nonstop fun

I don't have pictures of Wednesday, but we went to the park for lunch and then to a movie at my dad's theatre.  We saw Rio!  Pretty cute, but not amazing!  Then later Scott and I went to the temple which was so great... I love going back to that temple because it's where we got married!

Thursday I met up with my high school best friends and their husbands for breakfast at Broken Yolk!  It was SOOO much fun to catch up with them, and I have permission now to tell you that not only are Jenna and I preggo, but Megan is too!  I am SO SO SO excited that we are all pregnant together!

Later we went to the beach to fly kites with cousin Clarky!  The kids had a ball, although Clark's kite was the only one to stay up in the ocean breeze!

these two LOVE each other

 cute sister Jaclyn with the boys

After the beach we went to pick strawberries!  YUMMM seriously the best strawberries you will ever have!!

Don't ask me what the lei is all about, I'm not quite sure actually! 

 Madre

Look at that face and hands!

After strawberries, Jaclyn, my mom, and I went to the outlets for a little shopping.  We went to my favorite store Banana Republic and I got some things.  Yay!!

Friday- BEACH!  I'll let the pictures speak...

Disneyland!!

Scott had a meeting for work at Downtown Disney for the first hour, so we just got a pic of Kenna in front of the Mickey! 

 Meeting the princesses!

Her favorite.  So glad she was one of the 3 we waited for! 

The first roller coaster we went on Jace put his hands right up!  Phew!  We were worried he wouldn't want to ride any of the scarier rides! 

Jace loved this ride! 

I LOVE the carousel.  Dumb huh, but it's so fun and magical! 

 Here's Jace almost 3 years ago!

Jace LOVED the cars ride... can you tell?! 

Oh and it was my birthday!  I think that's why Scott took a few pictures of me with the kids... that's not a usual thing! 

 

I got my family mickey picture at the end of the day!  We were SPENT!  I don't know how people do this more than a day... I am a disneyland wuss I guess.

the PADS!!

Monday we went to the beach, and then later we got a babysitter and went to the Padre's game!  It was great, and Padres won!

7th inning stretch singing "take me out to the ballgame!"

fun little factoid: I sang "take me out to the ballgame" with a few other kids down on the Padre's field when I was about 14 years old!  Brings back MEMS!!

Easter in California

We were in California for Easter this year.  It was great!  On Saturday we started out at the Eggapalooza; it's an event a church puts on and they have all kind of fun stuff to do/eat and everything is FREE!!  The kids went on rides, got cotton candy and snowcones, had an egg hunt, and we had hamburgers for lunch!  Not bad...

  riding on the "train"

 The egg hunts were kind of a joke if you ask me, but I'm not sure how else they could have had an egg hunt for that many kids.  That is Astroturf behind the boys... they say "go!" and the kids go under the tape and pick up their eggs.  Not much hunting going on!!  Oh well, they liked it.

 craziness!

 Later Saturday we dyed Easter eggs.

Easter Sunday the kids woke up to their Easter baskets from the Easter bunny.  Just some little things.  Both had been asking me for a "toothless dragon" and "Barbie: a Fairy Secret" forever, so that was their highlight.

Church was SOOO good.  Just what I needed for Easter sunday.  The Relief Society put on an Easter program during R.S. and it was wonderful.  I am so thankful for my Savior and for His resurrection.  Easter has such a special spirit about it.  We tried to help the children understand that throughout the weekend so they didn't get too wrapped up in the Easter "stuff."  Of course, the other things are super fun too!  After church we had an Easter hunt with cousin Clark...

 Clark wouldn't let go of Makenna's hand when they started and she kept saying "Clark let go of my hand!"  It was hilarious!

 The girls wanted to step in for pictures... haha (Kara's friend Jessie, sister Kara, and sister Jaclyn)

After the hunt, we ATE!  Food is a big part of my family and our family get togethers.  We LOVE food.  Sunday dinner never disappoints at the Sheffield's house.  Thanks mom for feeding us so good!

Radisson

Last weekend we went to stay at the Radisson hotel and waterpark!  It was a blast to say the least.  I have to say I was expecting more, but it was great anyways!  The kids had a great time!!

 Here's my brave little girl "surfing!"  She was SO cute to watch cause she did all the tricks the instructor told her to do- riding on her knees, falling in from the top, riding backwards... she did it all!  It was adorable, and now she thinks she's a surfer girl...  I'll have to upload the video.

 I was making fun of Scott cause I told him Makenna did better than he did!  Here's one of his wipeouts...  Man if I wasn't pregnant I would have LOVED to show him up...  next time my friends... next time...

 We spent most of our time in the lazy river.  Makenna loved swimming fast.  She already has been swimming without holding her nose which we worked on all last summer!  It took one swim this year and she's got it- yes!!

 the little kid's water slide... she was a little short for the big ones!

The water slides were Jace's favorite!  

My swimming girl.  I'm pretty sure she could have swam all day.

No more waiting...

This post is mostly good news!  Hooray!!

The receptionist made a mistake and told me May 19th, when my appointment was actually April 19th!  So I went in today with Scott and we basically expected the worst.  I had googled everything I could to figure out if there was something else besides cancer that he could have found from the biopsy, and didn't find anything!  Well...

The doctor said that I have a Follicular tumor.  With this type of tumor, they won't be able to tell for sure what it is until it is removed.  So I will be having surgery (most likely after baby is born), and they will remove the tumor and will be able to tell for sure if it is cancer or not.  I still have a 90% chance that it is not cancer, so the odds are in my favor!  I feel a little like we are back at square one, but I also feel very relieved at the same time!  

I have to say that I have felt a lot of peace for the last few weeks.  I knew that everything would be ok.  A couple weeks ago when I was being set apart for my new calling (YW 1st counselor), the counselor said 3 different times in the blessing that I would be blessed with good health.  I thought that was unusual for him to talk so much about my health with a setting apart, but that blessing has given me a lot of comfort since then and Heavenly Father must have known I needed to hear that.  Although this experience has made me a bit emotional on top of the fact that I'm an emotional wreck already, I am grateful for trials like this one because they draw me closer to my Father in Heaven and my family as well.  It has meant so much to me to hear of family members praying and fasting for me when I wasn't sure I even needed that to begin with.  

Hopefully this is the last you will hear about this for a long time!  Can I get a hallelujah?

sewing

I've been sewing up a storm lately!  After looking everywhere for an Easter dress and being unsatisfied, I decided to just make her one.  Now I'm thinking it looks more like a summer play dress, but whatever!!  I still like it!  I just used scraps I had around from old projects= free dress!

I also have been working on Jace's quilt!  I just have to bind the edges now... so close!  In fact, I should really go do that right now and get 'er done... :)

Johansons!

This blog needs some extra happiness!  These pictures are from a couple weeks ago when the Johansons came to town.  The kids LOVE playing with their cousins!  We had a really fun time with them and are so glad we get to see them more often now that they live closer!

 At the aquarium

 girl cousins!

Uncle Jeff being the usual nerd 

This picture cracks me up...