Nora Kate

This is a great video my sister April took when she was in town I had completely forgotten about! She was pretending to sleep and it was so funny.If you listen closely you can hear her trying to snore! Enjoy!

IT'S A BOY!!!

For those of you whom I have Not talked to yet! I wanted to make the announcement that we ARE INDEED HAVING A BABY BOY!!! I am so excited, and now tearing through name books to decide what to name the little guy!!! I am looking at blue clothes and getting the nursery ready to paint!!! We sure love our little girls...but it's very fun to be seeing blue this time around!

Easter Weekend!

Easter Basket Excitement!
Maddie dipped her hand in the green dye and I thought she looked like Elphaba from Wicked!!!
Coloring Eggs!!
Easter Egg Hunt at Jim and Sue's.
Gorgeous Girls on Easter morning!
We had a really fun Easter weekend. We did everything from coloring eggs, to multiple Egg hunts, to having Family Home Evening lessons about what really happened on Easter! The kids learned a lot and had a lot of fun!!! We spent Easter Sunday at my sister Nikki's the kids enjoyed spending the time with their cousins. Here are a few photos from our fun weekend!!

Funny, Funny Girls!

I love my kids!!! Most days they are constantly making me laugh with the silly things they say or do!! There were two funny sayings this week that I wanted to get down before I forget!!

-One night at the dinner table I was getting frustrated with how wild the girls were acting! So I sat down and sarcastically said "I love my kids!!" Well Maddie, not catching the sarcasm said, "I love my Adults!!" I laughed so hard and it definitely lightened my mood!

-Monday night we were "trying" to have Family Home Evening. Maddie seems to be the only child thus far who will actually pay attention and listen. So we have been working hard especially on Ava-our wild child, to get her to settle down and pay attention a little bit! Art was teaching about prayer and he asked Ava "How do we start a prayer?" She yelled out "Jesus!" Then Art said "no that's not it" And she hollered out again, "Nephi" We all just busted up laughing! And I was actually pleased that although she didn't give the correct answer, I thought maybe she is learning a few things after all!

Too Much TV?

"UH Yego Mom" is what my 19 month old Nora greeted me with when I got her out of her crib this morning! Which translates to "Watch Diego, Mom" I had to laugh because Diego has become a favorite around our house...a little strange seeing as we have all girls...but they love it! But I thought gee... have we been watching to much TV when even little Nora is begging to watch first thing out of bed.
I will admit this pregnancy has been hard, more sickness then ever! That combined with this awful winter we have be stuck indoors a a lot and the kids have been watching too much TV!
Now that I am feeling better I am committing to seriously getting back to less TV. And I am anxiously looking forward to some good backyard time SOON..I hope!!
But I had to laugh at Nora this morning she is growing up too fast!

PS Does this picture bring back any memories nikki,april, mom?

A Wicked Good Weekend!!!!!!

I got the best Valentine present ever!! Art and I got to go see the Musical Wicked with Nikki and Dave! It would be an understatement to say that it was "Amazing" It helped that we had wonderful 7th row seats!!! Thank you April, and Andrew Madsen. Art and I both enjoyed it so much. We keep talking about it and listening to the soundtrack! We loved it so much that Art gave me permission to buy more tickets to see it again before it leaves town-as long as I buy less expensive seats then we had the first time!!! He's so nice!!! I told him I couldn't stop thinking about how much I loved the show...he loved it to so he said lets go again!! We probably really won't go again...this year anyway!! but I had to say how glad I was to be able to get to go!!! And no pictures because we got threatened before the show started that they would take our cameras if we had them out during the show. oh well!! I highly recommend this Show!

Big Daddy!!!!

As you can see by his pancakes, not much Art does is small!! And I need to say how much I have appreciated him these last couple of months. Art has literally taken care of everything the last 2 months...from cooking to cleaning to laundry and even standing near by with a glass of water while I am throwing up for the 5th time in a day!!! This pregnancy has been harder then the previous three and Art has been my hero!!! And I just wanted to thank him!!! The kids have enjoyed Dad's super-sized pancakes and he even made me a really yummy Pasta Salad on demand when I was "craving it!" We are four lucky girls to have Art around!!!