Pruning Bushes with Brian

Baa, Moo and Cockadoodledoo

Hooray for spring! I don't think I have been this happy in weeks. The weather has been so beautiful and Brian and I are just eating up the fact that it was perfect to be outside this week. We have gone for walk after walk after walk, Brian can swing for what seems like hours in his swing that hangs on the front yard tree, and Mark and I are using the nice days to improve our disaster of a yard.

Not only have we enjoyed the outdoors in our own yard, but a few days ago Brian, Xander, Vivian and I went to check out Wheeler Farm because it's only just down the street from where we live. We had a great time and Brian loved just looking at all the animals.We got up close and personal with the pigs.

Brian's favorite thing to do was to feed the geese. I love Canadian geese and we both thoroughly enjoyed giving them some bread.

My favorite animals were the little newborn lambs. Oh so cute.

The cows remind me of the Ranch.




Brian surely didn't mind getting so close to the pigs.

Baby Caitlin's Blessing

This little darling, my favorite (and only) baby niece was blessed yesterday. Caitlin is the cutest and sweetest little baby, I just couldn't get enough of her.

Caitlin belongs to my sister Allison and her husband Dave, who gave her a beautiful blessing. She didn't even cry and was such a great baby the whole day. Her older brother Jordan is also an incredibly good kid and extremely handsome in his sweet Sunday suit. I love this family!


I also love the fact that I live close to most of my family and that all my sisters, even if they don't live in Utah, are close in friendship. We missed you Emily and we can't wait until you'll be here! Because most of us were at church together, Melanie, Allison, Mandy and I played a musical number in sacrament meeting. Oh how fun it is to create beautiful music with my family. Thank you Mom for the hours driving us to lessons, making us practice and putting up with a whole lot of complaining when we were younger to keep us all playing. It is now one of my greatest joys.

Thank you Alli and Dave for having us all over!

I just had to stick these pictures in. The other morning Brian happily climbed into the bath while wearing his jammies. Obviously he enjoys his baths.

The Latest

Brian is learning how to climb up on things around the house. I've learned to NEVER leave the dishwasher open and to watch him pretty much every second of the day.
He's proud of getting himself up onto the fireplace.

Mark gave Brian a new haircut and we got him a new church outfit. What a little stud.

We celebrated Mark's Dad's 60th Birthday and had a great time with the Hsiao family. Happy Birthday Daniel!

Mark's family LOVES crab. I didn't think that I liked it until I met Mark. Then with all the exposure, I too have become fond of some seafood. My crab is the one looking at the camera from the plate in front. I love family dinners.

Mark and I have an ongoing debate as to when we'll get a dog. We've decided to wait of course until our yard and house are completely dog ready, but Brian wants one right now. He loves dogs and adores Mark's childhood dog named Asil.

Brian is such a boy.

Box House and Cousins

Mark built Brian a little house out of a box we had. Brian loves it so much and plays in it every day. Who needs expensive toys when you have boxes and a dad willing to fix them up?



Brian is to a point in his life now where he LOVES to be around his cousins. We've been to several Birthday parties lately where Brian just had to get involved with everything. He loves the older kids. These pictures were the only ones I got at Clara's Birthday, but you can see that Brian is always there with the older kids trying to be a part of everything.



We are so lucky to have Brian's cousin Xander living just down the stairs. Brian loves to follow him around and Xander is so good to Brian. Thanks Vivian for taking these pictures, I need to get the camera out more often to capture those funny moments with these two cute boys.