Our Bubble Gum Machine Craft....

On the last day of school Tanalyn and I decided to make a craft with the kids...YES, what the heck were we thinking!! It turned into an all day project, but the ending products did turn out really CUTE...if I do say so myself!!! I do have to give a BIG THANK YOU to Tanalyn for letting us come over and make a HUGE mess in her garage AND letting us use her scrapbook paper and glue, OH and for the DARLING idea...so THANK YOU!! We did have a BLAST! I just wish I would have taken pictures of us making the craft as well as the ending product! My nephew Bridger was in the hospital when we made these, so Tanalyn made him a cute sports one and we took it over to him...he LOVED it!!

Those are A LOT of bubble gum machines!!

They turned out SO CUTE!!

TOO CUTE...don't ya think?!?!

Ashlynn's Dance....

Ashlynn had a FUN year of dance! I can't believe how fast it zoomed by! She has amazed me by how much she has grown this year. She is becoming such a great little dancer, well in my eyes anyways!! :) It has been so fun to go and watch her at the competitions, her dance group did AWESOME. They are darling little girls!

Ashlynn and Sami Jo

Tiki Room Dance....SOOO CUTE!!

Kati and Ashlynn in their "One World" costumes

Alli, Ashlynn and Sami Jo...cute girls!
(Ashlynn is wearing her favorite costume out of the three dances, she loved this dance. It was a lyrical called Dreams. I loved watching her perform this one!!)

Ashlynn and Mitch's Family Party...

One nice thing about having both Ashlynn and Mitch's birthdays in April is we get to celebrate them together with family! We went to Costco for the birthday cake, I let Ashlynn pick witch one she wanted. You can't see it very well in the picture but she chose the "Golf" cake!! Nice, I thought maybe the rainbow cake or even maybe the balloon cake but no, no she wanted the golf cake!! Ashlynn waited patiently all day for her "family" party! All she wanted to do was open presents...well of course, isn't that the best part!!! They both got great gift and both where very happy with everything! Thank you family (yes, Parker's you are family) for all your love and support, we truly appreciate and love you so much!

Ashlynn "6" Mitch "3"

Finally, Ashlynn gets to open presents!

Just what Mitch wanted, a skateboard...for real!!!

Throwing the football with Grandpa!

Cute Birthday kids!!! :)

Happy Birthday Ashlynn...

Ashlynn turned 6 on April 15th. Okay, I am going to say it again and again...where does the time go! I honestly can't believe she is 6 already....WOW!! She is getting so big. She is definitely my good helper and a good big sister to her brother, well most of the time!! :) As most of you may know she is a HUGE daddy's girl. If Greg is around I really don't exist! She has him wrapped around her finger...imagine that!! I am so proud of her and all her accomplishments so far...she really is a sweetheart!!

Emmi, Alex, Ashlynn, Brooke, and Livvie

Dakota, Cousin Bridger, Friend Bridger, and Skip

The Whole Gang!

For her friend birthday party she had been insisting on going bowling for months! It actually was a great idea, the kids seemed to have a great time and Ashlynn loved it!! Thanks to my mom and Mandy for helping drive the kids it worked out great!

Bowling at Jack and Jill's

All Done!!!

Easter 2009

Saturday night we did our traditional coloring of the Easter eggs...or something like that hahaha! Ashlynn couldn't wait to get those eggs colored, she waited patiently all day or should I say when she had realized I had bought the coloring, so about a week!! So much fun!!! So by looking at these pics you can tell we started coloring the eggs, then they had to take a bath break! They came back and finished them up. They were so proud of their eggs and so excited to set them out for the Easter bunny to come and hide them!!!


Easter Morning...
Our church started at 9 am, so we had to kind of hurry through the Easter baskets and finding the eggs so we could get ready for church and "try" to be on time!! The kids where excited to see what they had gotten in their baskets and to find the eggs the Easter bunny had hid!







Ready for Church...


Easter Dinner...
We went to Quint and Jenn's for Easter dinner. My mom had a Easter egg hunt with all the grand kids. The older boys helped Mitch find most of the eggs. He had a basket full. Jenn also had some more eggs to color, Ashlynn was sooo happy!! Afterward my mom had a scavenger hunt for the kids as well. They went all around, outside and inside until they found the treasure! It was really cute, each family got a big popcorn bowl with a lot of goodies inside!! Thanks mom for everything, we really appreciate all the work you did so we could all have a great Easter together!!

He had it coming...

Mitch is always trying to tease, there is one person in particular that he really loves to tease...that would be his cousin Emmi. He is always pulling her hair and hitting her. He is not very nice. He knows that he is going to get a great reaction from her so he continues to torment her no matter how many times he gets in trouble. Well the other day grandpa Chipman was babysitting Ashlynn, Mitch, and Emmi. I guess she just had it with him, I'm not sure exactly what he did to her this time but she just tore into his face with her fingernails. Grandpa had to put band aids on them because they wouldn't stop bleeding. After he was done crying he kept telling Emmi "I dow care Emmi, I dow care." It hasn't stopped him, he still continues to tease. He just can't help himself!

Happy Birthday Mitch...

Mitchell Gregory Carley is 3 years old today! I can't hardly believe that my baby is 3!! Time goes by so fast. Our little Mitch has definitely brought joy to our family. I can't believe the difference between having a girl and having a boy. I can't believe the mischief that Mitch gets into that Ashlynn never even would have thought of!!
Okay, so I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of Mitch's quotes and some things he likes to do...
First of all he loves to play with any type of ball, preferably a basketball but any will do. He also loves to play trucks, he tells me "I have to go to Colowado wif daddy"! And then theirs the Mitch that loves to torment his big sister and any of her friends that come to play!! He is quite the stinker, but we do love him!!!

My baby Mitch!

I was in the shower and Mitch came in and asks "I have dis mom," its a fun dip. I say no go put it away. When I was done I went to check on him and this is what I found!! He had put his horse in his crib and opened the fun dip and was enjoying some cartoons in his room. Yeah, he listens really good, hahaha!!!

This is Mitch listening to his "apod." He calls it an apod so now he has all of us calling it that too, even his aunt April and uncle Jeff call it an "apod." Ipod just doesn't sound right anymore!!! He sings right along to the songs, its pretty funny.

I don't know what it is about him and putting things in his crib???

Happy Birthday Mitch!!!
Mom, Dad and Sissy love you very much!!! :)