Our 4th of July celebration

We had a busy day celebrating our nations birthday this year. We started off the day eating breakfast at the church with our ward.  Next we were off to the parade where the girls came home with a load of candy.  This year the parade was pretty good, the best part was the people who handed out some otter pops.

Then we went to a friend's house for a BBQ where we watched the fireworks. Johnny also had about 50 bucks worth of fireworks that we enjoyed shooting off before the big show.

We were all pretty tuckered out the next day, but it was well worth all the fun!

Father's Day 2012

This Father's Day was pretty low key.  The girls and I gave Johnny a jar of peanut butter M&M's with a label reading, "To my slightly NUTTY but SWEET Dad"  The jar was empty in no time flat.  Also I made him a back rub shirt.  Since you can't see it in the picture too well, I painted a city and road on the back of a shirt. Then I gave the girls some matchbox cars and let them play on the track, while Johnny got a nice back rub. I think he was in heaven!

Johnny is an amazing dad.  He is so good to dance and wrestle with the girls everyday.  Danielle screams for him when she gets hurt or is mad at me.  I am excited for Lexi to spend more time with him soon because he is going to be her soccer coach for spring and fall soccer.  We love this Daddy at our house!

Dance is done

In the beginning of June, Lexi had her last dance recital for awhile. Dance has been a love-hate relationship for me.  I did not like the place we had her signed up at for many many reasons.  (my skin is getting warm just thinking about it) But I LOVED how much Lexi loved it and she grew so much out of her comfort zone.  I also loved going every week and seeing some of my best friends while our girls danced together.

Here are a few pictures of her class and of her in her pretty outfit.



 I snapped some shots of them practicing because they asked us not to take any pictures the night of the performance.

 Lexi was also very excited because Mommy let her wear some of her make-up.  She thought she was some hot stuff....and she sure was!