Go Lakers!!

We went to a Laker game with Justin's brother and sister-in-law on the 10th. We had originally bought tickets in the highest level of the stadium, but Joseph (my brother-in-law) was able to get some great seats through his work, so we switched at the half. We had a great time!

Lakers and Thunder warming up!

Getting ready for the national anthem.

Tip off.

Justin and I enjoying the game!

Jack Nicholson Enjoying the game!

Justin 'coaching' his team - he really thinks they can hear him you know! (even when he's watching the game on TV!)

Kisses!

Our view from the awesome seats during the second half! - Thanks Joe and Jenn!


The final score! We even got free tacos from Jack in the Box since the Lakers kept the Thunder under 100 points!

Kobe being interviewed after the game - He set a new record during the game as the youngest player to score 23,000 point in NBA history!

December - sorry, they're in reverse order!

We made a ginger bread house for family home evening - Emma was so excited about it!

She was so funny, she was very precise with where she wanted things placed.
She told me what to draw in icing and then picked the candies to be put on.

Hannah with my parents at the ward Christmas party.

She wasn't too excited about seeing Santa!

Emma had woken up just minutes before, she was excited to see
Santa, but a little dazed! She asked him for a dolphin for Christmas!

Emma Putting the Angel on the tree.

Hannah being oh too cute in her footsie pajamas!

Daddy's Little Helper

Justin was mowing the lawn the other day and Emma REALLY wanted to go outside. I usually don't let her go out while Justin has the lawnmower out, but I decided to just keep a really good eye on her. So I opened the door for her and without hesitation she ran straight for her little mermaid push car and began chasing after Justin! She followed him all around the back yard, and 'helped' him with the front yard too! It was just way too cute so I had to snap some pictures.

Happy Easter

We had a wonderful Easter with our sweet girls. Holidays seem like so much more fun when you can share them with your children. I find myself getting excited about seeing them excited - I don't know if that makes sence.

I played the Easter Bunny, which was fun. These were the girls', and Justin's, Easter baskets.

Emma was very excited to come down stairs, she ran right to her basket!

She needed some more age appropriate toys, so I used Easter as an excuse to buy some. She plays with her tea set every day. She likes to have 'tea, milk, and dinner'. We have a lot of fun together playing with her blocks, I don't know how many towers we make with them daily, but it always has to be 'a BIG one!'

Hannah had no idea why she got an Easter basket, or what it was, but she loved her little doggy, and especially enjoyed the plastic grass!

She also enjoys Emma's tea set. It's fun to watch them play together!

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These are some pictures of Emma hunting for Easter eggs. If you can see in the pictures, she didn't need to look very far, my uncle spread over 200 eggs across his lawn for her and 3 of her cousins - it kept them busy for a very long time. She would run out to the grass and grab a few eggs, shake them to make sure there was something inside, and then run back to me to put them in her bag. Occasionally she opened one and took a little snack break.

My Cute Babies!!

At the end of the day, Emma was absolutely exhausted from fun, and slept all the way home!

Yummy Things

We celebrated my little sisters 20th birthday this week! I can't believe that she can be that old, it seems like she should have stopped getting older years ago so that she could still actually be my 'little' sister. Anyways, she requested this cake, and it was really yummy!

I made these cupcakes for Easter, they were a lot of fun, and everyone thought they were cute!

Fun Outside

Last year we wanted to buy Emma a little pool to put in the back yard so that she could play, but we were never able to find one (long story so i'll spare you). Anyways we were leaving Walmart the other day and I saw the little pools so I went back in and bought one because I didn't want to deal with not being able to find one later. Emma was very excited and has been laying down in it without any water while shouting 'I'm swimming mommy, I'm swimming!' So yesterday was such a beautiful day I decided I'd let her 'swim' while Hannah took a nap, and I pulled weeds - YUCK!

Emma had so much fun filling up her pool with - 'cold water mommy!' I added 5 or 6 pots of hot water so that she could play without freezing.

As you can see in the background we had neglected the weeds for a just a little while. I don't care who you ask, weeds are just no fun! When we were kids, my parents used weeds for punishments and chores, or as a job you did for endless hours every day to pay for your prom dress! (we had almost and acre, and at the time it seemed it was almost all weeds.)

Anyways, It took me a few hours, but I got the weeding done for the most part. It really helped that Emma had so much fun in the pool. She did take a few swimming breaks to climb up the retaining wall.
And when Hannah woke up we set her up with a blanket and some cherrios underneath an umbrella. Emma wanted her to go swimming, but I'm pretty sure Hannah liked it better on her blanket where she could stay warm and dry!

More of my cakes

Everyone is always asking to see pictures of the cakes I've made, and after the last post, I decided I may as well post pictures of some of them. Enjoy!


I made this cake January 07 for my brother Robert and his wife Amanda's wedding reception.

I helped my sister make this cake for a baby shower she was throwing. The body is cake, and the head and feet are cookies.

We had a classic pooh themed baby shower for my sister in law Amanda this summer and this is the cake I made.

I made this baby shower cake for my cousin about a year and a half ago.

This was a birthday cake for another one of my cousins this last November. Emma absolutely adores her, and so do I. I made the flowers in advance out of royal icing.

Emma is in love with the Little Einsteins on Disney, so I made her this 'Rocket' cake for her second birthday in December.

Another birthday cake.

This cake was for my nieces first birthday last August.

Here are some cupcakes!

I've made these baby shower cupcakes on a few different occassions. Emma loves eating the fondant umbrellas after I make them.

Happy graduation to Justin! I made these to celebrate Justin's graduation in December.

These were also for Emma's birthday.

Some yummy cupcakes I made last July.