Aby's Preschool program

It is official, we have our very first graduate in the family. (ok not the first but close) Aby Graduated from preschool the first time (she has to go again next year) on May 24, 2007. I may go down as the worst mom in history for making her go but what can you do. Aby was fighting a cold, and started to run a fever about 1 1/2 hours before her program, so me being the wonderful mom, gave her medicine, and let her sleep for an hour, then woke her up did her hair, and took her to the program. Luckily the Tylonal had kicked in and she was feeling much better. I would have felt even worse if she had missed though, her daddy took the day off of work to see her swim lesson and this program.
The kids started out by saying the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. The theme in their preschool this year has been CareBears, that explains th bears that the kids are holding.

In one of the songs the kids marched around a row of large ABC blocks and then would choose one to sit on and tell the teacher the letter that they were sitting on. It was great until multiple kids started trying to sit onthe same letter.

Here the kids were singing a song about the primary and secondary colors. Aby was red, and for the most part did great, except she would stand up with the green and yellow every once in a while.

At the end of the Program the teachers did a little spot light on all of the kids, and gave them a graduation certificate. Aby is the only girl that said when she grows up she wants to be like her dad! I was very happy and Ryan thought it was sweet. All the other girls want to be like their moms. I don't know if I should be offended or not, but I am glad that Aby loves her dad enough to want to be like him, he is a wonderful man.

By the end you could tell that Aby was tierd and a little bit bored, so were the other kids.

Grandma Sullivan came and watched the program also. Thank you for comming and for the fun toys grandma. Ryan decided that he needed to joing the fun, and put on the CareBear hat, I think that it makes him look fantastic. What do you think?

At the end when I tried to get pictures of Aby Kenzie decided that she was going to be in them as well. Thank goodness they are such good friends, and thank you Grandma Sullivan for remembering Kenzie also.

Aby Swimming Lesson Take 2! (the final day)

I would first like to thank Michelle for being such a wonderful teacher. After the first lesson disaster it was so nice to know that Aby was with someone who was so great!!! (Andrew Thank you so much for finding and falling in love with Michelle.) Aby has come so far in her swimming. When we first started out she would put her head under, but was a little bit afraid, and she couldn't float on either her front or her back. I was actually a little nervous to put her in a level 2, but I figured she would do Ok. Aby did great, and was floating on her front and back, as well as trying to swim by herslef. I credit this to Michelle, because she is such a great teacher, and I think Aby would do anything she asked her to.
This is Aby and Michell on the last day. Aby had such a great time in swimming lessons, and is much mor confident in the water.

Here Aby is showing her daddy that she can swim her front arms on her tummy. She actually did pretty good, she was kicking and you could see her arms come out of the water. I was really impressed. She just needs to keep working to go a little bit longer.

Ahhhh the eternal work of trying to get Aby to kick with straight legs. Aby rides a bicycle when ever she tries to kick, but we are working on balleria kicks, so hopefully she will get better

Near the end of the lesson Michelle to the kids over to a deeper area and was having them jump to her. Aby it turned out was the most daring one in the class, she was the only one who would jump into the water, and try to swim the others were very timid. Here she is ready to jump.....

And into the water we go. I was so proud of her. Thank you again Michelle for all of your hard work with Aby she never would have made it without you, and thank you for helping me out of sticky situation.

A fun Sunday Afternoon

A few Sunday's ago we decided to go up and visit mom and dad for a little while on a Sunday evening. The kids had a lot of fun playing in the back yard, and being with Grandma and Grandpa. We are so glad that we are able to live so close to them at this time in our lives. We know that may change someday, so we are taking advantage of the time right now. Aby and Kenzie and Brooklyn love their Grandma and Grandpa Roundy very much.
Grandpa just has a way of getting his granddaughters to smile and laugh! Check out the grin on Brooklyn's face.

There is nothing better than having grandma sit down and read a story, just ask Aby and Kenzie. Thank you Grandma for being such a good example to my children.

Our new swimming pool

Before you see the new pool, I thought that I would show you what Brooklyn does during our afternoon swimming sessions. I will hold her, or she will sleep on a blanket. She loves to be outside, and for the most part is very content to watch her sisters and their friends play in the water. The only thing she doens't like is the SUN I have to keep her in the shade or she gets very upset.
Ok here it is, I finally broke down and bought a new swimming pool, our other one was two years old, and while it is still in good condition,I will continue to use it, the girls thought that it was really small and wanted a bigger one. So I caved and went to Target to look for a new pool and sprinkler that they could play with. (I told Ryan that spending this money saved him from buying a 600.00 dollar pass at the new rec center.) We found a great pool that is in the shape of a star, and the girls love it. After a quick stop at the rees's to have Tyler blow it up we put the water in and started swimming.

Both of the girls we so excited that they could both be in the pool with toys, and stretch out and play. I was just glad that they were not yelling at eachother to "stop touching me!"

Here both girls were catching fish in the pool. They had a great time, and still play in the pool almost daily. (I have to use our spare sump pump to empty the pool everyother day.) There will be no pictures of that becuase you might die laughting. I usually end up looking like I went swimming. Mainly because the hose will pop off and I will get caught in an impromptu version of old faithful.

If you look really close you will see the sprinkler that I bought, it is really cool, the only thing is the kids won't run through it, they will only use it under the trampoline. Oh well at least my lawn is getting watered and won't die this year.

the other side of "scooter park"

Ok Tiffany showed you how scooter park got it's name, but my kids like to play on the toys as well as ride their bikes. Here are some pictures of them playing on the toys. They like this park better than most of the others, because there is sand and not wood chips so they can take off their shoes and play.
It took me almost the entire time that we were playing to get them to both sit down and take a picture together. they were just too busy playing.

Kenzie (my brave one) figured out that she could go up and down this forward and decided that was much more fun than crawling backward.

Aby is just a ball of energy, and had a great time just running from place to place on the toy, and going on the slides and playing on the bridges. Aby is also my friendly child. When we very first got there, another family was there, and Aby ran right on over and asked them to play with her. This is a big step considering last year I couldn't even convince her to ask the people that she knew to play with her.

One of the slides need I say more.

Builders of Cities

The girls found their blocks one night, and sat down at the table to play with them. I am surprised at how much my girls love to build with blocks.
Aby was building her "city with a lot of stores" in this picture, and the only way that she would agree to put the blocks away so I could set the table was to take a picutre for Dominick and Braden and Karson to see.

Kenzie build her own city after fighting for blocks and winning a few. You can see how proud she is by the smile on her face.

Swimming!

The weather hit the mid 80's, and so my neighbor and I pulled out the swimsuits for our kids. She had a small pool, and I turned on the sprinkler under the trampoline. The kids had a great time jumping and getting wet.
Aby and Josh (our neighbors son) were playing in the middle of the water. They would sit down everyonce in a while, but mostly just enjoyed jumping.

What makes the Trampoline get wet? This was just too funny to see all three kids looking under the tramp to see the sprinkler. If I wasn't taking picutures, I might have pulled the sprinkler out to get them all wet.

Here is Kenzie mid jump. She is my little dare devil, and will just about do anything.

Brooklyn enjoyed the fun from the very dry patio in her bouncy chair. She had a great time and enjoyed being outside. She definatly loves to play outside.

Time to feed the babies

Can you guess how I feed Brooklyn?
Kenzie has watched me feed Brooklyn, and so now she will sit on the couch and pull up her shirt and pretend to feed her baby the same way. This unnerves Ryan a little bit, but I think that it is absolutely funny and cute. Aby used to do this when I was feeding Kenzie but now feeds her "baby" with a spoon and bowl.

I love my girls!!!!

Scripture time

This picture was just too cute and funny too pass up. Sometimes mom and dad talk about what they are reading in the scriptures, and I guess that this time we talked a bit longer than we should have. Aby didn't say anything, and then when we looked over we saw her sleeping. It was just such a precious moment. She is such a sweetheart, and wants to learn all that she can about Jesus.

Get better Grandpa Roundy

Grandpa Roundy Got sick and went into the Hospital on April 27, 2007. He was having some serious heart problems. This was very unnerving to everyone in the family, but I was especially worried because I couldn't help out like I wanted. Ryan's sister Tiffany was getting married the next day, and needed to be there for that. His family was very understanding, and helped me to see my dad in the hospital by watching the kids. I will always be grateful for such a wonderful husband and the family that raised him. Thank you so much for your support.

When Aby found out that Grandpa was in the hospital she decided that she wanted to make him a card to help him feel better. She did this with no prompting from mom either. Because of the wedding we didn't get the cards made until Monday April 30th. The same day that Grandpa was released from the Hospital. Aby and Kenzie took time to both paint, and color the cards, for Grandpa. When they were done and dry we took the cards over to grandpa to help him feel better.
Here are the cards that the girls made I did most of the writing, but Aby signed her own name (more than once.) They were both very excited about the cards.

When we got to Grandpa's house, Aby went running right up and gave Grandpa his card, but Mckenzie was really shy. She did finally go and sit on his lap so that he could read her card as well. I am so thankful for the priesthood blessing that my father was given in the hospital and for his recovery. He is doing much better now and we are very glad that he will be around for a lot longer. I love him very much.

Tiffany Sullivan Wedding Reception

Tiffany held and early recepiton in her back yard. We all prayed very hard for a sunny and warm day, and would you believe that it was the hottest day of the year so far!!! I know that Heavenly Father answers prayers. All of my girls wore the beautiful dresses that we found a few days earlier. They all matched, and looked fantastic, the photographer took several pictures of them so I know that I am not being that biased. I was a little upset becasue by the end of the reception both Aby and Kenzie had torn the tool at the bottem of their dresses, and it will have to be repaired before my brother Andrew gets married.
Brooklyn looked like and Angle and slept like the dead. I kept trying to wake her up, but she didn't want anything to do with it, so this is were she spent most of the reception sitting in her car seat in the house surrounded by all the presents that people brought.

Aby looks like and angel in this picture, and loves to pose for pictures in case you cannot tell. She is getting more beautiful each day. I am thinking of making her join a convent when she turns 12.

Here is a picture of daddy and Kenzie they are watching Tiffany cut her cake, Kenzie is much like her mother in that she took off her shoes, and didn't like the hair piece, in fact I had to bribe her to wear it when she did.

This is just a fun picture of daddy and two of his girls, they are both so beautiful, and yes I did have to bribe Kenzie to wear the head piece.

Tiffany Sullivan's Wedding at the Temple

Tiffany Sullivan married Nathan Jones on April 28, 2007 in the Salt Lake Temple. I was able to attend the ceremony, and it was wonderful. It brought back a lot of memories from about 5 years ago when my love and I were sealed for time and all enternity in the same temple. Aby and Kenzie were absolutely in awe and thrilled to be at the temple that mommy and daddy were married in. Ok Ok they were more in awe of how beautiful Tiffany looked in her "princess bride" dress. Aby especially fell in love and followed Tiffany around through all of the pictures. Ryan and I are very grateful for the love and patience that Tiffany had for her following around, and also for Tiffany and Nate setting a wonderful example of getting married in the temple.
In this picture Tiffany had taken off her shoes for a picture and Aby put them on. (Yes Tiffany really did wear red high heels under her wedding dress.)

This is just a really cute picture of Aby with Tiffany, Kenzie was very clingy to me and didn't want to be in this picture at all. Mainly she just didn't want to leave me. She gets really upset when I leave her alone with anyone and I am not there. ( I chose to go to the temple with Ryan babysat at the house earlier.)

In this picture Aby was helping Tiffany and Grandma to carry the dress. If you click on the picture you can see the size of her smile. It almost takes up her entire face.

Ahhh the reflection pool, I am sure that many a bride has wanted to stick feet in there, but only kids can get away with it. This was the first time that Kenzie decided this day would be ok. Aby was ready to jump right in and go swimming, but settled for sticking her feet in the water.

It only took Kenzie and cousin Ali a few seconds to figure out that they could reach across and play in the water with thier hands. They had a great time, and Kenzie got her dress wet. At this point I didn't really care, because she was happy and content.

Kenzie got a little bit tired of following the bride and groom while daddy took pictures and decided to sit down and have a little snack or trail mix. If you look to the side of the picture you can see my really cool new double running stroller that Ryan got me. I love it, and it came in really handy to carry everyone's extra stuff.

Aby on the other hand never got tired of following the bride and groom, here she is with Grandma Sullivan in front of some of the tulips.

Finally all the pictures are done, and we are on our way home. Now you can see the whole stroller and we loved it.

Some funny Stories

I have decided to give everyone a good laugh at my expense with some of the funny things that have happened around our house recently. Mostly these things only happen to me....I am starting to wonder if I should have a complex yet.

Story Number 1:
This actually happened a few weeks ago, but is well worth telling again. Kenzie has started to want to take showers with me, and no is not an answer that she will take. She will strip her cloths and diaper and climb into the shower before I have a chance to try and talk her out of it. As a mom sometimes the only time I have to be alone is in the shower, so one day I got the girls playing with some playdough in the kitchen told them that I was going to take a shower, hurried to that bathroom and locked the door. At first this was great the kids didn't bug me at all but then they started to knock on the door, and asked if they could go outside, I said that was fine. When I got out of the shower I went to a window too see if they were ok. Aby was swinging on the swing, and Kenzie was jumping butt naked on the trampoline. I guess she wanted to get in the shower with me, but decided to go outside and play when the door was locked. I hurried to get dressed, and went outside to get Kenzie and she was having a great time running and jumping without her clothes on. (It took me a while to get her inside.)

Story Number 2:
This only happened last Sunday at Ryan's Parents house. We had gone over to have a surprise party for Marlene's birthday, and were playing a game in the evening. Kelly, Marlene, Ryan, and I were playing and the kids were outside. Mckenzie got hurt and came inside to get loves and milk. It was my turn so I told her to wait a minute and i would get her milk. She didn't like this got off my lap and started to cry on the floor. After my turn I stood up to get the milk, and Kelly was watching to see if I needed any help. Mckenzie grabbed my pants, (I was wearing black goucho pants that are just strechy no waist) and tried to pull herself up, unfortunatly my pants went down to my ankles instead of helping her up. Poor Kelly got more than and eyeful before he could turn his head. I was very embaressed, and quickly pulled up my pants. The only thing that I could think to say was I have just been pants by my two year old daughter.

I hope that you enjoyed a good laugh!