Enjoying the weather!

We were a  little late getting our pump going, and so when the girls saw the "sprinkles" as Lauren calls them, the girls had to play in/with the water!

I didn't get a picture of how it started, but it includes Erik and the girls in the sand box making mud, or as Erik would say making the perfect consistency of sand and water to make a sand castle! So after getting sand in places I won't name we stripped the girls down.

 This is a better view! Haha! We finally got the swimsuits on :)

Nothing better than playing with the hoses, and soaking up some sun!

Trimmin' Tree's

Erik loves to work in the yard, and make improvments where ever he can. So this year was the year for trimming tree's! I didn't get any before and after shots, but he did wonders on our Lilac tree!

 When trimming tree's there has to be a clean up crew, and that job was given to Lauren and I... wait, did I say Lauren, I really just meant I - if I am putting it that way I suppose I should say me!
Lauren just played in the truck the whole time! But she had so much fun in there, and it makes my heart happy because she was having a great time, I remember those times when I should have been helping my mom and dad, but played instead! She did have a ball and entertained herself for about 3 hours you know singing, dancing, writing notes, reading stories, bossing someone around on the phone, and all sorts of fun stuff!

 She did take a little time away from playing to get a picture with her mom!

So I wasn't completely honest when I said Lauren didn't help, because apparently I have proof that she is carrying a branch. But I thought this picture was so funny because we have a book called "Sometimes I like to curl up in a ball" and this picture looks just like one of the illustrations in that book.

See for yourself! This part always makes me giggle because that little mole looks so silly!

 Sawyer gratefully slept through most of the tree trimming fun, but came out at the end just in time to catch up on her Wyoming Game and Fish Regulations!

 She just loves her Wyoming Game and Fish book!

 This is what happens when I say "say cheese".... I get nothing! Ah well, they are still cute anyways!

Lauren's Dance Recital

Lauren had her 2nd dance recital of the year on April 26! Lauren loves dance and she loves her teacher Miss Candida! The songs that Lauren danced to were Bumble Bee Boogie and Every Girl can be a Princess. I am writing this post a month late, and Lauren has still got those dances memorized! Lauren is so funny when she gets nervous, she either sticks her finger in her nose (makes me so proud) or she sticks her tounge out and moves it around! Haha, I am sure I never did anything embarrasing like that when I was younger!

It was so fun to watch Lauren up on stage and to see how much braver she has gotten since her last recital! Erik is so funny and always tells Lauren that she needs to be a basketball player and not a dancer! One night I heard Erik in the bedroom with Lauren playing with her dolls and in a girly voice to play the part of one of her dolls he said " basketball is so much better than dance, you should probably play basketball and be cool like me huh?!" Haha! Their doll conversation continued on, and who knows what else they talked about!! I think after the dance recital Erik thought that dance would be acceptable for a few more years!!