HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAMILLE!

Today is Camille's birthday. She has been my best friend since 7th grade! She is so much fun to be with and always makes me laugh. I hate to not see her very often because they live in Texas! But we still keep in touch and stay close. Hope you have a great day Camille!!




Haylee loves to have camille cut her hair!


This isn't a good picture of me, but camille always looks good!

Haylee's preschool graduation

Haylee's preschool graduation was so great. It was such a good program! Each child said what they wanted to be when they grew up and why. Haylee said, " When I grow up I want to be a mom because I can read books, give big hugs, and paint fingernails and my favorite thing to do is to go shopping!" It was sooo cute! She was so nervous. Anyone that knows Haylee know how shy she is, so I was afraid she wouldn't do it. When they handed her the microphone, I got tears in my eyes and I was so nervous for her, then I was SO PROUD! She talked clearly and loud. It was perfect. They sang a couple of songs and then said a poem together. They had a slideshow of things that happened throughout the year. It was so cute. I had tears in my eyes then too! I don't know why I was so emotional. I just can't believe my oldest is about to go to kindergarten. The program was great. I love her teacher. She had made some great friends and had two of her boy Layton cousins in the class. My good friend came to the graduation and brought her 18 year old son to it too. Haylee has the biggest crush on him. She calls him her boyfriend. He brought her a big boquet of flowers. (He is so nice to her, not your typical 18 year old boy!) She felt pretty special. It was such a fun day. Haylee did a great job. I was so proud!

I got tagged!

I got tagged... if you read this you have been tagged too.....you are now officially tagged by ME! You are now supposed to post 7 unusual things about yourself.... here are mine!

1) I can not park in just any parking spot. I have to drive around forever until I find a good one! It drives Wayne crazy!

2) I can not stand hair on the floor. Everytime hair falls out of my head, or when I am doing my hair in the morning, I have to throw loose hair in the garbage.... (I sound a little obsessive!! :)

3) I love to work as a family (I didn't always love it growing up, but now I miss those times!). One of my favorite times recently was in the fall, with leaves that needed raked, and Wayne and I raked and the girls were throwing the leaves in the trash and jumping in them. It was so fun. There is nothing better than a Saturday afternoon sitting outside watching the kids play on a newly mowed lawn, with all our work done for the day!

4) I love hotels. I don't care if we are down the road, or in another country! I just think it is so fun to be somewhere different and not have to clean up after yourselves! (I have rubbed off on my girls, because they love hotels too!)

5) My favorite people in the world to be with are my family... inlaws or mine. I have been so blessed to be married in to such a great family and to be raised in a great one too. I love to eat, go on vacation, play games, or just sit around and talk with family. Of couse Wayne and my girls are my favorite people to be with!!

6) I love to be a hostess! I love to have people over for fun, games, food, or whatever. I don't do it as much as I should with friends, but I do love it. I have a member of my family at my house at least once a week to stay the night or eat dinner! I love it...

7) I love crafts. I love scrapbooking, tole painting, vinyl lettering... anything. It is so fun to start from sratch and then see what you can come up with. I'm not super creative, but I can copy anything!

Well those are my random thoughts... now it is your turn!

Puppy Love

I am not a huge chihuahua lover, but my mom
and dad gave us a male and female for free, so
we took them. We have had them for about 2 years,
and we love them now, especially the puppies.
The female just had her third litter of puppies...
They are soooo cute! (she had 2 males this time.)
We keep each litter until they are about 8
weeks and then we sell them. It is sad when we
sell each litter, because we get attached! These are some
cute pictures of my girls and the puppies....
They are ready to be sold... if you
know anyone who wants one!! :)

Maci and the puppy are close to the same size! :)

Powdered donuts are the best!

This is where they always sleep! They are so cute!

Got to give credit where credit is due...

Mother's day was so great! I have the best hubby and kids in the whole world. The day started out with me being able to sleep in. Then Wayne and the girls fixed waffles for me. The girls gave me a cute painted block?! and a card... so cute! We went to church and then came home and Wayne made lunch and did the dishes! He wrote me the sweetest card and told me that he would "happily" take me shopping!! WOW! That is a treat! We went to a friend's house for dinner. Her husband made us dinner and she gave me an adorable watch and some chocolate. Then we went to Wayne mom's house for more food and fun! It was so fun to be with family. My day ended with a massage from Wayne. He is the greatest. I had a fabulous day. I have the 2 best moms in the world! and I am so blessed to be a mom of the cutest girls ever!

$5 SHIRTS

I just got an email telling me about a website with $5 shirts. The site is http://belleclothing.com/ I looked and they are super cute. They look a lot like shade, or mod be, and all those brands. I haven't ordered YET, but I thought I should post the good news... eveyone wants to know about a good deal! :)

All in a days work!!

Last week was a whirl wind... Starting on Wed.
I had a vinyl lettering party that night in Flagstaff.
Wayne was so sweet and didn't want me to drive
alone, so him and Maci came with me. (the other girls
were with a babysitter)... That WHOLE day
I just cranked out projects... That is the picture
below. My poor kids had to just play alone for
the day. The other picture below is them eating cereal
outside while I was working on the projects!
It was the fastest, easiest meal, and they love it..
Everything got done on time and the party was
great, except Maci ended up sick. The next day
I had bunko to get ready for and took Mac to the dr.
to find out she had double ear infections! Poor kid!
This whole time I was watching my brother's
little girl... Friday I had 13 people in my family spend
the night. It was so fun. Then the rest of the weekend
we went out to coolidge to Deanne's baby's blessing.
Sunday I had more family spend the night. I love being
around family, it is so fun. Yesturday when everyone
left I had a quite and messy house... so that is what I need
to be doing instead of blogging :)

ALOHA

Last night I had bunko at my house and we had a Luau.
It was a lot of fun. I love anything social anyway
and the girls in the group are awesome!!

My house can barely hold all these people!



This is what we had for dessert. You can get them
at Costco. They were so good! It is sorbet ice cream
served out of the shell, or peel of fruit. It went along
great with the theme!


Dinner Time...

Another fun Thatcher trip...

Random fun things with our girls...

the girls should be makeup artist when
they grow up, don't you think...


Hanna's tea party group with girls in her sunbeam class

Haylee is quite the poser! She is such a good girl (most of the time!!)

our sweet little maci

this was maci on sunday before church. i had to take a picture because she is so cute :) !! i stood her against the wall and she thought she was pretty big. she is so much fun and everytime i'm around her i just want to squeeze her and give her a big kiss...

American Idol

Ok I love American Idol? Wasn't last nights show so great. How can you not donate after seeing all those cute kids that have so little? It made me realized how blessed me and my kids are to live where we do and have to gospel! I loved Josh Groban (sp?) and Carrie Underwood's performances! Such a great show! and I have to say I am soooo happy that Jordin Sparks didn't get kicked off! I was a little worried!

new blogger

we have a new blogger! natalia carter just started one. she has such a cute family!

Spring is here! Yeah!

It has been so fun to have warm weather (except today was a little cold)! The girls love to be outside, as long as I am out there too! They seem to be much happier out there. These are all our fun activities in the last week!

New Bloggers on board

Welcome to Autumn Halls. She is a new blogger and has the cutest family. I met her in my Chandler ward and love her! I also found out a cousin (well, Wayne's cousin's wife) also has a blog. It is Ami Bethea! She is so cute and I'm so glad we can keep in touch this way!

Kids say the craziest things....

I had to share this! I haven't stopped laughing about it since it happened. For any of you who know Hanna, you can probably picture her saying it. We had FHE about the 2nd article of faith. We told the girls about how Satan tempted Adam and Eve. We told them that when they do something good they are listening to Jesus and when they do something bad they are listening to Satan. The next day Hanna took a toy from Haylee and I asked why she did that, her eyes looked all serious and she said, "I'm listening to Slayton". I had to laugh! Hopefully she will get out of the habit of listening to "Slayton"!

How Happy Are YOU?

For all of you who watch Oprah, you will know what prompted me to write this... Yesturday the show call "How happy are you?". It had a list of questions you were supposed to answer. (7 being the highest, and 1 on the lowest). You were supposed to add up your score and the results would tell you how happy you are. The questions were:

1. In most ways, my life is close to ideal. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
2. The conditions of my life are excellent. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
3. I am satisfied with my life. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
4. So far I have gotten the important things I want in life. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
5. If I could live my life over, I would change almost nothing. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

As I answered these questions in my head, I could honestly put a 6 or 7 on every one. I felt so blessed. Some of the people on the show had a total of 5. I feel that no matter what your situation is, you can be positive and make the most out of life. Maybe that is easy for me to say becuase I am so lucky to have a wonderful husband, three adorable girls, and the best family and friends in the world, and of course, the gospel! Wayne and I have talked a lot about how constantly blessed we are. My friend Jaymi wrote some thoughts similar to these on her blog last week. As I watched Oprah and thought about my happiness, I realized I couldn't be any happier and I am so thankful to have you all in my life and I know the gospel and the Lord's plan is what makes our lives complete. Well, that is my long thought for the day. I'm not normally this deep, I know!

Easter

Easter

We had such a great Easter! Saturday we had an Easter picnic with the Layton extended family. We always love that. Then Sunday morning we started with the resurrection story and then Easter baskets... then church (which was so great). Haylee bore her testimony in primary. Then we had lunch with some friends. They gave us each a huge basket! They are so kind. We ended at the Layton's for food and treats. It was so much fun!

Fun Family Times

Wayne and I in Thatcher going for a late night quad ride!!

Haylee and Hanna are best buds!

Maci, sportin' the shades and loving my sister's puppy!