Cousins

It was so much fun to have all my family in town for a whole week. The cousins LOVED playing together!

Tayson (he's quite the ladies man!)

Elsie
Celeste

Tayson has quite the pose! They loved to all hold hands and walk around together. It was so cute!

It wasn't easy to get all three children smiling and looking at the camera. :)

My parents will all their grandchildren.

Thanks for coming to visit Jared, Julie, and Tayson. We already miss you!

First Pony Ride

While my whole family was in town, my mom arranged for the grandchildren to go for a pony ride. I was nervous and didn't think Celeste would actually get on the pony. She surprised us and loved it!

Here is Tayson going for his ride.

(Somehow I missed getting pictures of Elsie on the pony. I don't think she enjoyed it as much as Celeste and Tayson.)

They loved petting the dog and chasing the cat around, too!
The evening was fun and created some great memories for the kids! Thanks mom!

Graduation Festivities

My two brothers decided they needed to make a pinata for the graduation festivities. They made the pinata throughout the week and then we broke it open Saturday.

We started with some confetti!

The boys were proud of their first ever homemade pinata!

Celeste taking a hit

And Elsie

Tayson breaking it open

Dive in for the candy!

The After Shot

Story of the Day

I have to share this story. We're sitting in sacrament meeting today with my mother and because of the holiday weekend, there is maybe 75 people in the whole chapel. They're passing the sacrament and it is completely silent. You could have heard a pin drop. Due to the lack of young men, my father is helping pass the sacrament. Right as he gets to our row to allow us the opportunity to partake of the bread, Celeste toots. It wasn't a quiet toot. I knew I was about to be embarrassed. I'm waiting for her to say something. And what does she say? In what seemed to be a loud voice, she says, "Toot! Grandma toot!" So here I am trying to partake of the sacrament and can't stop laughing and trying to be quiet. My mom is bright red. The people in front of and behind us are trying not to laugh. It was a moment that I'll never forget! Thanks for letting me share!

P.S. I have repented for my irreverence.

Quinton's Graduation

On May 23rd, my youngest brother graduated from high school. We're so proud of you, Quinton!

Here he is giving his valedictorian speech.

His favorite pose.


Quinton and my parents.

Quinton with his nieces and nephew

Celeste absolutely LOVES her "Un Qu-Qu"

All of my siblings

The whole family. This is the first time we've all been together in about 2 years. This pictures is embarrassing for me because I look like a fat cow! After sitting in that hot gym, I was swollen and don't forget the fact that I am 15 months pregnant!

A random picture of Tayson (my brothers son) letting Celeste smell the dandelions.

And Quinton is off. Good luck at BYU this fall!

WE LOVE YOU QU-QU!

Opinions Wanted

Are you a digital scrapbooker?

With our family growing, we had to give up our "hobby room." Therefore, all my scrapbooking stuff was packed away in a tote and left in the back of a closet. If you are a scrapbooker, you know as well as I do that I'm not going to see it much at all until I have a new hobby room (new house...which isn't going to happen for a long time!) Due to this, I'm throwing around the idea of doing digital scrapbooking. This is where I need your opinions. Where do you go to do your digital scrapbooking? What are the pros/cons? Do you enjoy scrapbooking digitally? And what's the cost of going digital? (I have started playing around with one but I'm curious how the cost compares to other places.)

Thanks for your opinions! I appreciate it.

Birthday Pictures

Here are a few pictures from our little family birthday party we had for Celeste.

This is the extent of my cake decorating skills. Celeste wanted a puppy on her cake. This plastic puppy was much easier than drawing one! She is also into the color blue so she wanted a "blue cake." Blue writing had to do!

Celeste is very loved and received more presents than she needed!

She was very excited for her new shoes!

She also got a play kitchen set from my mom (pictured above). I'll get some pictures of her playing with it soon to post. She likes to "cook dinner!"

I attached these sun glasses to the top of her present. She loves glasses and wears these almost all the time now.

This was her reaction to every present. She's such a ham!

Grandma Mikesell got her a new bike

Celeste LOVES being outside, so we got her this to play outside on this summer.

I still can't believe she's already 2! We love you Celeste and hope you had a great birthday!