Sunny Day

(This is Annika's kissing face! She gives some great kisses!)

Today was such a nice day! We spent the day outside working on the yard. The garden is now most of the way in, we actually planted it on Tuesday night. We ripped out two trees in our yard one in the back and one in the front. They were both dead. They didn't have any leaves growing and we decided we should just pull them up. So... today we worked on the yard. We went to home depot and bought some trees and flowers. That store was so busy today! Our fence has been broken since we moved in and Brian fixed that today. It feels so nice, to get some of our to do list accomplished.


Our ward also had a fund-raising garage sale today, so we decided to go. I think that I am addicted to finding good deals. I get so excited when I find great things at very low prices! Today at the garage sale we found Annika a little kitchen set. It is so cute. She has been playing with it all day long! What a little girl she is.

We have some great neighbors that live across the street. They have a little girl named faith who loves Annika. She always comes over and asks if Annika can play. And whenever Annika sees faith out side she runs straight over to her. It is really cute to watch. But Faith had a little tikes car, that she has outgrown and she gave it to Annika. Annika loves it. She goes out in the garage and says car-car. She opens the door and gets in, and starts moving. Tonight Brian was pushing her back into the garage and she said beep beep. It is pretty cute! I love that her and Brian now have matching cars! :) ha ha! ( I really think that they are the same color!)

So we had a wonderful day, working on and accomplishing projects and just spending time together as a family!

Hogal Zoo

Yesterday a group of us got together and took our kids to Hogal Zoo! It was so much fun! There was Heidi, Karen, Neisha, McKell, Kennidee, Britney, Ava, Talia, and Turner. We wanted to get an early start on the zoo so we were there when it opened at 9:00. We went in and played at the playground for a while. Then we headed out to see some animals.
We saw some elephants

And of course we had to take a picture by the famout gorilla. (I told Annika to put her arms out and she folded them, so this was the best I got!)

We got to ride on the Merry-go-round! It was alot of fun! Annika rode on the zebra and she loved it, she cried when I took her off.

When we were up looking at the lions and tigers they had this bronze one. I had Annika sit on it, but it made me laugh because on time when I was younger my family went to the zoo, and they have a big rhino like this one, and my sister Jen sat on it and it was hott and she tried to jump off! It was funny (you probably had to be there) but putting Annika on this brought back some great memories of when I went to the zoo as a kid. By the way she loved sitting on this.

Annika looking at the giraffes.


I got a picture of McKell drinking out of the lion drinking fountain, but annika never drank out of it, but we always got this shot, when I was little. thought I would keep the tradition alive.

We rode the train at the end, but by that point, Annika was in breakdown mode. She threw a fit and hit her head on the cement while we were waitin for the train so we don't have any pictures. I thought that all of the kids did really good. It was a fun and tiring day!

I need to be better at blogging! We are still here, and I just thought I would catch up on what we have been doing. Jen graduated the beginning of may, we went up to her graduation, but I don't have any pictures of the event. I was taking them all with her camera. Then Heidi graduated. We went to her graduation. Since she was graduating in dental hygiene she bought some nasty looking teeth, and her and her friends took pictures wearing them. (pretty funny!) Well Heidi gave Annika a pair, and Brian got pictures of her playing with them.

Annika is getting so old! She is starting to do so many things. The other day I was out weeding the flower bed, and something happened that has never happened before. Annika went and played by herself! She can climb up the ladder and go down the slide all by herself. I taught her how to swing on her belly so she is set! Here are just a couple things she likes to do.
She likes to help me cook!

She likes to help me clean the sink! (Not really but it was pretty cute!

She likes to hold as many binkies as she can!

She likes to cross her legs when she sleeps

Just a picture in case everyone wanted to see how pink her room really is!

We went to a REal game on Saturday night. Annika wasn't feeling very well but she was a great sport and had lots of fun! AT one point she was even yelling like everyone else in the crowd! It was pretty funny!

We went Swimming today! Her cousins (Abe and Henry) gave her a pool for Christmas and we finally got to use it today and she loved it! So much fun!

Easter

I know that these Easter pictures are a little late but I wanted to make sure that I got some up.

On Saturday we took Annika to a neighborhood Egg hunt. At first she didn't understand what we were doing, but I think that by the end, she had it all figured out! If was a lot of fun to watch her run around. But once she had really figured out what were in the eggs all she did was sign for more candy all day long. She would see an egg, even if it was empty she started signing and wanted more candy. It was a lot of fun!

On Saturday night Annika woke up crying and she cried for about an hour and a half straight. I didn't know what was wrong. Then she started getting a fever. She had a cough for a couple of days but the fever was new. I gave her some Tylenol and she went back to sleep. Annika got some blocks from the easter bunny and it had a flower block in it, and we were teaching her how to smell it. What a funny kid.

Brian stayed home with her from church so I was kinda sad, she didn't even get to wear her easter dress to church. Well after church we went up to South Jordan for dinner with the family. Gavin was in Florida so he missed a wonderful meal, but we ate dinner, and Annika was actually acting like she wanted to do something other than lay around so we had an egg hunt for her. She had a lot of fun, but now she knew what was in the eggs and kept trying to open them before she was done picking them all up.

Sunday night, nobody in our house got any sleep. Annika was up pretty much all night. She would sleep a little bit then wake up crying. I took Annika to the doctor on monday morning and she has an ear infection. So we got some medicine, and kept giving her more Tylenol and we came home and took a nap. Poor Brian went to work and was not very productive, so he took a half day and we spent the afternoon laying on the couch and trying to recoup. (I guess we just really need our sleep!) That night after dinner Annika perked right up and started feeling and acting like her old self. It is so nice to see your kids start feeling better after they are sick!

Now fast forward a week.... Friday night we went up to Logan, the family was having a baby shower for my cousin Kelsey so me and Annika went to that and Brian went and hung out with the boys. Fixing lawn mowers i think. Saturday afternoon we went and visited Brian's grandparents. Then we came back to my parents and had another easter egg hunt! This time Annika definetly knew what she was doing and what was in the eggs. She didn't even pick up all of her eggs because she was so busy eating her candy.

We had a great Easter... and celebrating it for a whole week was a lot of fun! I think that we have too much candy at our house right now, so if anyone wants to come help us eat it. Come on Down!

REAL Salt Lake

On April 2nd we celebrated Brian's little brother Matt's birthday by taking him to the Real Salt Lake Season opener. They played Columbus Crew. We left Annika with Grandma and Grandpa LeBaron, and the LeBaron kids that live in Utah went to the game. It was a lot of fun! Real won 4-1. we got to check out the new Rio Tinto Stadium. We got rained on at the end of the game, but it was a lot of fun, being there and getting to see all of the action. We decided that Soccer is a great sport to go and watch because things happen so fast! It was a lot of fun. Happy Birthday Matt! Thanks for letting us celebrate with you! Here are some pictures from the game. (Not bad for Brian's cell phone!)

Easter Basket

My mom made me an Easter basket when I was little and I got my treats from the Easter bunny in it every year. It was my Easter basket and I thought it was really cool! Well I went up to visit my mom a couple weekends ago, and she asked if I wanted to bring my Easter basket home with me. Anyways... during the conversation, I decided that I was going to try and make Annika an Easter basket. While I have been making hers, she has been walking around the house putting things into my basket. It is really cute, and I think that she is going to enjoy Easter this year. Finding eggs full of candy in the grass... what could be better! She will love it. Well last night I finished her basket and she was walking around with it this morning. I am really excited for the Easter bunny to come visit her. I just thought I would show you what it ended up looking like.
HAPPY EASTER!