Easter

The kids before church on Easter Sunday.

Beautiful Blakey

Best of friends!

Dane learns to tie his shoes!!!

So I am working on scouting with Chance, when Dane says "Mom I want to learn to tie my shoe."
"ok" He sat down and within 20 minutes knew how. He was so excited he asked me to put it on our blog. Dane is six, but with 3 other kids I guess we forgot to show him how.. Congrats Dane!!!

Alexa's 12th Birthday

Alexa blowing out her candles.

Alexa with her friends at her party

On our way to the temple.

Alexa's friends decorate her room.

Grams takes Alexa shopping for her B-day!

Alexa turned 12 on April 16. Her friends surprised her and heart attacked her room and decorated her locker at school. In the afternoon we took her to the temple to do Baptisms. It was really awesome.

I can not believe she is twelve. It seems like yesterday we brought her home from the hospital to our one bedroom apt. Trace was in grad school and we had very little money, but we were so happy. That little girl brought a whole new outlook on life to her parents. She still brings us so much joy. Alexa is a great soccer player, an excellent student, and people just love to be around her. I always wanted a daughter ( maybe because I am so close to my sisters) and she is just a pleasure to be around. Happy Birthday Alexa!!! I love you!!!

And there goes March.......

Blakes first playdate with her friend Lila. They mostly just looked at each other and Blake was blown away that Lila could crawl.

Alexa and her friend created a website for a contest called "History Day". They won the first round and went to the district to be interviewed to see if they qualified to go to Sacramento to represent our state. They did not move on, but I am so proud of her!` After the day of interviewing we got to go and look at all the projects.. I was so impressed with these girls.. They did this all by themselves and the 7th grade teachers were asking them if they could teach a class on creating websites..

Alexa and her friend Vanessa, dressed up crazy for "crazy dress up day".

Chance and principal Mr. Young. Chance won an award at school for always being on task.

Chance, Dane, and Nathans clubhouse. The boys spent most of the time in March building Clubhouses in the back yard..

They are quite proud of the american flag displayed on their clubhouse.. Way to be patriotic boys!