Laney and her accessories

She loves purses, shoes, purple, boys and so much more! This girl!!! Oh Boy are we in trouble!!

She also loves everything her brother does, including Wii Boxing-which she can pronounce as clear as a bell. Guess who won this game? He also beat his father twice tonight as well as several other friends!

Hairy!

I got a haircut! YAY! it is a asymetrical do and it makes me feel so much better! Of course, in the pictures you will see some LOVELY raw patches. I used a comsetic product and it gave me a rash- when I took it back they said - Oh lets us try this, or this to make you feel better! (YESSSS THAT burned it MORE so now I have dragon scales! Can anyone say EUSTACE? [sorry, reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader to Gibson])
But a Great Haircut makes you feel brand new!!!


YES, please ignore the CSI Miami chick in the background- and PLEASE don't compare our skin!!!
Also, thanks Edwards family for making me feel so good and including me in your family fun last night!!! CRANIUM ROCKS!!!!!

CaKe/JaKe WaLk!

We have a cute story and a report (so to speak) of our weekend! On Saturday, Derick and I performed "I Love to see the Temple" for the Relief Society Stake Enrichment meeting. As part of this, I was asked to bake a cake, and Gibson helped me make it. I explained that the cake was for the meeting and we couldn't cut it now, but I promised to bring home leftovers- he so sweetly looked up at me and said, "Can't you just leave the leftovers here now??"

Needless to say, I made sure I brought some home! But the Cake story does not end here! As the Gentlemen were serving us cake from these big tray/Cart things, Derick jokingly said "I'll have the Salmon, please." he then asked for the coconut cake, took a bite and nearly spit it back out! He gasped, "ugh, the power of suggestion!! my cake tastes exactly like salmon!". of course we all laughed at him, but he was dead serious, so I tried some- and SURE ENOUGH- SALMON flavored cake!!! all of these cakes were baked in shallow, cookie sheet types of pans and we think that maybe someone baked salmon and then the oil stayed in the pan until the cake was baked on it!! BLECH! I loved my caramel cake! The kids weren't too thrilled with the kind we had baked, but were happy to be remembered!

On Sunday, I was privileged to participate in March for Babies in honor of Jake Meyerson. There are better pictures and more information on their family website, but little Jake was born with a terrible condition called Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia or CDH. The way it was explained to me was that the diaphragm didn't develop all the way and so the organs were all kind of crammed in the upper part of his chest impacting the growth and location of his heart and lungs, and other organs. He was a cutie and a fighter, but succumbed to this condition after six months of life. He was adorable and had lots of personality, and touched several lives, including his primary care nurse, Taryn, who suggested we do this walk! It was a drizzly, cold day, but it was fun and sweet to reminisce about Jake and feel like we were helping contribute to help other babies than might need help.Jaker's ECMO

The Meyersons!

Knitting Nerdiness- AGAIN!

About two months ago, I took Carlie into Anthropologie because I knew she would totally dig it. Every time I am there, I get caught up in their luscious knits and often take pictures of certain stitches to see if I can find something like them on the Internet. Well, while we were there, I saw this sweater and after one glance I KNEW that I could copy it! So I took a picture of it- and got in trouble for it!!! They didn't make me erase it though, so when I got home, I downloaded it and started to analyze the stitches and just for kicks, googled it to see if there was a pattern floating out there somewhere already- Imagine my surprise when a full pattern with pictures showed up!! http://peonyknits.blogspot.com/ (scroll on the side for the downloadable pattern)

So in order to give Carlie a memorable memento of the N-J, I knitted one for her. I made TOO MANY mistakes, but it still turned out nicely I think. I got a funky/cool button from the Woolly Lamb and Viola- much cheaper than Anthropologie charged!! and I could make it in whatever color I wanted!


I also gave Carlie a few things to remember- like every time she put on her sweater was a hug from me and that the reason I learned to knit was to make things for the temple and to remember its importance. She actually cried when I gave it to her and of course that made me go too!! She is so tiny and cute that she made it LOOK GOOD!!

Franklin express!

On a half school day, Jenn, Joshua and me and the kids decided to take in the Franklin Institute again, and the only pictures I took apparently were of the kids on the two foot train ride on the Steam Engine (the ride was two foot, the train was full size!). Delaney is blowing the whistle, and Gibson is doing something with the thrust over there.

We also took in the Planetarium show (AWESOME by every account) and the IMAX dinosaur movie (not so awesome on SO many accounts!). I think I am done with IMAX in general- it is just TOO big! I always want step back a little, and you can't. Also, the movie was touted as "Dinos ALIVE" or something and was 95% Palentology, and 3 percent "dinosaurs Alive" and the other 2 was me praying that the kids would not tear the seats out of the theatre! Anyway, we had fun and I still love the FRANKLIN! Yay, Ben!

In the Park

We had two Picnic/Park dates with some families we love! Yet again, Don became Delaney's hair dresser and Lunch partner (and kinda looks like he is striking a pose!!) and Enden became her personal lounge chair (he too was striking a pose and was sucking in his GUT!)! We have great friends and really enjoyed the fantastic Spring weather!

All dressed up with Rio and the Spike!

Gibson got his hair cut on Friday and they spiked it up and he LOVED it! SO for church, I made sure that I spiked it for him. The Dress that Delaney has on is SOO pretty- it foesn;t show up well in the pictures- but it was so sweet! A Brazillian woman at my gym had purchased it for her daugther in Rio de Janiero, but she grew too fast for it. This lady know how much I loved Rio, and so she gave it to us because she felt we would appreciate its value. It was beautiful and so kind of her to think of us. She got lots of compliments at church and Gibson was happy his hair didn't fall!