I'm in Utah right now with this little sweetie. This is my new niece born Wednesday, May 21st. She was born at 4:26pm. She weighed 7lbs. and was 181/2 in. long. I got to spend the first night with my sister in the hospital because her hubby needed to be with her four and two year old. So...I got to feed GG and snuggle her all night long. That's the way to have a baby! Lauren is doing better tonight (Thursday). She hemorrhaged and had a hard night last night and a hard day today. She's got a beautiful little angel in the end.

Emee and her bestie, Kodey (that's a best friend) both got a Viking Valor Award and a Principals Award for excellence in Sign Language! Doesn't Emee have a cute bestie! She's cute too!

That's what makes me smile. Is there anything better than love notes from a kindergardner?

My cute little family made me a lovely breakfast of Clarissa's buttermilk flapjacks (you'll never eat boxed pancake mix again), sliced strawberries and fresh whipped cream (Nate's specialty). Notice my flapjack is a heart. Maryn made me 6 cards (they are all there around my plate). They make me so happy to be their mommy! Daddy, thank you for working so hard to let me be home with them. It's such a blessing to me. I love you my big girls, my little people and my boy!

Here she is at the cutest little kindy show! We put pink sparkles on her eyelids. She's with her favorite friend Morgyn. The kids sang all kinds of numbers songs and then some songs about letters and how much fun they had in kindergarden. Mommy and 3 other mommys (Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Hong and Mrs. Frank) made the back drop and we got front row seats as a thank you. It was really fun. She's off to first grade now!

So my cute little man comes up to me like this and says "Look Mom, I'm Hanny Manny!" For those of you who may not be familiar with who Handy Manny or Hanny Manny as Natey calls him, he is a Handy Man cartoon that Natey likes to watch. He always has a pencil behind his ear! He's so cute!

Here's Chayse playing Lady Larken in her school play, "Once Upon a Mattress". Didn't she do a great job! Sir Harry's microphone didn't work so well. You can hardly hear him.

This past week was filled with performances from all three of our girls. Stay tuned for pictures and maybe even some clips from the shows. (If I can figure out how Nate does that!)

We love our mothers so much; Joliene Marie and Sandra Jean. We are so thankful for all they have done for us; for loving us, for being wonderful examples to us but most of all for being our friends. Our moms are the best! We wish you a Happy Mothers Day here and in heaven! "A mother holds her childs hand for a while, their hearts forever!"

So I just finished Twilight, and I gotta tell you, I'm not impressed. This is the first book in a series written by Stephenie Meyer, which is a blockbuster of a book, for woman and girls. Don't get me wrong, Stephenie can write, for woman and girls. She puts so much emotional details into her writing that I want to puke. I never did get to a point where I liked Edward, but I did like Emmett. Why you ask? Cause Emmett is the only real man in the book. He's the only vampire who wants to fight to protect Bella. So I said to myself, "Come on Stephenie, let Emmett kill the bad guy". By the way, the bad guy is James. Then, right when I think it might get good, and we'll see (since reading really is seeing in our heads) Emmett tear James to pieces, all we get is the smell of gas and later a burning building. The only "fight scene" was poor Bella being attacked by the big bad James. Whatever happened to revenge sequences? Come on Stephenie! I also thought most of the sissy kissy stuff was kinda...warped. Anyway, Stephenie can obviously write. Since she's sold millions of books it's obvious she knows her audience. My girls LOVE the book and Edward, but it's really not for me. Oh, and any man that liked the book...check yourself. And if you feel I didn't like it because I can't relate...lets see...I'm a cop from the Northwest who's daughter has been seduced by a vampire named Edward.

Means: Santa Clarita Choral Festival. Chayse is in the choir at school and they performed in this wonderful concert on April 29th. There were 2 other middle schools, half a dozen high schools and 2 colleges that also performed. It was a really great show! Chayse is the 4th one from the left in the second row from the bottom.

I actually prefer to add a little caramel and chocolate to the plate! Natey and Mar would just be so happy if I squirted whip cream in their little mouths!

This is what you call a whole bunch of Brooke White fans at a viewing party. Living Spaces in Van Nuys hosted a really fun dinner and then we all got cozy in a ton of Laz-Y-Boy chairs to watch the show. Then it was off to voting. We got her to the top 5. She's wonderful.

We had so much fun voting for Brooke White. We attended 2 of the 4 viewing parties for Brooke hosted by Living Spaces. This is Josue, one of Brooke's biggest fans. The front of his shirt says, "One Mexican who votes White". He's so funny.

Brooke on the big screen. She was so fun to watch. We will miss her on AI but can't wait to see her at another venue! It won't be long I'm sure. We love you Brooke White!

Kady makes everything so much fun. I have her little Tess in my arms. She snuggled up and fell asleep in my arms. What a great night!

Maryn with her crush Cal!

Nate possing with the Living Spaces crew at the food table; his favorite place to be!

Daddy came by on "patrol" to watch Brooke's performance.

The cool teen scene at Living Spaces.

So Mar made this gross sandwhich to send into Nickalodeon for a contest, only, her mom never sent it. It's pretty gross I think.

Here's my baby. She went and turned 15. I can hardly believe I have a 15 year old. I can still remember when I was 15.

Alexa, Aralie and Brooke came home for lunch on her birthday. Mommy made chinese chicken salad. We had fun eating all of the won tons. That was thier favorite part!

Girls are so cute! So clever!

Happy Birthday to my sweet girl. Em had a pool party with kabobs and fresh fruit and fresh salsa (made by Dalene). It was really fun.

Playin in the pool at Em's party.

With her favorite guy at her birthday party.

We had a pool party... the 4th of April. We heated the pool and except for when they got out, they said it was nice and warm.