Back Tracking

I found some pictures that I thought I would post that I thought I had lost on my other computer. First we start in April. Dyllon turned four and April 10th. He is getting so big. He is so excited to go to preschool this year! We love him very much and he is such a joy in our lifes.

Brianna had her dance recital in May. She loves dancing in Miss Jills class and has so much fun. I don't know if we will do dancing this year though because it depends on Roberts Job. Plus she says she wants to try Gymnastics so I might put her in that instead.

Brianna also had a birthday. May 21st she turned 6. She is excited to go to 1st grade this year, but will truly miss her kindergarten teacher. Mrs. Weist is a great teacher and Brianna loves her so much. Brianna asked if she could be her 1st, 2nd, and so on grade teacher. It was so cute. Both Matthew and Brianna will be going to the same elementary school and gone for the whole school day. What am I going to do?

SWIM LESSONS

These pictures are in the wrong order but oh well. Matthew, Brianna, and Dyllon all took swim lessons for the last two weeks. They all do great except for Dyllon. He did so amazing the first 4 days and then friday came and he wanted nothing to do with it. They cancelled Monday because their heater broke and then tuesday came and he still wanted nothing to do with it. I went in with him the next day in the Mother Tot class and he did great. The next day he returned to his class and did okay for the first little bit and then wanted out. Friday, his last day he did great again. They same and even put life jackets on them so they could go in the deep end and jump off the diving board, and he did it. He even went down the little slide they have. We have been enjoying the warm weather. Today though as been way windy so they have not been outside much today. They all want school to start and so do I!!

Its been a while.

So I know it has been a while since I have blogged. I don't have pictures yet because our computer crashed a while ago and I was without a computer for 3 weeks. We had a guy come to our house and see what was wrong with it and he took some parts with him to test them and bring them back with more parts to test in our computer and it was fried. So needless to say, we ended up buying a new computer. I don't have any pictures on this computer yet and am upset that my other hard drive has all my pictures on it. The guy is going to try to get the pictures off of it but it might not work. I pray it does. We don't have much planned for this summer since Robert still has no vacation time but we are still having lots of fun. Dyllon learned to ride his bike without training wheels so we all go bike riding together through the neighborhood. The kids love to be outside in this nice weather. They pretty much live out there. We put them to bed around 8 and they sleep until 8:30 to 9:30. Brianna slept until 10:30 yesterday morning. Next week all the kids start swimming lessons and they are all excited. Our strawberries and rasberries came back great and we planted some squash, corn, peppers, and tomatoes. We are hoping by the end of next week we should know if Robert is able to take the Journeyman Substation Test so he can get the job in Rigby. He has been studying a lot lately so hopefully he will pass. All and all we are just enjoying the warm weather and just hanging out. I also have been trying to bake more often and have been getting great recipes off the internet. I think I am starting to like cooking. Well I hope all is well with everyone and hopefully I can get some pictures up here soon.

A visit from the Buttars Family!!!!

Brock and Arlenes family came and visted us during their Spring Break. They were just starting their break and we were just finishing ours up. They were able to go see John and Holly and their house, Charles and Annette house, and our house for the first time. They also got to see the newest addition to the Hall Family, baby Emily! Thanks for coming and visting us, we had so much fun!!

Thanks Bradley for having a voice change. Matthew cracked me up when he was trying to talk in a deep voice to sound more like you!

Thanks Hailey for playing with the girls. They had fun having scavenger hunts and playing hide in seek.

Thanks Eliza for playing with Matthew! He had so much fun being outside with you.

Thanks Jenna for playing dress up with Brianna! I wish we lived closer so you two could become best of friends.

Thanks Emma for being so cute and sweet. You look like a little angel!!!

We enjoyed seeing you all and you all are so kind and sweet! We our blessed to have such a wonderful family! Your whole family is a great example to us! Robert and I enjoyed seeing everyone and staying up until 1 in the morning both nights talking to Brock and Arlene. I feel like we were able to catch up a little bit on life and get closer to each other. Thanks again!!

Pine Wood Derby!!!!

Matthew had his first Pine Wood Derby!!! Everyone got a medal at the end so he was way excited! Robert and him made his car using the rules they gave us, and the car did not do so well. We did find out though that no one uses the rules they give you so next year we are going to make a winner!!

Just so I will not forget!

I decided I better write a few things down while they are on my memory. The other day Brianna and I was watching tv together and a comercial for dry itchy skin came on. It was one that had a lady showing her elbow and the comercial had written on her elbow with red that says "dry ichy skin" or something like that. Anyway, I can't remember what exactly the medicine was but it was in a stick like a glue stick. They took the medicine and erased the "dry itchy skin" away off of this ladies elbow. Briann looked at me and said "Mom we need some of that stuff so when I draw on myself we can erase it". I had to laugh.

Today, when Dyllon, Brianna, and I were out front waiting for Briannas bus Dyllon noticed that I was squinting. I had one eye closed and he said "Mom you looklike a pirate". Kids say the cutest things. I want to remember these kind of things so I am going to start blogging more so I can remember what goes on throughout our days here.

Matthew is so excited that he got new scriptures for his birthday. I told him that when he wants to read them that I would help him, especially becaue the pages are so delciate. He wants to read the scriptures every night, so I decided that we are going to read the Book of Mormon together and hopefully we can have it done before the end of the year.

It has been nice the last couple of days so we have been playing outside, riding bikes and scooters. I love nice weather so the kids can go out more and run some of their energy off.

The last week has been crazy. Last Tuesday I was in so much pain and after two days of it I decided to go see the doctor. He did X-rays, and found nothing, he did Cat scan and found nothing, then I called my surgeon who took my tumor out and he called in for an ultrasound. Still nothing. I thought I was having a gallbladder attack or that my tumor was growing back. I am so glad in a way they have not found anything but I still get pains every once in a while. I am just going to keep living and if I have severe pain again they will do a better test to check my gallblader and if it is not that, they might want to do an endoscopy. Well other then that we all are doing great!

Matthew's Baptism/Birthday!

Matthew was baptised by his grandfather on March 6th, 2010. We are so proud of his decision to be baptised. Thank you to all my family and friends that helped with this special day! We love Matthew very much and are blessed to have him with us here today.

It was also Matthew's 8th birthday today! After the baptism, our family and friends met at our church for a yummy luncheon! He had a great day and it all turned out great!