2 Year Anniversary

today is the 2 year anniversary for the best and most important day i ever had. it was a windy and warm day that john and i were sealed in the mesa arizona temple and then sealed to our 2 beautifuls, mikenna and andon. it was an amazing experience and we had so much support from friends and family.

my sister laura and me outside the temple.

my long time friend stefany and me. we had lots of friends there to support us but i forgot to ask everyone to stay after for pictures so i didn't get many of my friends. 

me with my mom and all my aunts from out of town. my aunts are the coolest. they attend all important events and i love there support. it is so much fun to hang out with them too.

my sis laura, my mom, me and sis janell 

mikenna playing on the steps. her dress and purse are very special. my mom made them out of my wedding dress. 

mikenna- 3 1/2 years old and andon- 3 months old. 

me and john outside of the temple.

my eternal family. my life long dream and goal finally came true and it couldn't have been better. my life has definatly changed for the better since this day.

thank you to all those who have been a part in our lives through this wonderful experience, before, and after. 

Two "Hair"ibble Experiences

so in the last 4 days, i have had two first experiences that just come with having children. the first one happened on saturday night. the kids were in the bath and i was around doing stuff when i heard mikenna calling me and heard the words "mom, gum in hair. " i was scared to see what that was. i walked in the bathroom and this is what i saw...

 

my first reaction was go get the camera and take a picture. so i did and then i walked out to get the peanut butter and asked john "are you ready to shave your son's head?" the gum was pretty stuck in his hair.

peanut butter always did the job when i was little so that is what i used......

and it worked very well!

now on to last night. i went to dallas for the day with my mom and when i got home mikenna was watching tv in my room and she was in there for most of the night and i was out in the kitchen and family room doing stuff. well it was later after i got home and i found andon running around with the nail clippers; so i took them from him and went to put them away. i opened the drawer and saw this...

aawww i sceamed and was really flipping out. i yelled for mikenna and john to come in there and looked at her hair. this is what it looked like...

i was so not happy about what she had done. i asked her why she did that and she started crying saying she wanted her hair short.  john calmed me down because i was furious but we talked about it and i came to realize it was not that bad and it was definately fixable. it could have been a lot worse.

this morning i took her to get her haircut and this is what her hair looks like now....

it looks real cute... but i hope she learned her lesson.

On a happier note, on saturday we went to the animal museum. my grandma weaver has been visiting for the past two weeks and we decided to go here before she left.

my mom and grandma with all the kids.

me and my kiddos

laura and her 5 kids

mom, grandma, jordann, and my other sisters 2 boys

Walmart and Rain

walmart and rain do not mix. so here is how my day went. we had a couple of things to do today so the kids and i ate breakfast and headed out this morning. it was beautiful outside. we made a few quick stops, one of them was mikenna's school she'll be attending this fall and registration is next month. i can't believe my baby girl will be in school. anyway, next we went to get kelton's pictures done. he did so good and they turned out so cute. it's hard to choose when there are so many good ones. and i wanted to blog them but i have no way to. i was wondering how i could get them on the computer because i have seen other people put some on their blog. two hours later when i was on my way home i remembered that the lady asked me if i wanted the pictures emailed to me and i said no. duh, that's how i could have blogged them. oh well so you don't get to see them but they are cute.

okay back to the point of the story. our last stop was walmart. it was not raining when we went in but when we left it was pouring. i had no jackets or blankets to cover us, because i left them in the truck, three kids, and a cart load of groceries. i had no choice. we raced out in the rain and mikenna and i walked swiftly through inches of rain. our pants and shoes were soaked and all of our heads. i put the kids in the truck and loaded the wet groceries as fast as i could. when i got in the truck the kids were all laughing and thought it was cool that they got wet.  so i decided let's take pictures of our wet selves and blog about it. the pictures don't show the best wetness but we were wet and it was fun.

i know what you're thinking, why was this so great to blog about. well it's not but i haven't had many of these experiences in arizona with no rain and it's crazy how fast the weather changes here. plus, some kind of blog is better than none. 

Easter Fun

for easter we colored eggs and had an egg hunt at my mom and dad's house. it was fun and the kids had lots of fun.

get ready for the big hunt

this is what your basket looks like when you go to the store the day before easter. it has pink on it and it was 99 cents. and it broke after 2 minutes of finding eggs. oh well, at least he had something

grandma weaver is visiting and it was fun to have her here for easter. she likes to hold kelton a lot and he enjoys sitting on her lap and watching everyone else.

happy easter everyone!!!

Sams Club

well today was a crazy day. back in arizona i used to grocery shop every friday with my sister laura and my mom. we would go to costco and walmart and frys. well here there is no frys or costco but there is a sams club.  so today we attempted to shop all together again. BIG MISTAKE. the kids were out of school because it was good friday. so at sams club there were me and my 3 kids, laura and her 5 kids, my grandma, my mom and little sister jordann, and my other two nephews we were watching. this is how we went through the sams club. it was an hour and a half stop. i think we won't do this again.

Big Boy Kelton

kelton is a week away from turning 7 months and he is doing new things everyday. 

the other day i was in the kitchen talking on the phone and i turned around to see him standing up like this. i screamed because i was so shocked. i cant believe he pulled himself up already.  but then he started to wine because he couldn't get down.

one afternoon i went in to get kelton after he woke up from his nap and he was sitting up in his crib. he was so happy when he saw me come in. well then i ran to get my camera so i could get a picture and he started to cry because i left. `

later that day when he woke up i brought my camera with me so i could get a picture of him being happy when i came in and he was.

Mason's Finger

on wednesday night my nephew mason hurt his finger pretty bad and spent most of the night at the hospital. he is doing better now but wears a huge whale on his arm. i put these pictures on my blog for my sister laura. for those of you that know my sister or are just curious of what happened, you can go to her blog to get the full story. 

laura and mason

mason showing off his whale... i signed it

it is so big on him but he wears it well

still a happy boy