Tea Party

Baily and Payton love having "tea (water) parties" together.

Spring

We've been enjoying the crazy warm weather that March brought this spring. They turn on the water to stream into the lake by our house only in the spring, and it happened to be during our hot spring break days. I took the kids and our buckets down to play in the mud. They spent 2 hours digging, making messes, and catching crayfish and frogs. It was a blast, I have the best job ever!

Easter

We had a great Easter weekend this year. The kids enjoyed a neighborhood egg hunt on Saturday.

Payton enjoys her peeps!

I attempted to sew dresses for the girls this year, the first time I've tried all 3 together. Just made it for Easter Sunday, but they all looked cute. Little Trev got a new white shirt, boys just aren't as fun to dress up, but that is fine with him! We enjoyed church, looking at our Easter baskets, and a dinner with the Taylor family, including Blaine and Sara who just moved to Denver. So grateful for Christ's resurrection and my testimony to teach my children.

Happy Easter!

Baily is 4!

Baily is 4! In March our little sunshine, Baily, turned 4! She's been waiting, for what seemed like a long time to her, to be 4. She had a great time having parties with the Sanders' and Taylor's. She went and built a bear (actually a bunny) with Grandma Taylor at the build a bear store. She got to do the birthday ribbon dance at her dance class, and took treats to share with her preschool class. And she shared a birthday Easter cake with her Grandma on her birthday.

Baily is a really fun girly girl. She loves pink and purple, loves to eat sweet treats, hates vegetables, but will eat them eventually, loves dance class and school. Sings the cutest songs and dances around the house all the time. She often brightens the day for everyone in our family and we love her!

My Shadow

Finally getting things going on my new computer and was working on this photo, just loved it! Payton is a very serious little one most of the time, and she is constantly my shadow, but she's a pretty cute shadow at that!

Trevor is 9!

Can't believe my little man is already 9 years old! He had a great birthday with his sisters and cousins. Dad took Trevor, and his cousins and sisters swimming, then they headed back home, where Grandma and Grandpa Taylor, and Grandpa Sanders joined us for cake and presents. He decorated an airplane cake himself and had a great time. We made homemade oreos for him to share with his class at school. He is a great 9 year old and we feel blessed every day to have him in our family!

Happy Birthday Big T!

Christmas 2011

Here are our Christmas Adventures for 2011 . . .

Awesome sledding hill by our house, so fun to sled on a day off during Christmas break.

We got a lot of snow!!!

Frosting sugar cookies at Grandma's, or we like to call it "frosting Grandma's kitchen floor with sprinkles!"

Payton started enjoying this free reign of sugar.

Taylor is losing teeth right and left right now. She hardly has anything left to eat with! But she was excited to see what the tooth fairy brings if you lose a tooth on Christmas Eve, a golden dollar!

The neighbors had an "in" with Santa, so he showed up to surprise the kiddies during our Christmas Eve dinner at Emily's.

Reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas" on the night before Christmas

Trevor's surprise, THE lego plane.

Taylor's wish gift from Santa, an easy bake oven (it makes such yummy treats, uh, not really:) But she thinks so!

Payton was happy with the candy cane!

Baily decided 1 week before Christmas to change her mind on her present wishes and was determined to get a purple Rapunzel dress, so I got out the sewing machine and figured out how to put this together one late night. She was happy anyway!

We'v been married 11 years now! And Jon surprised me with a new computer, a Mac, so I am making the big switch BACK to Macs after a 10 year stint with the OTHER side.

Payton loved the dress WITH the Belle shoes.

Taylor just wants her two front teeth!

Trevor, still a good sport when Mom makes him match the girl's outfits.

Baily, she is really this mischievous!!!

We had a great Christmas and feel very blessed!

On New Year's Eve we hosted a rockin' Karaoke party that ended promptly at 9 pm, then we played a wild game of Monopoly with our kiddies and were all tucked into bed by 11, a perfect New Year's Eve!