April 18, 2010

April 18, 2010

Happy Birthday Paul April 14. Sadly he spent his birthday in Arizona.

Goodbye Party/Birthday Party at the Ibas

We are officially under contract for our Sandy home. With an offer and acceptance our move out date is May 15, 2010. Paul and I both have birthday's in April so we all gathered at Grandpa and Grandma's for an all in one party. These are my favorite pictures from the party.

Andrew and Maddy

A row of beautiful girls in their sunday dress.

Marissa has so much fun with all the girls and Dad just kept taking more and more pictures of the girls.

Look at Luke. Already pushing up. He has such an innocent face but we all know he has big plans once he becomes mobile.

April 17, 2010. I had taken this cute picture the night before the party. Look at these cute boys hanging out with Mom.

Wow what a week. When it comes to moving I am rusty. We haven't moved in 7 years. Time to pull out the boxes, everything goes.

April 7-12, 2010

Oliver sporting his new church outfit. Snapped the picture before

he could reach out for the camera. So handsome. Marissa says

purple is her favorite color.

He's sad now that I keep taking his picture. I know your thinking we should have done his hair as it would have made him look even more handsome. The kids 2, we are lucky we got the whole outfit on at the same time.

This is a sample of what Paul is seeing Monday thru Thursday in California. We are so sad to send him off Monday morning and ready to have him back late Thursday night.

I spared you the pictures of the stars on the sidewalk and the wax figures. He gets to see it all.

Makes me want to go on vacation to California.

April 4, 2010

April 4, 2010
Happy Easter!!
We have such goofy kids. I love them. They just crack me up. I have no idea what is going on in this picture. What ever happened to look at me and smile.







Marissa just can't get enough of soft fluffy, stuffed animals. Each new one is her favorite.




Oliver is always teasing. He can't help himself, it's in his nature.
Soon he will figure out that if he puts his hand infront of the lens
he will really get a reaction. Then we will never have a picture of him.




















It makes me sad sometimes to see Andrew so big. They just grow up to fast. I love it that my kids are happy.

I love it that they are so easy to please. We have been throwing every holiday and birthday together so far this year as things have just been to crazy.

April 5: So we have had RSV go through (Mom and Luke). Then pneumonia (Marissa). Then the flu (Oliver and Luke). Now an ear infection (Oliver). I am never going to get a good night sleep again.

Lead the Way Award Ceremony!

We are so proud of Andrew. He got the "Lead The Way" award at school today. Andrew is such a great student, good friend, and all that. This particular award is for giving his best handwriting. He has really neat handwriting for a 2nd grader and especially for a boy. I was relieved that award day landed on Friday so Paul could go. It would have been impossible to get such great pictures if I had had Oliver and Luke there.

He is all cool and casual but he is loving every minute of it.

Proud parent moment. =0)

March 26, 2010

Marissa's 5th Birthday!!

March 25, 2010

We surprised Marissa with breakfast in bed on a cookie sheet. I packed the tray during our packing frenzy. So this is Marissa in the morning. Cute as ever.





She was special helper at preschool and got this awesome birthday hat that she wore all day. The benefits of your birthday landing on a school day. We decorated. Staysha came over for the party and had pizza with us.

Lots of great presents and family and friends at her birthday party. She was loving every minute of it. Not that is shows.

Look at all these handsome Iba boys. Oliver can't be pulled away from his cake and Luke can't look away from Oliver eating his cake.

Brothers. They are so cute together.

Marissa had a great birthday. To bad we had to take the decorations down right away so the house would be ready to show the next day.

March 22-24, 2010

So Paul is now working out of town 4 days out of
the week. So far it's been pretty crazy. Here is Oliver sporting a black eye he got from wrestling with Andrew. He was so sad in the moment but could careless now. Makes him look like the toughest 2 year old I have ever seen.

It's a very impressive shiner that will be around for awhile.

See all these gorgeous pictures of Luke. this is what he does every night when all the kids have gone to sleep. He tries to cheese me all night to stay up. All the while I am trying to do everything I can to get him to go to sleep.

So far he is winning. Staying up until he passes out from exhaustion.

March: Week 3: Paul takes the kids out to dinner.

Paul bravely took the three kids out to eat by himself to give me a little break. He took the kids to Fuji restraunt that just opened up by our house. The kids got to learn how to use chop

sticks. they were very creative at first.

The staff had these make shift chopsticks they rolled up the paper sleeve they came out of and wrapped the end with rubberbands so they would stay together. Even Oliver could use them.

While waiting for food Oliver saw an apple (lemon) in Paul's diet coke. He didn't want to wait for his dinner so insisted on some apples. He sucked lemons for awhile. Kid likes lemons what can you do.

The kids got a kick out of watching him cook. They tried catching food in their mouth that he threw and he really put on a show for them. Tossing an egg in the air and catching it on his spatula without breaking it. He made a volcano out of onions and oil. It was endless fun. The kids couldn't stop talking about it when they got home.

They are so cute. I was so glad they had a chance to get out. It's been work, work, work at the house.