Witty Whitney moment! brought to you by mom :)

I remember as a little girl going out and picking a bunch of dandelions and thinking the bouquet of weeds were very pretty flowers, then bringing them in and giving them to my mom. She would act like I had just brought her the most wonderful thing in the whole world and she would put them in a vase , or a paper cup,on the table.

I still remember how I felt when I found out they were weeds and not very desirable ones. It made me wonder why she liked dandelions so much, I just figured she must have been faking it to spare my feelings. I know now, that is not the case.

Whitney made her first dandelion bouquet this summer. While she was making it I felt so proud of her and I really was excited to see how her little handful of yellow flowers would turn out. But most of all I was really excited for the moment that she would show her mommy how much she loved her by bringing in the finished product and wanting my approval. finally the time came. After many minutes of arranging each flower so that they would all bunch up perfectly in her hands she showed it to me. I beamed, I thought it really was more beautiful than anything I had ever seen and I was so proud that she had put so much time into something to give to me. I had already found the perfect vase that I was going to put them in. With a big smile on my face I asked her, "are those for me?" She gave me a sideways look, as if I had just said something ridiculous. She said, as she smirked, "These not you's these mine". And that is the only time in my life that I have been disappointed to not receive dandelions.

Matthew's Graduation

Matthew graduated from Richfield High school. He has overcome so many obstacles to get there and I am so proud of him.

Tiny Kent graduated with Matthew, I love this girl!

Class of 2010

Dance and Sing at the Senior Center

Both Grandma's were there to see us sing and dance.
This lady was so fun, she danced with us.

We were not as entertaining to others :)

Lance was pretty popular

The girls sang popcorn popping, and monkeys in the tree.

The girls dancing

Aki and I dancing.

Sometimes, for fun, we go and preform at the Senior Center. My mother in law works there so it is nice to go see her and it is always fun to preform to a captivated audience :) Also I grew up singing at this same center and it is fun to go back and have my daughter do the same thing. Their theme for the month was Hawaiian so Aki came too, and we all danced the hula. Whitney and Leiloni danced too, Leiloni knows how to do the hula better that me!

Lance is growing

These are pictures that I took if Lance when he was learn to roll over and army crawl on his belly. Well as of about Monday last week Lance has past that up and is now on to crawling on his hands and knees. Not only that he has shown me that he can go up stairs, pull himself up, and walk across whatever he has pulled himself up on. He also saws " mama, dad, and Dada". he is growing up, he just turned nine months.

He used to love this thing. He would stay in it forever and be happy, now he just wants to be on the floor getting into stuff :)

Whitney is such a good big sister.

Easter Egg Hunt

We had our Easter Egg Hunt at David and Julianne's house this year. All the cousins that could come were there. Aki made Whitney a pretty basket and brought her a pretty pink hat. It was a really fun day! Ready to go hunting
I think they all did really well trying to sit for pictures, even though they were so excited to go hunting for eggs.

Leiloni, Triston, Whitney, Lance, and Addie Mae.

The pink hat was a hit, everyone wanted it :)

Whitney and Lance

Whitney finding eggsLeiloni and Whitney

Preston and Whitney

Halie, Gracie, and Preston

Getting ready to do the Easter Egg Hunt.

Harmison Dog Mack, getting into the action. I wanted to get a picture of Deacon with Mack because we call Deacon bulldog, but Deacon was having to much fun to hold still for a picture. But Mack was lazy enough that I could get plenty of him.

Leiloni and Whitney enjoying their candy after the hunt.

Adaline, Gracie, Preston eating their Easter eggs from the easter bunny.

Matthew and Lance.

Nap time.

Tough Guys!

Mollie Heath and the kids stayed the night. Berny was working nights at the time so Heath went and rode along with him. I sure he got some good material for his comedian act. Tough Guys!They brought there bull dog Mack too. Roeg and mack really like each other. They wrestled around all night long.

Berny Lance Marquez's Blessing day!

Berny Lance Marquez was blessed in Jerome 1st ward in February 2010. We had just moved from Wendell and did not know anyone in the ward except for David and Julianne, of course (My brother and sister in law). So we decided that even though we had just move into the Jerome ward we would still bless our new baby in the Wendell Ward. The week before the blessing we went to our new ward, and it turned out that everyone was so nice and we got to know quite a few people, just from that first day that we decided to bless Berny Lance in our new Jerome 1st ward.
After the blessing we had a pizza dinner over at David and Julianne's house. Our house was still, "under construction", in other words we were still getting organized. It was pretty good how it the dinner worked out. I made the dough and brought the cheese and all my brothers and sisters brought their favorite toppings. Then we put them together, this is Leejean practicing her pizza tossing skills. She was pretty good at it even with a prego belly :)