Kaleigh's Recipe for Mac and Cheese

For Mothers Day Kaleigh gave me a little book that her and the other kids in her class put together and it was called

"Westmore's Moms Best Recipes

by Mrs. Scholle's AM and PM Preschool class"

This is Kaleigh's recipe for Mac and Cheese. I think this was my all time favorite Mothers day gift that I have ever received.

Ingredients

1 cup

1 cupcake

4 chicken nuggets

1 chocolate

1 or 2 pizzas

1 cheese bread

Put the pizza in the oven for 10 minutes, the oven should be hot. Make a cake then. I love mac and cheese. My mom makes me mac and cheese with hot dogs.

Now if any one doesn't know how to make mac and cheese, make sure you give little Kaleigh a call. I think she has it down.

Happy Birthday Hagen and Jared!

The month of April has been extremely busy for our family. We celebrated Hagen's and Jared's birthday with a family dinner. Jared and I also took off for a weekend in Vegas for his birthday present. Thanks Fred and Marlene for watching the kids!! But in the middle of the birthday celebrations we also moved, finally. We only moved a few blocks a way but we are in a house that has four bedrooms and two bath. I am extremely excited for two bathrooms. We are still trying to get settled after putting up sheet rock (just in a few rooms), painting, and recarpeting the house, but will have pictures soon.
Jared and I in Vegas watching the water show at the bellagio.

Instead of going to a show we went the the shark reef. It was really awesome!

After we came home from Vegas we had a small family celebration with lemon Merienge pie
All the kids piled into the closet.

Easter Sunday

Happy Easter everyone! With all the packing and painting we have been doing I haven't been had much time to just sit down or even update the blog. We had a fun Easter. We are still trying to teach the kids the reason behind Easter, but I think at this point they are more excited for the Easter basket than anything. Kaleigh was so excited for the Easter bunny to come. She woke up at 4:00 am and then woke up Hagen to open their baskets. We had a dinner and a egg hunt at Mormor's.

The newest member of our family

We have a new addition to our family. His name is Tank, We named him that since we know that he is going to be big. He is 9 weeks old and is a really sweet little lab puppy. If you are looking at his tail wondering why it looks a little funny, He was born that way. The only one who isn't excited for Tank is little Sidney, who cries everytime he looks at her. I thought I would post a few pictures of the kids. It seems like they change and grow so fast.
Kaleigh will be five in May and her interests are never the same each day, since the weather is slowely changing from cold to warm she spends a lot more time outside playing with her friends Kennedi and Olivia her cousin (since they are back in Orem). She has a new friend that she has play dates with named Amelyah, they are very cute together. I registered her for Kindergarten last week, so that makes me both sad and excited at the same time.

Hagen will be three next month. He no longer takes naps and loves diego, cars, trains, and dinosaurs. But lately he has been extremely interested in Spiderman. He just stays home with mom all day and every so often I can get him to cuddle, he does tell us that he loves us at least a hundred times a day so I guess that makes up for the lack of cuddling.
Little Sidny is 8 months old and is crawling everywhere. She is still my chunkiest baby but she is also a good eater as well. She puts everything in her mouth so we have to watch her really closely. Since she thinks she needs a taste of everything we eat I started giving her a little food everytime we eat, minus the meat. She is doing really well eating by her self, and hopefully soon I won't have to feed her jar food.
Mmmm, spaghetti!

She is crawling!!

She is crawling! I am so excited that I had to share this with everyone. The past month little Sidney has done nothing but scoot backwards, but today she actually went forward. Hagen, poor little guy, has done nothing but say, "no no Sidney". In the picture below Hagen was trying really hard to clean up his legos before she could get them, as you can see she was a little faster than he was.
I had to put this picture because of how sad Hagen's little face looked. Saturday morning Hagen swelled and broke out in hives. Not sure why, we think he may be allergic to coconut, I don't think he has ever had it before Saturday morning. Me being a paranoid mom and never seeing hives before rushed him to the doctor, my doctors are getting rich off of me this month! After a tablespoon of benadryl and thirty minutes later he looked a lot better.

Playing in the Snow

Ethan and I built a small sledding hill, pretty soon all the kids were playing on it.

Ethan-Riley-Hagen-Autumn-Kaleigh

Kaleigh and Autumn Hagen and Kaleigh

Uncle Sheldon came to visit

Sheldon and Julie came to visit after the new year. It was fun to be with them. Julie had to go home early, but Uncle shledon stayed a little longer Kaleigh and Hagen had a lot of fun playing with him and so did Sidney.