Zoo Trip!

Here we are at the zoo again, we bought a year pass so we might be posting zoo picutre alot. But here are a few pictures from the zoo. We went with a bunch of friends. Here is Jillian watching the Elephants do her tricks for all the kids.

This is all the kids, except for Annie, we had a big crew. We didnt loose anyone, except for maybe once but we found her fast enough.
Kelsie and her cousin Kendra watching the giraffes trying to reach the tree to eat.
This is the giraffe with his tounge stretched out almost got the tree. It was really funny to watch.
Annie and Jilly, hanging out in the stroller. Jillian was tired from running around.

This was fun to watch, the two black bears playing in their little water pool. They were splashing and playing with thier wood toy. It made me want to go swimming it looked refreshing. The other animals that were taking a swim when we were there were the Penguins, its not often that you actually see them in the water. It was a pretty nice day though it wasnt in the 100's, it was only in the 80's.

Swimming lessons

Not sure how well you can see these pictures, but this is Kelsie, Jillian and their cousin Devin taking swim lessons for the first time. They werent sure the first day, but now they are loving it. They just ended and want to go back. But we have to wait untill after our vacation to Seattle.
Devin giving the thumbs up, hanging on tight. Kelsie could actually touch.
Jillian with her teacher, kicking, kicking.
And Kelsie with her teacher, kicking

Finally!!

She finally took the binky. I know it is weird you think all babies like binkies. But Annie really could careless, even bottles but we are still working on that one. But I kinda spoke too soon, she still wont take it unless I hold it in her mouth. She really doesnt need it, just when she wont give up and fall asleep. Anyways I thought this was a peacefull picutre.

Letting Crackers Go

So I dont know if you have heard about Crackers. But he started out as a tadpole. Brandon and Kelsie went with Grandpa E to Mirror lake last year in June to go fishing. And Brandon has always wanted to bring a tadpole home and watch it turn into a frog. Well so he did probably because I wasnt there to say no. Anyways he had about 8 tadpoles and only one turned fully into a frog. So he has raised his frog. He would feed it flys that came in our house, he would catch ants, tried potato bugs. And also bought crickets to feed it. Well it live a year and was sick of trying to keep it alive. So he wanted to take it back up to Mirror lake where he was found to release him. So this is the pictures of the farewell to crackers. First one is of the girls holding him. I dont know if you can see him but he is in the blurry picture, with the one that I cut of Brandon and Annies head.


Then the three of them letting it go, at they sat there and watched it for a while. I thought it was a cute, but sad picutre.

Brandon wandering around the pond looking for other frogs, we could hear them but couldnt find them. He was looking for them to put crackers by them. He was worried it wouldnt be able to survive.

Quick camping trip

So we went camping a few weekends ago, just for the fun of it. It was only a one nighter but it was a lot of fun. We are just preparing for our family campout in August, oh yea and the ward campout at the end of July. My girls love to camp and fish, which is lucky for dad. We went up to the Uintas, up by Mirror Lake, and Trial lake and a few other little lakes. We actually fished at Trial lake, but camped lower because their was still some patches of snow up at Trial lake. It was perfect as far as warm at night and about 80s during the day. Anyways here are a few pictures.

The one above is of Jillian catching her fish with daddys pole, she thought it was funny trying to reel it in. She was bent down using all her strength she could.

This is Kelsie reeling in a fish also. I am not sure you can see it, but it was the biggest I think.
Cute picutre up by the ponds at Mirror Lake, the mosquitos were nasty so we didnt stay long. We were wanting to walk around the lake but wanted to get out of there as fast as we could.
Here is the Provo Falls, we have never stopped here, but it is on the way up to Mirror lake. We have been to Mirror Lake quite a bit but never stopped but it was fun and very pretty. It is a good stop to take a family picture but take someone to take the picutre. Obviously that is why we didnt have ours taken. But those of you going to ward campout you will be driving past this so stop and hike around a bit. It is really pretty.
Sitting by the campfire waiting for our boyscout dinners to cook. Jillians smile was like that the whole weekend. "Silly Jilly"

The girls love to play in the tent.
Getting the poles ready to fish.
Annies First camping trip, she loved being outdoors.

And this is Jillians dirty face. Those are oreos, luckily not dirt. But she did have her share of dirt all over her nice shirt and shorts. My fault for not changing her before we left. But look at those eyelashes they are so long and thick.

I figured it out!!!!

Hey thanks for offering to help me figure it out. But I found it!

All done!!!

Yea!!!! I am all caught up. I cant believe I did it!!! Hopefully I can keep updating in on a weekly maybe daily basis. But I was wondering for you fellow bloggers, I cant figure out how to put a title on it can someone help me? So instead of it saying the first sentence that I typed, I want it to say i.e., Bathtime, or Zoo Day!!! Any help?

Smiley Girl!!!

I have to tell you Annie is a smiley baby. My other two were also, but I love to see her smile and talking. It shows me she is healthy and happy. In this picutre she is talking and getting all excited because of her mobile. She loves that thing.
Here she is smiling at me, look at those big eyes. Isnt she adorable!!!
Sorry about the shot but I loved this picture she is so small to still fit in our bathroom sink. She loves bathtime. She is just chillin!!
Smiley girl again. She is very easy to get to smile. Unless she is hungry, but her happy time is right after she wakes up in the morning from a good nights rest. I have been very lucky to have kids that sleep through the night starting when they are two weeks old. But she has been the best by far. Last night she slept 12 hours. I was the one that couldnt sleep. I worry too much!! She is such a sweetie.

Zoo Day!!!

Zoo Day!!! We went to the zoo on one of Brandons days off that he took over the Memorial Holiday weekend. It was a perfect day to go, the weather was nice and it wasnt too busy. But this picture is in front of the new exibit the "Ghost of Bayou" the white aligator. It was pretty cool, we timed it just right we were able to walk right in. But when we came out there was a long line. So we lucked out.
In front of the famous Lion water fountain. Brandon said that everyone needs their picutre in the mouth. You can hardley see Kelsie but they liked it.
Jillian and Annie riding on the train. Dont they look like sister??
Here is Kelsie riding on the Train also, it looks like we were going fast.
Annie didnt like the speaker system, it was pretty loud and awful sounding. I will probably be posting alot of zoo pictures since we got a year pass. So we should be going a lot this summer.

Kelsie's Graduation

Kelsie's Graduation!!!!! I cant believe Kelsie is going to go to Kindergarten next school year. She is so excited to go. But she just had her Preschool graduation, and they did a great Job on their program. Kelsie kept telling me that they were practicing songs at school for the graduation but wouldnt ever sing them at home. So I guess she was leaving it for a surprise. This is Kelsie in her cute graduation cap!
Here is Kelsie with Ms Kaarina getting her Preschool Diploma, she obviously doesnt know how to shake someones hand and really didnt want to. But that is ok there were alot of parents there.
Here she is.... Kelsie and with her cap and Diploma, she passed Preschool, now lets see how good she does in Kindergarten.
Singing her song that they memorized. It is a book that they all had a part in. She did a good job!!

Jillian Turns 3

Happy Birthday Jillian!!! I cant believe that she is three. She thinks it is pretty cool. And as you can see we had a little Princess party with her cousins. She certainly loves princesses, and of course is one every once in a while.
These are all the princesses, Jillian, Emmalee, Kelsie and Kendra, with the cute Prince Spencer. We had to hurry and take the picutre before Spencer took off his cape, he didnt enjoy wearing it too much. But they all looked cute. There was one other Prince Devin but didnt want his picutre taken.
Jillian opening presants, she really didnt care what she got she just loved opening more presants.
And of course her Princess cake. The story behind this was for the past few months her and Kelsie have been talking about birthday cakes and birthday parties. And so she had it all planned out what kind of party and what was going to be on her cake. But the thing was she changed it daily. It was going to be a Princess party, but on her cake it was a different princes or item. i.e. she would say Belle cake, next it would be a care bear, next it would be Sleeping Bueaty, next it would be Mermaid (Ariel) next Snow White. So anyways she would change it everyday. So we decided we needed to find a cake with all the different princess on it. Well this was the best we could do. Disney doesnt really sell anything for the other Princesses, ie Jasmine, Mulan, Snow white. So we just got this from Harmons that had Ariel, Cinderella, Aurora, and Belle. She was pleased. She still talkes about " On my next Birthday I am going to have a ........ party. " She is silly.

Dance Recital

Kelsie's had her year end recital, she loved it and had a great time. She has been practicing hard and loves to share what she has learned. She was excited to see her Grandparents and cousins there.

Annie's Special Day!

This is Annies special day, she was blessed today by her daddy. Which he did a wonderful job. And we were happy that all those who could participate were able too. Especially my grandpa. Who is having a hard time getting around. It was wonderful to have him over.
Proud Grandpa, holding sleepy Annie.
Bueatiful Girl!!!

This is a generation picture, of my mom and her mom.

Time with Dad and Grandpa E

Planting the garden, Kelsie is planting the garden with her dad, and Brandons dad. She loved it. I am glad that she gets that from her dad. He is in charge of our garden which always turns out great.
Grandpa showing Kelsie how to do it!!!
Jillian on the other hand could care less, she just wanted to swing. And eat her bowl of marshmellos that are on the swing next to her.