Happy Birthday Mom

Today is my Mom's birthday, she would have been 62. All day I have wished that I could just pick up the phone and talk to her. I miss her everyday, she was my best friend. I decided what better way to remember her than to post pictures of my sweet baby that bears her name. I love to think about my Mom kissing her in heaven and sending her down to me. I love you both!

Of course I need to throw in pictures of my other two kids too. My Mom loved her grandkids so much, they were her whole world. I know that she watches over them, and on special occasions, she gets to be with them. We all love and miss you mom!

Easter

We spent Easter morning at my Dad's house. The Carter kids and my kids found their Easter baskets, then we were able to listen to conference. Kathy was so nice to fix an Easter dinner for my family and my two sister's families.

Reagan's First Easter

Goblin Valley

This year my family decided to do our family reunion over Easter weekend. We went down to Goblin Valley to camp. This was the first time I had ever been there, so it was fun to try something new. The weather was a little cold, but we had a great time! We did a lot of hiking and 4 wheeling (we borrowed Grandpa Erickson's Ranger) it was a great "kid" vacation. Even little Reagan had a good time, she spent most of the time in our trailer, but did great on the hikes. On Saturday the Easter Bunny found our campsite while the kids were all gone for a ride, so we had a little egg hunt. The whole weekend was great, it is fun to spend time with my family and get the kids together. I am so impressed by how kind and helpful my nieces and nephew are, especially with Bailey.

Goblin State Park

Jessica, Shaylyn and Bailey

Reagan's first camping trip

Beau hunting for eggs

Jessica and Rylee were so good to make sure Bailey found all of her eggs

Bailey had a hard time hiking, so her good Daddy carried her most of the way.

Little Wild Horse Canyon.

This was a little boys dream :)

Catching up

So I am not really good at this blogging thing :( Here are a few pictures that I have taken over the last few weeks.

My little girl is growing so fast! Everyday she seems to change a little. I love her great big smile to go along with her great big cheeks! Doesn't she just melt your heart!

We had the opportunity to buy Beau his own sled the other day, it wasn't really planned, but we decided to go for it. He and his cousin next door have had so much fun riding it around. I really haven't been to nervous about it either. Today we took it up to Grandma's house and let the kids ride and then roasted wieners. What a beautiful day we had!

My kids have been blessed to have wonderful great grandparents! They have a special relationship with each one. Both grandma greats are always doing such nice things for my children. Great Grandma Erickson knitted both my kids sweaters. She has been very ill lately and our thoughts and prayers have been with her. These sweaters will be keepsakes for my children to give to their children.

Bailey's Birthday - The Cake

Every year I do a fun theme for the kids' birthday, and do a cake to go with it. Bailey is really into Elmo and Cookie Monster, I have already done Elmo, so this year it was Cookie Monster. This was probably the funnest cake I have done and Bailey loved it!

This year Bailey is also really into opening presents. The day of her party she kept trying to get to her present saying "I want, I want". When she finally got to open presents, she would get them halfway opened, see what was inside, then start squealing with excitement. Her favorite presents were a My Little Pony (Pinky Pie) and a Thomas the Train flashlight. It was so fun to see the fun and excitement on her cute face!

Bailey's Birthday part 1

Bailey's birthday is on Saturday, so on Friday we celebrated with her friends at school. We started off with her friends in the special ed. room. I wish I would have had a video camera to capture Bailey's reaction when I got there. When Bailey first saw me and Reagan she screamed with excitement "The baby"!! Then she saw Beau with the balloons and she went absolutely crazy, screaming, jumping and running "A balloon"!!! All the kids were so excited to get a balloon and eat "cookie monster" cupcakes. Bailey's teachers in the special ed room gave her a toy hamster and a Diego chair, which she loved.

I made the girls matching skirts to wear.

Bailey loves her sister!

After lunch I went into Mrs. Beus' classroom to celebrate with her friends in there. I took goodie bags to share with all of Bailey's favorite things: pudding, balloons, candy bars and a little rattle toy. The kids had fun eating their treats and and blowing up their balloons. Bailey is so lucky to have good friends that are so kind to her!

Mrs. Beus did a little spotlight and gave Bailey a birthday crown.

My girls

I feel like the luckiest mom ever! I have been blessed with the most beautiful girls. They both are very special to me in different ways. I am so excited to watch them grow up and see what they become.

Bailey just being silly.

Reagan is 6 weeks old!