Happy 7th Birthday Jaiden

Oh how we love our Jaiden. She is my right hand gal. I cannot imagine my everyday life without her. She is such a fashion girl that loves to laugh. Especially at her dad. She is so kind to her brother and sister. She is very smart and excels at anything she tries. She loves to read the Book of Mormon at night and we are lucky to have such a great example in our family.

WE LOVE YOU JAIDEN!!!

Jaiden's wish came true with receiving a "white" Nintendo DS. (not mentioning that mom had already purchased a pink one before the white notification was received)

I tried to make the day special by adding curling ribbon to her hair and writing "Its my birthday" on her cheek before going to school.

Since we were heading down to Green River for camping I thought it would be fun to write on the car and share her birthday with everyone. Well the gesture backfired. As we were traveling down 90th Jason was getting honked at and frustrated wondering what he was doing wrong. We were pulling a 4 wheeler trailer and wondered if the tail lights weren't working. We forgot that I had wrote on the car "honk". After realizing the reason and laughing we explained to Jaiden that every honk that we heard was someone saying "happy birthday". After getting numerous honks by the time we reached I-15 she decided it was embarrassing. The funniest thing was that I forgot to bring a razorblade to remove the writing and we got to wave and smile to other drivers all weekend. Oooppps!

Rough day Carter

I came around the corner to find Carter with the scissor to his head. "Are you cutting your hair?" He took off crying and hide under his bed. I know that he was curious because he saw me cut Madison's bangs this morning.

Of course the timing couldn't be better with family pictures tomorrow.

It could be worse. I am sure he would have gone to town if I wouldn't have caught him.

The day got better for him when he found sister had spit up in his Indiana hat. He actually handled it better than I thought he would.

Zumba, Zumba, Zumba!!!

I traveled to Houston, TX to attend a Zumba workshop and become a certified Zumba instructor. You ask what is Zumba? It is a latin style workout. Really fun and I have never sweat so much in my life. I will start teaching Zumba this summer at UDA. I definitely need to work on my stamina.

This is us (Brooke, myself, and Teryn) with Beto the creator of Zumba.

(Not to mention the eye candy standing behind Brooke. They kept bringing him out when we would get tired)

Official Zumba Instructor certificate.

Happy Easter!

Easter hunt at Granny's with cousins.

A colored ball counts as an egg - right???

Thanks for the lift PA.

The cousin crew.

The kids got new sunglasses for easter but of course Carter lost his by the time we took this picture on easter night.

Hollywood here I come.

Thanks to the support of Grandmas and Jason, I was able to travel with UDA (dance studio I teach at) to Hollywood, CA to attend classes at Edge Performing Arts Center.

While in LA we attended "Wicked". It was amazing. My favorite Broadway show yet.

(Myself, Brooke-owner of studio, Cicily-teacher from UDA)

We stayed at Sunset Plaza in the heart of Sunset Strip. The weather was beautiful along with the grounds.

Happy St.Patricks Day

Madison was so proud of her new t-shirt that she kept rubbing her belly to show it off.

We love Madison!

Madison broke into the bathroom and learned to stand on the stool. Now she has a whole new world to destroy up on the counter.

What good hygiene except for the fact the toothbrush is Jaiden's.

Always willing to help with the dishes. We have to keep the dishwasher locked because she can stick her little fingers in the side and pry it open.
It is only a matter of time before she figures out the lock.