snapshot of right now...

Jeannette tagged me

Answer in one word

1. Where is your cell phone? kitchen
2. Your significant other? California
3. Your hair? ponytail
4. Your mother? busy
5. Your father? relaxed
6. Your favorite thing? chocolate
7. Your dream last night? scary
8. Your favorite drink? water
9. Your dream/goal? happy
10. The room you're in? office
11. Your ex? jerk
12. Your fear? spiders
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? house
14. Where were you last night? mom's
15. What you're not? patient
16. Muffins? blueberry
17. One of your wish list items? treadmill
18. Where you grew up? farmington
19. The last thing you did? eat
20. What are you wearing? comfortable
21. Your TV? off
22. Your pet? stinks
23. Your computer? Dell
24. Your life? kids
25. Your mood? tired
26. Missing someone? Jared
27. Your car? messy
28. Something you're not wearing? socks
29. Favorite store? target
30. Your summer? busy
31. Like someone? yes
32. Your favorite color? purple
33. When is the last time you laughed? today
34. Last time you cried? ??
35. Who will/would re-post this?

I tag Amanda, Krista, and Brittany

For Grandma & Grandpa

This post is for Grandma and Grandpa May who are serving a mission in South Africa. We all miss and love you and are looking forward to when you come home!

Disney on Ice

When I saw Disney on Ice was doing a princess show I knew Emma would love it. So Jared and I took the girls last night with Nancy and her daughter, Olivia. Although I felt a little bad about not taking TJ (knowing how much he likes Lella), he was very excited to spend some time with his favorite cousin, Justin. Emma had so much fun! She dressed up in her Cinderella dress and as we were walking to the show a lady at a Disneyland booth gave her a little wand. It was cute to see her get so excited to see all the princesses. Jared won't admit it but I know he was excited too. I took tons of pictures for Emma but couldn't get very many good ones, apparently I am not very good with the camera. I especially wanted one of Cinderella (Emma's favorite) but could't get one. Oh well. I did get some cute ones of my little Cinderella.

Before the show

Emma and Livvy

Jared and the girls. Doesn't he look excited?!?

Emma and Daddy

Mommy and Rees

Poor Rees was so good the entire time, but was just too tired to stay awake

Of all the pictures I took, this is the only really good one I got...and I'm not even sure which dwarf it is...grumpy?

Rees-A-Roni

After talking to Jared's mom and dad a while ago, I realized I needed to post more pictures of our little Rees. She is 5 months old already and getting to be so much fun! She is the best baby EVER! She is always so happy and quick to smile and loves to jabber. The kids are excited she is getting old enough to laugh at them when they play with her and Emma tells me all the time she is sooooo glad we had a little baby girl. Here are a few pictures of her. I wish I had more, I will be sure to take more soon.

Sad day

The last few days have been a little emotional for me. More so for my sister Sarah, I'm sure, who this morning at 5:30 delivered her little baby boy at 4 1/2 months. They named the little 8 oz. 8 inch baby, Harmon Dale Barton. Needless to say, they are not going to have the joy of raising their little boy in this life.

On Saturday afternoon Sarah and Bret anxiously went to their ultrasound appointment to find out if they were having a boy or girl. After the tech had gone through taking cute little pictures of the face, hands, feet, etc. she checked the heart and realized she could not find a heartbeat. Because the baby was 20 weeks old and too big to get out any other way, poor Sarah had to go through delivery for a baby she knew was already gone.

I am so heartbroken for Sarah and for the little Barton boys who were so excited to have another baby in the house. And poor Bret who had to break the news to those cute little anxious faces waiting to hear if the baby was a brother or a sister.

As I see the trial they are going through right now, I realize how very grateful I am for the three little blessings I have in my life. When you receive such amazing blessings so freely it is easy to take them for granted sometmes, especially when those amazing blessings are tired and all screaming at the same time.

It is times like these that make me so very grateful for the plan of salvation and for the knowledge we have. Life and death would be so incredibly hard without the gospel.

Footballs and princess dresses

Ever since TJ was just little he could entertain himself with any kind of ball for hours, he will still choose playing catch or shooting hoops over anything else about 90% of the time. He used to have a little blue teddy bear he liked to sleep with but has recently decided he would rather sleep with his football.
Jared might be a little upset that I am posting these next pictures of his son, but I think they are hilarious. Sometimes I wonder if TJ gets too much "girl time" being home with me, Emma, and Rees all day. What do you think?








These are pictures of him dancing around like "Lella" (Cinderella). He also looked very cute the other day in a little tinkerbell costume, unfortunately, I didn't get a picture. In his defense, it doesn't happen very often.

So Patriotic

Emma suprised me the other day when she was playing with TJ, she stopped what she was doing, stood up, and started rehearsing the Pledge of Allegiance. In her preschool class they all stand and repeat the Pledge of Allegiance every Monday, I knew they did it but never thought she had it memorized. I thought it was very cute and she was very proud and excited to say it into the camera. Here is a video of her saying it to me. TJ has no idea what she is doing but had to stand by her while we did the video. I can't believe how much and how fast she is learning, it is so fun to see her get so excited about learning new things.


I had to put this other video on too because it made me laugh when half way through she starts waving her hands around. I call those her "princess hands" because that is exactly what she does when she is pretending to be a princess. It doesn't matter what she is doing, as long as she is a princess she moves her hands around as graceful and delicate as possible. It is adorable.