March

Megan having "Pony Club."  She's reading a My Little Pony book to her little pony/unicorn.



Tyler has us attend Pokemon Club every Sunday.  He teaches us about 4 new Pokemon each week.  And he has a little happy face/sad face Pokemon sign.  If we're listening he keeps the happy face up, but if we're not listening, he turns it over to the sad face.



Tyler playing basketball.



We went to see Zootopia.  We loved it.

 We ran out of clean forks, so Megan got the giant serving fork to eat her ice cream cake roll.



Emily and Darrell made a marble machine.



Megan helping Darrell do the dishes on Sunday after dinner.  Darrell is so good to finish up any dishes that don't fit in the dishwasher on any night, not just Sundays.



We needed to pick some up things at IFA so the girls enjoyed the chicks and bunnies.



Tyler at basketball practice.



The girls at Tyler's basketball practice.  Yay for Wi-Fi at the fitness center so the girls can watch Netflix and/or PBS Kids.



Dairy Queen was giving out free ice-cream cones one day, so we took advantage of that after basketball practice. (Megan, Tyler, and Emily)



St. Patrick's Day breakfast--donuts and green milk



St. Patrick's Day dinner--green mashed potatoes and Kool-Aid



Tyler's last basketball game.  He improved a lot this time.







We celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary in March.  Tyler left this cute note on stuck to the cupboard by the sink.



This is what I found:  his art projects from school.  Such a sweet gesture!





Darrell and I celebrated our anniversary by getting a babysitter and going out to eat at The Olive Garden and then doing sealings at the temple.  We didn't do any selfies, but I did get pictures of our yummy meal.  Darrell had an Italian pot pie and I had tilapia and zucchini.  We also had 2 different chocolate desserts.





As per tradition I tried on my wedding dress.  (I really need to start trying it on BEFORE I head out to a big, yummy dinner--it just might fit a bit better.)  Tyler wanted me to hold these flowers he bought with his money at the dollar store.



Oh how I love these cute kids! (Emily and Tyler by me with Megan by my feet.)





Megan wanted to be a "flower girl" so she hurriedly made some flower petals out of paper and put them in her "puppy bag." 



Then she threw (or rather carefully placed) the petals on the floor.





Emily with my veil on



Megan with my veil on



Decorating Easter eggs  (Tyler, Megan and Emily)





The kids enjoy playing with Tyler's basketball hoop.  (Tyler, Emily, Megan)



The girls chose Darrell's birthday cake-a puppy because they know how much he loves dogs.  The kids helped decorate it.



We went to eat at Noodles and Company for Darrell's birthday.



We came home for presents and birthday cake.  The kids were SO excited for Darrell to open their presents and see the "pinky print" cards they had made for him.  Birthdays with kids is a lot of fun.









We had a little snow storm and the girls loved going out to play in it.

Megan



Emily and Megan



Megan dressed up like her penguin with bunny ears by wearing her penguin robe and bunny ears.



Emily dressed up like her little bunny with her pink robe, bunny ears and bunny slippers



I had to Tyler take this picture of Tyler wearing his bunny ears while he was sleeping. :)

Happy birthday Grandma!

A happy birthday shout out to my wonderful momma!

We love you!

February

Here are some pictures from February.

Emily looking cute in a beanie.



Tyler decorated his Valentine's box.  The girls didn't have to make boxes, but they wanted to create Valentine's art too.





Megan created a board game for us to play.



The kids continue to put on "shows."  Here the girls were dancing at a "ball" Megan and Emily came up with.





The black paper hanging on our shelf between 2 Valentine's decorations is Emily's "disco ball."



Emily's portion of "the ball."  We had to play a game.



A close-up of the disco ball and Megan's rules for the ball. (Welcome to the ball.  Rules.  Don't touch people.  Don't eat people's food.  ABC ball.  Pleeeeeeeeees like it.  123 Ball Plees plees plees like it.)

Megan created a store in her bedroom.  (There are some pretty good deals there!)









Every Sunday Tyler has "Pokémon Club" where he teaches us about different Pokémon.

Tyler started basketball at the fitness center again. It's fun to see how much better he is than last time.  He's a very good defender with his arms up.





Getting ready to shoot the ball.



We had a Papa Murphy's heart pizza a couple days before Valentine's day.

We were able to attend the Provo City Center Temple open house.  We had reserved tickets for another day, but it worked out better to go on a busy Saturday, so we joined the throngs of others waiting in the stand by line.  (Tyler, Megan and Emily)



Tyler, Emily, Megan

After the open house we went for a drive up to Evanston, WY.  Darrell wanted to get out and go for a drive.  It was nice to get away from the inversion and see blue sky and white clouds.  We stopped in the visitor center and the kids LOVED seeing all of the taxidermy-ed animals, antlers, furs, etc.



Then we made our traditional run to In 'N' Out for a Valentine's treat.



A Valentine's heart hairdo for Emily.  (We ran out of time to get Megan's done.)



The kids have been into watching "how to draw" videos on You Tube.  Here is Emily with Pikachu.

More games the kids created.  (I'd like to take credit for instigating all of their creativity, but they just come up with all of this stuff on their own.)

Emily's game (going to church).



Tyler also had a going to church game, but this one was a loopy one from a palace.  (Emily wishes we would have spelled her names E-M-I-L-E, so Tyler humored her here.)



Megan's game was a snowman game.



We went to another Grizzlies hockey game.  They played the Rapid City Rush and won 5-1.  (Megan, Tyler, Emily and Darrell.)



There were A LOT of fights in the 3rd quarter.  See all the pairs of gloves on the floor?  They threw off their gloves and started throwing punches.



There were too many groups fighting for the refs to keep up.  It made for some pretty exciting watching.

My parents were in town for a day and they treated us to dinner and then dessert at Menchies.



Emily wanted to draw some shapes (that they were studying in school) for my parents on the white board, and then she wrote their names too.



The girls got a Hello Kitty "fashion plate" set from our neighbor and went to town make different combinations of Hello Kitties and then plastered the wall with them.



Freddy's Steakhouse was have 91 cent single-serve cones and cups of custard, so Darrell took the kids to get a treat one night.  (I was tired and just wanted to stay home by myself--which is a luxury sometimes.)  Anyway, Megan came home and brought me her ice cream cone paper.  Mom!  I brought you something for your earrings!  It's even clean inside!  I obliged.

We went back to Freddy's a couple nights later for Family Home Evening.  (Darrell, Tyler, Emily)



Me and Megan

The girls participated in a local high school drill team clinic.  They went to "class" for 2 nights to learn the dance.  (Emily closest one in black leotard and pink skirt.  Megan is in the black leotard and black skirt.)



The second night of class Tyler came for a few minutes before I had to take him to his basketball game.  He danced right along from the sidelines.



The girls then performed their dance at the dance showcase.  They had a lot of fun. (Emily, Tyler the photo bomber, and Megan)



The girls are in the back.  They were in the group of 2-5 year olds so they were some of the oldest/biggest.