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I helped my Mom clean out her closet this week. She had a lot of dresses that she was getting rid of. This turned into a project for me. I took her old dresses and made the girls skirts. I think they turned out pretty cute and the girls love them. Yeah for cleaning and free play skirts!





The best part is that they only take about 15 minutes to make and the girls wear them all the time. The only bad part is convincing them to not where them when we leave the house. Emma pointed out that the blue on even twirls. We all know that makes for an awesome skirt when your six.

crAzy wEek...aWe it iS oVer!

We have week one of swim lessons done. Finally. I swear I have tried to fit every doctor appointment in this week with our swim lessons. We take from 11-1pm. I have to get in with Ellie so I don't shower until I am done with swimming. Which means almost all week I have been able to shower around 5pm. I hate that because I feel gross all day long. Anyway by Friday night I need to get out. We decided to go walking on the Lagoon Trail. It is so pretty and you feel like you are in the mountains because the trees are so big. There is a creek as well. I love this place. So we went on the part we had never been on before. It leads to Farmington Ponds. That was a fun new adventure.
After we came home,Ellie and Jeron were on the ground and they were both giggling. It was so cute I had to take a picture. Then of course all the kids wanted in on that action. It turned out to be a very nice night. Sometimes just the easy things are the best things.

oUr litTle Baby is foUr mOnths oLd...

I am shocked that Elsie is already four months old. She is so sweet and cute. I think that she has been so much different then my other kids and so much the same. She has taken turns having blue eyes and brown eyes. Jeron keeps thinking that he has won and then the next day they go brown.

She had so much hair when she was born and now she has my Dads hair line. She has looked so much like JJ and then the spitting image of Emma. Every once in a while I see Ellie's smile in hers.

I love how they all have their own unique marks...yet they are so similar. Right now she has brown eyes...tomorrow it may be different. She has slept so much these first four months that I worry at times. She is doing a lot of growing though. She smiles all the time. She loves to coo and talk with me. She is a Mama's girl. She has a hard time being away from me. When she hears my voice she cries until I hold her. She is hungry all the time. She feeds every two hours except at night when she goes for 5-6 hours. Awesome! We just love having her in our home. I hope that Ellie doesn't love her to death. It is an adventure trying to figure the two of them out. I can't ever turn my back for a second or Ellie is on her. Elsie will be one tough cookie when she is older. If anyone has any suggestions on how to stop the clock let me know...she is growing way to fast. oh I just love her

Free at last...

Jeron and myself have not had a date in I don't know how long. We take our kids with us to everything. It was so nice to have a free night (except Elsie...darn nursing) and just have adult time. Mama and Papa watched the kids so we could have the night off. Thank you, thank you, and thank you.

We went with our good friends the Gough's to dinner and a movie. It was Nichole's birthday and she planned the whole thing. (my bad...I probably should have done that) She turned the big whopping 27. Ya, we are a little old to hang with them. If you think about it they are Smitty's age. I don't think that I ever thought it was cool to hang with Smitty and his friends back in the day. I was way to mature for that. Either I am getting more immature as time goes on or it changes when you have kids and a mortgage. What ever it is I am glad that we have crossed those lines.

We ate at P.F. Changs and then went to see Indian Jones. We love hanging out with the Gough's. We laugh the whole time when we are with them. Thanks for a really fun night. Even if I did eat so much I ccouldn't stand it.

Swimming with Grandma

Today Jan came up and went swimming with the girls. JJ went to Cherry Hill with my cousin and her kids. Lucky! I have never been to Cherry Hill before. I think that is strange. Anyway the girls had a great time with Grandma. When we got to the pool Jan realized that she had left her wallet at Target so we headed over there, did a little shopping, came back and swam.



The girls had a blast. Emma finally went off the slide by herself. Ellie wouldn't leave Grandma's side. When we got back to the house they watched Enchanted with Grandma. I think the girls wore her out. She fell asleep on the couch watching the movie.
Emma sneaky as she is got the camera and took a picture of Grandma asleep. She thought she was pretty funny.

Lagoon...What fun is?

We had our annual Stake Lagoon Day today. It is when you can take your kids to Lagoon and pay $28 a ticket rather then $39 to suffer in the heat, long lines, and strange environment. There are some weird ducks out there. No...it was a great time. Rocky at first but ended on a great note. The day started off when Jeron got home late and the kids were getting upset that we hadn't gone yet. Then we lost the discount tickets. We never did find them but thanks to a mistake I had made already we had six extra so we took those ones. When we got there I forgo to get extra diapers in the diaper bag, so I had to go home and get those. We dropped off Jeron, JJ, and Emma and me and the girls went to get diapers. When I finally get there I find out that JJ and Emma are both to scared to go on any big rides. This is unreal to me. I love the scary rides. I wasn't about to have any of that. So I told them how fun it would be to go on Wicked. They didn't believe me. I really didn't want to spend all that money so my kids could hang out in kiddy land the whole time. We rode a lot of rides there...JJ seemed to be getting pretty bored. I told him and Jeron to head off to the bigger rides and I would keep the girls. We did this for a while. Emma was having fun and Ellie loved to go on anything that Emma went on. The best part is that Emma was always a bit nervous at the start of a ride. Ellie just loved it. Maybe she will be my daring child. When we left for dinner Emma said she was done and didn't want to go back. My nerves were shot. I said "fine I will take the girls home and Daddy and JJ can go back and have fun. This will be the last time that I spend money on you to go to Lagoon." (Idle threat...not good, I know) After some food in all of our belly's the mood changed and now my kids were ready to take on the big rides. I will have to say that I am pretty proud of my six and eight year old for going on Wicked. They loved it. See Mom and Dad are always right. The day ended on a good note. It was fun to have a day with just our family.

I think JJ is having way to much fun on this ride. Maybe they should try out the big stuff

Jeron and JJ on the Umbrella ride(you have to wear closed toe shoes so when Ellie went she wore JJ's shoes)

Sweet Moment with Daddy

Ellie wasn't to sure about this ride with big brother jerking the plane the whole time. Last time JJ gets to ride with Ellie

No Elsie did not get attacked by a bear...that is just the result of Ellie trying to get her out of her car seat when we weren't looking.

Jeron loved these rides!

Proof that I came!

Kids on Bulgy the Whale...Last ride of the night.

The girls loved that they got the pink boat.

Dino Drop was the only ride that Ellie got scared on.

This was Ellie's favorite ride by far. It was right by the music so she would dance the whole time. She went probably seven times.

This made me laugh...look at Emma's face. See how serious she is. Well I thought I bet she thinks she is really controlling that ride. The first thing she said when she got off was "I almost ran over the flowers...that is really hard to drive." I had to laugh, but I never did tell her she wasn't in control.

Girls Night Out!

It is always fun to get away from the kids and have a night just the girls. I love these ladies. I laugh so much when I am with them. I think that means they are good for my soul. It was Joy's 30th birthday on Sunday so we took her out for a surprise dinner at Cucina Tuscana.(Thanks for arranging it Amy.) It was delicious food, and great company. The owner of the restraunt was so sweet. He was thrilled to get a picture with us. When we left he came outside and gave us all kisses on our cheeks. Who wouldn't want to kiss such hot babes? After we stood around for about an hour trying to decide what we should do since the night was still young. We were all stuffed to the brim, but decided we needed to get a treat. We headed off to this little yummy bakery that Brittany knew about. My cake was to die for! Brittany was the only one that got German Chocolate Cake and I will have to say my Moms is far better then the one she had. All in all it was a really great night. Thanks ladies!

Elsie's Blessing Day

Elsie shared her day today with a little angel in the neighborhood. They live behind us and we just love the family. I know that Elsie and Paige will be the best of friends being so close and all. It was fun to get picutures of the two girls.





















Today was Elsie's big day. She looked so pretty in her blessing dress. Jeron was telling me that when he got her dressed this morning that he thought she looked so beautiful. He got a little choked up thinking about what was about to take place. He said it was a really sweet moment that the two of them shared. He did a wonderful job on her blessing. I think it is one of the sweetest things when a Daddy gets up and blesses his baby. Even sweeter is when Jeron says the name of our children...he always cries. I love that moment. I always hope that he will cry when he says their name because then I know that it is the "right" name. He cried when he said Elsie's name...this made me smile. The blessing was beautiful. I even have a copy of it because a woman in my ward wrote it down. She is the best!

The day turned out to be a really nice one. We had a lot of family and friends come by. I love it when we have these kind of things because then I get to see all the people who mean so much to me. I really felt the absense of the ones who didn't come. THere was a couple of times that I got choked up thinking about them. We missed you dearly and were thinking about you.