Olivia- 3rd Birthday

So Olivia turned 3, 2 days after our new baby.

Photo session to get her at 3.

We woke her up with pancakes for breakfast, with sparklers to blow out.

Grandma and Grandpa made her birthday cake. (She used canned food cans for all the cool shapes. We have an amazing grandma.) She loved it.




Opening prensents!


We love our Olivia, she is full of vim and vigar. Sweet and precosious.

Sophia Nora - 2/13/11

Meet our new baby girl. We didn't find out before we had her, but our guess was a girl; we are specializing! We love her... she is such a sweet baby!

Very Excite big sisters!

Minutes after birth (Natural - so I am out of it).

Just before we went to the Hospital.

Eva's Birth DAY - May

Eva's actual birthday fell on memorial day this year. How lucky is that.

We first went to Mcdonalds for breakfast.

Then we went to the movies to see Night at the Muesem.
Birthday girl in birthday dress.

Then we had some of Josh's family over for a pot luck, and the kids played croquet;

While the adults (oddly enough) de-snailed our house.

Eva's birthday dinner - May

For our girls birthdays we try to make a special dinner where they get to request what we eat, and we invite ou grandparents over, and open family gifts.

Eva requested chicken, potatoes, and peas.

I made chicken cordon blue, steamed snap peas, steamed carrots, and mashed potatoes.

However, she told me that I'd made the wrong kind of peas she wanted the 'ball' peas (shelled).

We had my parents over, I think she was happy with it overall.

Dinner!
Making a wish!

She had been asking me to make a "rainbow' cake for almost two months before her birthday, I got the idea for this cake from my sister Heathers blog. It turned out better than I anticipated. The frosting job was a bit wanting, but it tasted good; it was cream cheese frosting.

You use a white cake mix, mix as normal, and add food coloring to the batter in seperate bowls and layer the colors in the pan. Pretty.

We clean up - June

So Josh's program had a kind of 'farwell' dinner for us at La' Calle, so with grandma and grandpa watching the girls, we headed out for a night out. It was nice to have a reason to buy a pretty dress and wear my hair in something other than a ponytail. Although I can honestly say I wouldn't want to have fancy dinners to go to all the time.

My dad's finger was in front of the flash.

Isabel's award June

Isabel received an award the last month of school, the "chief example to others'. The teachers choose one each month. Isabel's said specifically..

"Isabel is always concerned about how others are felling. She's a great friend, and she likes to help other people. She's an awesome kid."

She has consistently gotten at least one award a year in school. She is such a fabulous little girl, we are glad she is ours, and proud of the person she is workingto be.

She also got the "golden falcon" award this year, for being on the Honor Roll all year.

You go girl!

We have kitties - June

So my sister, Shaun, cat had kitties, just before Isabel's birthday, and the girls have been wanting a "pet".

We'd killed all the fish we'd adopted.. so you'd think we'd shy away from a bigger animal we might kill.

But I let my sister 'give' my girls kitties for their birthday.

We got them on Bella's actual birthday so this pic. is about a month after we got them.

Josh was in Prague for his school trip, so he came home to a couple of cats. While the Cat's away the mice will play.

Isabel named her cat Angel.

Eva named her cat Mimi.

Notice how Eva is holding her cat, will she survive??

Bella's Haircut - June

Isabel had been wanting a haircut for some time, because the time it takes to do, and the snarls. But she waited to get it cut until after her Baptism. (I need to post pictures, but I need to find them first) So we took a few weeks later to get it cut by my friend Tami. She is so happy with it, and it is much easier for both of us.

Short and sweet.

Planatarium - May

Eva's Preschool took a field trip to the local planatarium, and luckily Bella was off track so I was able to take her too. It was neat, but I liked the Hansen Planatarium better. So we stayed for a while, but Olivia was not able to go into the show, so we went to go get lunch with our friends the Sohms, and headed home for a nap for Livey.

Isabel, Eva, Abby, and Jakey.
Mmm, Mcdonalds.

Playing in the coin operated kids toys, after lunch.

Book report in a box - May

At Bella''s school they have a tradtion that second graders do a book report diarama thingy, so she did little house in the big woods. Here is the fruit of her labor.

This is an up close picture. Sorry I don't know how to rotate the picture in the blog application.

Lunch and Shopping with aunt Fara - May

My sister Fara lives in St. George, but comes fairly regularly for day trips with her hubby for work... So She gets to spend the day with us. Fortunatly for me, the rest of the girls couldn't make it so it was Eva, Livey, and me. We hit Fara's favorite stores, quilted bear, and gardner village. My girls were INCREDIBLY good. Liv fell asleep in the stroller for most of the quilted bear. Then at gardner village, we fed the ducks, had lunch, and Eva rode a pony. It was a good day!

Feeding the ducks, and carp (yuck).

Giddy up.

Liv and the Fridge - May

Seriously that is cute!