PHOTOGRAPHY

So, one of our good friends is getting into photography, and now has a studio in her basement, and she called and wanted to take pics of my girls.. so naturally I said.."DONE!" and zoomed down there. She took such cute pics.. I haven't seen all of them yet, but she posted some on her website, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE them! Check her website out.. and if you're feeling like you need your kids pics taken.. give her a call! She does such a great job! Thanks Jennie! i LOVE them!


www.photographybyjenniferlee.blogspot.com


I also have her website added on my "just for fun" section. Check out the cute pics of my kids.. and others. And if you saw how WILD they were... You'd be surprized that there were any with smiling faces.. ;)

Let me OUT!

So, because my house is a split level type, I have all sorts of barriers throughout.. and one of them is this little wooden gate. Poor Josie, she can cruize up the stairs faster than you can blink, but she goes head first down them.... she thinks its funny though. (usually its only 2 or 3 stairs) She'll sit and hold onto this gate while I'm cooking dinner.

I think she is trying to chew her way through... so cute though.

Just Dance!

Kelli had her 2nd Dance recital and LOVED it just as much as before. Her first one was when she was 2 1/2 and she just turned 3 when she had this. She wanted to take a picture up on the big stage and did some nice poses. This was my favorite one.

She had 3 dances all and all.. she had a ballet dance, a tap dance, and was in the finale. In her ballet dance they had to pop a balloon at the end with a toothpick that was hidden in their shoes. She loved that part, and was excited to hear the people laugh when the balloons popped.

These are some of her mad dance moves.

This was her in the finale. Some of her dance buddies left before the finale.. Which I dont blame them it was long and my kids were tired.. but she loved it. All the kids were so excited backstage and she just wanted to get out there for every dance and shake it.. instead she tried to follow along on all the dances in the isle. Which was entertaining as well.

Good Job Kelli! You did so great. Shake it girly..

Memorial Day In Benjamin

On Memorial Day the whole family went down to the family reunion in Benjamin. Where's Benjamin you ask??? Past Spanish Fork.. and just when you think you've gone too far..... go a little further, and Bam! You're there. It was a lot of fun. Danny brought a Volleyball net and all the guys played that while a game of football was going on. And of coarse we ate and socialized. I have more pics.. but didn't have the time to download them. But here is a cute picture of Kelli and Josie in the swing.. and Josie LOVING it!!

I took video of Josie just laughing.. but one day I'll fig out how to download that.

April/May/June Birthdays

Well, we decided to do ONE big party for the majority of the 'grandkids' birthdays.. There are so many, thats its easier to do it all in one sitting. It was, Amanda's, Lyza's, Seths, Kelli's, Brooklyns, Thomas, and Nates birthdays. Lyza's was at the end of April, and Nates is June 1st, and the rest in May, but we just put them all together. It was a lot of fun, it was at Michelle and Serges, and the kids loved playing on the swingset, and trampoline, and running around the backyard. We had yummy food and great entertainment (provided by the children) and awesome weather.
(above: some of the Birthday kids posing on the tramp.... but the real supporter was Sami who was a little bit jealous it wasn't her birthday but man, she can sure strike a pose!)

(below: all the birthdays sitting on the blanket waiting for grandma to make her rounds of delivering the presents. And for the record.... Amanda was the first one on the blanket. )

Grandma and Grandpa Anderson, and Uncle Paul watching the kids run around and open presents.

Kelli on the tramp. All she wanted for her birthday was a trampoline and swing set, and didn't get either... what a let down. But atleast Shell has both!!

Josie doing my favorite crawl of all..... on her feet and hands.. she hates the grass, but is starting to warm up to it. She just crawled around on the grass and would try to eat some every once inawhile.

Happy Birhtday Kids!

Happy 3rd Birthday Kelli!!!

I can't believe that Kelli is 3 years old!!! Its amazing to me that I have a 3 year old.... wow! It was just a laid back party for her, we had dinner, and then after dinner, our friends Summer and Jeff came over for cake. Kelli was so excited all day long, she just wanted to decorate everything, and color pictures for herself...

(blowing out her 3 candles... its hard to do for such a small person)

She got lots of fun presents, one of her favorite gifts was from Grandma and Grandpa Farnworth, and it was a Thomas the Tank Engine train set, with a train that moves. Having to watch me try to reassemble that thing is... well, I ususally give up and tell her to wait for Dad to get home. I need some sort of map to see whats it suppose to look like, I can't come up with my own ideas... :)

Kelli got some princess rollerskates, She loves them, but loves me to rollerblade more and her sit in the stroller. I dont remember rollerblading being so tiring.... or ever think "wow I'm exercising!"

I also prefer to do the rollerblading so my toes dont get trampled over from her skates!

And the BEST gift of all, that is every mothers DREAM GIFT, was a gumball machine, and gumballs from Summer and Jeff. They gave her some lipstick, some craft stuff, and all sorts of things. Kelli loved it, and she'd had fun with the machine and everything. Thanks Summer and Jeff for coming. She loved it!

Well, she's is three and its gone by so fast. She's so amazingly COORDINATED. She loves to climb trees, climb fences, do her slip and slide... jump down the stairs, and pretty much anything thats somewhat dangerous. She's a great big sister, and makes sure that whatever she does, Josie can come play with her to. She's super smart, and loves to learn how to do things and is determined to figure out how to do it well. I love that about her. I love her so much, and she's such a kind hearted person, and she LOVES HER ICE CREAM. She's has an AMAZING memory, and if we've been to a restaurant once, or a building once, she'll remember whats its called and why we went there the last time... and she can spot a DAIRY QUEEN from a mile away... even before I CAN with is AMAZING in itself. LOVE YOU KELLI BELLY!

Too Much EDWARD?

Josie has cut her FANG teeth first.... RANDOM?!?! I thought so, til my mom told me that my brother Steven did the same thing. So, I'm fine with that, cause he's the only one who didn't have braces. SO, she's cut her fang teeth and her two bottom teeth, and her top middle look like any day now.... she did all those teeth in a week span. When her fangs came through, Danny laughed cause I was reading all those Twilight books when I was preggers... So its now Edwards child. That doesn't fly, since she's the spitting image of her father, Danny.

(Josie is starting to look more and more like Kelli, I'm really going to have to label pictures)

This was taken a few weeks ago, so you can barely see the tooth, but if you look closly you can see the white tooth coming through. What a cutie!