NEW PICS...

WE FINALLY GOT AROUND TO GETTING OUR PICTURES DONE BY JUSTIN'S SISTER JAELYN... SHE DID A GREAT JOB... I'M SO HAPPY SHE OFFERED TO DO THEM! SHE CAPTURED A LOT OF GREAT MOMENTS THAT I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH!!!

Hope and her big brown eyes...


Haven had many moods during this photo shoot... you name it we dealt with it... happy to sad, crying to laughing, tears to fear (of the thunder), scared (of the cows watching us and the dog barking) to tired (of pictures)!




Halle was Jaelyn's little model... she was such a trooper and was so good dealing with everything that was thrown at her (including Haven choking her from behind when we did pictures of the 3 girls together... wait until you see those), and I love the pictures Jaelyn got of her...


Especially this one... it's our favorite!


I can't believe how she's growing up and wow how her teeth are changing (her cute baby teeth are slowly disappearing into large ones that are three times the size of her baby teeth)!


Hope loves to pose and on her own did these serious faces...


Haven most of the time wouldn't let go of me... I realize just how much I hold her and it didn't help for pictures when I need to let go of her and that's not what she wants!


THE COOLEST PART WAS THAT ALTHOUGH THE STRESS OF THE CRAZY WEATHER, EMOTIONAL/SOMETIMES NON COOPERATING CHILDREN JAELYN JUST CAPTURED IT ALL... JUST THERE WITH US HAVING A GOOD TIME... THANKS SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS WITH US AND FOR US!

HOPE'S KINDERGARTEN PICTURES...

1st picture from the beginning of the year... (oh there's my little Hope, before she decided to grow up even faster)! Thought they were cute, but that I would try doing something more to her hair next time. Because, I curled her hair for this picture, but her hair is too long it gets cut off by the camera, so we decided to try re-takes...


And the teacher had her leave her jacket on...BOO, that's not the look I was going for! Haha... and it was too late to go back and choose the 1st set for class pictures. Moral of the story do NOT try re-takes when your picture is good to begin with, because they assume you don't like the 1st ones, that's why you are getting re-takes done!? I thought the whole point was to compare and then choose! I'm learning, though I still don't understand why they assume the 2nd ones automatically would be better!?


3rd picture, the end of year spring pictures... didn't know they usually did spring pictures! Notice that we chopped her hair (should have left the bangs out, so you could see even a bigger difference...) and more missing teeth and the whiter skin from being copped up all winter long! I'm glad the school does the spring pictures... this way you are able to see the changes from the beginning of the school year to the end!

I LOVE YOU HOPE YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!!

BIRTHDAY WISHES...

HAPPY "10TH" BIRTHDAY KAYLINNY JOYCEY LOU... WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU... AND WHEN I TOLD THE GIRLIE'S IT WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY HALLE SAID "YEAH WE GET TO GO TO SALT LAKE TODAY!" SILLY GIRL... SHE THINKS WE GET TO COME FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY! IT'S TOO BAD WE CAN'T JUST PICK UP AND GO! JUSTIN TOLD ME TODAY THAT HE FOUND OUT HE HAS SOME DAYS HE HAS TO WORK IN SALT LAKE. SO, I THOUGHT THAT WAS COOL TO FIND OUT ON YOUR BIRTHDAY THAT WE CAN COME VISIT... CONSIDER IT A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE! WE WILL LET YOU KNOW THE DATE SOON... LOVE YOU KAYLIN!

VACATION IN CALIFORNIA, VISITING LA JOLLA BEACH!


THE GIRLS LOVE TO GO SWIMMING WITH YOU!


AT YOUR DANCE PERFORMANCE A FEW DAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS, IT WAS FUN TO WATCH... THANKS FOR LETTING US COME!

DANCE PERFORMANCES AND EASTER TIME...

Dance Magic's Practice Preview at Canyon View Middle School... thanks for all the fam that came out!




I thought this was so cute... Haven fell asleep waiting for lunch on Easter Sunday! We were running a little late with lunch, because of conference being on and all the Easter excitement, that she tuckered out right before lunch was ready! She was waiting so patiently...


Grandma Jocey likes to do a little Easter egg hunt with the grand kids... this time it was inside, because of the cold weather...


Numbers are inside the plastic eggs that correspond to certain gifts that await in Grandma's basket! Thanks Grandma for your effort and fun times!


My Brother Tyson brought back some Easter gifts from my Mom... some extra large gifts awaited the kids from Grandma Glori! Thanks Momma for the thoughtful gifts, it means a lot!


We didn't get all dressed up on Easter Sunday, because of General Conference that is a day to stay in our pj's... so this was our attempt the next Sunday to get some cute Easter pictures of the girls!


Our Haven Joy Joy


Our crazy little Halle


Our Hope who is getting more emotional day by day!


Why do they have to grow up so fast?


My attempt at a family picture, boy was it sunny and windy!

I FOUND SOME PICTURES AT...

If anyone read my previous post... I was bummed, because I couldn't show the pictures from my Relief Society blog of the different items and amounts of fruits and vegetables in the "baskets", but I found a fan page on facebook! Which they have pictures of different amounts of fruits and vegetables you get... this is just as good! Take a look I became a fan, so I have the page located in my Info under Pages or it's Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op on facebook! TAKE A LOOK!

SO EXCITED TO TRY THIS...

Our Relief Society has finally made a blog and I went to check it out today and there was a post about Bountiful Baskets... and what a great deal it is! You pay $15 and get a basket of enormous amounts of fruits and vegetables... 50% fruits, 50% vegetables!!! You can choose to do this weekly or every other week... or just when you need it. I found out from our RS blog that you add things to your basket on Mondays at 12:00 P.M. and have until Tuesday at 10 P.M. and pick up is on Saturday! I was so excited to check bountifulbaskets.org out... I sat and called my Dad, Aunt and Mom to tell them all about it while I waited until it was available online! I guess I thought it was a race or something :)!

Here's a little info. from my RS blog which is private... so I hope it's OK that I copied and pasted some great information that made me understand how great of a deal this is! It's too bad I couldn't copy the pictures on the RS blog, because they showed what different items they had received in "baskets" from two different weeks for $15 and some other add ons that you can add on additionally:

The rest of this post is not in my own words it's from my RS blog (Thanks to Kristy who wrote this):
Bountiful Baskets It is a food co-op that allows you to buy high quality produce and other items at prices reserved for restaurants and grocery stores. This is SO much more than you could ever buy at the grocery store for that price. It is also really high quality, very fresh! It's also great because they always give you something a little exotic so your forced to try something you might otherwise not. We've had mangos, jimacas, pummelos, asian pears, cara cara oranges and the list goes on. You never know what you are going to get, but I'll tell you what...we eat a whole lot more fresh produce now and I hardly EVER buy fresh fruits and veggies from the grocery store anymore. BB also offers great bread add ons every week. And it is really good bread. I'm talking 100% Whole Wheat or 9 grain sandwhich bread, Olive Oil loaves, Rye Bread...good stuff!

I think it is SUCH a valuable asset to our community. Cedar City started with one drop site, every other week, in October 2009 and 14 orders. There are currently four sites in the Cedar/Enoch area accommodating I think 100 people each. At least one of them is now open every week. We are hoping to start another site in our neighborhood in the next week or two.

Cedar City has an email group to share recipes for the ingredients we get each week. That is great, but if you like the recipe, you have to save the email or print it out. So I considered starting a new BB food blog, but my hubby suggested I just tweak my recipe blog to fit! So I made a few changes to that blog and voila! It works great! Go to allthatanddinnertoo.blogspot.com to check it out. I went through all the recipes and instead of labeling them as simply containing "veggies" I have labeled specific produce items. So if you get the mexican pack or the italian ingredient pack with your basket, you'll be able to look up items containing specific ingredients. I'm hoping to recruit more contributors (any takers?) to the blog this way as well and get some more healthier recipes there. (There ARE healthy recipes on there, but hopefully this will increase the supply). Plus I'm hoping this will be helpful as it gets closer to gardening season, so if you have zucchini coming out your ears, maybe you can find some ideas there.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY HALLE...