Easter

To celebrate Easter this year we went to an Easter egg hunt that a local nursery put on with all of the cousins.  It was really fun for the girls. Ashlyn got a ton of eggs and ate even more candy.  

Love these little bunnies.  Ashlyn put her ears on herself.   Kendall learned how to put them on later that day and she looked like a real Easter bunny with her two new front teeth.  

Nothing more important in life than family.  I am so grateful everyday that the Lord has given me these people to go through life with.  I feel like the luckiest girl in the world to have a wonderful husband and two beautiful, spunky and sassy little angels.  Everything I love in life is because of Jesus Christ.  Because of Him, my family can be together forever, no matter what. 

Mike's Golden Birthday

Mike turned 28 on the 28th of March this year.  I told him we needed to do something big this year, because it was his Golden Birthday and he gave me a blank stare.  He had no idea what a Golden Birthday was. We usually keep things pretty low key for our birthdays: shopping, dinner and a movie.  A quality night, if you ask me, but this year we needed to have more of a memorable celebration. So for his birthday Mike went golfing, had to wait until the actual day of his birthday to open his gifts, and we invited a bunch of our friends to eat at Mt. Fuji with us.

 

From left to right: Logan Ward, Greg Swapp, Zach Almeida, Us, Sara Almeida, Darlene Swapp, Lexy Ward.  (Everyone but Zach went to BYU-I.  We forgive you, Zach.)

This was such a fun group.  We decided to have the girls on one side and the guys on the other for chatting purposes.  After dinner the girls hopped in one car and the guys in another and we classed it up at Dairy Queen for dessert.  I haven't laughed that much in a long time.  I would say the Golden Year Birthday night was a success.  

St. Patrick's Day

These girls are Irish so they just have to wear green on St. Patrick's Day.

Mike tells me I basically am a grown girl still enjoying dresses up her baby dolls.  I would have to agree with him.  Not many things I love more than dressing these girls up and taking their pictures.  

My heart just might burst. 

Kendall at 10 &11 Months

This is one happy baby.  She always has a wide, open mouth smile and has a very loud, happy yell.  We just laugh at her all the time.

What she is up to...

At 10 months she got four teeth. First the bottom two poked through and then the top two followed the next week.  

She is DONE with baby food! None of that mushed up stuff. She wants the real deal. 

She started crawling! She follows her big sis around everywhere and loves opening drawers and discovering their contents. 

She pulls up on everything.  We love going to get her in the morning because she always has a huge smile and is standing up waiting for us.  

Words: Momma (She crawls around saying momma all the time, and I love it.), Dadda, Siss, Jesus.

Ashlyn is 3!

We had a fun filled day to celebrate Ashlyn's 3rd birthday. First, we went to reading time at the library, then Chuck E. Cheese to play games and had a little party at our house with some friends and family. When I asked her what she wanted for her birthday she said, "I want a pink candle."  Easy enough! I put a "3" candle on her cupcake and we sang to her. She was thrilled.  She got a lot plenty "Frozen" items including an Elsa dress, jammies, wand, and Ana doll.   Ashlyn loved every minute of it and was exhausted by the end of the night.

Happy Birthday Ashlyn Jane! We love you soooooooo much!

Love,

Mom and Dad

Kendall is 8 months

My has the time flown by.

What she is up to...

Said her first word………"mama mama!"  I was so excited!   A few weeks later she said "dada dada" to Mike.

She loves breakfast which usually is oatmeal mixed with bananas or applesauce.

Rolling around the house. No crawling yet;-)

Makes a "goi goi goi" sound with her pacifier.  (Ashlyn did the same thing.  They get it from their daddy.

Wants to try whatever we are eating.

She is the sweetest, smiliest, cuddliest baby and we just eat her up.   We call her our "lap baby" because that is where she would prefer to be.

Nicknames: Kendall June Bug, June Bug, Junie, Squish, The Little One, This One, That One.

She is so fun and we are obsessed with her.

Just some cute pictures of the girls playing together.

Brooklyn Tripp and Ashlyn