BFFs

These two have become the best of buds. More often than not you can find them together playing some kind of make-believe game or cuddled up watching a movie or laughing...or crying together. They have come up with funny words that only the two of them know, they watch out for each other and genuinely care about each other. It makes a mom happy and that much more excited to add another one to the mix!!

The Kite Festival

Every year St. George and a few local businesses put on a kite festival. It's to help encourage kids to read and if they bring a paper with recorded reading minutes on it then get a kite. Of course Kylie was all over that. She had been dying to go and was super excited when the day finally came. The sad part was it was an EXTREMEMLY hot day (or so it seemed) and there was zero wind! We did our best to enjoy ourselves with bounce houses, kiddie games and the best part, snow-cones in the shade.

 The bounce houses and slides were really hot! Kylie is trying her best not to touch the actual slide as she went down and Jase wouldn't even attempt them. He would get in and immediately want out.

 Kylie got brave and tried the loop-da-loop ride. She liked it for the first several turns, but then started to slip out of her belt and started panicking so they let her off early.  She wouldn't even talk about the ride after that.

 She also loved the chance to ride a school bus for the very first time. I am sure you can tell just by looking at her face just how hot it was.  We were worn out, but it was a fun and the kids really enjoyed it.

Jeremy Celebrates in His Birthday Suit

This little guy is

32 years old! Happy Birthday to Jeremy!! I thought it would only be appropriate that he celebrates in his birthday suit, but I thought his 1 year old birthday suit would probably be best!!

The Hula Hoop Mastered

Kylie has had her eye on a hula hoop for as long as I can remember. Every time we go to the store and pass one she can't help, but pick it up and try it out. She was always about as good as anyone expected. She wold maybe get a turn or so and that was about it. 

Well, she was definitely more than thrilled to see that the Easter bunny brought her one and she immediately got to practicing. I think we were all shocked including her to see that she had it mastered in about an hours time.  Now it's all she does! I have caught her doing it while she watches TV, while she was reading a book and even while trying to balance things on her head. The funniest thing she has tried to do, but just can't get the hang of is walking while doing it. Her attempt was the funnest thing I have seen in a long time though.

Personally, I think this is a pretty cool talent. Something I have never been able to do and something she's pretty proud of! (and more than willing to show off to anyone who may or may not want to see it)

Easter Weekend

We had a busy easter weekend full of egg hunts, parties, a family get together, easter egg dying, jelly beans and the easter bunny.

Kylie had Friday off from school so we spent some of the day coloring easter eggs. They LOVE doing this. To them there is something magical about coloring eggs and it gets funner and funner every year. This year we dyed them with Kool-aid, which was super easy and smelled really good. I wish I would have boiled more eggs because we weren't even close to being finished when we ran out of eggs.

Friday night was the start of our Easter Egg Hunt Marathon. The first one was with all the kids in our neighborhood, which has definitely grown over the last little while! We certainly don't lack in the kid department and it makes things like this really fun for everyone.

They know exactly what to do and came away with plenty of the goods.

Saturday morning came early with the anticipation of what the Easter Bunny brought. The kids made off pretty good and seemed to be happy with their loot.

Kylie was most excited about her new "high heels" and her hula hoop. She's been dying for high heels for a really long time and it only took her a matter of a few tries to master that hula hoop.  Jase has been on a Toy Story kick lately and currently Buzz is his favorite charater. He was also pretty thrilled with his green scooter too. 

A little while later we headed to a Primary party at the Beehive home. This is where Easter Egg Hunt # 2 took place along with other games and activities. Kylie seemed to enjoy what was going on more than Jase. He mostly just hung out next to me while Kylie played the games. They both loved the hunt though and Kylie couldn't believe she actually found a real egg.

Later that afternoon the Felix family came down and spent some time with us. We had a great time hiking,

and Grandma and Grandpa Felix treated us to a few rides on the carousel we have downtown. The kids had a blast.  We then came back to our house for a BBQ

and Easter Egg Hunt #3. Kylie and Jase can't get enough of their cousins. They absolutely love when we have the chance to see them. Spending the afternoon and evening with them made for a really great time.

 Sunday was a chance for us to reflect on our Savior and the blessing of knowing the sacrifice made in our behalf. I had the chance to teach the Easter lesson in Young Women's and although I am not sure I was really able to express exactly how I feel about the Atonement and Resurrection to those girls I sure am so grateful for the chance to really study and reflect on it these last few weeks.  

I am so grateful for my amazing little family!! I love them more than anything in the world and I am so blessed they are mine. I love weekends like these full of memories and good times and a chance to really focus on the improtant things in life.

At this moment...

I have a baby this size inside of me!

And she still has nine more weeks of growing and developing to go!