Easter fun

I know that these are a little late but I am working on trying to keep updated. I had kinda forgotten that you are supposed to color eggs for Easter until I was talking to a friend and she said that they were going to do it that night. So I figured that I probably shouldn't be a slacker and let the kids do it. It actually turned out really well. They didn't even make a mess of any of it.























On Saturday our ward had a Easter egg hunt at a local park and it was so much fun. The kids got to find a lot of eggs and play.

Science City

Here are some more pictures of the Science city in Kansas City. My kids absolutely love this place. Every time I say something about it they get all excited and start talking about the things that they love. Paige cannot seem to pin point one thing that is her absolute favorite. We are sure gonna miss this place when we move.

Wizard of Oz exhibit

One of the great things about living in Kansas is that we are close to Kansas City, MO. Stacey, Casey, and I took the kids down last week to go to Science City and while we were there we went over to Crown Center Plaza to the Wizard of Oz exhibit. I was thinking that it would be this dumb little thing but I was pleasantly surprised when we got there. It was actually really cool. It had these little places the kids could walk through and a couple slides to go down. I am glad that we went. I will post pics of Science city when I get more time.

Rylee's Personality

My really good friend Kalli makes these amazing bows and so when we were in Idaho she had to deck my girls out in these gorgeous hats. So I put Rylee's on her the other day and asked her to smile for me. This is what I got. She finally gave me a normal one after a while. She is such a cute girl with the funniest personality.

Do you see that

Do you see that count down over there to the right. That is right we are down to under a hundred days left till Eli is due. I can not express how excited I am. I just want to meet my little boy and see what he looks like, but the thing I look forward to the most is having him snuggle into my neck and cuddling with him. Oh the wait is unbearable when you are as impatient as I am. But the up side is that I bought some way cute fabric today to make a nursing cover and car seat cover and I am really excited to get them together. I will post a pic when they are done.

Happenings lately

Okay, Okay you can all stop yelling at me. I have not been very good at posting lately and I am truly sorry. So now I will give you a post overload. All of you have been wondering what we have been up to lately so here you go.

When we were in Idaho (see next post for reason) my good friend gave the girls a box full of craft things and so of course they are in Heaven being able to do all sorts of things.















Blake has been doing tons of homework. He will not actually graduate till July but he gets to do the graduation walk in May. It is only 7 weeks away. Wow. He didn't want to do the walk thing but is being a good sport for his wife and doing it for me. I think that it is a major accomplishment and I want to see him up there with his degree. (Thanks for humoring me babe!)












For those of you that have been asking for a belly pic here you go. It is not my favorite pic but it gives you an idea of how big (or small) I am. I am now 25 weeks and getting so impatient about meeting Eli. All things are going really well. I went to the doctor's the other day and all is well. I am still down by 3 pounds from when I got pregnant but have gained some since my last appointment so that is good. The doc found his heartbeat right away and it was going strong at 144 bpm. He is a very active baby. He likes to beat his mom's insides up. But I love it cause then I know that he is doing alright.


The girls have become fascinated with my belly. They love to sing him songs and especially love to put lotion on it for me. Rylee will come up to me a few times a day and ask if Eli is gicky. She likes me to say yes cause then she will get the lotion out and grease him up. I am glad that they are so in love with him.

Trip to Idaho

The week before spring break the girls and I headed out to Idaho to take care of some stuff. Sadly when we were there Blake's Grandpa unexpectedly passed away. So Blake flew out to come to the funeral. Unfortunately these are the only pictures I got of the whole trip. While we ere there Blake's mom bought the girls and I a new Easter dress. It was so needed and so greatly appreciated. The one good thing of Blake having to come out was that then I didn't have to drive all the way back by myself. It is a lot harder than I thought it would be, especially while being pregnant. It was really nice to see family again as well.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

For Saint Patrick's Day we all headed out to watch the Parade down town. I have to admit that it was pretty boring and very, very long. But it was nice to get out of the house and enjoy the sunshine. The kids had fun catching the candy and best of all we got to spend the whole day with Blake since it was spring break. Later that afternoon we went to the roller skating rink. One of Paige's friend had a birthday party there and so Blake went skating with Paige while Rylee and I hung out and watched them.

Blake's Trip

Over Spring Break Blake got to go to Washington, D.C. for a Moot Court competition. We were very proud of him. He had put a lot of work into his brief and oral argument. Here are a couple pictures of his trip.

Hair Affair

The other day we had to go do some running around and so Paige wanted to take the scissors in the car so that she could cut some pictures out for her friends. I ran in to get a package from the clubhouse and came out and found that she had cut more than the paper.

I asked what would posses her to cut her hair and her reply was "I asked Rylee if I should do it and she said that I should"

Oh well then that makes it all better.





Luckily when I took down her hair and assessed the damage it wasn't to bad so I am just going to let it grow out.















So later that day the girls were up at the table coloring and Rylee was cutting paper (her new favorite thing to do). And she snipped her hair. Unfortunately she got it to where it was in the front and it stood straight up. So I had to give her dreaded bangs. I am not a fan of bangs and worked really hard to grow hers out. So now she has dorky bangs and we are not sure how we feel about it. She definitely looks different.