April 22, 2009

What a hard week!

Poor Tandi! She has had a hard week. First of all I took away her Mi Mi(Binky). Which was really hard for me to do. It was so easy to put her asleep with it. So taking that away you can imagine how bedtime and nap time went. Each night has gotten easier. Although last night I thought was so easy. She only cried for about 5 minutes. Later I went to check on her and she was fast asleep with a fake Binky in her mouth. It belonged to her my little pony baby. Oh well! Then the picture from below is from last night. I just got her out of the tub and dressed in her pj's when I hear her screaming and Parker laughing. I run into the bathroom to see this. Apparently she was wearing my high heels and somehow fell into the tub. Poor little thing!! I hurried and got my shoes out of the tub but made her stay while I ran to grab the camera. (What a mean mom). Well I had to blog about it right?

April 13, 2009

Easter Sunday

I love this first picture!!! Parker had just put his arm around Tandi and I love her facial expression. These two kids of mine are the greatest!!! I hope all of you had a wonderful Easter Sunday. We had a fun weekend as you can see from all of our pictures. I know I get a little carried away sometimes.

Easter with the Aplington's

This year we went to Heath's sisters Angie's for Easter Sunday dinner. It was a wonderful Sunday. The sun was shining and we enjoyed being together.




Becca and I.


Heath's mom helping Tandi find Easter eggs.


Parker is all about business.

Lisa, Angie, Becca, Me,Tandi, and Easton.


Parker got a kite from the Easter Bunny.


It looks like he loves it!



Easter Party with the Bernts

Every year we have a big party with the Bernts. We always have a an awesome Easter Egg hunt followed by some yummy food. It is always a good time when we all get together.
Annie, Halle, Marley, Piper, Boden, Parker, Tandi, Lilly, Megan, and Bridget.At the end of the Easter egg hunt there is always the treasure chest filled with toys. Grandma Renae and Grandma Patti always have fun toys to give their grand kids.

Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma Hartley's

Every year my Grandma's retirement home puts on an Easter Egg hunt. This is almost all of her great grand kids. There are a few more missing. I'm surprised they all fit on the couch.

April 10, 2009

Easter Eggs!

Every year Parker gets so excited when it's time to dye Easter Eggs. Last year Tandi was too little to dye Easter eggs. She had a lot of fun, but broke a few eggs in the process.
Parker took this picture of himself. You can see that he is starting to get a few freckles. I think their so cute!!
I just have to say that I love being a mom! I love watching my kids grow and explore life. This time of year is so wonderful. There is something that just brightens my life when Spring comes around. I know that after listening to conference, I have a renewed faith in my Savior. I am so grateful for his Life, Death, and Resurrection. He continues to bless my family and me! I look forward to this Easter weekend. I love spending time with family, and remembering what is most important in life.

March 31, 2009

Tandi's big girl bed!

For Tandi's Birthday we decided to get her a bed. I waited to put her bed up because I was waiting for her bedding to arrive. I think it goes good with her room! Tandi loves it! I also love the fact that she gets excited to take naps on her soft bed. That crib mattress was really hard.

I still have to finish decorating that wall above her bed.

March 28, 2009

A little bit more!

I got some more pictures from our trip. These are right in front of the St. George Temple. It was so bright that day that my eyes would water when I looked at the Temple. I love this picture of my family. We are all there (all 17 of us).Here is the cute little grand kids!Swimming in St. George.

March 25, 2009

2nd part of our trip

We decided since we drove all the way to St. George we might as well go to Vegas and so that's what we did. Here we are at the Luxor. From left to right is Heath, Me, Parker, Cory, Marley, Boden, Leslie, Koen, Tandi, Patti, Piper, Zach, and Cliff.

Our next stop was the Shark Reef in Mandalay Bay. Tandi was a little worn out as you can tell.It was amazaing to see all the animals. This was the kids favorite part of the trip.We met up with my cousin David and his family. Tandi is holding hands with their cute little girl Ella.It doesn't show what Heath and Parker are looking at but it is a huge Shark.After the Shark Reef we walked down to the M&M factory. Here we are in front of Excaliber where we stayed. It was nice and relaxing. We were able to go swimming for an hour, I wish we had one more day.Then later that night we wanted to see the water show in front of the Belagio.It was so fun to watch. Afterword Parker said, "that was totally cool mom!"My sister and I. Of course we needed a picture with cute little Marley.

This trip was a blast. I'm so glad that we were able to get away from the freezing cold weather. It's a little depressing to come back to snow on the ground.