A face only a Mother could LOVE!

Greetings from Saudi.

Hi Guys!

Since Dale has been over in Saudi, he has worked to get his scuba diving certification.

They got to go to the Red Sea to certify. It is one of the top 5 places to scuba dive in the world.

I think he had a great time!






Some of the things Dale does in his free time...

Hangs out with his new found friends...

At the Camel Races!!!





He even sent me a few treats...Of course he sent me some diet coke, then some jam's, and these caramel waffle things, which are very good! I told him he is going to have send me more of those!

We are glad he is keeping busy with all his activities and new friends!

But we know he would much rather be home with us. We are getting closer, we are almost half way done, we are on month 5! Yay! And come June 17th-ish, he will be home for 3 weeks! Can't wait!

a few of our EASTER activities.

The kids both have a new set of wheels...







What a nice day we had today.

The kids got along so well, which isn't always the case around here!

I love General Conference weekend. It's always so nice to get spiritually rejuvenated!

We had beautiful weather, I opened the windows and enjoyed the spring breeze sweep through my home.

Hope this weather sticks around...I love it!!!

My Easter Bunnies.

Happy Easter!

Remembering Lilly.

It's April 1st today.

It was 6 years ago today my sweet little niece Lilly passed away.

My brother and sister-in-law always do something special to remember her on this day.

This year my Sister-in-law joined a contest here. It is a photographer that is photographing 30 strangers in 30 days. He picked 30 people out of over 500...

Guess what...he picked her and my niece (Lilly's older sister Autumn) to be the 1st to be photographed today!

What a fun opportunity for Jennifer and Autumn to be be photographed with Lilly's photo on this day. I can't wait to see it.

So be looking here for all the fun photographs!

We are thinking about Aaron and Jennifer today. It always brings tears to my eyes when I think of this trial they face each day, not having Lilly here on earth with them.

We love you guys and can't wait to see your pictures!!!

I can't believe he's 8!

But he is! Today is his birthday, but we celebrated with some friends Friday night.

I was crazy enough to think taking 7 boys to a movie was a great idea...

Thanks to my friend Sarah, she offered to come help (since she did the same thing a week before, so she knew it wasn't going to be an easy task to corral 7 boys!)

We went to see "How to train your Dragon" on opening night, so that too made it a little crazy...we managed though, and the boys loved it, and had a great time!

I still can't believe Taylor is 8, he is looking forward to becoming a boy scout and getting baptized. He has to wait for Dad to come home in June before he gets baptized, but he is OK with that, because it is important to him to have his Dad baptize him.




Little Miss helped me make the cupcakes for the party while Taylor was at school. She wanted "one of those things with the light on them that you can blow out" so she got one...she cracks me up!

We will share more of Taylor's birthday fun later...he is out riding his new electric scooter right now...sure hope I can get him in soon to get ready for church!

Happy Birthday Buddy!

Our Spring Break getaway.

We headed down to Houston for our 2nd annual spring break trip with our cousins!

It all started here...and obviously Taylor had a blast!

Maddie just hung around and watched the boys on the 4 wheelers...she was too afraid to get on and take a ride.

She enjoyed visiting with her cousin "Lollie"

Uncle Jared gave all the girls a little lesson on fishing.

Maddie got some one-on-one time too!

Taylor loved playing in the fire...it was making me so nervous! I kept having visions of someone getting burned with all the sticks those boys were playing with, I know I'm a nervous Mom!

I just loved this picture of Maddie laughing with her cousins.

Then the bonfire was lit...you can only imagine how high my blood pressure shot up when I saw Taylor with his big stick playing in the fire!

Maddie always has so much fun with her 5 cousins...it's a little girl's heaven going to my brother's house! I caught them playing "make-up" here...

She even got some hoop time!

...and some storytime! (if you know Maddie at all she loves books and is always "reading" them to whoever will listen)

We got rain one day, so the kids ended up doing a lot of this...(my brother has an awesome set up with the video games out in the workshop...genious!)

and this...

Thankfully the sun came out again and the games were on again!

We also took the kids swimming and Jennifer and I got some retail therapy with and WITHOUT children! We can't wait to see our cousins again this summer!

Maybe...

I will get around to blogging again...

Just not in the mood lately...

Just give me a another week or so, and hopefully I'll be back...

I will leave you with a little eye candy...

Maddie had to have this new swimming suit...Ok, maybe her Mom had to have her have it :)

I will have a lot to blog about after spring break...

Have a Great Week!!!

Oh, I almost forgot...you need to check out this give away my friends sister is doing on her blog...

some cute stuff ladies!
Check it out here.