A VISIT FROM THE SMITH'S

We have been so blessed to be able to get to know and stay in contact with our dear friends the Smith family that we met in Vegas. It was so much fun to have them come and stay with us for the weekend! The kids were all in heaven to be able to play with their friends Elise, Ella, and Easton. Elise is Bryns favorite friend! They have so much fun playing together. Stocton absolutely loves Ella. He told Ella that he would be batman and she could be catwoman. Ella agreed as long as she could be a princess catwoman. Then Stock started to tell her that batman has to kiss catwoman. I can't believe he is already thinking about kissing and he was pretty smooth at the whole thing. Ella did deny him though because she told him that they were just friends and she has a boyfriend in Colorado where she lives.

STOCKTON TURNED 5!!!!

Stockton has been so into Star Wars this year since he has been playing lego star wars on the wii. So he was positive that he wanted to have a star wars party. The party was so much fun! My mom got all of us costumes at a costume store in draper that was closing down and had everything 75% off. Stockton was Obi one, Becks was Luke Skywaker, I was Padame, Maycee and Bryns were princess Lei, Marcus was Yoda and Cam was Darth Vader. The kids had to complete five different obstacles if they wanted to become true jedi's. Marcus(yoda) led them through the exercises and he of course played the part perfectly. It was so hiliarious how perfect he was. The kids were in awe. Then at the end Darth Vader came in and all of the kids had to fight Darth Vader as their final test. Then as they defeated Darth Vader my mom had made all of the kids vests and Yoda knighted them true Jedi's with their vests! It was such a blast! The kids loved it. I was told by several moms that their sons didn't take off the vests for days!! Boys are so much fun! I love being a mom to boys. The non-stop sword and light saber fighting is so hilarious!! I love you Stocky boy!!! You are such an amazing boy in every way and I am so blessed to be your mom!! I hope you had an amazing fifth birthday!! I forgot to mention that the top picture is Stockton's friend Simon who was terrified and didn't come out from under the table the whole party. I felt so bad!

MORE FUN IN ST. GEORGE

While we were in St. George we made the most of the beautiful weather! The kids had a blast swimming with Grandpa and their uncle Cam! Stockton got to go on a ride on the 4-wheeler with Grandpa. And we had another easter egg hunt for the kids at the park!!!

BRYN'S LOST HER FIRST TOOTH

Right before we went to St. George bryns lost her first tooth. She was so nervous that it was going to hurt to pull out. She let all of us take a turn pulling on it. But finally her aunt Heather was able to pull it out only because she told Bryns tha at she would give her some necklaces that she made if she let Heather pull out her tooth. Wait to go Heather!!! Bryns was so excited and her uncle Josh told her that for her first tooth the tooth fairy brings 5 dollars. I should have made him pay the 5 dollars. But bryns was thrilled and she swore that she saw a bright light enter her room(which was the tooth fairy and take her tooth). A few weeks later she had another tooth on the bottom barely haning there and she wouldn't let anyone touch her tooth and she kept checking it in the mirror every five minutes. while she was eating breakfast the tooth fell out and she swallowed it! She wrote the tooth fairy a note explaining that she had swallowed her tooth and the tooth fairy was understanding and still brought her 1 dollar under her pillow!!

EASTER 09!!!!

We had a great easter this year! We colored easter eggs at my moms and then we headed down to St. George to spend Easter in the sunshine! My dad hid the easter eggs and the kids found all of them except for one. We didn't find it until we were leaving several days later and it was starting to stink! We had a great easter at church and after church me and my mom took the kids to the temple. We got some darling shots of them at the temple in their Easter clothes!!

STOCKTON'S SPOTLIGHT

It was so much fun to go to Stockton's school when he was the spotlight. He was so adorable as he stood up there and told about his poster. Then all of the kids had several questions to ask him! He was so excited to show them his family, his bunny, pictures of trips to disneyland and sea world. Stockton has had such sweet teachers this year...Miss Karrie and Miss Kaylee who have been a blessing in his life! He has really enjoyed his pre-school and he especially has loved being with his buddy Simon. Several parents have told me how much their kids love Stock. All the girls want to be by him(because he is so cute) and all the boys want to play Star wars and swords with him. His two favorite things...girls and star wars! I love you Stockton and I am so proud of you! You are a good boy!!

BRYNLEE'S DANCE COMPETITION!!

Bryns had such a fun year at dance this year! She was a mini star and loved every second of it! She had such cute dances and competed at three competitions. Well actually she only ended up doing two competitions because she got pneumonia. She did a production number to cat in the hat, a mini star dance to hound dog and a duo with her friend Kwincee to shake it up! She has loved being on mini stars with her two best friends Kwincee and Madison! You are such a darling dancer bryns! It has been so much fun for me to watch you this year! I am excited for many more years to come!