Five Years!!!

Top: Micheal and Heidi's engagement pictures!
Bottom: Five years and 2 kids later, and we're still smiling!!!

Last Weekend

I will forever be thankful for last weekend. On Friday night I didn't want to make dinner, so we called Lawrence and Melissa and met them at Olive Garden for dinner with our kids. Then, Saturday, we swapped baby sitting at their apartment while we took turns going to the temple. I kept meaning to leave so we wouldn't get home late, but I decided that Samantha and Ethne were having so much fun, we could stay a little longer. All the kids had a bath, Ethne went to bed and yelled good bye to us, and that was the last time I heard her sweet voice.

I had a sister-in-law say once how amazed she was at the love she automatically has for her nieces and nephews. I've thought a lot about that this last week. It is so true! I am so thankful for a wonderful family. I am thankful for cousins for my daughter. I am thankful for happy memories. And I am thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. We would all be lost without it!

I Have a 3 Year Old!!!

Last Thursday, for play group, I threw Samantha a little birthday party. It was a lot of fun. We decorated cupcake, make necklaces, opened presents, and played! It was the most kids that have ever shown up to playgroup, and we had a blast!

Then, on Friday (Samantha's actual birthday), we invited Lawrence's family over and ordered pizza and had cake and ice cream!

Samantha was so nice! She let Ethne help open a couple presents!

She got 2 pretty princess dresses to wear to church! At church on Sunday, one of her little friends just wanted to be with her the moment he saw her. He kept hugging her and trying to get her to play with him. He thought she looked like a princess. She thought he should not touch her, so she kept shoving him away! Good girl!