Man!  Have you ever had those days, those weeks, those months, where life never feels like it slows down?  In fact it feels like if you cram one more thing into it you are going to explode!?  That’s how I have felt the past 2 1/2 months.  Every week I look at all of the things on the calendar and wonder how we are going to make it through the week and then Sunday rolls around again and we start yet another crazy week! 

I love my life!  I love my two very, energetic busy children that make me simultaneously want to smile and pull my hair out at the same time! Is that possible?!   Those moments are priceless to me and I always am so grateful for their birthmoms in those moments.  Being a mother is HARD work, but the rewards come in hugs and kisses, those “I just love you mom!” from Josey or the “i heart Mom” written is Spencer’s hand.  Little gifts that make the hard times seem not so hard! 

Spencer has accomplished so much in the past two months.  We went skiing at Snowbird again, just the two of us and had a ball.  In fact he informed me that he wants a helmet, goggles and skiis for his Christmas present this year!  We got to go to Joe’s Valley for Easter weekend and he had so much fun coloring Easter eggs with the cousins and hunting for them on Easter morning.  He had his first gymnastics showcase–he is really good at it, and is starting the boys’ preteam group in a week!  He also graduated from Preschool yesterday!  I look at my little man and wonder how the almost 6 years has flown by and cry knowing that he is starting kindergarten in the fall and wondering if I have prepared him enough so that he will choose the right, love learning and be kind to everyone around him.  His exuberance for life makes me laugh on a daily basis!  He is so silly and loves his daddy so much.  Wow!

Josey.  My little angel girl!  She is a princess, a DIVA, sassy to the core and amazingly sweet!  She takes no guff from anyone, especially Spencer.  These past few months she has accomplished a lot!  She potty trained herself (with a little, and I mean a little, help from me).  She LOVES to dance.  Every day she asks if it is dance class today.  She gets her groove thing on whenever any good dancing music comes on.  She loves Cinderella and The Princess and the Frog and whenever she has a pretty dress on she has to dance.  My neighbor brought over clothes the other day and there was this beautiful pink frilly dress in the pile.  When she saw it she said, “That’s a beautiful dress Mom!”  We then put it on her, she did a twirl in it and then said to Chris, “Daddy, dance with me!”  They danced around the kitchen floor as she sang “La, la, laaaa.  La, la, laaaa.”  It was so sweet.  She also LOVES to sing.  We did a Kindermusik class this Spring and she has an uncanny ability to memorize songs.  She sings all day long.  The sweetest is when she sings with me at night while I sing “I Am a Child of God” or “I Love to See the Temple” for bedtime.  Her little voice is so pure and sweet and makes my heart rejoice!!

My hunk of burnin’ love of 13 years is incredible!  We celebrated our 13th anniversary in Seattle, Washington for 3 days.  It was a blast!  We stayed up late, slept in, ate amazing seafood, enjoyed all the sights and sounds the city had to offer, and had a chance to talk a lot and reconnect!  What a joy!  I am ever in awe of how hard of a worker Chris is for our family!  He is fabulous and amazing and I am so lucky he has put up with me!  Here is to another 13 crazy, busy, magical years!  By then Spencer will be graduating from High School and going on a mission!!  That’s crazy to think about!

My blog has taken a back seat for a while and I apologize to those of you that care about our day to day activities and want to see new pictures of the kids….well it is now relatively current.  Pictures are posted of the the goings on at the Powell house for the past two months.  Enjoy!