The Zoo

Gabrie's preschool class had their last field trip for the year, to the Zoo. It was lots of fun!

Gabrie taking a drink from the lion.

The monkey that scared Livvy! Well she was scared of all the monkeys, but this one put on a show for us (:

Gabrie, Ava, and Katie doing their best monkey faces!

Livvy and the elephants, she really liked that there was a "baby one", "mommy one", and "daddy one".

More pictures

Gabrie, some of her friends, and Miss Mandy, her teacher.

Riding the train with some of her favorite people, Ethan and Katie. She later informed me she "loves" Ethan (:

Livvy and Mommy riding the train.

It was hot and expensive but we had fun and don't need to go again for awhile!

Master Luke

 At the begining of May Luke graduated from USU with his Master's Degree in Instructional Technology! He worked very hard for it and we are so proud of him! We are all so glad it is done! We drove up to Logan thinking it would be a quick commencement like mine had been 4 years earlier but we were very wrong! They started late and had tons of students, it lasted forever! Luke describes it as the most boring day of his life, but at least we have pictures (:

Here he is getting "hooded" .

Walking up to get his name read.

 

 With his "diploma".

By the time is was done no one was really in the mood for pictures, but we tried anyway.

Thanks Mom and Dad for coming to support Luke and taking us out to the Bluebird after.

We also had to at least drive by the little green and white house where I spent the hardest summer of my life! The second summer into my Master's program, when Gabrie was just 2 1/2 months old we rented the top floor of this house, and my wonderful mother moved up with me and took care of Gabrie while I went to class from 8-6 each day and studied until midnight each night. Then I would stay up with Gabrie until all hours of the night and some how make it through the next day with maybe 4 hours of sleep. Luke would drive up when he didn't have class at BYU. I started that summer pretty sure I was just gonna quit school because I didn't see how it would be possible, but I was truly blessed to make it through. Thinking back I still don't know how it was possible,  I tell people it must have been Divine Intervention because there is no way I did that by myself. But we look at this little house with such fondness remembering how Gabrie turned over for the first time there, Luke caught bugs for his entimoloy class there, Gabrie would love to sit on the porch and watch the cars go by and we confirmed the fact that my mom is the closest thing to an angel that there is!

Gabriella turns 5!

Gabriella turned 5, and I can't believe it! She is such a fun and sweet little girl and we love her so much!

She loves to learn and remembers just about everything she is taught. She is a good friend and big sister. She is really into "My Little Pony", Barbie, doing crafts, and learning about animals and science.

Here she is on the morning of her birthday, holding some of her presents. She also got a bike but I guess I didn't take any pictures of that.

Later that day she had a "My Little Pony" themed birthday party with some of her friends.

 Her cupcakes

 Snacks

 Blowing out her 5 candle

 Katie, Abby, Gabrie, Hailee,and Kaicee

 Lucy, Jordynn, Chloe, Riley, and Katelynn

 Livvy enjoyed the party too (:

Opening presents

 What a cute 5 year-old!

Family Fun

I haven't posted anything for awhile! Mostly because being on the computer makes me really nauseous! But I think I am finally over that now that I am 16 weeks. We are having baby number 3 in November and we are super excited! Gabrie loves to count things that we have to determine what we will need more of when the baby is born and we have 5 people in our family! It is cute to see how excited she is to be a "big sister again"! 

But here are some funny pictures from a month or two ago.

Livvy is so used to putting on hats and gloves to play in the backyard that now she does it even when it is warm enough to be naked!

 

Luke and Gabrie having a sword fight.

 

Livvy has had a few breathing issues this spring and had to do "smoke medicine" as we call it. 

Easter

We had a low key Easter this year but lots of fun!
Here we are dying eggs... Livvy spilled the blue at least 3 times!

Gabrie got really creative with her designs.


Easter Morning
Checking out their baskets
Dressed in their Easter Best! Well actually I bought a different dress for Livvy which she refused to wear (at 2 years old!) but this old one of Gabrie's worked just as well, if not better!
It is hard to get a good picture...
But this one turned out!
After church, it was a beautiful day!

After we had some naps we went to visit Grandparents and had a little egg hunt at Grandma and Papa Williams house. This year the only egg hunters were Sydney, Gabrie, Livvy and Hayden (my cousin Nathaniel's daughter). These pictures were taken with my mom's camera so I don't know why they say 2007 because they were for sure taken in 2012!

I love this picture because I feel like it gives me a glimpse of what she will look like when she is older (:And this is just a cool picture of Gabrie (Good job Seth, the photographer!)

The next day, Livvy had all of her jelly beans in a bowl and was going to town! As you can see by her red cheeks and shirt they were mostly pink and red. She turned into even more of a candy fiend and had to go to time out several times for refusing to eat anything but candy!