we're missing one and have two more on the way! There will be 9 girls to 3 boys when the next two are born.

Luke and Knox were MIA so it's just Charlie and Oma in a fuzzy picture.

Easter At Snowbird

We had a fun but different Easter this year in all the beautiful snow up at Snowbird. I was just happy to go somewhere, of course the sunshine would've been wonderful but Snowbird is always fun and beautiful sun or snow, and we sure did get a lot of snow up there! Luckily we came home before they closed the canyon for a day and a half. My sister Cami and her family got stuck up there for an extra day! We always enjoy spending time with family, my kids cannot get enough of their cousins, they were in heaven for three days!




Easter morning with their baskets. Charlie is now obsessed with monster trucks. He didn't go anywhere without that thing for the first week or so, it's worn off a bit now, plus it's on the edge of breaking of course so he's saving up his money for a new one and is constantly asking to watch monster trucks on the computer that Mark found on You Tube.

Kenya LOVED this piggy bank. She played with it straight for the first 24 hours she had it, wanted to sleep with it and everything. When we were packing up to leave I couldn't find the piggy bank and trying to ask a two year old where she put it does not work well. I seriously looked for that thing for a good hour. Just as we were about to leave I did one last search with Charlie, he found it on top of a bunk bed and she was so excited, immediately following the excitement was a fit because I told her we couldn't watch The Princess and the Frog on the way home. I was prepared to let her throw her fit stood up to walk away when I hear a big crash on the tile. She had dropped the piggy bank that had been in her possession again for a total of 30 seconds and shattered it which of course resulted in more tears and sadness. I ended up getting her a new one a couple weeks later and it has not left her dresser for fear of breaking it again, so I guess lesson learned!

Eating her eggy.

Snowbird put on a fun Easter egg hunt Sunday morning on their bunny hill. We got their just as they let the kids loose. Instead of heading for the eggs Kenya headed straight for the Easter Bunny who grabbed her and led her in the direction of the eggs. She still was more excited for the Easter Bunny though.

That genuinely happy smile when my kids see characters is what keeps us going back to Disneyland! I love how excited they get at this age to see a character, whether it's Mickey Mouse or the Easter Bunny.

Notice Kenya, she just can't take her eyes off of that bunny!

My sister Cami's girls Sailor and Kaia.

It was such a beautiful day with fresh snow and the sun shining.

They got a ton of eggs at the hunt, went back and opened up every single one.

Charlie got to take a ski lesson the next day, he wanted to snowboard but they won't do lessons for that until they're seven, luckily he was happy to take a ski lesson too. Unfortunately when we walked over to watch him ski at the end of the day they had gone inside because it was thundering so we didn't get to check out his new skills but his teacher said he did great and that he was a really good listener, yay Charlie!

It was a great weekend, especially being able to listen to conference and I must say how proud I am of Mark who chose to forgo snowboarding in the beautiful powder to listen to conference. I didn't have much of a choice being pregnant but he did. What an example, or maybe he's just crazy. :)

Almost 26 weeks :)

I am embarrassed for myself that I am posting these pictures but I've always documented my pregnancies so I shouldn't make an exception to this one even though I am enormous already! As I mentioned before my doctor said I was measuring big, no surprise since I feel so big, I had my ultrasound last week and the baby is about 10% bigger than average, no extra fluid, everything looks good other than I've got a big baby in my belly. I keep hoping I went through a growth spurt earlier than I normally do and I'll stop growing so rapidly but it's not happening! And yes I'm in my comfy pants for the night, I don't make it past 5:00 without changing these days.

I'm going to start needing some sort of support to hold this belly up!

Happy Spring!

What a beautiful Sunday we had yesterday! Yay for 60 degrees! Yay for spring! I know there's a storm coming but I can handle it as long as we get some days like this one. The kids wore their new Easter outfits to church and after we decided to head out to Temple Square to beat the rush of next weekend.




Ahh...pictures are so depressing when you're pregnant! Did I mention I'm measuring big?! As if you couldn't tell. I have an ultrasound in a couple days to make sure everything is okay. I think I'm just big. I tend to stick out A LOT and it's only going to get worse!



This was their first time in the visitors center. Kenya was actually a bit scared of the big statue but she eventually got the courage to go stand by it. Charlie really took it all in, asking a lot of questions. It was great. He's been asking for his own scriptures since seeing his cousins get baptized and going to Temple Square. I told him we could tell the Easter Bunny that's what he wants. He doesn't want to wait though...







Look who's in a big girl bed! Yep it's still on the floor, probably will be for a while knowing me but she loves it and is doing really well in it. We've still got the crib in there until we clear out and paint the baby's room. It works well as a threat and so far we've only had to use it once. :)