Sunday dinner with Andy, Leisl and Em

Yummy dessert we were having fun making pretty. Plus we had beautiful models- Leisl and Emily :)


Playing with Emily's glasses.


My younger siblings Emily and Andy! Oh we used to fight bad growing up but at least Emily has matured :) Love ya Ang!

Random March!

This little boy.... I was so sick at home one Sunday and Derick had gone to church just to remind some people of things and was coming back to help with the kids while I slept. As soon as Derick left without Andrew, he ran upstairs, dressed himself (could ya tell?) and headed out (running/biking, who knew) to go to church with dad. I was trying to call for him to stop but he didn't hear or wasn't listening :) I tried to call anyone I thought may have a phone with them at church or who would be home during church. I was able to reach my neighbor and he said he would go out and look for him. After a while Derick showed up back at home and I told him what had happened, but Derick didn't pass him on his way home. I was so worried he was lost! Our church is a 1/2 mile away, but there are a few streets he could have turned on to get lost. Derick headed back to the church to look for him.
Before Derick got back someone from church brought him back with his bike. Derick searched the roads, the building and couldn't find him so headed home. Come to find out from our friend, he saw Andrew in church looking the way he did and knew something was up. He knew Derick was leaving to head home to be with his sick family so tried to get Andrew to come home. He asked how he got there and Andrew showed him his bike parked in a spot in the parking lot! Thank you Jose for noticing something was wrong and bringing him home to us! I told Andrew he is never allowed to cross the busy street without us. He said, "ya, a car almost broke my bones when I crossed it." AHH! SCARY! (look closely at the picture.....spiderman pj shirt with a tie, suit and skate shoes- he's got style)


My sleepy little girl always cracks me up before I go to bed.


Derick hanging out playing the guitar. He loves to do it and is really good!


Who doesn't like to sit on their brother in a car seat and watch tv?!


My cute Andrew. Loves to be silly and loves to play the guitar like his dad!


A little water and a comb can really make a difference :)


At the Young Women's broadcast with my fun young women! Look how young they all look :) (that includes us Lori, Angie and Jocelyn :)

Guitar, bass, drums, friends, microphone, candy, laughing, popcorn, cookies, singing, ice cream, phase 10....

All parts of a fun party! We had a last minute come play at our house party the other night. Of course, Rock Band was the main event! We have some pretty intense rockers in our neighborhood!


Myles jamming on the guitar while April serenades us and Derick tapping away on the drums! Shakierra had fun playing the guitar too.


Bet you didn't know how hard core Branden and Alex are! And that Brad, he is intense!


Jose showing Damion how to play. That little guy sang on the microphone all night long too!


Matt, Mr. One Man Band, was trying to sing and play the drums at the same time!





My little brother, Andy, came too. Ya, he has mad guitar playing and singing skills....


Me and Branden hanging out while Leisl, my new cute sister in law, shows us up on the guitar! It was a fun night! Thanks for coming over guys! We will definitely be doing this again, and soon! And if you want to come, you're invited! (As long as you bring a treat :)

Tomato anyone?

I should have known after I picked a bunch of tomatoes from our garden NOT to leave them out there for a little while. I came out later that evening and look what the kids had fun doing! At least they weren't all over each other, right? Well, the next day the neighbor girls came over to play and they all decided to have a tomato fight! I am so mad I didn't get any pictures of that! They were running around throwing them at each other! They were covered! The only rule, they had to clean up all the pieces out of the grass when they were done, which they did!





Brina, Katie, Andrew and Lizzie pre-tomato fight! They all seem to migrate to the smallest pool and neglect the sprinklers!

Ashley being cute in Andrew's sunglasses.

Once again, sorry for the underlining, don't know why it is doing that...

June, June, June...counting down the days to go to Alaska!

I know this was from before our trip this summer, but I am just getting around to posting these cute pictures!

I gave Ashley her first french braid! You can't really tell that is what it is, probably because I only had like 5 strands of hair to do it, but it was cute!

I love that Andrew still has such an imagination when he plays with his toys! It is hard to get mad at him or tell him to clean them up when he is playing so well by himself and not bugging Ashley!


And this is the story of my life....Ashley is happy, Andrew sees that and takes her toy...

Cousins Cousins Cousins

These kids are so cute. They love to play together! I watched Amy's kids the other night and we made birthday cards for a neighbor girl, made necklaces, and had a MASSIVE bubble bath!

Rocking Out!

A WHOLE BUNCH of random cute kid pictures!

Ashley's first ponytail (may want to click on picture to be able to see it!) Ashley hanging out on the couch with dad, Ashley with her Great Grandma and Andrew and Ashley playing on the floor.

Ashley with a messy face after eating cereal and sweet potatoes, playing on the floor again and Andrew being cute.

Andrew being cheesy and some real cute kids sitting on the couch.

Andrew covered in his Thomas stickers and playing in Uncle Ryan's work boots! (They are a size 13 so it was pretty funny watching Andrew try to walk in them!)

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