Thursday Pictures - 48 Weeks

It has been a rough week for this sad little face. We have been very glad that daddy has been home. You boys have been hanging out on the couch watching hunting shows while mommy passed out fever medications. Poor little guy fevered for 3 days. I thought it was all because of his top teeth that were trying to make their way through. But then he broke out in a rash from head to toe so I'm pretty sure that we suffered a case of Roseola.

Thursday Pictures - 47 Weeks

Mr. Hayze thinks he's pretty hot stuff now that he has discovered the treasure trove of animals on Sadie's bed. As you can imagine, she was less than ecstatic about it and has quickly relocated all of her precious friends to the other side of the bed out of his reach. He has been perfecting his volume level and can be heard yelling 'Hey' or 'Ya' from pretty much anywhere. Loud is his thing, it's pretty funny. I'm sure it won't be so funny during church. He is a speedy little crawler and has discovered that he quite enjoys going up the stairs at Grams and Grandpa's house.

Valentines Day

This year was Miss Mya's first grade school experience with Valentines Day. She was so excited to choose valentines treats for her classmates and was even more excited to come home and survey what she received from them. She excitedly announced to me in an almost surprised voice that 'people love me'! Yes, my sweet girl, I'm not sure how they couldn't. 

Sadie also received a very thoughtful gift from her darling Primary teacher Sister Robin. It was hanging on our door with a note saying he was just 'hanging around to let her know someone loves her'. Sadie adores Sister Robin and this little monkey was immediately adopted into the stuffed animal fold. 

Thursday Pictures - 46 Weeks

Hello, my name is Hayze and I am the head mischief maker in this house. My most recent and favorite game is splashing in the toilet and spending too much time in that general area. Mommy tries to use an angry voice but I just smile at her. Doesn't she know how much fun it is? I also am quite good at moving all the DVDs from the shelves onto the floor. Mommy is nice and puts them all back up there so that I can take them down again. It's also really fun to play with my big sisters hair. She loves it when I grab a big handful. They just freeze and squeal until I pull out a chunk or someone pries it out of my fingers. When I'm bigger I might get in trouble for all these shenanegins but right now I just flash a little grin and they don't stay mad for long.

Thursday Pictures - 45 Weeks

45 Weeks Old

I love this sweet little face with all my heart!

Disney Details

As much as I adore everything about the riding the rides at Disneyland, I find myself getting just as giddy about all the little details around the parks. I enjoy the thought that is put into the atmosphere, the rides, the queues, and especially the hidden Mickeys.

Once Upon a Time, We went to Disneyland!!

Back at the end of January we escaped the winter blues and headed to sunny California to visit our happy place. I lovingly called this our yours mine and ours trip. We had the Makechnie family and their darling boys as well as Grams and Grandpa. We snapped so many pictures and had such a great time. I'm embarrassed to say that it has given me a pretty significant dose of anxiety knowing I would have to not share many of them. Hence the reason it's taken me so very long to post anything about it.

Grandpa and the girls deciding what she wants to do first; of course it was to head to Cars Land.

These cute little cousins are so darling together. It's as if they have never been apart.

Little Mister was just so happy this trip. He loved having so many things to see and so many loving people to hold him when he refused to get back into his stroller.

Miss Mya enjoying her reward, courtesy of Grandpa, for riding Grizzly River Rapids with Dad.

I wondered how Kim's boys would react to having a new set of adults around. I hoped they wouldn't feel left out, or feel nervous around them. I shouldn't have worried. You can't help but love those sweet boys and I must admit that my parents are pretty fantastic too.

The girls were so excited all day to see world of color. Sadie especially was looking forward to it, and she tried as hard as she could to stay awake. She was quite disappointed when we put her in bed that night and she figured out she missed it.

Kim, my Disney partner in crime! I love that it doesn't take much for either of us to convince the other to plan a trip. Thank heaven our husbands are kind enough to indulge us.

Apparently all of our children inherited their Dad's sensitive eyes.

Cute little cousins.

Finn, delicious, squishable, sweet Finn is a busy little buddy. Uncle Cody made good use of an extra chain in the Casey Jr. line. For some reason the cast member was less than

These girls adore their aunt Kim.

The drama of this trip revolved around this little lady getting on the Matterhorn. She was super nervous anyway but we had promised each other that we would both ride something that we hadn't before. She was trying to swim away from me as I held her in the line. Tears were flowing and we even had periods of anger, especially since we had to wait at the front of the line due to some technical difficulty. But she did it! She conquered the mountain and I'm very proud of her for doing something that was very scary for her.

I love how much cute Tate loves Star Wars! He was so very tolerant of Uncle Cody's incorrectly saying his hat was C3PO. Uncle Cody teases this little man so much but for some reason he can take it from him.

Miss Mya took it upon herself to be the distributor of the 3-D glasses each time we rode Toy Story.

I love these 3 little crazy cats! They make my day every day.

Sometimes you just need to rest, even at Disneyland.