My sweet J.J.

My baby will be 19 months old tomorrow! She is getting so big and saying so many words. Her latest are outside, bite, Lady, Mimi (mommy), bye bye, Jesus, thank you, AMEN, etc. She is such a fun character and lately is a little daredevil. She has started to climb up on the kitchen table and stand there like she is queen. She also figured out how to climb up the stairs to the big slide and scares me half to death every time she attempts it. She is not content in going down her little slide. Oh no. She has to go down the big slide like her sister. I wouldn't mind if there wasn't a big drop on the side of the stairs and I don't trust her to pay attention enough not to fall. Ugh. I'm hoping this one isn't as broken bone prone as her sister. She makes us smile all of the time from her 'looks that could kill' to her sweet laugh. She is also very shy around people she doesn't know. If people at the store even look in her direction, she ducks her head down and hides. It's so adorable. She also embarrasses us in church when her daddy is leading the music in Sacrament. Whenever she sees him, she starts screaming 'Dada' and pointing!! She hasn't quite taken to nursery yet but we will keep on trying. I'm hoping to be able to just drop her off and go to class really soon;=}

She has also started praying with us. One day she just plopped down on her knees. I helped her to say one and now she wants to say one all the time. We kind of got it on video. It's hard to hear but she repeats after me (in her gibberish) and will say AMEN whenever she is done. Love it!!

And I had to add Makenna's prayer as well. She went awhile where she didn't want to say them but we finally convinced her that we love to hear her prayers and now she loves to say them again. I love the prayers of little children.

Backyard fun

The only thing we got done during spring break was our backyard. But it was a HUGE job. There were so many weeds, it was ridiculous. Thankfully, it was beautiful weather and the girls just played out there while we worked.

J.J. is laughing because I'm pulling weeds and she's having fun;)

I got all the weeds pulled (well, at least most of them;) and Travis did the lawn and stuff and we rewarded ourselves with a nice evening with smores.

Lady is eyeing those marshmallows and J.J. is loving them.

And still loving them;p

My crazy Kenna. It was a nice family night after all that hard work and now we have a yard we can really enjoy. We just need to keep it up this time so it's not such a big undertaking next time;)

Baby brother

Ever since my sister had her baby boy, Miss Kenna has been asking for a baby brother too. I told her not right now but she has been persistent. She asks me all the time especially on Sundays when we see the baby. The other day she came to me and said she had a baby brother in her tummy and she was going to go to the hospital just like Aunt Sara. I guess she figured she would take matters into her own hands;)

If you look closely, you can see a bulge under her princess dress;-}

Funny kid

Makenna: (looking at our wedding pics) Mom, why are you throwing your flowers?

Me: Um.....because;)

Makenna: Oh! (pause) But why are you throwing them?

Happy Easter from us

We went to church and spent time with both sides of our families. We had a great Easter.

The girls loved finding eggs....especially Makenna;)

Papa and the kiddos.

At the end of the day, Makenna got Jordyn with the squirt gun......Jordyn was not too happy;)

And they both crashed tonight.....sweet! Happy Easter;)

Shark Reef

They give free tickets to teachers and a guest at the Shark Reef and since the girls were free, we got to have a fun morning for nada! The girls loved it! I couldn't get Makenna to look away very often to take pics and Jordyn loved all the fish!

This a tunnel that you go through and Makenna loved watching them swim over her.

That's some serious cheese!!

All I have to say is this is so cute....

Makenna kept calling (or I should say screaming) this guy 'Crush' from Nemo;)

Cool!

This one kind of freaked them out going over their heads. That was a lot of teeth!

She just kept pointing!

I kept trying to take a pic of her looking but every time she saw me with the camera, she turned and smiled;)

I'm so glad we went and that we went early. As we came out, the line was gigantic. It was a fun family day;)

Yummy!

It's not as much fun to have birthdays anymore. Well at least the getting older part. I do enjoy being able to sleep in and have some of this.......without guilt.....yummy!

Pretty, pretty princess;-}

This is what happens when you live in a house full of girls!!! :-)

You just gotta smile;)

She apparently didn't want her picture taken;-)

Our little bowler

What do you get when you have a pair of these....

A very happy little girl!!! She was thrilled that she got to wear the shoes this time.

We took Makenna bowling the Friday before her birthday and she had a blast. It turned into cosmic bowling at the end and she didn't want to leave. It was quite awesome with the pretty lights and music;-)

She is turning into quite the pro. I didn't do so good this time;( There were times that Kenna's score was way too close to mine! Lol!