Derek the Lizard has passed away!!!

On Friday Derek the Lizard died, there was a lot of tears, i knew they were into him, but I didn't realize him dying would be so up setting. On wed. he was not acting like himself and wouldn't eat. By Thursday he was almost totally lifeless and he died on Friday. We are having a funeral tomorrow, and barring him out back, I'm not joking, my kids are dead serious!!! Jade was the most upset she said crying hysterically, " the saddest part is that the real Derek will never meet Derek the lizard!!!" I had to try so hard not to laugh. Well I kinda miss the little guy, but I won't miss going to petco every 3-4 days to buy crickets, oh wait I might be still because the kids want to get a new lizard, but they are worried a new lizard will remind them of Derek and then they will miss him and think about how he is dead, this is in their words.

You know your kid is cute when.......

So my friends Michelle and Marci got called into nursery at church, and they have the older class, but they asked for Violet to be transfered into their class, and it got approved. Well today she was in her regular class and i told Eve her teacher i think she's supposed to be in the other class, and she said"no i'm not letting her go over there with those bigger kids, plus she just got used to being in here I'm keeping her in here", she said this very feisty ,I really like Eve she is hilarious. So after church michelle and Marci were sad and said they missed Violet and it looks like she's not going to be in our class. Who would of ever thought nursery leaders would be fighting over having my kid in their class! Violet is stinkin' cute though.

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.