Sunday, June 22, 2014

Big Sisters are Awesome

We all love our big sisters.  This throwback is to convince little Mr. Late to come out and play with his big sister and brother!


Jumping forward - Van loves playing with Anna!
(in this picture they are making "rug angels") Hah!


See little baby - You can come out now.  It will be fun!



Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Birthday and Fun

Ok - The latest fun down in Arkansas...

Anna picked some flowers for mom from our rose bush.  What a cute little lady.  She loves flowers and all things nice.


For my Birthday I got a foot massage - more like a foot tickle :)

Arkansas, where a kid can be a kid.


Hanging out with the kids can be so fun and sweet...

...AND DANGEROUS! :)

In the end it is all worth it!


Monday, May 26, 2014

Memorial Day Weekend

JJ and I had a very zesty weekend...


 We went to Bear World (no loadable pictures), camping, Mesa Falls, and the sand dunes.  Kim also made a surprise visit!!!! 

 

So just for cuteness sake...The main reason we went to the dunes was to re-create one of our dates from early dating.  On the date we took "Bruce" (the isuzu), sat on the hood of the car, and watched the stars.  It was one of my favorites!

Our feet...it's a must.
See there's Bruce!
All in all I am not ready to go back to school on Tuesday. 

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Van and Van

Here's another throwback to when Van met mini-van - In honor of Van's birthday!  Happy Birthday Grandpa!

This was back in March of 2012 - about 6 weeks after mini-Van was born!

Grandpa and Grandma Milner with Anna and Van

Christmastime throwback in honor of James and Dorothy's 60th Wedding Anniversary!  Congrats you two!

This picture and video are from Christmas 2013.





Monday, May 12, 2014

How to Take a Family Photo


 1.  Align the camera


 2.  Do a Test Run


 3.  Gather all participants and set the timer


4.  Encourage participants to smile

5.  Voila/Good enough!  Congratulate yourselves on the fact that everyone is smiling and most of everyone's head is visible.  Note:  Do not push it much beyond this point...pictures most likely will only go downhill from here...ending in tears and/or frowns/backs to the camera/missing children.
 


6.  Bribe!  Tell everyone that if they smile for just one more picture really nicely they will be all done! 

7.  Admire your beautiful children and thank your Heavenly Father for the blessing of having them in your life and for the blessing of being a family!

April Dixon Stuffs

 This is from March but I just found it and thought it was important to document Emma's face, you know...for posterity's sake.
 
 
 A little Conference enjoyment.
 
 Emma's preschool Easter party photo booth.
 

 It was rather imperative to document James' face from this picture for posterity.
 


 We Dixons...sometimes this is how we have fun and hang out and interact.  We are very social in these moments.  Here we are at Grandma Dixon's house, very much alive, energetic and engaged!
 


We did come around when cousins got there, and here we are enjoying the bounty of Grandma and Grandpa Dixon's Easter Egg Hunt!  Below the kids enjoyed a friendly cousins game of Bball!



 Easter morning tradition...Stair Picture, but we have a twist in our family...we wear Easter head gear.  Aren't we creative?...actually, I love it...we have done it for a long time.  So cute when they were little babies with their rabbit/lamb ears.  We may outgrow it when the kids are 20, but it IS tradition.  I believe this is the first year James wasn't the lamb though.  Marie claimed it.  Also documenting faces for posterity in this one.
 
Here is an Easter Flashback with said ears!
 
 
 We have another Easter tradition...the Easter Bunny hides a blow up rabbit somewhere in the house that we have to find.  We used to have one about 5-6 feet tall that we would leave out and he would hide, but it popped because who can resist jumping on a 5 foot tall blow up rabbit that sort-of squeaks as the air moves through his narrower passages?  This year Mr. E Bunny left a new blow up rabbit slightly behind the curtains with his feet poking out.  Emma is not so enthralled that Mr. E Bunny remembered and left a new rabbit after a year or two without as the fact that said rabbit is PINK!

Here is an Easter Flashback when Blow-up Bunny scared us a wee bit!
 
Last, but not least...you know...posterity need this one.