Worst Day Ever!!!

Today I have had my very first "worst mommy moment" and I can't stop crying about it!

Jailyn has been practicing songs, parts for a play, poems, dances, ect. for her preschool Christmas pageant. We have been trying all morning to get a hold of her teacher to make sure that it was at 5:00 tonight, but since we live in Idaho and we have a Utah area code nobody ever answers the phone. After about 15 phone calls-not an exaggeration- I just got ahold of her teacher. The pageant was this morning at 11:00....we missed it. I can't believe that we didn't make it, Jailyn is absolutely devestated. We missed everything she has been practicing so hard for, the play, the dances, the songs(which are most important to me), but we also missed a surprise appearance from Santa Clause himself, no fake beard or stuffed tummies, he is the real deal. He brought gifts to all 55 children and their siblings. Jailyn is the only person who missed, and it is all my fault.

How do I make up for something like this? It isn't something that can be replaced, Jailyn has been bragging about this for 2 weeks...at least, and now it is over and I will never be able to see my beautiful Jailyn perform with her giddy little smile. What a crappy day, I'm so, so, so sorry Jai!

DISNEYLAND

We are back, actually we have been back for a while, but I have been busy trying to get Christmas stuff together. I love Christmas time-minus the snow. Without snow it would be perfect, I am not one of the people who dream of a white Christmas.

We had an amazing time in California, and we are all ready to go again, the girls ask me everyday when we are going back! I love it!

DAY 1DAY 2ARIEL'S GROTTO & THE PRINCESSESSEAWORLDLAST DAY!!!THANKSGIVING ON THE BEACH

Leaving

...AND WE'RE OFF!!! So the week I have been waiting for since May has finally coming. Tomorrow morning we are starting our long drive to Anaheim & San Diego California! I am so excited, we are going to Disneyland, Sea world, & Huntington Beach. I am so excited to watch Jailyn and Andi Lu enjoy the parks and to watch their little faces burst with joy when they see the Disney princesses (Jailyn) and the Seaworld sharks (Andi Lu). I am also really excited to ride some awesome roller coasters, that I absolutely am going to drag Kaylee onto with us! (Luv ya Kaylee) A huge thank you goes out to the best inlaws in the entire world; Dan & Angie; for the early Christmas present of taking us to California with them. See you in a week, Goodbye to the Rexburg, Idaho for 10 days!

xoxoooxox

5 YeArS oLd!!!

Picture overload...you have been warned!!! I don't know how to do the photo collages so if anyone can give me some tips on how to do it, that would be great!

Jailyn bug is 5 years old. I can't believe she is 5 and even more I can't believe that I have a 5-year-old girl! We love her so much and can't imagine a better person than her. She is always trying to help others, and even when I lose my temper because I can't handle all the help she can give, she is so patient with me! She has the most georgous dark brown eyes, long brown hair and porcelain skin. She looks just like a princess and sometimes acts like a spoiled princess too!

We love her so much, here are some pictures of her since she was born!

Jailyn was born on November 14th at 6: 26 a.m. She weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and was 20 inches long!

1 year old

2 years old

3 years old

4 years old

5 years old

The Morgans = The Best

Last weekend Grant, Shalie, Kade, Chase and Kenley came to visit us in Rexburg from Coeur d'Alene. We haven't seen them in a year and it was so great to see them and I'm sure it meant a lot to Kenley to meet her favorite Auntie & I loved seeing baby Kenley! We miss these guys and are planning to crash their New Years Eve party this year in Coeur d'Alene(I don't know how to spell this). Here are a few pics from our lovely weekend. Sorry they are all blurry, we are working on fixing our camera, with no luck!

Rich and his boyfriend Grant. Me and my baby Lauren (photographed by: Jailyn)

The Hottest girls

Kade & Jaily, luvin each other. I know that arranged marriages are a thing of the past, but the Morgans and Us have already decided that these two WILL be married.

Kade & Chase playing duck hunt...This game is a TRUE classic

Jailyn with baby Kenley.

I think the favorite thing of the weekend was the 4-wheeler riding. That is always a big hit!

The only smile we got from Andi...the whole weekend.

A day that got lost...not forgotten

A couple of weeks ago we got to go to logan to celebrate Grandma F's 80th b-day. We spent a lot of time with Rich's Family and it was great to see Grandma light up as she watched the video of her life. Anyways it has taken me so long because I misplaced the pictures on the computer, but I FOUND IT!!! So here are the pictures from that weekend...Me and my lovely Jailyn and Andi Lu! Lauren with Grandma Angie at Hamiltons; where we celebrated Grandmas birthday.

All of us getting ready to go in!

Kaylee getting her hair done in hot curlers, doesn't she look happy! The curls only lasted about as long as it took for us to take the curlers out, lucky girl has stick straight hair like me:)

Andi Lu was "so proud" in her own words, to have a curler in her hair just like the big girls!

Jailyn was not happy at all with how her hair looked in the curlers but... She loved the way she looked after!

Colee was such a great helper (and usually is). She got all the girls in the tub, washed them, and got them out for me! What a doll! She was so inventive she decided to tape this towel to the tub so she wouldn't get drenched everytime she leaned against the tub! So smart!