Sweeter than Cake!!!

So I can pat myself on the back for taking that sweetest picture of all time of Mackenzie! Somehow it didn't end up in the picture but she did have a bowl with a piece of cake in it and while I was waiting to take a picture of her eating that she decided that the piece I gave her wasn't big enough.

Since she and Chloe (my sister's little girl) have birthday's only a few day's apart we just celebrated them together at a park here in town. The kids had loads and fun and really wore themselves out. It was a nice relaxing get together since nobody had to worry about cleaning up their house after everyone left. The kids just ran around and everyone got a chance to visit (not that we don't see each other almost daily).

I can't believe that she is already 2 years old. Time is just flying by. Everyone has been asking lately if we are going to be getting ready to have another one, the thought does cross my mind once in a while but then my daydream of it is interrupted by one of my kids screaming, fighting, or breaking yet one more thing and the thought quickly and I mean really quickly passes. We haven't totally put it out of the realm of possibility but it will be another little while before we really decide. Besides I think we really should let some of Jared's siblings take a turn in providing some grandkids! That means you T & Erk!

Ward Pinewood Derby

Our favorite babysitters!

Nikki Sagers & Emily Judd
A few weeks ago our ward had a pinewood derby. It has to be one of the best ward activities I have ever been to. I think making a competition out of using power tools to make a wooden car is a sure fire way to get every last man and his entire family to any ward activity. Jared definitely got into the spirit of things. His car (or skateboard) won most creative and did go pretty far in the rounds or heats as they call them in the pinewood derby world. The kids had a great time and so did we since our two favorite babysitters were there so we had a couple of extra eyes to keep track of kids!

Laker Game!

These are a few of the pictures from our Laker game. My dad got us the best seats so we give him a huge shout out!!! Thanks!!! We had so much fun. We went down early and did some shopping at the Grove (I love that place) had lunch at the Cheesecake Factory, we sat on the 2nd floor balcony so we had a great view for people watching. The game was really close so it was a lot of fun to watch. Boyz to men sang the national anthem and then did some of the half time show. Took me right back to Jr. High school. We sat just a few feet away from Kareem Abdul Jabar. I felt bad taking the picture of him because he was taking all kinds of notes on the game and looked like he was concentrating really hard but I guess he is used to it because he didn't flinch or even look over to give me a dirty look. We saw some celebs but we had my mom's camera and it is not a very good one so none of our pictures turned out very well. Guess we will just have to go back again with my camera!

Lots of pics for lots of things!

Well hopefully I can write most of this post before the kids destroy my house. Not that it is really put together at this point but at least we aren't tripping over things still. I have been asked to post pictures of the house on the blog which I am happy to do but









remember we have only been in for 2 1/2 weeks, so forgive the projects still under construction.
We are waiting for our laminate flooring to get here. So everywhere you see carpet now will be laminate wood in a few weeks. I will post some pics of bedrooms and other rooms when we get them done. Pictures of boxes probably wouldn't be to exciting.

Sorry no Pic

Well since I said I was going to try really hard to keep up with the blogging I am blogging but not posting a picture. I really find it more interesting to make posts with pictures since I love looking at them but since we just moved and my camera ran out of batteries, I guess I am lucky to be sitting down to make the post at all. Where to begin with such a crazy week or so. We have had lots of things happening. We had a ward pinewood derby which was lots of fun we have lots of pics from that. We moved into our house and are still moving in as I write. We went to a Laker game that my dad got us tickets for. We sat on the 16th row and watched them play the warriors. It was actually a really good game, we thought it would be kind of a blow out. We sat about 20 feet from Kareem Abdul Jabar, and I give myself a pat on the back for being the only one that noticed him. Considering my husband is a basketball nut I felt pretty proud. Anyway, I have lots of pictures from all of this stuff so I will be making another post soon. Have a great day everyone!

All Ethan Knows He Learned In Primary!

I copied and pasted this post from one of Jared's friends blogs. Jared made this post yesterday, and when I read it I laughed so hard that I knew it had to be posted on our family blog as well. Oh and this is a picture of Ethan at his gymnastics exhibition last year. Here is the post.......

Today Ethan and I were talking about his primary lesson. They learned about baptism. He said people get baptized with the power from the men that give it to the daddys. I said that power comes from Heavenly Father, and then he asked me where heavenly father lived. I said he lives in Heaven, to which he replied, "Yeah he lives in Heaven with the Leprachauns." When I asked him where he learned that, he said, "I saw a picture of Joseph Smith in the trees talking to Heavenly Father and Jesus, and that's where the Leprachauns live too in the trees."All, I could say was I was proud that he was paying attention in class

What! Another sick kid?

Well, this time she was really sick. We took her in on Sat. and found out she has pneumonia. So pretty much for the last few days she has done just what she is doing in the picture. Sleep. Today she started to feel better but I think she has gotten used to getting away with being cranky for the last few days and none of us are really feeling sorry for her anymore. Hopefully this is the last round of germs that make the rounds through all of us for the winter.