Mid March

Mara and Jaina were playing Mario Party on the Wii and Melody wanted to join 

in. So she promptly found our remote control (that we use as a toy now) and 

sat down to play along with them. She even got upset when they lost! 

I love being able to see the crazy ways that Melody sleeps, and I've come 

to notice that she likes to have her head completely covered by her blanket.

The kids had Parents and Pastries at school. I came with them 

before school, we had some donuts, and did some reading. 

Melody LOVED her donut and to prove it, it was all over her!!

Pat and I were able to do Temple night at Timpanogos. I really love being able to serve in these 

amazing temples. We are so lucky to have (almost) 4 within 30 minutes of us.

We decided to buy a new computer, because the disc drive on ours had died. We use it quite 

often, so we knew we needed to upgrade. Also because our computer was 7 years old and 

the OS was out of date and programs were not longer able to update. So to get 

ready for the new computer, we organized our computer desk, and I found these cute 

drawings. They were drawn by Mara of course. She has always been such and artist. 

Here is her and Xander on the swings.

Me and Mara blowing bubbles.

Xander, Jaina, Mara and Me outside with ladybugs.

The kids had a day off of school and we just hung out, so that morning the girls 

went outside to blow bubbles and Melody wanted to join them. So I 

grabbed my camera (per Mara's request) and took some fun pictures.

It had been awhile since I did Melody's hair 'fancy', so I made sure to document it.

This big girl knows how to climb the ladder and go down the slide all by herself, and she loves it!!

Then she found some sidewalk chalk that hadn't been cleaned up and started to draw on the driveway.

Meanwhile, Mara and Jaina were having a grand time with the bubbles.

Melody finally wanted to blow some of her own, but she doesn't quite understand 

how to do it yet, so she was putting the wand in her mouth, yuck!!

Melody had started to eat corn-dogs for lunch and loves them! 

It always surprises me when she eats something new.

Melody's bottles finally died and I was nervous about her being willing to drink milk from 

a cup, because she had refused it earlier. So we did the flavor trick and gave her pink 

milk, which she wasn't too happy with, but she really took a liking to chocolate milk! So 

this was the first time she had chocolate milk before her nap. It made me so happy.

That night we went up to Orem to meet up with Pat after he had a conference in Salt 

Lake, we went to dinner at Arby's and Melody wasn't interested in her dinner 

at all, but she did love the 'chepah' and drank a bunch of that for dinner. Gross!!!

That next day, we wanted to take the kids to see Kung Fu Panda 3 at the Watergardens, because of 

Melody we split up and went in shifts. Jaina and I went together then Pat took Xander and Mara. We 

loved the movie and it was really fun to have this one on one time with her and make memories.