Her Morning Elegance / Oren Lavie

I love this! Very cool!

Zelda

We got our first dog!  The kids have wanted a dog forever, especially Emma.  Last year we promised her we would get a dog around her birthday.  So. . . we're only a year late.  We decided on a lab or a lab mix.  Dave and I narrowed down a few names for the dog and let Emma choose one.  So here is Zelda!  She's a really sweet little lab mix puppy.  She's all black.  And she's got cute little perky ears. 

She was obviously sleepy in these pictures.  I'll have to get some when she's playing with the kids.

Randoms

San Francisco

Dave loves to travel!  Which is great since he's been able to do some traveling with his new job.  He's been to Dallas and San Francisco so far.  Every night we would talk and he would tell me about what he had seen that day and where he was going to eat.  I'll admit that I am a little bit jealous!  Especially when he's eating seafood while overlooking the ocean and I'm at home eating mac and cheese with the kids! But I'm glad he gets to go and experience new things and places! Here are a few of the pictures from his trips to San Francisco.

The City

The Oakland Temple

Pictures of the beach

Pier 39 with Alcatraz in the background

This picture is for Mike Hansen and all the other southpaws out there!

April Fool's Day

The kids were loving April Fool's day this year.  They kept trying to trick me all day long.  "There's a dog in our back yard!  April Fool's!" and "I broke my toe waaaaah!  April Fool's!" and "Emma's stuck on the fence and is going to fall!  April Fool's!" 

For dinner

I made this

and this

The first is actually shepherds pie and the "fishsticks" are actually wafer cookies.  I showed the kids what we were having and told them they could choose what they wanted to eat first.  Of course they all chose the pie and were so excited that they got to eat dessert first!  McKay took a bite and said with disgust, "Yuck, this is smashed potatoes!"  And I laughed evilly and replied, "April Fool's!"  And then he started crying!  I started laughing more (because I'm cool like that) and he started crying louder.  It was pretty funny!  After a good five minutes of him carrying on he finally stopped and told me, "April Fool's!"  I think he was just covering his tracks.  The other kids liked my trick.  Emma had seconds and thirds of everything.  Dave got home later and just looked at the food and didn't get it.  He thought they both looked gross and went and got a hamburger instead. So much for April Fool's.  Oh well.