Fun times when mom and dad aren't around

I found these pictures on my camera. I figured the girls must've taken them when I wasn't looking, and I was impressed that Ellen could actually take a picture of all of Calista and not just the top of her head or something like that. But when Calista came over to see what I was doing here, she said, "Oh...that was when Trace was here. He was taking pictures of my teeth!!" So thank you Uncle Trace :)





While Aaron and I were gone Home Teaching, Uncle Trace had more fun with the kids. When we got home, they were all excited because Uncle Trace had taught them some new dances!! After dinner we were treated to a performance of YMCA and The Chicken Dance!! They are still singing and doing the dances!! Thanks for coming and visit us Uncle Trace and Aunt Erica. Erica was only here a short while, but they had lots of fun with her too! And Sarah was definitely spoiled! We had lots of fun, come again!!

Sarah and Calista

I finally got pictures of Calista holding Sarah!! And then after church last sunday, we did a little photo shoot with Sarah. She must've liked it because she started smiling. Although most of the time it was between pictures, and it was all on her own. We couldn't make her smile.

Ellen learned her lesson

Just a little update from the last post. I guess Ellen learned her lesson. I overheard her several times saying, "Stupid man...we not say that...we say sorry." Hopefully she'll always remember that and we won't have that happen again. She is so cute.

And Tiffanie, she did get really quiet and started to hide in my shoulder when I told her to say sorry, but after a minute she looked at him and said sorry.

Ellen grew up today

I took Ellen, Calista and Sarah shopping this morning after dropping Samuel and Jacque off at school. We'd been shopping for a while, and Sarah had finally had enough of sitting in her car seat, so I got her out and started carrying her. I still wanted to get some photo albums to put a bunch of pictures in, but couldn't find any, so I stopped and asked two Walmart associates, one male and one female, where they might be. The lady told me to follow her and she'd show me where they were. As I we started to follow her, the man said, "Oh, so that's who was making all the fuss. She sure is pretty." I thought, that was nice of him, but Ellen turns her head and says in her funny tone, "Oh, stupid man!" The lady ahead of us laughed. Stupid is one of our naughty words at the house. We don't call any person stupid. Dogs might be stupid or something else might be, but we never call people stupid. I'm not sure what made her say it. Ellen was probably pretty innocent, and thought she was being funny, but I couldn't let her get away with it. I stopped the cart, bent down and said, "NO Ellen! That's not nice, you tell the nice man that you're sorry!" Ellen is not one who likes to do wrong, and her face went real serious. Just by looking at her, you could tell she was plenty sorry. The man said he didn't hear what she said, but I still wanted her to say sorry. It took only a minute before she said "sorry." I was so proud of her. I gav her a big hug and thanked her for saying sorry. I told her that I know it was a hard thing to do, but she did what was right and I was proud of her, then we went on with our shopping. I never told the guy what she said, but I'm sure the lady filled him in on it and I wanted him to know that she was sorry. In my eyes, Ellen grew up today!

Another fun video

This video was taken about four years ago. Jacque would've been 2 1/2, Samuel almost 4, and Calista was 1 1/2.

Cute video

I found this video and just thought it was cute. Enjoy.


Ellen dancing with a frog.

We got a piano

Aaron got a phone call a couple weeks ago from a guy at work. He told Aaron that his ex mother-in-law had a piano that she's been trying to get rid of for the last two years. The friend told her that he knew someone that might be interested. So Aaron went and looked at it and brought it home, for free! When we got it, there were several keys that were stuck down, which made me nervous because I didn't know how to fix it. Aaron took the front panel off of the piano and opened the top, then started looking around. It was then that we noticed how lucky we were. We didn't just get a piano for free, but we also got 5 marbles, several pennies, and several pieces of garbage. After carefully extracting these treasures, the keys popped right up!! There were several keys that weren't tuned real well, so Aaron used a socket to tune it. It still isn't perfect (according to Aaron) but its fine for me. My ears don't hear what's wrong unless it is really off. All in all, I think we got a steal of a deal!