Scary Movie

Every time I see this picture I have to laugh. I looked out the window to check on Jonas and this is what I saw. I wish I recorded it, it was much more entertaining. Branon couldn't figure out why I was laughing so hard because Jonas does things like this all the time. I guess it was the mask that reminded me of those dumb Scary Movie's or the memory I have as a child. My brother Steve would probably not like me to share of this but since I know he never reads this it will be okay. I remember when I was little Steve would sit in the bathroom forever and I would sit on the stairs and listen to him act out GI Joe. Eventually I would start laughing and then he would get real mad. Jonas a better sport because after I showed him the pictures all he said was "Oh, mom you were spying on me." Then he walked away and didn't seem to care where as I would have to go hide afraid of what Steve would do.

I just love Jonas so much. He is such a good big brother and has been helping me more with a better attitude. I can't believe he will be eight next week.

Bella's Dance

Bella did two different dances this year, ballet and clogging. At the beginning of the year she hated clogging mostly the noise is what she told me. I had to fight her to go but I told her she can't give up and has to finish the year out. Now that the year is over she loves it and would rather do that then ballet. Jenna is excited that she will be able to do dance next year, or I should say in a few months. It was just as fun to watch Jenna dance at the dance recitals trying to do what the dancers were doing.

This is her clogging costume.

This is Bella's kindergarten graduation. I can't believe she will be in 1st grade. She did very well and it's nice to have a child that loves school. Although Jonas did so awesome this last year as well.

Easter!

For Easter break me and the kids went to my sisters house in Vegas for a couple of days. Forgot my camera so couldn't take any pictures of her cute boys. We had lots of fun just hanging out and coloring eggs. Then we meet up with Branon at his brothers in St. George and spent the night we them. Vegas and St. George had beautiful weather, those are the times I wish I lived down there, especially I came home to rain/snow mix. Saturday morning the kids went on a little Easter egg hunt in the yard. It's so fun to watch them.

It doesn't take long for them to dive into the candy.

The Easter bunny hides the baskets at our house, and this is Jonas, Bella, Jenna posing after they found their baskets. This is first thing in the morning so the girls hair looks a little scary.

Like I said during Christmas I'm not a huge fan of holidays so was glad once Easter was over. I really think it's because I compare myself to my mom. She always made everything so fun and exciting but I was a kid and my memory isn't always good. She died when I was 9 and my father wasn't about making it as fun as mom. I do have to give myself credit for at least trying and hopefully my kids will look back and think it was not so bad.

The Ocean

I know it's been forever and I was suppose to post these pictures way back in March and one day I will get on top of my blog since this is my only journal of my family. My last post was about our trip to California and did only pictures of Disneyland, and now here is our pictures of the Beach. We spent two different days there and I think they loved it as much as Disneyland. Okay maybe not as much but they still loved it.

The bottom picture of Bella is the first trip to the beach and she got sucked into one of the first waves. Scared her half to death not to mention her mother too. I know I'm a mean mom and took a picture of her afterwords. She spent the rest of the time in the car staying warm. As you can see from the above picture she didn't stay too scared because she did get back in the water the next trip to the beach.

Love this girl so much. She has the cutest facial expressions.

Again thanks to my wonderful Aunt Nancy that we got to take this trip. Looking back at these pictures makes me sometimes wish I lived close to the beach.

One of the Happiest Places

Thanks to my wonderful aunt Nancy we were able to take a trip to Newport Beach and go to Disneyland for the first time. Nancy posted on facebook that she was giving her timeshare up and I was all over it. I've wanted to go to Disneyland for along time and with her letting us have her timeshare we were able to go. My friend and her daughter came with us. Our first day at Disneyland the girls went and had Breakfast with the princesses. Jenna was scared at first and she slowly warmed up. While we were at breakfast Branon and Jonas went on the rides. We never really had a plan when and where to meet, just figured we have cell phones. Problem is that Branon's phone died when we were trying to figure out where to meet. I was so stressed out that we were never going to meet up and finally after 3 hours he borrowed a cell phone. While I was stressed out waiting for him they kept riding rides so I'm glad they still had fun.
We went on a couple of scary rides and was surprised that Bella was the one that wasn't as scared. Jonas didn't care for them has much. Jenna all she really cared for was the princesses. We had so much fan and can't wait to go back. We also spent a couple of days at the beach, and a day at Sea World. Since it takes forever to add pictures and it is so late I will post those this next week.

My Baby is 3

I can't believe my baby is 3. Although she no longer is a baby she will always be mine.

Jenna's birthday week was a crazy one. It was 1A state basketball so Branon was gone all week and then I had to get ready to go on Vacation right after basketball was over. I really wasn't in the mood to do much but I decided I need to at least give it a try so last minute I decided to tempt to make a castle cake. Tempt is the key word but what matters is she loved it.

Also last minute I invited our neighbors over and our friends to help celebrate.

I was hoping now that she was three she would be out of the terrible two's but she proved me wrong. She took her cone and crumbled into pieces over the floor before she could get ice cream in it. I thought Jonas always made a mess but I'm pretty sure she tops him. She can't be left alone unless you plan on cleaning up a mess.

Even though you make a mess you have the cutest personality.
Happy belated Birthday, love you tons.

Can you tell

Can you tell that my kids hate taking pictures. I was just going through my pictures and my kids have some funny faces.

Jenna and I went to Bella's Valentine class party. Bella is in the back row and I don't think she once looked at the camera and I have 5 class pictures.

It's hard taking pictures of them individually but it's pretty much impossible to have them together especially the girls.

These last two pictures are random. I don't post much and probably part of it is the lack of taking pictures and it has been crazy busy since November. I told myself after the holidays is should slow down but that hasn't been the case at all. I do see the light at the tunnel though. Branon has been coaching basketball for Valley High School which requires him to be gone pretty much the whole week since November and sometimes the weekend depending on if they have games. This is the last week and then we are headed on a vacation to Southern California thanks to my wonderful Aunt Nancy.

This was on the first of January when we had a nice snow storm. The kids had a blast and I even went for a ride, and thank goodness we didn't get a picture of that. Of course Branon made me fall off the tube but it was a blast. Next time I need to get a bigger tube, since the kids accuse me for the hole in it.

Does anyone know how to write above the first picture??