Monday, April 26, 2010

Eastering Saga

So Easter weekend was like 3 weekends rolled into one. Needless to say, we've been in recover mode for the last few weeks.

Thurs. morning we finally left for Kellan's Grandma's funeral 45 min late only to realize we had packed the roof bag for the van so full that we couldn't back out of the garage. So, unpack, reload, 15 more min late and we're on our way.

Meanwhile, Anne had been complaining about a stomach ache, which in my rush to get going I brushed off. You can see it coming, I know. About Ogden Anne errupted all over poor Sara, who looked at me like "what on earth did Anne just do to me?" Pull off, clean up, on our way again. Lovely puke smell.

Thankfully, they weren't in their church clothes yet, and its a good thing because Sara puked next with Anne's round 2 not far behind. No time to pull off, clean up as we're going. Luckily no cops noticed. Finally made it to the funeral. Quick baby wipe sponge baths and throw on the dresses.

Our plan was to continue to Cleveland after the funeral, but hung out at Gramma Mai's to let the girls rest, do some laundry, and try to get the van smelling sweeter.
Note: the only thing worse than a puke-smell-car is a puke-smell+febreeze-smell-car.

We did think about just going home, but the girls insisted they felt fine and they did seem to be over the puke part at least. So that evening we continued our journey.

Pleasant Grove, more puke. Sara again. By now it hardly phased us as we were experts at the puke clean up.
Make it to Gramma Evels and crash on the front room floor. Whew.

Next morning everyone felt great. So we joined my family out on the desert for a little thing we Carbon/Emery people like to call Eastering. Thankfully, my parents got a trailer this year. The highlight for the girls was sleeping there Friday night. Kellan and I went back into Cleveland with Truman and Libby for the night.

Sat. we went back out for Breakfast and the arrival of the Easter Bunny. Then, since the weather wasn't so grand, we headed back into Cleveland with everyone. The rest of Sat. and Sun. was pretty uneventful, thankfully. We relaxed, listened to conference (as much as possible with 4 little ones) and colored eggs. My brothers hid the girls eggs and they had a ball finding them. Finally Sun. night we made it home. Pretty crazy. It's been nice to just be home lately and thankfully the van has aired out a bit.

The Easter Bunny brought My-little-ponies and dum-dum suckers. He also brought loads of chocolate candy which my girls couldn't care less about. Which is too bad, because I had to eat it instead. Someday I'll remember when I'm at the store that all they want is a bag of suckers- someday.










Girls night deorating eggs durning Preisthood session. Good times!


Egg Hunt.




I couldn't help add one more of Truman. He's such a good baby. This is pretty much what he does all day inbetween naps and food. Sits and watches everyone come and go. He can roll. He just chooses not to most of the time.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Updates

Kellan-
Kellan's Birthday was awesome! His family came up the Saturday before and we went to a new place called Smokin' Blues for lunch and then to Caspar's for ice cream. Mmmmmmm. He turned 28! Which we decided sounds much closer to 30 than 27. The girls love B-days and had fun telling him Happy birthday every 5 min.


Truman-
Truman is very ticklish, and loves to smile and laugh especially at his sisters. Lately he has discovered his tongue and is constantly sticking it out. Also he has figured out how to roll from his stomach to back and is figuring out sitting up. Oh, and he hates eating from a spoon, he'd rather eat a bagillion bottles all day long. We're working on it though. At his 4 month appointment March 3 he weighed 15 lbs and was 24 in. long!



Libby-
Libby is finally starting to say a few words. She's especially good at body parts, no, baby, and mine. Although she doesn't say much, she manages to be the loudest of her siblings. She loves giving and getting kisses and is very much attached to a particular pile of stuffed animals and blankets. Also, she loves markers lately. They're good for drawing and eating. Also she can find and destroy pretty much anything that is off-limits, and has become an expert at taking off her diaper.


Sara-
Sara is the first to wake up every morning. She crawls into our bed every morning and says, "I hungy mommy." She LOVES playing with Anne, reading stories, and singing. She also loves to help Mom cooking. We're chef-girls together. She and Anne love, love, love art projects. I think go through about a ream of paper per day. Crayons, water-colors, markers, you name it they love making pictures. Also, she loves walks and riding her trike. She's been asking me everyday for 5 months if we can go for a walk or ride bikes. Hooray it's finally warm enough!

One of Sara's MANY drawings. She's getting really good at people and what she thinks is writing.


Anne-
Oh my Anne-girl! We went to Kindergarten registration last week! WHAT!?! I know. Crazy. I'm so excited for her, but so sad at the same time. I feel like its the beginning of the end. She is so ready though. She talks everyone's ear off where ever she goes and loves making Truman and all of us laugh. She's quite the little joke teller, especially knock-knock jokes.


Anne's art. She's pretty much amazing. She can also write all of our names.

A cowboy with sun and cactus


Cinderella's coach

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Truman's Blessing

We finally blessed Truman on Valentimes Day. It was so much fun to have everyone over. We feel so blessed that our kids have such amazing grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins!

Attempts at a quick family pic before Church which was at 9. It was a miracle we made it on time.

With Gramma Evel. Somehow we didn't get one with my Dad in.

With Great-Grandpa Gary and Great-Grandma Hazel(Back) and Papa Kirk and Gramma Mai

Our good friend Bekah. We love it when she comes!

Valentimes from Gramma Mai! She made the head band things, you can see Libby's really well. Soooo Cute!


Sugar Cookies that Aunt Jaecee made for dessert. The best sugar cookies in the Universe!

Somehow we all squished in. It was definately cozy!


The Birds. My mom's idea. Apparently getting a good family pic only getts harder the older your kids get.