Doesn't it feel like Saturday's are always too short?

With the recent move of our friends, the Pattersons, we now have a house available in our neighborhood. We know we are biased, but this is quite possibly the best neighborhood in the Salt Lake valley. As you can see from the flier below, the home is far from a fixer-upper. The home is about 5800 square feet with large bedrooms and a good floor plan for entertaining (which is good because if one of you moves in, all of our neighborhood parties will be at your house). It also has a one year old pool with an RV garage. It is currently listed at $600,000.

http://www.utahrealestate.com/789935

Wow, how time flies! 13 years and still as madly in love as ever.

We hope that Nebraska is good to them and that they have much joy and success there. We will miss them very much. We love you guys!!!

We took advantage of the holiday and got some things done around the house today.
Even though it was raining all morning, Robert slopped around in the mud and built our second vegetable garden box. Since we can no longer get a vehicle in our back yard anymore, we will have to do many wheelbarrow trips around the yard to fill the box, but that is ok. We are happy with the progress we are making with the yard and the garden and are looking forward to making things even nicer.

We also used the day to FINISH THE FAMILY ROOM. We hid the cords from the TV by running them through the wall and through the garage over to the equipment in the cabinet. Pictures need to be rearranged, but that is minor at this point. We are so happy with the how the room has turned out. It feels so much more spacious without the huge entertainment center and we love the new furniture. We are also extremely happy with the built in bookshelves and how perfectly they match our kitchen cabinets. If any of you in the Salt Lake valley ever need a great finish carpenter who is good to work with and does excellent work, just let us know and we will pass his info along.

Today was an exciting day for Emily! She was glad her birthday fell on a Friday, so she could go to preschool on her actually birthday (She loves preschool) She was the VIP for the day and loved all the extra attention and well wishes. Mom and Brenna got to go to preschool and tell the kids lots of special things about Emily and share pictures of her.

In the afternoon she had a Minnie Mouse party with her friends. She could hardly wait for Dad to get home so she could open the rest of her presents. She especially liked her Doodlebops guitar.

She wanted to cap off the day with a trip to her favorite restaurant, Old Macdonalds (aka McDonalds) Emi has looked forward to turning 5 for a long time and her birthday was a perfect start to this great year.

Ahh, spring. The time of piano recitals, dance rehersals, and gymnastics exhibitions. Kayla and Lindsay have worked hard at gymnastics this year (Kayla once again submitted the most practice hours of the 40+ kids in her gym) and it shows. They are making great progress and we are very proud of them. The exhibition was fun and they liked putting their gymnastic skills to a music routine.

Aubrey is now 11 years old! She has been planning her 70's party for awhile now. She and her friends dressed in 70's attire - check out those wild bellbottoms and huge Peace earrings. They played a flower power game, painted pet rocks, ate tirelessly from the flowing chocolate fountain and had a great time. Aubrey has a great group of friends and it is always fun to have them over.

We decided that it would be a good experience to take the girls to New York, so back in January we scheduled a trip to see the church historical sites in Western New York and spend some days in the city. We can't believe it is all ready here, but I guess time flies when you are having fun.

We have tried to arrange our pictures and the captions in a way that you can easily follow where we were and what we did. If you doule click on the slideshow, it will open up picasa where you can see them larger and actually read the captions.

When our friend Rachelle went on vacation, she trusted Aubrey to watch her son Cade while her husband Matt was working during the day. Brenna and Cade are buds, so Aubrey thought it would be fun to show her skills as a make-up artist as Jenna was away at the gym in the morning. When Jenna walked into the house, she did not realize it was make-up and Aubrey only laughed when Jenna desperately asked "Aubrey, what happened?" What a little jokester...

As you can see from the video below, Aubrey has a natural gift for piano. We are very proud of her and the progress she has made in developing her talents.

As most of you know, Jenna was 12 weeks along when we lost a baby over Thanksgiving. It was a trying experience for us, but one we have grown closer together through. Over the winter, we decided that we would plant a tree in our front yard in remembrance of that sweet spirit. Jenna picked out a beautiful Cinderalla Dwarf Crabapple with small white blossoms. The girls helped us plant it as our activity for family night and we attached the hospital bracelet from Jenna's stay in November.