Yummy!!

Makenna helping me make Birthday cakes for Michael and Landon's b-days.

Some more pictures when we went to Depoe Bay, OR

We had alot of fun on the coast.

Madison feeding Ellie

This past July, Kristina, Newell, Jacob, and Ellie came up to our house to visit us. We had alot of fun, We got to watch Ellie when Kristina, Newell, and Jacob went up to Seattle to a Mariners and Red Sox game. It took Ellie a little while to get used to us, she is a super sweetie (I don't even think she ever cries) We loved watching her. Ellie wasn't quite sure about me feeding her tho', but she loved it when Madison fed her....So, here is a cute pic of Madison feeding Ellie some yogurt. Too cute....

Flower Girls

Madison and Makenna picked some flowers in the backyard and put them in their hair....then of course they wanted their picture taken.

Having fun on the coast.

Braxton and Landon playing at the beach. Depoe Bay, Oregon.

The boys are off camping for Father and sons and the girls are keeping cool.

Making puppy look pretty.

Madison and Makenna love to help give the dog a bath, blowdry, and brush puppy. We end up with alot of water all over the kitchen but it is still fun. Here are the girls blowdrying and brushing puppy.

Madison graduated from Kindergarten

Congrats Madison, you now are going to be in 1st grade.....:)

At the end of this past school year Landon and Madison picked out flowers and potted them to give to their teachers. The tag said "Thank you for helping me grow this year" they had fun giving them to their teachers and the teachers loved them.

Makenna wanted to make one too....

MMMMMM......Yummy Frosting

Makenna loves frosting...

Our Annual Trip to the Fireworks

Every year in June to start off the Rose Festival in Oregon they have a really fun Fireworks show on the waterfront in Portland. We have gone every year since we have lived here and we have alot of fun going. We get the glow in the dark stuff and the kids have a great time. One of the lightsticks cracked and my hand started glowing, Michael took it and put it on his pants and they glowed pretty crazy stuff...

Makenna had a long day...so she got a blanket and went to sleep on the chair. Her hair is slowly growing back after Madison cut it for her :)

We still have the bird, we are trying to get it to sit on our shoulders. He is fun to have around.

A new pet.

Today Michael and I were in the kitchen and we kept hearing a loud thump on the sliding glass door and the family room window, we couldn't figure out what it could be, we looked outside and saw that it was a pretty parakeet. I was worried about it and Michael told me that if he caught it we would have a new pet, because more than likely we wouldn't be able to find the parakeets owner. All of the kids were super excited to have a bird and Michael was telling them about his pretty bird ( that is what the kids have named it is pretty bird). Although, when Braxton came home from piano lessons he was concerned that we needed to go out and make fliers for "lost bird". If we see fliers about someones lost bird of course we will return it, but more than likely we may have a new pet. It seems like it is a pretty young bird. If it were a dog or cat we would do fliers or call the humane society and return it. I'm sure even if we end up returning it the kids would really like to go and buy one of our own. We are having a good time anyways taking care of it and the kids think it is really neat.

Madison cut Makenna's hair :(

2 Sundays ago after church, Michael was at the church for a meeting, I was resting upstairs because of a headache, the boys were doing their own thing. Madison and Makenna came upstairs to let me know that Madison had cut Makenna's hair and they needed help cleaning up all the hair :( at first I wasn't sure what she was talking about until I got a good look at what was left of Makennas bangs and the big chunk cut out of the back of her hair clear to the scalp. I still haven't really taken a close up picture of the new haircut that Madison gave Makenna, maybe I should and then I might be able to use it as blackmail when the girls get older :). Needless to say I wasn't very happy, ever since we took away Makenna's pacifier she twists and pulls out her hair, so her hair was already very thin. I tried to fix it but we will just have to wait for it to grow back, and then maybe we can look back on this with fond memories and laugh. Later in the week me and the girls went to a Primary Presidency meeting and we all shared stories about kids cutting their own or others hair. After Madison had heard all of the stories she said to me " Now are you more happy about me cutting Makenna's hair?" Hopefully Madison won't try to cut anymore hair.



Makenna loves to put on her dress up shoes and a dress and dance and sing around the house. Very cute.

HAPPY EASTER!!

Our little picasso's painting Easter eggs.

Happy Birthday Madison :)

This year we were in Utah for Madison's birthday, it was the Sunday of conference. Although, she was very excited to visit grandparents and see President Hinckley for her birthday, she thought that was pretty special. The Sunday of her birthday we were at Raelyn's house and Raelyn had made a cake for her which was really nice. We watched conference and the kids played. When we got back to the hotel, Michael took the kids swimming, they loved that. When we got back home we made Madison another cake so we could take some pictures. She liked having a week long birthday :).

The girls and I painting nails.

The girls and I decided it would be fun to paint fingernails and toenails. I have to admit they did pretty good putting polish on my toes. I gave them a light color, that way it wouldn't matter if they didn't stay on the nails :).