Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Sorry it's been so long....

First off let me start by saying I hope you have some time on your hands because I haven't blogged at all this year and this is my catch up post!
Natalie and Dean and their adorable kids, and Lee all came out for a visit! Their kids all have the most adorable accents and are the sweetest kids, I wish we all lived closer together!  My kids still ask about Hugh, Ellie, Lucy and little Hunta...they say it with a Australian accent, so cute!
S'mores on the beach!
We went to the river !!
It was cold but the kids still braved the water to play Huck Finn on the sand bar!
Brothers!
Cousins! What a group of hellions!
Ah, the dirty old desert in the dirty old yellow truck!!!!
Yes, Abe rides too fast!
Like father, like son!
My desert beauties!
and a rascal!
We had so much fun!
We had spot for the night, so we took him for a walk on the pier,
And the kids did some planking! Noah is there on the end, we like to think of him as a planker in training
Noelle was a great planker, but she was embarrassed to show her classmates cuz she didn't want them to laugh.... of course their going to laugh, Noelle, it's HILARIOUS!
Daddy sang to us before church!
We did a photo shoot for Nana, with shadows!
Noelle turned SIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She had cute waiters sing to her!
And she ate some ice cream!!!!!!!!!!!
We had a Super Bowl party and a pinata for Noelle!
We love you Noelle!
We had the Hill family over. We made rainbow rice and had pizza and watched movies!

We took Avery with us to the Zoo!
Noelle ran her first Jog-a-thon at school! She ran 2 MILES!!!!!!!!!!!!
We learned how to finger knit! The girls love it and I hope with time their  patience will grow along with the length of their projects!
On St. Pattie's day aka my Dad's birthday!, a leprechaun snuck into our house and played tricks on us while he was looking for gold! I guess he couldn't hold it any longer because he weed in our potty! Noelle was flabbergasted and laughed hysterically.  Chloe burst into nervous tears after it sank in that a weird little creature broke into our house without us knowing! She kept asking me when he was coming back and if he had sharp nails! I buckled and told them not to worry because I played the tricks and told them it was a leprechaun, that calmed Chloe, but then Noelle burst into tears!!  I didn't know what to say so I quickly said to Noelle that I just said that so Chloe wouldn't be scared ...and of course Chloe heard me from around the corner and came running back in tears!  Sometimes you just can't win!  Ps. Chloe now knows it was me and has promised not to tell Noelle. (She loves keeping secrets so it works out perfectly!)

The girls couldn't wait to try out their new Easter dresses!

Saturday, March 3, 2012

my word, it's been a while....

Noelle got her pretty little ears pierced!
my computer crashed. I got a new one but now my pictures are all scrambled and I have no way of saving them! I'll be back soon though, I promise!




We put on a Christmas recital!

We played in the sprinklers ( in December!)and soaked up some sun before heading to  Utah




and it snowed!

We saw Grandma Gardner...

we went to a natural history museum with friends,

Daddy let us play in the snow in our pjs!
We had a white Christmas in Manti!!!





We left Santa a cookie and the next morning we found it eaten, but we also found a "thank you" note from Noelle that she put out without anyone knowing!








Christmas morning with Grandpa Gardner!

Santa brought our presents all the way to Utah!

We made cookies....

and cakes...

and I made Christmas dinner all by myself!

       
wahoo!