From the Past Little While

Life has been so full and abundant as of late.

I have not been as good as I should have been in updating this space.

This post is dedicated to the small snippets of our everyday life for the past few months.

Vintage Whites Flea Market on March 13th.

At the Mindy Gledhill concert

My new table from the market

My favorite new chairs!

First picnic of the year

Reminiscing over last year's memories.

My sweet friend Gina and her adorable Emerson (and darling Haven) came to visit us.

Maylie and Em became best friends that day.

Lovelies

A few lovelies from the past little while:

{YW's in Excellence}

{Whisper--who still thinks it's okay to camp out on our bed...}

 {Flashlight...who often retreats to our bathtub when she is sick of being hunted by Whisper}

{The Best Spider Flea you will ever see}

{Maylie's very first dentist appointment...she did great! She wasn't worried about a thing...except for laying back on the chair because "it will mess up my hair." She giggled the whole time they were polishing her teeth and sanding down her chipped tooth (because they told her the instruments were teeth ticklers and would make her giggle.) You know, this girl lights people up everywhere she goes. She had the hygienist in stitches laughing at every little thing she was saying and the dentist said he wished he could just sit down and talk with her for an hour. She really does have that much to say...}

Meet Maylie Johnson: Practically Perfect in Every Way.

Weekends.

We've been busy the last few weekends doing amazing things.

But before I get to that, I forgot to post these pictures a while back. It was on the day the boys went to Patrick's clinic so they could watch the BYU football game. All three of these boys have my whole heart.

Oh, and on the day Maylie had such a high fever, her little "Baby Whisper" laid with her all day. It was very sweet.

This kitten cracks me up every day. He chases Flashlight around the house and she hisses at him and paws at him then takes off running since she's so scared. But it doesn't faze him...he's off again, chasing after her tail the second she starts running. And one day I even found him here:

Easton's been my handsome boy all grown-up lately:

A few Saturdays ago Patrick had an all-day conference to attend, so the littles and I made a list of all the fun things we were going to do. We had a dance party, played outside, played monsters just like Nana and Papa did with them, played a few rounds of Spot It Jr. and Fairy Tales Tell Tales, and finished the evening watching a movie. I absolutely LOVE being a mother. It is the best job in the whole entire universe!!!

Last weekend we made applesauce all by ourselves for the first time ever. We bottled 2 bushels.

The next morning we traveled down to Grandpa and Grandma's house for a little girl's tea party. Grandma put on such a cute little party for the girls. We had lunch with Colbie's tea set and then we made hair bows and ribbons. After the party Mom helped me make stockings--or should I say she practically made them? Sewing is not my favorite thing to do nor is it my forte. But I love how they turned out! I will post pictures when I finish them.

Then yesterday we had a super spectacular family day.

We went out to lunch at Winger's and our waiter was being so sweet to our kids. When we were leaving all the kids said goodbye and Maylie told him she loved him. I think it made his whole day.

After that we went to "Meet the Mormons." I've already been once with the Young Women's so I really wanted to take my family to see it too. Maylie was a little wiggly, but all in all she was very good. During the missionary mom story, I was crying. I looked over at Easton who was sitting beside me and saw little tears in his eyes. I leaned over and whispered in his ear how much I loved him and how much I will miss him someday when he leaves on his mission. He told me he loves me too and gave me such a sincere smile. In my eyes he is the best 7 year old there ever was. I can't really think about what I will do when he leaves on his mission. These years are just so precious....

After the movie we went to a local corn maze and weaved around and around until we finally found our way. We dropped sunflower seeds just like my family did when we were little--so we could leave a trail of where we'd been.

We finished just before dark. It was a fully and satisfyingly wondrous day. 

I can't even express how much I love my family and how much I cherish the memories we make together. Life couldn't be any sweeter...