Still Here!

I'm going to backtrack about 5 weeks and try to catch up. I've been staying up and trying to organize my photo folders and found pictures from this past month that I want to have on here. Wow, it's been a busy month! We've had a lot going on and unfortunately for me, I haven't kept my blog up. Anyways, I found these pictures from our conference weekend. We don't have TV in our house so we usually go for drives or visit parents to listen to conference. This year we decided to stay home so we had to get creative. We painstakingly maneuvered our couch around a tight corner with our counter in the way so that we could watch conference live on the internet! Yes, we are slowly breaking away from the cavemen and catching up with the world of technology!
We celebrated Jesse's birthday a few days later. I already wrote a birthday post for him but we hadn't actually celebrated yet so now I just have our pictures to post. The night before his birthday is when I gave him his gifts from me because I had a class the night of his real birthday. Before my class though we had a mini celebration with the kids so they could give him his gifts and cake.

The kids colored some cards for Papa.

I took the kids shopping for daddy's birthday present and Jack was set on getting him a 'blue doo(dune)-buggy' because he was sure that's what Jess would love the most. We searched and searched at Target, Wal-mart, Toys r us, All-a-dollar, and finally Kmart. We couldn't find any dune buggy's at all, let alone a blue one so we just bought the closest we could find. Jack wrapped them up in blue wrapping paper so he was satisfied, and still excited to help Jess open them!

Jayci gave Papa a luxury treat that we don't have here too often: a 12 pack of coke! She really helped Jack pick out the hot wheels because she also wanted to give Daddy a dune-buggy. We made sure to get enough for all of them to play together.
I made Jess some gourmet sloppy joes and Maceys was kind enough to make the cake! (I'm really glad my husband still loves me!:)

There were just too many candles to fit on our little cake so we left 27 of them off! Jess was a good sport when I had to leave for my class.
Happy Birthday Papa!!! We love you!

Well, I have to say, what's up with this crazy spring weather? It's finally seeming somewhat normal, although very hot already, but the day after I let my kids play in the rain this is what that storm turned into! I thought I had doomed them to pneumonia. All the poor trees that had just blossomed lost branches because they just couldn't hold up under the pressure of an April snow storm. At about midnight I heard some loud popping noises and went outside to investigate. The trees that are next to my house had huge branches cracking and breaking off. They sure made some pretty pictures!

Not so pretty in the morning though!

At least the kids enjoyed the snow!

This is Jack's buddy Beau throwing a snowball at me.

So ummm it's 3:11 AM. I still have a ton to catch up on.......... but not tonight. Hopefully soon! Hope everyone else is enjoying sleep right now, I'm sure your morning will be more pleasant than mine!