April 2012

Here are our April pictures.  They include General Conference pics and Easter.  They aren't in order.

Easter Sunday we enjoyed dinner and playing at Grammy and Grandpa Sanders' house.

From left to right - Mason, McKenzie, Malia, Karalee and Reagan

These next few pictures are from General Conference Sunday.  We played beauty shop and they girls got to wear makeup.

I forgot to take any pictures of Tilly in her blessing dress when she was blessed back on February 12th so I took these on April 2nd.

Sweet Tilly

Friday night movie and slumber party in the toy room.

Easter Prizes

Here are a few more pictures of our family before we left to church on Easter.

Here are a few more pictures from General Conference Sunday

Tilly can sit at the table.

Our little Tilly girl is SO cute.  I can't get enough of her.  Today (May 22, 2012) she set up at the table to eat for the first time.  She had rice cereal and carrots.  She isn't too sure about the carrots.  She didn't like peas much either.  She loves rice cereal though.  

Angel Moroni on the Gilbert Temple

The kids and I were able to watch the Angel Moroni get lifted upon our new Gilbert Temple that is being built.  Wynn called me last night and told me that it was at the temple on a crane, but by the time we headed over there last night it was down and all the workers had gone home so we didn't get to see it.  Today I heard that it was going to be placed at 2:00 so I got Spencer out of school, Bryant was already home because he wasn't feeling well, and we went to watch it get lifted up.  Here are a few of the pictures.  I cropped them so the Angel Moroni would be a little more noticable. 

Bryant didn't get in any of the pictures because he was sick and was to tired to walk, but luckily he had a good view of the temple and the Angel Moroni from the van.

Spencer took this picture from the van on our way home from Costco. 

33 Thing I love about Chad

In honor of Chad’s 33rd birthday, here is a list of 33 things I love about him.

1. He is obedient. His obedience to the commandments large and small, especially the small, is what helped me to be able to put my trust in him to become his eternal companion.
2. He loves Heavenly Father.
3. He loves me.
4. He is a great father.
5. I have never seen him lose his temper.
6. He is handsome.
7. He has the best smile.
8. He is kind to everyone.
9. He loves children.
10. He loves sports.
11. He is a great basketball player. I love the way he seems to glide up the basketball court.
12. He has large, masculine hands and a firm handshake.
13. He is tall.
14. He is fast.
15. He can jump high.
16. He is intelligent.
17. He is a hard worker.
18. He honors his father and his mother and he honors my father and mother.
19. He loves his brothers and sisters and he loves my brothers and sisters.
20. He gives a true fast every month. He never forgets to start his fast on Saturday night after he’s eaten dinner.
21. He is prayerful.
22. He is a fun uncle.
23. He comes up with fun FHE and Sunday afternoon games.
24. He keeps the Sabbath Day Holy.
25. He served an honorable mission.
26. He is a stalwart priesthood holder.
27. He opens my car door every time we ride together.
28. He is competitive yet he doesn’t like confrontation, so he beats people in a nice way so they will still like him even when he beats them.
29. He treats me like a queen.
30. His love of newborn babies.
31. He was an awesome nursery leader and his nursery kids still love him.
32. He is an Eagle Scout.
33. He can dunk it.  (When we got some new young men in our ward a few months ago one of the young man introduced Chad to the new young men this way, "This is Brother Sanders, he can dunk it."  I thought that was really funny.)

I love Chad! I am so thankful to be his wife.
Love,
Mindy

March 2012

Karalee loves the camera.  A lot of the pictures this month are ones that she has taken.  She makes me smile!  

 

Watch out for Karalee!

Karalee and Marlee with their friends Taylor and Christian.  I watched them while their Mom went to the temple.

Marlee and Christian found a good hiding spot for hide n' seek.  I thought it was so cute to see them squeezed in the closet.

Tilly's first time having her toe nails painted!

Here she is showing off her cute pedicure.

Spencer and the girls made an awesome fort.  Bryant was gone on his trip to Disneyland with Grandma Sanders.

The next few pictures are from General Conference weekend.  Spencer and Bryant made Bingo cards to play during conference.

Marlee and Chad built things with legos.

Here's a robot.

 
 Here's a temple.  Do you like the Angel Moroni with his gum wrapper trumpet?

Marlee with the "trumpet"

Here's a temple with a tall steeple.

During the Priesthood session Kayla, Amy, Celeste, and my Mom got together for a girls night.  We tried to get a picture of the three new babies together.  Tilly looks so little in between Natalie and Jason.

Karalee with her Aunt Kayla and Aunt Celeste

Tilly and her Grandma Flake

Karalee, Tilly and Mom