Okay Leslie!!!

I know that I haven't posted anything for awhile but life is so busy right now. The twins are everywhere.... it's not horrible but just requires a lot of my time. This last month has been really fun, emotional, and hard. Even though life is hard it's great we also have those good days. I hope we all agree. I've been missing my mom and dealing with mother's day was really hard. But I am so blessed to have wonderful husband, father, aunts and friends to notice how hard it really is even though I put on a happy face. I just miss her. I think the first hard day this month was watching Jaylynn perform in her first dance competition. My mom would have loved it.



Jaylynn and friends Bentley and ?! She was the only 2 year old... You can tell by looking at her 4 and 5 year old friends!



Jaylynn performing was the funnest thing. She loved it! It didn't scare her at all!



Little Jaylynn with big Jalen.




She was so proud of her trophy. And yes she did sleep with it!!!



Bracken crawling at 9 1/2 months... I am so glad that it took so long!



Brynn loves playing with doors and army crawling!! Crazy girl she is so much like my mother. Wow... she is loud and weird and a JOY to be around. We love her!!!



Our first big ouch!! Jaylynn fell down our front stairs. I didn't know what to do...I didn't have Doctor Grandma Joy to call but Cheryl and Melissa helped me in making sure it wouldn't scar! It is still healing!




First Emery County horse ride for the Twins.... Bracken is such a cry baby...Cowboy up!



Shopping with Papa can be make you so tired. We love that Papa Jay always have meeting up here so we can go on our lunch dates. Thanks Grandpa





We went on a family day up AF Canyon. It's crazy we had to pay to go to the mountains. Were is Joes Valley. I miss HOME!! Anyways... We were there for about 5 seconds and this is what Brack looked like. Boys will be Boys....SOOOOOO different from Jaylynn!



The Family!!



The dress. Don't worry I sew! Thanks to Wendy and to Ben. Ben said if he could build a house which he did a great job at I could learn to sew. Who would have know that my wonderful mom could pass down her amazing gift. I can do it and I love it. It really has been fun making the girls there dresses. I will have to post Brynn's later. I also got a new sewing machine for Mother's day. Love ya Ben and don't worry I'll make you proud! LAUGH!!!



9 month check. I was just about a month late but what can you do! Bracken weight was about 19 pounds and Brynn weighs 15 pounds. She is on 2nd percentile! She is so small but so full of life! They are doing really well just a little low on iron! We just have to make sure we stay with formula until they are 1 year. No worries! They are so hard....but we love them....I think?

Pictures!!!

Going Private!!!!

Well.... this makes me sad but we need to go private. I just feel that blog's should be for people that love you and want to keep up with your family. I also am just doing the blog thing because I want to keep a journal of my kids due to the fact that I don't have time to scrapbook. I love the idea of turning the blog into book. I also like that I can keep in contact with all my friends. So if you want to contiune to check up on my family please leave me your email. Thanks!

Jeff and Brynn

I just have to tell my brother Jeff thanks for being so great to my kids. He has lived with us for over a year now and we love having him around. He has been through so much these past two years and I just hope and pray that he can move on and have the best life that he deserves. We have loved having his kids every other weekend. They are so special and fun to be with!! Jaylynn just adores all of them and so do we!

Easter

The Easter Egg Hunt Crew



The Kids Easter morning! (We do Easter on Saturday... Grandma Joy's Tradition)



Jaylynn was so excited!!!!






Easter outfits. I swear Jaylynn was so much cuter I just couldn't get her to stop and smile pretty.









Papa Jay







My hot Uncle's that are so great to me and my kids! Thanks for sharing your family.



Look at Jaylynn's pants.



Glowing stickers on the faces!!



Cheryl and Brynn



Val and Jared



Justin



Jared



Wow..... we had a different Easter!!! Can we all say, "Why was it raining." We were all very upset about the weather and were sad that going to the desert was out of the question. We love our desert trips with riding Four-wheelers. But there is always next year!

I have to say thanks to Val and Cheryl for always making our holidays great and never forgetting about us!! We love you!!

Pictures

More House Pictures

Kitchen



Family Room (HI BRYNN)



Brynn's Bedroom
(The white boxes on the wall will be pictures on canvas from Skye- Can not wait!!)




Cabinets in kids bathroom and the half bath. ( I love my cabinets!!)

Happy Birthday Daddy!!

If Ben knew I was putting a picture of him up on my blog he would just die but I wanting to add a little story about Jaylynn. I always try to make Ben feel special on his birthday (even though he acts like it is no big deal and I don't need to do anything) and this year I think Jaylynn won his heart. I asked her what she wanted to get daddy on his birthday. She thought for a moment and then added an ALMOND JOY. I asked her well what else.... she said, "that's it, daddy loves sharing almond joys with me." Story behind this.... She started loving Almond Joy's when my mom was alive and Ben has carried out the tradition and brings her to Home Depot and that's what they do together. It's the simple things that you love!! (My mom would love it!!)



Cake and ice cream with the Johansen's