Kansas Day

To celebrate Kansas' 150th Birthday, Eliza & I went to Women's Conference. She was so good there, hooray!

Rick & the kids ran errands & played at the park. This big girl can go all across the twisty monkey bars! Hooray! (Those are the circle ones that turn like steering wheels.)

The kids checked out lots of books at the library. This afternoon we enjoyed making sunflower cookies & watching the KU vs K-State basketball game! Rock! Chalk! Jayhawks!

Happy Birthday, Kansas!

Party Planners in the Making

After school Lexie hurried to finish her homework while Joseph & Andrew read. Once she finished, I didn't see the kids until I called them up for dinner. I thought they were just playing in the basement. We hung out after dinner & then told the kids it was time to do bedtime stuffs & get to bed. Suddenly, there was much whining (shocking- I know)! Joseph & Lexie were adamant Rick & I needed to go with them to the basement. So, we gave in & saw this cute table for 2 they had set up for us.

It was complete with menus & flowers even. Andrew pulled up a chair as well.

Lexie helped us pick out our food

& then they served us. (The butterfly surprise was delicious!)

They flipped the sit-n-spin upside-down & put it on some empty ice cream containers to make the table.

After dinner, they planned other activities for us to do. We got to play trains

& then we played with legos.

It was such a fun evening! I guess that is one way for the kids to get us to let them stay up past their bedtime.

Early Morning at the Museum

This morning Lexie & Joseph were hard workers. When we got up they excitedly called us into the boys' room to see their museum.

We began with the Space Exhibit & learned about our solar system.

Next, was the Large Animal Exhibit,

followed by the Dinosaur Exhibit.

And lastly, we visited the Small Animal Exhibit.

Thank you, cute Museum Curators for a fabulous tour!

Then we all scurried down to make some yummy breakfast!

More Beautifulerest Everyday

Our sweet Eliza is 3 months old! Where has the time gone? It needs to slow down!! She is wonderful! Eliza got to celebrate this big day by having a night out with Mama. We went down to Castle Rock with my sister Becca to hear Sister Dibb speak. It was wonderful! Liza was awesome there & it was so funny, every time I turned around someone was admiring how sweet she is & saying what a beautiful, good, quiet, alert (list goes on & on) baby she is. They are absolutely right!

We love how excited she gets to see her siblings every morning. When they come in the room she stops whatever she's doing to look & them & greet them with one of her big smiles! It melts their hearts every time! It's awesome to hear Andrew speak to her: "You are such a cutie girl! You have such a cute grin. Oh sweet girl, I just love ya!"

Leftover Snow Fun

Playing in the snow is always fun...

even when it's almost all gone!

It was hilarious watching their snowball fight-chasing each other around the yard with huge snowballs. I love our kiddos!

Great To Be 8

It was a fun experience to go to the "Great to be 8" Fireside with Lexie tonight. We still can't believe she is almost old enough to be baptized, but are excited for her. We learned she gets to be baptized on a very special day, Aug. 6th. That is the day my Dad died so it holds great significance to us. She cried when I told her that, but then we talked about how special it will be to remember him & the good example he was & also how he'll be there too, to see her baptism. It was funny during Sacrament Meeting this morning, Lexie turned to me & said, "Mom, it's really weird. I'm feeling something I've never felt before. I feel like I'm really getting to be a big girl. It's really weird." We are so pleased with what a wonderful little girl she is & the big girl she is becoming! We are so blessed to have her in our home.

Sweet Little Girl

I love how blue Eliza's eyes are right now. I know in a few months they will go dark brown (because that's what happened with the others). But, I love to see how pretty blue they are right now & I just really enjoy this sweet little girl! We sure love having her.

Hello, Everybody!

I'm so cute! And good job everyone!

A. Eliza
B. Joseph
C. Lexie

Guess Who

It's time for yet another round of Who's Who: The Swing Edition. Who's pictured below: Lexie, Joseph, Andrew, or Eliza?
Hint: not all names will be used (one child hated the swing).
A:

B:

C:

Leave your guess in the comments & we'll post answers soon!

Winter Camping

This afternoon, Joseph decided he was going camping. All of the kids packed their bags & were ready to go for their pretend camp out. Little did they know that while they were watching Wipeout this evening, Daddy was putting the tent up in the living room. It's really too bad I didn't take a picture of them when they saw it, oh the excitement!

We had a great time! We ate s'mores (goldfish ones), sang songs, laughed, & had family scriptures in the tent.

The kids especially loved using all of their new flashlights!

Wipeout

The first time we saw Wipeout we thought it was pretty lame, but our kids really get into it.

Joseph's Resolutions

In Joseph's kindergarten class they wrote New Year's resolutions. Joseph was very thoughtful with his. Here's what he wrote:

In 2011 I will read more books and help mom and Dad with Aliza and learn to be a beter sintist (scientist). I allso want to be a better artist and exercise. I want to learn more in school. I thinck this will be a great year!!!!

We think so too, buddy boy!