A day out with Thomas

Over the Memorial Day weekend we spent some time up in Heber with Mary, Fred, Dustin, Natalie and their kids. We also spent some time up in Duchesne with Scott, Michelle and the rest of the gang. It was really cold and rainy in Duchesne, but we were able to enjoy some monster burgers!

The highlight of the weekend was our ride on Thomas the Train! Carson has been looking forward to this for MONTHS! The day was cool, but wasn't too rainy. The kids had a really fun time on the train and enjoying the other activities. We will definitely have to get tickets again for next year - but I am going to wait and not buy them in advance because the Friday before we went there was a coupon in the paper for $4.50 off each ticket- I was slightly aggravated, but am trying to get over it - I guess that's what you get for trying to plan ahead. As Paul always says - "No good deed goes unpunished". Anyways...I am glad that summer is finally here and am looking forward to more trips to Heber!

On Monday we went over to Grandma Honey's and Papa's for a Barbeque - it was also really fun, I love getting together with family.

My little Rockstars

Aren't they so cute?? I'm so lucky!!

Jaedyn turns one!!

One chapter ends....

Yesterday was a happy/sad day. My baby turned one yesterday. It was a happy day to celebrate her, her cute personality and the fact that we are so blessed to have her. It was a sad day because she is my baby - my last child - and the days of having a new baby are over. Don't get me wrong - the sleepless nights, poopy diapers, ear infections, breast-feeding, and general disruption a newborn causes are definitely not easy and I won't miss those things - but it is sad when a chapter of your life closes. Paul mentioned the fact that Jaedyn is the last person to have a one year old birthday in our home and that made me sad. Paul thinks I am crazy for having a bit of the baby blues - he also mentioned the fact that it will still be another 10 years or so before we don't need a babysitter. Logically I am glad that we are done having children, I guess I will just have to hope that some of my siblings or friends still have a baby or two so that I can hold, snuggle, smell and stare into a sweet innocent newborn baby's face.

What happened?

Lets just say - don't leave a 2 year old alone with a marker!

Doing things her own way

I've decided that Jaedyn is going to be an independent thinker. She seems to want to do things her own way - which are completely different than the "normal" way of doing things. If you have seen her crawl you'll know what I mean. She doesn't crawl on all fours - she crawls sitting up, using her right leg to crawl while dragging her left leg behind her. She is getting pretty fast at it too! Well the other day she invented a new way of going down the stairs. She learned how to crawl up the stairs about a month ago, but had been nervous to go down the stairs until last Sunday when she finally figured out how she would go down them. She scares the heck out of her Mom and Dad doing this, but it doesn't stop her. First she will scoot up to the stair - then she sits down with her legs hanging over the edge. Then she will scoot her bum as close to the edge as possible and then wiggles until she falls down to the next stair. When she gets close enough to the bottom she can hang on to the railing. This is REALLY scary to watch cause babies and stairs don't do well together. Luckily Paul used his famous fall down the stair method to scare her about stairs so she is pretty cautious - but why can't she just go down the stairs on her tummy like I want her to?!?!?!

Happy Easter, Happy Spring, Happy Happy Everything!

Easter this year was really nice. We started the week leading up to Easter learning about the last week of The Savior's life. I got a cute idea from Women's Group to fill an Easter Egg with something that represented each thing that happened during each day and some scriptures to go along with it. It was nice to be able to reflect about what Easter really is and to take time to learn more about The Savior. We also did some of the fun "Eastery" things - like dyeing eggs, having an egg hunt and the Easter bunny did visit with baskets full of goodies. Carson was so funny this year! He had so much fun painting his eggs, and then deciding it was just easier to dunk the whole egg into the color. And while he was gathering hidden eggs up from around the house - he wanted to open each egg and eat the candy inside before finding another egg - needless to say all he ate all day was candy! We had Easter dinner at my Aunt Sue's house with Turkey, Ham, Salads and Rolls. The weather was actually nice so we could be outside, and it was fun to see my Aunt and some Cousins that I haven't seen in awhile. The kids all got to hunt for eggs and some were even filled with money! After my Aunt Sue's we went over to Troy and Wendy's house to visit and Grandma Mary had a special egg for each of the kids - also with money in them. This was Jadybug's last "First" Holiday and I'm glad that it was such a nice day!