Dance Recital

Last Saturday, Lexi and Ava performed in their dance recital. Ava's class did a tap number to the song "Do You Love Me." She did so great!!

AVA

Ava and her cousin Abby are in the same class and they are standing right by each other (in the middle). And how adorable is that little boy in his sequin vest?!

LEXI

Lexi's class is ballet and they performed to that song from the movie Chocolat. She did wonderful and is moving up to Ballet II in the fall. :)

Abby, Ava and Lexi after the show.

Great job girls!!

Kicking off Summer!!

Bloggin' all the way back to Memorial Day Weekend...
It was Benj's bday that weekend, so we stuck around town and did what he wanted. ;) Lake Las Vegas is so pretty and we tried to get a room, but it had filled up quickly for the holiday. So we went out there and just hung out for the day. Gillato :)

It was pretty windy that day, but the kids didn't mind. We ended up meeting another couple, also with 3 kids and they also had moved to Vegas from Logan.

Memorial Day we headed out to Lake Mead. We rented a waverunner and Benj was in heaven. The girls got to go for a ride too. Lexi was incredibly nervous, but Ava was like, MY TURN! They both ended up having fun. But they have the most fun just playing in the water, digging in the sand and collecting shells.

School has been out for over a week... it's going to be a long summer. The weather has been triple digits already. But we do have some fun stuff planned to do as a family... Vacation can't come soon enough though. The kids have chore charts, we have our library days, free movie days, park days and I have found some cute crafts (thank you crafty mom-bloggers!) to occupy our days.




Ava's last day of school... thank you Miss Jenn!

Lexi's last day... we will miss you Ms. Norman!

Have a great summer everyone!!!

Reese Turns 1!

Our baby girl is a year old! It's crazy, how fast this year has gone by. Reese didn't have a clue about her big day, but we loved celebrating!

Thanks to Grandpa and Grandma Matson for the shopping cart full of food... the big girls love playing with it too. ;)

She ate all the frosting off the cupcake, but spit the cake out. Silly girl... she for sure didn't have any qualms about getting messy!

And it's official, she's walking! (As you can tell from the bruises on her head)

Reese can also:

Say Hello, da-da, ba-ba (cup), na-na (banana), ball, and barks like a dog when she sees any kind of animal.

She can also say more, please and thank you in sign language.

Wave on command, give fist bumps and high-fives.

*She has yet to call me ma-ma. :( But my heart melts when Benj walks in the door and she yells, "Da-da! Da-da!" And lifts her arms to be picked up by him.

Reese loves:

To dance

Baths

Playing tag with her sisters (crawling)

Cuddling with stuffed animals

Whole milk

Mac n cheese

Pizza

Bananas

Shoes

Her binky

Books

Swinging at the park

Singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"

We love you Reesey Piecey!!!

Utah Trip

Last weekend, we went up to SLC and met my parents for the weekend. It was great to spend time with them. We woke up Sat. morning to about 6 inches of snow! The girls took advantage and went out to make a snowman at the hotel.

Us girls got to go shopping at Tai Pan {LOVE that store}, while the guys took the kids to the Children's Museum at Gateway. Wish there were pics of that, but the battery in our camera had died. We all met for lunch at the Braza Grill {delicious Brazilian Steakhouse, all you can eat}. Then the guys went to the motocross races (OUTSIDE... brrrrr!) and my mom and I went and surprised Destiny at the salon where she works in Orem! It was so fun to see her and she met us later for shopping and dinner at the mall and Ikea. :) Thanks guys, for a fun filled weekend!

Easter 2011

Over spring break, I took the girls to the mall to kill a day. I had to get a picture of Reese's first experience with the Easter Bunny. Yeah, she wasn't all that impressed by him. I love it... a pic for her scrapbook.

The kids were up at 6:30 this year on Easter morning! What?!

The Easter Bunny left them money in their eggs :)

We had both my brothers and their wives over for Easter dinner. The guys hid the eggs and then the kids went for their hunt.

Easter Dresses! Lexi was the only one I had to buy a dress for... Reese is wearing the yellow dress that both Lexi and Ava wore on their first Easter's. :)

Reese- 11 months old on Easter Day!