All About Alexia

So I am sitting here thinking of all the things I should be doing like the dishes, laundry, making dinner....my house is a mess. But instead I decided to sit down and catch up on my blogging a bit. So here it goes.

This month started out being all about Alexia. This girl loves when her birthday starts getting close. She has a countdown pretty much 5 months ahead. On her actual birthday I took her and her cousins, Navy and Sidnee, to go see Alice in Wonderland. It was a good movie so we didn't want the end to come,but alas it did. So we headed over to Coldstone to get some ice cream despite the ice crystals flying around in the air! It was so fun to hang out as just the girls!
Since Lexi's birthday was during Spring Break we waited until the next week to have her party. She has known since Christmas that she wanted a Moxie Girl Birthday. I was thinking sure, that will be easy. Hmmmm......maybe not so easy but well worth it! I let Lexi pick out a cake that she wanted by searching pictures on the internet. This child likes the big and grand!  My 13 year old niece came over and helped me put it together after I scaled it down a bit.

Lexi got to have 8 of her best friends come over and they had a blast! It was all craziness and fun. We had a fashion show where the girls got to show everyone their own particular idea of style. They got quite serious about this. Then we sang some karaoke to Taylor Swift. They really loved that the karaoke machine has a camera on it where they can see themselves on the tv. Talk about a lot of posing going on!!

The girls went crazy after that and they were all over the place singing and dancing. It was so much fun to have this group of girls over.

Lexi was way sad when the party was over. She cheered right up again when her Dad relented and finally decided that she could try having her ears pierced again. He was nervous about it since the last time she pulled them out and let her ears close up. She promised that she wouldn't do that again so I loaded her and her friend Ady up in the car and we headed to the mall. Lexi was way brave about the needles. (Trust me, she does NOT like needles!) She has cleaned her ears and twisted the earrings 3 times a day and is doing great. I think she will decide to keep them this time. If not, then she won't get a 3rd chance! I can't believe my little girl turned 7! She is growing up way too fast!

Watch Out Here He Comes!

So I have been very remiss on posting this momentous occasion in Rayden's life. It has been almost 2 months now since Rayden decided to take off and ride his bike without training wheels. Last fall he made his Dad take the training wheels off his bike but he didn't get the riding part down before the snow started to fly. He was a little wary this spring to try again. We took him to the neighbors house and let him practice on their 12inch bicycle to build his confidence back up. 15 minutes later he was all over the neighborhood on his own bike. As a reward we took him down to Layton and bought him a new bike! He was so excited to pick it out and bring it home.

This kid has been all over the neighborhood since. It has become his favorite pass time and he does not enjoy when it gets cold outside and he can't ride. Life is so rough when you are 5!

Easter Weekend

We look forward to Easter weekend every year. We just have so much fun getting together with family to have egg hunts, dinners, and to roll eggs. This year we weren't going to let a little bit of cold rain stop us! On Saturday we got together with our family on the Dixon side. We did an indoor egg hunt with all the cousins and had a wonderful luncheon! Whenever you get the cousins together it is a riot. They are so funny together! Simon fell in love with my brother-in-law's pool table. He thought he should be allowed to play with the guys. They gave him a half a cue stick and gave him a few shots. He was in heaven!
Easter Sunday we woke up nice and early despite the fact that we didn't have 9am church. Lexi was dying to find her basket and was so upset that she coudn't. She found Rayden's and Simon's but not hers. With a few hints from her dad she was abe to look high enough up to see where it was sitting. That Easter bunny sure can be tricky! Unfortunately for me, I woke up with a migraine and I didn't get to really join in on any of the fun. Dirk was sweet enough to take a lot of pictures for me so I could go back to bed.
During the first session of General Conference the kids dyed their eggs. Simon thought it was so cool that he could use crayons to color his eggs. I'm so glad that he preferred that method to the egg dye. Inbetween sessions we went to Gma and Gpa Sorensen's house for Easter dinner. Most of the cousins were there and they were thrilled to eat together. They were even more thrilled to get to play while us adults sat down to watch the second session of Conference.
Afterwards, we all went and had an egg hunt! They all came out with quite a stash! Towards the end the Easter Bunny stopped by to say hello. The older kids loved it while the toddlers, like Simon, didn't want to get too close.
Finally we went to finish off our Easter festivities with our all time favorite Easter pastime, rolling eggs down Old Main Hill. Even though it was cold the kids were not going to be deterred. They rolled all their eggs then ran down the hill to find the survivors. Even us adults get into the fun and start throwing these mini missiles. It was another great Easter and we can't wait until next year to do it all over again!