Great February so far...

             These 2 little girls are seriously the CUTEST little girls EVER!!! They are such Best Friends!!

 This was my 1st big event as being the Young Women President: New Beginnings {all of my cute YW}

                        and these are all of the ladies in Young Womens with me who help me SO much!

                 We brought a sign for Riley when we went to the BYU vs Utah game!! He loves Jimmer!

My cute BYU clan! Am I brainwashing them early to think that BYU is the greatest school on earth? YES!

 Happy Valentines Day with a smile from the Cutest girls on earth again! Sunny wanted to wear a big pink frilly dress to her Preschool Valentine Party, but they asked all of the kids to wear their preschool shirt so we had to dress her up a bit.

                                                 This little Elle Belly is the Sweetest little girl!

                                                   This Sunny Bunny is so Beautiful!

                  For Valentines Day, we had a great day. We had a wonderful dinner from Zupas in our own home {Pina Colada Salad and Wisconsin Cauliflower Soup with chocolate strawberries & Martinelis}, played some fun family games, then used our fire pit for the first time to roast marshmellows for smores! Regan surprised me 2 times this Valentines Day! I receieved a dozen beautiful roses from the UPS guy after lunch, then got a beautiful diamond bracelet when he got home from work! Having a family valentines Day was actually perfect!!!

January Happenings

                                   Regan & I at the American Family District Manager 70's Party!

              Some of the Young Women & Leaders at Prom Fest supporting our laurel who was a model!

                                  My latest everyday craving: Diet Caffeine Free Coke with Vanilla!

                                          

We had 2 days off of school this month, so I took the kids to a really cool place in Ogden called the Treehouse Museum. It's just like a smaller version of the Gateway Children's Museum. We were there for 5 hours and that is after I asked the kids if we could go! They easily could have stayed ALL DAY LONG! I am glad to finally figure out some cool places to take my kids in Davis County! 

January has flow by...the beginning of the new year was nice to have Regan home for a few days to play with us. We went to some movies, spent a lot of time with family, played a lot of Wii games together, and Regan took the kids skiing! Once life came back, and we had to go back to reality, I was sad to have it end. I immediatly took the Christmas tree and decorations down-I never thought this would happen, but I actually got sick of them since they were up since the beginning of November! It felt good to have a clean, uncluttered house again.

Riley has been doing SO well in school! He comes home every Friday with 100% on his Spelling Test, his reading has sky rocketed and he is so smart in math!! He is also doing so well with Violin. He finally passed off Suzuki Book 1 and started Book 2 with his violin teacher and has been going so fast! You can tell that he truly loves to play music. he is in the friend phase where all he wants to do with extra time is to play with friends. I finally had to make a rule that we can't play with friends except on Friday and Saturday's. By the time he got home from school, it was 4:00, then we practice the violin for 30 minutes everyday and then do homework and reading. By the time we are done, it is already time for dinner and dark outside!!!

Sunny has told me that she wants to live with her preschool teacher, Teacher Viki. Some days, I think that is alright with me :) She is a funny little girl and keeps me on my toes everyday! Elle is still the sweetest little girl I have ever seen! She follows Sunny and me around all day and eats tons of yogurt and fishy crackers!

We are having a .....

May 12, 2011 We will be having a new little Baby BOY!!!!!
We are So excited to have 2 girls and 2 boys in our family pretty soon!

Family Time

I was SO proud of my 2 little kids playing Christmas Songs at the rest home this holiday season! It has been a long road to get Riley to graduate from book 1 and for Sunny to memorize Tucka Tucka Stop Stop, but we finally got there!!!!

Ski Bunnies

Since I am prego this winter, I wasn't able to go Skiing with the kids for their first time,  but Regan traded in his snowboard for a pair of ski's to help the kids out. They went to Wolf Mountain right by our house 3 times so far and each time, they are getting better and better. The first time they went, the kids took a private ski lesson and 30 minutes into it, I called Regan and his response was..."What was I thinking-this was such a bad idea!" Basically, the ski instructors kind of gave up on the kids, so Regan had to step in and help themout. Next thing you know, both Riley and Sunny are begging Regan to stay on the 'magic carpet' bunny hill because they love skiing so much! The 3rd time they went, Regan took the lift all the way to the top of the mountain and they skiied down just great! WOW-this will be a fun family activity to do now that we live SO close to 3 ski resorts!

Christmas Time

                                    Christmas Even Talent Show-The McKell Family Trumpeters

                                            Christmas Eve Nativity-Elle: Sheep Sunny: Angel

                                         My Cute Kids on Christmas Eve @ Grammy's House

                                                               Riley-the Angel Gabriel

                                              Christmas Eve: reading our Christmas Book

                                          Christmas Morning: The Girls LOVED their Doll house

                      Riley LOVED his basketball Hoop which was outside and his bow & arrows

                                                   This girl could play with dolls all day long

                                                          opening presents with Grampy

                                     Grammy gave Sunny this Sunday coat I used to wear at her age

                                     Elle wearing 4 layers of new clothes while playing with Squinkees

                                                 Andrea's BIG Christmas present...a PIANO!

 BYU Basketball Game--Training our kids YOUNG to LOVE BYU!

New Years Even Games with Aunt Chrissy

We had a FUN Christmas Time this year!  We were able to have some fun times with Regan and with family. It was kind of sad to have Monday come and have Regan go back to work and Riley & Sunny go back to school. We had a fun time just being together!

Reason for the absense

Things in my life have been super busy {here is why}
*I just became the new Young Women President in my ward
*I have been working on a secret surprise for some people in my family!!!
*I have been trying to find a publisher for my book {just not enough time to work on my own stuff!}
*Getting 200 Christmas Cards ready
*Just life stuff!!!
I am hoping that I can get my blog made into a book since I have had it for a long time! That should be my next project!

My little Mozart

I thought it would be cool to have Riley do the Reflections program at school for the first time. He composed a piece for his violin literally, all by himself! He would play a few notes, stop, I would write them down, and then he would continue until he was finished. He called his piece Come out and Play miazaki {I don't know why} and he ended up winning the Music Composition Category for the whole school! I cannot even express how proud of him I was that night! He was proud of himself too, and it showed me that he really does enjoy music in his life. He loves playing his violin, he loves to dance to music, he LOVES to whistle and sing, and now he likes to come up with his own music. We were watching Harry Potter the other day and he said that he wanted to learn the theme song so he could play it at the school talent show! I wrote out the notes to it, and he learned and memorized it in 1 night! This kid just has a knack for music! I am one proud mom of my little Mozart!

#4

I don't know why I haven't officially announced this on my family blog, but here we go.....
The Fackrell Family is expecting Baby #4!!! We are so excited to have a new little baby come to our family!
What I'm not excited about is being sick, throwing up with any bad smell or sight, back aches and being tired ALL of the time. All of those have already happend to me by the way! I am 12 weeks along, and the due date is May 12th! I had to make a big decision and find a doctor that was closer to our new house! Dr. Smith @ Alta View hospital in Sandy has delivered all 3 of my kids, so to find someone else was not an easy decision, but I didn't want to drive an hour for appointments either! I found a lady doctor at McKay Dee Hospital and am very happy with her so far!

Riley & Sunny are super excited to have this baby come too---Riley is hoping SO bad for a brother to put some more boy power in the family since he is surrounded by girls all day. Sunny doesn't care...I am sure she is just excited to be a little mommy to this baby like she is to elle. Since we still call elle our baby, I don't know if she knows what is going on. In the mean time, I still like to hold her like a baby and call her my baby elle!

So 28 more weeks to go....Oh that sounds like an eternity away!!!!!

Fall time is here!

Here in Utah, we have had an amazing Fall! I always complain that it goes right from Summer to Winter, but this year we have had some amazing Fall days! The first snow on the mountain happened this week, but I think I am okay with it since fall has been prolonged. We carved pumpkins in between Regan being gone! He has been in Wisconsin and Chicago this month, so it seems like we havn't seen him a lot. I took the kids to the Haunted Utah Symphony Concert last night and it was great! All of the kids sat and watched the concert with NO problems! Now we are preparing for the Halloween festivities and excited for Regan to come home tomorrow night!