Joshua is the Best!!

This kid is making me happy latley.  He always has some kind of costume or gear on !  We are truly enjoying the no nap.  It gives us time to run errands and be together!!

Happy Birthday Anna

We celebrated Anna's birthday last weekend.  This is a birthday party year but I have not been in the mood to throw parties so the kids have been able to choose an activity they want to do as a family and they can invite one friends to come.  Anna decided she wanted to go swimming.  And she invited her friend Kalee!  We were planning on going to the Surf n' swim in Layton.  But when we got there it was closed.  So we headed to Bountiful.  We had a great time!  We came home after for pizza and cake and ice cream which this year is the birthday tradition.  Happy Birthday Anna.  We are excited for her Baptism on Saturday.  She had her interview with the Bishop today and is all prepared and ready!!

More Baseball

Peters team are called the Diamond Backs.  He has really been loving it.  The night before he lays out his uniform and then insists on wearing it all day!  Gotta love the enthusiasm!!

Wax Museum

I wish I could crop a picture on my phone, if I can, I don't know how.  This will give you the idea.  The 4th grade had an activity called wax museum connected with their Utah History studies.  Alyssa played the part of Alice Merrill Horne who played an integral part in establishing the first art institute in the United States.  Each of the students dressed as their chosen person from history.  They had memorized a paragraph describing who they were.  They lined the walls of the gym and families, and students from other grades were invited to come.  They each had a dot drawn on paper in front of them.  As parents and students walked by they would press the paper dot and that would wake up the wax figure and they would recite their paragraph and freeze again.  Pretty fun!  Alyssa loved it!! 

Constantly Trying to Organize

This is my newest attempt at staying organized in my laundry room.  1 1/2 weeks down.  So far, so good.  Hopefully it will preserve the life of our shoes!!

Happy Birthday Ryan!! 36

I was gone almost the whole day yesterday

With a family history class, play practice, and my ear peircing date with Anna.  Ryan picked up the slack and then enjoyed time with his boys.  They are really loving their baseball time. 

Here are also a few more pictures if Anna.

Just a few pictures I'm loving right now!

Ryan right before the Messiah concert April 19, 2014.  We took a few hours before the concert to celebrate out anniversary.  We went to eat, walked around Salt Lake and sat on the temple grounds for a but since we didn't have time to attend the temple.  And I just think Ryan looks super cute in this picture.  His smile makes me smile.

Loving this one of the cousins all lined up waiting to dish up Easter dinner and being as goofy as ever!!  That's Nathan and Claire girl in the background.

And here is sweet Joshua feeling as groovy as ever.  He earned enough potty points to wear this batman shirt we bought him as an incentive and he discovered his sunglasses he got for Easter match.  He is more batman than ever now and he's living it!!  Now to earn the batman underwear.  

I Feel Like Blogging...

I decided today that I feel like blogging...
Ryan is always the most wonderful example of journaling, blogging, drawing, picture taking, etc...recording his thoughts and ideas in many different ways.  He loves it it's relaxing and enjoyable for him.  I however add it to my list of chores to be done.  It could be because even as I write this very post.  The girls have come in to tell about what they have been up to, and to report that they are now bored.  Ryan and I shewed them away encouraging them to go play a game together.  Joshua has come in to report that he was bored I quickly took care of that by offering them all popcicles only to later have Joshua come in with his dripping all over.  So I promptly jumped up to put it in a cup and wipe up the mess he had made.  Just to discover that he had an accident in his potty training pants and some of it had come out on the floor.  And the 1 game that the kids had gotten out had turned into 5 and scattered all over the living room floor, not to mention the fact that I haven't seen Peter in the last bit and am feeling like I should probably check up him.

Now I'm not so sure I still feel like blogging but must post a few pictures for Mom & Dad's sake.  My Boys have become best friends the last little bit.  Love it!! And they are getting boy time with Dad while the girls and I are at Play Practice.

Easter Dresses and Piano Recitals (wish I'd cropped these pictures, but the two ladies in the back are the girls piano teachers.  The one in green teaches Anna and the one in blue is Alyssa's teacher.)

And I am finally feeling healthy again.  Yay!!