On Saturday March 28th- 2:50pm my little sister Elizabeth gave birth to her little boy-
Elizabeth is loving being a MOM! I hear that he's a very good baby with lots of RED hair! I can't wait to meet him! I love you Bizzy! Welcome to Motherhood!
Yesterday was Baby Matthew's 3rd Birthday!
A while ago my cousin Jeanie called to see if her husband could use a picture of Ella (one they had seen on my BLOG) in one of their dental fliers! Of course I said yes! And here it is! Pretty neat huh!? 
This week we've been trying to keep things pretty relaxed. We STILL aren't sure what we are going to do. Our lease is up here in 30 days!! (Can you believe that we've been in Arizona an entire year!) We have a couple options we are weighing right now, we'll see what happens. I'm thinking that whatever we do, it's going to be last minuet, get up and GO! 
After the fun of the amusement park Ryan decided to take me to see his model home. (we were pretty close) I have never seen it before because it's so far away- over an hour! He had told me that it was a really crappy area and even joked about how he was worried about getting shot. I think after seeing it, he wasn't joking! As we were driving Ry said the next street was HIS street, where he was supposed to SELL homes. I did NOT believe him. Who would want to live here!? It smelled like burning rubber so bad! Weird dogs walking through the streets and homeless people EVERYWHERE! It was worse then Mexico! NO wonder Ryan HATES his job!!!! 
Ryan had worked SO long- that he got a three day weekend! We decided to try and find something fun for us to do! I found this little amusement park online.(13 bucks gets you all the rides as many times as you want) Too bad I got us lost for a half an hour!
Ella was so excited! She thought it was going to be like Disneyland, it wasn't. Basically it was a glorified carnival. (I think it's funny that Ella's trying to stand just like the parrot!)
Planes
I have no idea how many times Ella went on this ride! Ryan and I think it was for sure over 15 times! There were about 6-7 times where she never even got off the ride!
Carousel
Train
Jack's favorite seat in town.
Ella wasn't sure about this ride until half way through the day. She got the courage to try it and then these three BIG boys ended up in the same cup together! They went SO fast, I could see her kind of freaking out. However when she got off said told us she loved it and that they went so fast she couldn't even lift her neck! I thought that she was going to throw up! But she didn't.
After that first crazy ride she wanted to go again and again and again! The ride operator saw poor jack and said that Jack could go on for free, just this once. Uh, but then that meant that Ryan or I had to go too. I drew the short stick and had to go. I thought that I might throw up. I don't know how Ella did it so many times. Jack didn't really care.
Poor Jack, this wasn't a well planned activity for him. He really couldn't so much. He did enjoy watching Ella!
Jack fell in love with this water bottle! He carried it around forever!
It was a really FUN really LONG day! We're glad that we went. The kids had a blast!
Last week my good friend Melissa planned a fun day at the park! She had lunch for ALL of the children! They also played games and just had fun being outside! The weather has been absolutely fantastic! Thank you Melissa! It was a wonderful day- we have to do it again soon!
The kid needs a bike that's NOT PINK! 
Ella saying "I don't WANT to GO HOME!"
This week Ella and I went looking for some Easter clothes for her and Jack. (There was seriously NOTHING cute out there this year!) Ella came across this dress at Target and fell head over heels for it. I on the other hand was less then thrilled. I tried talking her out of it before finally saying we would have to call Daddy and see if it was OK. He caught my hit and tried bargaining with her- "I'll play video games with you tonight, we can make cookies". Nothing worked, she loved that dress to much! We gave in. Is that bad? She does look pretty cute. Although we think that she would look cute in anything.
Jack got a new vest too. I wanted the kids to match, but since Ella picked a pink dress I was left without many options.
Ella also wanted a picture in this outfit. What a diva!
Ella's last day of spring break was yesterday, so sad! I loved having her home and hanging out with me and the Jackster. Yesterday we had so much fun hanging out at Grandma and Grandpa's house! Ella watch a movie and we all went swimming! (This was Jack on the way to get China food (as Ella calls it) with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Sasha and Tori!)
These girl's love each other so much! They always have a good time together! Ella tried some crab legs for the first time- she LOVED them!
After the kids and I got home I was kind of feeling bad that we never did anything really fun with Ella her whole week of spring break.
This was how Jack looked the whole time! He was kind of freaked out! I think that with so many people, bright lights and loud music he didn't know what to do. He kept trying to get over to the games- he wanted to pick one of the ducks and win a prize really bad. Maybe next time buddy!
So since rides were 3 bucks a pop we let Ella pick only two. After much consideration she decided she wanted to ride dumbo. She really thought it was the dumbo ride from Disneyland. A pretty messed up looking Dumbo if you ask me. She then decided to go on the swings. Of course she picks a seat that another little girl is in- even though there are other seats that were completely empty. She finds a new friend wherever we go.
To top off the night we took the kids to get a doughnut! Yummy! ( I think that Jack looks so old in the top picture!)
Poor Ryan, he's having to work over two weeks straight without ANY days off! Poor guy, he's such a good sport!
It's been pretty warm outside this week! Summer is a comin! Ella was so excited when we decided to try going down the slide into the pool. I think she must have gone down it a million times!
I think that the pictures of Jack are so funny! They look like he was really scared, but he wasn't. (Why do ALL boys like guns!?)
He's started- screaming ALL the time now! 
I am so glad that we have such a nice little backyard. I didn't really want to rent this house, I liked another one in this same neighborhood better, but Ryan insisted that we get this one. He was right... yes, I'll say it again (since it doesn't happen that often) Ryan was right. This backyard has been so wonderful for the children. Jack loves to wander around looking at bugs, plants and rocks. He would stay outside all day long! The little girl's next door always climb up the wall to chat with Ella. It's adorable. I HAVE to get a picture of that sometime. She has several little hideaways and club houses. I often find her outside twirling in the middle of the lawn singing a song from Sleeping Beauty.
Ella wanted me to take video of her going down the slide.
This was taken right after we went swimming. I was upstairs helping Ella get dressed (Jack was already dressed), when I hear something NOT GOOD. Jack was once again trying to plunge an entire roll of toilet paper down the toilet. Uhhhhh..... So I grab my cleaning supplies and start cleaning everything up. THEN I walk out to find this- Jack standing at the counter- NAKED! And on my phone. What a stink!
This is again- later that same day. Dressed in his Jam-Jam's ready for bed. His 5th outfit for that day. But he looked so cute. He wants to do everything everyone else is doing. Including wanting to watch movies on Daddy's I-plod, as Ella calls it.
