One more week and counting!

Next week at this time I will be somewhere over the midwest flying to spend three short weeks with Cyrena, Chris, Bauer, and Emmett. I'm getting so excited about doing this. First off I love to fly even though I still can't figure out how an airplane can go so slow and still stay in the air. Second I get to spend time with the rest of the family that I don't get to see only twice a year at the most. Third I get to spoil Bauer and share Easter with him. Fourth I get to help welcome a new member into our family. Holding new babies is the best blessing in the world. Fifth, just possibly getting to go shopping with Cyrena. We are shopping buddies from forever. Even my Mom was sad the day that she went to school because that meant she couldn't go shopping with us as much. I know that we will have to take things easy but it is shopping. I can only really buy good clothes when she is with me. I have found that it is getting easier to shop without her but I do look forward to those precious times when we can go together. 

I'm going to miss so much being here with Paul and I am worried about leaving him here alone for so long. He will be flying out on the 22nd and spend time with us and also help with the blessing. We will fly home together on the 27th. I'm going to miss being home for Easter. I have made cinnamon rolls last night so the tradition will go on. The pickled eggs will be in the fridge on Wednesday night. Since Kyler was born we have decorated eggs with all the kids together and this year I'm going to miss out on that. But I will be able to help Bauer. Just watch this year is going to be a warm year just because I will be gone. The kids are planning on coming down to spend it with their Dad and take him camping. It will help pass the time with him being alone. I will miss working. Did I really write that! No I will miss being around the kids and especially the little bit of money that I bring in. I will also miss my bed. It is getting so I can't sleep anywhere else. I love my bed and almost every night that thought goes through my mind. Now pathetic is that.

I know that the weeks are going to be going by fast and I will be back into my normal routine before I know it. Look for my next post to be about the new baby. That is if I remember to take the camera. I really need to start my packing list.

Happy Birthday Lexie

Lexie and her new baby. She has a few of her new clothes on in this picture.

She wanted a baby doll cake and I was happy to make it for her
Lexie helping Grandma make cookies. She loves to cook, do dishes, and help me with whatever I'm trying to do. I have promised her that when she is four she can help me quilt. 

I will try this again. You will have to bear with me because I'm still trying to learn about blogging. 

Paul and I had another great weekend spent with our children and grandchildren. Friday night we spent at Mike and Kassy's being able to play with the boys and watching the older kids play "Rock Band" until midnight. I have always loved watching Mark play the drums and now I can add Mike. They had a lot of fun with Kassy and Tara doing very well with the lyrics. Even Josh got in on a couple of the songs. On Saturday Paul and I were able to attend the temple with our niece Courtney and her future husband Kyle as they received their endowments. The session was very large but it was awesome because of all those receiving their endowments. How I love going to the temple and I need to do more of this. We wanted to stay longer so that we could play more with Josh and Alex but we needed to get back home to help celebrate Lexie's third birthday.

She was so excited when we arrived at their home in Wellington. She made sure that we knew it was her birthday. She loved showing me the presents her Grandma GG had given her and we had fun dressing her baby, feeding her baby and just playing. Kyler and Ashton were able to play when the balloons came out, especially the punching balls. I guess I kept them busy while the other cooked her birthday dinner, blue pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, and green salad with crunchy bread. It was a strange meal but we all loved it. 

Lexie loved the new clothes that she received and she had to put them all on to model for us. When I say all, I mean all of them at the same time, layered on top of each other. She loves the new baby that her parents gave her. She is going to make the best mother in the world as she made sure the baby had been fed, burped, and quieted down to sleep. Lexie is growing up very fast now and we can even understand her most of the time. She has been talking a lot for the past year but we couldn't understand. Now she is forming her words better. She keeps reminding us that she is a big girl by going to the potty and throwing her binkie away. She loves doing what Kyler does and she making sure that Ashton is taken care of. 

How we love our beautiful pretty princess!! 

Happy Birthday Lexie