Our Texans

Cori Ann emailed me these great photos she took! Apparently in Texas it is a tradition to take photos of your baby in the blue bonnet flowers in the Spring. 

And here's the boys being boys.
 I'm glad to see they are all doing so well in Texas, even though we miss them tons!

Random Outings

Brooke at Trader Joe's. 

Emma at Sky High in Rancho Cordova for Taylor's birthday party!

Birthdays and House Hunting

On dad's 54th birthday, we went house hunting in Shingle Springs, looking for a retirement home, since he will retire from the Fire Department in one year. They found a wonderful house in a great neighborhood that they put an offer on two days later. If everything goes well, it should be their's on May 31. What a blessing!

It's really nice on the inside and it's on an acre so the grass seems to go on forever!

Then we went out to BJ's to celebrate! It was both for his and for Carli's birthday which was in March, too. 

Yay! So excited for them! And to be only 25 minutes away!

Open House

  Last week the girls got to show off all their hard work at our school's Open House. Here is Brooke with her teacher, Ms. Kuryllo. We love her!

Here's Emma with her teacher, Mrs. Ward. We love her, too!

Emma also wanted a picture with our principal, Mr. Peterson, and her teacher last year, Ms. Sonneborn. 

We are so proud of our smart, sweet gals!

Sharing!

Sharing without fighting! Had to capture this moment!

Donut Dash

Yesterday I got up a little earlier than I'd prefer to on a Saturday and ventured out into the cold morning to meet up with some sisters in my ward. We drove to Sacramento to participate in a fundraiser called "The Donut Dash." This was to support this sweet family pictured below, the Murdocks. Their son has been battling cancer. We were also there to support another sweet family, the Hales, who recently lost their daughter to a heart condition. My heart goes out to these wonderful families and I pray for them to be strengthened and comforted. 

As far as the run, I was the slowest person in our group (I'm not really a runner-- and although I ran on the Cross Country team in high school for 2 years, I was still very slow. Now I'm more of a "walk fast enough to get my heart rate up" type of person). But it was still fun! And I got to support a good cause and eat some donut holes!

A couple more for your enjoyment: