flagstone dream...

It was a dream come true to see my little kiddos riding their bikes on the flagstone! ;)

Our house is on a somewhat busy road, not really "busy," just one way with no sidewalk. The kids riding in the driveway always makes me nervous. So I talked Beave into making this patio, I planned that it would be where the kids rode their bikes... it was almost the end of a very happy family... toddlers, crushed glass, and 2 summers... YUCK! But FINALLY it is done and they USED it!

Bubbles!

My kids are on a "NO BATH" kick, we have to talk them into it every time... then we talk them out of the tub too... silly sillies. After spending a day outside in the mud of spring we told Johnny he had to take a bath, he was shocked. "why mom, WHY?!"

Bubble Monster Kyla.

A B C

The Alphabet Wall.

It is FINALLY done! I have been working on this alphabet for months... Not that it took that much time to make the letters, just that I wanted each letter to be unique and with only 2 stores in Flagstaff which sold letters, I had to hunt around and then finally buy some online.

our littlest miss

Room for one more?

Room or not, there is one more making its way here... SHE will make her appearance the end of August. We are all super excited!

At the ultrasound Kyla kept saying, "Oh she is so cute!" Yes, ultrasounds are "cute."

Johnny said "Wahooo!!" Didn't know he cared...

Leo was concerned about what they were doing to his mommy.

Steve says, "Phew, now we don't have to move."

And I say, "YEA!! Bring on the girliness"

attempted easter pics

We tried to take some Easter pics this week... too bad Johnny's cold didn't cooperate, he was couching in half the pics and wiping his nose in the other half... We'll try again.

For the FIRST time EVER Leo decided to be stubborn about getting dressed, good thing he is still cute...

Kyla LOVED getting her hair curled. We need something a little stronger than steam rollers for her super straight hair though...

Here are the best of the bunch.

I LOVE my super adorable kids, once in awhile I can capture how beautiful they are.

General Conference

"Wow! That is a lot of prophets!" -Johnny

"That's the choir bud..." -Beave

Ky

She makes me smile...

Came downstairs with this fabulous outfit for the day and offered to help me mop the floor, what a sweetie!

Grand Falls with COUSINS!

We had an awesome visit from Liz and her kiddies, Bella and Keith. We spent a lot of time playing at home, the kids were so happy to just chill... we let them!

Friday we drove out to Grand Falls. It was SO WINDY, we about lost Leo...

Windy waterfall kids.

The chocolate falls.

It was windy enough for us to fly our kites this year... maybe a bit too windy... Our huge killer whale kite,"Chimone," was loving it though!

Kyla was so excited to FLY Barbie.

Bella and Keith, flying Barbie.

And Barbie goes down... the dollar kites couldn't take the wind. Thomas wasn't even in the air long enough to get his picture...

Team work... :)

Johnny dude.

Toothless, the real thing...

Well the tooth came out, actually Kyla pulled it out. She was complaining that it hurt and Steve told her the way to get it to stop was to pull it out. So she did... we were finishing up dinner and she went into the bathroom and came back one tooth down. She is SO excited to have this tooth, finally she put a real tooth under her pillow!

sweet!

While reading about the tree of life tonight Johnny asked

"Is the fruit from the tree of life as sweet as mommy's strawberry jam?"

We made strawberry freezer jam today, apparently it was sweet and Johnny loved it!

Too-fl-ess

Kyla's front two teeth are loose... like going to fall out at any minute loose. I thought I would bump up their Easter pics so I can get some more pictures before she has that very cute kinda awkward gappy smile. I haven't got them done yet and this morning Kyla told me she was SURE her teeth were coming out today. We had a few extra minutes before church so we snapped a few pictures.

The fabulous three! Kyla was making sure to show off her teeth...

More cuteness.

They are REALLY GOOD at the silly face pictures!

And finally the star of the day, beautiful girl! No teeth or eyes though...

There are her teeth and eyes... totally blown out by the flash... maybe photo shop can help out with that.

Johnny says toothless in three syllables with an f... too-fl-ess!

Miss Creative

The boys and I were outside vacuuming the car and miss Kyla was inside making us a surprise... "Banana Flower," YUM!

She is such a fun creative girl!

Sedona!

Or as our cousin, Ian, calls it... Donut! We headed down south for a little warm up last weekend with cousins. It was a BEAUTIFUL day!

Amy and Ian. Check out Ian's pants... high waters on backwards, showing off his mismatch socks... yea for independent kids who dress themselves! :)

(Recognize the pants Mindy?!)

A fellow hiker we met on the trail. No one screamed even though he went right through the middle of us, Johnny and the girls on one side the parents and little boys on the other...

Leo loves his POCKETS! I think he looks so cute hanging out with his hands in his pockets.

Kyla, Mom, Ellie and Leo soaking in the SUN!

Ready for Adventure!

Backpack, check. Boots, check. Jammies... check.

13

"These are 13 YUMMY!" -Johnny

I will take that, especially considering he loves Lightning and doggie 15. Made my day, and the time I spent making them worth it!

PROJECTS!!

We have been making projects around here, Ky is my best painter! She got a little out of control here... SO CUTE! :)

We made the St. P's day "lucky" sign.

And an art board for Kyla's room.

Thanks to the help of my good friend, Melissa, I made this sign...

It's space was empty for... a year and then the plain black board hung there for another half a year... I knew what I wanted but not how to do it, FINALLY got it made and on the wall.

(THANKS MEL!)

Steve's busy work

I guess we have had some time on our hands... Steve got bored enough to come up with a project of his own. He installed two lights over our bed, each on their own dimmer switch. Goodbye lamps! Now what is Leo going to pull off the night stand and try really hard to break?! Steve hasn't got to painting the wall yet, I guess I should give him a day or two... :)