Whenever Sophie and I are on a walk and Sophie sees a dandelion she will pick it and give it to me. Each time she gives me one she tells me it means she loves me. She calls them Dandies. It melts my heart each time. LOVE!

Sophie has been talking about learning to ride a bike with peddles for some time now. Stewart and I decided it would be a good investment so I started looking around at different yard sale websites until I found one we could afford and that looked like it would last a while. We found this little beauty for ten dollars on craigslist.

Sophie is smitten with it and calls it her Princess Dora bike. So far she is doing great learning to ride it. It took her a while but she has finally learned that she can’t put the brakes on and expect to keep going, since then she has been unstoppable. We are proud of her and all she is accomplishing these days. 

Here are a few more pictures of her washing her bike and then a video of her riding it.

Easter was swallowed up in the festivities of our birthdays this year, but here are a few pictures of Sophie’s Easter dress my mom sent her. She is absolutely beautiful if you ask me.

Do we have a birthday here? Yes we have a birthday here! April is birthday month in our home, Stewart and I both have birthdays this month and then there is Sophie who has her half birthday this month as well. We don’t really celebrate half birthdays but since Stewart and I are celebrating we include her by wishing her a happy half birthday. So needless to say our family started the month of April out in party mode.  We both had great birthdays and were spoiled with many birthday wishes, cards and a few gifts. We are very grateful for the love we felt from all our friends and families on our special days.

Stewart got a new razor head from me, a star chart from Sophie and a box of ensure because he asked for me to buy some for him and I wrapped it up for him to be funny. 

Stewart and Sophie made me some nice cards and got me a new hand mixer, since my last one broke around Christmas. My sisters sent me some essential oils and the book Unbroken for Stewart and me to read together. 

I have a group of dear girl friends in Cheyenne that I do a lot of activities with. So in honor of my birthday I invited all of my friends over and had a waffle party with them the day before my birthday. I made waffles and had some strawberries with whip cream; I also made two different kinds of syrup (buttermilk and Maple) to share. My friends were invited to bring a side dish to share but it was not a requirement. We had a great time! The kids ate and then played and us moms ate and socialized up until it was lunchtime. It was probably one of my favorite things I did to celebrate my birthday.

Stewart had the weekend after his birthday (which was also Conference weekend and Easter Sunday) off so we invited some of our friends from church to come over after the last session of conference for cake and ice cream. We decided to combine our cake into one, Stewart chose raspberry and I chose lemon, so our cake was a raspberry lemon cake and it turned out amazing! Good combination.  After cake Stewart decided that we needed to play some games with our guests, so we played a few rounds of signs and categories.  I thought he was crazy for bringing up the idea of playing games but in the end I think we all had a good time.  After our friends left we cleaned up and went to bed… Stewart had to work early the next morning and I was just plain tired, that’s what happens when you age. 

Our birthday cake, and us blowing out the candles (we opted to only put 12 candles on the cake as to not make a mess of the cake with wax).