Utah Air Muesum

May 7th, We went to the Air Museum with my parents and my sister, Simcah's family. It was so awesome! The kids were actually really well behaved even with their cousins. It was a great afternoon and a fun thing to do for something different.
Mike's favorite plan was this one. Don't ask me why, because i could not tell the diff, but I grabbed a shot of him with it.


Here is Tsadakah and her cousin Moriella in front of my fav. lol I love antiques! I tried to explain to Tsadakah that this was he first plane made (or a replica) and she either didn't get it, or didn't think that it was cool. kids!

I wanted to get a picture of Sadye in front of this women pilot. I am greatful that we have equal rights to vote and to be respected. I am glad that men can't take advantage o a woman in like a divorce situation like in the old times. I still believe that women should stay in their respective roles according to God's design, but I am glad that we have honor too.

Funny side story, I go to the gym and watch movies while on the tredmill. last week when I was there they were playing Nigt At the Museum 2, you know the one with Amilia Earheart, and I must have been really emotional that day because I started crying. I was like, "You go girl!" It made me proud to be a woman and greatful for the strength and sacrefices that other women have had to go through to make it all possible.

This pic of Ellie jumping for joy makes me laugh! It puts a smile in my heart! She is so like this! She is into frogs right now! That is who she pretends to be. She was either really excited or really bored. lol
My dad is so great with children! He makes things fun for them, but he also expects more out of them, that they behave and that they understand the world around them. He is actually explaining to her what the bombs are. CUTE! hehe

Mike and Eliannah in front of the mini display. It was a memorable experience and I would deffinately go again!

11 months ol

Beautiful shots of MiKaylah at 11 months old. She is such a joy! I cannot look at her without a smile spreading across my face! She is funny too! She loves to do things that make us laugh and when she knows what that is she does it over and over again. She will wrinkle her nose at something when she is laughing, or she will make a fish face when she doesn't want to eat something. or she responds to something by laughing at herself. it is so cute and funny!

MiKaylah is beautiful in every way! She has the longest eye lashers! They are blond tho so you can't really see them front on, you have to be up close with her looking the other way and then you are like wow, those are some killer lashers!

Ok when I am dressing my girls I always wonder if this was in my size, would I wear it? This is such a cute dress and with the lil' boots I am just in 7th heaven! She is such a doll! This outfit is darling and it is my fav! I love this little girlie so much!! xoxoxoxo

Easter Sunday

I like to break up our Easter traditions into 2 days, the sugar-filled-bunny day, and the spiritual-true-meaning-of day. So on Easter sunday we kept the spirit by listening to church music and getting excited about our new dresses.

I took pix before church despite the fact that we had 9 o'clock church because I knew they would look discheveled after. Still i didn't have time to get a great shot with them all looking/smiling.

so after church I got out some plastic eggs that I have been saving for 8 years which have scriptures and small visual items to help the kids connect with the true meaning of Easter, the Resurection. I was worried that they were still too young to do it, but they really impressed me! They took turns and put them back into the egg carton when asked! There were no fights, messes, or broken pieces.

It was a beautiful and peaceful afternoon spent loving life and the happiness that we have been given. Family is so beautiful! I am so greatful for mine.

Easter 2011

I think that this was my favorite Easter so far! We stayed home and enjoyed doing our own traditions! Mike helped out with the dying of eggs, so that I could make the Cinn-a-bunnies!, which means that I didn't make a single one of these. darn! There is never enough time to do everything! sigh!

So the pictures, Tsadakah is playing with her toy that she got, it was a blow-up bunnie, which looked cute not blown up but once it was it looked like a disgusting rodent! lol BTW do you think that my flash was too high? All my pictures turned out this way, with the girls squinting and dodging the camera!

The Cinn-a-bunnies turned out great this year. Last year I was so dumb to think that I could make them that way. lol.
They were tasty!

Happy Birthday Eliannah!

Eliannah is now 3! She is so darling! I am glad that she is over the terrible 2's! We had a small party at my parents house after Passover. She was such a good girl about having to wait. She is my best sharer! My friend Yvonne came with her family to the Passover and she brought Ellie this adorable Fancy Nancy crown! She loved wearing it and went around saying she was the Queen! (Forget the princess, she was the Queen!)
She really was pretty spoiled! My mom and dad got her outdoor toys for the sprinklers and sandbox, my sister got her a coloring book and pocket puppoes. (Ellie loves anything that is "SO little") And we got her Sleeping beauty doll.
She really loved this doll! She just kept staring at it and saying, "she's so beautiful!" She LOVES the fact that the shoes come off and she went around telling everyone that they were not allowed to take off her doll's shoes.
The biggest thing that my kids have looked forward to is therir cakes. Every morning for a month they have been looking at the cakes in all my cookbooks first thing when they woke up! lol
Eliannah said that she wanted this exact cake (the purple didn't turn out right) and that she wanted it to say, "Dreams Come True" instead of Happy Birthday. :)

She tried to blow out her candles 4 times and she couldn't get the right angle so Mike helped her!

LOOK at that Happy face! I hope that she felt so loved and happy on her special day!

We also got her a bike. Tsadakah doesn't even have one yet! It is all princessy and it has a seat in the back for her to put her doll in and give it rides! It was the perfect thing to go with her doll.

Her favorite part of the bike was the bell. *it also has a basket on front and streamers on the handles!

Ok so all this picture documents is that I need practice in my cake decorating AND my photography. lol, but I made it just the way that she wanted it and THAT is what makes it special to me.

I also wanted to talk about my favorite things about her:

1. She hops on one leg when she is really excited about something.

2. She is my snuggler and my mommy's girl.

3. She can make you forget that you are mad at her because she laughs in such a saucy way.

4. She can turn my day from grey to colorful.

5. The way that she plays with her older sister and follows her around, its cute.

6. The way she pouts when I have been to stern with her.

7. The way that her little body feels all curled in a ball when she slips into my bed in the middle of the night.

8. Her laughter.

9. Her slight lisp, or the way that she says things wrong sometimes.

10. The fact that she is my PINK PRINCeSS!!

Gone Shoot'n

So a few months ago we had a "creapy" incident in which Mike felt we better get a gun. My stipulation was that I wanted to learn how to use it properly. I don't want to be afraid of it, which come to find out, I am! When he first brought it home I practically hyperventallated. This kind of life style is so forign to me!
We tried really hard to get a picture of the shot. This one is of before...

...And after, see the smoke! Pretty good.
I don't think that any of these pictures are very flattering of me, and these were the best ones! But I just had to post this one because I think that the backfire from the gun and my reaction are just hillarious! I mean come on you can see that I am clearly not comfortable with it. lol.

THis is me trying to look tough.

Mike's brother, Devin and his family went with us. It was fun! It was all new for me and I love doing new things.

Dr. Suess Day

So I love reading to my kids and I read all types of books to them. I swear that my biggest temptation to buy is a good read! I can pass the toys isle, clothing department, and/or candy with my kids crying and begging and I am firm with my no, but I can't help but spend half my Christmas budget on books.

Anyways, I have a lot of the younger Dr. Suess books memorized from reading them to my kids. (It has come to the point where I have to read them in different styles like rapper, or elvis just to keep myself from speeding through it.) So I talked my family into doing a party which included dressing up (my all-time fav!) and doing readings of the books. It was SOSO fun!

We even had themed food.

Simcah and her family all dressed up.

My family all dressed up! Mike was surprisingly into this! He read Oh The Thinks You Can Think, Tsadakah read The Grinch Stole Christmas, Eliannah read One Fish..., and I read The Cat In The Hat. It was so fun and almost everyone participated.

Group Shot!

My Fun and Wacky brother-in-law, Chris.

My dad, as the man in Mulberry Street. Pretty close eh?

And my mom was the star. She stole the show with her perfect costume! She put so much work into the costume! She wanted to act just like her character, the dog in Green Eggs And Ham.