Friday, April 6, 2007
Early Easter
Since Easter weekend was bad for everyone in our family we decided to have Easter a week early, plus it fit nicely with conference. The kids had a lot of fun. Thank you to Mom and Dad for letting us use their back yard.
Aby did have a basket and had a lot of fun in the hunt, you can see here how happy she is and how much fun she had. I don't know where her basket is though.
4 wheeling with the Rees Family in the Dunes
Tiffany and Tyler invited our family to come with them to the Sand Dunes, and how can you refuse a chance to play in a giant sandbox? Ok the 4 wheelers were an added incentive. We really did have a great time and were greatful for mom and dad and Tiffany and Tyler for sharing their toys with us. We had a great time.
Kenzie the Beauty Queen
Other than just being really cute and funny there is no purpose to these pictures. I came upstairs one night and Kenzie was dressed up in her swimsuit with princess heals, and her corn dog. I couldn't get mad at her because I was laughing to hard, and the only thing I could think of was here is the next Miss America corn dog and all.

Aby Turns 4!!!
Aby turned 4 years old on March 22, 2007, and according to Karson he and Aby are now twins. This year I was brave, and gave Aby a party with her friends. This was a little bit more work than I first expected. Even though I kept the number of kids very small and limited it was still a lot of work. Aby however was thrilled, since it was one of the only things that she wanted for her birthday. She had a lot of fun and still talks about her "friend party."
We Started the party by playing some games with balloons, this quickly ended as most of the kids didn't understand how to keep the balloons up in the air, and got board.
The activity that the kids liked the most was painting their small easter egg baskets that I had given them for their treat bags. Before this we had an easter egg hunt and the kids thought that it was great.
Aby finished her basket rather quickly, and wanted to jump so she did while the rest of her friends finished their baskets. In fact it took a lot of convincing to get her to come over for this picture.
When all of the baskets were done all of the kids decided that they wanted to jump or swing. The way that our back yard is set up we have combined it with the neighbors so that we have more room. The ward joke is you will know when we start feuding because we will put up a new fence.
After painting we went inside for cake and ice cream. I had some toys the kids could play with also, and they had a great time. It was funny but after the party and everyone had left I started to clean up and realized that all of the kids ate the frosting and not the cake....oh to be a kid again.
Opening the presents with some of her friends around. The present she is opening is from Brooke the one flipping her pony tails. It was a really cute magnet story set with a Dora theme.
This is Aby showing off one of the presents that she got from mom and dad. A new pair of Tennis shoes. (the others were a size too small.) She loves them. She also got a pair of pink crock sandalls, but at the time one of them was lost I found it a few days later behind the toilet while I was cleaning. How it got there is still a mystery to me, and why Aby didn't know where to find it only she can tell.
At the end of the party I got everyone together for a group shot the boy in the front is our back door neighbor and one of Aby's best friends, they play together almost everyday. He is really much closer to Kenzie's age, (21/2) but is very advanced and prefers to play with Aby, although he also loves to play with Kenzie. The other kids are Lexi, Brooke, Aby, Maddi, Keashea,(the resident drama queen.) and Kenzie.
Because Ryan had a release the night of Aby's birthday, we waited until Sunday to give Aby her present from Mom and Dad I am definatly a Roundy when it comes to wrapping, but it was rather big! Ryan was getting ready to leave for some training in San Fransico that day so we had to wake her up from a nap, that explains the drugged look.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Spring has arrived at the Sullivan Household
our family was most likely the most excited for spring to arrive as it had been a long winter. I didn't really let the kids go outside a lot because everytime I let Mckenzie outside I ended up in the doctors office the next week with bronchitis, and had to put her back on the Nebulizer. So needless to say even if they had to wear jackets and coats outside, the snow was gone and my kids were going to play. The Trampoline was added to our yard thanks to Grandma Roundy who gave it to Aby and Mckenzie for Christmas. The kids love it and play on it daily. It and the bikes have been my salvation this spring.

Ryan and Mckenzie playing on the trampoline. Kenzie had a great time and Ryan got lots of good excersize. I am so greatful for the small moments that Ryan gets to spend with his kids, they love him so much and he is such a wonderful daddy to them.
Brookly in full color and growing up
Building a snowman
Aby and Kenzie had been begging to make a snowman all winter long, but because I was a very pregnant snowman who was sicker than a dog for most of the winter I didn't have the energy to help them. Ryan was working, and with daylight saving it was very dark when he got home. So it was a great blessing that we had a big snow storm the day after I was released from the Hospital, and Ryan was able to play with the girls in the snow and show them how to make a snowman.
Here they are all ready to go, Kenzie was well protected to keep her from getting sick, but she didn't care mom was actually going to let her go outside in the snow and play.
Ryan was showing Aby and Kenzie how be roll a ball, it may look like Aby is rolling a smaller ball, but upon closer examination and questioning she informed me that she was building a house for the snowman.
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