EMVCO Concert

The girls had their first choir concert. It was such an amazing concert!! I was able to help out the first night so I got to take all kinds of cute pictures. The first night they had to be down there for about 6 hours so they brought games, pillows and other activities. It looked like a huge sleepover! They had a BLAST!!

 

This is right before they went on.  I asked them later if they were posing for this picture and Lacie said, "No I kept trying to let go but she kept holding on."  I said, "Yeah, she was holding my hand too."  And Alexa said,"Well I just like you guys!" :)

Getting WAY to OLD!!

One of the fun things about homeschooling is that the girls get to dress themselves ...however they want. Sometimes they get a little carried away:)

Eyring

Doesn't this cute little guy make waking up at 6:30 all worth it!!

Baby Jesus was Born in a Stable

I have another blog that I do my more personal journal on. I just came across this post that I wrote almost 4 years ago. It is such a good lesson for me, I thought I would repost it :)

I, by nature, am a person that worries. I have learned that only with in the last year but my whole life I have always been that way. So since I have figured that out I have really been trying to learn to not worry. Last year before Kembri was born I remember sitting in the Las Vegas temple and I had been so worried because we weren't in a home, we were still in Vegas and I had a baby coming. The whole summer I remember when I would pray about things I always felt like I need to just not worry about things, that the lord will take care of things if I pray and do what I feel I need to but not to just sit around worrying. Well that is a really hard thing for me to do, to not worry so I continued to worry :). I remember that day in the temple I felt that by me continuing to worry I wasn't having faith that Heavenly Father would take care of things.

So today as I was sitting in Relief Society we were talking about the Saviors Birth. We were talking about how he was born in a stable. The thought came to me of how I would have been if I was Mary. I would have been SO worried about having the Christ Child born in a stable. I would have been so worried and upset about that the spirit would not have been able be there as strong as it could have been. By my worrying, I could have possible changed the way that it was suppose to happen. Possibly I would have MADE Craig (or Joseph) continue to look until he found somewhere more suitable for the Savior to be born in. Yet that was not what Heavenly Father wanted. He wanted Jesus to be born in the stable. It just made me think of how to me to have a baby in a stable, or for our day in age, perhaps in a homeless shelter, I would feel like it was the worst thing possible but it wasn't it is EXACTLY the way it was suppose to be. I just thought so we can't give our kids EVERYTHING we want to give them, so what that's not the way it is suppose to be. I need to not worry about things. If I am drawing close to the spirit and following it's promptings then I will be in the right place when I am suppose to be.

Also I thought how Mary didn't think Hey I am pregnant doing the things that Heavenly Father wants me to do why won't he even give me a bed to have this baby in. So much in life we think this either in our actions or words. Why didn't Heavenly Father open up a room in the Inn? Because he wanted him to be born right there in the stable. We need to not question Heavenly Fathers plans. We can't see the big picture. He can. He does what is best and we need to not question it.

Meet Tony

The girls started a dog walking business. They got the job themselves and walked him 6 days a week. They were a little ok a lot surprised when the first day he pooped and they had to pick it up. They said we didn't think about that. One of the wives said here I will show you how to do it. Lacie told me later "I knew how but if she was going to show, I will go ahead and let her!" They made about $50. The owner said that Tony was so happy he gave them a tip.

Sheetz

When we moved into the hotel 3 months ago there was a dirt field in front of us. During our 3 months there we watched them build a new gas station out of our window. Two dayse to before they opened they invited us and a lot of other people over to have breakfast and lunch.

Sunday Walks

Aren't those two precious!

Shopping

So we went school clothes shopping and Ashlyn picked out some awesome pants!! She also has face paint all over! I know the picture is upside down but I am doing it from my phone so I can't change it right now.

National Kid

To celebrate kid's day the grocery store had a party!:) They had a petting zoo, bounce house, fire trucks , face paintng FREE FOOD!! The kids had a blast!!

Batman

They have been filming Batman in downtown Pittsburgh for awhile.  We heard that they actually made a bunch of snow for it
today so we decided to go and try to see it.  We couldn't find the snow bu the trailers and security gaurds we all over!

Late Night at the Cannon's

    It started with carmel apples, then we watched Tangled, nail painting, made braclets and ended with a pillow fight in the hallway with the boys. Which the girls won since the boys were unarmed.

Cesselee was to tired to make it home. She kept falling down and pretending to be asleep.

Sleeping infront of Hannah's room.:)

Sleeping in the elevator.

Kembri and her friend Hannah.

My Two Babies

Dress up

And the dressing up allready begins! Ashlyn put her hair extention into Eyrings hair:).

DC Parade

Aren't these dresses awsome!

Wrapped with Love

Wrapped in the love of Grandma! My mom sent us a baby blanket for Eyring which was greatly appreciated because we only have a couple boy blankets!  The two blankets we use most are from his Grandma's.

For the 4th of July we got to go down to Washington, DC.  Amber, Kyle and kids met us there.  We had a lot of fun but I was a little disapointed.  The parade was pretty lame but the fireworks were great!!  Some of us even ended up on the news. 

Our friend Courtney heard about this talent search that was coming to Pittsburgh and the girls HAD TO GO!!  I think every opportunity that they can get to get up infront of people is great for them.  Besides they were dieing to go so we went and had some fun!

Monster Golf

The girls had so much fun at this miniture golfing place! A couple of weeks ago we were walking down the hall in our hotel.  They were having the ribbon cutting for the hotel so they had a bunch of local buisness here for it.  We ran into the owners of Monster golf so they gave us a few free passes.

Slip and Slide

At the parks here Mon.- Fri. they have different activties that the parks and rec do for the kids.  This week they had a slip and slide.  So we decided to go and he girls had a blast.

Happy Birthday Craig!

On most mornings Craig takes all the girls down to the lobby for breakfast and I stay in the room and feed Eyring.  So for his birthday I snuck down there and brought back waffles with chocolate, caramel and vanilla syrup, strawberries and whip cream.  I also brought him sausage hash, yougart parfait, blueberry muffins, a bagel (he usually takes it with him to work), eggs and OJ. Wow he had quite the feast :).  Don't worry he didn't eat it all.  After brakfast we had 1 hour till he hd to go to work so we were going to go miniture golfing but when we walked outside it was raining.  So instead he wanted to go to the Sprint store and get a new phone.  After his meeting we drove him out to his area for knocking but on the way we stopped for a quick lunch at Olive Garden. 

Happy Birthday, Craig!  You are the best husband and father anyone could ask for!!!

Finally!

I think this is the longest I have ever gone without going to Walmart. It has been about a month in a half! Wow!!

My Birthday

Today I turned 30! Wow!! It was a fun day. The girls and Craig planned a surprise breakfast with some of our friends out here in PA. Then we came home and Craig had to go to work. He could tell I was pretty sad about him having to leave so he turned the car around and came back. I was walking down the hall and heard somebody whistling at me and low and behold it was my sweet husband!! He decided to take a personal day and go have some fun with his family. We decided to go to the water park. We got out there and they closed it because there was thunderstorms in the forecast and they didn't have a big turn out. Dumb, huh!! So we decided to go to Kennywood which is an amusement park. We get there, pay and get inside to find out a lot of the fun rides are closed because of weather. But we stuck it out and they ended up opening up again. This picture is taken at the end of the night after we were all rained on. We had a blast!

I am back

I just got a new phone and it is so easy to blog from it so I am starting to blog again! Yipee! Also we got our laptop fixed... a year later!

Visiting Jeremy and Amy

Last weekend we got to go up and visit Jeremy's family. It was a short visit but very fun! We went to Palmyra and EARLY Monday morning on he way home we went up into Canada and saw Niagara Falls.

Eyring

Eyring is getting so big! He is 2 months. He smiles all the time! All you have to do is touch his cheek and smile at him and he will give you a huge smile!

The Incline

Last year when we were here we never made it to the incline. So the kids were pretty excited to go up it this time. I guess it is use to be a mode of transportation for the pittsburgers:-) Now it is just a toursist atraction. This is a picture from the top.

Kembri

So for most kids this is not unusual but for my sweet Kembri it is:)! She ALWAYS has to be with somebody...usually me! SERIOUSLY she hardly ever leaves my side. So when I looked over and saw her (about 2 feet away from me) playing by herself it just made me smile.