Gotta Love T-Ball

T-Ball has been a lot of fun this year. I find myself coaching Zachary's team. Which has been very interesting. Zac was way excited, which made me happy :) Probably because I'm never able to go with him on school activities because of the girls. But so far I've been able to arrange for the girls to be taken care of while I help Zachary's team. This year we've decided he does best to throw with his left hand, and bat with his right. We need to get him a new mit. He was taking off his mit before he would throw the ball! Weird child, I can't figure him out ;)

Zachary was a very attentive first base man!

What a cheeser.

Part of our cute little team. Five of them were gone.

One, Two, Three, SWING!!!!!!

Way to go Zachary.

I can not win !

LITTLE S#%*S!

I can not win with these two. I'm very proud to have very smart kids. In fact I brag about it a lot. But there are some days I wish the weren't so quick!

Case in point: The loft.

They scoot the bar stool over and climb right up. AND WAVE HI!!!!!!!!

I'm done trying to save their sweet little heads from falling off of things. If they are so smart then they are on their OWN!

Mother's Day!

Cleaning and scrubbing can wait til tomorrow, for babies grow up we've learned to our sorrow, quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep, I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep.

What can I say I love being a Mom!
The ups the downs the good the bads. It's all I've ever wanted :) I hope all you Mom's had a wonderful Mother's day filled with all the things you love, because I sure did.
We went to St. George this Mother's day to see Jared's Dad on Saturday and his Mom on Sunday. Only Zachary got sick so we had to come home early on Sunday. Poor guy has the stomach flu again :( Any way we had fun at dinner and going to the park. I forgot my camera and left it at the room so I have no pictures ( I figured I would get lots on Sunday!) any way I'm sure Grandpa John took lots.
I'm so thankful for my Mom and what a wonderful woman she is. She has taught me a lot and still has to hold my hand on my journey through motherhood. I love you Mom.

A good Imagination!

My cousin Jill told me a while back she loves to have Zachary come and play because he has such a good imagination! Then we got thinking back on the fun things we would come up with as kids and I realized how thankful I am that my kiddo's do have imaginations. Sometimes we have to tell Zachary to come down from "la, la land!" They play hard and can pretty much entertain themselves. They entertain me often too:)

This is Zachary with his thomas trains when he was three. In vegas our backyard was fenced and I would open the sliding door and let Zac have all the freedom of the back yard! Sometimes I would just sit and listen to him play. Sometimes I had an active role in his game. I sure do miss that yard!


This was just today. I believe he was being a storm trouper from star wars! I'm sure the neighbors got a kick out of it! I sure did:)

I can tell the girls are following in Zachary's footsteps. I often find them dressed up in lots of garb. Zoe the other day was singing " I'm a princess, I'm a princess!" She's got that right.

And I don't have to wonder where they get it from. Jared's always good for a laugh! One of the many reasons I love him ;)

Hoppy Easter!

We had a fun Easter and Spring Break. The Easter Bunny found the kids and they were pretty excited about all their loot. Zac got a couple new games for his DS which kept him entertained most of the weekend. Keira got a Dora Doll and a Ball:) and Zoe got a Strawberry Shortcake Doll and a Ball also :) The weather was not warm but not so cold we couldn't get outside to play. All in all it was a fun weekend. Now we're really wishing for SUMMER!!!!

We Colored Eggs
We colored our eggs, but have not rolled them yet. We ran out of time on Sunday and the weather Monday has been less than enjoyable.

Easter Hunt.
Every year Grandma Vickie sets up an egg hunt. Only they never find eggs, it's just a bunch of candy and treats. The kids have a blast. And it's fun for us adults to watch the kiddies get their buckets as full as they can.

These two had no problem filling their buckets.

Zac found lots of bags of microwave popcorn. Grandma was thinking of him:)



Uncle Brandon has a new best friend, that thought Zoe wanted to play. She didn't. I thought it was rather funny.

Hmmm... what's this?




Easter Dresses

The girls dresses turned out okay this year. The button holes were giving me hell. But the end result was cute.

Zoe needs to work on her modeling.



Keira was a little upset with me at the moment and was not in the mood to take pictures:)



The bustle in the back was really cute when they wiggled their bums!




We hope you all had a fun safe Easter :)

Fun in Vegas

This past weekend we took the kids to Las Vegas. We had a blast. It was good to go home. (Well our second home!)

First we had to go to Toys R Us. Zachary has been working really hard to earn a trip there. He ended up with something more than we bargained for though. Jared gave in and bought him a Nintendo DS! What can I say we love spoiling that kid :) The girls got some fun Tinkerbell stuff. With lots of little parts!




We have been watching the progress on the dam for many years now so we had to drive out there to see how it's going. It is almost done. I'll bet the next time we visit we will be driving across it. It just amazes me what they can build and how fast things change down there. Even with the way the economy has been it's still growing.




The funnest thing we did was go to the Lied's Children Museum. I have no idea why we never did this before because it was awesome. I think I had more fun than the kids and that's saying a lot because they had a blast. I think we were there two or three hours. It will be one of those places we visit every time we go.



They had a fun Berenstain Bears area. WE LOVE THE BERENSTAIN BEARS!!!!! They had Teacher Janes school house, the bear cave, Mama Bears kitchen (the girls loved the kitchen) you could be in one of the movies. It was just Fun!




The girls loved it because they were free to go everywhere. They could touch everything and be as loud as they wanted. They had their squeekie shoes on which helped Jared and I keep track of them!



Of course they loved the grocery store. All three of them love to play food. Hopefully one of them will become a chef so I can hire them because I hate to cook! Hate It!




I love the look of awe on Zachary's face in the keyboard picture. He's always wondering how things work and this was the perfect place for him.



This is our typical travelers....



Zachary playing some form of hand held video game...



Keira throwing a fit about anything and everything......






and Zoe glued to the T.V.


Eventually they nap and the ride is enjoyable. It was fun and I realized how much I miss my big bad "Sin City". Until next time Las Vegas.

What is it with Two Year Olds????

Grrrr.... I don't know who I'm fooling when I think that I'm a step ahead of these little girls!
This morning while I was cleaning the bathroom it got very quiet, so I decided I better go investigate. Well Keira and Zoe were apparently bored watching Dora and decided to put on my make up. My bedroom door was locked so they got their kitchen play knife and opened it. The thing that really gets me is they picked my new mascara and my new eyeshadow to destroy.
Little S#%*S!!!!!!

They both looked like they got into a fight with each other and gave black eyes. Lets just say their technique needs some improvement and I need a better lock on my door!

The interesting thing is when Zachary was this same age he did the same thing, only it was my eye liner! Who says kids don't learn from example!!!