Sarah

Sarah is growing up and is so much fun!  She loves this purple dress.  She takes it out of her cubbies and brings it to me to wear in the mornings.  If you ask her about her dress, she smiles and points at it.

She is such a happy girl.

When she wakes up in the morning, she puts on all of the necklaces she can find.  Sarah doesn't get mad very often, but you can tell when she's mad because she takes off her necklaces and throws them on the floor.

She loves to color and draws on anything in sight.

She loves to dress up in anything she can find.

This morning, Austin dumped a bucket of dirt on her head.

She screamed for a while (notice the runny nose), but then she gave me a huge smile.  She had a great time taking a bath.

We are constantly smiling because of this little sweetheart.

June 2012

We celebrated the end of the school year with a trip to Jungle Jim's.

Sarah learned to walk on the last day she was 13 months.  She is so proud of herself for being a big girl.

Mary and Anna took swimming lessons for the first time this summer.  They loved it and were disappointed the lessons didn't last longer.

Austin decided he didn't want to take lessons this year.  He wanted to play with me and Sarah on the playground and take lessons next year, he said.  The last three days of lessons, the teacher had the kids jump off of the diving board.   Anna jumped the first time they went to the diving board and was very proud of herself.  She said, "It was scary, but I really wanted to jump.  Then when I jumped, it was fun!"  Mary got up the courage to jump on the last day of class.

On the ninth day of ten lessons, Bowie woke up and got his swimming suit on.  I reminded him that we were going to swimming lessons and that he and I were going to play on the playground with Sarah.  "No.  I'm going swimming today," he said.  "I'm going to jump off of the diving board, and my teacher is going to catch me."  I let him wear his swimming suit, but on the way to lessons, I reminded him that he wasn't in the class this year.  He continued to tell me that he was going swimming.

When class was almost over and the kids went to the diving board to jump, Bowie went to the diving board and got in line.  When everyone in the class had had a chance to jump (not everyone did that day), Mary told her teacher, Jenner, "Bowie wants to jump."  Jenner looked up and asked Bowie if he wanted to jump, then helped him do a sitting jump off of the board.  Bowie was so proud of himself, and so was I.  "I just jumped off of that diving board, and my teacher catched me!" he said.  "He didn't let me go under the water!"  Way to show some resolve, little buddy!

We had a new patio poured in our backyard!

Anna and Sarah at the castle slides:

Sarah and Austin and I had lots of fun hanging out during swimming lessons.

We finished off June with a camping trip to try out our "new" pop-up trailer!  I'll add pictures when I get them from David's phone.

May 2012

When Tyson and Milo came over to visit, the kids found a pet ladybug in the backyard.

Mary chilling on the "horsie."

Poor Austin seems to have caught every bug that's passed our way the last couple months.

But he bounces back quickly.  He and Sarah spend hours each day riding scooting toys.

We got to attend the Provo City Center Temple groundbreaking.  Mary and Anna were our photographers for the event.

I've never been in so many photos as I have since the girls started snapping shots.

We got to sit by Grandma and Grandpa!

Some shots by Anna:

 Grandpa's tie:

Grandma's shoe:

And a balloon that hovered overhead during the first part of the program:

We went to the copper mine later that day:

 We had a picnic after a joyschool field trip and invited Daddy to come since it was right by his work.

A trip to the "clock slides."

Anna's already graduating from joyschool?!  Where has the time gone?

And Mary performed in a play at school-- a French version of "Stone Soup."

She spoke her lines in French and added the carrots to the stone soup.

April 2012

Good morning! 

 The kids love to watch Sarah eat "like a fish."  She loves avocados!

Some art projects on display on the pantry door:

Mary has learned an amazing amount of French this year.

Our baby is already one!

When I was making Sarah's apple cake for her birthday, Mary wrote me this note:

Mary was very excited for Sarah to try a sucker and had saved one from her Valentine's Day party at school.  Here was Sarah's cake:

She loved it.

 

Look at this little beauty!  We can't believe we've already had her for a year.

The kids look forward to getting carrots from the Easter Bunny.  Sarah got rice puffs in her eggs this year.

Coloring eggs:

 We had a blast hunting for eggs with cousins.

 We took a trip to the aquarium with Anna's joyschool:

Sidewalk art:

My new little dishwasher:

We do a lot of coloring at our house.

David and Sarah took me on a date: