More April

I love it when this cutie gives me a real smile for the camera!

Fun at the park.

Hard to see from this side, but this is Trevor's hands on his hips ( although it's only his stomach) serious talk pose.  Love this cute boy!

The pic doesn't show the difficult part she just got through, but I  was pretty impressed at how she did this without touching the ground!

I love how she drew us both in purple cuz it's out favorite color.

Ryan let's big sis and bro do lots of silly stuff to him

He was all smiles when Claire pushed him around the house, so cute!

Loves making noise! Behind him is the beginning stage of our gazebo...yay for shade!

We saw the Provo city center temple, with angel Moroni atop. It was a fiercely windy day...cold, cold, cold!

Right before Ryan's bedtime, I thought, let's fly the kite on this crazy windy Sunday.  I walked there in the stroller in flip flops. Jason was smart and took the car. I remember walking home in my thin skirt and flip flops and thinking how my feet felt like these picture you see of frostbitten toes...I am such wimp...it's was still fun in the beginning....

It's hard to keep him up for more than few seconds!

So off with his head!

 Claires general conference train! She was fine making this for each speaker on Sunday. Even when she asked me why she was making this, and I plainly told her, "so dad and I can listen to general conference."  My response didn't bother her one bit, she just went right back to work.

Saw the sacred gift exhibit with a good ol friend!  You can see almost everyone's face...

There is cutie jane! I don't know how she, paige, does it! I thought life was crazy for me!

Did some redecorating for Easter. What did I do without a mantel?

Unicorn face paint at ward Easter egg hunt!

Sorry it's so blurry!  Makes me laugh every time...silly Ryan!

It was so good of Ryan to smile, even though his nap was long overdue after 3 hours of church!
A note to self, how to get Claire to smile, have her hold her baby brother! 

Ester egg hunt in our backyard.

We Had dinner at my uncles house on Easter Day. So good to see my family!  And the kids had their 4th Easter egg hunt...and even got some money in their eggs!

Ryan liked the football egg

Claire tried to only get the super big eggs!

We sure do love our new library!

Trevor and Claire loved this

Sometimes Ryan bangs his head on the ground, other times he just crawls dragging his head on the ground.

I made this for him awhile ago....but now he loves it...thanks big sis for helping me play with this fun toy.

We went bowling for Monday $1 bowl night, the day before Trevor's birthday!

This crazy man was on a climbing kick this day, stools, chairs, ottomans....this too shall pass..it's just a phase!

"Hey mom, just chilling in a frying pan"

I was decorating for trevs birthday, and Ryan fell in love!  Yes he is carrying it in his mouth, much like a mommy lion caries her cub.

Trevor's race track cake...yay he got an actual cake this year...instead of rice crispy cake!

My fun photo op, didn't go as planned, but still fun!

When do I get pizza?

"That's it mom, you better come in here, I am throwing out glowworm....I'll hold it here for a few seconds, but you better come!" I did go...and he was poopy, no wonder he can't sleep!

Who needs to walk and stand, when I have pots and pans!  Ryan's life right now!

Lately March n April

I still get to rock this cutie to sleep sometimes, when he's not feeling good.

This little guy is 1!

Little guy would not let me get him out...he loved it in there

Just wearing my shirt caveman style, mom forgot to do the buttons by my neck

It's like builtin a little playpen in the kitchen...lol...he loved it there too. Mom was actually able to do some dishes, while he was awake.

Raining, but still sun shining

One last chance to go sledding..even though I was sick this day, we haven't gone sledding at all this year!

It was a small enough hill, that I wasn't afraid to just let them go on there own. Then Claire would carry up up the sled each time, no complaints either!

Ryan and I hung out at the top. Ryan was good enough to be content in his car seat. Amazing!

Trevor got tired and hung out in the car with Ryan and I. While Claire went sledding on her own for another 20 minutes.  Here she is trying it backwards.what a great day!

Saturday watching general conference. Pretty much the best weekend, of relaxing together as a family watching tv and listening to amazing speakers from church.

Well actually we keep the kids busy, so we can enjoy it!

For the priesthood session, Jason watched it at home while I took the kids for a walk. On the way we found some friends outside.

Ryan is finally trying out the walker ( or whatever they are called) ...it is funny the stuff he will push around instead of trying out the walker. He pushed Claire pink horse around and a small red kid chair, before deciding this lion thing isn't so bad.

After Sunday morning Conference, we tried feeding some ducks, but after pelting them with bread and no response we decided the pigs were much more excited about the bread.

Silly Ryan and I

We made cafe rio salads..I didn't even make everything for it. And wow it took a lot of work! But we are still eating yummy leftovers. 

Claire liked her salad, Trevor opted for the meat and rice.

For st. Patricks I added four green hearts to this wreath I made a while ago. Previously, I had it on our door for about a year, until I actually made another red wreath for Christmas.  Then when I put it back out in march, it died a few weeks later....crazy wind!

This quote has been really helping me!

Yay! I made an spring wreath!  Once you get over a cold, it's amazing how you feel you can do anything!

Cute Trevor with his new haircut.

For Jason's work at qualtrics, we got free passes to thanksgiving point's museum of curiosity.  It was a lot of fun! Even for adults!  But I wouldn't feel safe taking all 3 kids with just me. You defintley need two adults, at least with our active kids.

I was supposed to keep up with Claire, that lasted for one minute. Jason was sick and actually don't got to work that day, but was feeling better to go that night.  So here he is going a little slower with Ryan.  Tough to go across, but he did great while holding Ryan. 

Our little monkey Claire, we need to find a place that has a bigger climbing wall for kids.  Any ideas?

Giving Trevor a boost, he didn't love it.

Where did my ball go?

It's gone?

Ryan is amazing sweet and gentle around other babies!  One time I was at a Zumba class at a nearby church, and Ryan sat by a newborn in their baby swing, and even gently pushed their swing a few times.  He was even a fast crawler at the time, but opted to be near the new baby.  So cute!

He is so fast at crawling, and fortunately is a little interested in walking.

It was a really fun museum, and we only went to one of the sections, lol.

A few funny moments today! Ryan is the cutest little jabberer, if you are fortunate to witness it, it is so cute.  When he sleeps well at night, which is more frequent lately, he usually jabbers a lot to wake up Jason or I. Well this morning I let him jabber for a while. It's kinda tough with Claire going to bed at 10 pm, and Ryan waking up at 6 am some mornings. I digress, so I was lazy and let him jabber for a good

10 minutes, before I finally got up.  When I did get up, he throws his head back, as if looking toward heaven and jabbers something that sounds like thank you. So funny

Trevor says the cutest things too, I love i how he gets really excited for something and says, pwease mom pwease!

Claire's been really trying to be good lately. It so sweet how she asks, "did you like how I...." Insert something good she did.  I am glad she is finding good ways to get all the positive recognition she needs. In stead of acting up get more attention.  Things are looking up over here!

Now to just get Trevor potty trained, and Jason to finish his dissertation, then we can actually do something this summer. Arg, here's to hoping!