Our little artist.

Maggie loves painting! We got this table from some nice people in our ward and maggie loves to sit at it and paint. I love this picture because she is checking on daddy, she loves daddy so much!
She loves to eat the paint, and to paint her arms, legs, and hands, and olivia and her toys too.

Olivia reaches her 9th month!

Olivia is growing up so fast! she is so cute.
Nathan caught a fish with kenny. at lake Kawea. Good times.
baby signing time- Daddy!

Our little girls definately keep us busy. It's real fun when maggie throws tantrums in the middle of the parking lot and I have olivia in my arms. But Maggie is such a good sister and she is so loving and happy. So is Olivia, she is just glad to be here. I had fun knitting up Maggie's hobbie horse, she loves it. She runs around with it and goes "neigh, neigh" She loves all animals, especially dogs, cats, horses, cows, and the chinchillas. And we are sad to say that our cat, kitty cat passed away on sunday, so maggie will be sad. We will have to find a replacement after we move.

Firsts, and the Hair Fairy

Yes oh yes, my favorite thing to wake up to in the morning is Maggie's bedhead, and this morning was particularly impressive. You see that pink clip? Yea, it made it all through the night, and I don't know how, it was hanging on to one tiny little strand of hair, it was so awesome, she looked like she had a fro.






This is Olivia's new crib, and the perfect picture, because Maggie does not stop moving. She had so much fun breaking in the crib for her little sis. Thanks daddy, for putting it together so quickly, you can do anything, like hook up surround sound.




Olivia is loving cereal. I have started her on rice cereal. Tonight i made a lot for both girls, and Olivia downed the whole thing, she was opening her mouth really wide too, and waiting for, before the spoon even got to her mouth.. The minute she saw the spoon, her mouth was open..

Our First Sesaon Pass

We did it! We bought a season pass to the zoo in fresno, which is good, because that is pretty much the only thing to do here. Plus three visits pay for it, and most importatnly Maggie loves it, and anything maggie loves doing we love doing. it's funny hw making her happy makes us happy, but it's true, and nothing else in the world can really teach you that, except in a family.
Petting zoo fun.


Man our little girl is growing up! I am amazed at all the things she does on her own. Even the other day, she can climb down the equipment at the park.


Sweet Maggie
yay.

lately

These are the things we have been doing lately. Attending protests, easter egg hunts, and just plain having fun playing peek a boo.

Maggie is such a ham! Lately she has been smiling and laughing. She likes to say "boo" and hide behind the curtain.

Tea Party, Fresno. It was cool seeing thousands of people in fresno. Our chhildren are learning at a young age to be politically active. While they are also at a young age, put into debt by a power hungry government.

Maggie actually did an easter egg hunt. It was the cutest thing. She really loved it. I thought she was too young, but what do I know. She loved eating the chocolate. Next year it's on!!

Here she is finding chocolate

Easter with cousins. Grandma's house, or should i say hotel grandma was so fun. Maggie had a blast. she mostly enjoyed playing with cousin anna and claire, and climbing up and down the stairs, and playing peek aboo with grandma.

Anna is so adorable, good job keyonna, you have cute kids.

We love and miss our family when we aren't with them. We need to break ground on our own family compound soon!

Shout out

I think you can really judge the character of a person by what children think of them. Children love Kenny. Thinking back to when we were dating, my niece and nephew Lilly and AMmon LOVED Kenny. My brother told them to call him"uncle Kenny" even though we weren't engaged yet. They loved him, and so do my other nieces and nephews here in Hanford. Most importantly Maggie and olivia love daddy so much. this morning Maggie was signing "daddy" and saying it and then walking over to the picture of daddy and pointing to it. She misses him when he is at work. If I were her I would miss him too, she has so much fun with daddy. I love to see that, more than anything else . More than doing the dishes or helping with chores. I love Kenny because he loves his family.
that includes his brothers too. I wanted to take a pictue the other night, but Jeff and Kenny were working on his truck, and it was s o funny, I could hear them talking though the wall in our bedroom, so i peaked out, and their feet were sticking out from under the truck.
I can tolerate his stinky feet, because he is so sweet to me!! Kenny, thanks for being so wonderful!

Happy Easter!

Thanks for the dresses grandma, we love being so cute!!
Maggie loves to play with cousin Avery!

Maggie cracks me up!

This is so funny. I was cooking dinner when I looked up and Magggie had a blanket draped over her head and she had walked across the room and bumped into the bookshelf! It was so funny!!! I was dying, and I didn't get the best parts of it on film. But this is the best I could do, while stirring dinner so it didn't burn...

Done!

I read somewhere that doing crafts is good for your brain, so good, my brain must be very healthy becuase I am ddicted to crafts. This project I started midst another project, upon another.... But I finished, and i can't wait for the girls to wear them! Their easter dresses! Yay, It only took three days to do both of these, the pattern was easy, and they are small so they go fast. I had to undo olivia's dress a few times, because I didn't have a pattern for her size, I just sort of eyeballed it. At first I was angry and threw it across to room, Kenny said I could use it for teddy bear clothes. I considered that, but I got out the good ol seem rippper and improvised. It isn't perfect, but isn't that why we all love home made stuff? I also thought of an analogy while I was doing this. Here it is. Sometimes we want so badly to do something that we don't take the time to plan ahead and prepare, we just jump in. Like me, i didn't want to go buy a new pattern that would fit olivia, i just wanted to do it now. Well, jumping in without the proper pattern meant I had to spend time undoing and fixing the problems that I created. It is always best to follow the correct steps, and plan ahead. However boring or tedious it might be, Because sometimes prolonged desires lead to better outcomes.