Friday, April 30, 2010

Happy Anniversary (#19)

Today Dave and I have been married for 19 years!

It was a week in April just like this year.
The week had been filled with very rainy days and we were afraid
that our wedding day would be the same.

But on April 30, 1991 the skies cleared
and it turned out to be a beautiful day!
Happy Anniversary Dave! I love you!!

Our first Christmas being married. I was 40 pounds thinner
and Dave had hair :)

Past Anniversary post HERE
and HERE

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

ODC Concert

I'm so excited for the ODC (Orem Dance Company)
concert! It's this Friday and Saturday at OHS!

I love watching Maddie dance ;)

Monday, April 26, 2010

Brave Talbie

Talbie has a beautiful singing voice and she's so brave
because she's always willing to sing in public!

Yesterday she sang a solo with our ward choir.
She sang the first verse of
"Teach Me To Walk in the Light"

It was so great! I'm so proud of you Talbie!
(I wanted to take her picture yesterday before church but I forgot so I caught her this morning!)

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Friend of the Week

Emmie was "Friend of the Week" this week in her 2nd grade class. It was the highlight of her entire year. She waited a long time for it to be her turn and she loved every minute of it!

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Prom 2010

Prom was yesterday and Maddie and Taylor had a great time.

This picture is taken as they were leaving for their
"day date"
They tye-dyed T-shirts and fed the ducks.


This is their group at Target. They met a new friend
here as they were buying shirts to tye-dye. She was the
"sample lady" and talked to them forever.

Here is Maddie before the dance.This was NOT the dress we bought in Vegas for prom.
This dress has a LONG history and has been well used :)

After thinking about it for a couple of days, and
finding out that her friend Maddie had bought a vintage prom dress
at Decades, Maddie decided to go the vintage route.

This dress was mine originally (and it was white), then it was my sister Brittany's dress.
Then the dress sat in my mom's "dress-up room" for years.
When Maddie turned 14, she died the dress black for Halloween
but it turned purple.

Talbie wore this dress to the New Moon movie premiere, and then Maddie
decided to wear it to Prom!

We did some altering to it because it was a straight dress. We made the bottom
have layers and some "puff"
I think it turned out cute!







Sunday, April 11, 2010

Sunday Dinner

Sunday dinner is a treat at our house because it's the one day during
the week that we can count on having everyone home at the same time for dinner
and I usually make a big spread.

I'm always amazed at how I can spend a day preparing the food but it can
be consumed in about 15 minutes flat!

This used to bother me greatly but lately I have really been looking forward to
Sunday dinner. I think it's because my kids are getting older and we find that around
our table on Sunday, we have some of our best discussions. It seems like all I have to
do is ask the kids what they talked about at Church and then we're knee deep
in a gospel discussion of some kind. It's so fun!

I also love Sunday dinner because I make the kids do the clean up!


Bronson said to me after I took this picture,
"Mom - DON'T BLOG THAT!"

I asked him what he meant by that and he said that everyone always
asks him about things I've put on the blog. Maybe it's because I
put pictures like this on my blog...
(his shirt was majorly stained from the red jello he ate so it was already in the laundry room!)

He really hates my blog :)

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Blogcation - Vegas

I've taken a little "blogcation" and havn't written much lately.
This week is Spring Break for my kids so Maddie and I
decided to leave town and Dave stayed behind to
entertain Talbie, Bronson, and Emmie for a few days.

We left last Sunday afternoon and drove to Vegas
with my parents. My dad works in Vegas during the week
and then returns home on the weekends.

This was a perfect time for Maddie to look for a prom dress
and I have a lot of relatives in Vegas that we went to visit.

My dad and Maddie as we were leaving town.

Maddie and I were really bad at taking pictures but we got a few.

This picture was taken on our last day. We stopped
by my dad's office to visit him.

It looks like my dad's working and showing Maddie
something important...


But actually she was making him read her blog!

Maddie and Grandma

Me and Maddie at my parents house in Vegas

Maddie on the plane ride home yesterday

Not a very exciting post as far as pictures go but we had the best time.
My parents were so gracious and we didn't have to pay for anything!
My kind of vacation :)

Thanks mom and dad!

Dying Easter Eggs

We couldn't miss the chance to dye Easter Eggs
this past weekend. We didn't do anything too exciting
other than the generic coloring packs and white crayon action.
We had fun anyway!