Mothers Day Pedicures

For Mother's Day my sisters and I gave my Mom and Grandma pedicures.
I made these cute cards to give them...

We celebrated a week early since that was when my mom was in town. Those of us who were able went and got one as well. It was a fun outing for us. We let Chloe join in the celebration-even though she isn't a mother. It was lots of fun and hopefully something we can do again.

Look at all our cute toes. My favorite part of the pedicure isn't so much the nail polish but the nice foot massage.

Taking matters into his own hands

Apparently I was taking too long when Bryce wanted some watermelon, so he just got it out of the fridge, grabbed a spoon, and went to town. HAHA! He loves his watermelon.

Basketball End of Season

Basketball Season has come to an end. It has had it's good and bad points.

 It was hard for Chloe to switch to a new team it was hard to go from being on a winning team to being on a losing team. It was hard waiting for girls to learn things she has been working on for the past year. It was hard adjusting to a new coach and his personality and way of coaching. It was hard learning a new position as a post, and switching back and forth between post and wing often. It was hard juggling three sports at the same time.

 However, she didn't give up. She played hard and she was aggressive. She saw lots of playing time. She learned her new position well, and even though her shot suffered the last half of the season she didn't give up and kept taking the shots. She earned her spot on the team. It was a hard move, but hopefully in the end it will pay off. 

The season is over for now, but she is going to continue playing-attending camps, and weekly training's and be even more ready when next season rolls around.

 Bryce has been such a trooper through all the many ball games. He usually manages to draw a crowd of kids who want to play with him.

Proud of you Chloe Girl. I know it hasn't been easy, but you make me proud to be your Mom.

Bring Your Child to Work Day

 A few weeks ago it was bring your child to work day. Chloe didn't really want to come to work with me, because she wanted to get away from school for the day. Landon's work has some restrictions and stuff, so he wasn't sure if he would be able to take her or not, plus Chloe thought his job sounded boring. HAHA. Our good friend Lisa Costanza offered to let Chloe go with her, she is an interior designer. Chloe loved it and had a great time. 

Sometimes Life Throws a Cleat at Your Head

It had been a long week filled with daily ball games and late nights followed by early mornings, school  and work. I think we were all tired and just a little bit testy. I was trying to get everyone ready and out the door, and Bryce just wasn't handling things. He got super upset and started crying. He didn't want to get ready and started throwing a royal fit. I continued to get myself ready hoping that he would cry it out and he would be calmed down a little bit by the time I was ready to get him the rest of the way ready and that's when I was hit right upside the head with a baseball cleat.
It hurt-bad! (that kid has a serious arm and is deadly accurate) I was furious. I got really mad at Bryce, but after a few minutes I calmed down.
Later I laughed about it. I mean how could I not. I realized he was tired I mean we all were, and sometimes it just harder for little kids to deal with emotions and carry on when they haven't had proper rest.
I guess it's kind of like life though-you never know when something is going to hit you (whether literally or figuratively), but you've just got to shake it off, laugh about it and carry on. And it's okay if you take a few moments to be bad, as long as you can move past it.

I'm just glad it wasn't a metal cleat or I might have required some stitches.
#Brycee

Quilts 23, 24, 25, 26-HALFWAY to 52

Quilts 24, 25, 26, 27 I'm halfway to my goal.

24 and 25 aren't shown one was a BYU one I made for one of the girls I go visiting teaching to, and the other had cute frogs on it and it was made for a girl I used to go visiting teaching to.

This one was a patchwork one I made for my friend Brittany (Brydee's Mom). Quilt 26

This cute elephant one was made for Chloe's young women's leader and yes Chloe helped me tie it. Quilt 27

Easter

We had a fun Easter. Miss Gay threw a fun party for the kids and their parents complete with a picnic and Easter egg hunt.

 We dyed eggs with my sister Tiffanie and her kids.

 Chloe is obsessed with pineapples right now, so it was only fitting she made a pineapple Easter egg.

 We went to Fillmore for the weekend. Landon's whole family was there. We spent some time on Saturday at the sand hills, which is an Ellison family tradition. We had fun playing in the sand, playing baseball, and eating some good food. Plus for once the weather was actually really nice so that made it even more enjoyable.

 Being around so many cousins can sometimes be exhausting. At one point I found Bryce asleep in my suitcase-haha poor little guy was flat spent.

 Sunday we opted to stay home and do a little service project instead of going to stake conference. The kids thought that it was pretty fun burning stuff in the burn barrels especially when the fire got a little big.

 We had a great weekend hanging out. The kids loved playing with their cousins. They never want to leave when it's time to head back home.

 I had to get a picture of them in their new Easter clothes, even if it was a week later, and neither one of them was cooperating very well.