May

Sydney finished up her show "The Frog Prince" this month. She's participated in the community theater for the past three years. This will probably be her last year. It's a huge commitment of time and now that she's becoming a teenager she wants to have more time to spend with friends. This was definitely our favorite show we've seen.

Natalie was baptised on the 3rd of May. She has such a sweet spirit. She had a hard time holding back the tears all day. Grandma & Grandpa Earl came from Washington and Grandma & Grandpa Jepsen came from Idaho. We also had a great suprise when Aunt Andra asked if she could come too! We've been begging her to come visit for awhile. She brought JJ (who is now Olivia's "new best friend") and baby Michael who was only a month old.

Olivia had her preschool graduation at the end of the month and she did a great job singing and accepting her diploma.

TURN UP THE VOLUME!!!

Bon Jovi ROCKS!

Did I ever mention that Steve had long permed hair when we met?
We had great seats at the concert on the floor towards the front. When the concert first started I kept looking around to see who was kicking my chair, then I realized it was just the bass beating throught the floor! Awesome! We, of course, wore earplugs for most of the concert. The last time we didn't wear earplugs -Def Lepard '92- our ears were ringing for several days..we had to sleep with the radio on at night to cover up the ringing.

p.s.

Bon Jovi Wednesday!!

Is anybody home?

Wow! Is it April already?!? We are busy at the Earl house. Busy having fun that is! The last several weeks have been busy with play tryouts, followed by costume sewing, the Father/Daughter dance, and our Disney trip we've been trying to take since last year. This year Easter was on Sydney's birthday. We had a surprise sleepover party for Syd. None of the girls spilled the beans (of course none of the mom's told their daughters until the day of)! I can't believe my baby is 11 years old!
Natalie finally learned to ride a bike this last month. She's a little timid about things, but once she gets up her courage there is no stopping her. She lost her two top front teeth and looks adorable. She turns 8 next week and is glad that Easter is not on her birthday this year.
Olivia started preschool at the beginning of March. Click here to see a picture on Lori's blog (I am so bad with the taking pictures thing). She is loving it! Especially since all her neighbors and friends from church are all at the same preschool. She is starting gymnastics and loves her gymnastics uniform. She is always stopping in the middle of whatever she's doing to touch her uniform and make sure everyone else thinks it cool too.


Daddy-Daughter Dance


Everyone's (but Mom) favorite


Disneyland '08

80's Rock!

As if I didn't already know I'm a total 80's girl!! I even got Bon Jovi tickets for Christmas!

You Belong in 1985

Wild, over the top, and just a little bit cheesy. You're colorful at night - and successful during the day.

What Year Do You Belong In?

I'm back!?!

Well, I've been taking a break from all of the extra stuff, including the computer, while I get my life and kitchen back in order! Boy, I didn't realize how stressed I was until our kitchen was finished. It was like the clouds parted and I finally saw the light and I didn't even know I was in the dark!!! I wanted to wait until I have pictures to post, but I didn't want to take pictures until the kitchen was clean and organized. You know how this story ends....I still can't find any of my sauce pans and I need to have the glass put in some of my cupboard doors....but I vow to post pictures as soon as I get the glass in, next week hopefully if this yucky weather lets up.

We had a great Christmas with mom, dad, Joe and Kate. They asked what they could bring to help out and I just told them to bring some Christmas spirit, which they did!! Steve actually just finished putting our house back in order (excluding any dishes or food in the cupboards) as I picked up my mom and dad from the airport. It felt so good to walk in the house with my mom and dad and have a clean living room and no shelves of food in the dining room. Sydney had found and set out our Christmas Tree skirt and arranged the presents. She is so sweet. Once everyone arrived it felt great to just relax and get into the holiday spirit!

Now, 6 weeks later we're finally settling into the kitchen and I'm starting to put things where I want them. (just as a side note, we did have to take everything back out after the holidays so they could sand and put the final coat on our floors, so we have only really been back in since the 14th - i'm not as slow as it seems!)

In other news, I was just released as Primary President in our ward. I will really miss being in primary. We have such great kids in our ward. I have learned and been inspired so much by them. Now it is someone else's turn to have that opportunity. My new calling is teaching gospel doctrine to the adults. I am very nervous about that. I have taught adults before as a teacher doing inservices in my school district, but not at church where so many know more than I do!! I'm also excited, because I really think I need this kick in the pants to personally learn more about the gospel.

Hopefully, I can post some pictures next time, but don't hold me to it!! Remember, I'm the one who celebrated getting her Christmas cards out before Valentine's Day!

No News is Good News?

So I haven't posted because I have misplaced our camera and who likes a post without a cute picture? Sydney, Natalie and I did a quick trip to L.A. last week to meet some friends and go see "Wicked". It is a great show, the girls loved it and I forgot to bring my camera. I did pick up a disposable camera so we'll see how long it takes me to develop those pictures! We got to L.A. late Tuesday evening and left our hotel at 4:45 a.m. to catch our flight and get back in time for school to start on Thursday morning. We are all still trying to catch up on our sleep especially since we didn't get back to our hotel after the show until 1:30 a.m.!!!


This weekend Natalie had her Christmas dance recital. It still amazes me everytime I see her on stage what a good little dancer she is. She is so naturally graceful when she dances ballet and she can tap up a storm!

Our kitchen should be done by Thursday, hopefully sooner! I'm anxious to start getting all my stuff put away and get ready for our Christmas company! I'll post pictures as soon as I round up that camera!!

In the meantime, here's a picture of my cuties. A preview to our Christmas Card, which you should receive around January or February!