Well, blow me down!

We thought we were safe from hurricanes here in the desert southwest, but I swear that's almost what we got the other night. We had a wind storm with some pretty strong winds that blew our nice shady mesquite tree over this week. We're pretty bummed since it's shade covered the majority of our back yard during the day and shaded the west side of the house in the afternoon. We were lucky, though, that it didn't do any damage to the house. It just came to a soft rest against the patio cover with the branches reaching our bedroom window. We didn't hear it when it blew over. We were awake but all we heard was a squeaking noise upstairs. When I went up to the bedroom I opened the window and there it was!

Timberrrrr

I guess it's just the Lord's way of telling us that we should plant a garden in that spot instead...

Otherwise things are going well. Aaron graduated from Kindergarten and had a fun graduation ceremony. They sang a few fun songs that they learned and received their diplomas. Aaron's looking forward to the summer vacation but is excited to start 1st grade in a few months.

Jacob's enjoying having his brother home all day - he now has 3 extra hours to tease Aaron! They're both excited to start swimming lessons from one of the girls in our ward.

Anna's a bundle of joy and is just about to crawl. She's loves to babble while mixing in some of her favorite new words she's learning like "bread", "up", "that", as well as the stand-bys "buh-buh" (which stands for "Mommy", "brother", "bottle", and "binky", to name a few), and of course, my long-time favorite: "Da-da."

We hope all is going will with all of you. Love you all!

Paul, Amy and the gang

Playing catch-up

Hi everyone,

It's been awhile so we thought we'd update you on what we've been up to for the last three months. So here it is - in list format for brevity!

1. Jacob turned 3
   
2. We went to Disneyland in March with Aunt Natalie
3. Anna got RSV
   
4. Most of the Lacey clan met in Vegas as Natalie went through the temple
5. Amy sang one of her songs for a group of ladies, including Gladys Knight
   
6. Aaron turned 6
   
7. Paul went to Shannon's graduation @ BYU in April
8. We (well, Amy, mostly) wrote a song for the American Idol songwriter competition
9. Amy and the Benson Girls sang at the American Mothers National Convention
   
10. We all went to Megan's wedding in May
11. Paul's computer started to die
    
12. Paul and Jacob went to Mom Lacey's graduation the day after Megan's wedding
13. Anna got tubes in her ears
14. Uncle David stayed over while attending a dental convention
    
15. Aaron and Jacob single-handedly funded a local dentist's retirement
16. Amy planned a day of stake Girl's Camp
17. Paul's computer finished dying
18. Mom & Dad Lacey dropped by for a quick visit
    
19. Amy got called to the Primary presidency in our ward

We'll stop there for now. But take a look below for some pictures and video of what we've been up to (feel free to click through the pictures to see larger versions if you'd like).

Pictures Spring 2007

Here are a few slideshows of pictures we've taken over the past couple months. Enjoy!

May 2007

April 2007

Disneyland 2007