BOY OR GIRL?

We had our 19 week ultrasound today! I am about 30 posts behind on my blog but this one is going to have to come out of order!!!!

NO cheating! Watch the whole video! We got some great pics today!!!!!

Preschool 2011-2012

Much of the exciting events our family has experienced this year have involved the small preschool class I taught for Crystal and two of her friends, Elliana and McCall. I put this video together as an end of the year program for their families. I realized while I was updating my blog that most of the pictures I took in the past year have been for preschool, so I thought I'd just post the video. Its long, but those girls are so cute I couldn't cut it down! :D Enjoy!

Bear Lake

Ty's parents have a timeshare condo in Bear Lake and their week this year was over Memorial Day Weekend, so Ty took a week off work and we headed to Bear Lake! We had a lot of fun with Ty's family. It was pretty chilly there, but we still had fun in the condo and got out while it was nice outside.

I have a TON of pictures so here goes:

 Bear Lake Pizza our first night there!

 Crystal loved looking for 'sea shells'

 In her sunglasses.

 Walking along the beach ... heading to the toys of course!

 More shell searching

 Waiting for Crystal to catch up...

Funniest thing! And I wish we would have gotten video, but Lily HATED the sand.

LOL. We were walking along and as soon as the path turned into sandy beach, Lily stopped dead in her tracks, looked down at the sand, and then reached for someone to carry her. When we wouldn't pick her up, she whined and screamed and stomped her feet. We'd gently push her onto the sand and she'd FREAK OUT! She hated the way it feels to walk on sand!  

BUT she has an innate NEED to get dirty, and she couldn't resist such a wonderful opportunity to do so. She let Ty put her down as we neared a firmer part of the beach so she could sink her hands into it.

 She's still not so sure about having it under her feet!

Picking up sand to through over her head!

Playing in the sand and on the toys. Life doesn't get better than this!

Minnetonka Cave! Crystal didn't even freak out when they turn all the lights out at the farthest point in the cave... unfortunately Lily didn't like it much. She started yelling "OUCHY!" lol. Apparently darkness hurts.

MINIATURE GOLF:
Taking the children with us to go miniature golfing was pretty unproductive, BUT they enjoyed it and we all had fun! Since we had the entire course to ourselves, it worked out pretty well.

 On our way out of town we stopped to get a burger in Garden City:

Easter 2012

We went to Idaho Falls for Easter this year. The girls had 3 Easter Egg Hunts at Grandma and Grandpa Cook's and at Grandma and Grandpa Gordon's houses. They were also spoiled yet again by the Easter Bunny! Both of the girls LOVED decorating Easter Eggs (and they got to do it TWICE this year!). I have video of it, but I don't want to hassle with uploading videos at the moment. I'm afraid, because of all the video we took (with our brand new HandyCam btw :D) , this is my only Easter picture!

The Easter Bunny found us at Grandma and Grandpa Gordon's house!

The Ice Cream Cake

Even though I've grown to rather enjoy making and decorating cakes on birthdays, Ty LOVES LOVES LOVES Dairy Queen's ice cream cakes! So for his birthday I bought him one instead of decorating my own. And I didn't just get him one, I got him the BIGGEST one they had!

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY TY!

 Crystal helping blow out the candles!

 This is beside the point but this picture is a good view of Crystal's freshly cut hair. That's right... she did something I NEVER thought she would do. She got a hold of scissors and cut her bangs off (not to mention part of Lily's hair too)! After like 3 months they are finally growing back!

Sadly, the next night after eating our ice cream cake, we forgot to put it back in the freezer (Ty thought it needed to go in the deep freeze in Lily's room so he left it on the counter while we ate, but I had cleared a space in the kitchen freezer and thought he had put it away). It was left on the counter until it had completely melted into soup ... it was VERY VERY SAD! But no worries, Ty bought one for my birthday just a few weeks later. 

TROUBLE!

It was one of those moments where I realized the girls were being TOO quiet, so I decided I'd better check on them. I came into Crystal's room and found THIS!

 BUSTED!

 Oh well. No worries. 

 I'll just finish my french fry...

The ENTIRE dresser was emptied! 

(In Lily's defense, Crystal assisted in this particular piece of mischief.)

 "Helping" with the dishes!

She's our little monster but I wouldn't want her any other way!!!!! We LOVE her to death! I love her sweet smile and the smarts she has that gets her into the trouble she's ALWAYS finding!