Happy Royal Day!

The Royal Wedding has brought a lot of excitement at our house. Kenady fell asleep the night before the royal wedding with her tiara on and wand. Kenady woke up in the morning and it was right during the service. She said Kate looked so beautiful and wanted to dress as a princess to school as well. Kenady is all girl!

Sweet 16 Month Old Klarky

Me and my boy a day before his 16 Month Birthday (Easter)
Klarky is already 16 months old and not sure where the time went? This month he is talking so much and you can start understanding him. Some of his favorite words are Elmo, Milk, More, and of course Mama. He has just started giving kisses to. They are so sweet and just melt your heart. He has also started an obsession with my mom. The last couple weeks when she sees her he goes crazy--he starts doing happy screams and dancing around crazy. It is so funny and I'm pretty sure it makes my mom feel like the most special person in the world. He still loves following his sister around and copying whatever she does. They are best buds and on the weekends Kenady will wake up and crawl in his bed with him and they giggle. It is the sweetest giggle a mom could here. I can't wait to see what next month brings!

Happy Easter!

My sweet little Klarky
My princess

My sweet family!

Happy Easter!

Wheres the Easter Basket? Try behind the chair :)

What a great long weekend we had. We got to spend time with both families and got in a few Easter Egg Hunts and plenty of hugs and kisses.

Kane Easter

Klarky and Grandpa
Lots of yummies from Grandma and Grandpa

Klark and Kenady did not like the boys picking on their daddy

Klark really liked the ham

Kane Kids!

We headed up to Fairbank on Saturday for Kane Easter. Had good food of course--Glenda never fails and we even sneaked in a few pictures of all the grand kids. I also got to look through some old albums and see pictures of Nick when he was a baby. He was so cute with his bright red hair and his sweet innocent smile.

Heaven if for Real...

So the last few weeks I have been thinking about death/dying more than usual. It all started with reading the book for our book club called Heaven is for Real. It's about a boys out of body experience to heaven while he was in the hospital having surgery. It was a beautiful book and made you think about things that are taught to you in church, but in the back of your mind not really sure if that is what happens to you when you pass. It confirmed my beliefs and showed how children can be so powerful and insightful if we just listen. Shortly after I finished reading the book on of our dear friends Austin Holst's father passed away unexpectantly. It made me start thinking about our friends parents starting to pass and how I'm just not ready for that chapter in my life. They had a very nice funeral and they read a letter that Austin's brother wrote to his father. It was about his appreciation towards his father and how he was a "good man" and how he wanted to be a "good man" just like his dad. It made me want to make sure the people I love know how I feel about them. I've always tried to tell my family how much I love them and make sure to hug and/or kiss them before I depart or hang up on the phone. It just comes automatic, but sometimes you need to really tell them for no reason that you love them and what they mean to you. This became even more important after an old friend had to bury her husband this weekend. She has two small children like myself had everything going for them like our family and then an accident changed everything. She has two explain to two small boys that daddy won't be coming home and now is their guardian angel. I can understand losing someone you love an in instance, but this is on a whole other level. My heart breaks for her and wish I could take away some of her pain. They had a beautiful service-celebration for him but I couldn't help but think what if it was me. What would I do if this happened to me would Nick know how much I love him and how he is my rock. Would Kenady and Klark know that they are everything to me and all I want for them is the world? Would my parents know how much I respect them and appreciate them for everything they have done for me and my brother. Would my brother know how proud of him I am of him and the man he has become? Would my friends know that I would do anything for them all they have to do is ask...I hope so and if not I'm going to make an effort to make sure not to leave anything in and make sure the ones I love know they are loved by me.

Vacation Day

Klark discovering all the leaves Bird Bird

Kenady and her bird house

Kenady put her brother in a golf bag

Come on and ride our train

Baby Harry Carey

Kenady wants to go golfing with her dad!

I had some vacation days to burn up so the kids and I had a fun day--with lots of hugs, kisses, and laughs!

Cute Bootie

Don't let the smile fool you!

These were taken after Klark took a bath after painting his bird house and deserved their own post. Lately after every bath I take him in the spare bedroom and he has to get up on the bed and look out the window--with no diaper. He thinks its so funny not to have a diaper on.

Here Birdy Birdy

This was right after he took of his yellow paint Kenady concentrating

Klark did a few good strokes on his own

I know the spare back room was good for something.

Kenady painted bird houses at school on Friday and decided she needed one for her own house. We have been watching the Baby Eagles on UStream and she thinks that one might want to come live at her bird house. Klark has been a little under the weather so we decided to wait till Sunday to paint. Kenady did an excellent job--she wanted it to only be purple. Klark on the other hand was more about painting hisself or trying to drink paint then his bird house. He did a few strokes, but mom had to finish it off for him while he went straight to the bath tub.