Room with a VIEW

Steve has been wanting to do this project for awhile and I have been putting him off because it was too cold to have a hole that big in our house... When we decided to stay home Easter weekend I knew I couldn't keep him from doing some project, three whole days at home and he gets anxious. This is the project he choose! I was gone a couple hours Friday morning and came home to a hole the size of a sliding glass door. Not too bad considering what was coming. He worked all day Friday and boarded up the hole that night, we woke up to snow on Saturday so the boards stayed up until noon on Monday. He took a half day and had some friends come over to help. And this is what the house looked like Monday afternoon. YEAH!



Johnny loved the construction, he played outside on the "gate board" all day Friday!



Johnny was a great helper, he wanted to do everything Steve was doing. I had to keep telling him to spit out the nails... what?! dad puts them in his mouth...



And this is what the house looked like Tuesday morning. It has been a week and a half and you can imagine, or maybe not, the changes that have taken place since then. I will share some more pictures when I find the camera and computer at the same time. We are living in a bit of chaos right now. It will be so nice when it is all done, just have to keep telling myself that... :)!!

Snowflake Temple

We took a trip to Snowflake, AZ last weekend to go to the temple. Steve went with the young men for baptisms, I did a session and the kids played at the church with friends from our ward. It was great! Snowflake is about 2 hours away so to leave them in Flag for a temple trip means 6+ hours of babysitting... This way it was only 2 hours, plus they got to go to the temple too. They were excited to see temple and loved looking at the waterfall and flowers. They thought it was cool to touch the temple, which I thought was sweet. It was a great day.

Easter Weekend

We had an eventful Easter weekend. We thought about going to Utah but decided 3 days was not long enough and the weather said snow for Utah... Then we thought about going to Phoenix but we wanted to go swimming and 70 degrees is too cold for unheated outdoor pools... So we decided to stay home. We had some great Easter surprises for the whole family. Starting with an Easter egg hunt, and by hunt I mean Steve and I helping the kids find the eggs which were all in plain sight... "Ky, why don't you look in the lamp, or the piano, or behind this cushion..."



Johnny and his Easter basket. The first couple eggs he found he just opened them and ate the treats, we finally convinced him to fill his bucket with eggs...



And then there was the surprise for Steve and I, SNOW!!! We got about 4 inches.



It was perfect snowman snow...



Our daffodils were trying so hard to bloom... they were still beautiful in the snow and survived it, they look great today!



The kids Easter basket/sand bucket were great for building a snow castle!



Just like our sand castles and Lego towers this lasted until the flag went in and then Johnny and Kyla started to kick it down. I think they build them just so they can destroy them. We had fun in the snow, it was an unexpected Easter treat. And we still got some swimming in at our INDOOR pool here in Flag.



By Sunday morning the snow was gone and it was a beautiful Easter Sunday!



Silly Johnny.



"HAPPY EASTER!!!" We tried really hard to get a cute family pic with the timer, this was the best, I should put up all the attempts, it was pretty funny. OK, it is funny now looking at all Ky's funny faces, not so funny at the time when all we were asking was for two kids to look at the camera at the same time and smile and couldn't get it to happen.

Happy Easter

We read a book about a girl who made paper flowers and Ky wanted to make some too. We improvised a little with the gold pipe cleaners... This will be our Easter bouquet, if it lasts... they are in danger of a different kind of wilt called Ky and John playing with them. Especially the two with a lady bug and bubble bee.



Coloring Easter eggs. Coloring not dying, Kyla didn't get that dying can also mean changing the color... I guess the whole family does that face on cue.



Ky in her "dance class clothes", I convinced her to put pants on for dinner... I remember wearing my blue leotard with the big block G on it all the time when I was little, it is fun to think of Kyla doing the same things I did.



Johnny only wanted one egg and one color... blue. He kept taking it out and putting it back in, by the end of the night it was cracked...



"Easer eggs!!" When we tell Johnny to say Happy Easter he says "easer eggs!"

"No, I Johnny!!"

Johnny is a month from 2 and is showing it. He is growing up so fast! He is at a really fun age, he makes us laugh all the time and surprises us with how much he knows. He can count to three, before he jumps off something way too high of course... He knows some colors, blue, green, orange, yellow, and "pink for Kyla!" One time when he said his name I teased him and said "no I'm Johnny." He thought that was hilarious, "You mommy, I Johnny!" Now he does it when we call him nicknames like buddy etc. "NO! I Johnny!" He loves trains, he asks Steve to "play trains" as soon as Steve is in the door, if that is shot down he goes for the second favorite, "daddy, kate board?" Beave had his skate board out on a warm day last week and Johnny fell in love! Johnny also loves backyardigans.... "Surf's Up" is his favorite right now. He does the "triple whip", a "rad move" from the movie... Ky and Johnny's version of it is a 180 to a 360 depending on how well they spin. Beave was trying to catch him doing the triple whip the other night, he got the wind up...



Johnny's awesome nap hair!! Sometimes I get it combed again after a nap but not this day... Also note the drool poised to drip off his chin... if I tell him he is drooling he will wipe his chin with the back of his hand, no idea where he picked that up, Beave says it is from the big sis. Probably that and a lot of other things!!



Handsome Johnny and the big sis. They still love to play together, yeah! When Beave or I reprimand Kyla, Johnny thinks he needs to join in on the lecture. "NO DO THAT KY-LA!"



Johnny does this face on cue for Beave.



I love to see the changes he makes everyday and all the new things he is learning. It is crazy to think he will be a big brother in a couple months, he prays for the new baby but I don't think he gets what "new baby" really means for his life... fun ahead!!