Happy Birthday Mikel!

Happy Birthday Mikel! She is 20 years old - can you believe it? Hasn't she grown into a beautiful young lady! I remember holding this tiny baby girl with tears of gratitude.

Mikel is a wonderful person, beautiful inside and out. She is very loving, helpful, and always willing to help out when needed. She is so talented in many areas. She loves to cook and bake (making alot of the birthday cakes for the family). She is my right hand - I don't know what I would do without her. In fact - she is like another mother to Carson, who adores her. She is so good with kids - in fact, she is always being asked to sub in Primary. Mikel is very smart and is going to school to be either a high school math teacher or in accounting. We are all so blessed to have her in our family. We love you Mikel - and I, particularly, are so thankful for the person you are and that I was blessed to be your mother. Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday to Me!

Happy Birthday to me! I like birthdays - not the getting older part, but that my family pampers me! I didn't have to do anything on the day we celebrated my birthday (which we did on Sunday). Doug and the kids fixed dinner, made the ice cream and cake, cleaned up the kitchen afterwards - and even let me have a nice nap after church (while they did all the other stuff!) The food was great, the company (kids and all) was even better, and the presents were wonderful. Thanks all of you. I love and appreciated it!

Here I am with the cake Mikel made for me - it is a cow! Isn't it cute! She did a great job.

Reflections of Christ

As I told in an earlier posting - The Mesa Temple each year has an Easter Pageant on the life of Christ. This year, in conjunction with that pageant, the visitor's center had a photo display called "Reflections of Christ" with many of the participants of the pageant as models. It was amazing.
The photos are on this website in a video presentation. Take a few minutes to watch. It will touch your heart. Turn up the sound. There is beautiful music to go along with it! (There was also a video at the Visitor's Center talking about the photo shoot. It was filmed as they went along with them - which really added to the seeing of the photos!)

http://mabrystudios.typepad.com/reflections_of_christ/2008/03/reflections-sli.html

How do you like us now?

So, what do you think of us the new look? I wish I could take credit - but I am still just not completely with it on the computer yet - still learning! I can thank my wonderful sister-in-law Cheryl for the look. Thanks Cheryl.

I'm not sure how many people actually look at my blog - and what they think of it. So - if you are someone who just looks - will you please leave me comments once in a while? I know my own kids look at it occassionally, but only Jo makes comments (thanks Jo!) Also - Cheryl and Jana - they usually have something to say - thanks girls! My dear ol' husband doesn't even look at the blog - unless I show it to him. I guess I won't thank him. I would like to get some feedback from the rest of you- good or bad! For those of you out there who do look - do you blog? Do you have a blog that I can link to mine? I feel so friendless and lonely, not very many links. I would like some new friends - will you be my friend?

Another note - I have been tagged again - this time a different one. I have to come up with 7 random things to tell about myself. I am still trying to do that. I don't have very many interesting things to say about me. I know - I live a sad life. It takes a lot of brain power to think of something when there is really not much to tell! I'll get it done soon though - so be looking for it (if you are interested that is!)

Easter Fun

The Easter Bunny made it to our house-which the kids were very happy about!

Here are Kristi, Dani and Carson in their new Easter outfits. (Like Carson's tennis shoes with his nice outfit? His sunday shoes were too small - and I didn't get any new ones bought yet. He doesn't care though.)

Mikel helping Carson find the eggs hidden in the house for an Easter Egg hunt.
Dani with her stash!
Hey - check out Jeremy/Jo's link to their blog. Jo has some cute pictures of Dani and Kristi on it in their Easter dresses. And of course - an adorable picture of EmmaLee! Hope you all had a Happy Easter!

The Park

This week we made a couple of trips to the park - what with the weather being just great and being spring break. Wednesday is a day some other ladies get together with their kids at the park, so Kristi, Dani, Carson, and I went. I took my camera, but wouldn't you know, the batteries died after a couple of pictures. Then, on Saturday, Doug, Kristi, Dani, Carson and I went on an Easter picnic. And - I FORGOT THE CAMERA! Can you believe that? Bummer! We can hardly ever get Doug to the park with us to play or for a picnic. Anyway - here are a couple of pictures I took on Wednesday. The first is Carson in the swing. He likes it okay - but loves the slide and climbing more. He really just loves to run around in the grass - freedom!

The second picture is of Kristi and Carson in the swings. He likes being with someone in the big kids swing better! (The camera died before I could get a picture of Dani - sorry Dani!)

Letter to Carson

Just over a month ago, Carson got a letter in the mail - it was from Dani. She had written it at school. It was such a cute letter, I had to share. I tried scanning them in - didn't work. I took pictures, which worked okay for the first page, but not the second (as you can see). Hopefully, you can read the first one. Just click on the picture, it will enlarge it. Let me know if you can't read it.

The second page reads:

I love playing with you. You are lots of fun. I love you so much. I don't love you just because your funny and stuff. I also love you because your in my family. Love, Danielle
Don't you love it! I do.