More pictures from temple square

Here are more picture from our trip to temple square last week. I also forgot to post that my parents recieved their mission call and are going to the South Africa Durban Mission. We are very excited for them.

All the cousins (well most of them)

Kaelynn and her cousin Riley

Baker Family Reunion

This past weekend we got together with Nate's family. His grandparents, parents and all of his siblings got together and stayed a very nice big house in midway. It was a lot of fun to spend time with family. The house had 8 bedrooms, a theater room, game room with air hockey and a pool table, and a hot tub. We enjoyed watching conference together and on Sunday morning some of Nate family that are from California were able to attend a session at the conference center. Nate's mom also brought up all the kids their easter presents and they had an easter egg hunt. It was a lot of fun.

All the girls watching a movie in the theater room

On Tuesday after we had to leave the house, we went to temple square and walked around and had a tour of the conference center. I had been there before for a session but Nate and the girls never have. It is amazing how large and beautiful that building is.

This is a view from the very last row.

Rocky

About a month ago our cat Rocky came home one day with a broken tail. We are not sure how he broke it or what we should do for it. He was acting ok, and after paying for two of our kids to have ear tubes we did not want to put out any money on our cat. About two weeks ago (Yes I am a little behind in my posting) our cat Rocky came back home after being gone for a week. I was not home when some neighbor kids brought Rocky to our door. When I got home Nate had said that Rocky came home and his tail had fallen off. Before bed I went to check on Rocky in the garage and looked at his tail. To my suprise his tail had stiches in it. This explained where he had been but also brought many more questions to my mind, like who would take out cat to the vet to have his tail fixed. This is still a mystery so if it was you or someone that you know please tell them thank you for us. The girls are very glad that Rocky is home.

Draper Temple

On Saturday we were able to take the girls and tour the draper temple. Kaelynn was very excited to be able to go into the temple. As we drove to the church to park we were preparing the girls on how to act at the temple. The girls had fun riding on the bus that took us from the church to the temple. I do have to say that at first it was a little wierd to have my girls in the temple, but in a good way. I was very glad that I was able to share in this experience with them and I hope that they also enjoyed it and will remember it.

Kaelynn and Hailey were very cute as we were going through the temple. We were given a flyer with picture of the rooms and descriptions. As we went into every room they would get out their flyer and find that picture.

Kaelynn said that her favorite room was the one with the HUGE chandelier (also know as the celestial room). I would have to agree with her. I am very gald that I was able to go with Nate and the girls, it was a great experience to share with them.

Catching up

It has been awhile since I have posted anything. This post is mainly for me to keep it up to date.


Several weeks ago we babysat my sisters dog for a weekend. I was a little nervous about it, but the girls had a lot of fun playing with her. I decided that dog sitting is the way to go. The kids get to play with the dog and then by the time they are used to the dog being around it is time for them to go home and back to our normal life.







Several weeks ago I also had parent teacher conference for Kaelynn. As I am walking down the hall to go to her classroom I see my name and it catches my eye. This is what I saw hanging on the wall.

I had to hold back tears because I was about to talk to her teacher. She is such a sweet girl. She is very thoughtful and loves to write nice letters to all of us. Her teacher only had great things to say about her.





Chloe has had many ear infections and a double ear infection that would not go away since January, so she had tubes put in last Tuesday. I was excited to hopefully be able to start sleeping again, but that is not the case. She has had a very bad case of diarrea for the past week and a half. Hopefully soon she will be back to normal. On a good note her ears are doing much better!



My parents have turned in their papers to serve a mission. We should find out any day to see where they are going and I am very anxious.

9 months old!

Time goes by so fast. Chloe is really starting to get her own personality and it is fun to watch her. She is very busy all the time. She is now crawling very well, pulling herself up on everything, clapping, waving, talking and laughing. It is very cute to watch Kaelynn and Hailey play with her now that she is more expressive.

Here are some other pictures that were taken a month ago, but I think that they are cute. I also realized that I do not post very many picture of her, which I should do more.

Sick, Sick and more sick

Can I say that I am ready for spring! This past week we have all been sick, except for Nate, he rarely gets sick. To start off Chloe has had a cough and runny nose for 3 weeks, and Hailey was also not feeling well so I took them to the doctor last week. Chloe had really bad double ear infections (third month in a row for ear infections) and Hailey had croup. Even though Chloe is on a strong antibiotic she is still coughing, and occasionally throwing up. On Sunday night I came down with the 24 hour flu, and Kaelynn had a fever and wasn't feeling good either. Luckily Nate was able to stay home from work on Monday to take care of all of us. I am very grateful for that, because I have no idea what I would have done with out him.

We are all feeling much better now. Just some lingering coughs.

On top of all of that my computer caught a virus. This has consumed a lot of my time trying to get rid of it. Luckily my brother-in-law fixes computers and so he was able to stop by and try to work on it for several hours last night. Thank you Jared for all your help! It is doing much better but there are still a few problems that I think might never go away. Might be time for a new computer!


Last week I finally got my hair cut and highlighted, but I have been in the house with sick kids so I have not gone anywhere. So here is a picture of my new hair style.