April

It looks like I'm a once a month blog poster lately.  So here's April.

These are the Willow Tree figures that my family gave me for Christmas.  The ones that made me cry.   I love Willow Tree because they can portray so much emotion without a face!  Well, I was dusting these the other day, and totally had tears come to my eyes.  The fact that my kids picked these out on their own, and each for a different reason and memory... totally made me teary-eyed.  And made dusting a little better that day.  :)

Mar 4th was "Spread the Word to End the Word" day.  (Go here if you don't know what I'm talking about.  And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you really should educate yourself on this.  It's very important to us.)  Isn't this a cute pic of Anna and Katie?

Women's Conference.  I got to bring all my girls!  

The 2 biggest Celine fans in the world, celebrating Celine's birthday:

Lydia got her hair cut.  She has been growing out her bangs for awhile, and now they're even with the rest of her hair.  She was happy.

THIS is more like my Lydia.  lol.  She got bored of me trying to get her to smile and did this.  

Nathan teaching our last Family Home Evening before his mission.  He did an amazing job, and it was a really spiritual night.  This is Caleb, asking Nathan very deep questions.  This picture doesn't do justice to what we were all feeling that night.

This is Sunday afternoon.  We have early church and teenagers.  Need I say more?  I walked into the room and found this.  lol.

Cute picture of Elizabeth reading with her baby and animals.

Caleb lost his first tooth!    According to Caleb, "I was eating a chocolate bunny, and I felt something hard.  I thought it was a bunny bone.  So I took it out, and it was MY TOOTH!".  Bunny bone??  In a chocolate bunny?  He's so funny!

Katie had her first cavity.  She's terrified of the dentist!  In the past, we've had to sedate her to even get her teeth cleaned.  But over the last couple years, she has built up enough confidence to let them clean her teeth.  And then she even let them fill a cavitiy!  She was SO nervous and so scared.  But she did it!  I later learned from a friend who is a dental assistant that that is REALLY rare for a patient with Down syndrome to cooperate like that.  Good thing Katie and I didn't know that.  WTG Katie!

I found this one morning and thought it was cute.  They're so snuggly and still in the morning.  Too bad that doesn't last long.

More random sleeping on the floor.  Apparently this happens often in our house??  I don't think they were all asleep.  I think they were just waking up. (And that's Sterling in the top left corner.  Blake named our vacuum cleaner because it seems to be out all the time, and is always photo bombing pictures.  So he made it an honorary family member and gave it a name.)

Caleb, helping Nathan pack for his mission.