I have fallen behind

The last week or so has been kind of crazy, so I haven't blogged about this stuff like I should. I really like to think of my blog as my journal.

Anyway, we had so much fun with all of the family that came last weekend for Hailey's blessing! Since all of my siblings were here (Cody and Tricia even surprised us with a visit from California!!) we decided to do an early Easter thing. The kids loved the egg hunt, even though there was still snow here and there :)

Adessa and Tanna were gathering so fast we had to keep telling them to let the little boys get some too! So then they came up with the bright idea to still gather fast, but turn some of the goods over! Bright girls!

This was our attempt at getting all the cousins together (minus hailey who was sleeping inside) for a picture. It's the best one I got that had all of them in there (and Cody too!) Grandma Janet and Grandpa Kit padded the candy baskets with fun little toys. This was a cute shot I snuck of matthew playing with his windup dinosaurs all by himself. He loves those things so much, but I think he plays with them too much. A couple of nights ago he woke up crying around 2 am so I went in there (first time waking up at night for MONTHS) and asked what was wrong. He said he had to go potty so I said that's fine. He was climbing off his bed and he stopped and said "No more dinosaurs. No more dinosaurs at grandma's house." So I asked him if he had a bad dream about dinosaurs and he said he had and he just hugged me for a little while. After a minute I told him the dinosaurs were all gone and he was safe. He crawled back up to his pillow and said "Thanks mommy, goodnight! love you!" So I went back to bed. He's so sweet.
I finally got Hailey's hair to lay down for the first day ever!!! If you were wondering why her hair is always so poofy in all of her pictures it's not my fault I swear. In fact, against all my efforts it insisted on sticking straight up! I finally got it to lay down on tuesday with the help of a little "bed head wax"! :) It is also growing in blonde :( I love blonde hair, don't get me wrong. Matthew looks adorable with it. But I was really getting attached to hailey's dark hair. I've always wanted my hair just the color that hers is now. But about 1/2" of roots have grown in blonde. Maybe it will go back dark when she gets older.

I hope no one finds this picture inappropriate...I just wanted to show the great results Curt is getting from lifting at least 3 days a week for the past 7 months or so. He's happy, I'm happy, he's healthier, and look at those muscles!!!

Matthew still regularly gets a treat when he goes potty. It goes like this: he gets to pick a candy out of the closet where we keep it, sets it on the sink counter by the toilet, sits on the toilet, if he goes he gets the candy, if not then it goes back in the closet. Sometimes it's a battle, most of the time it's not. I can always know if Matthew has to go potty if he either asks for candy, or tries to open the closet door we've put a child lock on.

While Cody and Tricia were here we got to take Wesley with us to the nature park to feed the ducks. We feed them popcorn and they love it!

then we hung out at Arctic Circle for a little while.

Trish did a little photo shoot with Hailey the day before they left! This is one of the pictures I took with my camera. It was fun to copy Tricia and learn from her. She taught me a lot about photoshop too! It's going to take me a LONG time to get any good at it though. mostly I just like to mess around. I don't plan on ever trying to make money off of pictures, but it is pretty awesome to know how to make the pictures I take of us look good. I've only tried it on a couple of pics so far.

It helps when your subject is already adorable :)

I can't wait to see what Tricia has done with Hailey's pictures!!!!