Richie and Jessica's dogs were staying with Mom during April while Jessica and Sierra were here, and Richie was gone doing some training. All the kids loved them, even if they sometimes showed they were a little scared...mostly Jaycee, but still. :) This was the last day they could play with them before they went back home to Colorado!

Talon, and Boozer, Kayani, Jaycee, Owen and Rex

I just thought she was sitting pretty cute! :)

Benji's B.S.

It's finally official, folks....Benji is now full of B.S. Although if you know him, you know he's been full of it since he was a boy!!! :o) It's just now he has an excuse! haha He graduated in microbiology at Weber State University today! Yay!!! We are so excited for him! Congratulations Beej! We love you! Cute family!

Cheese ball boy and mommy's girl! :)

All of us who were able to make it.

Stacy's cute parents! We love Janet and Earl!

My Mommy!

Okay, his too! :)

We love Jammies!

Jaycee got these tinkerbell jammies in like January, so she's been waiting to wear them. Since it was pretty warm this week, she was finally able to put them on and she was SO excited to show them off! :) The slippers are great and the headband actually helps to keep her hair out of her face when it's taken out of the elastics and stuff, so it's great, too! I just thought she was pretty darn cute, so I took a picture to share with you all! :)

Newest Grand kid Pictures

We were able to take all the grand kids into Target while Jessica and Sierra are here for month. They all did so well! Some pictures were better than others, but we at least got one of each kid that was really cute! :) Good work kiddos!

Talon, age 6 Owen, age 5

Ethan, age 4

Kayani, age 2

Jaycee, age 23 months

Sierra, age 20 months

Aubree, age 18 months

Jackson, age 6 months

The "I've had it!" photo! :o) Too great!

Cody's Kids Benji's Kids Sarah's

Jack's

Richie's

First Flowers of the Season!

Beautiful Tulips! These ones with the striped leaves are always the first ones to bloom! Yay! I LOVE my flower garden! And I love the fact that I didn't have to put it together, I just get to see it bloom each year. Although I did add a few of the flowers and that was pretty fun! HAPPY SPRING!!!

Brooklyn's 2nd Birthday

Brooklyn turned 2 years old yesterday! We were able to go over to Bob & Diana's to celebrate with them! She seemed to be pretty happy that everyone was there for her, and they all had fun playing outside! Happy Birthday Brooklyn! Blowing out her candle! I love how she has to lean over it, it was pretty cute! :)

BIG GIRL!!! I told her say cheese, so she did, but wasn't looking at me! hehehe

They got to blow bubbles outside! I thought this was cute of them chasing the bubbles!

Ryan and Mel got to be the bubble blowers.

Jaycee, Brinley, and Brooklyn drawing on the the sidewalk with chalk.

Jeff wanted a kite to fly so bad, and the boys (Brooklyn's cousins from his side) were trying to help him, but it just wasn't windy enough.

Jaycee liked the chalk!

Alivia just wanted to sleep and eat! :)

Grandma tried to get them to play Ring-Around-the-Rosie, but it only worked for a few seconds.

fRiEnDs

We love having such great friends!!! We have been lucky enough to stay in touch by doing a dinner each month with all these fine people and the Brown's (Randy was the only one there that night, so he didn't want to get in the picture without Michelle and Riley). It is so fun, and helps us all keep in touch since before we started this, we hardly saw each other ever! Thanks guys for making this happen and being so great! :o)

In order of left to right while going top to bottom.....Waite's (Kami, Cathan, & Ryan), Baham's (Ethan & Steph, Jaden was home that night), Oliverson's (Tanelle & Ben, and baby girl!), and Hatch's (Ryan, Jaycee, & Me, and baby girl).

This one was for Elder Aaron Halls! We miss him! ;)

Easter Sunday!

We were able to go to Uncle Gary's for Easter with the Naylor's, and to watch the last session of conference, which was hard to hear or see the whole thing, but got parts of it, at least. It was lots of fun! The kids did their Easter Egg hunt first and then hit the pinata. After they were done, us older children went to get eggs and prizes! It was fun! A little cold outside, but not too bad for what it could've been. After that, we ate and watched conference and visited for a while until my whole family left to go visit Grandma and Grandpa Whicker together. It was a great day for Easter and for family fun! Thank you all who helped make it such a great day!

The boys ready to go hunting! Aubs is ready too!

Jaycee gets so excited to find Easter eggs, too!

Jackson was as ready as he'll ever be at this age!

Sierra's all grins!

Kayani's ready, too in her "pwetty dress!"

They're all ready to go find their eggs!

Picking up her eggs! Jaycee got lots and was ready to eat them all right away!

Going through them with daddy!

Uncle Gary & Aunt Lyn with Katie in the background watching the kids hunt.

Jaycee and Talon were all done getting their eggs and they sat right down to start eating their candy while the rest of them finished up. Jeff & Rachel, and Aunt Terry with everyone else on the top level were all watching and cheering them on.

I tried to get them to smile in this one, but Jaycee was too busy chomping on her candy! :)

All the kids finishing up.

Kirra also was excited to eat her candy, once she found out those eggs were full of m&m's! :)

Jackson's first time at the pinata!

Aubree's turn!

Kirra's next in line.

Sierra really enjoyed taking out her anger on this thing! :)

Jaycee didn't mind either, but kept losing the left hand and was only swinging with one.

Kayani's up!

Ethan sure had fun too! The pinata actually moved around for the boys, so they had a little harder time getting it, but still got some hits.

Owen did well until the pinata hit him in the backside and he had to hold it with only one hand while the other hand held his hurt back.

Talon was last for the young kids, it dropped some candy with him and then they let Andrew finish it off so all the kids could run for the candy!

It was a fun day for us all, but especially for the little kids! I love spending days with family we don't get to see too often!