Family Photos

We took another family photo at our get together this Easter. I haven't had time to go through all the photos we took, but here's the big group shot!

Love my family!

Happy Anniversary!

To my incredible parents! Thank you for putting up with us :) Hope you had a wonderful day!

I Love Spring!

I haven't been blogging much lately, but I wanted to do some kind of a little update before my life gets even crazier. Springtime is one of my favorite times of year! I'm so glad this baby will be born in the Spring like I was :) The weather has been beautiful and been calling us out of doors. Mostly to the backyard - thank goodness for the backyard! I just want to garden when I get out there, but I can hardly do that at the moment. Just doing a little extra housecleaning ends up being too much for me these days - so I'm trying to take it easy and save my back, but it's hard! I would be cleaning and organizing this house from top to bottom if I could right now. One more month before little Sierra makes her entrance to the world! Mike has been pretty busy with work, but he has been helping me out more with dinner and laundry and taking care of Lily. He's such a good dad! He plays so well with Lily and reads her a ton of stories when he puts her to bed. They are so cute together. Here are some photos of us over the last week or so.

Lily and I enjoying the beautiful flowers in the backyard:

Love that face!

Lily in an outfit she picked out that morning with her Dad.

Another flower for you, Mommy!

Showing off her style - patterns galore,down to the hello kitty socks! 

I actually thought it was a pretty cute combo - we went to my Dr. appointment like this.
Good job Lily, and Dad!

Me

...and my belly.

Fluffy white clouds and a super blue sky getting us all out to play this weekend:

Such a beautiful day in my favorite corner of the backyard

All the flowers we planted by the studio are exploding in bloom

These two are so cute together!

Daddy-Daughter Love

Dad's little helper clearing out our garden boxes.

Lily is super excited for Easter to come. She asks about it every morning and night. She just can't wait for the Easter bunny, and to wear her Easter dress, and to have her cousins over for dinner. She has big plans for an egg race, but the hunt is what she's looking forward to the most! Here are some photos of her making some pretty cool Easter decorations earlier this week. She wanted to make an Easter art project while I was trying to get some organizing done, so I cut out a bunch of eggs and a few other shapes and gave her the glue stick and some colored pencils and crayons and she went to town! I helped a bit when she got tired of being all gluey, but she mostly put them together, and she came up with the idea to stick the bunny and chick faces in 'the egg cracks' as she called them. I love her little penciled in faces and all her extra touches. We need to hang these up around the house before this weekend!

Not wanting me to take her picture!

Much more cooperative with the smiles :)

The completed pictures

Check out her little hand drawn faces. So cute!

Another one of my favorite things about Spring is listening to General Conference. Lily was so awesome about it this year! All I had to do was print out a bunch of Easter themed coloring pages for her. I even heard her repeating back some of the things from the talks. She was actually listening! It probably helped that I haven't been letting her watch much TV lately. I love this little almost 4 year old!

We ate homemade cinnamon rolls and listened to the prophets and the beautiful music from the choirs. I remember General Conference seeming so long when I was a kid, but this year it felt so short! I'm so grateful for the spirit I felt and the inspired words of the prophets. I really needed it this year! Here's hoping I can make it through another month of being pregnant! And the sleep deprivation before and after...