"Wherefore whoso believeth in God might with surety hope for a better world." Ether 12:4
These pictures were taken at David and Julianne's Spanish Branch party. They had a lot of fun carnival games but the kids seemed to be spending the most time with this one. I don't know if that is a good this. They both really like throwing Aluminum foil rock and toy arrow a Samuel. Lance really got around this night I think I lost him twice just cause he kept wandering around and looking at stuff.
Easter was coming up and I hadn't gotten any Easter baskets yet so we decided to make some. I still had some white paint from painting our house, so i mixed some food coloring with it and made some pretty pastel colors. Then I paint-proofed the kids and we went at it. Whitney was very careful and deliberate with her painting Lance just wanted to paint himself, so much for paint-proofing. 
Whitney got a wild hair and decided she wanted to pain my fingernails. I thinks she did a pretty good job for a 3 year old. I painted hers too. I think I did a pretty good job for a 25 year old.
This was a very cute day!! In middle of April we had a snow storm and it dumb a couple of inches on us. Well Whitney got really excited and ran to find some snow cloths. This is what she found and she put it on all by herself. She made sure that she put on her cow girls boots that she had gotten from Aunt Shannon. But she didn't have to look very hard because she had been sleeping with them for the last couple of nights. She does that with anything she really likes. When she was a year old she would take roman noodles to bed with her. While she was outside She made a snowman all by herself. She knocked on the door and asked me for a carrot. The end result was really cute. It was really hard for Lance though. I can't remember why now, but for some reason I didn't want him to go outside, so Lance climbed up to the window and yelled to Whitney the who time. I felt so bad that when it warmed up and the snow was gone I put Lances coat on and let him go play in the mud. He really enjoyed that and he got very dirty.
Back in April Berny and I went to Salt Lake for his mission Reunion. I was really cool to see President and Sister Lake again and they were really happy to see Berny. He also got to see a couple of old missionaries that he had not seen since his mission so it was pretty cool. The next day was conference so we wanted to go but I had not packed a dress, so we went to the visitors center instead. Which was sad because one of the missionaries at the reunion had given us tickets for the first Saturday session. So I was really bummed when we were in the visitors center. Then two sweet sisters approached us and when we told them our situation they brought me a long dress coat. So I rolled up my pant legs but we were too late for the conference center so we went to the tabernacle instead.
I took these pictures because I thought that Lace look so cute in this outfit. Especially with his ear sticking out on one side. He got this suit from Leejean, so I am guessing that Wesley wore it a time or two.
Whitney is getting older so I decided that it was time to give her some chores to do. She is doing very well. She brushes her teeth and gets dressed, does scriptures and prayers, music time, writing time, and Spanish time. She also has chores around the house. She can dry dishes, pick up her toys, and make her bed. Whenever she does any of these things she gets to put a dot on her dot board. When she earns 4 dots she gets to do anything she wants to do, like watching TV, or playing with me, etc. If she earns all eight she gets to get a big price like going to McDonald's or buying a toy. She has already been able to buy tangled the Movie. On Monday she counts up all the dot that she earned from the week before and she gets a penny for each dot. Then she gets to pay her tithing. But her favorite thing to do is to give her tithing to the Bishop! Every Sunday as soon as the closing prayer is said she looks at me and says "I need to give my tithing to the bishop!! She is doing really, really good!!
, and then my regular cleaning like dishes and picking up. This way I am keeping track of what has already been done and what needs to be done. It really helps me because I like having something that I get to check off everyday.
