Friday, April 30, 2010

One nice weekend

A few weekends ago we were able to go up to Draper and spend the day with Stacy, Jaden and Kysa. It was actually a pretty nice weekend for the weather so it was great to be outside. We first went to the park and I took some family pictures of Stacy's family and then we had a picnic. After a fabulous lunch, we took the girls to play on the swings and the slides. They both loved the swings but the slides were really weird so they didn't enjoy those as much. After playing we went to Temple Square and walked around. We were going to go to the new church library but discovered it had closed at 2 and we got their around 3:30 so we just enjoyed walking around. It was really windy but it was still nice to be outside. Afterward we went back to Stacy's house and had a superb dinner together that we made together. It was such a fun day and so nice to enjoy the spring weather that only lasted a couple of days. Unfortunately we are now experiencing SNOW! Yuck!

Here are just a few of the cute pictures that I took of Stacy's little family:



At the park:




Stacy enjoying the swings too!




Jaron getting stuck on the very narrow slide, apparently it's not made for people with hip bones


The Rime Family

The Shaw Family

Alexis has been a little stinker when it comes to pictures lately so we haven't been very successful at getting any great ones. However I still wanted to post a few that we have!

She loves to pretend she is talking on my old cell phone

I have no idea why she looked like this after eating a strawberry but at least she enjoyed it

Watching Television and would not look at the camera

Refusing to look at the camera again, but at least her hair is cute

Ready for church

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

A New Hairdo

Stacy and I have been trying to experiment with Lexi's and Kysa's hair and luckily she found these great blogs that have tons of ideas. Many of them are very elaborate, time consuming, and require much more hair than our girls have. However with some creativity I think I captured one pretty well. I was pleased with it anyway. Let me know what you think!

Without a bow

With bow

Side view


Monday, April 12, 2010

A new bedroom and Easter

Two weeks ago, my mom came up for her Spring Break to hang out with Stacy's family and mine. She also came to help paint Lexi's new room and get it ready for her to move in. Saturday, the day my mom flew in, Stacy and her came down and painted the room with Jaron. I supervised of course but mainly just did my own thing since I'm not supposed to be around all the paint fumes. My mom came back down Monday from Draper to help finish it all. It turned out really cute even though we don't have a lot of decor up on the walls, but that will just have to come later. Thanks mom and Stace for all of your help!

The Friday before Easter we also did a little egg hunt for Lexi and Kysa. Unfortunately the weather was freezing cold and snowing so we did it indoors. Luckily Jaden's dad is a bishop and let us use the church to do the hunt. We just used the Relief Society room and the girls had such a blast. It was Lexi's first egg hunt and she loved gathering all of the eggs. The candy was just a bonus! Kysa just crawled around and gathered them but I think she liked it too. We all had such a good time with my mom visiting but we just wished she lived here so she wouldn't have to leave!

Alexis is growing up so fast. She says new and interesting phrases daily and Jaron and I both wonder where she comes up with it. She still loves to dance and sing songs and is slowly but surely learning more of her numbers and colors. Her favorite thing to do is to go outside and play on the slides so hopefully the weather will continue to get warm. She is finally staying in nursery by herself and Jaron and I were able to attend all of our meetings at church yesterday. Lexi makes me laugh daily and is especially very silly when Jaron gets home from work! Potty training is still a never ending battle but at least we haven't had any problems with her sleeping in her new bed. She usually asks to take a nap and will lay down without any problems. She loves her new bed even though she won't sleep under the covers or on a pillow. She just has her blanket and her froggie close by and goes right to sleep. I guess in that area we are very lucky, but the potty training is going to kill me!

Ready for church

Her new big girl bed


Her new room

Lexi and Grandma

Finding eggs



Kysa dumping out her eggs

Cute little Shaw family

Lexi being very stubborn and not wanting to take a picture

Going to church in her new dress

Ready to play outside