Flat Stanley's Visit.

If any of you have read David's blog, you saw that Flat Stanley came to visit us after visiting him. We enjoyed having Flat Stanley with us, but there was an accident. We took Flat Stanley to Dallin's first swimming lesson. I tried to get a picture with Kenna as the cheer section for Dallin, but Kenna just wanted to play with Flat Stanley. This was right before the accident, (you can see Flat Stanley hiding behind Kenna's shoulder.) but Kenna got a hold of him and wouldn't let go. I tried to take him away because she was bending him, and she tore his arm off.
Thankfully, Denny was able to squeeze him in for x-rays the next day. It was definately broken. We got him all fixed up, apoligized, and sent him on his way to visit Marianne's Sister in San Fransisco. We enjoyed having you Flat Stanley and hoped that the rest of your travels were a little safer.

Dallin's Swimming Lessons

I know you are all shocked that I have finally updated our blog. It has been a while and it seems I do it in phases, but when I post I have to update a lot. It's because I don't know how to down load our pictures onto the computer, so I have to wait for Denny. I will learn this time and try and stay more up to date. Dallin started swimming lessons the beginning of March. He absolutely loves it, which we figured he would. He does really well and there is only one other little girl in his class. He loves being able to swim by himself with his floater belt and noodle. He has been doing it by himself from the very beginning.

He loves jumping off of the side, and I think he tries as hard as he can to make a big splash.

Best of Friends.

We have been so blessed while being out in Iowa to have some of dearest friends live right by us. Dallin can walk out the door and find 5 of his best of friends in his back yard. They love to have friends over and I think that it's helped all of us wives to be able to hang out or trade off kids for all of those husband-less days. They got this cute table from Grandma Kimball for Christmas and as you can see....it's a hit. Anytime Kenna sees me go in the Kitchen and sees me getting something out of the fridge or cupboard, she goes and sits down and waits. Above is snack time with Jocelyn and Lexie and below is snack time with cousins Lydia and Isaac.

One night, Marianne, Molly and I got together for a little pot-luck dinner because all of our Husbands were going to be gone all day and not get home until after dinner. We were trying to get everything ready for dinner and the kids were going crazy. I put on a movie just to help get dinner on the table. All of the kids sat on the couch and watched. We were all in the kitchen when we looked out and saw this. Isaac appartently loves ears and will rub his own or anyone elses, especially when he's tired. Well..if you look closely, he is rubbing Jocelyn's earlobe and by the looks of it, she loves it.

My Little Book Worm

Kenna is so funny. She will go upstairs all by herself, pull out her silky blanket from her bed and find a binky from her crib. I will go upstairs all the time and find her in the rocking chair or her little chair reading books. A lot of times she will be content for a good half an hour reading books by herself. What a good girl. Here she is reading to her friend Jocelyn. I thought it was cute how involved in the book they look. These two have a lot of fun together and are always happy to see eachother.

Chocolate Cheesecake.

For Valentines Day, we got a pizza. On Friday, Denny was in the clinic until 7:30. The kids usually go to bed at 7:00, so I made a really nice dinner of ham and potatoes and spinach salad and Denny and I had dinner alone and had more of your traditional Valentines dinner. Well, for dessert I made Chocolate Cheesecake. It was very rich, but really fun to make for Valentines day. We enjoyed some and then took some to friends because there was no way we would be able to finish it. We saved a couple of pieces to have later.

I pulled it out a couple of days later and had it on the counter. Denny and I were having little bites here and there, but when the kids discovered what we were doing, they dragged their little chairs over to the counter and grabbed their forks and were ready to dig in. I went into the other room and then I heard Dallin and Kenna laughing. I walked into the kitchen to discover this. Denny figured he couldn't fight them on this, so he gave in. Just to clarify, my kids usually don't have free access to any kind of sugar, let alone a whole cheesecake, but it was really cute. In the above pictures you can just hear them thinking, "Can you believe they are actually letting us do this?? How cool is this?"

Dallin posing for the camera and getting ready to give Kenna a high-five in the picture below. What cute kids.

Valentine's Day

Since being in Iowa, we had gotten a heart shape pizza for Valentine's Day. We got this pizza on Valentines Day, (Thurs) and then I made Denny a really nice dinner for Friday night. Dallin and Kenna and had pretty rough night the night before so for my Valentines' Day gift, Denny got up with the kids, got them bathed, dressed(in red I might add) and even did Kenna's hair. He then took them to the store and out of the house so I could sleep in--what a sweetheart. They bought me home those yellow flowers on the table. I love my family!!

This is Denny explaining to Dallin (using a heart shaped pizza might I add) how the human heart works. Dallin is so cute because even though you know he doesn't understand a word of what Denny is saying here, he was saying "Oh, Uh-huh, Oh, yeah??" like he couldn't be more interested. Sometimes while Denny is reading one of his school books and Dallin wants to read with him, Denny will read out loud what ever it is that he's reading. Dallin will do the same thing....what a great little buddy he is.

Super Kids

Dallin got a cool cape from his Grandma Hatch. It has Superman on one side and batman on the other. He loves to fly around. One day he was flying around, sound effects and all, and Kenna joined in, with her sound effects. It was pretty funny because the were going the opposite way and almost ran into each other so many times. Here is one of the close calls. They especially love it when daddy helps them really fly. I come up with a little girl cape that I am in the process of making for Kenna. It's super girl on one side, ( you have to have that so you can fly with Dallin) and a princess on the other. It turned out pretty cute.