Katie's First Piano Recital

This Friday, October 22, 2010, Katie played in her first piano recital. She has only had four lessons, and yet she did really well. She memorized her little songs too. She played Yummy Popcorn and The King of France. She was shy and a little nervouse, but did SO well! I am so proud of her. She is going to be such a great pianist!

Katie with her teacher, Marenan Dolivier. She is such a great teacher!

Katie also received a certificate for playing so well.

Couldn't Resist

We read scriptures every night. However, on this night, Katie was helping Kellen read the scriptures. Normally, we are asking them every minute to be quiet and listen to what Tom is reading. It was so cute, my heart melted, I did not cry, but I did take a picture.

Onsie Cookies

I was able to throw my friend Sarah Jespersen a Diaper Shower and had a lot of fun making some cookies for the shower. My friend Jenica came over and she showed me how to frost cookies with royal icing. What a great teacher! We had a lot of fun and they turned out really nice!

Step 1: The cookies all ready to be frosted.

Step 2: Outline the cookies and then fill them in with frosting.

Jenica frosting the white cookies.

I frosted and decorated the blue cookies.

Step 3: Decorate! It was so fun. We did different decorations on each cookie.

Step 4: wrap them up cute. Ta-da! Our lovely creation. Onsie Cookies!

Kellen Turned 4!!

I cannot believe it but my baby is now 4 years old! I am not sure where time went but it flew! He turned 4 on 10-10-10.

He got a lot of presents from the family.
Kellen wanted a Woody & Thomas the Train cake. I was not sure how to do this and it was Sunday so we couldn't go buy anything. So, Katie drew pictures of Woody and Thomas and we put them on popsicle sticks and into the cake.

Yummy, yummy cake!

This Could Not Be Comfortable

Katie woke me up one morning and told me that I needed to take a picture of Kellen. She brought me into their room to show me that Kellen was sleeping like this...

Our latest hobby.

Tom called me at work one day and told me to come right home because he had a surprise for me. He also told me that we were going to go on an adventure. I went and got Katie from a friends house and came home to this...



The bike trailer was fixed!! That night we biked over to Taco Bell and had dinner. The kids had a blast. I had a blast! Thanks Tom for making out life so adventurous.

Erica & Jake's Wedding

This past September 7, 2010, Erica and Jake got married!! I am finally getting around to posting pictures that I took. I am slightly behind! We had a great day. They got married at the Mesa Arizona Temple and then had their reception at the Val Vista Lakes Clubhouse. It was a lot of fun. Erica let me plan a lot of the reception which was really fun for me because in my past life I was a wedding planner. Just kidding!


This is Erica and Jake leaving to go on their honeymoon. Woo-woo!

Katie had so much fun dancing the night away. She was all over the floor laughing and twirling in her fancy dress.

Erica and Katie having a little dance together.

Katie is getting down to the music!

Kellen loves to dance with Katie. She and Kellen had so much fun jumping all around and dancing together during the slow songs. It was basically Katie telling Kellen what to do. She's a great instructor!

Our family friend, Jenica Callahan, made this cake for Erica. It was even nicer in person.

This picture does not do the flower arrangements justice. They were so, so pretty. They had colorful flowers and then peacock feather sticking out the top. They were awesome!

James Bond, oops I mean Scott, all dressed up.

Flowers again. They were so pretty in person!

The clubhouse looked so pretty when it was all decorated. Her colors were navy blue and purple. It turned out really nice.

I was honored to do Erica's hair for the wedding. This is how it turned out. It looked better in the morning. This picture was taken well into the night. I just had to have proof of how cute it was that night.

More proof of cute hair. Erica was also brave because she died her hair the night before her wedding. It turned out so pretty. Good thing! It could have been a major disaster. I made her promise before I did it that if she hated it, it was NOT my fault!

Our family photo attempt. Nice try.

My two little monkeys.

My Grandpa Lyle flew from Vancouver, Washington to be at Erica's wedding. It so fun to have him there. He is such a sweet man! He's also 94 years old!!

This is Diana, Shellie and myself, trying to say "I Love You."

As always, Katie looks beautiful!

Posing for the camera.

Katie is waiting for Erica to come out of the temple.

It was so hot the day they got married. Tom was really sweet and got something for me to drink. Somehow Kellen managed to take over and he got to drink my sprite. Stinker! He looked to so cute though. I couldn't take it away.

I have no pinky.

Lately, before the kids go to bed, Tom makes them pinky promise that they will be quiet and not keep each other awake. Just FYI-they share a room right now. If they are loud, one of them is escorted to our room to start off and then we transfer them once they are sound asleep.

The other night it was my turn to make them swear to be good. I had Katie's pinky and I needed to get Kellen's pinky. Here is the conversation that took place.

Me: Kellen, come over here please. I need your pinky to start our pinky promise.

Kellen: Nope, I don't have a pinky.

Me: You do too! Come here, I need your pinky.

Kellen: Nope, I no longer have a pinky. I cannot promise to be good.

This kid is good! Well, tough cookies! I grabbed his pinky and made him swear to be quiet. Believe it or not, they were good and went right to sleep that night.