Easter Weekend

I hope your Easter Weekend was wonderful.

I spent my weekend giving a lot of though of the real meaning of Easter...

I was humbled...very humbled as I reflected on the life and death of our Savior.

Having family makes the holidays extra special.

Saturday morning was our ward's (church) Easter breakfast and egg hunt.

Miss H totally got into the egg hunt. She was so polite going to other eggs, when she saw others kids charging towards bunches of eggs. 

She loved having these two special men in her life helping her.

She made quite the "haul".

She really got into it when she saw that there was candy inside the plastic eggs.

After the hunt, she enjoyed opening her eggs. She LOVED the solid chocolate eggs.

We realized after we got to the church that we were all in matching clothes.

Saturday evening Miss C came over to dye Easter eggs.

The had lots of fun and we had really pretty eggs.

Easter Morning came with baskets of goodies, new Easter dresses and ties.

We were able to get a couple of pictures before leaving for church.

After everyone was done with their church meetings, all of the kids 

and their families came and ate turkey and enjoy the beautiful day.

I can not put into words how much I love these four people....

can't see the 4th person? Look up on the balcony :o)

My kids crack me up...

I don't think I have ever taken pictures of them and not had a few with them 

showing off their great personalities!

The girls where having a fun playing outside on the slide.

Miss E didn't come out because she has a little cold.

So, Ali hung out on the balcony watching the fun.

The girls loved chasing after the guys while they were playing disc golf around the yard.

Even the neighbor's dog wanted to get into the fun.

It was a wonderful weekend.

Memories were made.

Quiet Please

What have I been doing...Not blogging...

I have been watching these little girls that have more energy than anyone should have

 or at least a lot more than what I have!

but today...they decided it was going to be a quiet pajama day,

Pillows, blankets, "suckies" and Tangle playing on the TV.

AWESOME!

Even Evie decided she was going to have quiet day.

I got a few things done PLUS was able to blog!

Look Who Is TWO

I can not believe that our little princess Miss H turned 2 years old on February 9th.

She has defiantly brought joy and excitement into this grandma's life. 

picture taken without either of us knowing about it. I LOVE IT 

Can you believe it has been a year since we posted these pictures?

She still likes pearl necklaces in her mouth.

Oh, how she is growing into a pretty little girl.

Hardly a baby anymore.

Her birthday was really fun.

She was even able to blow out her candles when they were moved a little closer together.

She is totally into princesses this year.

This is the fisher-price Cinderella carriage. Very Cute!

Miss H has loved it. Her daddy put a ribbon on it for her to pull it and she thinks that is awesome.

I am so grateful that these two little cousins are so close. They love each other so much.

The first thing they do when they see each other is let out a big squeal and run to hug each other.

They were giving high fives for their princess crowns. 

Even Evie is getting big enough to join in on the party.

I attempted a carriage cake.

Miss H liked it and so even though I was critical of it, her reaction was good enough for me.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Princess.

MISS H, Grandma loves you very much.

My Little Ladies

Josh, Ali and the girls came over the other night.

We were hoping to get a couple of pictures of the girls in their cute

BIG sister/ LITTLE sister shirts.

Miss  C does not like flashes from cameras so she was already covering her eyes.

Miss EV was just not in the mood.

Miss C let me get a picture of her

as Miss EV just wanted her momma.

After realizing we were not going to have luck with the pictures, the girls went and climbed into the snuggle chair to visit.

Grabbing our cameras we started to snap as many pictures as we could.

( My thought was we should get at least one good one)

The girls would sing

"CHEEEEZZZZZEEEEE"

but still getting them to both look at the camera at the same time.

We even tried to sneak Miss EV in for a few of the shots.

Still no luck getting all the eyes looking up at the same time.

Soon, all were tired of the camera so we put them away.

But, I thought we got some cute little candid shots.

AND 

Look at our youngest little lady.

She is such a sweety and I can not believe how much she is changing.

She is so alert and sweet.

I am feeling pretty blessed.

26 Months of Changes and Blessings

I was looking through pictures of our grand daughters today when they were all just new.

In just 26 short months we have been blessed with these amazing little girls in our family.

 2010

Miss C ~ 2 weeks old

2011

Miss H ~ 2 months old

and

2012

Miss E ~ 2 days old

The other thought I had looking at the pictures...

vain I know...

But, I am glad the biopsy bruises and Prednisone side effects

are not quite as obvious.

Life is so very, very good.

Perfect Heart

I had my "annual" heart check-up on Thursday and Friday.

Kira and Hazel were my travel companions.

Thursday was full of lab work, echo, xrays, dex-a-scan plus my clinic visit.

On Friday,

I had my biopsy, right heart catherization, and heart pressure tests.

It was so cool to watch the ink flow through the perfect arteries and viens of my heart.

The picture here doesn't do it justice.

(The 8 shaped wires are the wires that were placed on the sturnum when I had my heart transplant)

Thursday after all the appointments we went to the LDS Church History Museum.

While looking at the many office items of Brigham Young, Miss H was sure that the retangle picture had to be a computer. She "typed" away while Kira and I were looking around.

 We all enjoyed the part that has all the different things from the Latter-day Prophets.

Right now at the Church History Museum, the 9th International Art Competition.

The theme of the compition is “Make Known His Wonderful Works”

There were so many amazing pieces of art.

 Love to See the Temple Chest

Mary Jane Smith, b. 1952, Utah

You can see all the exibits here

We went and walked through the children's section.

 at that point of the visit Hazel decided it was nap time.

It might have been a good thing she went to sleep, because we might not have been able to get her to leave all of the hands on things for children to do in this part of the museum

The temple grounds were beautiful as always.

The roses smelled heavenly.

All of my lab results were wonderful!

The doctors were very excited to see my results, almost as excited as I was.

Kira, Hazel and I decided we needed to celebrate with a very yummy dinner.

I had ordered Crab Legs.

Miss H was sure she wanted to try them.

 I thought for sure one taste and she would give it back...

 Nope, SHE LOVED IT!!!

I broke her off a piece and she ate every bit of it!

 Thankgoodness, we NOW know she does not have a shell fish allergy.

Friday, after the Cath Lab the doctors came in and visited and said how happy they were with all of my results and said I could leave to go home and they would call with the biopsy results.

I was really excited that they said I could "GO HOME", usually they tell me I have to stay in the area until the biopsy results come back.

When they called with the results they told me it was the BEST results I have ever had!!!!

YEA!!!!!

Love this heart!