Christian's Piano Recital

Christian's Captive Audience

Last week Christian had his piano recital. His teacher, Jaime, held the recital at a retirement center. All of the people that attended loved all of the songs! It was the best audience! Christian played three songs: Take Me Out To The Ball Game, This Land Is Your Land, and Firefly. He did a great job and is really progressing at the piano. He always tells me that he love playing and going to his lessons, but he HATES PRACTICING! Sound familiar to anyone?

Sydnee's Preschool Graduation

Sydnee had her preschool graduation last Thursday. She is going to really miss Chatterbox Preschool and Mrs. Robin and Mrs. Mary. They are the perfect preschool teachers who love the kids and love what they do.
To watch the video you will have to pause the playlist at the bottom of the screen and tilt your head to the side...I am still new at recording videos!

Sydnee's Preschool Graduation

Bear With Me...

"Duh, Mom, you are always writing silly stuff on this blog."

I need to post this on my blog, because alot of my journaling for my scrapbooks comes from my blog and I wanted to get this in there. This was an email from Candi...I promise this is the last post for awhile about me.

If you opened it, you have to do it. Then, send it back to the person
who sent it to you and the rest of your friends! It's fun! Just do it!
Just copy....hit Fwd....Paste.

Two Names You Go By
1. Mom
2. Honey
Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. gauchos
2. white t-shirt
Two Things You Would Want in a Relationship:
1. Romance
2. Laughter
Two of Your Favorite Things to do:
1. Crafting with my kids
2. Read, read, read
Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. Contentment
2. Summer to start
Two pets you had/have:
1. Two hermit crabs - Shaggy & Scooby Doo
2. Licorice - black cat
Two people who will fill this out:
1. Candi - already did!
2. Linzi and Dana???
Two things you did last night:
1. watched a movie
2. put the kids to bed early
Two things you ate today:
1. turkey jerky
2. club sandwich
Two people you Last Talked To:
1. Kim Nelson
2. Candi
Two Things You're doing tomorrow:
1. going to church
2. relaxing with family & maybe scrapbooking!
Two longest car rides:
1. Iowa to Utah
2. Utah to Iowa
Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Thanksgiving
2. July 4th
Favorite beverages:
1. Peach Sprite
2. Pepsi
**I had to edit two things on this list because my mom and dad read this...hee hee

7 Random Things...

The rules: List 7 random things about yourself and tag 7 other people to make a list on their blog. (If you are reading this and would like to share 7 random things about yourself, please make a comment!)
1. I sleep like a horizontally-challenged flamingo.
2. I hate cold weather, yet I live in Iowa.
3. I do not have a middle name.
4. I love to submerge myself in good books.
5. My favorite food is my husband's chicken wings.
6. I love to have a perfect manicure, but I pick at my nails!
7. I wish I had a better singing voice, my dream is to take voice lessons.

O.K. I am dumb but I don't know how to link. So if you are reading this and your name is here, go put a list on your blog!
I tag:
Candi
Lynn
Maren
Jodi, my Oprah friend!
Harmony
Anjuli
Joy

Also, if you are from Scrapaganza's NYOBC and you are taking a peek at my blog...make a comment with your list. I would love to read about you. Have fun!

One video wasn't enough for her...

Thank you Grandma!

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa

We got the box yesterday and had to wait until Christian got home to open it! Of course it was mayhem when all the stuff just started flying out of the box. Chocolates, gummy pizzas, dresses, swimsuits, hats, maps, etc....What fun. Here is a little video of Ella. (Before you push play, go to the bottom of my blog and push 'pause' on the playlist so you the music won't be playing while Ella is showing her manners.) Enjoy!

Here She Is...

Yesterday was the second hardest day since our move to Iowa. MY SIL, Linzi, had her baby. I just want to hold this little thing! I have really been thinking about jumping in the car and driving I-80 for 17 hours. Really, I have. It wouldn't be as hard as you think if you got to hold this little one at the end of the road. London Tye Garner. Beautiful baby...

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms that I know! Especially Linzi as she is going to become Mom to #4 this week! I love you all.
"There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one."

Remember This Picture?

I didn't! Our nice neighbor, John, downloaded our files and pictures from the old, mammoth computer. I was searching through all of my 3,296 photos from the old hard drive and found this! This is a picture of my good, good, friend, Rochelle, and Lisa Bearnson. I did meet her about 6 years ago at a scrapbook expo. I was pregnant with Sydnee and wanted her to sign my belly. (I never had the guts to ask her to do it though.) I was so amazed at how real of a person she was. It was amazing to just chat with her for 15-20 minutes and have her sign our current Creating Keepsakes magazine. Just thought you would enjoy this blast from the past! Also, this is Rochelle's first picture on my blog. She is a friend that I have known since high school, through college, marriage, children, parenting, etc. She is the best! Hey, Ro, how are ya?

Checkout My Playlist!

Thanks to my cousin, Anjuli, I now have music on my blog. I have already updated my list once, and it is very easy! If you have any requests for songs, leave a comment. Also, this weekend is National Scrapbooking Day and we are having a two-day crop at Scrapaganza. There are two classes included: a Mother's Day layout and a Bo-Bunny Chipboard Album decorated for the favorite mom in your life! Click on the link to the left or call the store to sign up. I hope to see you all there!
**Edited** Mom - don't look too close at this album, since I made it for you!

Camera is Working....Thanks to Ella

Ever since my sisters were here, my camera has not been shooting pictures. This morning, Ella climbed up on the counter and was taking some photos. Later, I went to delete the pictures, because previously they had only been black blobs. But there were actual pictures! It is working! Maybe it just needed some rest and relaxation since I do work it very hard every day trying to document my life and my kids' lives. I don't know, but I am happy! Off to take some more photos...
P.S. Ella had a haircut yesterday....isn't it cute?