Happy Easter!

He Lives! How grateful we are for Him and for all He has done for us.
Happy Easter!
Love,
Team Y

Lest You Thing I Don't Have Anything To Say

This week has been tough. I've had a lot of rough weeks, but most of them involved personal pain. This week has been Hailey's pain. She has a viral infection in her mouth and her whole mouth is full of blisters. She's had fevers as high as 104º and doesn't know how to deal with the pain. She has had a hard time eating or even drinking anything. I think we are finally on the better side of it. This week has been spent with lots of trips to the doctor, very little sleep, lots of movies, and LOTS of tears.

I'm grateful for two very healthy children.
I'm grateful for naps.
I'm grateful for modern medicine.
I'm grateful that normally my life is pleasant.

Orange!

Shine On!

The 13th Day of Spring

Happens to be a major Iranian holiday. Which we got to celebrate this year. My sister-in-law is 1/2 Iranian, and her awesome family invited us to celebrate with them. I forgot the camera though, so there is no pictures. There was lots of awesome food! The food was so good. Luckily I have kids who will try anything once. They both loved the food too. We had fun relaxing and playing games with my in-law-in-laws. (Is that a real term?) They are great people and it is always fun to hang out with them.
I love having a diverse group of friends and family because I get to learn so much about other cultures and I really enjoy it.
Conference was this weekend. I love conference. The kids were much better than I expected. There was only one talk I felt like I entirely missed because of them. :) I plan on re-watching that talk in the next few days. Conference is always such a great reminder of all the great things I have in life and the things I need to work a bit harder on.
Hailey started a toddler cooking class today. It is supposed to be 2 hour long sessions. The picture in the city catalog has two toddlers mixing up cookies. Today was the first of the two. By cooking they meant giving the kids a plate full of apples, bananas, chocolate, and sprinkles and telling them to dip the apples and bananas in the chocolate and sprinkles. Amazing.
Luckily I didn't pay a lot for it. It took all of 15 mins and was pretty much like eating lunch at home except we have dulce de leche instead of chocolate. (I'm a bad mom, I know.)
After the 15 mins the teacher said, "Well, that's pretty much it. I'll see you all next week." I started thinking I should complain to the city about the dumb class. Then on the way home Hailey said, "Mommy, I love my cooking class. Thank you for taking me." Makes it all worth it.
Here are more pictures than should ever be taken in 15 mins.

Gotta Dance!

For Valentines Day Alex got us tickets to see, "Singing in the Rain." My husband is the best! Tonight was the night! It was so good. Most of you probably know how obsessed I am with the movie. It was fun to see it on stage though. They even made it rain. (SO cool!) Anyway, I thought I'd share the love a bit. Here, a little bit of awesome for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFxWkUkUsQA

(It won't let me embed it because of some dumb copy right stuff)

I'm So Glad...

So, I know I talk about how much Matthew laughs and smiles. So here's some footage.

He smiles like that about 95% of the time and laughs like that about 50%.
I haven't done a video of Hailey singing for a while. Rest assured she still does. She even writes her own songs. And sometimes they are pretty decent. I have yet to get a good video of a  Hailey original, so have a cute primary song instead.
                                       
Alex had a week off of work last week and a week off of school this week. We have been enjoying every extra second with Daddy. Here is some random un-captioned pictures from the week.