Here's one of the other two

I did finally find a couple of Ada's baby pictures... here's one of Ada at 1 week old and Sammy at 3 weeks old that really look similar.  And one of Ada a little bit older... just cause I think she's cute...

Check this out!

Not only do my first two kids look like me... see here... but check this out... it's like they're the girl version and the boy version of whatever mix they are of us... Sammy has Jers nose and Evelyn has mine... but you can tell they are ours.  Now... I wish I had just the right picture of Ada at this age to add to it, but we lost all her pictures when our hard drive crashed... some of them we were able to get back from stuff that we'd sent to others, but not really very many. 

Evelyn 1 month old

Sammy 1 month old

Happy Anniversary Jer!

So it was our 6th anniversary yesterday.  Can you believe that it's been 6 years?!  Last year we all had the flu and had to cancel our plans, the year before we had a 3 week old baby and didn't really do anything... and this year... we have a 4 week old baby, but thanks to my mom and my sister Sharon we actually did something!  Neither of us were really perky and energetic... but we had a date!  We went to Christopher's Steakhouse and Grill... really hoity toity... yummy too.  Then we went and bought books at Barnes and Noble.  Went home and slept for a whole 9 1/2 hours without kids waking us up!  HEAVEN!  I'm still tired, but not ready to fall over!  That's always nice.  Just think Jer, in another 6 years we can do this again! (Just kidding!)  I love the things that the last 6 years have become!  What good memories we've built together and what good kids we have!  I hope I have the patience to keep them on the right track and I'm glad that I have you forever!

Married June 30, 2005 for all eternity in the LDS Mount Timpanogos Temple by my Grandpa and Sealer Glen Ellis

Randomness

Quick note on having three

Everyone has been saying how daring I am for going out with my kids... three of them... on my own.  Here's my opinion... So far I think that Ada's been my hardest.  She was a very easy baby, but just the whole getting used to being a mom instead of a student or working was an adjustment for me.  Sammy was an easy baby, hard toddler, but easy baby... that wasn't a hard adjustment.  Evelyn's an easy baby... not a hard adjustment... my house is messier, but I expected that both because of the baby but also because of the fact that Ada and Sammy are really starting to make believe together which equals a bigger mess. 

So honestly, I don't feel like have more children has been harder... I feel like doing things for the first time is harder... (Potty training Ada, hard.  Dealing with not being able to breastfeed (also with Ada even though the other two haven't really worked out either), hard the first time... easier to accept with the other two times.  Learning how to discipline our kids, experimenting with Ada first... hard... easier with Sammy because we've already been through it with Ada.)  Poor Ada.  Now I know what my parents meant when they told my oldest sister that she was their guinea pig... Ada gets put through the hoops on everything... and I expect more from her because she's older and understands more than Sammy or Evelyn...

Princess Festival 2011

We did it again...  For two reasons, Ada had a blast last year and because it's a fund raiser for Quiet Way which builds wells and schools in Africa... and I have a tender spot for those kind of organizations (my sister and I were volunteer teachers in a school in Kenya 10 years ago... wow...10 years went by fast!).  This time we went with Becca, Grace and Sophie.  It was hot, but the girls never complained... they just played.  Way Cute!  And I don't have a picture of it, but there was one thing that Ada did that I thought was way cute.  All through the garden they have different princess shows... The Magic Flute, The 12 dancing Princesses, The Arabian Nights, Cinderella, Princess Mila, Snow White, etc... Well, we got to the Snow White one about half way through it.  We were walking behind the stage when Snow White comes out on the one side of the stage and the Prince runs off the other side of the stage yelling, "Snow White where are you!?" And of course... Ada yells to him, "She's over here!" Snow White was creative and just tells her, "I don't think he heard you. That's okay."  And after the Snow White show she and Sammy went with Daddy to get the characters to sign her book while I waited with the baby out of the way... they asked Ada what her favorite part of the show was and of course she says, "Where Snow White ate the apple and she died!"  Nice.

Getting signatures

With Princess Aurora

At the "tea party" with the mad hatter

I love these cups... as Jer said, they would make awesome pots for plants

Playing croquet (or hammering in Ada's case) with the Red Queen

The Princess and the pea

Lunch break

Yeah... so this was one of my favorite comments... Ada handed her book to Jasmine to get signed and immediately asked if she could go jump on their cushions

Making cheeser eyes at me

Giggling because the face paint tickles

Love my cute girl!

Admiring themselves in the mirror

Ada, cousin Sophie, and cousin Grace

Taking a breather before the Cinderella show

Sammy trying to grab my camera from me

Our three princesses

At the Cinderella show

Ada's favorite!  Rapunzel.  Ada was in raptures.  She asked Rapunzel to dance with her, but unfortunately there was a line of people behind us and we had to try to get her to hurry a little.

Sammy's favorite part... taking a little swim in the 90 degree weather before heading home

Wendy was so fun!  Last year Ada would only talk to Captain Hook and Peter Pan but ignored Wendy and Tink... it's a little ironic because this year the same girl played Wendy and Ada ran and played with her for a good 20 minutes or so, she also told Captain Hook that he wasn't bad and he tried to convince her that he was scary... She finally gave him a little and told him that he could be a little scary.

Ada and some of the other little girls were trying to pull Wendy into the water coming from a pipe up above... You could tell that she didn't mind getting wet but was trying hard not to get soaked... So she kept yelling that she'd been captured and running off or chasing the girls around the water area.  I think she was pretty lucky actually... of all the characters in the Festival she got to wear the lightest dress... (everyone else was in prom dresses or velvet coats) and she got to play with the kids in the water on this really hot day. 

Summer is official

When most of our recent pictures are of swimming you know that it's officially summer...

Evelyn dozing in her swing

Ada and Sammy "hanging" on the curb

Bird watching

Swimming at Grandma and Grandapa Wilcox's house

The Highland Splash pad

Cold Sammy cuddling with mommy

Bug eyed (binoculars that Ada wanted to make for Sammy for his birthday)

And while Jer and I were reading, they decided to make a "library"... with all the kids books they could find from every corner of the house.  (I did make them clean it up eventually)