My little dancer.....

Malia took first attendant on her solo on Friday at the Utah Dance Fest in Logan! She did so good! If you want to see more pictures of her click here....MORE PICS She is such a little performer! She loves to be on that stage! We are so proud of you Malia! Way to go !!!

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Happy St. Patricks Day

I'm not usually in to this Holiday but my little Summer Lynn is so excited about it that I couldn't resist! She is just positive that this is the day that all the fairies come out to play with the leprechauns. She has been looking for them all day! Ember and Summer and Malia were very excited when Grandma called and said that the Leprechauns had come and left gold all over her house! ( rolos:) they ran over and collected candy! Here's some cute pics of two of my girls...Malia's will be posted soon:) I ran out of time!

Malia turned 7!

Malia informed me that I had forgotten to post her birthday. It was on Feb 26th. It's weird that I have a 7 year old but she is so adorable I love it! Her teeth are falling out all over the place ( that's another post:) and she is so independent! She told me for her birthday she wanted to have a regular ( as she says it ) party with streamers. No theme! This is a first for Malia! I Love watching you grow up Malia you are adorable!

ITS A GIRL !!

Please don't act shocked....apparently that is all we can make at our house:) We are very excited to welcome baby girl number 4 in to our family!!!! It's going to be a fun ride around here!

Much needed moment!

My little Summer who is four could see that I was stressed and exhausted the other day. She came up to me and said " Mom, the Holy Ghost is telling me something." I asked her what is it telling you Summer?? She looked at me and said " he's telling me that I need to tell you I LOVE YOU ! " I just about lost it! The funny thing is...that is exactly what I needed to hear at that moment. My kids never cease to amaze me. They are the sweetest:)

We made it !!!

We Made it! 5 exhausting days in Disneyland...some rain and some sun...we survived. Here are some highlights from this most exciting adventure.....I'm seriously ready for a vacation now.

My three little mermaids....they didn't care if it was raining or sunny they were in the pool...crazy kids!


Lovin Ember's face expression:)



If only it was as warm as it looks...don't let it fool you:)

You know that yummy store by Winnie the Pooh ride? Well, we let the kids pick out whatever treat they wanted and here are the results......
Kassidy picked a brownie that cost $3.00 and was totally stale. Malia picked a cupcake that cost $4.50 and she only ate half of it plus it left her tongue and lips all stained with red....
(see the picture), Summer chose a $4.00 carmel apple which she and her sisters took maybe three bites of and that was that, and Ember chose a $3.00 cupcake that she did not eat at all.
You do the math.....$15.00 bucks on junk food!!! EW!!! Good thing we dont do that everyday!



The new Toy Story Ride was so much fun we couldn't get enough. Probably the longest line we stood in the whole time which was about thirty minutes!!! Woo Hoo! Not sad about that!

Malia drinking Goofy water.........................



Pretty sure that water has something in it because she is a Goofy girl!


Cute Six year old....almost seven!


We were at the beach on Valentines day...we looked up and saw an airplane writing a love message to someone.....of course I had my camera with me because when do I not have my camera......and this was what it said.................


just in case you are wondering MIO means mine in spanish.....


Cute! I heart this idea.....
wonder how much some guy paid to have it done????

Malia's never ending desire to collect every possible broken shell on the beach and put in in my car...where are those shells now??? hmmmm.....its anyone's guess but most likely under the car seat...haha!

Jason playing in the pool with the kids...thats Malia flying through the air.

Kassidy......by the pool wishing it was at least 70 degrees outside!!


Ember Sky



Malia


Summer and her goggles...those things never leave her face!




Thats about how much of it she ate........



And the cupcake she never even touched:)It was just so cute on the shelf ya know?


There it is.......the red frosting cupcake she HAD to have!








This is about how Jason and I felt at the end of the 6 day adventure to Cali.....ha ha
if you have been there you know what I mean:)

Just in case you haven't had enough of our exciting adventure..here are a few more snap shots!!!

Yep...he's 32

Yesterday was Jason's Birthday. He really didn't want to make a big deal out of it. We went to Chili's for dinner and then came back to the house so the kids could blow out candles with him:) We went to Macey's to pick out a cake and of course he picked an adorable Mickey and Minnie one because he knew the kids would love it. That's just the kind of daddy he is! We love him! Happy Birthday Jason ( and daddy) you are so young and cute:) Love ya tons!


Jason and his cute smile...he was so proud of his cake:)



The girls got a kick out of it too....they thought it was too cool!


And they all helped blow out the candles!

$10.00 Fabric!

I was so excited because I came home with this cute $10.00 fabric off the remnant table....anyway I was going to use it for some indoor pics as a background but then, my husband was like lets recover those ugly black bar stools with it! I was like....you are a genius honey! Anyway, the black vinyl was ripping off of the bar stools anyway ( thanks to my kids ) so we recovered them and they look so cute! I don't have a before picture but here's the after pic....not bad I guess we can use them a little longer!!!

THERE IS GREAT CAUSE TO REJOICE!

MY AWESOME HUSBAND SURPRISED ME ON FRIDAY AND BROUGHT ME HOME THESE.............WOO HOO! THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY. OH AND THE SECOND PICTURE, NOTICE HOW THERE IS NO LAUNDRY PILED UP ON THE FLOOR? THAT'S BECAUSE IT IS FINALLY ALL DONE! I AM CAUGHT UP ON LAUNDRY! MY HUSBAND KNOWS HOW TO MAKE A PREGNANT WOMAN HAPPY:) LOVIN' THESE MACHINES THEY ROCK!


SEE? NO LAUNDRY ON THE FLOOR? ITS A MIRACLE OH AND IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING....I LOVE HAVING CARPET IN MY LAUNDRY ROOM:)

Catch Up Time

I am finally starting to see the Nausea from this pregnancy dwindle! Now I neeed to catch up on everything else in my life. Like editing Photo Shoots, House Cleaning, BLOGGING! ha ha so I am starting with Christmas because I have to have something on there from December 2008! Hey stop laughing I'm only a month behind!


As you could probably guess, Christmas eve is spent with Family doing lots of singing and eating:)

My Dad spends plenty of time at the piano singing his guts out, My kids LOVE to sing along with Grandpa....especially Malia.

We were so lucky to have Jason's Granparents visit for Christmas this year. NaNu and NaNa who are 100 percent Maltese and absolutely adorable came to visit! They love the kids and they have the cutest accents!

My cute husband singing........????? So cute!

All the Yummy food I could not eat because I was sooooooo sick this night...sugar was makingme ill......it looks good now though:)

The Chocolate Fountain!



Snacks For Santa....and I'm sure he LOVED them!

Christmas Morning with my three cutie Pies!

Summer and her Tinker Bell Land



Ember and her Fishing Game

Santa leaves candy everywhere at our house:)



New Christmas Jammies!

Malia loved this Hula Hoop...and she is good at it!

There you have it! In a nutshell anyway....I posted all the good stuff anyway.....sorry there are no pics of me laying around being completly miserable and sick....who wants to remember that part anyway right? Bring on 2009!