Samantha is SIX!

Samantha Anne Wilkins was born on June 22, 2002 at 6:16 PM in Provo, Utah. (Yep, she's a BYU baby!) A few weeks ago she celebrated a very fun 6th Birthday. Mommy and Daddy got her a pretty green birthday dress that she wore to church that day. Then Grandma and Grandpa Lay came over for a taco dinner that night and we had ice cream sundaes and Samantha opened presents. The next day Samantha had her long awaited costume party. The kids came dressed up and played the typical party games and had a ton of fun smashing into a pinata in the backyard.

I was running late as usual and didn't have her cake finished by the time the party started. Thankfully, my sister-in-law Kathy has an amazing talent for cake decorating and stepped in for me and quickly decorated a totally adorable Strawberry Shortcake cake for Samantha! Samantha loved it and I was so happy and thankful. I had a Strawberry Shortcake cake (old school Strawberry Shortcake, of course) for my sixth birthday and wanted the same for my little girl!
Samantha is such a fun, happy, beautiful girl and we're extremely grateful to Heavenly Father for blessing our family with her! WE LOVE YOU SAMANTHA!

First Day of Summer

Adventurous Logan

Daddy kinking the hose

Daddy unkinking the hose!

A very excited Luke!

3 kids and a little sprinkler

Last Friday Ross decided that he'd better water the lawn now that it had stopped raining and the the weather finally warmed up. So he put a sprinkler out on our front lawn around 7 PM and the next thing we knew Logan had on his swim trunks. We laughed and shook our heads and told Logan to go get dressed. Then who should appear in her swimsuit but Samantha! We decided not to fight it and let them out to run through the sprinkler. Luke couldn't stand it and was so excited watching them that I put on his swimsuit too. They had so much fun that we were glad we'd decided not to be grumpy old parents but let them enjoy summertime instead.

How embarrassing...

So, last night I finally posted a real post to our blog. I have no idea what I'm doing so it took a lot of trial and error with the text and pictures. My poor husband laid in bed reading his book waiting and waiting for me to quit being a silly woman and come read scriptures and say prayers so we could go to bed. When I finished fussing with what I had written and then put the pics in the place I wanted them, I was so excited! I looked at our blog to see how it all turned out and much to my dismay, the new post was before the "tester" post. Then I looked at the date on the post I had just done. It's March 25th! Yesterday was June 16th. Not the same day obviously. (With a March post date, it doesn't make much sense that we could have a baby who is two months old, but born in April of this year!) So now I'm forced to admit what a procrastinator I am. I started writing that post waaaaaay back in March, and yes, it's taken me three months to finish it! Am I allowed to use the pregnancy/brand new baby excuse? I hope so...