McKel Laughing

Papa and Nana must be pretty funny!

Miscellaneous Pics/Videos

My, what big feet you have, McKel!!

Avril displays her skills at walking on water

What a beautiful day to feed the ducks!

Beautiful brown-eyed girl

McKel reading the program at church

Avril wearing her new jacket from Grandma Carme!

Mmmm!  Sweet potatoes.

After our kite-flying fun with the Brown family

Avril coloring at church

Happy Mother's Day!!

I got these GORGEOUS flowers sent to me for Mother's Day, from my brother Adrian and his lovely family:

Can you tell I love my girls?  Being a mom to these cutie pies is the greatest joy.

Ready for church!

McKel is beginning to love her tummy time!

Isn't she beautiful?  Love those baby blues!

Bubbles

So I think McKel's new nickname will have to be Bubbles.  She is now thoroughly clean on the outside as well as the INSIDE!!  This can now be a somewhat funny story, but believe me, this morning it was a TERRIFYING story!
I decided to take a quick much-needed shower this morning, and this is usually a difficult task, with 2 little kiddos.  Sometimes what I'll do if I know I'm going to be fast, is just set McKel down on the floor by the shower, laying on her back, while she gleefully kicks and rolls over on a blanket.  Good idea?  Not so much, when you also have a little 2 year old mischievous, curious, big sister looking for something to get in to.  I was shampooing my hair when I heard McKel scream out in the most high-pitched, gut wrenching scream I've ever heard from her.  She was crying incessantly and would not stop.  I opened the shower curtain and to my shock, saw Avril hovered over her with an empty shampoo bottle, while bubbles spewed out of McKel's mouth.  I jumped out of the shower, soaking wet and completely naked, grabbed McKel, and tried to calm her down.  It was useless... McKel was screaming bloody murder, and rightly so... I would probably be too if someone poured an entire bottle of shampoo down my throat!  Poor Avril did not know what she did wrong.  She was so scared for her little sister, and started crying too.
I panicked and started calling for help... first tried Jesse, then my mom, then my dad, and nobody would answer their phones!  Finally I got through to my dad who was in a meeting, who told me to just call 9-1-1.  Duh.  Why didn't I do that in the first place?  They transferred me to poison control.  The lady assured me that shampoo is not poisonous, just an irritant, so I just needed to monitor McKel and make sure she didn't gag and stop breathing or something.  Luckily, this was a small hotel bottle of shampoo, so it was 1.25 fl oz instead of the huge bottles.  After about 45 minutes of screaming, McKel finally cried herself to exhaustion and fell asleep.  She hasn't really had any major signs that something is wrong, besides the continuous flow of bubbles from her mouth, and a breath that smells nice and clean- like shampoo, oddly enough!!  We are so happy our little baby McKel is okay.  Phew.  Lesson learned:  no more showers for mama!

And just one more funny story to tell.  We're sitting at the dinner table eating, and my dad asks Avril, "Avril, is the food good?"  Avril then got a huge grin on her face, and shouted out, "Its AMAZING!"  We all busted out laughing, and then she states, "I'm immature!"  Hahaha she keeps us entertained, that's for sure!

And here's a clip of our fun at the park today.  McKel already loves the swings at the park.  I was able to keep her happy for like 45 minutes, that's gotta be some kind of record for babies:

Easter

The day before Easter we went to Jesse's Stampede Football game at Logan High. Here is the article from the local newspaper:

Posted: Sunday, April 24, 2011 12:30 am | Updated: 1:10 am, Sun Apr 24, 2011.


Stampede hold off Desperados By Tyler Huskinson The Herald Journal | 0 comments

After a rough start to the season dropping back-to-back games on the road, the Logan Stampede looked to the friendly confines of Crimson Field to pick up their first win of the season Saturday night.

Despite making several mental errors and giving the visiting Utah Valley Desperados several chances, the Stampede squeaked out their first victory of the season, 14-13.

"You always want to walk away with a victory," Stampede head coach Bracken Atkinson said. "We made it about as hard as we could tonight.

"This team was hungry. Both teams came in 0-2. The last time we faced off was in the championship game here two years ago. There was a lot riding on this game from a history standpoint, but we're just glad we made one more play than they did. It's nice to flip that after the last two games."

The Desperados struck first four minutes into the first quarter, but failed to convert on the extra point.

Less than two minutes later quarterback Mike Jenkins connected on a 37-yard strike to receiver Jesse Yarger to give the Stampede a 7-6 lead.

With the Desperados threatening, defensive back Aaron Dickler picked off the ball and returned it 35 yards.

"Defense stepped up," Stampede linebacker KC Winslow said. "Our defense is always good. We tweaked a couple of things this year to where we're rotating different guys in different guys in different situations."

The Stampede would respond with a drive that ended with a 2-yard touchdown run by Jenkins.

The Stampede would took a 14-6 lead into the locker room at halftime, but wouldn't be able to score any more points despite having several chances.

"The biggest difference between the first and second half was we came out really dictating tempo in the first half ... and caught them off guard, kind of wore them out a little bit," Atkinson said. "We just shot ourselves in the foot. We couldn't execute. We couldn't finish it in the end zone."

The problems getting in the end zone truly started right before the end of the second quarter.

The Stampede found themselves on their own 1-yard line and ended up failing to score at all. The Stampede incurred two consecutive illegal procedure penalties, and a completed pass from Jenkins to running back Dave Williams fell at 4-yards short of scoring.

"We definitely gotta get better at that," Winslow said of the penalties. "We had way too many. First and goal from a yard and half and end up not even getting in. How can we do that? We have these stupid penalties. We've gotta get into the mental."

Running back Roger Schatz caught a 5-yard pass to bring the Desperados within one.

The Stampede would shut down the Desperado offense for the remainder of the game, including putting a great amount of pressure on the quarterback.

"We're trying to get as much pressure and as much fresh bodies in there and put pressure on the quarterback, as you saw, he was running around all game long," WInslow said.

The Desperados mounted one final comeback drive the final minutes of the game. On fourth and 25 and with about 30 seconds remaining, the Stampede defense really came through.

"In that timeout that they had taken before we kind of put a little stunt in where Travis Davis and I twisted and he took three guys and they all followed him," Winslow said. "I just kind of forced him out to that side. Dale (Nicholas) stayed home and was right there to meet him for a huge loss."

The Stampede now take advantage of a bye week before preparing for the Magic Valley Bulldawgs.

"We've got a lot of injuries and people playing where they're not normally going to be playing," Atkinson said. "We'll take the weak off and recuperate and fix some of our issues."

At half time during the game, they had a special Easter egg hunt for the kids.  Here is Avril picking up her eggs:

It was FREEZING outside!  Avril found 7 eggs :)

The next day, Avril and McKel put on their Easter dresses and we went to church:

Can't always get a good one with everyone looking at the camera.

The girls :)

Avril with her Easter Basket.  She was so excited!!

Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma Joyce's house

So fun!

Happy Easter everyone!!

Such Talent

My cousins, the Muncy's were visiting from California.  It is always so fun to have them here because they are AMAZINGLY gifted musically.  I just love to hear them sing.  Here are a couple video clips of the boys messing around at the piano:



My cousin David just learned to play this song and figured it out by ear. I think that's so incredible. We didn't know the song that well, but gave it a good shot. I even sang along, although you can't hear me... I didn't know it too well. This is my new favorite song though. It goes through my head all day long haha.

Avril's First Hair Cut

This is what McKel got to do during hair time

She was so brave!

The hairdresser's daughter, Sunny played with Avril while mommy got her hair done.

The finished product.  It is hard to tell, but she just got the ends trimmed off.  She had sooo much fun!!