Growing fast

So, we've been busy here. The kiddos are growing and learning fast. Noel is now drawing "people". She sounds out the beginning of words and knows what letter a lot of words start with. She now says her "r's" correctly. She goes around singing "Arrr arrr arrr, a pirate, a pirate, a pirate says Arrrrrr." (It's from Backyardigans). She has some new dance moves. She still has a lisp with the letter "s" but she has "sh" and "ch" down now. It's so fun! 

Sam will be 2 in June! Weird! He will most likely not need physical therapy after he turns 2. Wahoo! He says, "Mikey" and "Chris" whenever he see's them. He loves to hold his "babies" (his little stuffed animals which he calls, babies). He also loves to eat their fur off of their heads too;) He is saying a lot more words and he loves to socialize.

Here are a few pictures of Noel's drawings as of late. I love her "people"! 

Morgan was gone for a few days. He was involved in a National Competition held at the Walmart Headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas. He represented the Information Systems club at BYU by presenting to other schools about BYU's club and by participating in Walmarts IT Challenge. The kids and I were very excited when he came home. Here they are wrestling soon after he arrived.

 Noel running around because she is so stinkin' happy that Daddy is home!

 We played out in the pool today. It was in the upper 60's and was very pleasant. The water was really cold but the kids didn't mind. 

Easter Sunday

Easter was wonderful. The Easter Bunny came and left and left some yummy treats. It's fun to have a child at an age where she not only understands that Easter is when the Easter Bunny comes but also that "Jesus is alive". That is how we have explained it to her and she has repeated it many times. We watched a video from the Mormon Channel called "He is Risen" to show her why we celebrate Easter. It's a beautiful video. At the end when Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene Noel was excited and said, "Jesus is alive!!" It was precious. 

I know that Jesus lives and that He loves us.

Easter morning. 

 Easter egg hunt after church with Chris, Kareena and Ty. It was so fun!

 Little nephew Ty.

 Our cute little girl.

 HANDSOME LIL' SAM.

 Chris, Kareena, and Ty.

 Our lil' fam.

 Easter dinner. Yummmm!

This is how we feel about the snow...

As you will see in the next post, it snowed this past weekend. As you will also see with pictures, you will see how some of us took out Mr. Slushy with tomahawks. Then there were some of us who just had to tackle him. It was fun!

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"Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow"... what?

So this last Saturday it snowed. It seemed so out of the blue because just a few days before we were enjoying beautiful weather in the 60's!

We played outside with Chris, Kareena and Ty. It was a blast!

Cute lil' Ty.

Our little Samuel. 

Noel helping build "Slushy the Snowman".

Sam fell out of the sled. ;)

Ready to go down!

He seemed to like it!

Noel loves the snow!

Sam was throwing snowballs at Chris.

Mr. Slushy is almost done...

...so that we can show him how we feel about winter! Ha! 

I love this picture!

Chris throwing.

Morgan took a turn.

Kareena took a whack at it and got him right in the chest! 

She's amazing!

Morgan took a turn tackling Mr. Slushy.

As you can see, it was hilarious!

No, he did not get hurt!

But Mr. Slushy did.

About a week ago we had one of my best friends, Rachel, and her family over for dinner.

Noel had fun playing with Alyssa. They were dancing in the kitchen. It was so stinkin' cute!

 When it wasn't so cold and snowing, about a week ago, we were outside most days. On one particular day I took some fun pictures.

 Ty's outfit that day was awesome! The word "Rambo" comes to mind when I see this picture. He's too cute!

 The kids, hanging out.

 This is the pose that you will find Sam in a lot of the time, but if he's facing you and if he looks like this, watch out, he usually never misses your face. He has a good arm and aim, already!