Madisons last performance

Haileys hot outfit, backwards shirt nice 80's leggings, what a cutie!!
I guess that I thought you would like to see this one two times!!! WHoops

Well it was Madisons last performance this weekend. She is sad she wont do those same dances ever again. What a fun year we have had with dance, I dont know who likes it more her or me. (If you ask Rob he will tell you that I do) I have made such good friends, and had fun with friends I have been friends with for 10 plus years (I feel old now) Madison has had so much fun, she loves to dance and especially to perform.

The picture of Hailey is funny to me because she ALWAYS puts her clothes on backwards, so I decided to take a picture this time. She is a funny girl. I am sure one day she will hate these pictures of her with the most random clothes on, but what she wears is just not a battle that I chose to fight.

What would our husbands think?

So Me and Rob are the very best friends in the world and we tell each other everything, and we are maddddly in love. But I am wondering how many of us stay at home mothers let our kids do things that our husbands would not really love?

Check out the picture of Kaden and his little buddies playing with about 100 of Robs golf balls. I dont think that he would love this!!!

DISNEYLAND!!!

So we took the trip with everyone else in Utah to Disneyland with the three older kids. Thanks to the many volunteers to take Sadie, she stayed home with lots of love!!! We all missed her so much, but I have to say that we could not have done what we did with our super crawler.

We got in the car at 6am on Sunday and it was surprisingly pleasant until the last 2 hours. Hailey screamed and we pulled off every exit we could to gain our sanity.

We quickly forgot about that and had so so much fun in our hotel swimming and loving disneyland. I was in heaven watching our kids on the rides and loved watching madison and hailey dance for the whole crowd while waiting for shows or the parades. Madison got to practice cartwheels in the streets of disneyland. (They are a bit more scary for me to watch her whip out a good old cartwheel with hundreds of people trying to walk by) Any body that knows Madison will know that she whips cartwheels out in the mall, movies, home, wherever. I think her feet have sensors on them. She usually does not hit many things!!

This was our first trip we have ever taken our kids on with out friends or family. It was great to get to spend this special time with just us. I will treasure the memories forever. I think it is the happiest place on earth, I love walking through the Disneyland streets with the happy music playing and the smells of treats.

My Sleepy Baby

My tired little baby girl


Picnic Pajama friday night!!!!

I know we all have these pictures of our kids falling asleep wierd places, but these pictures are from the past 3 days. I think she must be tired from crawling around trying to keep up with her big sisters and brother. She is such a joy in my life.

I loved conference this weekend. I especially was touched with the talk from Elder Ballard about mothers in the Sunday Afternoon session. I think he wrote that talk for me. Here are some things that touched me about his talk.I loved that he talked to us young mothers with little children. When he says "its crucial to focus on our kids for the short span that we have them" Its crazy to think we only have them 1/4 of our lives. "Recongnize that the joy of motherhood comes in moments." I hope that I can remember this every day.

Dont overschedule your children. Does it count if we have bonding time where Madison takes dance in the hall? Water cannot be drawn from an empty well. I love this, I love that he suggests that mothers need to replenish themselves through dates and time away from the everyday things we do .Pray, Study and teack the Gospel. What a wonderful talk this was. I cant wait for them to print it so that I can read and re-read it often.

Madison Competition

Little America
Madisons Home made trophy

Madison did her trio on Saturday for a competition in SLC. I thought all the girls did so good. She tied with two of my best friends girls for 2nd place!!! I thought that was so fun to share that. however when I asked Madison how they did at the awards she just said "I heard them say "Who's got the pain" (the name of her dance) two times but I dont know what was going on." I never told her the placement I figured it doesnt matter as long as she had fun. She was a little disappointed that she did not get a trophy so I told her I would make one for her. Then we went to Little America for dinner. She got scrambled eggs and said they were the best ever. I took all the girls to the bathroom and they were in awwww over the gold tissue paper holders and crystal chandeliers in the potty stalls. I think sometimes we forget to look at the little things. I walked in the bathroom and honestly did not notice any of that, but I think that is how life is I think we go about our daily activities and forget the beauty and forget to appreciate all the wonderful people around us.

Easter

We had a nice easter. What a wonderful time to think about our Saviour. I am truly greatful for him and his sacrafice for me. I love the song I know my redeemer lives, I believe he lives and hears all my thoughts, wants and needs.

Before the earings

After the earings

Hailey Bug!!! She finally got earings!!! She has begged for them and we told her when she went potty we would get them for her. NO I am not that lucky, she is not potty trained but I decided to fulfill her list of things she has waited for (and things we have taken away from her) I am hoping that she will feel big and go potty now. We are saying good bye to diapers today and painting our fingernails (She has not had them done for almost 9 months) I am trying reverse Psychology. Hope it works!!!! By the way she only cried for about 2 minutes then she was having me be Bethany (her dance teacher) in the mall asking me to count 5678 so she could shake her bum with her new earings.