Chandler Quotable Quotes

Lydea: (While clapping hands vigorously)
What would happen if you milked a cow like THIS!?

Lydea

Here are some fun pictures of Lydea we randomly took the other day. I thought they turned out really cute so I played with some of them. She is such a pretty little girl. She has a very cute personality as well. I just hope that she learns some manners and calms down a bit, but I have to say I didn't have the best manners myself at her age and I had a tendency of being quite loud and obnaxious. I think most people would be surprised to know that about me if they didn't know me when I was young.

Woot woot!

Neuroanatomy and gross anatomy are over!

Easter

Decorating eggs Saturday night.

Haylee did a good job entertaining Zach since he's not much help with dying eggs.



I was making faces a t Zach to keep him happy. I think I look pretty scary.

Rebecca was very proud of her eggs.



Lydea couldn't wait she had to eat an egg. She loves hard boiled eggs.

The Easter egg hunt in the front yard after church.

Rebecca loved her slip. So she took her dress off as soon as we got home from chirch and ran around in her slip the rest of the day.

At first the kids weren't sure what to think when there was no candy in the eggs.

They had quite the time unscrambling the letters .

They never found the last "a" for icecream, which threw them off a bit, but they figured it out and were pretty excited for icecream. It was fun for a change. In case you can't read it, it says "LET'S EAT LOTS OF ICECREAM" We decided to go with icecream because I still have Halloween candy in the freezer and candy canes in the cupboard. I just didn't want to buy more, and icecream sounded good to me so we went with it!

getting caught up...SPRING, the garden!

Lydea thought that Karl's shadow looked cool and wanted to take a picture.
I thought it was a fun.

These are just pictures of us getting our gardens ready in late March. I'm a little crazy about my garden. I'm sure that you will get updates often. In fact I want to take pictures soon. I now have peas, beans, strawberries and some herbs planted. My peas are already about as tall as my little finger. I have a couple beans poking out, but they are slow. I go out to see it's progress a couple times everyday. Like I said, I'm a little crazy, but I love it. I will be planting tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkin, peppers, zucchini, and whatever else we end up with. I just hope that we get enough sunshine in our yard for things to grow. I have to different locations with gardens to see which one does better. One better work. Wish me luck.

April Foool's Day

Our April Fool's was very eventful. The kids got up in the morning and had dressed different than usual. Here is a picture of my beautiful GIRLS! I'm afraid they don't make very cute girls.

Love the shoes.

I actually took Zach to his doctor's appt. in his dress.
Isn't he a cute ballerina???

Check out those pigtails.

Rebecca was suppoed to be Zach. With girl's glamor shoes as an accent.

Lydea loved wearing Carson's clothes. A little big, but fun.

And Haylee got new glasses. APRIL FOOLS!



For an evening joke we went for pie at the Waffle House. Here's how it went down.



Scene 1



Mom got everyone ready for family prayers while dad did something else. Nobody can remember what it was, but it must have been really important. EVERYBODY had their teeth brushed, their PJs on, and was kneeling around the coffee table when dad finally came in for family prayers.

DAD: OK everybody, it's time for ..... rootbeer floats!
KIDS: Daaaad, we don't even haven any rootbeer.
DAD: HA HA, April Fools!
All right everybody, let's go down and watch a movie. HA HA!
EVERYONE: April Fools!
DAD: MMMK everybody, go get in the van and we'll go have some ice cream.
MOM: Haylee, come one, go get in the van before dad changes his mind.
KIDS: HUH? WHAT? April Fools!
DAD: No, go get in the van. Let's go.
KIDS: But DAAAAAAD, we already brushed our teeth.
HAYLEE: I don't have to have any ice cream, but everyone else can. That way I won't have to get my teeth dirty.
DAD: We can brush our teeth again, let's go.
KIDS: We don't have any shoes on !
DAD: GET IN THE VAN, LET's GO!



Scene 2



We're all in the van driving around looking for a place to have ice cream. The kids don't really believe that we're going to take them for a treat. We really can't find anywhere we want to go because we have no plans.

DAD: HAHA, April Fools! Let's go home.
REBECCA: (Crying) But I want ice cream.
MOM: Oh, now we have to go home because Becca is sooo tired.
DAD: OK, let's go home.
KIDS are super quiet in the van. Whispering.
DAD turns in to Waffle House entrance
DAD: Let's see if they have any beds in here for Becca to sleep in.

They don't, but they have 99 cent pie!
The Chandler family does not endorse Waffle House pie except in times of great economic scarcity. It's not good. IGA frozen is better, or Smith's, or Wal-MART. You get the picture.
ALL: Eat pie at the Waffle House and have a great time.



Scene 3



On the way home

KIDS: Dad, we thought you were just kidding. We thought you were just going to bring us home and say HA HA, April Fools!
DAD: HA HA, April Fools!

ALL: Go to bed happy.

Our trip to Utah

Zach broke my mom's house in quick. He had a good time doing it too.

We were so excited to meet Miss Maggie. Amber's new baby. She's beautiful!

Lydea and Maggie. I can't tell you how happy Lydea was to get to see Maggie before she got big. She LOVES babies.

It is tradition for grandma to take us to get our ears peirced when we turn 8 in my family. We weren't able to get it done this summer when we were out so that was one of the first things that we did when we got to UT. Haylee was so exited. I took a video of her getting them peirced and she just flinched a little, but I accidentally erased it...BUMMER!

Haylee and Grandma.

Thanks Grandma, she loves them!

Karl's little sister, Nancy and BJ got married March 7. We were so happy to be able to go out there for it occation.

My sister-in-law Bri keeping Zach from running into the street. He was quite the little busy body that day. Like usual.

Karl's family

I had the privialege of doing my first wedding cake. It was fun. I did have a lot of help, and it is not perfect, but it turned out beautiful with a little extra personality on my part.

Karl, Grandma Shirley, Carson, and Haylee

After it was all said and done we went back to Grandma and Grandpa Chandler's for a little fun.

Carson found the pop gun!

Rebecca is just about as cute as they come!

Grandpa pulled out his pencil collection. The grand kids had a good time looking at all of them.

While we were out there we had the opperituniy to go down to the Drapper temple open house. Since it was not dedicated the kids were able to go inside and walk through and see it all. It was a great experience for them. I only got pictures of the bus ride there.

Rebecca sitting on my mom's lap Eldon McKay, Lydea, Haylee, and Carson.

Zach loved the bus.

It was super cold that day. I wanted to get a picture of the kids out in front of the temple, but all I got was a picture of the temple through the bus window.

AND we got to go sledding just before we came home. We went with my sister Melissa and her kids and we had a blast.

18 in. of fresh snow and sunshine. You don't go far on you first slide down. So we went and found a couple trails already paved for us.

Rilee , Lydea, and Zacher

Eldon McKay

Haylee

Rebecca

Lydea

Carson and Garrett

Carson

I also had the chance to meet up with some friends from Minot that evening after sledding. It was fun to see Amber and her kids.

Rachael Bone and Zach

(Do you like how his dinner is on his forehead?)

And the the drive home.

Keeping Zachary occupied with chocolate. It worked for a little while.

Really he wasn't too bad.

Carson

My mom driving...I couldn't have done it without her.

I love her to peices!

Back in KY we went on a day trip down to Berrea before Grandma and Grandpa left.

It's a pretty little town.

THIS IS WHAT I CAME HOME TO...SPRING!

Daffodills in my back yard and trees budding all around. So fun to be sledding one day and get to leave it all behind and for the green.