The rest of April

April was so crazy! Between all of the partying... there was more partying. 

The month started out with conference. Since Kyle was gone on Saturday (for like the 5th conference in a  row) I got really creative with the girls. I don't expect them to sit through all of it. But I did want to start giving them a chance to start getting something from it. During the morning session we made  snack necklaces together. That was a lot of fun.  During the afternoon session while a certain baby was a sleep I did conference cups. I had put a picture of a bunch of different topics that might come up in conference. Each cup had a different candy in it. When they would hear that word they would be able to get a candy out of the cup. They listened so well! It was awesome! 

Then Saturday night Kyle and I went to the symphony. It was a blast! I have never been to one before and it was seriously so cool. The music was incredible. It was fun to get all dressed up and go out on a fancy date with my husband. 

Sunday was more conference. We built the tent in the family room. We got to have Sunday dinner at my parents house! Its amazing how fast conference weekend goes now that I am an adult. I'm always so sad when it is over. 

Later that week we had Tragdon's birthday party. I made amazing cupcakes for it. 

We got new carpet! And new baseboards upstairs and it was a nightmare. Seriously. Maybe I'll post the 6+ page write up about that crazy situation. It was seriously the worst. 

Thats pretty much all the big stuff! Here is the photo dump:

snack necklaces

Simba! 

conference cups

Symphony selfie

conference tents

watching disneyland videos during breakfast. They request this almost every day. 

working as a team to get the cupcakes moved outside

before and after of the carpet! I love it! 

Building cup towers with daddy 

playing outside 

Making cookies. Abby wanted to make cookies and I asked her what kind and she said "the ones we made for santa" so we made molasses cookies and the house smelled like Christmas. It was awesome. 

Princess dresses, bed head and messy faces 

Juliet made her own bed without me asking. How cute and sweet is that? 

Juliet telling me about her dreams at breakfast. Her voice and they way she tells a story are the best!  

Jane cries. A lot. 

Helping daddy install the shelves I made!

This girl and her fashion sense. She is so creative.

I took this picture of Abby and Jules on the first day they finally started feeling better. 

Symphony again 

Juliet took this picture of Abby. I love it! 

Yoga before bed. They are so cute. 

One Wednesday morning when Kyle didn't have to go into work until 11 I decided to keep Abby home that morning and we would go out and have a fun family day. It was right in the middle of the Express Flooing fiasco. We were all so drained and stressed and we needed to spend a little time together just us. We went to the riparian preserve and walked around. We dug for dinosaur fossils and played hide and go seek. Then we went to the library and checked out a ton of books. It was really fun! 

Kyle and Abby and Jules at stake conference. I stayed home with Jane because she was just getting over being sick. Kyle ended up coming home early with the girls because they were starting to feel sick. And then they were so sick for a few days. Really high fevers and barfing. Not fun. Because we had stake conference I invited everyone over to our house for family dinner. Poor Abby and Jules spent the whole time in the den sleeping or watching movies because they were so sick. 

Movies and barf buckets for days! 

April was awesome! May has some fun stuff too, but way more relaxed. 

Wedding Weekend!!

I hardly took any pictures of this weekend! I am so bummed. Hopefully I'll be on top of it enough to do another post when we get all the wedding pictures back. 

The weekend was wonderful though. The girls had gotten sick the weekend before and were finally feeling better the day everyone got into town. My grandparents stayed with us at that was a lot of fun.  Thursday started off the festivities with going to the temple for Andi to get her endowments. Its always so special to go through with someone for the first time. Thursday night we all went to farmhouse grill and that was a lot of fun too. The weather was beautiful! 

Friday morning I got up and went running. We had french toast for breakfast and slowly got ready. We dropped off the girls at my parents house with Lacee and Darlene and then we all headed over to the temple. It was so fun to see everyone that came. The sealing was amazing. I love being able to attend a sealing and hear the advice the sealer gives. Carson and Andi looked so happy. It was so crazy to hear the sealer start calling her Sister Jenkins after the ceremony. 

We headed outside and waited for Carson and Andi to come out! The florist had made flower crowns for the girls. It was so cute. It was about 12 when we were sitting out there and my girls were starving to death. I had brought a ton of snacks and they would not stop crying for more food. I'm sure in every single picture they will be eating something. Insert eye roll here. So being at the temple wasn't the funnest thing ever. Abby's feet started hurting her and then Juliet decided she had to pee right that very second. So we had to cruise out of there. We took Jane over to my friends house and laid her down for a nap so the rest of us could go to the luncheon! 

The luncheon was a dream. It was so relaxing and so nice. The food was amazing! Abby and Jules did really well so that was fun. Everyone stood up and told a funny story or gave some advice. That was really cool. Then Kyle and I sang the book of love. I love that man. 

Then we went and got Jane and headed home and rested up for a little bit. I went over to Jason and Sarah's house and Sarah did my makeup. It turned out so amazing. She is so talented and I loved how it turned out. It was fun to get extra dressed up. Then I ran home and got everyone else ready and we headed over for more pictures and got ready for the reception. 

It was SOOO windy and dusty as we were doing pictures and getting ready for the reception. I could hardly see the temple as we were driving over to my parents house. It was a  full out dust storm. As far as weather goes it could have been a lot worse. But luckily it died down and turned into a beautiful night. I know that God was answering some prayers that night though. As I've talked to people since the reception everyone said the wind was bad all night, but in my parents back yard it was still and beautiful. The backyard looked magical! The desserts they had were absolutely amazing. I ate way too much. It was so fun to see so many old friends. We all had a great time dancing and talking. The girls were actually really good and we didn't have any melt downs. 

We ended the night with some dancing, decorating the newlyweds car and doing a really fun sparkler send off for Carson and Andi. As carson and Andi are pulling away Juliet comes up to us and tells us she peed her pants. So that ended the night for us! Kyle got the girls home and in bed and then my mom drove me home a little while later. 

It was such a beautiful wedding. I can't believe my little brother is married! We are so happy to have Andi in our family now. 

The signs I made for parking

Janie and Jane

Garage selfie before heading to the reception

I am so in love with this man. 

I took that picture!! It looked so amazing blown up so big! 

My dad put on the song we danced to at my wedding and asked me to dance. I have the best dad in the world. 

Sunday night we had everyone over to our house for dessert after church. 

Monday we went swimming at my mom's house and little Kaliah fell asleep on me. 

Kyle doing some sweet diving into the pool

The cutest flower girls 

We were all so worn out. Kyle ran to hobby lobby to grab something for my lesson and juliet fell asleep in the cart. 

Saturday night we had a big bbq at my parents house. We all sat around and talked and laughed. Then Lacee and Zack played some duets with the guitar and banjo and kyle and I sang our new song. That was really fun! 

It was a great weekend. Thanks Carson and Andi for getting married! 

Easter Time

Easter was a good time this year. That weekend was full of celebrating. We had Jane's birthday on Good Friday, all the Easter celebrating, Easter and then Kyle's birthday on Monday. Serious candy overload. 

On Thursday we colored Easter Eggs. That was a lot of fun. We waited until Jane was down for a nap. Sorry Jane! But that made it so much more fun. Abby and Jules really got it this year and we were able to get really creative. 

On Saturday we went to the ward Easter Egg hunt. Kyle was working so I was single parenting and it was challenging. More so because I spent most of the time on the phone with that horrible flooring company. It was a bad morning for me. But the girls had a lot of fun. They made these cute ears and got lots and lots of fun eggs! 

On Sunday the Easter bunny came! 

In our Easter dresses. The girls dresses were also their flower girls dresses. They looked so cute! 

On Friday (Jane's birthday) we all went to the Easter pageant. It was a really good time. Juliet was crawling all over everybody during the entire show. I was getting frustrated because I thought she wasn't listening. Then they said "King of the Jews" and Juliet goes "King of the Jews? Jesus is King of everybody!" We all got a really good kick out of that one. I'm excited for this to become a yearly tradition again. We are so blessed to have something like this so close to us. 

They were all exhausted and passed out on the way home. 

The Easter bunny hid eggs in our backyard on Sunday morning! 

They got bandaids in their baskets and they all put them on their noses. 

Abby helped me crack all the eggs for our deviled eggs. I love when she helps me in the kitchen. She is amazing. 

Easter was wonderful. I am so grateful for our Savior. Because of him I can be the best that I can be. Because of him I, when I make mistakes I can try again and be better. I am so grateful for that knowledge.