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I was looking through my pictures and came across this one of Rafe and I. I just love it! We took this in July when we went to Stadium of Fire for our anniversary.

MAN! I just love my HOT Hubby!

Kindergarten

Adison's first day of Kindergarten was on August 31, 2011. It was pretty exciting. She did great! Rafe was there to help me out. I did really good; I held back a few tears pulling up to the school and they never snuck out. We had warned her teacher before hand that she is pretty shy and doesn't like new things. So Rafe stayed in the class room for a bit and then Mrs. Baker said it was time to go. Adi cried for a few seconds and Mrs. Baker just held her and we hid in the hall until she was done. Then off we went. It was really wierd for Kenna to spend time alone with mom and dad. After about one hour she was ready to go get Adison. After school we picked her up and headed to Farr's Fresh for some ice cream. I had to laugh at Kenna's choice of toppings for her's. It was really a fun day.

Ready for a swim?

I am so excited about my new swim suit. It took me so long to finally decide on where to get it. Then it took even longer to decide the pattern and style of suit. It came today ( I ordered on Sunday, talk about fast!) It came from Hapari and I think I'm gonna LOVE it! Here is a pic from the website. If only I looked that good. :)

The cutest girls in the world!

Every photo that we got was AMAZING! It is so hard to pick my favorites. These are just a FEW!

Excitement!

I am so super excited for Fathers Day! I can't stand it. I am surprising Rafe with come fun photos of me and the girls. I LOVE my photos taken by the amazing Morgan & Alison! I got some good ones of just me (which is hard to do) and some of me and my girls then each of the girls. I am working on my projects today and I can't wait to give them to him. I hope he appreciates it and loves them as much as I do. I thought it would be something different to give him and we can cherish the photos forever! I hope I make it to Sunday without spoiling the surprise! Pictures to come soon!

Macy

Meet Macy

Macy was born on April 12th. In these pictures she was barely 4 weeks old. Rafe was able to go pick her up on Friday May 27th. She has been really fun and we love her lots! She has been really good for the kids and for Dan (our pug) she has gotten him up and running more and playing.

Tee Ball

GO MARLINS!

This is Adison's first season doing T-Ball-

Waiting to Bat

Falon is Adison's Buddy!

Adison & Jarek are on the same team! It's been a fun season. Adison has done great despite being quite shy. She CAN hit the ball and she CAN run the bases alone if she would just DO IT!

Charity Run

Adison's Preschool does a Charity Run every year (this is the 2nd or 3rd) and each student gets to donate 20 one dollar bills to the charity that is chosen. This year the charity was Josh and Kristen Baumgarten. Both parents are suffering from different illnesses. Josh has a brain tumor and Kristen has recently been diagnosed with MS. They have four children and loads of medical bills so it was great to be able to help them out while teaching my children about charity and the abilty we have to give back to those in need.

It was really special to me. We were even able to meet the family. It brought tears to my eyes!

Check em out at www.dadnamedjosh.blogspot.com

Kenna donating $1

Adison donating her $20 plus dollars

Mrs. and Mr. Young
aka the best preschool teachers EVER

Kennas New Room

We were at Lowes one day and Rafe suggested we get the paint to start on Kenna's new room. I had't really even thought about what I wanted to do yet so we just started grabbing idea books and colors and went from there. At first we thought we would do a light blue (almost white) and then a baby blue stripes from top to bottom on two walls then just one of the blues on the other two walls. I then say a way cute room that was DARK blue, LIME green, and one other color (that I can't remember now what it was). I really loved the way it looked! I decided to go with the DARK purple and LIME green look. I thought it would be fun for Kenna to have a bright girly room. She was so excited for her own room.

We got the colors home and I was just hoping they would look okay together. We started by grabbing an old poster board that I happened to have and painted the colors on it next to each other since we were doing stripes.

We then painted the walls all FLUORESCENT green! It was so so bright!! All we could see for the next three days was a green glow in the hall. I thought 'What in the world have we done? This is aweful!' But it has slowly grown on me and Kenna is in love with her room. She still takes people in there and says " I painted this stripe, mom painted this one..." on and on about who painted what. We got it all painted and let it dry then did the purple stripes and let it dry again. Kenna couldn't stand it anymore and she had to sleep in there. Adison was nervous since she is used to Kenna being next to her at night so Adi cried and cried the first couple nights. We ended up putting a mattress on the floor next to Kenna's bed and Adi slept in the new room for a couple nights then, back to her room. Since then they have adjusted to having their own rooms and I love it! It's so nice. We are planning on putting up some molding along the top of the stripes to finish it off but, we haven't gotten that done yet. The material picture is what I am going to make Kenna's bedding and hopefully some curtains too!

-If anyone can tell me how to re-arrange my pictures after I get them on my post that would be awesome!!! I cant get them in the right order, Thanks!-

A Small Update-

I always feel like I can't post with out a picture hence the lack of posting! :) I never feel like I have time to post at home where I have access to my photos. Odd that at work I have more time to play on the internet. I thought I would give an update of a few thing going on in the world of the Dudley's.....

Adison is almost done with preschool. CRAZY!!! She is all registered for Kindergarten. I am such a proud mama! I don't want to brag but it is worth bragging about in my book. (She does have a small issue with separation anxiety but, with time I am hoping she will grow out of it. ) At her kindergarten testing I had to go with her for the first few minutes. The first thing they did was test her eyes. She could see great even through the tears. Next was to draw a stick person. She is amazing!!!! The average score is 10 points and my little artist received 14!!! Her preschool teacher said that is the highest number she has heard of!! She used details and was very neat in her drawing. They also did a hearing test. Her hearing is great. Another thing was to listen to a story and then retell it to the lady. She told me she was so proud of herself. They also did vocabulary and literature. When I saw the note they had written I was confused. It said "did not ceiling" I thought what the heck does that mean? When they explained it she said it means that she never really topped out, she never hit the ceiling. She could just keep going and she would do great! The average for that one is 100 and Adison's note said 116+!!! As a mom you want your child to be the best and I was floored at how well she did!! I love you Adison! I am so excited you are excelling and loving every minute of it!

Also a shout out to Forever Young Preschool here in Vernal. If anyone is looking for an AMAZING Preschool they are well worth the money!!! Thanks Mr. and Mrs. Young.

Kenna is getting too big too fast! She is now potty trained!!! Yeah. I still put her in a pull up at night but she does a good job of keeping it dry most nights. She is growing like a weed. She is getting to where when Adi grows out of something I move it to Kenna's drawer. This morning she actually got herself dressed in one of Adison's shirts and you couldn't tell the difference. She LOVES to talk on the phone! She has to call her Aunt Meika, Grama Nutt, and Papa Moe everyday. She is so hillarious she keeps us consantly laughing. She weighs 31 pounds! I was contemplating buying a new carseat to put in the truck and then realized she is big enough to sit in a booster with a back. Cool.....yet my baby is growing up. She loves it!

Rafe has been on cloud 9. In February we had to put down his dog Jenga. Since then he has been talking about the next dog we get. I wasn't quite ready for a new dog yet but he talked me into it :) After he got his bonus from work he really wanted to save some of the money for a dog. He has always loved American Bulldogs (nothing like English Bulldogs). An American Bulldog is the one on Homeward Bound. Anyway he was looking at them and at KSL and he found a lady that had just had a litter and she was selling them the cheapest he had found. He finally talked me into getting it and he called her and someone had just taken the last one. He was devestated. BUT that all soon changed....a few days later he was on KSL and saw a brand new ad for puppies to be born in April. He called me and I told him to call on them. Our new puppy was born on April 12th. We have seen a few pictures of her but have been unable to go out to West Valley to see her in person. The family we are getting her from has been really good to deal with. They have kept in touch with us and are emailing us to keep us up to date. They even mailed us a book all about American Bulldogs. We will head out to West Valley around May 14th to pick which girl we want and then bring her home on May 28th. I am more and more excited every time I see her or hear more about her!! Still deciding on a name.

I feel like I am still doing the same stuff....I picked up an extra 1/2 day at work. So now I am officially part time. I still do my bunco group once a month (although we don't play bunco every month we still call it bunco :) I have been doing Zumba and it is so much fun! I had to quit for a month or so but I am excited to go back on Monday. One of my last posts was about my calling in the Primary at church. I am sad/glad/teary/happy to announce that I have been released. About a month ago they called me in the bishops offfice and told us we were going to be released that day. It was a sigh of relief knowing that I could relax again and just go to an adult class. Now, I miss my primary kids. This last week I had to go check on Kenna in nursery so I stuck my head in primary and just watched the kids for a few minutes. I learned to love them so much!! I am very greatfull for my calling and everything I learned from it. I look forward to the next one.....maybe Young Womens???? I have always wanted to be in Young Womens but, only the Lord knows where I will be needed.

Okay, now that I have written a novel I think I am gonna go get some lunch! Man! Hard day at work today :)

Memories

This is a picture of me when I was younger. I don't dare say an age cuz I really have no clue. But I remember this day like yesterday. My best friend Kalli and I wanted to play outside in the mud and being the good kids we are we ask our mothers, of course they said no. So we went out and made mud pies anyway. We were such a mess!!! It was a blast! Our parents got so mad at us but my mom took a couple of pictures of us before hosing us off. This one has been a long time favorite of mine and hers. It has been lost for many years and my mom happened to find it about a week ago and made me a copy. Crazy! I kinda think my girls may look like me.....whatcha think?