Happy Birthday Brandon!!!

Today is my brother Brandon's Birthday!!! Brandon is the brother just older than me. When I was little I always wanted to be just like him. I don't have a picture to post because they are all packed away. I should of kept one out but I forgot. I hope to get to see him and his family this summer. Brandon always makes everyone laugh and he has a way of making you feel good when you are having a bad day. He has a very strong testimony of the gospel. I Love you Brandon and hope you have an awesome birthday!!!

Angry Eyes

Easton's all about Toy Story lately and his potato heads. Well this morning I did something that apparently made him mad. His shoes happened to be sitting right next to him and he picked them up and held them over his eyes and said hear are my angry eyes. I couldn't help but laugh. If you don't know what I am talking about then you need to watch the credits on Toy Story 2.

This picture is obviously not the part of the movie I am talking about but posts are more exciting with pictures and they don't have a picture online of Mr. Potato Head and his angry eyes.

Packing

We have a lot of empty boxes at our house right now. We are buying a house and should close on June 9th. Easton and Gretchen think they are fun to play in. Here are a few pictures.

Easton likes to build forts.

This is Gretchen in a box, you can't really tell but Easton thought it was hilarious that we were packing up his sister.

Happy Birthday Kyle!!!

Today is Kyle's Birthday!!! Easton loves his uncle Kyle and has since he was very little. I know when my mom was sick and Kyle would come to see her my mom loved that he took such an interest in Easton. Gretchen seems to like him to. So we love you a lot Uncle Kyle. Easton was a little bugged that we aren't going to his birthday party! Thank you for being such a good big brother and Uncle. We hope you have a very happy birthday!!!

Race for the Cure

At the beginning of the year I made a list of things I wanted to accomplish before the year is over. One of the things was to start running again and to run in a 5K or 10K. On Saturday I ran in the Race for the Cure. There were 17,000 people who signed up. It was cool to see all the survivors running and walking. I think I am going to make this a tradition and do it every year. I didn't run the whole time like I had wanted but I found a friend that I hadn't seen for a while so we walked and talked. I ran it in 39 minutes I had been sick so I told Chad it would probably take me 45 minutes. Chad, Easton, Gretchen, Andrea, Marshal, Charly, Noelle, and Kendall were all there to cheer me on. So Andrea took some pictures but I couldn't get them to work.

My Mom

I think I miss my mom at least once every day, but this time of year sometimes makes it worse. I think it is hearing everyone talk about there moms. Anyway I just wanted to wish my mom a happy mothers day!! I am so glad she is my mom. I know she isn't here but I know that if I do my part I can see her again. I am so thankful for that knowledge and it is because of my mom that I have that knowledge. A couple of months ago Andrea and I came across this quote. "One of the best ways to have a little bit of heaven in your home is to have someone you love in heaven." I have that in many ways. I Love You Mom!!!

Happy Mother's Day!!

I wanted to wish my Mother-in-law a happy mother's Day!! She is such a wonderful women. I am very grateful for her. She is so wonderful to my kids. She is a great Mother and Grandmother She raised Chad up in the gospel and instilled the gospel principles. I am thankful for that. Thank You for everything you do for us.

We Love You!!!

Patriotized!

Wednesday night Chad played 3 games. They won the first two, but they lost the final championship game. The championship game they threw a pass with only a few seconds left but didn't convert. The team they played was a team of high school kids. They were pretty excited because they "Patriotized" them. For those of you who don't know what that means, chads team went undefeated like the New England Patriots and lost in the championship game. Chad had a good time playing and looks forward to playing again later this summer.

9 Months Old

Gretchen turned 9 months old last week. It is crazy how big she is getting. She loves to clap and follow Easton around. She walks along the furniture and lets go of the couch and ends up standing up on accident. Yesterday evening she figured out how to open the cupboards in the kitchen and decided to get out some bowls. When I pulled out the camera she started crawling to me so I didn't get the best picture.

This is how I found her this morning when i went to get her out of bed. She had put her feet through the bars and was clapping.