6 months old!!

Fox is six months old today!!

You like sweet potatoes, carrots, biter biscuit, mostly any food that anyone will give you, except rice cereal. You love your brother and sister, they always make you smile, and Grammy, Grandma, and Grandpa. Sierra may be your favorite person in the world. I'm not quite sure if it's because she looks like me or if you just real like her, but you'll really start bobbing when she comes to pick you up. You chew on everything you can get in your mouth. Lately I've been putting a binkie in your mouth and you don't suck on it you just bite down real hard and it shoots out, it's real funny. You are sitting up now, and you rock like you are in a rocking chair when you sit up. You're always happy as long as all your needs are met. You miss your Dad and smile when you hear his voice on the phone. You giggle extra cute and are real ticklish. You don't like being wet or stinky, or if people scare you. You make everyone happy, and are so darn cute! Happy six month un-birthday! We love you!

Happy Easter!

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Here's our Easter Day

Tom lookin' awesome waiting for everyone to wake up in the morning

Tom, Emma, and Liam waiting for Grammy, Grandma, and Grandpa to get up and ready.

Our baskets (Emma's, Mom/Fox's, and Liam's)

Emma showing what's in her basket

Liam showing off his sugar Easter egg

Emma opening egg she found into her basket

Liam and his loot :)

Fox got two easter rubber duckies and he loved them!!

(Mostly he loved eating them)

Playing with Uncle Tom

Liam talking to Dad on the phone

Happy Easter Dad!! We love you!!

Tom looking at his basket

Sierra looking at her basket

Getting ready for the easter egg hunt later that day

Emma's got her bag!

The kids had to wait at the top of the stairs until Grandma said go

(Andy, Liam, and Gracie)

(Mallory, Magnum, and Emma)

Mags found one!! (with a little help from Mom and Dad :) )

Emma finding eggs

The adult egg hunt was downstairs and was like a herd of angry buffalo!!

Elbows were thrown, couches were jumped, and eggs were hoarded.

(Brad and Sarai after the hunt)

Until there was nothing left but a barren shell ;)

(Tom and Sophie after the hunt)

And all I was left with was one egg...given to me out of pity from my brother Brad.

That's right I didn't get a single egg! They were like locusts, Gobbling up all eggs in there path!

I gave my one egg to my kids. (It's okay because I eat their candy any ways :) )

(my one egg in my bag)

The candy was sooooo good!

(chocolate covered Mal)

Happy Easter Everyone! I am so grateful to my savior! Grateful for his great sacrifice so that I know that I can always be with all of my loved ones, even if they do elbow, and steal eggs ;). I am grateful for the knowledge that when someone leaves this world it is not the end. I testify that Christ has died, but by dying the greatest miracle happened, he was resurrected! After death he once again walked the earth showing the wounds from his sacrifice for us! And by this action we too can be resurrected! Death is not the end! And I know that my family can and will be together again. He has risen, and so can we.

Easter Egg Coloring

First you start with the color. (Yes we had 11 different colors...they all came in one box!!)

Then you draw on them with crayons

Pick the color you want and let the egg sit in it.

Color with crayon some more (Stevie and Sierra)

And Wa-la!! Beautiful Easter eggs!!

And then Sierra got bored and decided to give herself a face lift with a rubber band.

Lovely.

Tom helped out.

Happy Easter everyone!!

Easter from a two year old's perspective: "Jesus died, and then he came back alive!! And after I die I can come back alive, maybe not right away though." (by Emma)

Emma the hair dresser

Emma got a hold of Grammy's hair curlers and found out that she could just put them on her hair and they stuck! So she then became or family hair dresser and went around doing everyone's hair!

Fancy hair dresser

Doing Grandpa's hair (woo, woo, woo!)

Doing Mom's hair. Fancy! Fancy!

My Mom said she found them at the dollar store. I've got to find Emma some! They kept her busy for a long time!

Liam's last day of school

Because we are moving and spring break is this next week, Liam had his last day of preschool yesterday (Friday). He was pretty excited about not having to go, but I think he'll miss it after a couple of days. We decided not to try and put him back in a preschool in Iowa. We'll just let him have a looonnngg summer and let him start Kindergarten in Iowa. He has learned all of his letters, sounds, and numbers!! Smart kid! In fact today he decided to try and sound out watermelon. He ended up spelling WUTRMI, but for a preschooler I thought that was pretty good. :) He told me that all of his friends told him goodbye on Friday. Thanks to Mrs. Strausburg and Mrs. Nickels for all they taught him!!

Preschool facts, and things about a 4 year old Liam (by Liam)

Liam's favorite friend: Conner

Liam's favorite color: dark green

Liam's favorite thing to do at preschool: play outside

Liam's favorite letter: L

Liam's favorite number: 4

Liam's favorite thing he made at preschool: the chicky in the egg (pictured below)

Liam's favorite shape: triangle

Liam's favorite "guys": ingen turtles (ninja turtles), and wolverine

Liam's backpack: a cat in the hat backpack

Liam's favorite thing he wore to preschool: his Spiderman costume (at Halloween)

Liam's thing he going to miss the most about preschool: Conner

Liam's favorite animal: a buffalo

Liam's favorite food: meat

Random facts: I like to play with my sister, I like to do karate, and I like to play outside at grandmas.

All the "Liam" signs that they had at his school. (He was real excited he got to bring them home)

Some of the pictures and stuff Liam made at preschool.

Liam after his last day of school

Good bye preschool!!

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Pictures for Dad

Pictures that Liam and Emma (and Kira) colored for Tony. :)

To Dad, From Emma

She mostly drew dots, but there is a ball and some playdoh in there some where (or so she tells me) :)

To Dad, From Liam

a picture of a bunny with clouds and a sunshine

To Dad, From Liam

Mom in a car and Dad in his red truck with a shovel in the back.

(the thing right in the middle is a vent brush that Emma asked Liam to draw :))

Liam and Emma's hands

Mom/Kira's hand (that Liam traced, pretty good if you ask me) and Fox's hand (which is why the paper is all crinkled)

We love you!!