Updates

Well, I'm not very good at the blog thing. I don't update it enough. I was talking to my cute friend Joni last night and she was telling me that I really need to update my blog more. So, I'm going to try and better. I'm going to give a few updates of things that have been going on in my life.

About a month ago, Ivie and I cut our hair. Ivie wanted to take a picture and put it up on here. I kept forgetting, so here it is. I think she looks adorable, but now she looks a lot older :(.
















Last week, the girls and I went to see the new Hannah Montana movie. We had a blast. I love spending time with my sweet little chickies. The movie was darling.

Next came Easter. We had a party on Saturday night at our house with Trav's family. We had an Easter Egg hunt, ate dinner, and dyed eggs.

















On Easter, the kids had a blast. They got a TON of candy. The Easter bunny way over did it. They got some little toys like Kites, bubbles, water guns, and coloring books. Ivie got Roller Blades (which she has wanted for a while), Claire got Skates, and Bo got a T-Ball set. They looked so cute in their Sunday Easter Outfits. I tried to get good pictures but they wouldn't cooperate. So, here's what I did get. After Church they came home and played outside until it was time to go to Aunt Holly's for another Easter Egg hunt and dinner (thanks Holly)!










































On Sunday, my Dad is going to be released as the Stake President. I think it's bitter-sweet for my parents. My dad has served the Lord for many, many years now. I am so proud of him, he is such a great example to me. I am equally proud of my mom, who has supported him for so long. Being a Bishop's wife, I now know what she went through and I appreciate both of them even more. I love you both!

Being Spontaneous

So, my mom has been asking me over the last month and half if I could pull off another girls trip to Disneyland. I told her probably not. Then, I started thinking about it and really wanted too. Well, on Feb 28th, my mom and I took my sister, Jen, to lunch for her birthday. I asked her if she could before our Annual Passports expired on March 27th. She said there was no way she could. Then on Monday, when I got to work I had an e-mail from her asking me how much I thought we could do it for. For those of you who know my sister Jen, she is not this way at all. So, we all got excited, planned a trip and decided to go on Friday. We planned it Monday and left early Friday morning and got home late Saturday night. It was so fun. I love being with them so much. I hope we can do it a lot. I think it's important to spend time with your family as much as possible. I think we all needed it and had a BLAST! Of course, we didn't take pictures. We are never spontaneous like this, I think it was so worth it.

Also, I am going private. It's something I've been meaning to do for a few months but putting it off. If you want to continue to read my blog, please give me your e-mail address.

Claire's Special Day

Claire had her "Special Day" in preschool on Tuesday. Since she has a summer birthday, they do a special day for them during the year. She was so excited about it. She got a special hat, I made a poster of pictures of her to take, and she got to take a treat to share. It was so fun. I went and talked to the kids about the pictures. She was adorable and loved it. She also got to be in charge that day and didn't have to do any homework. I love her preschool and her teachers, it is great! Here cupcakes were so cute, but boy that frosting stains. "Sorry mom's!"







Later that day, She invited her friend Marlie Hall over to play. They had so much fun playing outside. Bo played with them too. He loves being out there and gets so mad when he had to come inside.

Ivie's First Valentine

So, the funniest thing happened yesterday. I went to pick the kids up from school (we do a car pool with the neighbors and I do pick-up duty). Ivie and her friend Gracie come running out with big smiles on their faces. Gracie says, "Sarah, Ivie's in love." Of course Ivie responds, "No I'm not Mom, this boy is in love with me." She proceeds to show me this darling card that this boy made her, plus a store bought card, and a cute little boy box of chocolates. I thought it was so sweet. We were laughing so hard. Then when we got in the car, Ivie starts to tell me that the previous day the same boy told her that he had $40 and that his mom said he could take her to dinner. He told her that she could choose whereever she wanted to go.

Anyway the whole thing made me laugh, it made my day. Ivie is such a sweet girl. I am so grateful for her, she a big helper. The only bad thing was that then she had to tell her dad about it and he did not like it at all!

New Years Resolutions

Okay, I'm never that good with New Year's Resolutions so I'm not really sure why I set them at all. However, this year I have two major goals that I'm trying to work on.

1. Cook more. We need to eat out less and save money. I really don't enjoy cooking for my family. It's such a pain. It seems like whatever I cook someone is NOT happy. I really feel for my mom. This makes it so hard to please everyone which is why we tend to just eat out (which is also why I look the way I do).

2. Food Storage. I decide that right now I'm really going to try for the 3-month storage. After I get that, then I'll keep adding for a year. I have quite a bit, but have a long way to go. Today, I'm buying wheat and water containers for storage. I'm going to try to do a little bit each week.

We'll see how it goes. I have so many more things I need to work on, but these are my top two for this year.