Spring is a wonderful thing!

Testing the sprinklers is fun for the whole family!

Hallie has a new favorite thing to do! She runs around to each sprinkler head and lets it splash her face!

Kate loves to take "beautiful" pictures for me! Here she is with some of the spring flowers, can't wait for the chocolate mulch to fill in everywhere! This weekends project!

Kate posing beautifully again filling up hallies new birthday pool! She will be 1 on May 3rd! She is a good dog 90% of the time! We only lost some dripper lines so far! Its been fun! The cat has been getting sick lately and we are kinda worried! Its an infection in her pancreas, a 700$ Vet bill and she was better for 2 weeks and now she is not looking so hot... we shall see!

The birthday girl!

I love spring and being outside all of the time! I love planting new things and doing lots of projects, I know it sounds crazy, but I do! Even 8 mo pregnant! Derek is getting sick of my honey-do lists, but I am on a timeline here! Can't wait until the baby comes, it will be a completion of things and should make for an interesting Summer! hopefully I will put up pics of her nursery completed soon!

"BBBC"

So Evan started this adorable club today, and he was so bossy and cute I couldn't help myself! I took these pictures of them, I wasn't supposed to! Only a mother could be this excited! He called everyone, and made drinks and snacks, every Monday at 4:15, our front porch! Its a Bakugan Battle Brawlers club, no girls.

I colored my hair!

This is my new hair color. Look how cute I look!

Easter 2009

here is the "post sugar" picture of Evan @ 8am. Like every good parent we tried to make them eat a good breakfast on Easter! hes just a character!

Easter Morning, The kids scored once again! and for the record, Kate didn't have that whole couch worth of stuff! we also decided to spoil Audrey this year, even though she is in Utero! what do you expect? I actually got her an easter dress...

In the new Easter clothes, Derek was wonderful to take these so I could finish getting ready, I said do them outside, so he choses in front of the dirt across the street! (and didn't straighten the kids clothes out) Oh well!

This is how it really is 99% of the time! Kate day dreaming, and the boys fighting!

Kate and baby Kellie have the same dress! The easter bunny found a great deal at Burlington around Xmas, so fun!

All in all, we had a great day! We went to church and ate! (I HAD NO CANDY AND LIVED!!!!) It was great to focus on the Savior and remind the kids of the true meaning of Easter. The kids got a ton of candy and toys of course! We really loved having Colette and her family over! Kate refers to Leyton as "Little Brother!" We will have fun this week in St George! cant wait! We will miss Derek though :( On the other hand, how great would it be if things were reversed and he took the kids away for 3 full days?

The Easter Egg Hunt

Daddy helped Kate keep up, and they had so much fun! The Rain let up for a minute! Theres Evan booking it past the babies!

Kate and Kylie!

Evan hunting around! (also Kylies half face!)

The kids loved getting too much candy! and the bubbles were a hit!

The boys favorite was finding the Money eggs!

Conner was nice enough to share his extra with Kate!

We always have so much fun with all of Dereks family at their wonderful gatherings!

Kate loved finding all the candy epecially the Chocolate!

Mommy misses sugar and didn't budge from my strict ways! it was SUPER hard! I was diagnosed w/ Gestational Diabetes this pregnancy! SUPER bummer let me tell you! I have lost over 5 lbs, but with days like today it takes evrything you got not to give in! the baby is more than worth it! I just hate testing my blood 4 times a day! Being that I have already had a 10 lb baby, I really need to watch my diet or I will have a C-section, which no one wants, and a 12+ lb baby! Enough of that... Dereks family had another fun family gathering @ Jaynes in Mapleton, it was a little soggy, but the kids had so much fun! We were supposed to be in St George, but the weather is supposed to be really wet down there and the usually nice weather is half the fun there, so we decided to stay here! I am taking the kids on Tues-Fri for Spring Break with Colette and Leyton one more time before the babies come and we cant all fit in my van! It should be better weather 70s-80s. Cant wait for Easter tommorrow, Colette, Leyton and Kyle are coming for dinner! Hopefully I get a good picture of the kids dressed up in their new clothes!