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Our Easter

We had an eventful & emotional Easter weekend, but I'll post more about it later. For now, this is all I'm going to do.

Here's Jennah and Kirstie in their new Easter dresses. Couldn't get Stevie in the picture, he's just not into taking "formal" shots lately. Must be a boy thing.

Kirstie and Stevie with their "stash"

Jennah and her "stash". Jennah, for some reason I've yet to figure out, woke up Easter morning before 6 A.M. You can see the tiredness (is that a word?) in her face. She was so excited, that not 10 minutes later, she had to wake up her brother and sister. I REALLY did NOT want to be up that early...we didn't need to leave for church until noon!

We went over to my parents house around 8 to say goodbye to family that were visiting, eat breakfast and Easter egg hunt with their cousins.

Getting ready for their Easter egg hunt at Grandma & Grandpa's house Easter morning. It was rather chilly...just look at those red cheeks!

We went to Hobrook to go to Church. Our nephew Allan just returned from his mission, and was giving his report. We got together with the Self's and the Shumway's and had a great time. Stevie found this wig while at Scott & Beth's, and was having a blast "rockin' out"!

Then we went over to Joan Shumway's house to visit with family, eat dinner, and another Easter egg hunt.

Here's Kirstie, Maura, and Jennah head out the door to go hunt eggs! I couldn't get a decent picture of Stevie...he wouldn't hold still long enough.

I asked Kirstie if she wanted me to lift her up so she could get the egg in the windowsill. Of course she said "No mommy...I can get it, I'll just climb up!" Why do I even bother asking? Next year I'll be better prepared, and try harder to focus more on what Easter is REALLY about. It was good to be with so many friends and family!

Spring Break

Our Spring Break was pretty uneventful, until Thursday the 26th, when we were hit with this... I had to work a few hours that afternoon, and Kirstie wanted to come to work with me. I was done with work by 4:30 P.M., and Kirstie insisted on walking home...in the snow!! I have to admit, it was a BLAST!! I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. It was coming down in HUGE flakes, it was like a blizzard! We both had brain-freeze, and were soaking wet from the snow hitting our heads by the time we made it home. I'm sure glad she talked me into it, I wouldn't have wanted to miss that moment.

By Saturday, the snow was completely gone, and it actually felt like spring. I have been wanting to take my family to 5-mile canyon for a while, and Saturday was the perfect day!

Jennah didn't want to go to the canyon at first, she's not much for out-door stuff, and doesn't like getting dirty. Once she got down inside the canyon, she loosened up and had a good time.


Kirstie is a completely different story. She LOVES to climb and get dirty. Steve and I had to reign her in a few times when she tried climbing a little to high, or exploring places that didn't look too safe. (and she LOVES posing for the camera too!)

Stevie is just like Kirstie when it comes to the outdoors. Only difference is, he could have cared less about getting his picture taken. This was the only one I was able to get of him by himself that day, the little stinker!This picture is of one of Kirstie's moments of poor judgement. She was so excited to get out on that big rock, that she didn't think about how she was going to get back. The other rocks were quite small, and didn't make for a good landing spot. So, Steve had to go "rescue" her. Just another anxiety moment for me!

Our two little climbers...they would have gone to the top if Steve and I would have allowed it!

We had to talk Jennah into this one...climbing involved. You can see the nervousness in her expression.

Snowflake's own little "Pride Rock"

I had to put in this picture of some of the hieroglyphs.

All in all, it was a nice, fun, relaxing Spring Break!

Some of my favorites

Not much has been happening worth blogging about at the Self house, and I got tired of looking at Jennah's broken tooth. So, I decided that I'd post some of my favorite pictures of my kids :)

This one is of Stevie, in the summer of 2006 , when we were living in Camp Verde. Steve was outside mowing the lawn, and Stevie was fascinated with it...he stood watching him through the window the entire time.
Kirstie was my climber, and always curious about anything girlie. She had climbed onto our bathroom counter, and got into my make-up. I never realized how closely she watched me...she used the right make-up in the right places. Not bad for an 18mo. old!

I can't believe I'm putting this one on here...

this was just 2 weeks before Kirstie was born. Our camera had been left out in the cold truck, so it made for a nice "foggy" effect. Every time I was pregnant, Steve was always bugging me to take bare belly pictures, because I got so ENORMOUS. I finally caved when Jennah wanted to be a part of it.

Steve and Jennah. July 2000...the picture says it all :D

Now, I challenge all of you, my amazing friends, to take a trip down memory lane and post a few of your favorites!

One traumatic day

Before the accident... ...and after...

This is what Jennah was left with after a little spill (and many tears) on the playground during lunch recess today at school. We are so thankful for dentists that can fix little things like this!

Pitcture Tag

This is kind of a fun "picture tag" - you just go to the 4th picture album on your computer, and post the 4th picture in the album.
I tag whoever wants to do it:)

'Hair's' to looking beautiful!

I am a HUGE fan of the little girl hair blogs (I have the links to two of them on my blog)! Growing up, I always wanted a little sister to play with and fix her hair, but it was never meant to be *sigh*. I'm so lucky to have my own two girls with great hair to experiment on! My girls aren't too thrilled to be my guinea pigs, but they do cooperate. I am "hair-style challenged", so when I found the links to the hair blogs, I was ecstatic! There are still some hair-do's that I stay away from...mainly ones with french braids...they never turn out well for me.

My girls and I have been having fun with the Valentine's Day 'do's'. The angle of the top & bottom right pictures aren't quite right...it did look like a heart, just not here. Cute AND easy! Just what I need!

This one took FOREVER...but it was one of my favorites when it was done. I did this on our 2nd Sunday here in Snowflake. Kirstie's comment was "mommy, this was a long hair-do, can we not do it again?"

The top pictures here are from their first day of school. They took a while, but I loved how they turned out...and so did my girls:) The bottom left pictures is one of my favorites with Jennah's hair, and was sooooo easy...no special skills involved here!

This is the 1st day of school hairstyles from the front, minus the braid in Jennah's hair (I'm a slow braider).

So...if you're looking for ideas for you girls hair, I encourage you to check out those blogs. There are several links on their blogs also...and they all have some AMAZING hair-styling skills, and great tutorials! Have fun surfing!!

Kirstie's 7!!!

Kirstie turned 7 on Thursday. We did the usual family tradition...waking her up singing "Happy Birthday"...which, as you can see, she wasn't all to thrilled about...until she saw the presents. Just as I hoped, she LOVED her new outfit...it's soooo Kirstie! My parents came over a little later to give her their gift...the cute little puppy, and other 'girlie' stuff. She was one happy girl! Then, after supper we had birthday cake and ice-cream. Stevie told me that he would NOT eat that cake, saying in a very disgusted voice "it's pink and girlie...that's gross!"...well, he ate it anyway, and actually enjoyed it!

Party!!

Friday the 6th, we had Kirstie's first official birthday party. There was a good turn-out, with three of her friends from school, and three cousins! They had a lot of fun decorating and eating cupcakes, singing "Happy Birthday" at the top of their lungs (had to plug my ears for that one...eight very loud little girls!), playing games, and of course, Kirstie's favorite...opening presents!