Talent

I love seeing what people are talented in. Some have one or two things they are amazing at. Some excel in many things. Matt is one of those. Things come naturally to him. I love it! I tease him about it, but if anything I am jealous and in awe of what he can do. We had an amazing photo session with a lady who has a talent for photography. Check out her blog for proof! www.wish-photography.blogspot.com

Matt printed out pictures of the kids and wanted to draw them. It's been a few years since he has done any drawings, but look what he did! He drew this during Conference yesterday (which I loved listening to!). The boy has talent. This picture is of Oakley. He is going to do Taylor next, and then Parker. I wish I could draw half as good as he can:)

Better late than never- Seattle pics!!

We had the chance to go up with Matt and stay in Bellevue Washington while he was working on the Seattle Temple. Our hotel was about a half hour away from Seattle and had to be one of the the most beautiful drives I have ever been on!! Matt worked like crazy, I worked while up there, but the kids and I were able to play ALOT!! Matt was amazing during the weekend and drove us 4 hours, plus a car ferry ride across the waters to go to Forks!!! I loved it there and loved him for taking us! I really didn't want to push it since he had drove the whole way from Utah to Wa, but he said it was not biggie! What a guy:) We went to the aquarium, space needle, kids museum, music and sci-fi museum, and zoo. We also went to an amazing botanical garden that was right by our hotel. I really, really loved it up there. It didn't rain the whole time we were there which made for a fabulous trip! Here are some pics!

A little of this, a little of that....

Doesn't the summer just funk up our schedules? I haven't blogged much because who has the time? But I promise in the next few weeks there will be posts! We took a trip to Seattle with Matt which was AMAZING! I went to Forks!!!! I had a pretty sweet spiritual experience thanks to my friend Em. The kids start SCHOOL tomorrow~~!!! So peeps, chill for a few and then check out our new posts!! Love ya all!!

Flowers are a girls best friend!

This is why I love Matt!! Flowers and chocolate frogs for me, chocolate rice krispy treats for the kids.

Tooth Fairy

A few weeks ago Parker lost a tooth. Matt and I totally dropped the ball. I went to go open the doggie door, looked at Parker asleep on the couch and thought "AHHHH! Tooth Fairy!!" I ran in our room, grabbed a dollar, told Matt we had failed at parenting, and ran back to the T.V. room. There sat Parker awake. "Parker, here's a dollar. Can I have your tooth? Oh ya, Dad and I are the tooth fairy." He didn't look too surprised, took the dollar and turned on the T.V.

I didn't feel too bad. The kid is almost 10.

Fast forward to Monday night of this week. Parker looses a tooth that has a bracket from his braces on it. Looks pretty weird. Oakley starts jiggling her first loose tooth. Then she eats a apple, jiggles it for hours, and accidentally hits her mouth on the metal post from her bunk bed. Out comes that tooth.

Oakley is ecstatic! I give Parker the "Don't you dare spill any info" look and get the teeth ready for the night. Our neighbors were doing fireworks late, the girls were talking and giggling listening to them. Matt had left out of town that morning, so I am on my own to get this done. I wait a hour and a half. Kids asleep. I have nothing in my wallet but a debit card. Oakley would LOVE that!!

I go to the change jar and grab as many quarters as I can find. $1.00 for Parker, $1.50 for Oakley since it's her first tooth. Girls are asleep, I make the first drop. Parker is up listening to his new IPOD Touch, BUSTED!! "Go to bed. Shut it off. Here's you money, hand over the tooth:)"

Next morning-Oakley "Mommy! There is Tongan money in my bag!" Shut the door, window, and anything else!! Matt put some of his money from Tonga in our change jar, and it looks JUST LIKE A QUARTER!!! Busted!! Me- "The tooth fairy must have been doing Utah and Tonga!"

On my way to work I call Parker to remind him not to blow it to the girls. "Mom, they know it was you. They were fake sleeping."

Busted again!

Crafty girls

Life has been crazy busy and I am SO behind on my blog!! I need to get back to it, hopefully I will find the time soon.

One evening I was in a crafty mood, so the girls and I decided to make them new flower clips. One small batch turned into 40 flowers!! The girls did such a great job on matching up different flower petals. Later that night I made a new watch band too. I love getting to do projects with the girls!!

School's out for summer!!!!

School's out and the little's couldn't be any happier:) We had a great year, with amazing teachers!!

Oakley was able to go with the big kids this year for 1/2 a day and loved it! She had an amazing teacher who she loved! Oakley loved painting and coloring in her class. She is really excited to go to 1st grade all day next year, and be able to eat school lunch.

Taylor enjoyed daily journal writing and mastering the monkey bars:) She loved her teacher Mrs. Lawrence and looks forward to 3rd grade!

Parker had a great time in Mrs. Bell's class. He went on SO many awesome field trips this year. He is looking forward to his summer time with his friends. He will be in 5th grade next year!! AHHH!! One year away from 6th!!! (I didn't get any pics of him on the last day because he was all over the place:)

We love Hannah Holbrook!! Yay for summer and preparing for a new school year!