We are becoming a barn yard!

My grandpa is a very resourceful person to have around. He let us borrow his incubator and got us some eggs so we could hatch our own baby chick. The day that the first one hatched, my children were again in heaven. We had so much fun with them for several week, again we had neighbor kids over and would take them outside to play. Jackson was very sad when I took them back to my grandpa house (sorry to always be the spoil sport, but they were starting to fly and I really didn't want to wake up one morning next to a darling moulting chick!)

If you look close you can see the baby chicks in the back of his truck. I was alway right there to make sure no harm was done (to the baby chicks of course!)

Baa Baa Black Sheep

My grandpa thought it would be really funny to bring us one of the lambs that didn't have a mother to take care of it. Well needless to say my children were so over the top excited. It was kinda fun to have, some of the neighbor children even came to see "Trigger" the lamb (that is what Jackson named him). Well lucky for me the lamb wouldn't eat, so my grandpa got him back, but not before he was the object of show and tell and before I got to enjoy the experience of driving 75+ miles per hour down the freeway because the lamb had ripped through his box and was trying to come up front to help me drive. What I do for my kids!

Chuck E Cheeses

My children have now been exposed to the wonderful world of Chuck E. Cheese's

Halle the Hair Dresser

While taking Jackson to get his hair cut, Halle made a friend with one of the student hair dressers, she climbed right up in her lap and played with all of her brushes and products, then she started to comb the mannequins hair. Halle even let the girl paint her fingernails, which boggled my mind since it is a knock down drag out fight ever time I try to cut her fingernails.

Ward Talent Show

It is now a fact that we have the most talented child in the whole world. And how do I know this you may ask, well because at the ward talent show Jackson debuted his talented arm swing act! What is the arm swinging act you may ask, well it is swinging your are really fast in a circular motion. Yes the old people loved it!

A Few Pics from Easter

Jackson preschool class became bunnies for Easter. I loved the Cheetos for a carrot!

Coloring Easter eggs. This was the first year Jackson didn't get color all over his hands that remained stained for several days afterwards.

Easter egg hunt with the cousins at the Norris house. Jackson is the one with the orange basket over his whole head!

Easter morning (the hair-do's give it away)

Cute Kids

My friend who is also a photographer (and may I just add a very good one) was taking pictures yesterday, so I dressed my kids up and went and got a few snapshots. She did such a good job making my kids look cute that I when I look at these pictures I totally forget about the gum in the hair or our kitchen that became a temporary swimming pool yesterday. Her professional website is www.photographybyjocelin.com

Happy Easter

We wish every one a happy Easter.

Sad face

Yesterday morning while I was in the bathroom getting ready for the day I heard this very loud, very blood curling scream. I looked out to see Halle wedged in between two pieces of furniture in our bedroom. She had such a cute look on her face (while she was screaming) the camera was right above her and I couldn't resist taking a picture. The whole rest of the day she would run by that spot like it was going to suck her back in again.

This is why I love gum!!! (sarcasm added)

I know that you can't tell what Jackson is holding up by his cheek, but that is his hair mixed with gum. The other day he came into the room where I was just about to change Halle's dirty diaper. He said he had stuck the gum in his ear and then hooked it to his hair. He had managed to get the gum out of his ear but had not been able to get it out of his hair, this was when he had come looking for me. I told him that I would change Halle's diaper then I would help him. Right as I was finishing up with Halle Jackson came in the room with scissor behind his back and the gum hanging below his hair with more hair hanging under the gum. I asked him if he had tried to cut the gum out and he said yeah (like duh, what else was I going to do). I am already not a big gum lover, but he had gotten some (I mean a huge bag) from Richard so I had been letting him have one piece a day. Is all I want to know is where was his mother?!?.... oh yeah, making beds, cleaning up dirty socks off the floor and picking up toys that seem to find their own way out of the closet. At least this time there were no broken bones or oozing wounds!!!