Fish Out of Water

Today Annie threw the biggest fit ever! She was flopping all over like a fish out of water. Odds are that my mom was there to witness the whole thing. Great,what a wonderful example of my well behaved children :) Macey and I just stood back and watched the show. I tried really hard not to laugh when I cracked her door open and dropped her new favorite stuffed animal on the floor as a peace offering and she opened the door back up and threw that animal back at me as if it was on fire. I smiled to myself as it hit me in the shin and plopped onto the floor. She really is a sweet girl, but I guess every once and a while you just have too let it out!

The aftermath. Nothing more soothing then a sippy, blanket and napping in moms bed.

On a more cheerful note, I just thought this was cute. Why get a double stroller when you can squeeze 2 kids, 5 stuffed animals and 1 binki in a stroller just to go check the mail?

Business in the Front...Party in the Back

So, great news, Rex finally decided to cut his hair! It has been a long 7 months of growing it out and so now he thought it is time to cut it off. Anyway, last night I hear the clippers going upstairs and little did I know he was cutting him self a true blue, full out, 1980's mullet!! I couldn't be mad because I was laughing sooo much!! He is so funny! Anyway I thought that was the end of it until he informs me that he HAS to leave it like this and wear it to work because he told people that he would have a mullet. Good heavens, so all night I couldn't carry on a conversation without laughing, I just couldn't take him seriously. Thank goodness when he gets home from school, the mullet will be laid to rest! p.s. I am grateful that I have a husband with a sense of humor! You will love the pictures.....

Nice right....wait it gets better!

See, doesn't he belong in a 1980's country music video?

He thinks this is all so hilarious, but in public I asked him to please wear a hat :)
Here is a cute picture of Moo sitting up all by herself. She is quite grown up, even wearing kiwi chap stick as you can see :)

Today, me and the girls went on a walk to enjoy this beautiful weather and pick up the mullet from work. I don't have a sun hat for Macey yet so I put this cute bunny hat on her instead :) Lots of little old people smiled as we passed them.

After Rex had his picture taken Annie really wanted hers taken too! So this is what we took! I love when I get a shot where they are both smiling :) I love my babies!!

A Sunny Saturday

We had a fun Saturday and took a day trip up to Redmond. We love Redmond. Not to big, just right size, beautiful weather, great company (Rex's sister and family) and lots to do! We went up for a combined birthday party for our niece and nephew and had a blast. Rex was so excited because him and Pete (brother-in-law) went mountain biking all day and had a great time! Aside from being sore, he is excited to go again. Me and the girls hung out at the house all day with grandma and grandpa and watched all the kids play. We did hot dogs, burgers, ice cream cake, presents, bike riding, lots of dirt playing, enjoyed the beautiful weather and had a few naps here and there. We always have so much fun and definitely need to get up there more!!

All the girls, although Macey was really liking the cowboy blanket that they wear sitting on. There were multiple outfit changes going on throughout the day by Hadley and Annie.

Christine, Renee and Me. Renee was my awesome water polo coach in high school and lives in Bend now. Her and Christine are really good friends and it was so much fun to see her again!

Annie loved being cozy in the blankets on the lawn.
Pete and Macey. Macey has really been into blowing bubbles and is totally drooling all over Pete's hand, shirt, and counter.

Renee and Annie. Yes, she isn't wearing any pants, we had a hard time keeping clothes on for some reason. :)

Easter Fun

Easter weekend was great, except for the fact that everyone was sick :(. We really did have a good time spending time with each other. Brianne and her kids came down and we had a blast. We painted eggs, had a delicious Easter feast, and spent time just laughing as a family. It was nice to be able to think about the Savior and all he did for us and reflect about the true meaning of Easter. He has given me so much and it gave me a chance to sit back and look at all my wonderful blessings a thank my Father in heaven for all I have.Painting eggs with Brianne, Bryce, and his "friend" Lauren. We had so much fun all sitting around the table.

Easter morning. This year I made Easter boxes. I covered cereal boxes in cute scrap booking paper and then embellished them. Then packed them full of goodies! It was fun to do something different then baskets!

Annie was really excited about her new stuffed hippo and her Bolt movie!

Macey was equally excited about her first sippy and a frog toy.

Ryan and Annie having an Easter egg hunt in the house. We were laughing so hard because Rex "hid" the eggs in the most obvious places, but it still took a minute for the girls to find them :)

My mom is so awesome and made all the girls matching Easter dresses for church! They are so cute and Annie was so excited she wore hers two days in a row!

Her are Annie and Ryan. I love this picture. Their dresses are so cute, especially with their bloomers too! The are best little buddies.

Confrence weekend

This year for conference weekend we went to Sweet Home to watch it in the comfort of the Basting's living room. When we watch it at home we all sit on the bed and watch it from the computer, so going to a house it wonderful. We watched the first session and then went outside to enjoy the beautiful weather. Donna made a little Easter egg hunt for Annie, which she loved!! We had lunch and started the second session, but about a half an hour into it Annie woke up from her nap crying and telling us her ear hurt. After a little bit we decided to take her to urgent care. When the doctor saw her they said she had a really bad ear infection in her right ear. The rest of the evening consisted of watching movies on the couch. Poor baby. But besides that we enjoyed the beautiful weather and conference was great!

Hunting for eggs, she had so much fun looking for eggs!

She loves to swing! If we would let her she would swing all day. Grandpa was nice enough to push her a lot!
I love this picture. She is such a daddy's girl.
Everyone sitting on dad's motorcycle. It was so nice out we were coloring with chalk and even had lunch out side!
I just thought this was cute! Annie has this toy horse and Macey is just the right size to sit on it!

First foods

Our little Moo is eating solid foods! I can't believe it! Wow, these past 6 months have gone by so fast. She is doing really good with rice cereal, still trying to get the hang of how to keep all that food from ending up on her chin, but we are so proud of her!

What a happy girl, hopefully she will be just as happy when eating veggies!
Trying to suck on fingers and eat......not sure that is going to work :)