Savanna's Birthday / Baptism and Memphis's Blessing

Savanna's birthday party. Sorry its a dark picture!

Savanna before her date with daddy at prime rib.

Savanna and Brandon going on a date!

Memphis Treyne blessing day



So much has happened! We had Savanna turn 8 years old on June 10th! I can't believe she is already that age! She had a fun birthday party. She had Malainey, Jordan, and Aaron come over. And we painted little glass things, and then had a treasure hunt outside. And sheesh, next time I will have to make like 50 clues. I did 11 clues thinking it would take them at least 20 minutes to do the hunt. OH NO!~ I was dripping in sweat cause I had to RUN to get the treasure hid before they found it. So I literally had 4 minutes...NOT ENOUGH TIME! Then we had her Rapunzel cake. Which didn't turn out too bad for me doing it! But the pictures I took were really dark, so we will see if you can see them or not! Oh and Daddy took her on a daddy daughter date to Prime Rib. She LOVED it and those of us left at home were all jealous we didn't get to go and have STEAK! But she got to have steak (which she usually WONT eat at home..) And they brought her a HUGE ice cream sundea with a candle on it. She thought she was cream of the crop for sure! Then we all went to see Judy Moody at the movie theater a couple days later. Which was really cute. And even better that there was only 3 other people in the whole theater besides us. So OakLeigh got to run around and didn't disturb anyone and I was able to rock Memphis and still enjoy the movie! All in all she had a great birthday! Then comes her Baptism. We did it June 25th. All my brothers were here. And my parents. It made it really special because all my family hasn't been able to be together for something special like that in a LONG time. I will post a picture of her cute program and the outline. Kyle and Ryan did a great job on their talks and Brandon and his Dad and Pres. Jones did great on the song. It was a wonderful day! The next day, the 26th, we were able to bless Memphis. That was also so SPECIAL because again, all my brothers and dad and Brandon's dad were able to stand in. That meant SO MUCH to me!

Memphis

May

So much has happened in the past month! Memphis is a month old! I will post a picture of him. He weighs 11 pounds too. He likes to eat eat eat! He is getting such a sweet personality going too. He is a pretty happy baby. His fussy time is 600pm-900pm. I still haven't braved him out to church yet though. It seems like everyone in the branch is sick, so we are waiting. Weylon finished preschool. I am so proud of him for sticking it out for the year. His teacher, Mrs. Reynolds sent home a picture she took of him the first day of school. I will try to scan it, so you can see the before and after. Poor little guy in the pic, his little eyes are swollen and bright red. His cheeks are bright red. You can tell it was hard on him and that he had been crying for a while. But throughout the year he did better and better. He actually got to where he enjoyed himself! AND HE CAN'T WAIT FOR KINDERGARTEN! WOOHOO! It will be so weird having him gone all day, but he is soo READY. He gets so bored with mom in the day. I hope it finally turns summer so he can get his energy out OUTSIDE!

KIDS!

Here is Weylon or AKA Urkel...He got a Sheriff Kit at Kmart. He had to show off all the things it came with.

Here is Sheriff Weylon (Urkel) again.

OakLeigh is so proud of her baby brother Memphis.

Memphis already a poser!

Such a good baby he is!

Savanna is such a great helper!

Happy Mothers Day!

This is a wonderful message. It made me cry but puts what we as Mother's are doing into such a wonderful perspective. I am so thankful for each of my children. They are my whole world. They are the reason I get up each day and push through all the hard trials in life. With them, my wonderful husband, and my testimony of Jesus Christ, and KNOWING my Heavenly Father is with me, makes everything worth while. My days may get challenging, but I do rely on my Father in Heaven. He gets me through it all.

Memphis Treyne Mitchell

HE'S HERE! WAHOOO! And he is as perfect as he could be!
Memphis Treyne Mitchell was born April 26, 2011 at 7:03 am. He weighed 8 pds 9.2 oz and was 20 1/2 inches long. Here are some pictures so far! We all just love him!

Happy Easter!

We did our Easter eggs this morning. I was freaking out about the mess from the dye. It was all over the table! Spots galore! I dug out the magic erasers and waaalaaa! Clean as a whistle! PHEW! Too bad it doesnt work on the kids hands! LOL Oh well they had fun. And later on we will surprise them with a trip to Gillette to see HOP! I am so excited! (Especially because Brandon is so NOT a movie theater goer and he completely agreed with me that we could go and HE WANTED TO JOIN!!!!)










On another note, HOP was really cute! The kids all had fun for the most part. But we did realize that OakLeigh and Weylon are just not into movies enough to take them back for a few years. So not fun when they wont sit still long enough! But Savanna loved it! As she puts it, "that was awesomeness"....must be the new word of 2nd grade...