Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Journaling: String cheese-always the choice snack in this household!

Monday, March 30, 2009

Journaling: We enjoyed a beautiful afternoon at the library and enjoying the sunshine. Here's a bit more sunshine from our two cute redheads!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Journaling: These sisters love each other!! Brynlee always loves kissing and hugging on Karli...sometimes it's a bit too much! Karli sometimes will go to Brynlee for things she needs and I just love how much these girls get along.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Journaling: This girl is a diva in the making!!! She loves, loves, loves to play dress up and every single time we get home, the moment we walk through the doors, Hailey strips off her clothes, jumps into anything dress up she can, and hates to get in her regular clothes again! This afternoon I had to pick up Brynlee from preschool and Hailey insisted on wearing this get up. She looked so cute and divaish, I couldn't resist taking a picture!

Friday, March 20, 2009

Journaling: Every year on the first day of Spring, Rita's open their doors and serves everybody free icees all day long. We love going as a Family and trying all the different flavors.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Journaling: I debated on whether or not to put this picture, but Hailey took it, and I thought it would be fun to include her photography in this project. She LOVES taking pictures every time she can get her hands on a camera. She begs me everyday to take more pictures. I love to think the kids are going to enjoy photography too. So here's me, in my element, cooking dinner one night.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Journaling: I am loving how I can do these cute little, tiny ponytails on Karli now. She is growing up too fast but I love that her hair is growing too! She is such a cutie!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Journaling: Made these delicious "green treats" for St. Patty's day. I bought the M&M's way back around Valentine's Day in excitement to make these cute treats. I love cooking fun things for our family!

Monday, March 16, 2009

Journaling: We had a fun Family Home Evening about David and Goliath. We had a visual presentation in which everyone got to throw marshmallow rocks at Goliath. The kids LOVED that part!

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Journaling: Karli is getting really fun at taking pictures. She really is loved by all her older siblings and loves them right back.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

Journaling: Ethan, Bryn, Hailey and I spent the afternoon at the church for the Primary activity. It was "Eternal Family Olympics" and the kids had so much fun rotating stations, learning how to be a part of a team and a family. They read a story, had a snack, did fun relays, learned how to do chores and made a family flag. It was really cute!

Friday, March 13, 2009

Journaling: This was taken earlier in the week, when the weather was super nice. Ethan had been dressed for hours that day, but when he saw Ammon come out in a white tee-shirt and red shorts, he went and changed to be his dad's twin. Ethan loves his dad so much and loved playing ball and jumping on the tramp with him. He really is a mini Ammon!

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Journaling: We had all three Acker girls (our neighbors) over today. Between their family and ours, there are six little girls between the ages of seven and two! So fun, so much pink, and lots of frilly dresses. They were enjoying the nice afternoon on the trampoline!

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Journaling: Ammon geared up and took Step 3 Boards on the Wednesday and Thursday. It was sixteen hours of testing and he enjoyed Thursday much better than Wednesday. We hear if he passed in six weeks....fingers crossed...that was grueling!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Journaling: Heather, a girl I visit teach, celebrated her birthday today. She lost her mom earlier this year, and was having a hard time celebrating, so we begged her to come over and we made her this delicious, mouth water, yummy towering carrot cake and poppyseed chicken for dinner. Jeannette and kids brought the main dish and Molly, our elderly neighbor next door came along too. It was a fun evening to celebrate Heather and help her forget for a moment that her mom wasn't here to celebrate this year.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Journaling: Brynlee still wasn't feeling the best, but managed to get a reprieve from the sickness to go the the Dad's Night at her preschool. She looked forward to it for days and was so excited to go on a date alone with Dad. It was so cute! They took all the dad's through a typical day of preschool, compete with snack time, recess, songs, etc. Ammon came home saying he had read a questionairre Byrnlee had written about him saying he loved cowboys and loved watching movies about cowboys!! I had to laugh...Ammon is so not a cowboy so I wonder where Brynlee got that. Anyway, it was a fun night for her and her dad!

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Journaling: Brynlee picked up a nasty virus that has slowly passed through everyone. We stayed home sick from church, and she had five days of sleepyness, high fevers and droopy eyes. One week later, I am sitting here home from church again because Hailey now looks like this. It is a nasty sickness especially with the fevers and takes a while to feel better. Poor kids...

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Journaling: We decided to take and adventure and when Ammon got home from the hospital, we packed up and headed with the Johnstons to the Malabar Maple Syrup Festival. We had a great afternoon in the beautiful Ohio country and learned all about how Maple Syrup is made, took a tracker ride, tasted pure sweet syrup and enjoyed a beautiful day outside.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Journaling: Once again Ammon was on Friday night call and Jon Bowen was moonlighting in Mansfield, so Jeanette and I took the nine kids to the dollar theater to see Tale of Despereaux-a cute movie about a mouse. Afterward we took all the kids over to the nearby McDonald's. It was exhausting to have so many kids between the two of us, but we did pretty good and the kids came home and fell asleep! We survived another call night!

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Journaling: Ethan had "Asia Night" at his school. It was a night for families to go in the first grade classrooms and view all their learning projects about Asia (the continent the school is studying about this year). It was so cool! Here is the volcano Ethan built with two of his classmates out of salt dough. We also got to watch Ethan perform in the CUTEST Asian musical program. He did such a good job and it was so fun to see him in his element at Windermere!

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Journaling: See journaling from last picture.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Journaling: Hailey is such a girly girl!! She begged me for days if I could paint their finger nails. I finally caved in one day and we spent the next hour painting nails and having a girl party. Brynlee wanted her nails done too. These girls are girly to the tee! (Unfortunately though-they have inherited my bitting nails habit! Yikes!)

Monday, March 2, 2009

Journaling: Jeannette and I have embarrassingly enough been obsessed over ABC's-The Bachelor. Don't ask me why, but it is addicting. I waited all week for the season finally and was so excited to watch it. Jeannette and I texted all the way through! Jason (a single day) didn't initally pick Molly (above and the girl I was rooting for all along) but six weeks later, changed his mind and went back to her. First time in Bachelor history. It reafirmed how much I love this show!

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Journaling: I had to chuckle when I was making our bed this morning and saw these books on headboard (I moved them up for the picture.) These describe me to a tee! That's what made me laugh...so much of me and who I am and my interests lay in this pile of books.

1)The Shack-A bookclub book for March
2&3) My new favorite author-Shannon Hale. I love her books and she is LDS too!
4)Eat Cake- The bookclub book for May that I am discussing-Plus I really do dream of decorating cakes someday.
5)Project Organization-I love anything about organizing!
6)Anita Stansfield Books-The other favorite author-cheesey Mormon stories...I love them!
7)The Ensign (my scriptures were downstairs)
8)A Kraft Recipe Magazine
10)My Photography book to teach myself how to take pictures.
12)A Parenting Breakthrough-Teaching Your Children to Be Independent (I bought this from Deseret Books). I was curious on how to be a better parent! ;-) LOL!
11)If I could have added books to this pile Twilight, Pottery Barn Magazine and The Christmas Sweater would have been in this pile.