Love this little girl!

Happy Easter

For the past 2 weeks, I've been teaching Kiley about the Easter Bunny so that she might understand why there were Easter eggs hidden all over the house. I think she understands pretty well.

Last night, Shawn and I hid all the eggs in the house and we figured we should hide them in plain sight because she's only 2 years old and not the most observant child. Boy were we wrong. When she got up, she started collecting the eggs so fast. She had no problem at all finding all the eggs in a matter of minutes. She clearly needed more of a challenge!

She loved getting candy and we actually think she acts like the Lord of the Rings character "Golem" with her candy. She takes such good care of it and doesn't let it out of her sight.

Troy came over in the morning for a while and then we headed to Aunt Nancy and Uncle Robert's house for dinner. It's nice living so close to family.


(yes, this is a very scary face)

She was supposed to be napping, but had a little too much fun instead. When I went in to check on her, she said "Morning Mama".

Circus Vargas

Me, Shawn, Kiley and my mom went to Circus Vargas tonight. (Dad wouldn't go because there were no animals in the show). It was in the promenade mall parking lot. I got the cheapest tickets they sold ($20.00 each) but I'm glad I was cheap because our seats were amazing. There really were no bad seats.

Kiley's been so excited about going to the circus since we bought our tickets on Thursday. She seemed to enjoy it, but mostly enjoyed running up and down the aisle while the show was going on.

I thought it was a pretty fun show. Hot inside the tent, but a fun show to watch.




Kiley and Grandma playing with their matching glow sticks.

It's been a while since I've posted any pictures of Kiley. She's already 2 1/2 years old!

It's Fantastic!

As most of you probably already know, Michelle's little brother Joe left for his Paris, France mission about 6 weeks ago. When he left, he handed over the responsibilities for his fantasy hockey team to Michelle. Joe definitely took his fantasy team pretty seriously, and I'm sure he couldn't be more proud of how team 'Paris France' has been doing. Michelle has beaten almost everybody she has played since taking over (except me I think. . .) and is currently in the semifinals of our playoffs and winning so far this week. She has gotten pretty intense into this league, and is very excited that they boys have decided to allow her to play in the league as a full time member next season. I love the fantasy hockey stuff, but I can honestly say I've never lost sleep over wanting to win as badly as she does. Everyone be sure to wish her luck!

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change we seek."

- President Barack Obama