Book Club Baby Shower

My book club rocks, I love these gals! Leslie (holding the cake) is having her first baby in July, so we decided to throw her a little surprise shower. It turned out great!

I had fun making my first diaper cake

Pre-school Spring Program

So school got out on Friday. We will all miss El's teacher, Miss Heather. We were hoping she would be Em's teacher this fall, but she is moving to Arizona. El is sad that school's out, she has really enjoyed it.

We are bummed that she will miss the Kindergarten cut-off, since she has been doing really well in school this past year. She already finished the 3 & 4 year old programs, so we will be putting her in Challenger's "Jr. K" program, where she will be able to start some of the Kindergarten curriculum.

So Emma will be going to pre-school as well in August, which is really cutting it close for me to put the finishing touches on this whole potty-training ordeal! It is pretty much impossible to potty-train while I'm working full time.

I am going to be changing my work schedule to just 2 days a week at the office & then another part-time gig I got , scheduling dental appointments in the evenings. I'm really looking forward to this, because I hate working full time!!! I miss my kids!

Miss Heather & the girls

don't mind El's hair (Grandma did it :)

the class sang all the songs they've learned over the past few months

the video of all the songs is taking too long to upload...

Six Years

Happy Anniversary to us! We are loving our life right now!

playing catch up

So, yes I've been a blog slacker! I'm still adjusting to working full-time & on top of that I still have had school & everything. Dan has been amazing, driving the kids to & from school, making them dinner, running errands! I am SO thankful for him supporting me! Now, let's move on to my parents, mostly my mama! She has been watching my girls & taking them to get books & treats, crafts, everything! She is such an awesome Grandma!! Dan's mom came over to help out a few weeks ago too & cleaned our entire house, top to bottom! I am so blessed with amazing family support. This whole thing has been a sudden whim for me & I couldn't do it without my family. Anyway, here are some pics of recent happenings...

Mother's Day

we have been gardening like crazy on all our days off, I'll have to take some pics of what we've doneprimary activity (safety stuff)

Birthday party for Dan's mom

Here are some cute video clips of the girls doing a talent show at Grandma & Grandpa's house

externship

Yay! I got the externship I wanted! I was getting bummed that they hadn't called me back at all after I sent them my resume, but they called me yesterday & want me to start Monday. It is a new dental office, literally right down the road from my parents house in Eagle Mountain. That's why I wanted it, so I can easily drop my kids off at my parent's house & then they will drop the girls off at school & Dan will pick them up at 3:30. It should work really well I hope! I have 100 hours to do & then they will most likely hire me on. I think I'm working part-time, not sure what days yet. They are only open Monday - Thursday anyway. My day tomorrow is CRAZY!! I have work from 8-5 & then straight from there I go to school from 6-10! Wish me luck!!

P.S. Don't ask me the difference between an externship & an internship because I really don't know! That's just what my school is calling it. All I know is that I'm not getting paid, but am getting my foot in the door.

El's talk

El gave her first talk in Primary a few weeks ago. She read it herself, it was very cute. We put pictures on the paper so that she could remember certain parts (an idea from Dan's co-worker). Here is a clip of her practicing at home.

Easter

We had a great Easter weekend. My parents were in town & we had a nice dinner at my house. We had a neighborhood egg hunt, & dyed eggs of course. I was happy that Sunday was a nice day & we were able to have a little egg hunt in our yard. After dinner, we all took turns reading the Easter story from an object lesson/egg thing that I made in seminary back in the day.

Spring Break

El had her spring break last week & Dan decided to take the week off too. We went to the Hill Aerospace Museum, the Zoo, & Monsters vs. Aliens 3D movie (which was very cool). We also took a trip to the mall to visit Build-a-Bear Workshop to get some new clothes for El's Teddy Bear Picnic that's coming up this month at school. We spent some time with Dan's mom, who was in town & she was able to come to the zoo with us. The airplane museum was a little boring after a while, but the girls enjoyed the kids area & Dan loved it all of course. Afterward we went to Famous Dave's BBQ, since we've never been there & have heard good things about it. It was SO yummy! I can't wait to go back there! And of course we ended up getting too much stuff at the Disney Store! Good thing I don't go to the mall too often! Anyway, we had a lot of fun even though we neglected most of our Spring cleaning plans! Oh well...