Woo hoo!! We are so excited... Nik finished his second quarter of dental school on Wednesday and now we have a BREAK!! It doubles as our Spring Break, but we are still very excited about it! The kids don't quite understand what it means, but every day when they wake up and daddy is still here... very fun! They get so excited! We don't have too many plans, just hanging out! We got Ian a twin bed (he was falling out of his toddler bed almost every night) and we had to get a new computer (thank goodness for tax refunds, it just stinks having to spend them!) our old one had a nasty virus that kept coming back and it would access the internet and pull up nasty things, it wouldn't let us do anything, it kept trying to purchase spyware.... just a pain in the you know what... so instead of paying more money to have it fixed, we used that money towards a new one! Windows 7 is awesome by the way!
I got a new calling... I'm now the secretary in the primary presidency. It was pretty cool how it all took place, but I don't feel grown up enough to have this calling =) I guess I do have two kids and I'm closer to my 10 year high school reunion than not... but I still don't feel grown up yet! It is a pretty fun calling being in the Primary, but not in charge of any of the kids! =)
IAN GOES TO NURSERY NOW!!! =) Finally he goes to nursery. He still cries a little bit, but he is so brave. We got new leaders and he really likes one named Brooke. As soon as sacrament meeting is over (we have that first) he starts to cry a little and says we need to find Brooke. So we find her and he goes with her to the nursery, we don't even have to drop him off! He stays the whole time and has so much fun! He has been singing all the songs at home and he talks about it all the time! It is so cute! And it is so nice to not have to juggle both the kids!
Miranda is getting so big... she pulls herself up to everything and walks around furniture. She likes to play. It is so fun to say "I'm going to get you" and she will take off crawling in the other direction with a big smile on her face! She is so cute!
They are finally getting better (although Miranda is getting 4 teeth on the top right now) and we can start getting back on a good sleeping schedule!
We are excited to have you home this week hunny!! Love you!
...little miss attitude...
she loves stuffed animals!
We wore our EASTER clothes this week since conference is next week! They looked so cute!! Miranda had her first ponytail today... it's just little, but so fun!! I love doing these girly things!
Happy Easter (next week!)
We have found Ian like this on multiple occasions. Neither Nik or I drink out of the carton like this so I'm not sure where he got the idea!
My sister Rachael came to visit for about 30 minutes on her way to Texas with her friends! That was fun to see her even though it was so short! Ian had a blast!
Ian can make his bed all by himself and even likes to do it! You can't really tell, but under the monkey and bear is the pillow that matches the comforter. It's not really in the right spot, but I'm just glad he is trying! 
Ian and his friend "Lukey" eating icecream outside Chick-Fil-A. Shortly hereafter the icecream falls out of Ians cone.
This last weekend was our ward Temple day. Nik and I have not been to the Temple since we have been down here (sad I know) because it takes about 5 hours total and we just can't leave Miranda that long becuase she is still nursing! BUT a family in our ward invited us to join them and took their kids (Andrea 14, Travis 10) to watch our kids on the Temple grounds. I was so excited to finally be going!!
On the way down we took a wrong turn and ended up in Gilbert. Our session was supposed to start at 4:00pm and we got to the temple at about 4:05pm. We were still able to do Initiatory work, but I was so sad we had missed it. In fact when I got into my dressing room I just had to sit down and cry for a minute. We had left plenty early so we could get there and not be rushed, I had been planning it for a couple of weeks, and I even had my kids spend time with their kids so they would know them... just a lot of planning and hard work to get there, but we were still rushed and missed it. It must have been a culmination of my day, but I just couldn't hold it in any longer. I just felt so sad!! I composed myself (or so I thought) but as soon as I started doing the Temple work and those sweet ladies would look at me and I would loose it again. I think I cried through the whole thing! Nik and I got done about the same time and he noticed I had been crying. He said "Well you haven't had a melt down for a while." =)
We couldn't find our kids (but knew they were in good hands) so we just held hands and walked around the grounds for a while. The Mesa Temple is so beautiful and the grounds are really neat! Lots of fountains and fruit trees and flowers and large areas of grass! We saw at least 5 groups of people getting photographs taken (engagement and family pics). I felt better after a while! The Temple offers so many wonderful blessings and I know I need to make more of an effort to get there more often! I know it would bless my life! While we were waiting for our kids we went in the visitor's center and watched the family presentation. I felt the Sprit so strongly and the Love our Father in Heaven has for each of us! Families can be together forever... How I am so glad I know that and so thankful that we have a loving Savior who was willing to suffer and die so that we could be with our families forever!
This is one of the ones where she has thrown herself on the ground, rolled over and is crying!
No don't take my picture!
I love this picture because it shows her awesome bed hair!
So sour!
Come on mom... I'm not in the mood!
Oh so sad! 
