Wedding Preparations

 Lindsey was going out with her girl friends one last time before they were married and so I decided to write on her car! She loved it.

Love ya Sis!

Feeding the Ducks

 My mom has this pond not to far from her house that is filled with all sorts of ducks, geese, swans etc. The kids love to go to to feed the ducks. Above is my mom with Bentley and Nixon.

 The ducks are so friendly because they are fed all day long by little kids like Bentley. They will come eat the bread right of your shoes if you put it there.

 Nixon squinting in the sun. He just followed big brother around doing the same things. He was so excited the whole time he kept saying "DUCK, "DUCK"!

They loved that Grandma and Aunt Lindsey could join us! Bentley was sick with a respiratory infection while we were up there (Pneumonia) and was on several different meds including a steroid and and antibiotic along with breathing treatments etc. Poor thing was so lethargic and sick so we bribed him with feeding the ducks to get him to take his meds ;)

Party Time Again!

First off I have to let everyone know that this entire blog post and pictures came from Summer Haws blog! I saw this and asked her if I could just copy and paste it onto my blog for journaling purposes and she said sure. If you are wondering why this is not first person its because this is Summer writing the following! Thanks Summer for letting me still your post!What can I say...we are PARTY girls! This past weekend my good friend Abby and I put on a baby shower for another great friend of ours Hillary. Even though this was her 4th baby we wanted to put on a shower for her. It took some convincing but finally she accepted. Let me just say that Hillary is the one who threw me a baby shower after having my second girl and said, "Every baby deserves new outfits and gifts." And having a beautiful baby is a great reason to celebrate! Here are a few of our decorations.
Our theme was red and aqua colors. A few things at our food table.
Our food table. Our menu consisted of Pasta chicken salad on croissants, veggies and fruit with dip, water bottles decorated with cute scrapbook paper, and coconut cupcakes.

The invitation.
And the guest of honor, Hillary.
And the other guest of honor, Adelyn Jeanne Divis. She was born January 28, 2011, 8 lbs and 20 inches long. Hillary didn't know if she was having a girl or boy until the delivery so we had to wait until after she was born to have the shower.
And she was the highlight of the party. Here is Lacy and Adelyn. I don't think she was put down once during the party.
Making the final preparations for the party.
We had a candy bar with candy that matched the color theme.



Side table decorations.
We played a candy bar game (thinking this was a great idea since we have a candy theme) so we came across a game from a blog. Well we copied the design from one and had to find the answers from another blog since the first blog didn't have the answers. Well Abby and I were obviously busy with the other preparations and we didn't catch that some of the questions were not on the blog with the answers. So the game didn't go as smooth as we were hoping, but it ended up being ok. Even though the game didn't turn out as great as we were hoping the prizes were! Caramel apples from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory!
We had a surprise for Hillary. Abby contacted one of Hillary's best friends and her sister who both live in Utah and they made that long trip to be here for the shower. She didn't know they were coming until they showed up at the shower. Hillary almost cried when she saw them. It was a great moment!
The party throwers with the guest of honor: Hillary, Abby, and I.
The party girls: Abby and I. It doesn't need to be your first baby for us to throw you a shower :)We had a blast throwing it! The party was a huge success! Beautiful decorations, great food, good turn out, and Hillary got a lot of great gifts.

The women on the couch is Hillary's sisters from left to right: Chelsea (who flew in from Kansas -another surprise, Tara, Darcy (Hillary's mom), and Kaleigh. Top row left to right: Kate, Wendy, Summer, Hillary, and Abby

Fish Food

Bentleys' snack for his preschool class. I was totally stressed out on Sunday night stressed because I had totally forgotten about him having snack. Nick was getting all the ingredients out for us to make Valentine's sugar cookies, but mind you it was late and that would have been a lot of work. While he was getting ready to make them I hopped on the computer and thanks for wonderful bloggers! I found this and it worked!

Happy Birthday Hillary

 Summer and I got her a personalized stamp from expressionary.com and a cute platter!

 Summer and Hillary

All of us after eating at Chili's. Hillary I hope you had a special birthday. You are such a great friend and those aren't easy to come by! Love ya girl.

Squipsture Reading (Bentley calls it)

 I came out of the computer room a few weeks ago because I heard this quaint little voice coming from the living room. He was telling himself about Noah and the ark. That the animals went on two by two...even penguins I heard him say. Mind you he was just randomly turning pages in the Book of Mormon. The reason he was talking about Noah was the Monday prior for family night we had gone to the Jones' and I gave a lesson on Noah and the ark. Regardless it was so fulfilling for me as a mother that he even had the thought after his bath and before bed that he needed to read his squipstures.

 Bentley I hope that you can learn from our example continue to grow in the gospel by prayer and scripture reading!

Love your cute face!

Movie Time

 I asked Bentley what he thought would be a fun activity to do the other afternoon. He told me that he wanted to get in his chair with his soft blanket and popcorn and watch a movie. I said I can do that. I popped some popcorn turned on a The Bee Movie and here they are enjoying themselves!

 Something must of been on my lens?

 Nixon totally glued...

Bentley crawled in the cabinet in our entertainment center soon to realize that it was too small ;)