Happy Easter

Easter was so much fun this year with Violet getting older, she was so into it, at first she was scared ,"oh my dosh the easter bunny is doing to det me!" but once we explained how it works she was excited. The kids were so into helping her find all the eggs in the morning. We went to my moms for dinner and another egg hunt with the cousins. I feel bad we didn't talk at all about the real reason for easter but we will tomorrow night for family home evening.

My baby's 2!!!

Violet loves balloons so we took her to pick out some. She wouldn't look at me to take her picture.

She is trying to show me that she is 2 but she can't get her fingers to do it.

Here is Violet with Calli, who she adores.

Violet was singing happy birthday with us! She was so funny.

She wasn't quite sure how to blow out the candle.

She was saying "It's my birthday!"

Violet just turned 2 on Friday the 26th, i can't believe how fast it has gone by, i feel like she was just born. Our family is so in love our little Miss Violet, we can't imagine life without her, she is so loving, she is absolutely hilarious, and says the funniest things. All last week she kept saying "my birthday is tumming up!". For her birthday she wanted to go to Chuck E Cheese, well with the strong influence of her brothers and sister, she picked to go there. She does loves to put the tokens in the machines and putting the tickets in the ticket counter, we had a good time, she was really excited to go there, and kept saying while she skips around "it's my birthday, it's my birthday!".

Some of violets favorite things are.... her daddy, her brothers and sister, playing legos (which she calls wegos), play dough, watching Biggest Loser( i kid you not, she says "mom i wanna watch biggest woser" and she will sit and watch it), she loves beans from Taco Bell, drinking apple juice, playing with her babies, following Jade around,playing with Jades kitchen, going in the stroller to pick up the kids from the bus stop, singing songs in the car( she loves anything Hannah Montana and Black Eyed Peas-"I Gotta Feeling"), and playing with Calli and Deegan (she says Tallideegan all one word). I seriously cant believe my baby is 2 years old it makes me so sad, I used to think that was weird when people said that, i thought if you miss having a baby have another one, but now I get it, because I am definitely not having another baby, but I miss her being one. Happy Birthday Violet!!! We love you!

Snaggle Tooth

Jades tooth was hanging on for dear life. Her and jared thought they were hilarious taking crazy pictures with her tooth of centered. She is so excited to send the pictures to Derek. They aren't very flattering, but Jade is still cute.

Our New Pet Derek!!!

My sweet dad just got Krew a pet bearded dragon(a lizard). Krew has been having a hard time at school with getting made fun of for being short. Sorry to say Krew but you are pretty much going to end up short, have seen me and dad ? Anyways, he's been getting called midgit man and shorty, and it's been really upsetting him, so my dad said if he can be confident and not let it get him down he could get a surprise, and this is what they came up with. Krew researched online what he wanted to get and he told me" i think i want to get a bearded dragon!" i was like " a what?! i'm not so sure about that" this was before i knew what it was exactly. Krew said" well if you didn't want one, after you read this you are sure to want one". So the little master mind brings me over to the computer to read about how kid friendly they are and how they don't bite and how the make great house pets.So he has orange stripes, and since Dereks hair is pretty much orange they named him Derek!!

Today Jade said "I miss Derek", and Krew said " the person or the lizard ?" thats a very valid question now. She sadly shouted back "the person". It was pretty funny.

Violet loves The Book of Mormon

Last night Violet came up to Jared with The Book of Mormon in her hand and said "Daddy will you read this book to me pleeeease?" it was so cute. She climbed up on his lap and totally listened I couldn't believe it, she was so serious. He showed her the few pictures that are in there and told her the different prophets names and when she saw Jesus in a picture she yelled"JESUS!" she was so excited. That definitely made both of our nights.

Daddy's Girls!!!

Well it is perfectly clear to me now that both of girls prefer Jared over me, which I actually think is adorable. This week we were leaving Chilis, and we had 2 cars there so I was going home and Jared was running to Walmart to grab us a few groceries, and Jade yells"I'm going with daddy!" and ran over to give me a kiss goodbye and said"mom I'm just a daddy's girl so I'm going with him" I said "ok",and she took off, then she came running back to me and said"Mom I love you both the same but I'm just really a daddy's girl and I need to go with him to spend time with him". I laughed and said " don't worry I know you love me thanks". Then 2 days later I'm holding Violet and I said to her while giving her a hug"Oh i just love my Violet sooo much", and she says back to me" No I'm daddy's Vi-o-wet". WOW !!! Even my one year old is being brutally honest with me. No actually it was really cute, I am just thankful my girls have such a great dad that is crazy about them too!

Our little boy is gone!

We just got back from taking Derek to the MTC, it's so crazy to think that he is gone. The MTC is no joke we pulled up and they had us park along the curb where 2 elders that are already in the MTC bum rush our car, open the doors and start grabbing his stuff, and say"lets go elder!", so i took a quick picture of him and Jared, then we hugged him, told him we loved him, and off he went. I am not kidding it was really that fast. My kids miss him already, it is so bitter sweet, we are so proud of him for going, and are so excited for him, but 2 years is such a long time. I can't imagine how hard it will be when it's one of my own boys, we are having a hard enough time with Derek leaving . The first morning after he left Jared came down stairs and looked over at the couch expecting to see him sleeping there and then realized oh ya he is gone. We really loved having him here, he helped out so much and was the best free babysitter anyone could ask for.
Here he is wheeling off with his luggage.

My kids love Derek so much. The first night he was gone Jade came up to me and said "mommy what do you think Derek is doing right now?"