Life

Life for us has been punishingly busy lately. Between my involvement with the PTA at the girls school, a women's charity group here, church, and life managing three kiddos it has been crazy. With beutiful weather it has been hard to want to spend much time indoors at the computer.

We have spent the last month baking, crafting, beaching, park-going, ocean splashing, and everything in between. I have baked until I no longer can stand the smell of cookies (for the school teacher appreciate lunch, a baby shower, and a huge cultural fair). I have spent time at the kids school taking pictures, volunteering, and watching a sport field trip. Tyler and I have attended a Spring Charity Ball, the BYU Wind Symphony, a Cinco de Mayo party, and I'm sure a few other things in between. The girls have had ballet, play dates, field trips, homework and life. Emily has lost a tooth and learned to read. Hannah is student of the month. And Madeline has taken her first steps. All of this has been well documented in photograph (trust me, I live for this stuff!). Now it just needs to make it's way up here. . . because really this blog is mostly for me and my girls. It is how I record our lives, what we are doing, and what we love. So for the next while I am trying to back date posts to get caught up. My goal is one entry a day until I am caught up on all the good stuff. And given the last month of activity it could take awhile. . . . . bear with me!

The next month for us promises to be just as, if not more, busy. We have end of the year parties, Emily's graduation from Kindergarten, Tyler giving the keynote address at the school graduation ceremony, an elementary field day, a picnic field trip, Hannah's nursery graduation and end of the year party. I'm sure somewhere in here Emily will loose another tooth, Madeline will finally master walking and Hannah will crack us up with one of her funny commentaries. Somewhere in all of this I need to finish projects for the girls' teachers, bake cupcakes for Emily's class to celebrate her summer birthday, catch up on blogging, work on photo processing, and spend as much time with my kiddos enjoying life. And then summer starts, and with it comes the 4th of July party Tyler is killing himself planning and a much anticipated trip to the US that MUST include (by decree of two very excited children) camping and copious amounts of swimming and ice cream.

Life is busy, but we love it. Elder Wirthlin, in a General Conference, said "Come what may, and love it." It's been my motto in life lately, and I dare say it's a keeper. We are going with the breakneck speed of life and loving every minute of it. So forgive my absence, look forward to back posting (or ignore if your not family and really don't care all that much), and look forward to much more adventure to come. Happy spring everyone!

I'll leave you with a recent picture of my three little monkeys. . . . the primary reason life is so, so busy, but so, so wonderful.