Fresh Lemonade, Cookies and Makeovers!

For weeks Eleanor has been wanting to have a lemonade stand to earn some money. (We are trying to teach her about money and having her buy things with her own money). This girl wanted to sell every single item in our home. She even wanted me to print off some photos from our photo booth on our computer. You know, the ones that make you look like an alien or really really large. It took a lot of work but we finally convinced her to stick with lemonade, chocolate chip cookies and of course her makeovers. Her makeovers were a screaming deal. She made and sold coupons for $.50 but if you didn't buy the coupon and wanted a makeover another time it would cost you $5,500. As you can see, I have amazing friends who willing got makeovers!! The lemonade was a huge hit. (Of course it was because it was the real deal, using lemons from Mimi and Grandpa's tree). Even after everything was cleaned up and put in side we got a knock on the door from a boy asking for more. He even brought a new friend with him.

The little stinker made $19.00. Not too bad for an hour. I'm pretty sure we'll be having a few more lemonade stands this summer.

UTI's Suck!

 This poor little girl got an UTI and was pretty dang sick! We were at the park earlier during the day playing with Sara and Henry and she seemed totally fine. Then on the way home she started throwing up and threw up all night. Around 8pm she started complaining about pain when she would go pee. I took her in first thing the next morning. After an hour in the bathroom (luckily one of our favorite nurses was there and kept Jude for me. She even changed his dirty diaper.). They did a little dip test with her urine was was pretty certain she had an UTI but sent it off to get cultured and started her on an antibiotic. I had never seen her so sick. It broke all of our hearts. She was totally out of it for the next three days. Her fever stayed around 103.6 and totally miserable.



I love these photos of her. She was constantly feeling like she had to go pee and was spending most of the day in the bathroom. I tried getting her to let me hold her on the couch but she wanted to stay on the "magic carpet".

Thank goodness she is back to herself!! I really hate it when one of my kids are sick. I feel so blessed that for the most part they have all been pretty dang healthy.

Before I Forget...

If you ask Amelia how much she loves you she'll respond with "two sandwiches".  Love it!

Before I Forget...

While walking to preschool, I asked Eleanor what she wants to be when she grows up. She told me she wants to be a vet for rolly pollies and snails.

This morning while I was only wearing my garments, Eleanor said to me, "If I had clothes like that I would them everyday". Of course she would. They are white!

My Only April Fools Joke

This year I wasn't too cleaver with pulling any pranks on John or the kids. Don't worry, I've already started plotting a few great pranks to make up for it next year!!

I did however send this little wedding announcement to most my relatives.

John's Birthday and the Tulip Festival

John's birthday is on April 14th and it's a very appropriate date for him.  John loves flowers, gardening and anything green. He has a true gift for making our yard look amazing each year. This year we decided to visit the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point to celebrate his birthday. This was our first year of actually going and we were blown away with the amount of tulips and how beautiful they were. John kept trying to get photos of the girls but they were not having it. He finally told them that the gardens was having a photo contest and the winner would get paid $15.00. Of course this caught Eleanor's attention and she then wanted a photo with every single tulip. It got pretty annoying but it helped John get a few photos. Amelia on the other hand could care less about money and so she continued to be her normal self and make it impossible to get a photo of her.

After the festival John wanted a hamburger for lunch so we head over to Culver's.  A visit to AZ isn't complete with a trip to Culver's, so I was anxious to get one in Lehi. John had never been so we decided to go there. I think I've gotten him addicted now. We've already been back a number of times.

John then wanted to go to IFA to pick up a few seeds and plants for the garden. This year we (aka John) ripped out some grass on the side of our house and expanded our garden. I think John planted 13 tomato plants. I can't wait!

For dinner John wanted to go to Tuccanos so we dropped Jude and Amelia off at Sara's (Eleanor was sleeping over at Lilly's). Dinner was good but it was even better without kids. It was nice to be alone with John and actually get to talk without having to take care of kids! When we went to pick up Amelia she was pretty upset and so we ended up leaving her with Sara and Dick. So, it was just Jude, John and I for the rest of the night. It was heaven!!

Sunday we had John's family over for dinner. We love the spaghetti Napa cabbage at Luganos (one of our favorite). I didn't have a recipe, but I manged to come up with something that was pretty dang close to the original. I also made manicotti with homemade red sauce. They were both a huge hit and I can't wait to make them again!

Swimming

During spring break we got together with Lana and Jay and their kids to for an afternoon of swimming at the Legacy Center. Eleanor has been taking swimming lessons the past few months at the pool, so I try and take the kidos swimming once a week. It's a lot of work with Jude so most of the time he gets put in the daycare. Well, since we had three adults I took advantage of it and let Jude go for a little dip. The little boy LOVES water. He loves to lay down and kick his legs and splash as much water as he can.

Eleanor is pretty easy in the pool now. She can touch everywhere but the lazy river, but with her life jacket she is fine in the lazy river. She has even got the courage to go down the gray slide and now loves it! It's been a lot of working hauling her to her swim lessons, but it's defiantly worth it!

Amelia of course loves the water as well.  I have to watch her like a hawk! The girl has no fear. The other day I asked if she wanted to go down the gray slide all by herself. She agreed and off she went. She got a little scared trying to climb into the slide, but  I helped her figure it out and now she goes down it all alone (remember, Eleanor just started doing that a few weeks ago!). Amelia still gets a little freaked out when her face goes under the water. I hope to start swimming lessons with her next month.

It was a lot of having the cousins join us at the pool. Eleanor and Lilly are becoming quite the buds! They even got to have two sleepovers in one week. There's nothing like cousins!!