The 4th of July...

Every year for the fourth July I try to get outfits for the kids that match. This year is probably by far my favorite year of matching clothes. Ha Ha. We had a great fourth. We went to my sisters and had a BBQ and played games. The weather was so nice. Brant had to work but he was done at 6:30 so it wasn't too bad but it was really weird not to have him there for the whole day. I am so grateful for this land that we live in. HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!!!!

The month of June....

Well the month of June started out soo awesome. I went to girls camp and had a great time with the girls. They were awesome girls. When we got back I got to meet my favorite author. Marcia Lynn McClure. She was doing a meet and greet in Logan Utah at the American Heritage. It was the most amazing thing I have ever done. She was so awesome to meet and she would just sit and talk to you and was so down to earth. Then every year we do the Sautter family reunion and Tevin and Tiana were in charge and they did a great job. The first day we went to the sand dunes and I think the big boys had more fun the the little kids. It was so fun to watch all of the kids get to play in a really big sandbox. The next day we had the sautter family olympics and it was a blast. We did water balloon volley ball and did a dunking booth that we got from the neighbors we had the three legged race and so many other things. The next day we were going to go to the water park in Rexburg but it was a little too windy so we went to green canyon instead. Then that night we celebrated Tevins birthday. We had a ton of fun this month. The kids also played T-ball for the first time and they had alot of fun. I didn't take any pictures but I recorded alot. So far it has been a great summer very busy.

WOW....

Wow is about all I can say about this beautiful girl. Laney was not feeling well and so Brant and I gave her some medicine right before bed. About three hours or so later I hear Laney yelling for me to come here, so I go running in her room she is just sobbing. I asked her what was wrong and she told me that the room felt like it was getting bigger and she was getting smaller. So I asked her if she had said a prayer and that she needed to calm down. She told me that she did say a prayer but that she felt like her heavenly father wasn't with her. I was a little taken back when she said that. I told her that her heavenly father is always with her, but she just insisted that he wasn't. So I asked her if she would like her dad to give her a priesthood blessing. She said yes. So Brant gave her a blessing and she calmed down and went to sleep. About 20 minutes later she starts yelling again. So I go back in there she tells me it is happeining again. I told her she needed to calm down and that her dad gave her a blessing and she would be fine. She told me I know and the blessing is helping so I told her if it happens again to sing a primary song. I kissed her goodnight and about 10mins later I hear her singing "I am a child of God" I cannot even describe the feeling I had when I heard her singing that song. We didn't hear from her for the rest of the night. The next day I was cooking dinner and she was sitting at the table talking about what had happened the night before. She was saying how she can't wait to see her heavenly father again with her whole family. She then asked me why there is so much sadness in the world, I told her that that is part of the plan and that we need to choose the right and stay close to the spirit. She said, "mom do you know that when you pray you have to be really quiet cause heavenly father doesn't talk very loud." I just stared at her in awe. She said yea you have to be really quiet or you can't hear him talk. I said Laney did you hear your heavenly father talk to you? She said yea I prayed to him last night and he told me that he would always be there for me. I was so taken back when she said that. I told her that that was right our heavenly father will always be with us. After we were done talking I felt like my testimony had just been strengthen by my six year old daughter. I am so grateful for little children and there strenghth and conviction in the gospel to help me and remind me that our Heavenly Father is there for us and that maybe I need to slow down and be quiet so I can hear my Heavenly Father speak to me.

I forgot the easter outfits...

I can't believe I forgot to post my favorite part of easter. New outfits. I loves this because I remember as a little girl my mom would make us girls new easter dresses and there are three girls so they would be the same dress only in three different colors. It was so fun to have matching dresses with my sisters. So as you can see I do the same thing with my girls. The boys get to have matching colors of ties and they looked way handsome too.

Maya's Birthday party

Maya had the best birthday. She has been talking about her birthday for months and she knew exactly what she wanted. Her favorite movie right now is "Tangled" and she can recite the whole dang movie its so funny. So we got her Flynn Ryder and Rupenzel and she loves them. She got a whole bunch of other stuff that she was so excited to get. Thanks everyone for coming and celebrating her birthday. It was kind of sad to think our baby turned three but it was really fun to see her blow out her own candles and have a great time.

Easter!!!

We had such a great Easter this year. Every Easter we try to celebrate the easter bunny stuff on the Saturday before easter so that we can focus on the real meaning of easter and this of our Savior. Well this year easter just happend to land on Maya's birthday! We still did all the easter bunny stuff and had a great time!!

The Wedding....

We had such a great time at Tevin and Tiana's weddding. Brant's whole family was able to make it for the wedding. Brant's mom made dresses and ties for all the grandkids and they turned out so awesome. Each family took a picture at the reception. They had a big white tent set up in the gym and it turned out amazing. It was a week of lots of late nights and fun. We loved seeing all of the cousins. There was 17 grandkids and lots of fun. We are so excited to have Tiana in our family. Anyway we are way excited for easter this year. Maya's birthday happens to be the day before easter so we will be combining our easter bunny fun with her birthday so it will be a busy weekend. Maya is very excited she keeps telling everyone she will be three in April and tells me everything she wants. It is so dang cute. Laney is doing awesome in kindergarten and loving it. Hunter and Isaac love preschool and will go again next year. Maya loves being home with mommy for half the day. We are so excited to have summer come. Laney also learned how to ride her bike without training wheels and got a new big bike. Isaac also learned how to ride his bike without training wheels. Hunter is still a little nervous but I am sure by the end of the summer he will be riding one too.