April Showers

Pretty little Alice

Cute Kids

My beautiful little "Angel Babies"

Rockwell loves to climb into things. He climbed into the dryer while I was switching laundry over but I couldn't find my camera in time.

Grace took this picture.

Easter

Easter morning was so crazy trying to get pictures of Rock's first Easter and getting ready for church. The book that I got Alice makes me cry-"A Blessing From Above."

Grace had fun with mommy's make up

The girls love to eat popscicles on the trampoline. Rock loves it too!

They always pretend Alice is the mommy.

Rock loves to help me undo the dishes.

Rockwell Thoroughly enjoyed hunting for Easter eggs and crawling in the grass!

Grace is showing us all the eggs she found. I wanted her to wear the cute outfit that matches Alice but she threw a huge fit until I gave into letting her wear the "flower dancing dress" that she wears day in and day out.

Alice was shoving chocolate in her mouth as fast as she could before I came to get her bag! The other night we caught her downstairs sneaking chocolate after we thought everyone was asleep. Ryan asked her what she was doing and she said, "I'm just having a few pieces of chocolate and then I'm going potty and then to bed and that's it. I won't get out again so that you don't have to shut the door and lock it ok dad."

Trampoline fun.

Ward Easter egg hunt.

Finally Posting Again

Well we are finally in North Carolina. We have been moving for the past 2 1/2 months. We will only have to move one more time in July and then we won't have to move again for another year after that and we don't know where that will be. Ryan's selling pest control right now until his training with Cisco starts at the end of July. We are house sitting for his cousin right now about an hour south of Raleigh. So we are in Sanford. The roads are really confusing here and everything is 20 minutes away. That's something we are really going to have to get used to. The ward here is really nice. Everyone is in the military so half the ward is in Iraq. That is why we are house sitting. Ryan's cousin Jen is staying with her mom in St George until her husband comes home. He is a military lawyer. He came home to visit right before we got here and when he got back to Iraq they put him in a new trailor and that night his old one got blasted. Scary! Anyway, we're really liking it here but we think the West is best of course but who knows we could be here for a few years but with Cisco we can always work our way back west so that's nice. All our kids are growing so fast. Rock is walking a little now and Alice and Grace are such little girls now. They are so fun but we are thinking this may be all the kids we have. The last few months have been really tough on all of us so hopefully things will start to settle down a little. It was my 27th birthday on the 16th and Ryan got me a new mini van so now I am officially a mormon mom. I used to think that I never wanted a van but it has helped so much and I just love it! So that is about it.

Halloween and Gracie's birthday

They loved carving pumpkins but then they were afraid of the scary faces they had when we were finished!

Family pictures

Jeremy took the pictures while Melanie tried to make us all smile. It was the best experience I've had trying to get my kids pictures taken. I think we'll hire them for good.

October news

Well the month of October started really well for us. The 1st day Ryan came home hunched over and fell on the bed and was moaning with pain in his back. He had thrown it out once again. I thought he was over doing the complaining. I can't help thinking everyone is faking it. I grew up with a bunch of kids that would fake sick to get attention or get out of going to school. Anyway, by the third day of this and him missing school, I started getting scared. We were really starting to lose it because we thought this was going to mess up our plans of Ryan graduating by December. Ryan's mom came to our rescue and boosted our morale some. We found out that he herniated another disc in his back and they gave him a cortizone shot. He's slowly feeling a little better. His determination to graduate got him back to school and he was able to catch up after having missed two weeks. We're almost all the way back on track. We've been able to get excited about talking about our future again. Ryan's been talking with the career advisement center and the guy gave us a bunch of contacts from a lot of good companies. He's got a few interviews coming up on Monday and he just had one over the phone with Cisco. The advisor also told him to get into a class that will help him with the GMAT so that he will be able to go on to get his Masters someday, depending on how it all works out. Then the girls had so much fun on Halloween. I did their hair in wringlets. It was really cute. Alice was Princess Belle and Grace was Snow White. Rockwell was a little red hot chili pepper (not a member of the band but an actual little pepper) Alice kept saying, "You just say trick-or-treat, and they give you candy!" She was amazed at the concept.