We LOVE Cupcakes!!!

I recently had a Primary activity that I got a bunch of cupcakes for, but fortunately for the girls I had a bunch to bring home. They LOVED them! What kid wouldn't love a chocolate cupcake with tons of chocolate frosting??

Say CHEEEEEEEEEESE

AWWWW, how cute!!

Two Amazing Great-Grandmothers

The last time Tawnya, Lindsay and I were pregnant together, I had sweet thoughts of our little children in Heaven with my mom's mother Marian and my dad's mother Carol. I imagined them both taking turns telling our children about their grandparents and how lucky they were to be coming to families that would love them so much.
Now that Tawnya, Lindsay and I are pregnant together...again, my thoughts are turned once more to my two amazing grandmothers. I love to think of them once more telling our children about their wonderful grandparents as well as their older siblings who came to earth only a short while ago. I can picture Great-Grandma Marian reading them books as her cookie monster and peanut butter kiss cookies bake. I then imagine them getting more rowdy with Great-Grandma Carol, playing Cowboys and Indians and going on adventurous treasure hunts. My Grandma Marian is an AMAZING lady who I know will have planted a little seed in heaven that will grow into a full blown love of books as our children get older. Even though I didn't know my Grandma Carol, I also know that she is an AMAZING lady. The seed she will plant will be that of a zest for life, making each day count, living and loving as though it might be your last.
My Grandmothers are two of the greatest examples of love, service and compassion. I have been so blessed to have these two very special women in my life. Though they aren't here with me physically, I feel their spirit and know that they are still very much involved in my life.

Kenzie's 1st day of School

McKenzie started Preschool on Aug. 18 and couldn't wait to get there (I couldn't wait for her to get there either)! Thanks Lindsay for coming early to take her pictures!

Kenzie and Hayzen

She couldn't hide her excitement!

These are a couple of the flowers from our backyard.

Adrie was SOO mad at us for putting her in the picture!

Playing in the Park

On July 3rd, we decided to go to the Clovis zoo. Of course, in was just our luck that they closed it that day so they could have it open all day July 4th. Instead of disappointing the girls by going home, we headed next door to one of the MANY public parks. We had so much fun spending time with the girls on such a nice, warm day. Plus, I got some really cute shots of the girls with their Papa. Love you honey!

Bubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble

We recently gave McKenzie and Adrie a bath in our bathtub. I thought I had put just enough bubbles in, until McKenzie decided to turn on the jets. As you can see, when using jets, you only need about a dime size dab of bubbles!!!!

I thought you said this was supposed to be fun...

...but I am NOT liking this!!!!

There's bubbles in my nose,

all over my face,

but they are, however, surprisingly delicious!

I don't know what you're whining about Adrie, this is AWESOME!!


Lindsay thought it would be funny to put bubbles on her face. Every time Kenzie would try to get them off, she just made it worse cuz there were bubbles EVERY WHERE!!!


Two cute, clean faces

Here I go again...

Last Sunday I spent about 1/2 hour typing up 5 or 6 paragraphs about what was going on lately. You can imagine my RAGE when I somehow deleted the WHOLE thing right before I posted it. Unfortunately it automatically saved it BLANK before I could undo the last action. I guess that feature can be a blessing AND a curse!

Things here are great! We LOVE it here in Clovis still and are staying pretty busy. McKenzie is still a fireball!! She spends her time riding the new Princess bike she got for her birthday, coloring with sidewalk chalk, going back and forth to the neighbors houses and pestering Adrie and Hayzen. She is still a ton of fun though and I love her sweet, outgoing spirit. She is very excited about starting school in 2 weeks and I am even more excited to have her there a couple days a week!!

Adrie is getting so big! Well, I should say tall because she still only weighed 23 lbs at 19 months. She's still maintaining 25th percentile for weight, but moved up from 50th to 75th percentile for height. She's getting to have such a cute personality! She has become good friends with Kenzie (most of the time) and shares her sisters love for Shrek! She's started to say a few words, but when you have a sibling that does all the talking for you, what's the point in doing it yourself? We've started teaching her sign language for the basics like please, thank-you, milk, water, more, etc.. It helps me to know what she wants and keeps her from pointing and screaming as much. She does say most of the animals sounds which I love! That was one of my favorite things about when Kenzie started talking too!

Ryan is still on the night shift at work (midnight-8am) so that has been difficult for all of us sometimes. I love having him home during the day when he's awake and can have fun with us, but when he goes to sleep it's hard to keep the kids quiet. Especially since I watch Hayzen a couple of days a week. Ryan is such a trooper and I'm grateful that he goes to work on such a minimal amount of sleep. I guess he at least likes his job and that's it's less stressful than his last one. Starting in Sept he'll move back to days so I'm looking forward to getting back to a more normal routine.

I'm staying pretty busy between taking care of the girls, watching Lindsay's little boy Hayzen, being the 2nd counselor in the Primary presidency and all the other things that go along with trying to be a good wife and mother. I still LOVE our new house and enjoy having a great back yard as well as a vegetable garden. I have found pulling weeds to be therapeutic so I like spending time out there, not to mention the great tan I'm getting. Well, a good tan for me! At least I'm not the color of brand new tighty whiteys any more.

My goal is to start updating the blog at least once a week. Since I've missed so much of the year, I'm going to go back and post things all the way back to Christmas. I realize this will put things out of chronological order, but I figure that it's better to post them anyway. Since we're so far from most of our family, I want them to be able to enjoy pics and videos of the girls regardless of when they took place. We are so grateful to be doing so well and to be living in a place that we love! We have met some of the most awesome people EVER since moving here! I count my blessings everyday!

Additional Features

After we had gone through the house the first time, I discovered there was a room I had totally skipped over. I also thought you'd appreciate the scenery in our neck of the woods. I love the quiet!