Love Notes and Hamster Painting

I can never get enough of the sweet notes left for me from Rylee. Lucky for me I get them a lot!

When we were at the pottery place doing Christmas ornaments I noticed a cute little Hamster pottery. I decided that for Joshuas birthday I was going to have Avynlea come and paint the Hamster for him. So I did. Avy loves Hamsters just like Joshua and she was really excited to do this for him. She had a lot of fun and knew just what colors to paint it and where to put the different colors. She did it all except for the eyes, those I painted because they were a bit tricky. Hopefully he loves the finished product!

Cousins!

A couple of weeks ago Mikell asked if we could watch her girls so that she and her Husband could go to the adult session of their stake conference. Any time with cousins is fun and loved and so of course we happily agreed. Avynlea, Kenedy and Rylee loved playing with Brooke and Jenna and I loved seeing them having so much fun. At one point I was downstairs busy doing something and the girls were upstairs and I could hear them screaming and laughing and having so much fun; so I sent Kefford up with my phone to take some pictures. 

Avynlea, Kenedy, Jenna, Brooke, Rylee

Last week we got to have Brits kids come and play so that she and Kelsey could go tour the hospital they were using to have their 5th baby. Kefford and I were occupied with a house we were trying to bid on that we did not get, so sad, that I did not think to take pictures. That makes me even sadder. I think we need to have Brits kids over again soon to play so that I can get pictures. Again my kids had loads of fun with their cousins and it makes me so happy that they can be close to cousins.

Whitney had her baby 4 weeks early and when Kefford and I went to the hospital to see our newest little niece we didn't get to. Because she was so small she had to have a carseat test and it had just started when we got there. After visiting with Whitney and Dustin for a while Dustin walked with us down to the nursery to get a glimpse of the baby. Unfortunately she was just out of sight in her carseat, all I could see was a pile of blankets. The nurse in their was really sweet and took a picture with her phone for us to see but it just wasn't the same. So yesterday after church I talked Kefford into taking us out to the farm to see the little baby Sadie.

She is so tiny and so sweet, my kids and I could not get enough of her. It was a constant battle as to who got to hold the baby and whose turn it was, nobody wanted to give her up. We love babies, especially when that baby is a new little cousin for us to love on always! Baby Sadie is the 19th Grandbaby on Keffords side of the family which is so fun!

Playing at the Park

Ryle wanted to go to the Disney Store while we were in California so that she could buy something with the money she got for Christmas. After looking all around the store she finally decided on this cute cup. 

The day before we left to go back home Heather drove me and the girls and my Mom to the park so she could run while the girls played. It was such a beautiful , warm, sunny day and we had lots of fun. I have not been able to find my camera since we left for our trip and so all of these pictures are taken with my phone and look really bad. Grrrr.

Kenedy took pictures of me playing on the swing-set with Rylee.