Easter 2014

Easter egg hunt with the mom's workout group in the park that I co-teach.  Kara even found a nice, foil-wrapped chocolate egg and devoured as much chocolate (and foil) as she could before Mom took it away.

New shorts, hula hoops, skip its, stuffed animal, bubble wands, and some candy.  Awesome way to wake up!

The girls picked this fabric out at Hobby Lobby a few months ago and I finally figured out what I wanted to do with it.  They each helped me design their own outfit and they turned out pretty cute.  So much fun to be creative and come up with something new!

I cut up an old shirt of mine, added sleeves, attached the skirt portion to the bottom banded part of the shirt nad a new dress was born.

Megan wanted several layers.  She got a layer on the bottom and a second layer above with a ruffle trim.  I rouched one side to see the bottom layer better.

Mikayla has a way double blocked skirt with lace trim.  She drew it out and picked out the fabrics and lace.  I will probably never do a wavy, scallop skirt again.  It was SO hard!

And Kara just got a regular circle skirt with an elastic waistband.  Easy peasy!

Spring Break Trip to San Francisco!

We stayed the night at our friends house and the girls had tons of fun playing with the Astle boys.  We enjoyed attending our old ward too.  After church, we drove to San Fran and toured Mikayla's mission she chose to do a report on for school.

Mission San Francisco de Asis.  The oldest standing building in San Francisco and the 6th mission built in CA.

Some of the original adobe brick.

Ringing the bells in the church.

Gah!  I love when they are so sweet to each other and help each other out.  melts my heart...

The next day we took the kids to Fisherman's Wharf down on Pier 39 for some sightseeing.

We had such a great time as a family enjoying the sea lions, cable cars, Ghiradelli chocolate sundaes, nickel arcade, clam chowder bread bowls, Lombard street, Chinatown, and so much more.  What a fun, exhausting trip together!

How Many Kids Do You Want To Have?

I asked this question to the girls tonight and their responses were very typical of their personalities and age, but interesting to say the least!

Kendra: 100! (Because everything is a hundred lately...)

Megan: 1! Because if I get a bad one then I don't want anymore after that.  And besides, I don't want to spend ALL my time on just kids.  (Wow is all I have to say to that!)

Mikayla: I want to have 4 of my own and then adopt one with special needs.  I feel like I have a connection to kids like that and I could really help out another child and love them.  (Wow again.  9 yrs old and heart of gold...)

Spring Has Sprung!

 We love to see the temple.  Our first family photo in front of the Sacramento temple.

 The girls were elated to get to hold brand-new baby bunnies at Aunt Janet's house.  Cutest things ever.

We went and visited with Grandma Brown who has just been diagnosed with stage 4 colon and liver cancer.  Her spirits are up and it was good to see her and let her know we love her.

April Fool's Day!

I had soo much fun this year with April Fool's Day!  I put carrot sticks in a bag of Cheetos and re-sealed the top of the bag with scrapbook tape.  They sure were surprised at lunch time!  Don't worry, I made up for it and gave them Cheetos after school!

 For dinner they got glasses of "soda" which turned out to be grape jello.  Again, not too thrilled with me for that one! Hahaha

They tried and tried to drink that soda though!

I also gave them "vegetables" to eat with dinner.  These are flavored tootsie rolls that I hand rolled to look like carrots, peas, and green beans.  Now this one they actually LOVED!  It was so much fun, I hope I can find/come up with more great ideas next year!