hog heaven

Here is what I love about my kitchen.

{The sink}

It is big enough to put my kids in for a bath.

After a messy dinner on night I stuck her in the sink.

You would have thought that she was in heaven.

She laughed and played forever.

So that was my turn to try and use my camera.

I love her eyelashes they are really long and curl up.

So I thought of Carin (which she doesn't know who I am, I blog stalk her)

she is my friend Dede sister who takes wonderful pictures.

She had a challenge of capturing your kids eyelashes.

So this is my attempt to do so as she plays in the water.

Here is my beautiful baby in the sun.

I am blessed to have such a great baby.

fabric key chain

I love it when things turn out. I made this fabric keychain for my keys.

I can either put this on my wrist when getting kids into the car, or it

makes a great hold for Rylee to suck on when going to the store.

first bite

Rylee is now 6 months old. So I just started to feed her cereal. My girls were so excited to do this. I thought that she would be so ready to eat because when I am eating she trys to grab my fork or cup.

So here we go this is the first bite.

She still has a smile on her face wondering what is going on.

Not quite sure but smiling at her sisters that are so excited.

This is what her face is after the second bite. She did not like this at all.

After all that every bite she learned how to push the bowl away and the spoon.

I would put the spoon in her mouth when she was talking.

I know that this is not a first but I would have her swallow the cereal by

putting the binky in her mouth and the food would go down.

When I went to feed her today she just started crying before I got the food to her mouth.

I have got a long road ahead.

"all screwed up"

So May 27th has come and gone but I am finally blogging about

Naomis surgery on her growth plate.

I was nervous on how it would go and how would she would do. But she did really good.

We woke up at 6:00 a.m. and left for Primary Childrens and got there about 6:45 a.m.

They take you back and register and give the parents name tags (so that the doctor can remember who you are)

Then the nurse comes and weights you and has you put there gowns on.

Naomi did really good up until that part. Once we started walking back to the waiting room before the surgery she turned around and cried and said "I don't want to do it"

And if you know me of course I held it together and not one tear fell.

Her doctor came back and talked about what was happening and they put her in the wagon and away she went. They gave her bubble gum air to smell and she does not remember anything else. The surgery took over 1 hour and I went back to see her.So this is what she has been doing for the last few days.

If you have a weak stomach don't look any further.

We took some pictures of what her leg looks like. They put screws

on both side of the growth plate hopping that her leg will stop growing.

I hope that this all works out that I (and Naomi) doesn't have
to do this ever again. I think this is harder on me than her.

new wheels

My Sadie learned how to ride a bike last night. I was fixing dinner

and Rick came in and told me that I needed to come and watch her.

I came out and there she went. Starting and stopping by herself.

Thanks to Aryn Cerva for helping with the starting she is off and going.

(If Aryn is willing to move in I won't argue with anyone. She held Rylee while

I made dinner than went outside to help Sadie)

She is so proud of herself that she called everyone last night to tell them.

what do you think?

Okay Dede has helped me learn how to use my camera.

I bought it about 1 year ago and I am finally learning how to use it.

Believe it or not I have read the manual but it went in 1 ear and out the other.

So I have been playing with the camera(on manual) and this is the only

picture that I thought turned out half way good.

So I am posting this to have Dede is what I did.

I still have lots more to learn and lots more questions

now that I starting to take pictures.

So thanks to Dede for helping me out.

jyll and natalie

On Saturday we did the MS Walk at the Gateway.

We did it for my sister in law Jyll Mendenhall Roberts and Natalie Mendenhall

(middle picture of them)the MS sisters

Jyll had all the shirts made up for all 59 people that walked for her.

It was all amazing who came to support her. It is a nasty thing to have and

I hope that someday they will find a cure for MS.

You would never know that Jyll has MS. She will run circles around

everyone that I know. She works hard. She wants a family so bad

but MS does not stop her with that. She had a little girl Chloe in July.

There was thousands of people there walking, running and in a wheelchair.

We walked a 5K around Salk Lake with a break in the middle.

I was so proud my Dad and my Mom made it.(now that is dedication)

At the end they gave us medals. Sadie kept saying "I can't believe we won."

Eli said "I can't believe they gave us a bronze medal"

It was so much fun (and a excausting) day.

I can't wait to do it next year!!