Mother's Day

This years Mother's Day was great.  It helps when you try not to have expectations.  Jeremy made me a yummy breakfast in the morning, complete with fresh squeezed orange juice!  He then made two chocolate cakes that were delicious that we took over to my parents for dinner. He is a great chef!  It was nice to have my kids be happy and to be happy myself.  I'm so thankful for Jeremy for taking good care of me and my sweet kids.  They are so great, most of the time... :) I love being a mom and I hope that I will continue to get better at it everyday!  I've always wanted to be a mom! I just hope and pray that I don't ruin my kids.  I want to build them up, love them, and show them that love!

A new addition

I've been meaning to post these pictures awhile ago with our new trampoline.  After the boys kept taking the cushions off our couch and jumping on them, stacking them up the stairs to bounce down the stairs and hopefully not bash their heads into the banister or the now bare couch (our living room is small), I thought, hmmm, I better look around for some kind of trampoline for these boys.  After doing a little research and having limited space and funds, I found this 6.5 foot trampoline on craigslist here in town!  It was great!  Only a foot and a half off the ground, too.  We measured it out, made the phone call and went over on a Tuesday night to get it.  It was from a family with five, going on six kids, not LDS, can you believe it?  They had a little boy with some sensory issues and I have to say I felt pretty bad buying his trampoline from them.  They were about to move into a bigger house, but smaller yard and didn't have room for it.  So now we have this great trampoline in our little backyard!  The kids love it.  If they have time before school, they jump, after school, they jump, in their PJs, they jump.  It's great!

Almost summer!!

A friend of ours gave us this surfboard awhile back, and since Memorial Day was coming up, we decided to finally fix it and use it on Memorial Day!  It was a fun project for Jerm and I to do together.  I love working on things with him and learning new things together.  Unfortunately, we didn't get to use it on Memorial Day since the beach we ended up going to didn't allow surfing.  Ah well.  Now it's ready to go for when school gets out!

 Scotty helping sand down some of the extra resin.  He was very helpful!

 Our little chickens, Chloe and Daisy, are about one month old now.  It's amazing how quickly they loose all of their soft downy feather for their adult ones.

 The end of the board had a big split in it, so we filled it with resin, clamped it down and when that dried, put fiber glass around it and more resin.  Boy, did our garage stink!

 Beautiful Atalie before her dance recital.  She did wonderful and even got to do a back bend in it!

 Beautiful Cozette! She loves to dance as well.  I love that they have been able to do this together.

Such good girls! I love them both so much and don't know what I would do without them! They are such great helpers to me.  They help with their brothers, too and love playing with younger kids.  Thank you girls, for being so terrific!
Wyatt danced Hip hop last night, too, but in the rush of getting him there on time, I didn't get a picture of him! He did awesome and loves to dance!