Lovin' the New Haircut.

It was bound to happen sooner or later...

Couple days ago, I was just done putting Anya to bed upstairs, and I hear a very excited little voice yell up the stairs: "Mommy! I use scissors and cut my hair all by myself!" "Mommy I cut my hair with scissors!"

Yep, that bad.

So "Auntie Natalie" came to the rescue about 20 minutes later (she lives up the street) and fixed it :)

Claire really enjoys looking DOWN while getting her hair cut. Btw. this is her first "official" hair cut...by a professional :)

And here it is! So cute! One side is a bit shorter, but we didn't want the whole bob to be too short, so we'll just wait til it grows a bit and even it out. (This is at the Bountiful Temple....whole other story....was up there waiting for my sis to get home and stopped by. Claire LOVED the "princess" brides walking around. We crashed a couple of weddings. They were probably wondering why I was wearing jeans...)

Now, every time I ask Claire "Who can cut your hair with scissors?" She says, "Auntie Nattie or Mommy." That's right. Or maybe Daddy or Grandma can too, but let's keep it simple.

Easter!! Finally... :)

It was Easter, and so I made these delicious sugar cookies:



OK, NOT...more like these delicious sugar cookies. I wish they were pretty but whataya do? That's why I make cupcakes generally...they're very easy to make look good.


Easter with the Pace's/Taylor's:

First, some cute pictures of Anya...







With her cousin, Lexi

And there's the old man...uh, Grandpa Taylor ;)... helping the kids find eggs. Grandma and Grandpa Taylor are professional egg-hiders. They have to help ME find eggs. But then again, I'm totally pathetic at it. Most years, they lose a few eggs because no one remembers where they hid them and none of the hunters can find them either. ps. he was really wishing he was in Cancun that day, for SURE.





Cousin Sam-o :)

And Ava

Partners in crime:

Other partners in crime...

Sam ONLY got little beauty for Easter... Claire totally got something just as amazing...drumroll....

As much as we hate buying her toys because she already has so many (from the woman in the picture below this sentence, actually...) we got her the Ariel one of these. It's for the bath, so it's not something she'll throw into the toy chest and forget about. It stays in the bath and she loves it!

Ruth's Annual Easter Party!

Stole these pics from Heather's blog...I'd forgotten my camera... Here's Claire and Lauren eating pure sugar! Love it! Claire was excited to have "Spicy apple juice." "Spicy" is her word for soda pop, and they had Manzanita Sol...yummm.... the Mexican equivalent of Apple Beer. Lauren joined in on wanting some of that nectar of the gods, much to Jay's chagrin...they don't like to make her happy with delicious sugary food like I do :)

Hunting for eggs!!

So apparently, with the first egg Claire found, she promptly grabbed it, threw it back on the ground, and then stomped on it til it broke into pieces. Then she removed the candy. Ha!

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt:







It was a great Easter!

Then, onto Vegas!! And Sydney's Room REVEAL!

I haven't even gotten to the Easter post yet. Yeah, I'm that behind...

Anyway, since we were already most of the way to Vegas, we figured we'd head over there after St. George to visit my sister, Michelle's family.


We just love driving, what can I say??




Especially with these crazies. Let's just say, on the way home, we drove in the middle of the night...

Anyway...

It was the ideal vacation for me, because we totally got our "craft" on! So, a while back (OK, last summer), my Mom and I helped Michelle make this cute queen-sized strip quilt for her daughter, Sydney's room. We had lots of visions of what the room would look like to match the quilt, but hadn't done anything yet...until NOW!

So, we planned on painting the room and then putting some flourishes around Sydney's name in block letters (that was already above her bed on the wall...) So we just had to paint over the pink and brown stripes and go from there! Michelle wanted me to paint the flourishes I painted in Claire's room, so that's where we got the idea. And in keeping it simple, we left the wall behind the bed pink, and did the flourishes in white, modpodged her letters with some turquoise paper, and painted the rest of the room a buttercream color. The end!


Workin'! Michelle looks hot even at work! (which is why there is no picture of me here...)

Gavin, hard at work! (He was actually really happy to be sanding-- but Jordan had him make that face :)

Sydney in her "paint clothes..." an old bathing suit, haha!

Here's the wall once the flourishes were done...just a few touch ups more and need to take some screws out...

And here it is completed!! We couldn't be more proud!

SO ADORABLE, right???

So, we also did a couple of other things:

For example, Claire learned out to make the plastic tiger bite her face..."look, no hands!"

And she also enhanced photos with her signature Chucky!

The kids also got their craft on!!

Um, the birdhouse, not the chair, Monkey.

A little better, but a brush would be nice...

(Ps. So you notice how the birdhouse is this weird blue color? Well, apparently that color is the mixed result of every paint available at the table)

They also got their "cry" on:



But not all at once, fortunately :)

I got my "nose gazing," or should I say, "nose coveting" on...

What a lovely new nose you have, Michellie :)

And then we got out Red Rock on!!

Notice how I wore the most idiotic outfit for hiking? What can I say...I was running out of clothes...






















We will be coming back. I mean, look at these cuties: