Random updates

So, I like to take pics, just like everyone else, and have found a bunch of just random ones from all over. I'm not sure how much sense it will all make, but here it is anyway.
Here are my two littlest ninja's, Noah and Slade

My boys out fishing. What's it called when a Fish goes fishing? You gotta admit, that was kinda funny!
Gross! I did not enjoy the whole worm part.


We told Joy we needed to go, so she ran to the room and came back with a bag of chips from the pantry, a toy, and two sippy cups. Talk about making sure she's prepared!
Slade loves the camera!

I always love the sideways shots, but hey for a 5 year old, it's not that bad.
DANG I love this handsome man!

May in the Fish house

I really do have every intention of updating the blog more frequently, then the question is do I just put all the recent pics on here, or do I do a bunch of little posts so people don't get overwhelmed. I never seem to know. So I guess I'll write and then add all the pics a little at a time. In the last month since I posted I made three different trips down to the valley. The valley means Mesa/Gilbert/Tempe for those not from around here. It's about 3 1/2 hours. The first trip my dad's family had a big preparedness FHE with tons of extended family there and we also celebrated my grandmothers birthday. It was really special to see my grandparents and take some pictures and see cousins and aunts and uncles as well. Aunt Heidi, was wonderful to let Joy and I stay with her and Tyler for the couple of days that we were there.
Aunt Heidi and Joy
Grandma's cake
Joy was quite certain this was Poppy. My dad and his dad sure do look a lot alike!
Grandma, Joy and I

Just the two of us!

The second trip down was with all five kiddos for a funeral, so it wasn't exactly a fun trip, but still time for all of us together which was nice. And our last trip down was for Paul Joy and I to head up to Puyallup for a little honeymoon and for Joy to have a visit with David. It was a nice trip for Paul and I. We enjoyed sleeping in, eating out, and visiting friends and family. Ryan had a birthday while we were there and we got to celebrate it with him. Joy even got to spend a little bit of time with her cousins, which was nice.
Uncle Paul with baby Nathan (Rich and Lorna's youngest)

Cousins playing together
Ryan and his amazing scooby doo cake made by Lorna, of course! She's amazing!
Super cute, all the cousins reading together
Joy spending some quiet time with Daddy!
Joy loved giving baby Nathan loves

Playing Pass the Pigs, it really is a lot of fun!
Joy got her hair done by Kim, a gal from David's ward, that has a MUCH better idea of what she's doing than I do. She did such a great job, so these were shots of her cute hair!

Pinewood derby, birthday, easter, fun fun fun!!!!

So we had Joey's pinewood derby last week. He is so creative and asked his dad to help him make his car into a shark. It really turned out amazing. It was pretty awesome to not be just a boring old race car and Joey did a great job helping make it look great.
This is basically starting
Joey giving Dad some tips.
Progress
Starting to take shape
Pretty stinking cool!
Slade is just a cutie. He was quite fascinated with this whole process.
Paul trying really hard not to inhale ANY MORE sawdust!
Time to sand it.
It's a lot of hard work.
Ready for some paint.
Joey is a hoot!
First color
Final coat
On to the details

We had Nicole and Bethany come up for a visit during Bethany's spring break. It wasn't terribly long but it was fun for us to have visitors and for the cousins to see each other and play. Joy is working on her consonants and really struggles if a word starts with one. So she kept calling Micah, caca. It was kinda funny.
Joy and Nikayla. Anyone know who is happier about this picture being taken?
Joy and Micah in the tub. Anyone would guess they are cousins right? LOL
Precious Nikayla
Joy loves doing this since mom does it. The towel just is quite a bit heavier on her than mama. It's pretty funny.
Now THAT is a lot of HAPPY! I loved this pic!
We had to get at least one pic of us together. Nicole, can I borrow some of that color, you look FABULOUS!

We also now have a teenager in the house. Holy cow Forest, I feel old! He had a pretty good birthday in my opinion. Steak for dinner, requested famous lemon cake from Grandma, which was pretty good, if I do say so myself. Pretty crazy weekend, working on birthday and pinewood derby, but it was fun.

A new wii game.
Now what the heck does he need a thing of bee-bees for?
Oh yeah, that's right, his LONG requested very own bee bee gun.

Slade has decided that he would like to be the family photographer so I included a few pics courtesy of Slade. At least he makes Paul and I look tall :)
Then we had a great General Conference weekend and after two sessions on Saturday we got to go to Aunt Kathryn's for a Easter egg hung for the kids. It was pretty fun.
Cute outfit Joy got from Grandma for Christmas that is almost fitting.
Come one mom, LET'S GO!!!!
Hanging with Aunt Bev before the fun starts.
Daddy helping Joy find the eggs outside. And as there were so many eggs, she sat down and started pulling the "grass" out of her basket. I said, no Joy leave the grass in and she responded "No mom, no grass, more egg" I almost died laughing.

It truly was that exciting for her almost every time she got an egg!