My baby girl is 3!!!

My Haleigh Ann turned three on the 14th, I just haven't had much bloggin' time... So, here are the pictures from her friend birthday party and that night we had my parent's over to celebrate as well. :) She is my princess forever and she has been such a joy in our family. I love the element of girly softness she brings amongst all the male hormones raging. I love my boys, but sometimes I could do without the tackling and fighting sounds their little guys make! LOL Anyways, here are a few Haleigh-isms for you to enjoy, being as this blog is for her!

*One day I was in the "flower beds" pulling weeds and Haleigh came out to "help" me... She got bored after just a few minutes and wanted me to play barbies instead, so she says to me, "Mom, give it a rest." (where does she get these things?)

*I had to do her hair for church one Sunday morning and she is usually tolerant of it, but this particular Sunday she had this melt down and she leaned her arm up against the mirror, layed her head on her arm and dramatically declared, "Mom, I just can't take it anymore!" (Still makes me chuckle)

*Just yesterday my boys wanted to take a shortcut and I told them no, but Haleigh said that I should, "Be brave and take the shortcut anyways."

I am actually diappointed at the fact that I haven't written down the funny things she says EVERY Day, because she always says things that crack me up, since they are something my boys, and/or, a teenager would say!

*I love you little Haleigh Ann*

Cub Scouts... "meow"

I have a new calling. As of a month ago, I am the Wolf Den 2 Leader. (We had to split the den cause it was getting too big) I have never been into scouts, obviously... I have never been one before. Having an 8 year old has thrown me into the opportunity to "get into it." So, I wanted to share some pictures from our most recent Pack meeting, where Tyler earned his Bobcat. Roger got to paint his face and afterwords they all put up a hand in a claw shape and say, "meow" since he is just a new cubby. ;) Wish me lots of luck and patience with this new experience!

Pony Express Days Parade?

Tyler liked the army guys and the guns.

Gabe just got some candy - Max just liked being outside.

Characters are always fun - Haleigh liked the bagpipers.

Tyler, "are we done yet?" - Hooray I got candy!

Cosmo showed up :) - Just hanging around

Max, just happy to be alive - Haleigh and Cadence spotting the parade coming our way, finally!

The question I am still asking myself... was it really worth the wait? For the kids, probably. For all the rest of us - nope. We waited for about 1 1/2 hours for the parade to reach us, then we watched for another 1 1/2, and it wasn't all that great. :( Maybe if we hadn't waited before it started it would've felt more worth it. I think I should put in a complaint. My kids were actually really good - considering. They did get candy, which is essentially what made it worth it for them. We had a couple of cool floats, and some characters, but nothing to get too excited about. However, when it was over Haleigh exclaimed, in her not so quiet voice, "Mom, that was the best parade ever!" This was her first parade, but she still thought it was the best. The boys weren't so exuberant. They were just happy they got something out of it. (candy, toothbrush, candy...) We sat by the Cannon and the Reyes families, so that totally made Haleigh's day, since she adores Cadence and Isabela. They were passing the time "whistling" and stepping into the street to see if it was coming yet - which you will see from the pictures. There was also a helicopter giving rides and the girls would all look up and point and my boys got annoyed by this after the third time of Haleigh saying, "There's another helicopter!" (she wouldn't listen to their pleas about the fact that is was indeed the SAME helicopter) Later that night we let the kids, "stay up" to watch fireworks. Unfortunately they didn't even start until after 11:00 and Haleigh was the only one half awake to see them. Even I dozed on and off. Ah well. If someone from the Pony Express Days committee is reading this, you may want to do some things differently next year. At least the kids don't mind the lameness, for now. :) At least I have my pictures and my memories. (even if some are of us all waiting, and waiting, and waiting)

A Rainy Memorial Weekend

Roger setting up the tent.

Shucking the corn for dinner. :)

Cutest baby ever!!!
The kids did their version of "Narnia" to pass the time. :)

So, I'm not going to pretend that I am not behind. I am just going to plow forward with May's events and hope to not get too behind in June's events during this process. I have some pics from Memorial weekend and our "attempted" camping trip... See, we went camping with my parent's and our friends (& family;) the Becksteads at my parent's stake property in Indianola... SOOO fabulous! Greatest campsite/facility ever and I was stoked since we were the only ones that were going to be there! We got there Friday night, set up camp and started some dinner. That was the night the rain started. It rained off and on through the next morning, then it pretty much never stopped after lunch on Saturday. At least it was endurable until the downpour. It rained, and rained and rained... ok so you get the picture. If you ask my husband he'll say that I am famous for being over-prepared. This time I was over-prepared for a summer camp - not a mid-fallish with rain camp. It got cold and wet and my kids were full of mud and everything was damp. Don't get me wrong, they were sad to leave even when they couldn't feel their fingers! :) It was a memory and we will probably try it again some time since the campsite had a sweet pavillion, a firepit and the best part - FLUSHING toilets!!! My parent's got some great "muddy pics" but my camera died in the morning.(Haleigh full on plowed into the mud - she has my grace you see) :( The saddest thing is that we had put tons of preparation into this camp. My mom had brought loads of great activities and fun things for the kids and we had sat down and planned out these yummy meals - which we were able to have a couple of at least. We were going to stay Friday through Monday and by Saturday night we knew we had to leave. (no dry clothes being the #1) One plus is that we did get to do s'mores on Friday night - YUMMY! That is the best part of camp. ;)

Slacker

So, I have decided blogging is just not what I do these days. My life is devoted to house and children and once in a while I get to the computer to check email and facebook. Rarely get to blogger. It is not that I don't want to... I just have too much to say and feel so behind that I get overwhelmed getting on. So, what I am saying is that I am not sure how much I will continue to blog, but I was never deep or intellectual about it anyways. It has always been for the benefit of posting and showing off pictures of my kids. So, maybe I'll get here once in a while. I just need to be more attentive to other things in my life right now. Here are some recent pics of the kids never before posted. Love you all!!!

Super cute Easter pics

Cutie pie Max looking like a big boy on his first Easter!

Haleigh running away from me as I am trying to get her wearing her gorgeous peach dress

Our family, looking all "peachy" - I know, what a sickening punn.

Our attempt at an outside photo - this isn't the best one, I actually meant to put the other one on, but oh well. It is a memory I suppose...

hope you had a happy Easter!

Absent

So, I have been gone from blogging for a month now. Time is valuable and I don't get to the blogging world like I used to. So, as you can imagine a lot goes on in a month, but I will do the "big mac recap" as best I can without getting too wordy. ;) I have chosen to blog about 2 things: Pre-Easter festivities and Easter Egg Hunt. Easter Sunday, and Max(FINALLY!) will have to wait. Mostly I will have pictures to view and little captions explaining them. So, hope you enjoy the things you've missed. :)

1) - We took a pre-Easter trip to Roger's parent's in St. George. It was nice and relaxing to do over conference weekend. Here are some picutres of the weekend we spent there.

First picture: Max playing with a slinky, he actually quite enjoyed it.

Haleigh eating a sucker next to the pinata Roger's Mom and I made for the kids :)

Gabe making gross noises into the walkietalkie that he and Tyler played with while we were there.

Tyler with the dogs, Abby and Martha. They loved each other! :)

Next, Easter Egg hunt... The Easter bunny comes on Saturday for our family;) We went to my parent's house in South Jordan, where the bunny left the kids' Easter "spoils." I say spoils because boy were they spoiled!!! (as you will see in the pictures) It was a little chilly but still fun!

Tyler got hooked up with the "blue" stuff this year!

Haleigh looked super cute in her dress and she got all the pink she could possibly want! :)

Max was happy just chewing on a toy still wrapped in a bag!

Gabe looking a little "green" after pounding down some candy right away.




I have decided the rest of the Easter pics will have to wait. I am out of time for today. So, the WAY cute ones are on the way, just gotta be patient with me. Happy belated Easter everyone!