Country, Religion, and the Trees

Tonight, Danny is at a class and so I'm at home with the girls, and before bedtime they had to take a bath..(if you've ever seen my kids eat you'd know why thats a necessary step.)

Kelli and Josie are in the bath playing, and I'm putting laundry away, and I'm called into the bathroom by Kelli. I had a conversation that went like this....

Kelli: "mom what do you want to talk about?"

Me: "I dont know, what do you want to talk about???"

Kelli: " I dont know, probably....(eyes rolled to the side and thinking)....

.....Country, Religion, or the trees."

Me: "hahahahhahahhahaha"

Kelli: "what???" (serious face)

Me: "whats religion?"

Kelli: "Jesus?"

Me: "good!"



Anyways, thought that was so Hilarious! So I thought I'd share.

St. George

Every year my family goes down to St. George for a dance competition. Rachael and Amanda were dancing so we decided to once again go down and show our support. Plus it gives us a good excuse to get away. It was a lot of fun... Saturday was taken up by dancing about every 3 hours or so but we were still able to fit in swimming a few times a day. It was a quick trip but lots of fun. Of coarse with my camera being so big, I cant just fit it into my diaper bag (thats already filled with cookies and drinks) so I didn't get any other pics other than when we were having a late dinner in the hotel after a full day of dancing..... and before we left. (there's definatly some pro's and con's to the camera.)

In our car on the way home, we had... Thomas, Kelli, and Nate in the back, then Josie and Amber, and then Danny and me in the front. I can't complain, the kids did really well.. and Amber is the one that had to deal with the children. It was a lot of fun, and I'm glad we were able to go down there.

Here is Kelli eating her kids meal while watching a movie on the lap top quietly while Josie was asleep next to her... Its a hard concept for us BULL children to know how to whisper, and we're working really hard and trying to teach her how to whisper.

We were lucky to see my good friend Heather and her husband Jordan while we were down there and went out to dinner, and we also were able to partake of In and Out before we headed home. Delicious!! Good times down there.... see ya next year! :)

Easter Day

Why is it when Danny and I are excited to do something fun the next day for a holiday our kids sleep in??? Every other day they are up at like 6:30 but on holidays........ they sleep in til 9??? And Danny and I are waiting anxiously for them to wake up. Its a vicious cycle. Well, the Easter bunny hid the eggs that we colored, and some that were filled with treats in our back yard Sunday morning. Kelli was so excited to bring her basket out there to find "treasures." She didn't want to bring her easter basket... she had to get the extra one. So random.

Josie, crawling around inside waiting for sister to return with the yummy treats.

Kelli and Josie before we went to church.

The kids waiting to go on a Easter egg hunt at Grandma & Grandpa Bulls house. Silly Easter bunny.... leaving us all this "wonderful candy" to deal with!

Trying to get all the grandkids to pose at once.... nearly impossible. But I have multiple pics and there is a good one of each one in a differnt photo.... this one was good enough.

Easter was so much fun this year because Kelli understood everything that was going on, and was so excited. Holidays are at a whole new level of enjoyment. Its fun to have to teach them the little random holiday traditions. Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!!!

T'was the Night before Easter

Saturday night we were preparing for Easter with everything that entales. We were baking all day long making homemade rolls, peroski's (spelling??), cinnamon rolls, and Birds nest cupcakes. Meanwhile, fullfilling our parenting duties of coloring eggs and being enthuastic about it.

Below are some pics of our day.....
(above: danny putting extra color in so they would be brighter. When we told Kelli we were going to color eggs, she got so excited, ran down and got her craft bucket out and opened her crayons.. so funny!)

Some eggs... waiting for them to dry

I saw these on one of my favorite "crafty blogs" to read.. I can't take credit for such a creative idea but they were mighty tasty and super easy. But the finished project of "birds nest eggs"

Tired??

On Saturday Danny put his tent up in the family room, so Kelli could watch her movie in there. I fell asleep on the couch and woke up and realized I couldn't move. Kelli had climbed up and fell asleep on top of me. How random was this position??? Notice that we are sleeping the same way with our hands up. So funny.

(*sorry for the underwear shot...... if you come to house (%% of the time you'll see her like this... its her Tarzan mode....She's not too into princess things)

Child Labor??

I'm either doing something really RIGHT or something very WRONG!?!? Every time I empty the dishwasher she comes running around the corner to do her part.. and if I start unloading it, I have to, "put those back!!! Thats MY JOB!" Testy, testy....

If only she had the same enthusiasm about her other jobs.. Making her bed, and cleaning her room. She demands money for those... I dont know how she did it, but she must of called her Uncle Greg. She has her piggy bank that she keeps her money in, "nice and safe so no kids can get it." The funny thing, is that she doesn't want the pennies, she wants the SILVER ones... dang it. How does she know?!?!

My Family

Lately I've been thinking a LOT about my brothers and sister, and how much a love them. When I was growing up I was fortunate enough to be raised in a tight knit family and we've always been that way.. We love and support each other through everything. I was talking with a friend the other day and they had TONS of family drama going on, and it got me thinking how grateful I am that I know that from time to time my family might not do things how I would do them and visa versa, there is never a ILL word made to me about it. We always go with the flow and love each other and are there for each other when we fall. I'm grateful for my sister who is always there for me when I'm having a bad day... without fail, I talk to her by NOON every day. Even if its just for a short minute... with her crazy life of, dance 4 times a week for 5 hours a day, and soccer, and gymnastics, and tumbeling, and YM/YW, and activity days... and being a relief society president... she's there to talk for a minute. My brother Scott who I miss more and more with every day that goes by.. I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. He is so kind, and always knows what to say, and seems to make a phone call to me at the right moment. He is awesome, and LOVES my kids and my siblings kids more than anything, and you can tell he cares when him and Larissa are asking about them.. they are the most GENUINE people EVER! Steven, who is the hardest working person I know! He is such a rock solid person and I look up to him in so many ways. He is such a kind and loving father, and UNCLE and will jump down the stairs to save a kid from falling down them... even if its ALL THE WAY DOWN the stairs... You are awesome. Ryan who is probably one of the MOST patient people I know.. He is always willing and ready to help and you can tell that he has a lot of fun with his kids and LOVES the silly things that they do. Ryan is so kind and loving to all the neices and nephews and he ALWAYS makes time to hear their stories and gives them the undivided attention that they want from him. And can find the POSITIVE in anything. Its always nice to surround yourself with people like him. Greg, I dont know where to begin.... We've always fought over stupid things, and still do sometimes.... We like to keep things interesting, but I know he loves me... right greg?!?! I love him and I know he has a special place in his heart for my little girls. He loves all of the kids so much, and they talk about him all the time, and he's so hard working and determined to be the best at what he does with ANYTHING that he does... I'm so grateful for my siblings and for their constant love and support that they give me all the time.. I sometimes wish we could go back to the BC Hardware days and when we'd all end up and MOM & DADS house for lunch just about every day. And nights when we'd play settlers of catan or NERTS til 4 in the morning. I miss those days but knew they weren't always going to be there. I'm glad that we love each other no matter what and KNOW when things need to be said... and when things need to be LET GO. I LOVE YOU GUYS. THANKS for all you do, and I miss you and I miss seeing you... I couldn't ask for a better relationship with any of you or your spouces.. we're all so close and love each other.. XOXO