Musical Madison

Madison performed two pieces for her piano recital today- Beauty and the Beast and Raspberry Rag. This was her first recital after taking a year of private piano lessons with Miss Marie. She had previously taken group piano lessons because I wanted to be sure she was really interested in learning to play piano before investing in private lessons. She played beautifully today. She played even better than I'd ever heard her play at home. One of the biggest perks of her learning to play piano is that our home will have music in it because of Madison. She enjoys learning to play the piano and I hope that continues as long as possible.

Watching the game

James has a great view to watch the boys' baseball games when dad is around, but he does get a little distracted by the greenery. Everything goes in the mouth right now for slobbers. James is a human vacuum. He'll find a piece of fuzz on the floor so small that I'll think- surely he won't pick that up and eat it. Then he does.

Sqeaky clean!

We put all three boys in the tub tonight; it was a tight fit and all the more adorable because of it.

A Mom of Four- Oh Happy Day

I love being a mom of four great kids. Madison, Carter, Grant, and James are the absolute best things I've ever made in my life. I hope my quest to be the ultimate mom for them can be fulfilled. I'm thankful my husband supports me in my efforts to be a good mom and doesn't begrudge me staying home instead of working. Although I do work in my home continually, I love soaking in all the love and attention I can get on Mother's Day.

6 months old and places to go

James has gained some skills over the past couple weeks- crawling skills. It must be a thrilling experience to realize you have the freedom to get from here to there and have become more independent. I can't say I'm remembering what it was like when I started crawling, but I did feel a sense of independence when I finally got my license at the ripe old age of twenty. I think we can't remember all the things we accomplish as babies because the things we've done since then would pale by comparison.

#3 Grant Largey aka "Slip-n-slide"

Grant likes to slide into every base he's running toward. I've been using ALOT of Oxyclean on his baseball pants. Unfortunately I never was fast enough with my camera to get a good picture of him sliding. I do have a picture of him skipping home... he's such a cheerful little sport!

#2 Carter Largey aka "The Bullet"

Carter runs fast and plays hard. His coach said he was afraid to pitch to Carter because he swings so hard at the ball that it goes speeding through the air, hence the nickname of "The Bullet". This boy loves playing basball, and I'm enjoying watching his games much more than I thought I would being as I'm not much of a sports enthusiast.

The Grass is Green

The weather up here has been great lately(except on Easter Sunday!) and we've been kickin' around our yard playin' in the grass. I think people up here in WA like to say it rains continuously so that people won't move up here. Tricky tricky baba sticky. The sucker is a leftover remnant from a pillaged Easter basket.

Baseball Season Begins

Carter and Grant are playing pee-wee baseball (Jeremy's favorite sport) for the first time this season. Grant is playing T-ball and is a Cub (#3), while Carter is playing coach-pitch and is an Angel (#2). My April and May calendar is filled with practices and games already. Hopefully it won't get too crazy and the boys will have fun playing baseball. As a side note...I did not pick out their jersey numbers, but I loved that my second child got a 2 and my third a 3.

Dying to dye?

It's a tradition for our family to dye Easter eggs every year. Not very original I'll admit, but I get some serious grumbling from my kids if I try to skip out on dying eggs. They don't even like to eat hard boiled eggs, but they sure have a blast decorating them. I think Carter dunked his eggs in every color dye we had this year. Madison's favorite egg was the Pepsi dyed one. And Grant thought we should let James dye some eggs, despite the mess that would make! When Jeremy got home from work the kids flocked aroud him to show off their egg-citing creations.

Family of SIX

Remember that post a while ago about my kids and photos...well here's some proof! We're going to try and snap an informal family picture every time we have General Conference. Thanks Layne for capturing this for us!

Traveling Woes...

Jeremy flew into Spokane to help me drive back from our spring break vacation to Idaho, and it's a blessing he did because we had some difficulties. Our tire deflated while we were getting some fast food about two hours into the trip. The inner part of the tire had blown out, but we hadn't heard it happen and only felt it when we stopped to get food. A guy that came over to look at the tire with Jeremy said- someone must have had their hand on you because that could've caused an accident. The good guys at Wal-Mart opened their tire center back up, after they had already closed, just to help us. When we were back on the road again, Jeremy spotted a sign saying the snowqualmie pass was closed, which landed us an Inn for the night. The upside to our woes is that we could've been hurt when our tire blew out, but weren't; we could've been stuck in traffic at the pass all night, but weren't; we also could've been driving without Jeremy, causing Shauna to have a panic attack, but he was there. We're grateful we prayed for a safe trip home because once again our prayers were heard and aswered.