Princess Layla is 4 months......

Our Family on the Fourth

Madi and Layla

Emily and Layla

My Laylas sweet feet

Our Beautiful blue eyed baby

Layla is jabbering Alot! This morning when she woke up I grabbed her and brought her into bed with us. After she ate Travis and I were talking to her and I kid you not she said "MOM". How lucky am I to have a baby that is Four months Today say my name? She loves to talk to us and gives us Alot of smiles too. We love that. Layla is a strong baby, she loves to stand up and tries to sit up. She is beautiful!! She looks alot like Madi to Travis and I. Although she has gorgeous blue eyes like Avery and I think she will have blonde hair like her too. She loves her big sisters, you can see it in her eyes and smile everytime they get close to her. Layla is a sweet, beautiful, tasty, fun, cudly and did I mention beautiful baby =). We love our Layla!!!

Our yard....

Emily and Avery on the section for our swing set and Tramp.

Madi and Emily running.......

Our home

Our backyard

more of our backyard

frontyard

Avery, Emily and Madi running in the sprinklers

my beautiful babies....

We have been waiting for a finished yard and fence for tooooooooo long, a year and a half to be

exact. Now we finally have both. My girls are loving it!! I am loving it as well, I feel comfortable letting my girls play outside in the backyard even while I am not able to be out there. They played in the swimming pool in the backyard on Wednesday and Thursday and they would have today too but it was rainy and cool.
We thought about paying someone to do our yard but Travis decided to put his own sweat into our kids play yard and save ALOT of money. He did have some help from my Dad and my Mom helped with the kids, a couple of great neighbors, and I did help with laying the HEAVY sod. We are so happy that we can now let our kids run around and have fun. This yard is a Great part of our home. Now we just need trees, bushes and flowers. :) Mommy and Daddy love you girls!!!!! P.S Layla you are not able to play in the yard yet, but soon enough my sweet!

Avery's ears...

Avery trying to bite Madi's cute little nose.

Avery showing her new earings.

What a beautiful little girl!

Avery proudly showing her newly pierced ears.

I keep forgetting to write this post. About a month ago I took my kids to the mall and while we were there I asked Emily if she wanted to get her ears pierced, she always talks about it. She said she wanted to wait to get them pierced until her birthday but she wanted to pick the earings out that she wanted. So we made our way over to the piercing pagoda in South Towne Mall where she did pick the ones she wants to have. I noticed Avery looking quite interested so I asked her if she wanted to get her ears pierced, she responded with YES!! I was SHOCKED! I thought for sure she would say NO since Emily was so resistant to it. I asked her numerous times, told her it was going to hurt and she still wanted them. So she picked her pink earings out and climbed into the chair where again I reminded her it was going to hurt. And she still wanted them. So they did the little ink dot on her ears and two women pierced my little two year olds ears. She was so brave and cute!! After the piercing she did cry. I picked her up and held her, comforted her and told her how much I love her. I also told her what a big girl she was and how pretty her earings were. She wanted to see her earings in a mirror so they gave Avery one and she said they were pretty and the tears stopped then the women working gave all of my girls a sucker. I can't believe my baby Avery is such a daring girl!! The rest of the day Emily was kind of obsessed with Avery, she wants them so bad. She is just to scared. She kept referring to Avery as the ear pierced girl and when I put Avery to bed that night Avery said "can you say goodnight ear pierced girl"? I love that little sweetie!!

Layla's Blessing

I love, love, love this tiny baby!! She is another one of our beautiful princess's. We blessed Layla yesterday. She did very well and looked very Beautiful. Travis gave her a beautiful blessing in it he blessed her with a missionary disposition and to remember that our loving Heavenly Father loves all of his children. He also blessed her to enjoy the promptings of the spirit, and to know that Jesus is the Christ. He always gives beautiful blessings to our children. After we came back to our home for food. Layla you are a sweet baby and we love you so much!

Two Graduations!!!

Madi with her kindergarten graduation certificate

Our Family(I promise Layla is in the carseat)

Madi with Mommy and Daddy

Landon and Madi are good friends

Emily's class

What a cutie

Emily with her teacher Mrs. Jen

I can't believe that my Madi and Emily both graduated. Madi graduated from Kindergarten yesterday and Emily graduated from preschool last week. They are growing up so fast!! They were so cute at their graduations. They are both the sweetest little girls! We are very lucky to have them in our family. We love you sweeties! Mommy and Daddy

Our Little Gymnast

Emily with her gold medal and gymnastic shirt

Emily with her medal and gatorade

Emily and Grammy

Emily

Emily with Aunt Pamela and Oliver

Emily, Daddy and Mommy

Emily got her gold medal

Emily after the balance beam

Emily with her class

Emily on the beam

Emily takes a gymnastics class over at the Lehi Legacy Center. She loves it!! She started taking the classes this last Febuary and it is exciting to see her enjoy something so much. She loved all of the attention she got at this program. Right after the program she said "Mom can you believe I got a gold medal"? I responded with "I am so amazed I have not ever gotten one nor do I know anyone that has". She has been wearing the gold medal she recieved that night ever since. I love it!! Emily we are so proud of you! You have grown alot these past few months. In a way it makes me sad but it is also fun to see you learn and do so many things. You are our little Princess. We love you so much!!

Madi's first recital

Travis and I have never taken piano or any other musical instrument lessons but we knew we wanted our kids to. We have talked to them about it since they were tiny. Anyways, this last Fall we bought a piano so that they could take lessons. Then just this last Febuary (3 months ago) we signed Madi up and she LOVES it. I am the one that practices the music with her so I am learning as well, which I love doing with my Madi. Yesterday she had her first piano recital and did an awesome job. Madi was not even the slightest bit nervous about performing in front of the 30 plus people watching. I get very nervous when I am put in a situation like that so I am truely impressed!!! We are so proud of her. We love you!!!!!! (She played Catch Me If You Can and Head Shoulders Knees and Toes).