Behind....

It was a great Mother's Day this year!  I always get spoiled and never lift a finger!  Thanks to my wonderful husband and chicklets.  I don't have many pictures of me and the kids because I'm usually the one behind the camera, but this is one request I demanded.  We had a smiley face and silly face picture.

Alex is a little shy when it comes to silly....

But not my Jakey.....he was born silly!!

I think Charlie's smile was by default.  She really was screaming.

Can't ask for perfection, but I love it anyways!

Alex had spirit week a few weeks ago and I got 3 pictures out of four.  First, crazy hair day. Second, sports day, which by the way GO SUNS!!!  Third was Hawaiin day, picture her in a pretty dress and some flowers around her neck.  Fourth was twin day in which her and her friend Bailey, who happened to have the same shirt, wore together.

Cameron and Jake went to the annual Father's and Son's campout.  Jake's favorite thing to do was to throw things in the fire. I'm guessing that's why mom's aren't invited.

Cameron said he couldn't wait to go to sleep!

He has alot of buddies in our ward, they apparently spent most of their time on these rocks.

Jake and his buddy Jack.

Dirt angel anyone?

Boys will be boys.....

My little Alex graduated from Kindergarten!!!  Where oh where does the time go.  I feel like I was just in the car bawling on my way home from taking her to her first day.  Thank goodness for her AWESOME teacher looping up with her next year.  No worries or stresses when school starts up again! 

They had a little program where the kids sang songs they learned throughout the year.  It was SO cute! 

Alex and Mrs. Connelly

Charlie enjoying the music!

Alex and Bailey are the greatest of friends!  I'm glad that they had eachother this year to fall back on.  Never a fight or quarrel with these two.  Alex is very excited to be in her class again for 1st grade.

Mister Jake had his last day of preschool, they had BLUE frosted cupcakes, can ya tell?  It took a good couple of hours for that stuff to fade away.  His graduation isn't until this coming week, stay tuned for photos.

APRIL

So our computer hasn't been working for awhile, so my posting has been lacking. Here is our month of April in a nut shell.

Cam turned the big 30!! Just the two of us went to The Melting Pot the night before, so Alex and Jake thought it would be fun to take him to a movie the next day on his birthday.  They saw How to Tame a Dragon and loved it!!  They also loved having some one on one with their dad.   

We had a yummy icecream cake with friends.

It was little miss Charlie's 1st birthday on the 26th. We had a huge BBQ the night before with lots of friends and sadly to say I was videoing the whole time and didn't get a single picture.  On Charlie's actual birthday Jake decided we should let Charlie try a hot dog and boy was that a good idea, she loved it!  We went to the park after Alex's school and I once again was videoing her, but I managed to take a couple of pictures of the older kids. 

We went to Red Robin for dinner because we thought she loved the fries, but all she wanted to do was chew on a lemon. Whatever the birthday girl wants right?

She really enjoyed opening her presents!! Jake hardly let her open any because he was just too excited to see what she got.

Her birthday cupcake wasn't a huge hit at the beginning, but once she poked at it.........

then tasted some frosting...........

and a little more frosting..........

she finally just shoved the whole thing in her mouth!!!! Too cute......

Some things Charlie has been doing in her first year......

Give kisses (pretty slobbery kisses)

Points and says "what's that?"

says "d"  (daddy)

LOVES to go and pick Alex up from school

Is a little fish.....sadly to say if she's not in the tub, she's in the toilet

Picky eater

Not much of a giggler but she does smile at everything

Started to walk the day before her birthday and hasn't crawled since

19 lbs 6 oz

26 in

Binky lover

Is CRAZY over her Sock Monkey

Here are some of the many faces of Chuck.....

She's a huge fan of the outdoors

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She found a pen the other day and discovered that she could write all over her legs.  Isn't that  the kind of trouble she's supposed to get into when she's older??

She thought it was pretty darn funny!

Jake has decided that he doesn't "need" naps but then somehow I find him either in the middle of the stairs or other random places like the closet or on the floor in our bedroom. 

Cousins....

These two are going to be the best of buddies!  Charlie thinks Millie is quite hilarious and vice versa.  I grew up with my cousins not really being cousins but siblings.  We had sleepovers every weekend, pageant parties, SLC shopping trips, ect.  My cousins are some of my favorite people still today and those memories we all shared are ones that will last a lifetime.  Even though these guys live far apart, I hope with everything that they still remain close.  And who knows maybe someday we will be next door neighbors. 

Growing up my mom used to make us four girls all matching dresses, especially Easter dresses.  While shopping, we couldn't resist these cute dresses for the girls.

Spring Break, Easter fun and Birthday!

The month of March went by SO fast, we hardly even knew it came and went.  For Spring Break we started off our vacation in Fresno with Cam's parents.  We park hopped alot and just relaxed.  Let me tell ya, it was MUCH needed relaxing for all of us.  I guess I was too busy relaxing to remember to take pictures, I managed to get this one before we left.  We love getting together with these two and can't wait until the next time. 

PS: Doesn't my mother in law look like she's still in her 20's?

The kids and I dropped off Dad at the airport and made our way to St. George to visit the other Grandparents.  Katie was in town from Iowa so with the babies in tow we headed up north to visit family and friends.  A big thanks to Grandpa and Grandma for watching the older kids!  Again, I forgot to take pictures of when we went up north.  I only got lucky that my sister was a good picture taker and have a few of the visit in St. George.  

Since Kate and Mill were in town we decided to stay for a few more days and enjoy the company.  

Charlie definitely enjoyed the family time!  

The kids talked Grandma into dyeing eggs and making an Easter House.

All I have to say about getting these three to take a picture in their Easter best is WOW!

Not one good one!  I am determined to take a redo someday.

Char is really 99% of the reason we don't get a good picture.  She will NOT look at the camera or hold still.  But still, she is the cutest baby around, looking or not!

This year we decided to go out to the Mesa Temple to the Easter Pageant they do every year.  We hadn't been in a couple of years and were SO glad we went.  Jake really understood the message it gave and because of a Sunday lesson and FHE he followed the story pretty intensely.  He knew exactly what was going to happen before it happened and kept yelling out "Look that's Jesus again!"

 We attended the Surprise "Eggstravaganza" again this year.  The kids enjoyed the jumpy slides while we waited for their age group egg hunt to begin. 

Charlie got a kick out of watching the kids run around like crazy picking up candy and eggs.

This would have been the cutest "sisters" picture, but look who's hideing again.  Why bother right?

The best picture of the day!!  ARRRRGGGGG MATEY..........

It was my 27th Birthday yesterday.  I recieved so many cute cards, gifts and yummy treats.  Cam gave me the best present which was coming home early and just hanging out with us!!  We don't get that often so for me it was a treat!  I got to volunteer at Alex's school Easter Egg Hunt, the kids made me a cake and gave me the second best gift which was the COMPLETE Serie of Seinfield!  WOAH!  It's my favorite time of the day, me and Cam laying in bed with our bowl of popcorn and laughing until our bellies hurt!  Gotta love Cramer!  

Cam the man took me to a nice dinner and then we met up with great friends for a local band concert.  Nothing like loud music that makes your insides shake!  It was a great day and I'm starting to feel like the years can now slow down a bit, I'm liking 27, I think it's a great place to be for awhile.    

Art Show and Green eggs and Ham....

A couple of weeks ago Alex handed me a piece of paper saying we were cordially invited to a Dysart Art Show Reception.  I was thinking this was going to be fun, the school is having a show to display some art from the kids, how awesome and cute is that right?  The day comes, Charlie isn't feeling well so Cam opted to stay home with Jake and her.  Alex and I got to the place and I was asking Alex what her picture looked like, she wasn't sure what was going on and mumbled something about Skippy John Jones.  We walked around for awhile enjoying it just being the two of us and I got thinking maybe we were just invited to a High School art display because nothing was looking familiar to Alex.  Then her crazy art teacher came up to us and gave Alex this fireman hat and sticker and asked if we had seen her picture yet.  She took us over to our schools display and I realized that her picture had been chosen to be displayed.  Come to find out it was a picture of "Skippy John Jones" a book they read often in class. Alex comes from quite a few family members who love to draw and paint.  She has an uncle who is pretty amazing at drawing, her great grandmother is a fabulous artist and paints canvas's, her grandmother is just plain disgusting and can draw or paint anything and everything and her mother, well her mother WISHES she could draw, that counts for something right :) ?  It was special to me to know that Alex may potentially grow up to love to do the things I loved to do as a kid.  I remember going through sketch pad after sketch pad, drawing anything that my mind would wonder upon, it was something I really enjoyed.  So for the Grandparents we have been bragging to about this, here is the awaiting picture!! 

It was Dr. Suess's birthday this last week and the kids learned all about him. Alex was super sad because the school was having green eggs and ham for breakfast and let's face it, I can barely get everyone up and going before school much less get her there for breakfast. So me being stupid enough to think that she would forget that I said maybe we could have it for dinner was cooking some booger looking, funky stuff for dinner that night. They LOVED it! They ate every bite! They are usually kindof picky about weird looking food but they ate it up!

This is Chalrie enjoying her first taste of black beans!! Yum yum!