Happy Family

Happy Family

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Happy Birthday Tessa

We celebrated Tessa's 4th birthday with a Frozen theme. I surprised the girls with Elsa (Siena) and Anna (Tessa) dresses that morning to wear to the party. I lucked out to get the last Anna dress anywhere, and I made Siena's Elsa dress for her. We enjoyed making a poster for "pin the nose on Olaf", and Olaf pinata and lots of decorations!


possibly the scariest pinata ever created...









Do you wanna build a snowman? party favors we made (Siena assembled)


only white food was served- powdered donuts, white chocolate-covered pretzels, white corn tortilla chips, marshmallows, popcorn, tapioca pudding...

Siena finished it off and decapitated poor Olaf!

Birthday Girl having the first go at the pinata

showing their booty
too much candy for the kids to pick up!
opening presents

Tessa thanking our amazing Home/Visiting
teachers for coming & their  awesome gifts!

We had another birthday party after- Spy kids, where the kids got to do all sorts of cool things, like try to avoid the "laser beams" under the trampoline to prepare to be spies! Here's Tessa under the trampoline

Sunday, March 23, 2014

visiting Grandma

We found out a couple weeks ago that my mom had a brain tumor- glioblastoma stage 4. We went to visit her in the hospital for her birthday, my brother Danny's birthday and Tessa's birthday- all March 23. If you are interested in following my mom's journey to recovery, I started this blog for her. 


progress on the new Provo Tabernacle Temple

our former neighbors, the "honeys" (Her name is Hanne, and the girls always called them "Grandma Honey" and "Grandpa Honey- Swen loves that lol! It helps that they are incredibly sweet!

My brother Danny and my mom in rehab in the hospital
eating Swedish fish- love these expressions!!

Danny sharing his Swedish fish with his
 birthday buddy Tessa, on their birthday


The birthday trio

Grandma with Siena & Jairus

Aunty Caroline trying a cumquat, lo!


Saturday, March 15, 2014

Valley of Fire


 We had an awesome day at the Valley of Fire, climbing and hiking, checking our petroglyphs and amazing rock formations and valleys! definitely a repeat!



In the visitor's center


the start of our adventure

sister love







the elephant


Saturday, March 8, 2014

The Wetlands







Hamming it up


I can't believe how photogenic this girl is!
she scooted backwards under this couch, and
got stuck there. She wasn't phased a bit!