Paisley's dance class tap and ballet. Paisley, Kathrine, and Janell. Not pictured is Austin.

 Paisley is a pretty good little dancer and learns quickly. She hates wearing make up and having people see her in her costume. She cries if you put lip gloss on her.

 Beck and his flag football team with Upward Sports. He's not very aggressive, but has fun "winning" and cheering on his teacmmates and high fiving them and stealing their flags.

 Busy Busy Busy month of May! This is what I THOUGHT was Penelope's first sucker. I was so excited! She LOVED it! Then Stephen kindly informed me that he had given her one at church today when he had taken her to class with him. I wish he would've lied and just let me believe....

 And the hair, this Penelope baby has got some great hair! Love it!

 Beck has been in flag football for the past few weeks and is not in love with it, but is humoring his mom and dad and of course he has no choice and has to stick with the season anyways. :) He has had a few opportunities to run the ball and stolen a few flags in the process, so I am counting it as a success!

 His loyal fans Paisley and Penelope and Grandpa Bob came to a game a few weeks ago!

 The month of May has also brought the end of school year activities like this school music play the 3 Nanny Goats. Beck was a nanny goats little brother and did a great job. Pictured below is his entire 1st grade class. Some of these kids have been in the same class for years! Megan, Courtlynn (who is our neighbor and we car pool with her) cousin Piper, Beck, Kellan, Bodie, Cortney, and Emma Claire Tatum. Next year will be Beck's first year attending public school and we are excited to see what the year holds for us and also sad because this means our little guy is growing up!

To my beautiful babies... May you always stay little and love to sit on my lap. You are forbidden of ever hating me or even thinking that anything I do is not in your best interest. Mommy loves you more and always will, don't even try and argue. Happy Mother's Day to my own beautiful Mother and every woman that has ever had a hand in making me the mother and caregiver that I am today! When I was younger my grandma would always ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up and I answered, "a mom." As if there was anything else in the world that would be as glorious. So from the mashed up marshmellows in the carpet and the blood blister on the bottom of my foot from stepping on legos to the up in the middle of the night sheet changing and soothing ear aches and throbbing growing pains, you make it all worth it, my babies. The smiles, the kisses, the insane laughter that sometimes sends me over the edge. You are my bread and butter, my sour punch straws, and my Mountain Dew. You, my babies, are better than anything and I love you more than you will ever know. I have the most glorious (insanely irritable) job in the world, being your mother and I thank my Father in Heaven for sending you all to me.

I ate the last cinnamon roll. I ate the one before that too. My kids came in and asked where the cinnamon rolls were. When I told them that I ate the last one and saw the sad looks on their faces I broke into hysterical tears...

Every year about this weekend Stephen goes to the motorcross in Seattle. beck has gotten to go with him the last few years and they go with lots of friends and family. Beck says, "it was not so cold. It was really fun and there was this thing that shoots of fire. I got to take lots of pictures, but I didn't get any cotton candy because dad wouldn't let me. Ryker was very nice and fun to go with."

27 weeks!
We decided not to find out what the sex of the baby is- did I already blog about this? Stephen thought it would be fun to have it be a surprise and exciting. I told him that my labor is exciting enough- I had the ultrasound on Valentines Day and went to the appt alone and barely made up my mind when I walked in to not find out. It was a pretty agonizing 30 minutes. I really wanted to know. I tried peeking, I thought I could tell, but changed my mind on boy or girl parts I thought I saw like 6 times, so I just stopped trying. Happy Valentines Day to Stephen! I didn't find out! I thought it would drive me insane but after I left the appt it hasn't been so bad. I made a baby quilt and the baby book. For the first little bit this baby will have mostly gender neutral things- you can't really make girl things look boyish, so lots of greens and browns and greys and yellows. Even some really light colored aqua. And foxes, for some reason I am really into foxes....