May.....be I can blog every month. Yeesh!!

So, the theory was to have a really good, always up to date blog. FAIL!! So I thought once a month and I've done pretty well with that so far. I almost missed May. So, to catch up on everything. Easter was fun. Kiddos are pretty good at decorating eggs!! Mothers day was sweet. The kids made me all kinds of little things. We had dinner with the entire family (also very fun!) J.J. is getting VERY excited to be done with school. He had  his little end of the year dance festival. He was so cute and did a great job (all of the kids did)...and finally, Katie, my sister in law took our family pictures. I'll post pictures soon! We're looking to all of the fun things we've got planned this summer!

Kids getting the safety speech from Daddy. They love riding in the truck!

 Toothless actually let me take her picture. She's such a DIVA!

 Crusing the neighborhood

 Easter eggs 2011

 So creative!!

 Doesn't he look like the old man on Up! Lol

 Our hands after our Easter Egg fun

 J.J. learned to ride his bike! It took literally 10 minutes

 J.J.'s dance festival. He's the one in the yellow

 I like to think of this as the Where's Waldo? picture. He's literally the only one looking the camera

 Scera Park Elementary 1st graders

 I love that they paired him with the biggest kid in the first grade. He waved at us at any chance he had!

April, April, April

April has been a very busy month for us. We've had 2 birthdays (JJ turned 7 and Joel had his birthday as well), Joel and I have been busy with getting ready for finals, Joel's show opened and closed and the kiddos had spring break. I thought I'd show ya'll a few of the pictures that I've taken over the past few weeks.

WARNING!! Some are a little frightening beginning with Ana driving......again

                                           She parked the car on the grass (I'm a little worried)

                                         Then she wanted to drive Daddy's truck (Even Scarier!!)

                                         JJ's birthday on the 7th. Ana's hair was frightening!
             (It screams "Daddy did my hair" Joel informed me it was so that I would have flashbacks. )

                                     JJ was inducted into the Champions Club at school.

He did a bunch of learning activities to qualify. We had a blast doing it.....well....most of it.

 Here's the medal that he earned. He's quite proud of it

 Toothless enjoys sleeping in plastic garbage bags and I have no idea why!

 JJ got a pop up book from my mom for his birthday. It's actually really cool.

 I think I enjoy it more than him...

 The kids decorated Joel's birthday cake. Ana did the sprinkles while JJ took care of the candle placement. It's not too shabby

 and they were quite proud of themselves

 Toothless has also taken to rolling around in the dirt

 Ana LOVES jumping on the trampoline especially with daddy

 Tootless loves the paper flowers I made and put in our front window for spring

 Unfortunately, Ana likes them too so I think they might move into her room.

 Not to leave our little rat dog Nitro out. He follows me everywhere

but this time he was waiting for Joel to get home. HaHaHa

 And last but not least, JJ was student of the week this week so we made a poster about him to share with his class. My favorite thing he said was that when he grew up he wants to be a builder just like Daddy.

 So, naturally, we took this picture : )

Now, if Joel and I can get through the next week or so with finals, we'll be awesome!

I'm going to school full time during summer and he's just planning on working on his math class.

So, as always...on to the next adventure.

March Madness.....still

So, March has been a busy month for us....as I have previously stated.

 Here's the pic of Ana with my Mom (and Nitro of course!)

 Yesterday the kiddos and I went to the Aquarium in Sandy. We had a great time!!! They were especially fond of petting the sting rays. I have more pictures on my cell phone which I'll try to get put on here soon....

After our adventure at the Aquarium, we went to IKEA and hung out for a while. Then we met up with Joel at Chuck E. Cheese where we took new family photos. Unfortunately, right as we tried to take one with all four of us, the machine ran out of paper. We had a great time regardless.

It was funny to watch JJ's face when Ana would walk up with more tickets than him : )

                                                           I love JJ's face in this one

                                                  I swear the kid can't take a regular picture!!

The biggest news of the month (so far) is that Toothless and Nitro have finally learned to get along!! She still swats at him when he's annoying her....which is a lot!!! But, overall they are pretty good friends now.

Busy Busy Busy

So, I thought I'd give y'all an update as to what's been going on in the Farnsworth house over the past few weeks. Here goes nothin'
*Joel is busy with work and school. He's enjoying his engineering class the most ( I think). At work,  the children's show just opened so now he's building the set for Titanic (which he designed).
*Poor little JJ had a horrible ear infection that we battled with for a week but he's feeling much better. He made a new friend who lives across the street from us. They play wii together for hours!!!
*Bevan (Joel's mom) came into town for a visit last weekend. Joel and I were able to go to dinner with her, Uncle Joel and his wife Melanie and Joel's siblings with their spouses. It was a really fun night. We laughed a lot!!!
*The school musical that I'm playing piano for (Dracula, the musical?) opened this week. I'm glad to be almost done with that!! It's been a lot of work : )   
*Nitro and Toothless ( Dog and Cat) are finally getting along and last but not least.....little Miss Ana turned 4 yesterday!! She's very excited and as adorable as ever.
We have lots of exciting things coming up and we're excited for summer to come around. We're all kinda done with winter (especially me!!)

Valentines.....and leading up to it

Our family has had a very eventful week. Joel's car AND his truck stopped working last week. The fuel pump needed replaced in the Cavalier and the truck is something electrical. This just meant that we had one car to accomodate everyone's work, school and extra curricular activities. It was CRAZY! Joel would get up shortly after me, drive me to work, go home and sleep for a few more minutes, get the kids up and ready for school, drive them to school, go to work, leave work to get JJ, come get me from work, drop us off at home, (depending on the day one or both of us would have class and we'd have to adjust for that) then he'd return to work, leave work to get Ana and hopefully be home for the night. Poor Guy!  It was absolute MADNESS, although we both enjoyed the 0600 chat's on the way to drive me to work. Luckily, he was able to fix his car yesterday. Hopefully, we won't have this problem again!!. So, today both kids had Valentines parties at school, Joel worked, I had rehearsal (I"m playing the piano for Dracula, the Musical?! for the local High School)  then we all came home for a nice dinner. The kids rode their bikes around with the puppy chasing them around. (thanks to the wonderful weather, a whole 56 degrees! yeah : D ) and then my mom (a.k.a. Grandma Mav) brought over some valentines treats! The kids got pez dispensers, grow your own washcloths in warm water (they loved it!), and some coloring books. It was a great day overall!

 Ana said, "Look!! I'm a scarecrow!" She CRACKS me UP!!

JJ with his new 3D pirate glasses for his Pirate Book

 Ana with her "grow a wash cloth" She decided to wear it as a hat...

it's Tinkerbell (in case you don't know her well enough to guess )

 JJ's pirate book from Grandma Mav

 Ana's new princess activity book from Grandma Mav

 Ana with Grandma Mav

 New stuff from Grandma Mav

 JJ and Grandma Mav