Kindergarten

Today my baby girl went to Kindergarten. There were no tears! Maybe I am a bad Mom for not crying. Kenzie was so excited. All morning she kept asking me, "is it time?"
Carson had to get in the picture with her. I got the one before with just her by pulling him out, he was about to fall over crying and then I let him back in and he was all smiles!
Ready to go!
Out in front of the school, she couldn't wait to get inside.
It all changed when we got in the school. She went from being all smiles and excited to shy and nervous.
Sitting at her table. How Cute!
She would not smile for the pictures anymore.
Coloring the fish. I heard one of the boys asking, why are we coloring fish, it made me laugh for some reason.
She kind of smiled with the picture with her teacher.
After school, everything was all better. She said they got to tour the school!
Matthew was excited for her to go to. Look he really does love her!

Star wisdom By Mckenzie

Mckenzie makes me laugh so hard sometimes. Last night we went outside and the moon looked so cool. She said "Mom look at the moon!" it was like a sliver and Venus was really bright above it. I said "Yeah, and look at the bright star by the moon, that is called Venus" She said, "What's a Venus" "It's a planet" "Oh.....Look mom! There's the Little Whopper!" I was laughing so hard I didn't want to correct her because she said it so innocently. "That's the Little DIPPER" "OOHHHHHH" Just wanted to share :)

Mckenzie's Birthday

So I am really late posting these but better late than never. This first picture was at a dinner with some family because at her party, I was alone with no other adults there and so I did not get the greatest pictures.
Here is a picture of the kids at the party. I decided that I was just going to let them play because it had been so cold and it was finally warm and we just got our Trampoline. I think they had fun being able to just do what they wanted.

I was trying to get everyone in there for a picture, but it was not working out for me.

Carson loves cake! Actually he loves anything sweet :)

Oh and we got our swing set too. It was a fun time getting those toys after getting a fence. My mom got the swing set for us for all the kids birthday's for the year, we just happened to set it up for Mckenzie's.

All the kids jumping on the tramp. I can't believe that Mckenzie is 5 and going to go to Kindergarten this year. It is crazy!

Coloring Eggs and a Hunt

Oh the adventure of coloring Easter eggs! So I was alone with 6 kids and dye and I didn't have time to clean up the house (sorry for the mess in the background! How embarrassing!) it was quite stressful letting the kids do this themselves while I sat back hoping no one would dye anything but the eggs. I had my 4 kids and my 2 nieces. But we did end up having fun and in the end there were no dying accidents :)

The funny thing about dying eggs is how 6 kids will all dye one egg the same color and then after they are dry, they will fight over whose blue egg is whose! THEY ARE ALL BLUE!

Carson wanted to do it by himself, but I was able to convince him to let Alyssa help him. I don't know what I was thinking putting him in a white shirt! I guess maybe because you can bleach it.

Matthew's pink egg, or maybe it's Mckenzie's, no Alyssa's, wait they all did pink eggs :)

I got the kit that has glitter with it. They are really pretty but very messy. And when you have a really bright egg it dulls it because you have to put it in glue stuff which kind of washes off the color so you don't get a bright sparkle egg :(

Mckenzie was very careful.

All done! Look how pretty!

All the kids after finding their Easter baskets.

Carson couldn't wait, he just dug right into the candy!

Happy to get pink.

I can't wait until she gets her braces off so she can show her pretty smile again.

Matthew my man!

Mckenzie & her cousin Colton

Carson scored on all the yummy finds!

I think she was a little nervous that she wouldn't find anything :)

Matthew on the hunt, bound and determined!

Not sure what to do next :)

My kids still out looking :)

Now she is happy!

How cute!

Candy mess all over his face!

Most of the Grand kids on Justin's side (missing 6) except Jen in the front is not a grand kid, she is a mom :)

Easter (clothes)

I LOVE getting the cute Easter clothes to wear to church on Easter Sunday. This year Easter fell on General Conference so we wore our Easter clothes a week early to church :) Alyssa looks oh so happy!
Mckenzie

Alyssa (still happy as a clown)

Matthew

Carson

Matthew and Carson ( Love this picture!)

Mckenzie and Alyssa (how cute!)

Thanks for looking at our fashion show:)

Alyssa's Birthday (3 months later)

Since I haven't updated for so long, I guess I need to start with where my pictures ended :) Alyssa turned 11 this year....11!!! Wow, I guess I can officially say, I'm old! I cannot believe she is almost in 6th grade. She is growing up so fast. So her thing this year, since before Christmas has been that she wants a cell phone. I was totally against it! She asked for one for Christmas and was so bummed when I told her not to count on it. So continuing on....Here she is with her friends getting ready to east ice cream cake. Instead of having cake and ice cream, she decided she wanted ice cream cake. Kill two birds with one stone right? She gets so embarrassed and covers her mouth like that whenever she does.

The girls thought it would be fun to shove the cake in their faces. But they didn't realize it would stain their face :)

Alyssa has been asking for a lava lamp too. Her friend Avery got her one! She was so happy. Ok for the next picture, remember the story at the beginning.........

I got her a cell phone! I am such a rock star mom!! I can't believe I did it still. And by the way, this picture is staged. She knew the day before that she was getting one :) (notice the stain on her nose from the frosting) She has been really good with the phone. It has been nice to be able to call her instead of walking down to her room :) j/k But really it has been nice to be able to get a hold of her after school and know where she is. She has been such a good helper for me. She helps me out all the time. I love this girl so much!!

Life's rough......

When you're a baby :)

I haven't posted anything for awhile because my computer wouldn't upload anything (and to be honest I haven't taken very many pics since Christmas, Cal me a Rock Star!) I will have new pictures soon with Alyssa's 11th birthday coming up!