Quotes...

Well, Allie is on a roll lately with the cute sayings.

At church on Sunday, we had a flute solo in between the talks.  It was really beautiful.  I turned to see Allie asking me if someone was dead.  

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The other day Allie and I visited a nursery to grab some plants.  While we were there, we were given this awfully large grocery cart to use to gather the plants.  The aisles at the nursery were pretty thin.  I had a really hard time keeping the cart on the pathes.  Plus, the racket that stupid cart created on concrete was another thing I could have gone without. 

Checking out of the nursery was not fun.  First, you had to haul the honking cart into a little place with lots of other honking carts.  Then there was a brand new cashier who knew squat about checking people out.  Then there was the guy who I'm pretty sure budded in front of me.  Any who, it took a good 15 minutes of manuevering and waiting to get checked out.

After we got in the car on the way out of there.  I mentioned out loud how big of a madhouse that place had been.  A few seconds later Allie was like "Mom, why was that house so mad?"

Allie's 5th Birthday!

 It has been a really busy weekend!  On Sunday, we had her family party.

On Saturday, we had her very first friend party.  Here the first guests are awaiting the rest of the guests.

She wanted a Dora the Explorer cake and so we made it into a whole big thing.

Jason made up this cute map for them to find the cupcakes and ice cream that Swiper swiped.

They had to each take 10 jumps on the trampoline. Run around the swingset and the fence.  Then it was on to the front yard to go around the flag pole (it had balloons on it,) and then to touch the fire hydrant.  They found the cupcakes had been hidden on the front porch.

 Going around the fire hydrant

 The Flag pole.

 Our next door neighbor, Wanda.  She came over to give Allie a hug.

 The party crew.

One of the 5 clues that we used to find each of the gifts that swiper swiped as well.  That swiper was a busy Fox that afternoon.

 From left: Beckham, Ellyse, Alix, Whitney, Kaitlyn, Maria, Sevia, Brenton, and Allie.

 Sevia's mom brought a fun bouncy house for us to use.  It was so fun for the kids!

 And, the cake.  Nothing terribly special but she wanted Dora and this was the only one we had.

We love having Allie in our lives.  She creates such a spark wherever she goes.  She's getting so funny lately.  She is so cuddly and has been ever since she was a baby.  She can be the cutest person in the world world when she wants to be.  Happy birthday to our little firecracker!

Big Storm

Our little Allie has some big fears of a few things.  One of them being wind.  We don't know exactly why but every time it's windy she becomes a little ball of static cling to my side.  When asked why she's so fearful of the wind, she usually says "I dunno."  But when pressed, it's as if she thinks everything will blow away when the wind comes round. 

Last night we had a pretty wild wind, thunder, and rain storm at dusk that kept up for a while.  She kept asking where her dad was and when he'd get home. (How cute is that?)  He was just at the store but even in our prayer she asked that he'd get home safely. :)  Which he did.  Anywho, at bedtime, fearing she'd not leave my side I assured her that she could sleep with her lamp light on till I went to sleep.  Luckily, it worked.  I stole this shot before heading to bed. 

Don't you think there should be a website of pictures just of people sleeping??  They are so peaceful.

Kindergarten Round Up

Oh my!

What a moment!  She loved it and wanted to do it all over again once it was done.  Yay for Kindergarten!

Easter Photo's

I noticed how many Easter photo's I had, but had not published. If I ever intend to make a book out of this blog, I'd like photo's instead of videos so, here goes....

Easter Egg dying.  This year was a poor excuse for egg dying.  First of all I cooked the eggs waay too early so the girls just had to sit and watch the eggs in the fridge till we actually took the time to do it.  Then I accidentally dropped the container holding all the hard boiled eggs...cracking them. So, I had to peel most of them before dying them. Then the dyes wouldn't really stay on the peeled eggs that well.  So yeah.  I guess  long as they got to dye eggs right??? Right?

 I guess they turned out kind of cool.  All tye dyed looking.

 The Easter Egg hunt for a neighboring city.  We had to run to get there in time.  We had a funeral afterwards so we were all huffing it in dress clothes.  People must of thought the crazies had finally arrived.   Proved to myself I could run in heels at least.

 The Baskets

 Up to my mom's.

 The hunt!

 The girl cousins that were there.

 With the grandparents.

 Jason's poor attempt at a family photo opp.  I told him just because he pulled a face, I was publishing that one!  Can you feel the love?

It was a great and fun day!  Happy Easter!

A good old fashioned Sunday activity

Allie and i were playing "I spy" in church during the latter part of Sacrament meeting. Earlier in the meeting, our elderly neighbor Wanda, had given a talk and was still sitting on the stand. I took my turn in the game and said to Allie, "I spy something gold."  


After a few wrong guesses, she asked if it was Wanda's hair.

Easter Morn

Happy Happy!  Joy Joy!