Passing Bye!

My Grandpa Fonnesbeck dropped by to see us Friday and stay the night before he headed down to Phoenix to see his Sister and other relatives. He is such a wonderful man. I have always looked up to him in my life. As a kid he was there to Bless me, Baptise me, and give me advice or Blessings. I have truly been blessed by him. Thanks Grandpa and we love you.

It was really cool to talk to him about our ancestors and to enjoy his wonderful spirit. Now he's off to Arizona. Hopefully we'll see him on his way back home.

Nate and His Happy Feet!

Nate watched Happy Feet today. I know this is a little long, but its something I put together to show you Nate's Happy Feet. I hope you'll enjoy it. You'll have to scroll down to the bottom to turn off the music to really enjoy it.

Getting ready for Easter.

The other day Jared got on the xbox, well he lately has a little pal. Miley loves spending time with her Daddy. For starters in the mornings once Jared gets out of bed, Miley has to get down off the bed where she then follows her daddy around. She plays in the bathroom while he gets ready and everywhere he goes she crawls after him, saying da da over and over. It is so cute and her daddy is really sweet to her. Well as you can see since daddy was on the xbox she needed her own controller. She was having a great time. They are so cute together.

Yesterday, due to it being spring break, our ward had park day. We had a great time. Nate tried to do double dutch...he really wanted to be able to jump, but it is so hard to even get in, let alone to be able to jump. The ladies in the ward were so kind to help him.

Miley had fun crawling all over the water park area. The water isn't on yet so it was OK.

Nate also found another boy to titer tater with. They had a great time together. I thing they would have done it all day if I would have let them. The other boy was 7ish but they were about the same size. Nate was laughing so hard he fell of a couple of times. It was so cute.

Today I took a couple of pictures of the kids with the eggs we dyed on Tuesday night. Nate really wanted some pictures of them and I though it would be a good time to get some photo's of my cute kids in our backyard.

Here are our eggs. It was a fun FHE dying them.

Here is one of Miley's new play areas, she also loves all the cupboards. I'm constantly having to get her out of them and having to put them back together, but I'm sure you know how that is. I'm enjoying every little phase she is going threw though, since it is the last time we will go threw them.

We are looking forward to this weekend. My Grandpa is coming to stay with us Friday night and then Saturday Jared's brother and wife are coming to hang out for several days and on Easter we are going to have my Aunts and Uncles and their kids here too. It will be a lot of fun. I'll be making Easter Dinner for 18 eating adults, and Miley. Wish me Luck! :)

Mom and Dad's visit and great help!

Mom and Dad came down to visit us Friday morning threw Monday afternoon. We had so much fun with them, and the kids just love their grandparents. Friday we hung out till lunch time when we met Jared at an amazing sandwich joint by his work, called Capriotti's. It has a sandwich that is called a Bobby that is turkey, like what you have for Thanksgiving, stuffing and cranberry sauce, it is so good. It was so good to see him and to hang out. After mom and dad went to check into their Hotel while Miley took a nap. Jared came home from work and we had Spinach pasta. We had a great time together. On Saturday we went car shopping. Our white car is almost dead and it has no AC so in the summer here it would be very unpleasant to drive. Jared has been looking at a couple Ford Escapes on line so we went to check them out. The dealerships that had the 2 that we wanted to look at were in the gedo of Vegas. It was quite an adventure. After looking at them both we decided to think about it. The one we really liked was going to action on Monday and was 4,000 less then blue book. Well we went to the Mall and talked it over and decided to get it. Yeah!

Mom, Nate, and I had a great time putting all of Nate's puzzles together while the Men went back to get the SUV. Nate really likes the SUV or as he calls it his truck.

So here is our new addition to the family....isn't she pretty. Thanks again Dad and Mom for your help with this fun adventure.

Nate and Mom also played out in the backyard. They were practicing catching the basketball and then Nate would shoot it. They were doing chest passes and bounce passes. Nate had a blast. We also went to the park for a while. We wanted to try and fly Nate's kite but there was no wind so we took his ball and parachute man to play with.

Miley had a good time eating her puffs and then playing in the grass, while Nate wrestled with Grandpa, played ball with Dad and Grandma, and launched his parachute man in the air over and over.

It was great to be out in such nice, warm weather...enjoying the sun, and the company.

When we got home we left to go eat at The Olive Garden. We had to wait for a table for a while, but it was so nice outside we didn't mind. The food was delicious, thanks again for dinner Mom & Dad.

What a wonderful night.

Sunday we went to church and then came home and played in the backyard with Jared, Nate and Mom. Nate really enjoyed playing with them.

Miley is so cute in her new dresses Grandma got her and she loves her new Elmo Grandpa got her too. She gives him cute kisses. Nate has his new shirt and shorts on too. Looking good! Dad got Nate a bunch of match box cars and a car carrier which Nate loves. Miley even enjoys playing with it.

Nate, Miley, Grandma and I also played upstairs with the kids with Nate's cars and ramps. He enjoyed making them all crash. Miley like playing with Nate's big talking Mater from Cars, his Chevron cars, lawn mower and Grandma. Man do they giggle a lot together. It is so cute.

The other thing of excitement that happened Sunday night was Nate lost his 2nd tooth. It was loose in the morning but by night when I brushed his teeth it was barely holding on. So the Tooth Fairy came while we were sleeping and left Nate a Dollar. Thanks again Tooth Fairy for the dollar....(aka Mom).

Monday Jared had to go back to work :( but Nate and I got Grandma and Grandpa involved with a fun activity. Thursday night before they came we went out as a family to Micheal's and bought some wood crafts to paint. Nate really wanted to paint them for his Grandparents to tell them Thank You for all they do for him. He got a airplane, a heart, a turtle, a monkey, a butterfly, and a horse to paint. Nate painted the airplane for grandpa, and the monkey for grandma, and they painted the heart (Grandpa) and the turtle (Grandma) for Nate, to show him how much they love him. I painted some sea horses for our FHE chart, which I'll show later when I am done with it. Miley painted the butterfly, or should I say she took a paint brush with no paint and brushed the butterfly, it was real cute.

Dad and his heart he painted. I forgot to get a picture of Nate's and grandmas when they were done, because we had to leave to meet up with Jared for lunch before Mom & Dad had to leave. We ate at Fizolies, and played with the kids there. I think everyone had a great time.

Miley enjoyed playing with the lids for drinks while we ate.

Nate even figured out that he could go to the soda machine and fill up his drink on his own.

It was so great to have Dad & Mom out...Thanks again, I can't tell you how wonderful it is to have you both. You are the Best Parents and Grandparents. We love you.