The Latest pictures of Brooklyn

Enjoy these lates shots of Brooklyn, the first two were Ryan taking the pictures by himself. Enjoy them.

This was the night we set the world record of three minutes with the pacifier all by herself. Do you think there is hope for her?

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.

Mckenzie did a great job finding the eggs with just a little bit of help from Dad.

Look at that face and smile it doesn't get any better.

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.

Mckenzie after a year of being afraid of them decided that 4 wheelers were cool and fun. This year the problem was getting her off and not getting her on. She never did ride this one (mom and dad wouldn't let her) but that didn't stop her from thinking that it was just her size and pretty dang cool.

I know that it may look like I didn't ride, and I took it easy but I did take a few rides with my kids and with my husband. Brooklyn however prefered to be held and fed. This is her after a lunch time feeding, she was very content.

Dad took many rides, mainly because Kenzie wouldn't get off the 4 wheelers, and someone had to help her have a fun time. (I am pretty sure he wasn't complaining about taking her out either.) The one thing that I disovered with Kenzie is she likes to explore, but not fast, you must take it nice and slow with her or she gets scared. Aby is the speed demon who love to go fast.

Andrew and Austin Decided that mom and dad needed to get a little bit muddy, and this is the result of a trip where they were the leaders and dad was the follower. I am just glad that I didn't have to clean up the 4 wheeler later. (it took several hours to clean all three of them.)

This is mom from the same trip, She was doing great and having fun until she hit a soft spot in the mud and went over the handle bars. As the story goes Austin was the first to come to her aid, and all she could say was "I can't breath." It was only later that she realized she had not only hit her ribs when she fell, but that her upper thigh hit the handle bars on the way over, you should see the bruise it is a dooozy. We are glad that she is ok, and notice that she is still smiling I think she will continue to 4 wheel.

Yes these are the culprets of the mud and the falling. Andrew and Austin, I think Andrew just likes to play in the mud personally, look at the legs and shorts. Austin is just in it for the fun, not the mud.

This picture is just for Monica, Yes I did put my 6 week old Brooklyn down on the ground with a blanket, and you will notice that she is happy. (don't freak out she was only down there for a few minutes.)
Aby and Mckenzie have fallen in love with Michelle, and if Andrew were not engaged to her they would probably tell him to move out so they could adopt her as their sister. Here they are playing in the sand building no not a sand castle as you might think, but the Salt Lake Temple. If you look close you can see the similarities.

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.

When she saw what was under the blanket she was much more awake and happier. Aby has wanted a princess table with a chair for her and a chair for Kenzie since about a week before Christmas. I finally found one that we could afford on the internet.

Aby and Kenzie love the table and chairs.

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.

I call this the movie star photo, we found some sun glasses for Aby and she is the coolest kid on the block with them on.

Aby is learning to ride the scooter that Santa gave her for Christmas, she isn't as good at Braden and Karson yet, but she is doing pretty good. She was thrilled to finally get a chance to ride it outside on the front sidewalk.

Brookly in full color and growing up

Three little girls playing on the floor, Aby and Kenzie love to play with Brooklyn, and all of them laying together was just too cute to pass up.

Daddy and Brooklyn had both had a rough day, and decided to help eachother out by taking a nap together.

The rest of these are just a variety of shots of Brooklyn that I took for her scrapbook.