Spring Photo Shoot

One of the very best things about Texas is the beautiful bluebonnets each spring...

Wylie's Got Talent

Last Friday was our ward talent show. Ciera and two of her friends did a dance together that they made up. They chose the song, did the choreography, and chose the costumes. They were a little nervous, but did great! (The very beginning was cut off of the video due to technical difficulties... but most of it is there!) Chloe, Brooke and Autumn also participated. Chloe and Autumn hula-hooped while Brooke cartwheeled. They did awesome! It was a fun evening, and my girls stole the show!!

Happy Easter

HAPPY EASTER!!

Chloe's Birthday Fun

For Chloe's big day, we woke up early and opened presents before school. We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and then sent the three older girls off to school. After school, we had dance class, which Chloe could not focus in because she was too excited for her party. Her party was from 5:30 to 10:00 in the evening. She had three friends over and we ate pizza, they played dance party, we face painted, had cake and ice cream, opened presents, and watched a movie. She had a fun time! I think it was her best birthday so far... at least until next year!

HaPpY BirThDaY ChlOe!!

My beautiful, spunky, strong-willed, mischievous, fiery, sweet, loving, compassionate, kind, friendly, generous, funny, crazy Chloe is 10 years old today. Our family is better off for having her in it. We love our Chloe girl! Happy Birthday Sweetheart!

March Madness

March flew by! I can't believe that the month is over and I have only posted once... a lot happened, and maybe that is why I didn't post. Dave and I went on Trek with our stake mid month, and it seemed to consume a lot of the month. I will post about Trek separately, once I sort through all the pictures taken by the "photographers".
This month brought a lot of fun family time and school things. Chloe's 4th grade choir performed a song for their school...


Ciera's band classes all played songs at the "Celebrate The Arts" festival...


Chloe had a piece of her artwork in the art display at the "Celebrate the Arts" too! I didn't get a picture of it (Bad me!), but I will when we get it back so you can see her skills!!
Brooke and Autumn have been having fun, being crazy kids. They keep me on my toes, always getting into things and making messes. That has seemed to be their pattern since they were little girls!Dave, Autumn, and I found a little baby turtle on a walk one day, and Autumn named it Franklin. She wanted to keep it, but understood that we needed to let it go after we showed her sisters. It was so little and cute I would have liked to keep it too, but that just wasn't fair to the little turtle, so we let it go!We had a fun March, and look forward to a fun April as well!

WHAT's growing WHERE??

It is always fun having a scientist in the family. A few weeks ago, Dave brought home a petri dish to see what was growing in our carpet. It turned out that there is A LOT growing in our carpet. It was disgusting! That got the scientist wheels turning. If there was stuff growing in our carpet, where else was there nasty stuff growing? I will give you four guesses.
Dave came home the next week with petri dishes for each girl. They were each labeled "mouth", "nose", "ear", and "hair". For our family activity that night, we used swabs to collect samples from around each girl's nose, behind their ears, and in their hair. We collected from inside Ciera and Chloe's mouths, but Brooke and Autumn didn't want to do in their mouths, so they did their belly buttons instead.
A week later we looked at the results. Let me just say... Yikes. It turns out that they are regular breeding grounds for bacteria. Sometimes I think it is better not to know... you know, ignorance is bliss and all that. Oh well... all in the name of science.