Happy Mother's Day!

I imagine lots of the moms I know won't post today. Too busy. (Hopefully being pampered a bit.) But I love to blog and wanted to get these up today because this is what I did for Mother's Day. (Yesturday of course.)

Joel offered for us to go out to eat but I didn't want to leave the girls. Time away is great and often necesary for coming back and staying.
But I just felt that we should be together.
Not too far from our house they put up an outside carousel and it is beautiful. I've always been drawn to these and though it is getting expensive to ride them, we had the girls take a ride.

I think I should have gotten on too. Maybe next time.




Happy Mother's Day mom! Have fun in Utah.

Happy Mother's Day Lolly! We sure appreciate you.

Happy Mother's Day Mary! Thanks for all you do.

Happy Mother's Day C.C! Enjoy your day.

Keddi's Field Day

The kindergarten teachers were too lazy last year to do a Field Day (too bad for the kindergarteners.) I usually take pictures of field day in the girls kindergarten year but since I didn't have any of Keddi's I went to take some today!

We weren't there for all of the events and they had the kids rotating through activities for 1 1/2 hours! But here are some that we got to see her do.

They were put into teams and Keddi was with her friend McKenzie so both girls were happy. No one in the whole class seemed to be terribly competitive. I never once heard "we won" or anything.

Mission Call

A couple of years ago my mother decided she wanted to go on a mission. This year she got serious about it and last Friday she received a call to the Brisbane, Australia mission!

She is incredibly excited and Mardi is trying to figure out how to get to the Provo Mission Training Center around September or so in order to hide in mom's luggage!

This is a picture of Brisbane.She reports to the MTC at the begining of August if I remember correctly. So, it seems that she will begin fall and head out to Australia for their Spring/Summer. (However that works out there.) She will finish summer there before returning home and will be able to enjoy another summer when she gets home. We aren't sure what winters are like out there, but my mother hates being cold. So, only one winter in a year and a half sounds great to her!

Haircuts-II

My girls always think they want long hair. But after a certain length, they stop bothering with it beyond combing through it (if I catch them before they can get off to school) and putting it up in a clip or something.

But in my opinion, Tersa just looks too cute with shorter hair!! She got layers and......bangs! I know, I should have warned you. But Joel has never cared much for bangs until his oldest daughter walked in to show him her new "do" and he thinks it is very cute. Bangs and all.

Tersa isn't done yet because we just didn't have enough time that day for the highlights she bought with birthday money last fall. So, we will go back this week to finish her and get my hair cut!

Haircuts-part I

Usually, it's pretty in hot in Vegas by now. But this year has been cooler and we just got around to the first round of haircuts.
Shinara has only had trims because we were afraid we would end up cutting off the curls and they'd be gone for good. But when a child cries every morning for the 15 minutes it takes to comb through the knots in her hair and asks to get it cut, after five years, I guess you should conceed. (Try to convince Joel of that!) Anyway, she told Joel that she wanted it cut to her shoulder and he turned away and pretended to cry. (With some real tears mixed in I think.) Her eyes immediately welled up and she felt bad she had made her daddy sad!

After trying to convince her that Joel would be o.k. and that maybe we wouldn't cut that much off, we went with just to the middle of her shoulder blades. It doesn't look like much in these pictures, but it make a difference in grooming and that was really the point.