2012 Dance Recital

Last month the girls had their dance recital. I am always so excited and proud to watch them perform. They are both great little dancers!

my little clown

Jaylee's preschool had a circus day at thier school. All the kids got to dress up as something they would see at the circus. This costume is very special. Grandma Lydia made matching costumes for Faith and Jaylee to wear on Jaylee's first Halloween. This is Faiths costume that she wore when she was three years old. It sure came in handy six years later.

fun on the farm

Faith & Jaylee like to visit their friend who lives on a farm. They have fun petting all of the animales!

Spring Sing 2012

Every year around spring time Faiths school has a spring sing outside on the field. Everyone brings blankets and chairs and a picnic dinner.

my 33rd birthday

my birthday is April 13th & my grandpa Merls is April 14th so we have always celebrated together...

we have so many family members with birthdays in April that we always try to get together and celebrate them all at one time...


another year older and wiser...

Easter 2012

Jaylee had fun making treats that looked like birds nest to share with her preschool class...




Faith and Jaylee had fun dying Easter eggs at the Show Low city park with cousins and friends....

the Easter bunny found Faith & Jaylee at grandpa Merl & grandma Nette's house in Show Low...

Faith & Jaylee had fun finding Easter eggs at the park with cousins...



Jaylee found the golden egg with $5.00 inside...

I even had fun dying Easter eggs....

papa Mark helped Faith & Jaylee pan for gold...

The girls had fun flying kites. We had a great Easter in Show Low this year!

Faiths 100th day of 3rd grade

Faiths class had an assignment to make a T shirt with 100 things on it to wear to their 100th day of school. This is the T shirt Faith designed and made all by herself...

Faith turned 9 on march 7th

celebrated at Peter Piper with her cousins

this year Faith got a big girl bike (beach cruiser)



Faith's 3rd grade school picture


Where to start with Faith..... oh my goodness is she really 9 because she thinks she is 19!?! I apologise in advance if Faith finds your phone number and begins to call you several times a day. Recently Faith got her very own cell phone. Hard to believe considering I think it is absolutley ridiculous for children to have a cell phone. However, after I saw how quickly she was motivated to clean up her disastrous toy room in hopes of proving she could earn her cell phone, I had a light bulb moment. So needless to say she has a cell phone and I now have a way to leverage good and bad behavior;)Faith is definitely a pistol but she is also my sensitve little girl who misses out on over night slumber parties because she cant handle being away from me. Jaylee sure does look up to Faith and they are the bestest friends and enemies. lol. Faith is super smart and has never missed a grading period of being on the honor roll. Faith loves to read and always has her nose in a book. She is always coming home with SPECTACULAR notes from school. Faith loves to sing and dance and is turning out to be an amazing little ballerina! In January Faith started paino lessons and its so fun to watch her love of music grow. I love to hear her clunking away on the piano (most of the time). Right now Faith is begging to take voice lessons, but I think when Faith grows up she will probably be a school teacher. She can play school teacher for hours on end. Oh Faithy... Happy Birthday baby!