More Family and friends!!!

Here are the pictures from the blessing - finally!! Thanks to everyone who came to support our family - we had a great time and enjoyed seeing everyone.

Everything is good!!

We finally got pictures from Mattie's blessing which I will be posting in the next few days. I have to say that she is such a blessing in our lives. I look at her and feel that even though she was a bit unexpected, she was needed in our family at this time. She is happy and full of energy and she brings a special peace to our house. I am so glad that she is here!!

Things are going to be crazy for the next month or so. This is my busy time at work - so much going on in such a short amount of time. Today was the first day of a yearly training I get to do all across the state. It went really well, but my assistant was sick so I had to wing part of it - only slightly stressful but it went well. My next ones will be in Salt Lake and than I will be heading down to Price and than St. George. I also have my grant report due as well as summer school for my counselors is starting - busy busy busy!! Oh well - I like it!

Andrew is doing well on his job, though I think it is having a bigger learning curve than he expected as well as he is not a huge fan of bein on the phone all day - but, it has been so nice to have him home in the evening and to be able to spend more time as a family/

Thomas is doing awesome in school!! However, he is not a huge fan of sitting He tells me that it is just too boring to sit there and sometimes he needs get up and see his friends. We are still working on that one! He will be starting swimming lessons this next week along with his sister and he is pretty excited about that. He got his first set of scriptures this week. He was so excited and insisted on sleeping with them. He is such a great kid and we are so glad he is in our family!

Kate is Kate - need I say more. She is our happy - drama queen - princess!! She loves shoes - more than I love shoes (I know -seems impossible). She got two new pairs of sandals for summer and insists on wearing one pair and bringing the other ones "just in case" every where we go. I really do think she thinks she is 20! The things she says just don't seem fitting for a three year old. Anyway, this girl makes me smile. She is so cute and so friendly. I have never seen any child love to be around people as much as she does - she is also such a blessing for our family.

Easter Weekend

This last weekend was a lot of fun. On Friday Andrew and I went to a late dinner to Market Street to celebrate our 7th anniversary (can you believe 7years!!). It was a great evening, however when we went to pick up the kids, Thomas had become very sick. He had a high fever and he kept saying his body hurt. After contacting his doctor we determined that we would just watch him throught the night and if he was still really sick in the morning we would take him in. It was kind of a bummer for him to be sick because we were scheduled to go to our friend A'Lisha's house for an Easter Egg Hunt. I took Kate and Mattie on Saturday and let Thomas sleep. He was bummed only until he found that we had brought him a bag full of eggs. That night we had our Easter dinner because Andrew was getting ready to leave on a business trip. We had his mom, my parents, and his friend Brian over for dinner. It was a great dinner!! After we decorated eggs and played Brian's WII. That was so fun!! What a great night!

On Sunday the "easter bunny" had hid all the eggs and the kids had great fun trying to find them all over the house. After we had a nice breakfast and the kids and I got ready for church. We had to take Andrew to the airport and than we were going to drive to church - however, on the way, Katie threw up all over her easter dress. I still can't decide if she was just car sick or sick because she ate too much candy - needless to say though she felt much better after. We ended up at my parent's house that evening and had another nice dinner. Andrew called us around 8:30 telling us that he had made it to Dallas okay. Anyway - our wild and crazy weekend was a lot of fun!!!

Family Pizza Night

Last night was a lot of fun!! We had a fun pizza party with the kids. Everyone (including Mattie) got their PJ's on and we made our own pizza (except Mattie!!!). We watched Emprie Strikes Back and after it was over we had homemade brownies for desert. The kids had a lot of fun and so did mom and dad!!

We are starting to all get better but Dad has now got the yuckies and Mattie and Mommy are still in recovery. Hopefully by Monday we will all be doing better. Also - exciting news for us - Andrew got a new job!!! Yeah!! After 7 years, he will finally be working days and will be able to be home with us at night. I am so excited!!