Spring Break, and So much fun!

Kirtlyn and Greysen, good old friends at the park!
A Tiffany Square reunion, all of our old friends together again at the park!

Left to right: Perkins, Franzen's, Croft's, I am holding the boys & Kirtlyn is there in front, Eyestone's, and Angie & Greyson. It was a perfect day at the park seeing all of our friends! I can Not believe how grown-up those kids are! I really could not recognize them! It was so great to see everyone! I am so grateful those girls would all meet me there, thank you ladies!
We got a chance to go to the Gilbert Library, and than play at the park behind it with friends, it was a great idea! My sister Dawn invited us, and we played with them for a couple of hours. There is So much to do there! This picture is of Hyrum, Kirtlyn, Louie, Tom-Tom, and Thomas. My friend Tess' boys, that we saw at the park at the end of the day.
Thomas was so happy this tree was close enough to the ground to climb!
This picture shows some of the cool play walls the kids can climb on and around. You can see Kirtlyn in the front and Kelsey, my sisters daughter, and Thomas at the back of the shot.
Kelsey following Thomas to make sure he is Ok.
There was always one of Dawn's big kids watching one of my smaller kids, they were Cute!
Yes, that is all hair just from little Thomas' head! I know, it was do time for these hair cuts!
and he sat so well, just laughing at the mass amount of hair falling off of his head!
Once grandma bought Kirtlyn the Barbie, of course we had to throw her a birthday party. Here she is with her "birthday cake" (brownie).
We got to take a trip out to visit grandpa's grave. Kirtlyn walked around and returned flowers to any place that they may have fallen out of.. it was so sweet.
peace.
At his head stone, grandma asked us to sing grandpa's favorite song...

"Give said the little stream" it was a great day!

Leperchauns, family, & friends...happy St. Patrick's day

We had a great family activity to put together a number of school bags for the humanitarian office, to enjoy great family time, and to celebrate St. Patrick's day. We had a great time eating green food, and making good memories!
Hyrum was covered in green frosting from our green cup-cake decorating activity.
Dane knew the best way to eat those green cup-cakes!!
Hyrum, Dane, & Jake enjoying every minute of the day!
Look at those sweet girls.
Grandma and Wyatt.

Well, who couldn't love him! He is a little leperchaun, isn't he?!
We are family
Here it is, the party people, enjoying every piece of that green food!
Cute Kirtlyn, and Kyle.
Cute Kelsey.
There they are, our two little leperchaun's. They look great. The party was just a success!
Here is a perfect shot of Hyrum and Grandma playing one of their silly games... You've got to love it!
This is actually a few days ago, but this is Kirtlyn and her "best friend," Lily. This was a time she has been waiting for, this time with her friends.
Annie, Lily, Hyrum, Kirtlyn, and Thomas gracing us with a special performance. They had a lot of fun making up shows, and running out to show us. good times, great memories.

Utah trip

On Friday the 5th My mother, brother's Chris and Jeff, and I drove to Utah for my brother Stephen's sealing on the 6th. It was a quick trip, but we had a great time, and would do it again if we had to.

Here are some pictures from the big event!
Monday night, following our return from Utah, we had building blocks and baked goods for our FHE activity. It was a fun night, and this picture is taken after we had already given away a plate of cookies, and a Lot of the extra cookies had already been eaten!! Um-um good! Do not worry honey, I will make you some when you get here!
Kirtlyn lost her second tooth while we were driving home from Utah, so she got to have a visit from the tooth fairy that night. It was awfully nice of her to hold on to it until I was coming home!

grandma, grandson, what a shot!
Diesel is one happy baby, yet I always took a picture of him just After a great big smile.. sorry you could not see how cute it was!
Me and the baby Diesel! I could not believe how old he was already, especially since this was my first time meeting him!!
Her is a small view of Steve and Amee's living room. It is a great house for them
Chelsea, LeDawn, and her sister are just as much family to Steve and Amee, as anyone else is!
All of the family together
Amee and the family
The Knudsen family
Just the happily, newly sealed, eternal family... What a special day!
Here are some great shots of the Bountiful temple, where the sealing took place. My brother Chris and I were just in awe with the utter beauty the surrounded that temple!
Directly in front of the Temple there is a circular, downward, view of the underground parking lot... Yes, even that was Beautiful!
We could not believe how many ways we could look at this temple, and see it's beauty!
What a view!
I loved the scenery so much on the road trip, I just had to take a few pictures!
The red rock with the white snow was especially beautiful!
The camera did not fully catch the color and beauty of it!!

This last week

Thomas did not want to miss my birthday, so he got a little excited and sent it a couple of weeks earlier.... Which is great! I will really enjoy reading Maxwell's book on my road trip to Utah this weekend, and I will of course by practicing some delicious baked-goods from the Lion House recipe book, and be ready to make it for Thomas when he gets here in a few weeks. It really is great, it even came with a DVD, so if I am Totally lost, I can just find it on the DVD! The Calendar is full of beautiful pictures from Joesph Smith's life. Great present, I am so Excited!! This actually happened a few weeks ago, but this was the first of many "accidents" Hyrum has had at Grandma Anna's house. He just laid down behind the coach, none of us aware of it, and started kicking the lamp until it fell and broke.... Oh Hyrum, what a talent you have.
We had to make a weekend trip to Thatcher to take care of a terrible tooth that was really bothering Kirtlyn. This is actually the after picture, if you look closely, you can see a silver crown on her back left muller. She is so proud of her "silver tooth!"
She was So excited to sit in the the "moving chair," she was really like no one you have ever seen at a dentist office before. She just loved it. During her whole procedure she just wanted to know what was going on, she would tap the dentist on the arm every few minutes asking him what he was doing, and why. She just had to know how it all worked, it was so sweet to know that the biggest problem we had in the dentist office was that she was curious, I'll take it! That was a blessing, and everything went so well!
Her cusion gave her a pair of sun-glasses to guard from the "bright" dentist light.
Grandpa Biggs got a new toy, and the boys could Not leave it alone all weekend in Thatcher. It is all they wanted to do the entire time!
I got to see busy Allison during our short Thatcher visit, she is just a great girl!
Hyrum, Thomas, Carson, and Lindsey just enjoying some time together over the weekend!
Carson and Thomas have come to a new level of friendship and playing. They have both really grown up and learned to do a lot of sharing so they could enjoy playing together more. And somehow they managed to wear the exact same blue hooded tops, and looked just a like all weekend.
It was freezing cold, and I was begging them to stay inside, but they would not leave the gator!!
Back in Mesa, Aunt Patricia really knows how to play a game of cards, and the kids loved learning go fish with her. Now they play very well, even on their own.
Hyrum is just great at leaving his mark, and poor grandma's blanket and floor did not see the "make-over" coming. He is blessed with a forgiving grandma Knudsen, that is no lie.


Hyrum is probably the best at talking on the phone with dad in Mexico, he just never stops talking! We love it!
We had a great time meeting with my sister Dawn, and an old friend of ours, Jamie Guthrie. Thomas had so much fun, he took his lunch up on the toy, he didn't want to miss a second of play time.