PAY IT FORWARD!!!

How fun is this!!! Be sure to leave a comment if you want to play... my sister-in-law did this on her blog, and I didn't win, but I'm totally stealing her cute idea anyway. You simply make a comment to this post in the next week and on next Saturday, April 26th I will put your name in a drawing and the three people that I draw out will get something from me! (in the mail if you live far away) Winners will be posted on Sunday, April 27th. If you win, be prepared to PAY IT FORWARD!

What a great Spring Break!

My mom came down yesterday to hang out, and she brought all the stuff to make these cute little candy airplanes. The kids had fun making the planes and eating all the candy in the process :)


My kids are so cute :)

Luke was being a goof ball- so I had to capture the moment

This is his, "have some more?...gwamma.....pwee?"


Charity's testing out her plane.

Kelly's such a sweetie.


Ham

and Cheese

Kelly flew her plane around a whole bunch so that it could dry :)


Luke was being funny- I don't know quite how to explain what he was doing, but he was trying to look sneaky while he was stealing and eating this piece of gum. He bounces while he has his shoulders shrugged like this- are you trying it? It's way funny :)


see! I'm still laughing.


"hmmm, maybe I wanted a different candy...."

"what do you have??"

This was brad trying to imitate Lukey.

Now Charity's plane is making it's flight.

"Do I see some candy on the floor??" (Luke really lives for the next treat- it's pathetic)


We had such a nice Spring Break! I wish I had taken more pictures all week!! We made cookies and played lots of games; hung out with Christy and her kids; the girls got to have all of their new friends over to play; Uncle Steve and Whitney came over to try my yummy pie; we played and had a yummy dinner at Jared and Paulette's for the Jazz Game; Grandma Hatch came and made candy airplanes and went to the park with us; and the Lignells came over! Not to mention all the couch fishing, and bathroom door locking :) we did. Unfortunately I took a little bit of a break from the housework, which can never be good :) But we had SO MUCH FUN this week. It's gonna be a bummer to have to take Charity back to school. Funny that it felt like such a break- she only goes to school for 2 hours and 45 minutes a day- but it was fun. Time to get back to life I guess :)

One of my favorite things about being a Mom.....

I get such a kick out of the weird little things my kids do. It's seriously one of my favorite things about being a mom. This week we had a few of these moments that I just had to share :).
Luke somehow got locked in the bathroom. It's funny because he is learning how to open doors, so I was surprised he couldn't get out, but the funniest thing was that he wasn't really all that worried :). He yelled out to us, and banged on the door a bit, but he wasn't crying or anything. And then when Brad and Kelly started putting things under the door for him to play with and they were all goofing off, he was actually laughing! LOL I seriously couldn't help but take a picture and laugh for a minute before scrambling around to find something to pick the door with. Normally we use bobbypins, but apparently we are out, so it did take me a little while to find out that our paintbrush ends work too. But Luke seriously didn't seem to mind- we were all laughing by the time we opened the door, and of course, as soon as it was open- Bradley, realizing what fun it was- had to try it out. Good times :)


This is kinda cute too. Kelly has a habit of coming up to our room in the middle of the night, and we have started having her just get a pillow and a blanket and lay down on the floor next to our bed. Her room is all the way downstairs so it's a bit of a trip for her to go back down and get a blanket and pillow, so I always feel bad making her do it. But one night this week- she thought it worthwhile to make SEVERAL trips just to bring the comforts of her own room- up to our bedroom floor :) I'm not sure how this is more comfortable than her bed, but whatever :) Do what ya gotta do :) If you can't tell, there are about 7 stuffed animals, 2 blankets and her pillow- she could NOT have done that in less than 4 trips. She even lined them up like this- I didn't do that for the picture!! She's nuts, but it made me laugh to see her sleeping there :)


Okay, so this is kind of disgusting, but definitely worth the laugh I got out of it. I was just sitting here on the rocking chair feeding Noah, and Luke comes in the room, obviously bored. He looks around for a minute, like he's trying to find something to do, and then thoughtfully runs over to the couch. He was driven by something, but I wasn't sure what it was as he was throwing up the cushions.

Then he looked around for a second under the seat cushion, and then quickly his cute little hand dove in for a surprise. It was HILARIOUS!! Luke was fishing for leftover....stuff (mostly food, but there were some other lint and crumb covered things that he found fascinating) that had fallen into the couch. He was determined though- and found a few surprises before his siblings saw what he was doing and made way over there.


I know I probably should have stopped them, but come on!! I was totally dying!! I can't believe how long they were fishing in there (guess I need to clean out the couch more often, but we've really only had it for what a few months or something) It was really funny.

Here he is showing me one of his treasures.

Man! Kelly even took advantage of the moment! It's so gross, but SO FUNNY!! You can totally see Luke's face like, "Oh, wow! Where did you find those- I want one!"

Let's see, there's got to be at least one more in there :)

Totally cracked me up!! I couldn't get enough of it. Don't know if it's necessarily Blog-appropriate material, but who cares- I'm still laughing :) And it wouldn't have been so funny if he had just stumbled upon it, but he knew what he wanted to do and went over to do it with a purpose in mind. What a crazy little animal. Ya gotta love Luke's scavenging abilities- time for lunch I guess :)

Charity on her bike

On Saturday, when we got home from Murray Park, Nate and I just sat on our nice cozy porch while the kids all ran around. It was SO NICE. Felt like it had been so long since we were able to do that! Charity rode her bike for us. She's such a pro- didn't have any trouble getting up on her bike and riding it even though it's been a year. What a great day!!!

Hanging out with the Lignells

On Saturday we had the priviledge of attending Sariah's baptism- that was so neat! After the baptism and yummy food we all went to Murray Park to feed the ducks. This was an oldtime favorite for our family- the kids don't remember it, but for Nate and I- it's a special place. It was so neat to be with the Lignells as well. They are such a neat family. Scott and Debe are the kind of people who you can just tell are happy to be alive! I love it! It makes ya realize that life is just great, and there is so much to love about it. It's just really pleasant to be around them. I don't think I've ever seen them unhappy. Maybe they're just good at faking it, but I can't help but be happy and enjoy being in their company. It's really nice to be able to get together with them and have our kids get along so well too. Charity thinks she's a big girl like Sariah now- it's kinda cute. I can do without the "Do you think I look like a teenager when I wear this?" question though ;)


We had a lot of fun at the park- even if we were just "throwing bread at the ducks". Nate WOWed us all with his skipping rocks ability- it really was cool to watch from a different angle.


I think this was when Charity had the camera- she took pictures of everyone and everything- especially the ducks.


Jenna's such a cutie!


There's my big "teenager" :) She's getting so grown up!


I love this picture just cuz all you can see is the bread in the water- no ducks eating it :) lol


And I love how my kids sit down and hold the bread out- like the ducks are gonna come running over to them. How funny.







we're a little rusty on the monkey bars, but Brad still gave it a shot.


Charity was a little nervous at the start, but she picked it right back up from last year- too bad they don't have monkey bars for her in the Kindergarten playground here, she sure loved that at her old school.


Ah the volleyball pit- who needs a playground or a duck pond, or anything for that matter when you can play in the volleyball sand pit.


yep, a whole loaf of cheap store bread floating around on the water lol. We decided that these ducks were just picky- they wanted something more than just $1.19 white bread.


Love this :) That's my girl :)







Ya gotta see this kid run- it's so stinkin' cute. He has a little twisty-hop to his run- makes me laugh. Anyway :)


It was SUCH a nice day on Saturday! We totally got fried by the sun- poor little Noah even had rosey cheeks when we got home. (has anyone else ever heard that you're not supposed to put sunblock on anyone under 2?? Our Pediatrician told me that- or now I'm wondering if I heard him wrong, but I coulda swore he said not to put any sunblock on the baby. He said to just keep him in the shade--- which I did, but come on- maybe someone could enlighten me on the subject-- we've always had just a family doctor, so we didn't get the usual Pediatrician rules for our other kids- so I'm just curious if this is just something I didn't know or what!! ANyway- side note)


that's brad.
It was a really nice Saturday!!

Matching Airplane Jammies

Brad was so cute- getting all excited about having matching jammies with Noah. We're all about airplanes these days :) Way cute- thanks Natalie.

Luke's growing!

I just thought this was kinda cute- to see how Luke's changed- still driving the car, but a little more interested in actually driving :) He's getting so big!