Saturday, June 27, 2009

Summer Haircuts

Morgan decided this week that she wanted a summer haircut. Here is the before picture. As you can see, she was over due for a cut.

Here is the after. Isnt it so cute? Morgan climbed up into the chair and told the lady exactly what she wanted. Major improvement....

And here is our self portrait showing off our new haircuts.


Monday, June 1, 2009

The graduates

After many hours of coloring, gluing and cutting Morgan has completed her last year of preschool. She had her graduation last week at Jordan High. They performed a couple of songs such as 'Going on a Bear Hunt' and 'It's a Small World'. The teachers made a scrapbook for each student that had pictures of them from the first day of school, every holiday and their VIK (Very Important Kinderbeet) Day, which is their birthday. It was really cute. This is my favorite picture from the graduation because of the little girl next to Morgan, she was a hoot the entire program...




Next was my graduation at the E Center. The program was slightly less amusing... but it was fun to see all the people I spent many hours with over the past two years. I thought since Westminster was a small school the graduation would be a small affair but it was a jammed-packed three hours of sweating under my gown.

I had no idea what being hooded was before I got there, but for a Masters Degree you don't move your tassle from right to left you get a cape put over you instead. Which does not help the sweating situation in the least!

Here are my two biggest fans. After the ceremony John, Jude and I were treated to an awesome dinner at Famous Dave's with my parents and John's parents. It was so delicious and a good time just to sit and chat with our parents.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

The happenings

It has been a busy month. I am back at work, well back at home at work and it is very stressful to juggle being a mommy and an accountant.

Morgan had a dance competition at Taylorsville High and did awesome. She was so stinkin' cute. Here is a picture of her cute costume.





Jude is growing so big. Here is a picture that shows off his "healthy" body. And by healthy I mean chunky. Isn't he sooo cute? We had his two month check up last week and he is in the 75th percentile for weight and over the 100th percentile for height. He is going to be just like John!

We also had Jude's blessing this month and it went very well. We were worried because it was supposed to rain that Sunday and we have a small house. But there was no rain and we were able to fit everyone in the house and yard. Here is a picture of Jude in his full blessing outfit. He didn't debut the hat that day but I just had to get a picture of him in it.

Monday, April 27, 2009

One year ago

It was one year ago today that I was half way across the world in Cambodia. I can't believe it has been one year, seems like five years. But I think any year you are pregnant seems longer than a regular year... way longer!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Easter

In typical fashion, I am blogging about something that happened two weeks ago. Here is the whole Burton Bunch on Easter morning... this was the best picture we could get with 4 kids.



As an added bonus, here is a sample of the 570 pictures I keep finding on the camera of Morgan (self-taken). As if that needed to be said.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Two kids

Now that I have two kids, I have twice the work, but twice the fun too. Here is a picture of Jude smiling while he watches Morgan dance around.

Here is one of my favorite pictures of Morgan and Jude. Morgan asks to hold Jude about 50 times a day. He usually ends up crying and she says, "OK, come get him!"


Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Can you tell what we have been up to?

The other day Morgan was playing with a stuffed animal and had been carrying him around in a blanket then put him down for a nap in his cradle. She then tells me:

"Mom, I already fed him, I am breast-feeding."