Look Mom!

My friend made a dress for her daughter and gave me some extra material to make one for Audrey. So YES, I busted mom's old machine out, which still works great-how old is it? And made this dress, which was really easy. I just sewed a seam up the side and added ribbon for straps. And she actually LIKES it! Victory!

wierd comments

Okay, there's been some wierd comments from people we don't know on here. Emily, did you see that one after Brooke's on my last post? It talked about my 'cute and beautiful' daughter and the tree (I deleted the comment and the pic of the tree, by the way). There's been a few others. Any thoughts on going private (needing a password to access our blog?) Yeah, it's kinda a pain to enter a password, especially if we want our other friends looking at our blog. But there's been a few wierd comments now. Let me know what you guys think.

Latest Stuffs

So, let's see. On Sunday Caitlin gave the prayer during Primary at church. She did a great job. She sort of looked at me to see if I would help her (I was conducting) but I sat down and she just turned around and prayed into the microphone perfectly! I was so proud of her! She even included a "thank you for mommy, daddy, Caitlin, Lizzie, thank you for church." Very few Sunbeams will actually talk into the microphone and not freak out, and of course, you can all imagine how proud I am that Caitlin is so confident doing that. Anyway, we took a picture of her after church to comemorate the occasion. And of course, we can't just take a picture of Caitlin, so here's one of Lizzie, too, wearing her "senorita" dress.

Here's some pictures of the cats napping. I love their brother/sister love they obviously share:

Caitlin threw up in the middle of the night Monday night, but it seems to be just a 24-hour thing. I was helping her get back to bed (it was the sound of her barfing that woke us- thank goodness it was in the toilet) and she says, "Maybe Daddy can give me a blessing." I was surprised she even really knew about that, and then remembered that I did sharing time Sunday and it was about the Priesthood and we talked a little bit about getting blessings when we're sick. She had been listening!! That made me pretty happy, and proud of her, too. I explained that we didn't want to wake daddy, since he had to go to work early, but Caitlin happened to wake up again just as Rod was leaving, so she got a blessing before he left for work. It was exciting to see my little 4-year old learn about the priesthood! Now she knows about blessings, and also that she felt better afterwards.

Other than that, I'm gearing up to double our child load over the weekend: our friends are going on a trip and we're watching their 2 girls Thursday night through Sunday evening. They're the same age as our girls. Sacrament meeting with 4 kids! Brooke, you're going to have to give me some tips. Do you use velcro, duct tape, or what? I'm going to have to be super prepared to make it through I think!

A night on the town...

Thursday, April 10th mom and i went on a date. (yes, i know the same night the office started but it was worth it!) So mom had tickets to see Cinderella at the Dean Lesher in Walnut Creek. And since i'm her favorite and all of coarse she asked me to accompany her! :) We ate at Strings, a cute italian resteraunt in downtown walnut creek. Mom and i split a pasta dish with shrimp and sausage..well it was supposed to have sausage but mom and i couldn't find any in either if our plates! Nonetheless...it was still very yummy! We then had some time to kill so we walked around downtown and found some cool shops! After we walked around we then went to the play and enjoyed cinderella!! Unfortunatley i didn't take anyother pics other than when we were in this awesome store that was full of cool dishes, and vases and some other random cooking equiptment! We had a really fun time!

Spring is here!

Painting their masterpieces

Finished! (Audrey insisted the box of cereal be included in photo)

This was Troy's cake for his birthday, thanks Carrie for the yummy recipe, everyone loved it!

The boys had fun making their birdhouses, thanks Carrie! And Devon gets to sign off one of his Cub Scout requirments. I need to get some bird seed and then we'll go hang them outside. I'm sure our cats will LOVE them!

Did everyone enjoy the Office? HILarious! It was like seeing long lost friends again. I loved Michaels teeny plasma TV. I'll burn the next few new episodes and send them to you mom and dad!

Conference

It was a really wonderful conference weekend! We watched most of the sessions at home, and for the afternoon one I took the boys down to the church. It is nice to watch without any distractions at home. I'm not tempted to do dishes or tidy up while I watch...
I think my favorite talk was Elder Ballards, maybe it's just because I am one of the mothers he was talking about! Isn't it amazing how President Monson just sort of 'morphs' into the prophet?
Carrie, did you make mom's cinnamon rolls?

NKOTB!!!

Check it out!! New Kids are performing on the Today Show on Friday, May 16th at 7 am!! I'm seriously writing it on my calendar and turning on the TV that early for it!!!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23942736/