New Family Picture

Rapunzel's...I mean...Leila's 4th Birthday

This is one happy 4 year old!

While the girls were sleeping the night before Leila's birthday, we decorated in her theme of choice, Rapunzel.  She was in awe at the decorations.  Notice Rapunzel's hair that goes from the light fixture...

...over the doorway to the kitchen, and down.  Thanks to Tyson for that awe inspiring idea.

Leila's big present was a trampoline...that she's been jumping on ever since!

 Leila's Rapunzel cake.  I can't take responsibility for this amazing cake.  I made this as low maintenance as possible for me, we went to Costco and she picked out the tuxedo chocolate mousse cake right off the bat.  As soon as she saw it, she knew she wanted it.  "Ohhhh, I want THIS ONE!  Its so pretty you don't even have to decorate it!!"  But I did.  I made the Rapunzel hair surrounding the cake out of marshmallow fondant because I had already planned on testing out my fondant skills for the first time.

 That night, we surprised her by taking her to Chuck E. Cheese which she called "Chunky Cheese" the whole night.  They all had a BLAST there.

 Molly looks a little nervous here, but in reality, she never wanted to stop riding the rides.

Family Photo Session

Laura and Eric wanted me to take some family photos of them with Eric's nice camera (because I suppose my camera phone just won't cut it....haha).  I wish I could have taken family pictures as well...but alas, just because I get to have fun and spend time with my family in town, doesn't mean that my husband gets the same luxury.  But I did get some singles of the girls.

My sister, Laura, her husband, Eric, and two kids, Trey and Ramona.

Eden and Trey.

(Side note:  Trey is half a year older than Eden.  Look at that size difference! The difference a tall father can make.  Let's not forget to mention that Eden's actually wearing 2-3 inch heels in this picture.  Yes, she owns heels that were given to her by a friend and she thinks are amazing of course.  Speaking of trying to be older...right before the shoot she snuck some really pink lip gloss into the car and put it on for the picture.  Stinker.  These pictures are AFTER I tried to wipe it off the best I can.)

Ramona and Leila.

(Side note:  Once again...the difference in height.  Ramona is 1/2 a year YOUNGER than Leila.)

My adorable children!

Eden - age 6

Lelia - age 4 (in a month)

 Molly - age 18 months

Deanna Rose Farmstead

There are lots of pictures of below...but seriously, this little outing was SO much fun!

Hay Ride

 Feeding the baby goats (which the adults loved partially because it scared the kids so bad to be attacked by these baby goats)

 Playing in the Barn

 Learning about Indians...and pretending to be one.

 Mining (and keeping a little bag of treasures found at the end)

 Horseback Rides

 Fishing (This was so awesome because as soon as you put in your line the fish would bite, it was just a matter of getting it up and then you release it.  The kids and adults loved it!)

There were TONS more that we didn't even take pictures of!

Yeah, we'll definitely go again!

Kansas City Zoo

We love the zoo.  We have passes and have used them more than enough times to make it worth it (not to mention that my children ALWAYS stay from opening to closing each time we come).  This time we were able to go with the Watsons.  Man it was fun having them come with us!  

The kids got an extra treat, they got to go on the Sky Tram (which I didn't add to my pass because usually I would go by myself with three kids to the zoo...and keeping them all safe while flying high in the air....not possible).  I actually ended up walking the stroller around to the other side while they rode across.  Molly fell asleep with Eric on the ride.

Kansas City Temple

Laura, Eric, Trey and Ramona came to visit us and we had so much fun together.  One of the days (Sunday) we visited the Kansas City Temple to get pictures taken in front of it.  The Watsons are creating a temple journal where they are visiting as many temple as they can and taking pictures of each of them in front of the temple for memory books.  It was nice to have Eric there with an awesome camera to take pictures.

 More of our adventures with the Watson's to come!

I Have a Picture...But Don't Know Why

I realize that its probably ridiculous to TRY to take a picture of our fish...cause they are TINY.

But our tank is overrun with guppies.  The fish keep having more and more and more babies.  We currently have our original fish, our medium sized fish, our small fish, and our ultra small fish.  Oh boy...and it just keeps going.

But our girls love it.

And I admit, I kind of love it too.

We know that we need to start getting rid of them...but its heartbreaking for me to think about...

"Which ones should stay and which should go?"

"Rid of the males?"
      "But they are the pretty ones."
"Rid of the females?"
      "But we LOVE our original girl fish with boy names! Can't rid of BRUCE!"
"Rid of the babies?"
      "But they are so cute and tiny and don't deserve to die!"
"Rid of a few at a time?"
      "But how I decide which go first?"
"Do a mass flushing?"
      "A little Holocaust right?"
"Set them free in a pond?"
     "They probably would be eaten as soon as I dropped them in."

It all just makes me sad and Tyson may have to do it without me knowing because I don't think I can get rid of my little fish.