May

5 1/2 months and we have a tooth!

 

Happy birthday, Abby! Here she is with the birthday cake she took to preschool:

They celebrated a day early.

 

The day of we started with birthday pancakes:

 

Then an ice cream cake roll in the evening:

She loved this new outfit from Grandma & Grandpa Buhler:

 

We worked hard on the girls new bedroom

 

First night in their new bedroom:

 

Liam loved stretching out in his crib:

(he’d been in a Moses basket in our room while we waited for the girls new room and he was too big!)

 

There’s that second tooth!

 

Look, Mom, I bit my pancake into a bat:

 

 

This girl has SO much personality!

Liam loves his daddy!

Sandy sent this card to a friend.

It says: “Happy Summer, From Sandy To Ava. I like you cuz you are sweet as a popsicle.”

 

And we had a visit from Grandma Gingie & Grandpa Pete:

April

Crazy hair day at Sandy’s school:

Of course, Abby had to match!

 

Liam swinging for the first time (5 months old):

 

Happy Easter:

 

We went to an Easter egg hunt and met the Easter bunny on Saturday:

 

Still working on getting the girls room finished. So this little guy is still in a Moses basket on the side of my bed. He doesn’t fit so well any more….

 

Annual Passover dinner. We had lots of kids joining us this year and I was pretty impressed with my set up. In fact, I cut 10 minutes off the ceremony!! Just by having everything ready to go on the plates so there was no passing/pouring during it:

 

 

Liam comes to work with me. Here he is hanging out at the office:

 

 

Sandy reading to her younger siblings. Such a good big sister!

 

 

Bill’s mission reunion:

March

Bill’s youngest brother, Michael, got married at the beginning of March. Here is Liam ready to go:

 

It was fun to see lots of family. And we sat through lots of pictures. I really hope we get a copy of some of those pictures someday.

We came home from the temple and Abby really wanted to change into her pajamas, but I told her no because we still needed to go to the reception – and family pictures were being taken before the reception.

But I put her pajamas in my bag and promised her if she’d stay in her dress, she could change into them after all the pictures were over.

So in the middle of the reception, after leaving to feed Liam, I came back to find this:

That girl loves to be in pajamas!

 

PTDSD: Post-traumatic daylight savings disorder:

Anyone else experiencing that at your house?

 

And some happier pictures of Abby because she really is generally happy when daylight savings time isn’t throwing her off.

 

Here she is at the zoo:

 

With a plant growing kit from her primary teacher:

 

 

Liam!

 

Liam again!

 

 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

 

 

When you have two older sisters, you have a lot of pink things:

 

 

The girls getting haircuts at grandma’s house:

 

Abby and another mess. This one involved a tube of toothpaste.

February

We went to an ice castle in Midway. It was so much fun!

 

 

The kids climbed through all the tunnels:

 

 

And got to meet Princesses Anna and Elsa.

 

Happy Valentine’s Day!

 

Liam is getting bigger:

 

This child gets into more messes! I was running around trying to get a few chores done before picking Sandy up from half-day kindergarten and Abby decided to take a bath in the dish water. The picture doesn’t capture the water pouring onto the floor:

 

I do love her. Especially when she’s sleeping:

January

 

We went to Arizona and all of my family was there:

 

 

The grandkids:

 

 

Our little family:

 

 

The kids:

 

 

My parents and their children:

 

 

Bill & I:

 

 

Sisters:

 

We were there for the temple open house:

 

 

The kids played in the hot tub every day we were in Arizona:

 

The girls at dance class:

 

 

I was really ambitious one day and did a science experience with the kids, we made elephant toothpaste:

 

 

Of course, about the time the stuff started to bubble I had to go feed Liam. I came back to this: