Hope you had a great Easter!!!

Here are the dresses to which I'd added sleeves the day before (the sleeves were remnants of fabric from Lynn's temple dress... thanks mom for your guidance, I couldn't have done this without you).

Some pics of the girls after church... When we walked into Sacrament meeting they were just getting up to open the meeting and as we walked to the front (because that's where deaf people sit... and Matthew always helps interpret- I hate sitting up front) But anyway, as we went up you could hear little whispers and "ooohh's" from the congregation- I felt like a happy mama thinking, "Yeah!!! My girls are cute!!!" ... I mean, I always know they are... just some weeks I don't feel like we have our "A" game on... and a lot of days we don't, bad hair, dirty faces, rumbled clothes, dirty kid nails that need cut... you know how it goes...


Here is one that is out of order from earlier in the morning when they checked out their baskets...

We had 2 egg hunts. First was at our Aunt Julie and Uncle Jeremy's.... lot's more competition at that one...

Jocilyn is so funny, she always looks like she's afraid to get dirty...

This is out of order, but is from Saturday night when the cousins joined us to color eggs... it was fun.

A pic of Matthew and Travis while the rest of us colored eggs. I think it is funny how they sit the same... no wonder everyone thinks they're brothers...

A pic of Jocilyn and Kenna right after "finding" their baskets Easter morning (the bunny hides them at our house- I'd never heard of that until I got married...)

Hope you all had a very happy Easter, ours was filled with lots of family and good food. We were also blessed to have a great sacrament meeting that carried a strong spirit and the true meaning of Easter... I'm so thankful for our Savior and for his sacrifice for me, my family, and friends like you- We tried to keep turning the kids attention back to the real meaning- I hope we get more successful at helping them realize that as they grow.

We live in a sleeveless world...

So catching up the week...

We danced- with hair in our face, in the air, everywhere!!!

We were stuck by a train... which is better than being struck by a train... but it was 5 minutes I'll never get back....

The girls Easter dresses are finished. I bought them last year for Easter and then ended up using different dresses that were the ones they wore for Scott and Brittany's wedding. So the other day I was cleaning out the closet under the stairs and there was something with a Macy's bag over it, I'm thinking, "what the heck is this?" Last years dresses!!! So now they are this years- but they are sleeveless, so my brilliant mama helped me figure out how to add some. I figure this is a skill that I'll likely need later on because as the title says, "we live in a sleeveless world" and my kids aren't allowed- at least at church, and when they're bigger not at all if i can help it. Somehow it seems still okay when they're little, but the bigger they get the more un-okay it feels. Anyway, I'll post pics of the finished dresses tomorrow when they have 2 little beauties in them for church.

Ps... Never leave Easter basket/candy/ whatever shopping on the day before Easter... I swear it was worse than Christmas Eve...

A slip in time

Approx 2 weeks ago I was helping a very corpulent (I went to the thesaurus for that one) woman in the restroom at work. She decided it would be amusing to intermittently go dead weight on us- I found the entire situation lacking in amusement. Anyway- she is no longer a patient with me, and that is fine (the kidney gods smiled upon her and jump started the pair she was born with). However, she left me with something to remember her by.... it's a slipped disc. The doctor informed me that this is what happens to "thirty-somethings" with back strains. "What do you do now?" you ask? Nothing. I do nothing, except wait the 6-ish weeks it takes to mend itself. I do feel like it is ever improving, and for that I'm really thankful.

A different note: We've been braiding away here at home. My girls (especially Jocilyn) really want curly hair. Jocilyn's is very straight, like mine, where McKenna's has a little bit of soft curl. This morning when i was pulling some of Joc's braids back she said, "Mom, with my hair like this I look like an American-African." I thought that was pretty cute.



McKenna is into stealing my sparkling fruity water. She is determined to "try all the tastes." She is such a gurgle-gut.


Matthew is studying for the RID exam so that he can go back to being an interpreter (everyone say a little prayer or two).



At work we came up with a brilliant idea. We decided to do our own "March Madness." The first week we all wore crazy hats and/or crazy socks. I wore my graduation cap, others were: a sombrero, snow cap with built in earmuffs, jokers hat, bowlers, mad hatters hat- It was fun, but i didn't' have my new camera yet- so there weren't' any pics. This week is 50's/80's themed. It has been quite a flash back, my hair hasn't been this big in a really long time!!! Wednesday i actually did bangs- they were crazy, i had brushed them out and made a big poof by the time i took pics- it's been fun.


I can't figure out how to flip the image and have it save... so, like me- a couple of pictures are sideways! I bought those legwarmers this week!!! Can you believe that? The other girls are Christy and MaLain- Christy totally hit the 80's nail on the head!!! (she located her old crimper for pete's sake!) And MaLain went for the cute 50's in peddle pants- I love the people I work with... that makes having to work a lot easier.

I can fly!!!

The Kids are learning how to fly!!!

... jumping on the couch is against the rules... but do it again so i can get a picture for the blog!!!

Talent, talent, talent

Who else wishes there were other font options? ... just wondering.

So tonight we had a ward primary talent show. It was a success, in large part due to the seemingly endless cotton candy and popcorn... (ooohhh, i do NOT envy the clean up crew!) I didn't' think i was going to be able to attend because it started at 6:30 and that's when I leave work from across town (on a good day I'm out by then). Tonight though I had a patient who's treatment ends at 4:30 and his ride didn't even show up until 7!!! Lucky me, the nurse can't leave as long as there are patients in the building.... so i stocked my drawers with syringes, etc.

Part way home Matthew called and said that the girls weren't until the end and I could probably make it. So I went... and i made it in plenty of time! Jocilyn wanted to do sign language for her talent, Kenna got nervous and ended up pretty much just standing by her sister. Jocilyn would sign and Matthew would interpret. She did a great job- I was a proud mama.

This is a pic of Jocilyn with our neighbor, her friend, Ava. She reminds me SOOO much of Regan... I love it- she's so funny without even knowing it. Truly, truly blonde.

So, let's hope that this weekend is better than last. Last weekend Matthew had to leave town with Travis because they were "on the lamb..." okay, not really- but they did have to go to Portland and that left me to deal with one of his hunting dogs that had eaten a blanket (among other things) and caused herself a bowel obstruction! Bad doggy! I know there are folks out there who would pay for the surgery- but unfortunately they won't pay for our dog to have it. So she had to be put down- leaving Matthew's other hunter all alone for the first time in her life. We've had Birdie for about 3 years now. She came to us with her brother who has since been adopted out and that's when Matthew got Pepper (who lives in heaven now). They've always been outside dogs... until now. There are no immediate plans to add another dog into the mix, and we couldn't leave her out there lonely and confused- so inside she's come! And I must say, she has done fantastic! Not a single accident, she's learning the rules as we go, but she is calm for the most part and great with the kids. I was wishing I had a camera the other day when Tyler was playing with her- it was to cute.

On that note- I hope to get pictures next time as we are going camera shopping tomorrow. In the meantime, I took some tonight with my moms... enjoy!

Oh, the cat... like mountain lion cat, is from Matthew's cougar hunt last January- we just got the mount not to long ago- I think she's so pretty. Hope you all have a great weekend!