April

 April was more of the same around here.  Not much went on but we had fun anyways.  We did celebrate James' birthday, but somehow we managed not to get any pictures of that.  He says that he is old now, he is a whopping 33!

 Johnny loved going to Annika's basketball practice, he thought he was one of the big boys and should be able to join in.

 Ready to make a basket.

 Being a cutie.

 Bella showing off going down the slide.

 All set for bed, he had two binkies, two blankies, and Yoda, he was a happy camper.

 We took the kids to the museum to see Dinosaur Sue.  James is actually having fun, he didn't realize that he would be in the picture.

 Cowboy Johnny, he didn't want to sit still, so we have a blurry picture,

 Annika ready to ride.

 Having an old fashioned meal in a log cabin. 

 Arabella's turn. 

 MacKayla the Cowgirl.

 Silly face Easter Eggs.

 Dyed eggs.

 Johnny enjoyed his dinner, and then playing with the basket.

 Showing off a bit of her clothes style and the messy face that she always manages to have.  I swore that I would never let a kid leave the house with a messy face, yet I am amazed at how often she eludes me until we get somewhere and I realize she is a mess. 

 Annika ready to play.

Johnny hanging out with Dad.

Annika's piano recital.  The girls loved playing and had a wonderful teacher.

MacKayla's recital piece.  She decided to sing and play the second song, and I think she got a little too nervous to be able to do both.  She did well overall, but did stumble a bit.

March

March found us celebrating MacKayla's ninth birthday.  Wow, I can't believe how fast she is growing up.  We had a low-key party this year and just had two friends come over for a late night and movie. We are so lucky to have her in our family and are so grateful that she is growing into such a wonderful young lady.

 For her birthday we went out together for breakfast and then she picked out a new bike.  She loves it and thinks that it is a lot of fun.

 We are lucky to have a cousin going to school up in Rexburg and she has a birthday just a few days after MacKayla, so we decided to have a family party.  The cake has pink candles for MacKayla and white for Jadelynn.

 Here is Jade with the girls, she is so sweet to them and love having her come visit.

 MacKayla and Jade blowing out the candles.

 Johnny snuck a cracker.

 Look at me, I'm cute.

 Annika played basketball again in the spring and loved it!  She was on a team of boys, with one girl who came occasionally.  She kept up with them, and has improved a lot.  While she was playing with the boys though, she did keep it girly with a hot pink ball and gym shorts.

 For Pi day (March 14, 3.14) we celebrated with having a homemade turkey pot pie, and an apple turtle pie.

 Poor Bella had been having problems with ear infections, she had one at Halloween, another at Thanksgiving, again at Christmas, and another at her birthday.  Two weeks after getting over the birthday one, she got another one.  At that point the doctor put her on a heavy duty antibiotic, and decided it was time for tubes.  So in March she had tubes put in and her adenoids removed.  She was such a trooper and was so cute in the hospital, she had everyone eating out of her hand.  She got through the surgery pretty well, but she was a bit sick afterwards.

The green bear that she is holding was given to her when she got to the hospital to make her feel better and she loved it.  She also got to take her blankie with her and was in heaven over that.

 The nurse dressed her up so she could be the doctor, isn't she so cute!

 Putting on the mask and showing off.

 We finally joined the world of flatscreen TV's.  We have a 42" TV and love it.  The old TV hadn't responded to a remote in several years, and finally died.  While we were sad to have to buy something else, it has made watching TV fun again.

 Going for a drive.

 Playing Glo-Golf over Spring Break with some friends.

 Silly kids.

Monkey boy getting into trouble.

Catch Up Again - January/February

Once again I was able to get so far behind on the blog, that is is impossible to fully catch up. Instead I will just try to do what I can and go from there.

I posted a few entries back in February, but here is the catch up for January/February.

 Bella being cute.

 Johnny loves dogs and while at the pet store he could not get enough of them.  Here he is laying on the floor to play with the "pupa" as he called them then.

 Bella with her best friend Rigdon. She calls him her crush.

 Annika being adorable.

 MacKayla all dressed in her choir uniform.  They had a performance in January where they sang all Christmas songs, we joked that the one in May would be Easter songs.  I don't have the videos on here, but the songs are most of the same ones from the post of their Christmas concert before.

 The poser Bella, she loves that my phone takes pictures and wants them taken all the time now.

 Johnny just being a doll.  There will be quite a few of Johnny, just because he is home more, and is often so darn cute.

 Fake an injury day at school.

 Bella was pretending to give them their injuries. 

 I helped put on the third grade math and science olympics for the school this year.  One of the events was the egg drop and this is Daddy and MacKayla making theirs.  Annika decided that she wanted to participate as well, and made one of her own.

 The eggs were to be dropped from about 6 feet, so here is James testing theirs.

 Woohoo!  The egg survived.  At the actual competition the egg survived the 6 foot fall, but cracked on the 8 foot.  Also the design was really big, so they lost.

Annika ready to test hers. 

 Oh-no!  Annika's did not fare so well.

 Crazy hair day at school.

 Sweet Bells again.

 Wacky-Tacky Day at school. Annika would dress like this regularly if I let her.  She has a very interesting fashion sense.

 Spiky hair Johnny, I have had fun doing different things with his hair.

 Someone needs to teach that boy how to ride a bike.

 Smiley boy.

 I love how happy he is.

 Isn't he a doll.

 Like father, like son!

 Triplet fun.