Mitchell's 5th Birthday in May!

Mitchell turns 5 and gets a bike! Now, if we could only get him outside to ride it! He always says, "It's too bright to go outside. It hurts my eyes!" So, he also got two pairs of sunglasses for his B-day. He now has no excuses!


Mitch loves olives! And.. he loves to eat them off of his fingers like this, so we had to get a picture of it.

Easter at Home

Easter Sunday at home in American Fork... not too exciting. After church we just stayed home and hung out together.


This was taken with the timer on my camera. Of course I didn't even know how to use it, and in about 10 seconds flat, Hans had it figured out and was diving to be in the picture with us. It worked!

McKenna's Rock-n-Roll Birthday Party in April!

McKenna turned 9 in April and wanted a Rock-n-Roll birthday party with lots of friends! Well, being the somewhat delusional parents that we are, we said, "Sure, sounds like fun!" Whoever said having 16 screaming, giggling, singing girls running around your house was fun?! Throughout the party Hans kept giving me looks like, "What on earth were you thinking?" And I can't say I blame him. Fortunately, we all survived and the kids...well, they are still talking about it 3 months later, so I guess it was a hit.




This is the cake I made for the party. I found the idea in a Family Fun magazine. I was quite pleased with myself being that I DON'T decorate cakes and had no idea what I was doing!


We made a backstage curtain hanging between the dining room and kitchen. Too bad you can't see the bling bling, sliver star garland in the photos. Hans made these guitars out of cardboard (another FF Mag idea) and the girls decorated them at the party along with their (toilet paper roll) microphones! They had a blast! And...we surprised McKenna with a Kareokee machine at the party. She has only been asking for one for over a year now, so we finally caved. We're glad we did. McKenna, Meg and their friends play with that thing non-stop.
(L-R Back to front) Jaxlynn, Addison, Breanna, Chloe, Katie, Sayer, Abby
Jenna, Daisy, Cami, Janeca
Annie, Adi, McKenna