SHE DID IT!!! YEA!!!

So on Saturday Mady had her final dance recital and she did AWESOME! After not dancing at ANY of her performances she did it all! There was even an entire gym full of people. She was so cute and we were so proud of her. It makes you feel all emotional over her progress. Adam even said, "I'm not going to lie. I was a little choked up afterwards when she ran up to me." She was also extremely excited to have everyone come see her. She told us afterwards, "Mom. My family come watch me dance!" So thanks to everyone who came!! It didn't go un-noticed. It was a long and fun day.

Mady had a dress rehearsal that morning and then that afternoon I took her to get her hair and nails done at the beauty college. She felt like a princess; which she is. :)



She looked so beautiful. We gave her a little shimmery blue eye shadow and some blush and sprayed her hair with glitter. She was adorable.



Daddy even brought her a rose, which she was so super excited about!
(And for those of you who can't tell, she's the second one in from the left)



I still can't believe how good she did. She didn't skip a beat. I think she decided she loved the attention and the clapping people did for her! :)

I'm just going to add on to this already long post. But last weekend was also my mom's 50th BIRTHDAY! Yea! We had so much fun. She had no idea what the plan was. We just drug her along. We went to Garcia's for dinner, where she got to wear the sombrero (sp?) and they sang to her. Hee hee! Then we went home and dropped my kids and Brigitte and Craig's kids with Adam's little sister and we all went bowling for a couple hours. It was way fun and I hope she had a great time too. I love you and Happy Birthday Mom!






And since Noah has been pretty well skipped over in this post, I will just include a cute picture of him. Usually he has both elbows behind is head though. He likes to get up at like 7:00 after Adam leaves and come climb in bed with me. And all this pic says to me is "like father, like son" This is exactly how Adam would sleep if I let him, but I don't appreciate the elbows in the head :) Noah's are just a little smaller. Lol

Adorable!! yep he is! It makes me want to kiss hims little cheeks!

When life gives you lemons....

MAKE LEMONADE!




So since we have all this crappy snow...we played in it! We got so much snow Monday night that there was several schools closed Tuesday morning. Why not one last snow day? The kids love it and have been sick so much this winter that we didn't go out very much. So we spent 1/2 an hour putting on all our snow clothes, and just a 1/2 hour playing before the kids wanted to go in and have "chocolate and marshmellows". It's funny how long it takes to get ready and how quickly they're done. Maybe as they get older it will last longer. We did get the sled out and Mady loved that, but Noah didn't want anything to do with it. Here's some pictures. They look cute all bundled up. I just want to squish Noah!




So it was fun while it lasted, but at this moment tonight, our yard is almost completely cleared. Idaho weather is crazy.

Another thing we did, I just gotta tell all the mommies out there...On Monday, Me and Brigitte took the kids and went to see "How To Train a Dragon". Such a cute movie! The kids loved it. Noah fell asleep though (it was nap time) so it's a good thing he was free! Lol, but it was an adorable movie. Long though, like 2 hrs. So we had some restless kids afterwards, so we went and got ice cream. It was tons of fun and Mady is still talking about the movie.

Happy, Happy, EASTER!

(WARNING: lots of pics :)
So we've been loving the clearing of the snow in our yard, the kids have loved playing on the trampoline and in the sand box while Adam would BBQ. Granted they still had to have warm coats, but it was progress! On Saturday we were suppose to have an Easter-egg hunt outside at my step-sisters church and we woke up to this....





It was pretty, but oh-so disappointing too. So the Easter-egg hunt was inside the church. It was fun and then we took the kids to McDonald's. That night Adam's sister Aubrey came and spent the night and helped me with the kids so I could cook and bake for Easter dinner at our house. She helped fill Easter eggs and then we all played the wii. It was fun. Easter morning the kids were so EXCITED about the Easter bunny coming.

Mady threw herself on the floor and screamed, "HUNGRY, HUNGRY HIPPOS!" It's so neat to see your kids get so excited.

Noah went straight for the baseball bat and ball. Of course.


Easter day was fun. We were going to go to Twin Falls to see Adam's mom but that didn't pan out so we had Easter at our house. Adam's Dad, Terri and the girls came over. So did my mom, John, Josh, my step-sister Brigitte, Craig and their kiddos and Adam's friend Scott came over too (his wife and adorable new baby girl haven't moved up from California yet, so he spent the day with us). It was fun. We had an Easter-egg hunt with the kids! They loved it of course.


We made 2 hams, Brigitte brought AMAZING home-made rolls and we had so much yummy food.



After we all picked our way-too-full selves up... Me and Brigitte colored Easter eggs with the kids.

We soon realized that 2 adults and 4 kids were going to be a MESS. So WE colored them and then let them paint and sticker them. That worked out tons better.

I also had to post a couple pictures of these bunnies that Brigitte got the kids. You put jelly beans in them, wind them up and then they walk and poop jelly beans! Ha ha! The kids loved it. They were a hit.


So we relaxed for awhile and everyone left but Craig and Brigitte, so we broke out the Wii and played some Guitar Hero. We made ham sandwiches and made the kids eat some fruit and corn dogs, since all they'd eaten most of the day was CANDY! Blah. It was fun. I'll tell you what, by the end of the day our kids were POOPED. Mady was out by 8:15. Brigitte said Kynden and Ashton were barely in jammies with teeth brushed before they were OUT. but overall it was such a fun day.
Mady and Kynden loved a chance at rockin' out to Guitar Hero! They were so cute.