Looking back...again

I finished a few more...thought I'd share.

What I find so funny about this picture of Charlotte is that as parents at this stage in life, we thought it was so HARD! She took up so much of our time, and as new parents, we were still learning. Little did we know that it just got more crazy with more kids! (though it seemed easier with each additional child because we knew what we were doing!)

I LOVE this picture of Jillian. I'd forgotten that chubby little face. She looks so grown up now, five years later!

Update

Weekly Update:

Stitches

What an eventful week! On Tuesday night, Lydia comes running into my room, face covered in blood, saying that Allison hit her with a candlestick. I quickly wipe up the blood (head wounds sure do bleed) and assessed the damage. After consulting our wonderful neighbor (who is a nurse...Delacey) we decided to take her to urgent care to get it checked out. Casey took her over to Riverbend while I fed and put kids to bed. Leaving Charlotte in charge, I joined Casey at the hospital just in time to see them put two stitches in her forhead. She was so brave...didn't cry a bit. Her Doctor's name was "Doctor Bob" and so the rest of the week, she told everyone that "My Doctor Bob gave me stitches in my head." Did Allison really hit her with a candlestick? We're not sure. She insists (INSISTS!) that the candlestick fell on Lydia's head. Since I was not a witness to the alleged crime, we didn't punish.

Lydia had a Mcdonald's happy meal at 10:00 at night...she missed dinner waiting in Urgent care for so long! You can just barely see the stitches in her hairline.

yesterday, (Sunday) our wonderful neighbor and nurse, Delacey Barney came over and took out Lydia's stitches. She gave Lydia a magic wand for being brave. We love Delacey!

Finally, though I haven't done much scrapbooking lately, I finished Charlottes' 7 year old page. I can't believe she's already almost 12. I look at this picture and it seems like it was just yesterday.

Easter

Easter was wonderful! There's just something special about having General Conference on Easter Sunday. The craziness of every other Sunday is replaced with a relaxing morning and afternoon where we could totally focus on the messages of the Atonement. After conference, we had our friends, the Stockfords over for dinner. (yes, I used my new (used) china!). After dinner, we had a quick Easter egg hunt in the Booren's backyard. (They were out of town but their backyard is SOO much better than ours). We finished out the day be eating Kelli's amazing sugar cookies and playing MadGab. It was a great, great day! Here's my weekly recap.

(typo on march 30th, we are going to "break it out on Easter Sunday," not "break it on Easter Sunday." have to go back and change that:)

Learning new skills

This has been a week of learning new skills. Today I was privileged to go over to my friend Pamela's house and she taught me how to make frosting flowers...a skill I have ALWAYS wanted to know how to do. She also taught me the basket weave and how to make grass. The girls were thrilled when I walked in with this cake in my hands. Now, I need to practice, practice, practice.
Thanks Pamela...You're amazing!


Secondly, this week, I taught Jillian how to sew. She had to do a project for school that somehow related to pioneer/Oregon trail life. We decided to make a small quilt. She sewed all the pieces together, ironed the seams and then tied the whole thing. I was very proud of her. She felt so good about herself as she showed it off to her class. She is normally a very shy student and so this project gave her a chance to shine.


Let's hear it for learning new skills!!!

More baby pics

Here's a few more. Where does the time go?