Ode to Diet Coke

Oh how I love thee!!! But alas I must stop our love hate relationship. I am trying to be healthier. You cause me shortness of breath and major headaches when we are apart for long periods of time. Why o why do you stay in my thoughts and taste soooo good? I think it is definitely time for us to part. For now....

Mother's Day

I was treated like a queen by my kids and cute hubby. On Saturday we helped Grandma Betty plant our Mother's day gift. We bought some flowers for her garden. They turned out so pretty. Sunday was a crazy day, we went to church and Jim had a study group over. We then ate a yummy dinner at Grandma's house. But for lunch (during the study group) the kids and I went on a picnic. It was so fun to be with them. I was also fun to see how they acted while at the park. Some other smaller children joined my kiddos on the playground. Rylan and Dylan really impressed me with the kindness to the little kids. They got everyone to play hide tag. Savannah also made a friend. All of the kids made sure that each had equal turns. I am so proud of them.

Here is what I got for Mother's Day. Yes. I requested them. I want to start running. Maybe next year run in a half marathon or something. I will defiantly start small and see where it takes me.

Hello Governor

I love this picture of Dylan, it shows his personality. He is such a ham. Recently Dylan was elected class Governor. He was very excited about this. As Governor he is the line leader and helps teacher with different tasks. He told me that he might want to run for Class office someday. He said that sixth grade does that. We will see if that is in his future.

More Disneyland

Here are some more pictures of us in Disneyland. We had such a great time. It was a much needed family vacation. I love hanging out with my family. They are the best people in the whole world.

Savannah and I stood in line for almost 2 hours to see the princess. It ended up being worth it, but it wasn't fun. We rode all of the rides at least once in both parks. Savannah hated I mean hated the Tower of Terror. She still talks about how much she hates it. All of us loved Soarin' in California adventure. Our other favorite ride was Splash Mountain. One day we stayed at the park for 13 hours. I was so glad we didn't have really small children. I was sick of strollers by the time we went home. We also visited Downtown Disney. The boys were in hogs heaven at the Lego store. They had some really cool lego models. It was Awesome!!

We had a great time in Cali.

Balboa Island

We decided not to go to Disneyland only while in California. I wanted to take the kids to the beach and to see the ocean. Balboa Island is such a quaint little town. It has a fun boardwalk and cute little shops. It also had a Ferris wheel and carousel and a couple of video arcades. We had such a fun time there. The kids played on the beach and the playground. We ate lunch at BJ's pizza. One of the best pizza joints that I have been to. To get to the Island you have to ride a ferry. The kids were so excited to ride it. While on the ferry we saw a few sea lions. That was fun for the kids. It was such a nice break from the huge crowds at Disneyland. I think this was my favorite part of our trip.

The happiest place on earth....

We had three fun filled days in Disneyland.

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!