Teething

Hannah cut her first tooth 2 days ago, at only 4 1/2 months.

Natalie's last molar is coming in.

Tylenol is our friend.

The Easter Post

We had a great Easter. Natalie and I went to the Easter Pageant a few days ago, so it was fresh in her mind when we talked about the Savior and His resurrection. It was a busy day, but overall enjoyable and fun. Here are some pics:
This is the best pic we got of the girls together. It's almost impossible to get a good one since we have to "offer incentives" (not bribe, haha) to Natalie to even get her to hold still and look at the camera and Hannah doesn't enjoy being held by wiggly big sister. So we settled for the choke-hold look. I still think they look adorable!!
Our little family. I love having little girls on Easter Sunday with their cute dresses and flowers.

One I edited.

We tried to get one of the three granddaughters together. Ha. Hannah is on Brooklyn's lap since her dress covered more of the scratchy grass. B didn't know how to hold her, so she just laid back. We were all laughing so hard.

Another edited shot of beautiful Brooklyn. I still need to photoshop (I used Picasa for convenience purposes) her nose clean from the strawberry remnants. Sorry, Mel.

We did have a little easter egg hunt at the park for the girls. Here's Brooklyn (my sister's daughter, in case anyone's wondering).

She has the hang of it this year. Last year she just wandered around.

Enjoying their spoils. Natalie even shared some with mommy. :-)

In other news, I'm still going strong on emerg prep. I purchased a solar oven (in case there's no electricity) so be prepared for some posts about that once I get it and start practicing cooking using the never ending supply of sunshine we have in Arizona!

Emergency Preparedness

Don't start yawning yet. I know we have heard this over and over, but I'm getting serious with it. I just read this series by Chris Stewart:

and it scared me about being prepared for an emergency. I won't give it away, but it's worth the read. This man must be extremely intelligent to write something like this. Amazing.

Anyway, then today I came across this about the possibility of a pandemic. And I printed it all out. I decided that if something were to happen that my family had to survive for a few months without leaving the house I would be kicking myself for spending so much time reading blogs/blogging and not enough organizing and collecting preparedness stuff. So my dear readers, I will not be blogging as much for a while. I know journal keeping is important so I still will do some writing, but whenever I can I will try to work on my 3 month supply instead of reading/commenting on other peoples' blogs.

Free admission to museums, etc

Here is a free pass to many of the fun museums, science centers, youth centers, the zoo, etc around the valley. How awesome is that??

My pretty girl