Easter 2011

The kids had fun hunting for eggs at my dad's house.


This was the best I could do for Easter pictures before church on Sunday.


Parker won this huge chocolate bunny from his bus driver. He was pretty excited. (:

Smells like what?

Funny story from Parker last week: He came in from playing in the backyard, stopped, sniffed, and said, "It smells like Star Wars in here". Apparently Star Wars has a scent. Turns out he was trying to say "starbursts" (I had lit a "fresh picked cherries" candle while he was outside playing.) I guess his sense of smell isn't quite highly developed enough to smell movies. (:

First of many...

tooth fairy visits to our house. Last month Parker lost his first tooth! I'm still not sure how I have a kid old enough to lose teeth, but it happened. Parker was really excited to loose it but not ok with Andrew or I pulling it out. Anytime we even looked at him from across the room he would put his hand over his mouth and run away. After we assured him that we weren't going to do anything he didn't want us to do, he calmed down a bit. One night while I was at a church activity he got brave enough to let Andrew pull it out. I came home to a happy boy with a missing bottom tooth. That evening (after a late night visit to the grocery store to get cash) the tooth fairy came and left him a dollar. His other bottom tooth is loose too, but it has yet to come out.

The rest of 2010

For anyone who may still be checking this blog, here are a few pictures of what we spent the last few months of 2010 doing...

Makenna turns Three

Our little princess is one year older. She has the funnest personality and gets prettier every day. She loves to dress up in her princess dress, play in the sandbox, and swing. She loves Dora and Diego. Probably her favorite thing is to play with Parker. I am so glad that she's in our family and that I get to be her mom.

Parker's first day of Kindergarten

It happened. We have a kindergartener. He just loves his teacher and being in school. I was a little emotional in the week before he started school, but just really excited for him on the day of. He's a pretty independent kid, so he just walked right into his classroom with out even a look back at us. He's doing great and we couldn't be more proud!

Labor Day

On Labor Day we went to the plane museum at Hill Airforce Base and then to the Ogden Dinosaur Park. The park was sort of Parker's holy grail. Life-sized dinosaurs everywhere. He was in heaven.