April

Our little Uncle Stanley boy married his Maddie girl on April 12th:) ^^^

We had a fun dinner celebrating year #2 of Silva Injury Law's life!!! Go Michael Joe GO!!! 

Below:
bubble time, puzzles with Grandma, Hilmar Cheese and waiting for General Conference to start

typical texting with Harley 😄

Mom's response 😆 I did not want to forget this one.
This was right before our great Christmas decor purging. 

Selfie Saturday

The girls at the dealer ^ Michael Joe picked out a car for me and we spent a few hours there with these wonderful, sturdy balloons;) Poor Michael...I complain about my lack of sliding door and deep trunk space but my new ride is growing on me.  

Things I so DO appreciate about it:

 map system...being able to send it to my car and see it in front of my face

seat adjusts to me when I press my number

AC/heated seats

I can open the trunk as I am walking to the car

Egg hunts galore this year.  Prettiest one was at the Flower Farm with Grandma and Grandpa ^

Easter bunny came 😊

Girls picked some flowers for me^^^

It is May 24th as I blog this and these guys are still up. 
Egg heads...I didn't realize I would love a cheap Michaels craft project so much!!!

March

8 years baby! 💓

 

Michael Joe turned 34 this year. He got a massive carrot cake, a cat card and some cool gloves;) 

We signed up little Knowie for kindergarten 😭 

Gwinna had her Portuguese dancing and singing presentation.
It amazes me how quickly she has learned all of it!

Sia loved that rainbow ball (left) and it has sadly been deflated by the dog next door.  

Noelle and Gwinna are dancing dramatically (right) to David Lanz's "Dancing on the Berlin Wall" 

Block building waiting for Gwinna to finish piano lessons with Grandma. ^^

Girls took a trip to the rock show with Grandma & Grandpa. So awesome! 

Dad braved the Target alone with the girls 🤣

lots of shopkin and block set ups in this house nowadays 😊

In general, I cannot handle toys but I do love those shopkins 😏

I also love when people ask me if they can steal my kids for the day. 
Yes please. Thank you.  ANYTIME😁
Tia Stephanie and Tio Brian having fun with the babies while me and mama were at Maddie's bridal shower!
(which ended up being a nice little getaway of 3 hours...presents and food and funny sisters;)

pancake mixing (left) and attempt at crockpot corned beef and cabbage (right). 

(turned out really well. good job to Michael Joe! He did it all:)

....and then this happened ^^^ Well...Lil created this little wall of amazingness for inspiration during labor!  LOVE. IT. 

We welcomed sweet, big eyed, beautiful baby Jethro Dahlin Barrett into the world on March 19th.   Lots of nervous texting through the night with Mom and Sophia...Mom was pacing, I was vacuuming, Sophia was already scheming to be here as soon as she could. 

Next night was just as nerve wracking with Soph ACTUALLY driving through the night to meet her baby nephew🤣

We all drove to meet him together and he is just pure magic and goodness!