Swimming Lessons

So after we got back from a week in Lake Powell then we had out swimming lessons. Abigail and I took a Mommy and Me class and Katelynn took her very first class. They learned to put their face in the water and blow bubbles. Practiced floating on their back, moving their arms and legs and tried to look under water (that didn't happen for my girls). They both did not like going off of the slide or jumping off of the diving board, both had to be coaxed/helped off.

Lake Powell 2011

We went to Lake Powell with our Barton family and my Uncle Eric Staley's family the first week in August.

Katie's Dance Recital

Katie had her very first dance recital. She looked beautiful and danced okay. Jed had very low expectations so he thought she did fabulous, I had a little higher so wasn't quite as impressed with my 4 year-old's attention span.

This is her in her costume and with her friend Elsa Huff.

Easter 2011

I just had to share some of our fun Easter pictures. We went to the ward Easter Egg Hunt, colored eggs with the family and have to show off the girl's cute Easter dresses, the benefit of being a little girl.

Medical Maladies

Katie has been having problems with her tonsils for a little over two years now and when she was 2 we removed her adenoids, but she was too little to remove her tonsils. So after a couple years of slow growth, she is still a little girl, we decided to remove the tonsils. The surgery went well and they ended up removing a portion of her adenoids again, the recovery was not the funnest event though. After many years of taking her medicine beautifully and often just having to hand her the syringe we had to hold her down and force her to take her medicine every few hours. Only a couple days after Katie's surgery Abbie got into the dishwasher, got out a steak knife and cut her finger open. So we had to take her to the doctor and get three stitches. Luckily Katie was doing quite well after a week.

April Birthdays

April is always a busy month for us with Abbie, Jed and Katie's birthdays being so close together. This year we added another fun birthday to the mix, our first niece and cousin, Kaisley Nicole Isaacson, was born.


For Jed's 30th Birthday I pulled out my cake making skills and made him a candied pecan cake. Which I then turned into an I-pad, one of his new tech obsessions.


The girls are in love with the Disney movie Tangled. It is so much fun to watch them watch the movie as they have to sing and act it out as well. So for their birthday cake I decided to make them a Rapunzel tower and I was determined to make it all out of cake. It probably could have been taller, etc if I had made it out of Rice Krispies, but I really enjoyed the challenge of getting it as tall as I could with cake.

Kids & Phots, arg

I have been trying to get my 3 favorite girls on the planet in photographs together. Lets just say that it hasn't been going well.

Individually they take pictures fine, except for Carrie who does not like me taking her picture, but when you put them together both Katelynn and Abigail tend to move all over the place.

I love having kids so very much, it is such a great experience.

The Two Mess Makers

Our two sweet children have discovered a brand new hobby, they make messes.

It does not take them long to make the mess, which is good for them and bad for us.
A funny side note to their mess making is that Katelynn tends to blame Abigail for all of the messes. As you see here, Katelynn is not so innocent as she seems to be.

Having Children is such an adventure.

Old Halloween

I was sure that we had posted Halloween, but apparently not. We had the great blessing to be able to go to Disneyland with all our Patrick family the week before Halloween. So Kate and Abbie got to dress up (with Aunt Tia) and trick-or-treat in Disneyland. Then we came back to Paragonah and they got to trick-or-treat with the Barton family. We were not lacking in candy for a while. Katie went as Jessie the yodeling cowgirl (thanks to Grammy and all the costume fixes) and Abba was Tinkerbell. Before we left we made sure that we carved the pumpkin we grew in our very own garden. Katie named him Rudolph (she seems to like that name) because he had a nose that glowed.

Katie & Abbie isms Day 2 (DisneyLand)

We just returned from a family trip to Disney. Today is Disney themed Katie and Abbie Isims

Katieisim
After seeing Jack Skelington during the Halloween fireworks
"I don't Like him"......"I like Cinderella".
I didn't know the two were comparable.


Abbieism
After seeing Disneys carousel Abbie repeated over and over "Horse, horse, horse" So we took her on it. Sat her down on the horse, she bounced, and said "Horse" with a sound of satisfaction.