HAPPY BIRTHDAY DYLAN!!

Today was Dylan's birthday. But we celebrated it for three days. He first invited his cousin Dallin to sleepover. Dallin is always fun to have over. Such a great kid and cousin. Then on Sunday we had a family party. Grandma and Grandpa P came. And Grandma Phyllis and Joan stopped by. Dylan got some great gifts. Dylan was unlucky to go back on track on his birthday. YUCK! So I checked the kids out of school and we went to lunch. IT WAS YUMMY... he got a molten chocolate cake from Chilis. It was delish. We also went to gasoline ally and played a lot of arcade games. What a fun day for a fun kid.

So here are the top TEN for DYLAN...
1. Funny
2. Be imagination ever!!
3. Best smile
4. Shy
5. Very helpful
6. The most honest kid I have ever met!!!
7. A great friend.
8. Has the prettiest (or he would say Coolest MOM.) golden brown eyes ever.
9. Has a contagious laugh.
10. So lovable.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DYLAN! I love you sooooo much.

Happy Easter!

We really enjoyed Easter this year. Well for the most part we did. The kids all found their Easter baskets the Easter bunny left for them. Dylan complained that the Easter bunny always hides his basket up high. Savannah was pleased as punch to find her basket and that it was filled will all pink eggs and a new pink poodle beanie baby. We also told the kids that the Easter bunny had one more surprise. We are all going to Disneyland in two weeks. They were so excited.

We have early church that that meant getting up early and getting everyone ready to go. Normally this would be fine except for the fact I stayed up way too late the night before preparing my Easter lesson. It was combined YW and all of the advisor’s had to give the lesson. Well there are only three of us and at 8:00 I got a call from one of them telling me they were sick. Yippee skipee I got her part added to me....AHGGGG. It, I hope turned out all right. We did the last week of Christ's life. I had day 5 and 6. As you know this is the heaviest part of the lesson. Since my darling other advisor was ill I also did day 7 and 8. We really wanted the girls to have a good experience, so we got allot of props for our table. We had food. (Goat cheese, pita bread, olives, golden raisins and almonds.) In lieu of wine we gave them grape juice. It was fun to see them soak in the tastes and smells. I also brought a crown on thorns, linen cloth, wooden bowl and towel and myrrh. I picked up myrrh in Marrakech back in January. I knew I would need it for something. :-) I wanted to really badly show this and this
but I couldn't get a signal to my laptop. If you haven't seen it take few minutes and check it out. It's awesome. Any way the lesson turned out as good as it could have. Later in the day we enjoyed a yummy meal at my mom's house. The kids got to have a fun Easter egg hunt. We then went to Jim's sister's house and visited with his family that gathered to celebrate Easter. It was a fun day. HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Savannah's Twitterpaitted....

On Saturday Jim and I wanted to do something fun with the kids. We took them to see Monsters vs. Alien's. It was a cute show. Then we decided to go to the car show. Jim and I love old muscle cars. My fav is '69 Mustang GT or Shelby. Jim's is '69 Camero SS. Any how we were enjoying all of the cars and the announcer came over the PA system and said that "Rico from Hannah Montana" would be appearing in 15 minutes. Well Savannah went a little crazy. Mom, we HAVE to go and see Rico. I told her I didn't know which one he was. You should have seen the look she gave me. She even rolled her eyes. At that moment I knew I was "un-cool". I told her okay we will go and stand in line. I couldn't believe how long this line was. It was full of little girls. As we approached the table were "Rico" was signing Savannah waived me down to her level. She whispered in my ear that she didn't like Rico's new hair do. Apparently he cut it. It was finally Savannah's turn to get an autograph. "Rico" couldn't be nicer. He was very cute with Savannah. He told her she was very pretty. She turned red. I thought it was hilarious. She then proceeded to ask him why he cut his hair. He told her it was for a movie he was doing. She reply "oh". I then asked if I could take their picture. He let us. For the rest of the car show "Rico" is all Savannah talked about.

What do you want to be.......

It was spirit day at school. The kids were asked to dress up like what they would like to be when they grow up. Rylan ofcourse was an Airforce pilot. Dylan a rock star and Savannah a vet. Dylan always makes me laugh. He allowed me to do his hair "crazy" that day. Dylan told me that the crossing guard really like his outfit. When I think back to when I was their age I wanted to be a dance teacher. Well....that didn't happen. Maybe some day when I grow up....

Yum-O

Look at what I got at work today!! I have the sweetest, most loving, hotest hubby ever! He has been so stressed with school because of finals. I just love that he took the time to think of me and actually send me something and tell me how much he loves me. Honey your the BEST!!! I love you!!

Things are a changin'

A couple of days after Rylan turned 11 the hormones kicked in and he got his first ZIT!! Right smack on the tip of his little perfectly shaped nose. So now we are teaching him the fine art of popping zits. (Oh I hope that he gets Walker genes on this one and has nice zit free skin). In other news Savannah lost another tooth. This one is right next to the other, so she is toothless wonder in reverse. (two bottom teeth.) Ahhh the fun never ends with growing kiddos.

Happy Birthday RYLAN!

Time fly’s by and Rylan is now 11. I can hardly believe it. I took the day off work not only for Rylan's birthday but I had to go to school and do a walking parent/teacher conference with Savannah. I decided it would be fun to check the kids out of school and go to a birthday lunch. Rylan got to pick the restaurant. My parent joined us. We then asked Rylan what he wanted to do. He chose to go to a movie. We saw Hotel for Dogs. It was a fun movie for kids especially if they like dogs. We then had a yummy dinner selected by Rylan. Roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans and rolls. He got some great gifts from the family. His favorites remote controlled airplane, basketball and movie tickets. And of course MONEY!

For Rylan's 11th birthday here are Mom & Dad's top 11.
1. Super duper handsome
2. Smart
3. Athletic
4. Good example to his brother and sister.
5. Loyal friend
6. Funny
7. Good student
8. Reliable
9. Honest
10. Very affectionate
11. Coolest kid you'll ever met.

I love to see the temple!!

Saturday we went to the Draper temple open house. I was a fun experience to take the kids to. A couple of weeks before we went I told them about my visit/ tour of the Jordan River Temple when I was young. I talked about the feelings I had and the funny white booties we had to wear on our shoes. As we arrived at the temple the kids were asking a lot of question about the symbols. It fun to see the curiosity they had. Savannah told me that is where princesses get married. I told her yes that's right. The boys were really interested in the font. Rylan only has to wait one more year before he can get his recommend and go to the temple. I am so excited to take him.

editor's note: I copied this pix from Andee. Thanks sweetie!!