Elizabeth's Blessing Day

We blessed Elizabeth today in church. It was a nice day and so wonderful to celebrate her birth in our family! The weather was so cold for May, but it turned out to be a fun party.

Danny gave her a beautiful blessing and she behaved and was quiet during the prayer. After she started crying had to go in the hall to cry before falling asleep in Danny's arms.

Lizzie was really tired when I was taking her pictures, but she looked so sweet in her blessing dress. It was the same dress that Emily was blesssed in 5 years ago. We had all the family over after church for dinner and fun with our cousins.



Here are some pictures of the fun party!

Thanks to everyone who came for her big day! We are so blessed to live around our family, and so grateful to Grandpa Deppe for coming from Boise.

We love you so much Lizzie!

Taylor's Stuff

Taylor had a lot going on this week. He earned his Wolf Badge in Cub Scouts and participated in a cub scout cake auction. The auction is to raise money for the cub scout program. We made a caterpillar cake which sold for $35 , but some cakes sold for over $200.00. It was a fun, crazy auction and a great night for Taylor or recieve his Wolf.

He had a fun assignment in school this week too. He had to make a book report diaorama of a book of his choice. He chose a "Boxcar Children" book, and made a great diorama with clay. He did it all by himself and it turned out great!

Dressing up already!

Emily LOVES helping me get Elizabeth dressed and accesorized. She wants to help choose her clothes and shoes or socks, comb her hair(with a toothbrush), get her dressed, and put on headbands. The other day she was playing with her friends and she decided Lizzie needed a tiara. She looked so cute in a big crown! I think it's the beginning of a lot of playing dressups to come in the future. Good thing we have a big box full of princess dresses, crown, gloves, plastic high heeled shoes, wings, tights, skirts, jewlery and more! Oh- the fun these two girls will have in the future!

Emily is the best big sister!

Happy Easter!

We had a wonderful Easter Sunday. 
Here's a picture of all four kids actually looking at the camera, it's an Easter miracle! 

Taylor gave a talk in Primary about the resurrection and the meaning of Easter.  He read and studied about his topic all morning and wrote his own talk. He did a great job and I am so proud of him!

The kids had fun finding their Easter baskets, and see what they got; candy, swimming suits, bubbles etc.. 

After church we had a delicious dinner at G&G Shields house, followed by an awesome egg hunt in the backyard. 

These two little buddies ate a lot of candy and had tons of fun!

I almost got a smile on camera.

Here are the cooks for the day, I love this apron on my dad!  These two just celebrated their 35th wedding anniversary!  We love being their neighbors, and having them close by.

Look how fast these two little babies are growing.... stop getting so big!

Spike loved his new sunglasses.  He wanted to bring them to nursery to show "Browder Boren".  He thinks his nursery leader is his real brother and is in our family.  It's so cute and funny.

This is how Taylor says "Happy Easter".

We are so grateful to the Savior and for the wonderful gifts of the atonement and the resurrection that He has given each of us.   

Getting air!

Here's a picture of Taylor jumping on the tramp with his uncles.  They were bouncing him high!  He loved it and was having tons of fun, I made him stop, I was afraid he was going to break a bone.  Thanks to Nat for the great pics. from the balcony!

Two months old!

It's hard to believe Elizabeth is two months old already!  It seems like it's been forever since she was born, but at the same time it has gone by so quickly!  Time does weird things when you have a newborn and are sleep deprived. 

Lizzie is really such a sweet, mellow, adorable baby.  We continue to smother her with kisses and hugs, and the kids fight over who gets to hold her or feed her a bottle.  She is smiling a lot, but it's impossible for me to catch a good smile on camera.  She is growing fast and starting to put on a little weight. 

I am just trying to slow down, and savor her!  I love her at this stage!  She makes the cutest grunts, noises and little cries.  She also cries really loudly too, but not very often, and only when she is really hungry.  I love holding her close and smelling her baby smell and looking in her eyes wondering what her future holds. 

I wish she would stop growing so fast! I know this next year will go by so quickly, and I really want to enjoy every day with her!

Woops, I forgot to flip this picture.
Love you Lizzie!  You are such a beautiful girl!

Spring Break!

We had a great Spring Break this past week.  The only bad part was the cold, rainy weather.  We ended up doing lots of indoor activities; swimming, going to the bouncy house place, art projects, reading books, visiting the library and museums, playing with friends, watching movies and taking a few naps.  It was a fun, busy week and so nice to have no schedules.  The kids even slept in until 8am (that's late for our family)! 

Here are a few pictures of our week. 

"Spike", AKA Isaac, had fun swimming, I guess dogs love the water.  He is still going strong with his doggy pretend play.  He loves to be Spike! 

We made this poster for Grandpa Shields for his B-day this week!

We had a fun Easter party with our friends on the street, we dyed eggs, frosted cookies, and had a big Easter Egg hunt followed a pizza party for dinner.  We LOVE our new house and all our friends around us!  It's tons of fun!

Emily hard at work dying eggs.

Taylor is still impossible to take pictures of.  He won't even look at the camera let alone smile! He's such a boy!

It turned out to be a fabulous week, hope yours was great too!