Blessing From Heaven

This beautiful little girl is Hayden Kali Knight. She was born on Wednesday, February 25 at 4:26am. She weighed 5lbs 7 oz. She is the luckiest little girl. She has a wonderful birth mother who loved her so much that she decided to give her the greatest gift, a mom AND a dad. The lucky parents are my best friend, Britney, and her husband, Brett. After many hardships and trials Brett and Britney's prayers (as well as many others) have been answered and they are truly blessed. I am so excited to see them start this new adventure in their lives and I love seeing the new joy in their faces. Congrats to you guys. We love you tons!

Here is the new little family. Britney, Brett, Hayden, and Kasa!

Thankful Thursday

1. Storytime-My kids love to bring me books and ask me to read. Even Simon has his favorites. Lexi and I have been slowly working through some chapter books together, but usually they bring me other books. Right now their favorites are Dr. Suess and PD Eastman books. Simon loves anything that rhymes and turning pages. Alexia and Rayden usually snuggle up to either side of me. Rayden will sometimes have me read a boo 3-4 times in a row and later I will see him turning pages and telling the story to himself. I love this time with my kids and knowing it is something worthwhile.

2. Spring Cleaning-Yeah, I know I am a little early, but a girl can dream can't she? Dirk has been working late recently, so the kids and I are doing some cleaning out to keep us occupied. It feels so good to clean things out and put things away. Hopefully we will be ready for the good weather and than we can start on the garage....maybe we will leave that one for Dirk!

3. 'Meet Ya!'-This is a catch phrase that Lexi uses all the time. Whenever her and Rayden race anywhere, whether it is the car, up the stairs, or who can eat breakfast the fastest, Lexi always says, 'Meet ya!' She actually gets upset if Rayden says he is going to 'beat her.' She doesn't feel this is a very nice thing to say. I love how aware she is of others feelings. She never wants anyone to be upset. Just those two simple words say so much about her personality. I hope she never wants to 'beat ya!' but always wants to 'meet ya!'

Little Poser

The other day I took some pictures of the kids. I am no where near as good as some of my friends. (I really would like a great camera though!) I was just tired of not having any pictures of my kids that were half way decent. Lexi has now got the camera bug in her. She begged me to take some pictures of her with Rayden's fake rose. I figured I had a willing subject to pose while I played with some of the manual features on my camera. Here is what I got!

This one is Lexi's favorite. She couldn't wait to pose like this!

I think this one turned out ok.

This one is my favorite. I really liked how this turned out for my amateur skills. The red backdrop was a little much but I didn't have much to work with so this is what we got! It was fun playing around with my camera and now I have some fun pics to scrapbook of my girl!

Thankful Thursday

1. Scrapbook Time-There is rarely a day that goes by that Lexi doesn't come up to me and ask if we can scrapbook together. I love spending time with her and talking. It is a great bonding time for just the girls. I have an album just for her that we put all of her pages in. It is so fun seeing her creativity flow. I am so glad that she likes to spend time with me.

2. A Good Man-Dirk is the absolute best! Yesterday I was suddenly struck with a horrible stomach ache. Dirk didn't even bat an eyelash. He made me go to bed, fed the kids and played with them until bedtime. Then he put them all to bed. I came out once to ask if he would give Simon a bottle since I wasn't up to nursing last night. He was already doing it. I am so glad I have such a good guy who is so incredibly thoughtful and just plain wonderful!

3. Online Grocery List-I have friends who like to make lists. I like the idea but I am horrible at making lists! If I have one than I am sure to get things crossed off. That is a big IF! My favorite grocery store recently started an online shopping list. You can pull items out of the weekly ad or from recipes plus you can add whatever else you need to it. Since I am a computer addict I actually have been making these lists on a regular basis. It is so nice going to the store with my list and not forgetting anything! Small things really can make you really happy! :)

5 Things Tagged

So Mandi tagged me FOREVER ago and I started to fill it out, but than....well life happened and I forgot about it. So here it goes!

5 things I was doing 5 years ago:
1. Living in Smithfield, Ut
2. Teaching the Family Relations Class in church
3. Teaching Lexi to walk
4. teaching flute lessons to my sister
5. found out I was pregnant again

5 things on my to-do list for TODAY
1. Laundry, again, Lexi got sick last night, so add a few more loads in there
2. Call the dance commitee for the school dance
3. keep Lexi company while she is feeling terrible
4. shampoo Lexi's carpet, yeah, I'm sure you can guess why!
5. clean up the basement, again

5 things I would do with a million dollars
1. Pay off debt
2. pay tithing
3. help out family and friends
4. go on an awesome vacation
5. put some in an high interest savings account

5 places I've lived
1. Cardiff, Maryland
2. Logan, Utah
3. Louisburg, Kansas
4. Morris, Illinois
5. Smithfield, Utah

5 jobs I've held
1. Burger King drive-thru Queen
2. IHOP hostess
3. Marketing/Accounting Asst for the Sock Outlet
4. Wife and Mother
5. Co-business owner with my wonderful hubby!

5 things I want to be doing in 5 years
1. Staying home and raising my kids
2. Be done having kids.
3. Have a successful business
4. Have traveled to Nova Scotia, yeah that is my traveling aspirations!
5. take a vacation with just Dirk, no kids.

5 people I tag
1. Linz, come on girl do some blogging!
2. Jenn
3. Debbi
4. Kristi
5. Ashley

Lexi's First Date!

My daughter has now done something that I have never even attempted! Thursday, Dirk got Lexi out of school for a little Daddy-Daughter date. They headed up to Beaver Mountain for a half day of skiing. Lexi was so excited! She has been wanting to go all winter! She loved every minute of it. She came home telling all about her experience, right down to the cow doing flips on her blue skis! I was so shocked when Dirk told me they went down the mountain 12 times! I thought he would be lucky to get in 5 runs with having to teach Lexi and all. Lexi keeps asking me when she can go again. She is just dying for Ward Ski Night now.

She looks so comfortable standing there! Not awkward at all! I'm so proud. When she got home from skiing she had to go to her first sign language class. She is the youngest in her class by 2 years so I was a little nervous on how she would do. She came home an hour later and she knew the entire alphabet and how to do her name! It really amazes me how quick kids learn. She can't wait to go back to her class again next week!