Just cute

I got me some cute babies. I don't need to tell anyone that looks at this blog that. I know you come for the cute pictures and not my witty intelligence, because that is probably a little more, ya know, lacking. I pretty much digressed before I even started this post...

So, I get bored here in Utah, probably because I don't know lots of people, hence don't have loads of friends. Good thing Jenna tells me every day that we are best buddies. She's awesome. Anyways, the cold winter and lots of time has resulted in lots of passes to places to play. One of which is the Discovery Museum at the Gateway Mall. It pretty much rocks and Jenna loves it. Here are some pictures from one of our many excursions there.

They have cars you can drive...

And you can play with their water toys...

...or try to get your arm stuck in them.

You can go shopping at the grocery store...

...drive the groceries home...

...and put them in the fridge (or all over the floor)!

Jenna also likes to go to the "farm" and be a cow!

It really is a cool place and well worth getting a pass for!

This picture is just in here because Lucy is darn cute!

On Mother's Day, we went to Temple Square. Jenna is quite the little missionary. After talking to the sister missionaries in one of the visitor's centers, she went up to a person by herself, showed them a picture of Jesus, and sang "I am A Child of God" to them. Go Jenna!

We took some great pictures outside...

What a ham! Dan says I make this face a lot.

On Friday, we went to dinner with one of our good friends from Reno, Jonny. Jenna LOVES him. When I got her up from her nap and told her we were going to see Jonny, she sang about going to see him the whole way there in the car. She says they're best buddies too.

My New Life

Friends have had this on their blog and I thought I should share it. If you have never seen this, you should. What a huge reminder for me to remember how precious life is. This mother has such a good perspective, it truly made me grateful for my family and the church. We should all be so lucky to see life the way she does.

Easter, belated

We had a great Easter, and we are now going to finally put up some pictures and videos from it. Easter fell on the same week as General Conference this year. I felt like it was an extra special treat to be able to celebrate our risen Savior by listening to the words of the prophet. Dan's brother, Brad came up for conference, so we were able to enjoy his company as well. The girls loved Easter, of course.

Here is a glimpse of them that morning.

Naturally, Lucy's favorite part was the fake grass!

We had the egg hunt inside, because it had been so cold during the week. Only afterwards did we go outside and realize it was a beautiful day!

Pictures of the girls in their cute matching dresses.

It was seriously gorgeous. This is what the tree looked like in our backyard. All of the little buds were blooming. If that doesn't say 'Spring', I don't know what does!

Family Fun

Let's face it- Dan and I totally miss having tons of family nearby. However, I think it has really helped us grow as our own little family. It allows us to spend more time together and makes us challenge ourselves creatively as we try to find different activities to do with the girls. Here are a few miscellaneous activities-

One family night, Dan decided we chould make a bird feeder. Jenna thought it was great, and so did the birds!

Jenna hard at work spreading peanut butter

Tying the pinecones on the hanger

Jenna was so proud of the finished product

We also went to Wheeler Farm. It's free to walk the grounds and see all the animals, which is AWESOME. I love free things. We did however give in and pay so Jenna could ride the pony. How could we not?! She loved it.

The girls also loved the tractors you could play on

There were tons of animals to see

I'm just throwing these in here because they're cute. We love our backyard! It has great grass and the girls just love hanging out back there on a nice sunny day!

We also found our tiny little barbecue, so we decided to have a little "camp out" barbecue in our backyard.

Eating hot dogs

What's a campout without marshmallows?

Daddy even let Lucy in on the gooey goodness

Busy, busy, busy!

Aaaahhhh!! I am trying, I promise! We are just busy living life. Busy going under contract with 3 different houses and busy having to withdraw 3 different times (which includes being busy losing lots of money...) We are also very busy exploring all the things that Salt Lake has to offer. There are so many things to do and so much fun to be had! So here we go again, let me try to catch up!

First off, I have been trying to edit some pictures I took of my sweet niece Kaitlyn for FOREVER. Sorry Rebecca, I will finish them. But still, I just thought I'd post a couple so you could see some of this beautiful baby! Newborns are such a treasure. You can tell that they really did just come from our loving Heavely Father.

Secondly, there are a lot of great things to do here. We bought a year membership to the aquarium here, which is pretty fabulous. Jenna loves all the things you can see-

Yup, they even have stingrays that you can pet.

We've been doing a ton of fun things, and we're taking a little break from house hunting, so I'll be sure to post some more of all of our fun happenings!