Feeding the Ducks!!!

No need to feed the birds when we can feed ourselves!

The girls had to wear their dresses over their pants, oh and they are very huggy!

Near our house there are a few ponds where lots of ducks, Seagulls and geese live! Everyone enjoys going down to feed them, so conference weekend, we decided to try it out. Thaya had a blast, and so did our friends! We will definitely be doing this again!

Thaya's first friend trip!!!!

This was quite the experience for mommy! I took Thaya to the Dino museum, her favorite place in the world, and she wanted to take her friend Maddie. Thinking that some friends would be joining us, I agreed to take Maddie (who is 2 years old). Well imagine me, Thaya and her 2 year old friend waiting for our other friends to show. After 30 minutes of waiting, I realized that I was on my own. I proceeded to take the girls through the dino exhibits. Quite difficult when neither of the girls wanted to ride in the stroller, so I pushed the stroller and tried to keep the girls corraled. This was fun, let me assure you! Overall, Thaya had a great time and it was all worth it for her enjoyment!!!

So Close Jon Mclaughlin

I absolutely love this song from "Enchanted"!!

Our Easter...

Our Easter was probably the best easter we've ever had!! We woke up and Thaya was so excited that the Easter Bunny had brought her presents. She tore through them fast and loved every one! Then we had breakfast and off to church. Thaya hated nursery but other than that we had a good church experience. When we came home I put the lamb roast in the oven and at 3:30 our neighbors and friends from Sandy came down. The kids watched "He is risen" while the Daddy's hid the eggs. The kids ran like maniacs finding all the eggs and then at 4:30 we ate. After the food, we sat and chatted while the kids played. Then when the weather turned a little chilly we went inside and played games. I was surprised that everyone stayed so late, everyone left at 9:15pm. Which was a blast but we missed out on going to have dessert with our family, the Kelly's. We felt horrible that we not able to make it.
It has been along time since we had a dinner and games party at our house with friends and was a lot of fun. all our friends brought food and soda, and it makes it so easy that we all live on the same street because if anyone forgot something or needed something we just walked over to their houses to get it. We are really enjoying Utah and we are finally getting some great friendships made.

The Kitchen is almost done!!!

I had to throw in a picture of Thaya wearing my boots!! Too funny:)
Since quite a few of you have never seen our remodel I thought that I would show the almost done pics, please ignore the stenciling on the wall, that will be gone very soon!!! When school is finished, we are going to do the finishing touches on the kitchen and then start on the living room!!! I can not wait!! All should come and visit!

I swear, No more ER visits!!!!

I couldn't take a picture of her in the hospital bed, too sad!! Its hard to see the slice in her lip after the stitches but trust me it is not pretty!

It was too hard to take photos when it first happened so these are a few days later. And the swelling in both her cheek and lip has gone down significantly!
We got her a piggy bank painting kit to make her feel better when we were at border's, she is definitely a tough kid!!

Thaya fell at Border's books and hit her face on a plastic shelf!! We thought she was okay until the blood came out. She cut her cheek and split her lip on the outside and on the inside. She started to cheer up when the cafe inside gave her a cookie and ice cream. When we got home, an hour later, she was still bleeding. I didn't feel right not having a doctor look at it, so off we went to the ER. They said that since she split her lip on the lip line that she should get stitches to limit a scar. When they informed me that she had to be put to sleep to get it done I almost grabbed her and ran. Derrick asked the doctor what he would do if it was his kid, he said he would have it stitched. After many assurances that Thaya would be fine, they put her to sleep with a shot in her leg. They sewed her up and it took her an hour to wake up. It was very hard for Derrick and i to watch her that way but we know that it will be better than hoping it would heal well without stitches. I don't ever want that to happen again. I hated seeing my daughter lying there not moving. Needless to say Thaya is no longer allowed to move and if she does move, she must move slowly!!! Donna informed me (after watching her jump on and off the couch last night at the weekly Kelly family dinner) that this would not be the last of Thaya's visits to the ER! I wish that I could put my kid in a bubble!

Disneyland.....

Too many good pics, I had to put them!!!

Crazy Amy!

Katie is gonna kill me!




Naughty Donna!!!


Cielito Lindo





Matt and the girls!


Our family and the Seals

Sofie liked Tigger!




The Family at Disneyland!


Thaya and Matt playing Puppy!!!







Thaya and Matt!

Grandma, Papa and Charlie at the beach!

We went to Disneyland over the President's Day holiday and it was awesome!! Thanks to the Kelly family for doing everything to make the trip possible, to JP and Kristina for providing the place to stay (quite beautiful) and for Grandma and Papa Hicks for coming to have fun with all of us! The Kelly/Jack Clan went to San Diego on our way in so Katie could look at University of San Diego Law School and the rest of us went to Old town San Diego. It was so cute and had good mexican food! Then we went to La Jolla beach, saw seals and played by the water! Then off to the Hicks' home just outside L.A.!! We got up early and went to the Minnie Mouse and friend's breakfast. We enjoyed the rest of the day going on a lot of great rides and eating food! We wished we could have gone on more rides, there was so much we didn't see! Guess we will have to go again! on Sunday we went to a Beach in Santa Monica, CA and enjoyed a few hours of sun. Back to JP's and had a BBQ! We then begrudgingly woke up early and drove the 12 hours back to cold Springville/ Provo! At least the sun is out here too, it's just not 75 degrees! Thanks again to all those who made this a fun and very memorable trip!