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Scouts motto: Always be Prepared

Keeping the scout motto in mind of Be Prepared last Saturday our family took a trip to the local nursery for 2 reasons. 1. We knew it would be hard to pick out the flowers to plant in our yard after Sophie arrived & 2. Knowing we would be in the hospital for mother's day, we wanted to get a little something for Grandma Fergy's Mom's Day gift ahead of time. We told Phoebe she could pick any flower to give to grandma Fergy which she was super excited to do.

 

Normally we try to be prepared for our next baby about 1 month before they are scheduled to arrive. This time however we were a little slow, as in 2 days before she was scheduled to come, before this pink & green nursery was ready for one cute lil' occupant.  We chose the colors based on what scrap materials I used to make her baby quilt from.  I then looked online for cute, simple and unique art pieces I could create to finish out the cute look of her room.

 

Overall, I am very excited with how cute everything turned out; I just hope she likes it when she gets to finally see it herself!

Scripture Study

Last Sunday Phoebe had the opportunity once again to participate in the opening exercises of her primary's sharing time by giving the scripture.  She was really excited to do this and once again she did a really excellent job and we were super proud to witness the big girl my baby Phoebs is growing up to be. 

Forced Fergy Family Fun Night

Last Friday we decided to once last fun outing as the Fergy Five so we all packed up and headed to he mall for dinner and fun.  Unfortunately Cory was not in the mood for fun family play because had received the news that his office didn't win the bid to design a new DAs office downtown so that is where the forced fun part come into our night of  Fergy fun. 

On a happier note Phoebe was excited to pick out her own dinner. As you can see in the picture she got a kids meal from Hot Dog on a Stick. We told her if she ate all of her over priced kids meal she could ride on the carousel, so she immediately began stuff her face & pick out which horse she wanted to ride!

After dinner and the carousel we took all the kids down to play in the mall's Dino Play land. Josh & Cami LOVED playing with a globe that turned and stood and played with it half of the night, the other half of the night they stood in front of the slides so eventually they go repacked and came shopping with me while Phoebs continued to run around and play in Dino land.

After all the kids were done playing and shopping we made one more stop in the mall to visit one of Phoebs' most favorite spots...the water fountain.  I gave her the only 2 pennies I had in my purse and she excitedly tossed them into he fountain.  She then asked us to get them back so she could do it again.  We tried to explain to her that we don;t take money out of the fountain, but she was pretty upset so we called it a night and  headed packed up and headed  home to rest from all our Fergy Family Fun night

 

Hopefully our wee ones had fun celebrating one of our last fun outings as the Fergy Five.

Ready or not Summer here we Come

In the last couple of weeks the Fegy kiddos have been so anxious for summer fun. We have bought some of   their summer clothes, shoes and accessories.  The twiners LOVE their new flipflop and everyday they search them out and bring them to me to put on or try to put them on their selves.

It has been truly wonderful for me to be able to send the little ones out to play because #1 they are not dependent on me for entertainment and #2 they play so hard that they sleep like little angles.

 

Have I ever mentioned that the twiners LOVE bath time. They immediately run into any bathroom  if they see an open door and bang on the tub so you know they want to take a bath. If you tell them no bath or are just too slow, the twins have learned to just help themselves to bath time.

Nursery Time

This last Sunday (Easter Sunday) was the twins first visit to nursery.  I can't believe my babies are 18 mos & in nursery already they are still very much more baby like than Phoebs was at 18 mos.  I have to admit I was looking for excuses to not drop them off in their class and keep them with me throughout church, but I felt guilty to do what was right, and it turns out both kiddos loved playing so I guess I will have to grow up and let my baby twiners go to nursery.  

The silver lining to this story for me is that I only have 2 weeks until I get another to hold another cute baby of mine throughout church once again!

Fergy Easter Madess

This year the Fergy Family began to celebrate Easter on Easter eve with our traditional Easter dinner.

After dinner for the first time ever the Fergy Family dyed Easter Eggs.  Phoebe loved this new tradition and within 5 minutes had dyed almost all of her eggs.  While we dyed eggs you may wonder what the twins where doing...eating jelly beans, their favorite Easter activity by far.

I made a special secret egg message for Cory with wax crayon, something he never knew you could do.  After egg dying we  grew a tiny purple bunny Grandma/pa Potts sent us last year in water; Phoebe insisted on checking back on the bunny ALL the time even though it took 72 hrs to grow to its full potential size.

Right before bed we made sure to plant our extra special magic Easter beans.  Phoebe was excited to see what these magic beans would grow this year.

This year the magic Easter beans grew play Ice cream cones in 8 fun colors! 

 In the morning the kids all raced to see the fun magic bean flowers.

Phoebe was really excited to see what the bunny brought her, mainly all princess items. The twins were mainly disappointed that their bunny haul was not all edible.

For breakfast, since we have 1pm church, we had a nice Easter brunch. Cory and I found it all yummy, however the kids made sure to point out that only the fruit was edible.

 

No Easter could be complete without sporty new Easter outfits so here are our cuties in their new duds. The girls were very photogenic this week so I got a ton of cut pics of them, I wish I could say the same for their uncooperative brother.

After church Grandpa Green, he has no real relation to us except Phoebe adopted him as her grandpa and calls him such, gave each of the kids their own special Easter baskets in a wooden box with candy & real dollar coins ("minnies" (money) as Phoebe calls it).

We had a pretty great Easter this year; Phoebe even memorized the Easter story this year and enjoyed reciting it to us many times, the certain details she chose to remember surprised us &amp I highly recommend you ask for her rendition of it should you chance to see her around. This was by far the best Easter yet!

My Relaxing Nite of Feet & Food & Fun

Last Friday me & a couple of the Fergy Sisters went out for a pampering night of fun. We started by getting manicures & pedicures.  The place we made reservations for forgot to write down the appt so they were way over booked, but luckily they helped us first so we didn't have to wait around for over an hour to start.  They had to rush us a bit, but it still was a nice experience especially with the hot rock message.

Once again I am the only one who never gets French tipped nails. For our fingers we all chose clear polish so no exciting pictures of them.

After our nails were done we ran to Tai Pan where I got a much needed new purse & a free trifle dish.  After my mini shopping spree we went to a new yogurt shop by me called Planet Yogurt.  In spite of the lame name the yogurt was really quite good.  As you walk in they just have a wall of 8+ different flavor yogurts then you proceed to a buffet of 50+ topping you add on yourself at the end you weigh it and pay by the oz.  I was made fun of for all my crazy pregnant random craving toppings.  Can you pick out which cup was mine?

I was nervous that it would be expensive with not knowing how much everything would weigh, but non of us paid over $3.75 for our yummy treat!  The shop even had a comfy couch for us to hangout and chat on. After dinning on our fine delicateness we wrapped it up and dashed on home back to hubbies and babes.

Thanks Julie & Charisse for a fun night!