S'mores....Yummy!

We decided the other night to finally use our firepit and see how it works. Well we made some delicious s'mores and warmed our bodies by the fire. It was so much fun! Well worth it to put it in. Hopefully we'll get lots of use out of it on cold nights!

Just another day in paradise......

Dr. Suess Day at School - A belated post

The kids were celebrating the anniversary of Dr. Suess and so they got to dress up as a book character. Adriann started out at Cindy Loo Hoo, but everyone thought she was Fancy Nancy, so that's what she was by the end of the day. OH well, I thought she looked cute and she loved actually having her hair done and it came home the same way as when she left!

Lemonade stand sign

I love how the sign goes from: "Free Lemonade, Jest $1.50", to "Free Lemonade, Jest $1.50 or $2", to "Free Lemonade, COME ON"!!

And they didn't even have Lemonade, they only had water bottles that they had opened and drank out of. Good thing we live in a cul-da-sac and nobody ever drives by!

Kamden's accessories

Kamden loves to put on Adriann's headbands and glasses and hats.

Here are some cool glasses we won at the school carnival (see post below)

Adriann's Pinkalicious crown! And check out his 4 teeth!! Yeah, only 4 and he's 13 months old!

School Carnival

We went to Adriann's school carnival this weekend. It was pretty fun and luckily it was sunny.

Adriann got her face painted, her favorite thing to spend tickets on!

Sitting in the firetruck!

Kamden with the little police car. It was so cute, but he wasn't too sure about it.

Meeting Mr. McGruff!

This table was full of stuff that has melted in house fires. It was pretty cool.

Overall it was a fun day!!

It's the end of the world as we know it.......and I feel fine?

I know I'm totally crazy. I watched this movie the other night, and since then I am totally freaking out about the end of the world. The one scene where the california coast is sliding into the ocean? Yeah, that's me. So while I am on this subject, assuming that this movie was hollywood hype, and that's not the disaster that I need to be preparing for.......what is everyone doing to prepare? We are starting to get all of our food storage ready, but it's all so confusing and there are so many ways to do it. What are you all doing?

Finally getting some stuff done!!

After living her for almost a year we finally got a mantle for our fireplace!!

And we are tackling our backyard! We put in this wall along the back fence to replace an old wood one that was there. And then we put in this cool fire pit and boxes on the side that will hold firewood and the kids backyard toys. It's gonna be fun to use when it stops raining. Right now it's just becoming a swimming pool!!

Who's Who?

Wow! Do they look the same or what?

Birthday Presents!

We quickly opened his presents before Adriann went to school today. He had fun ripping everything open.

Great Grandpa and Great Gram gave him a dollar!

Grandma and Grandpa Ekman gave him some nice new clothes and 2 Elmo books which were his favorite!!

The best picture I could get, they were all a little too excited and wouldn't sit for a picture.

Happy Birthday my big one year old!!

HAPPY 1ST BIRTHDAY KAMDEN!!

Wow, I can't believe how fast this year has flown and that Kamden is 1! We had to celebrate his birthday a few days early since Akoni was going out of town, so here are the pictures from his pre-birthday celebration with his cake.

Kenyon's 5th Birthday Party

Kenyon wanted a StarWars themed Birthday party and since I had already made the Light Saber cake I found this cute idea for cupcakes with their own Light Saber on top. Yes, they are sopposed to be Light Sabers.

He had such a fun "Boy Party"! He was glad he didn't have to share the day with Adriann.

And look who showed up!! Thanks Darth for being such a good sport and letting the boys all defeat you!!

I have got to get me one of these!!!

This would solve all my storage problems!

Kenyon's Birthday

Kenyon had such a fun birthday. He had no school and so I told him he could do whatever he wanted. All he wanted to do was watch TV! So he got a ton of tube time and I made his cake. Yeah it took me all day, I know it doesn't look like it was hard, but for some reason it took me forever! It's sopposed to be a light saber. He likes Star Wars right now and wanted a Light Saber cake, so this was the best I could do.

Kenyon's Birthday Wish was that it would rain DS's and video games! We told him that was the only way he would ever get one, so keep on wishing!!!

Talking to Grandma and Grandpa telling them thanks for his FAVORITE present, no not the helmet he is wearing, but an ELECTRIC BLANKET for his bed!! He wants to sleep with us every night because we have a heater blanket, and so all he asked for for his birthday, well except for having it rain DS's, was a heater blanket!! Thank you for a night of peaceful sleeping!

Gammy and Papa Ganir got him a McDonalds Gift Card and he could not wait to use it!

Auntie Rachel is always so awesome with her money gifts!! Kenyon took his sweet time at the store today figuring out what he wanted. (look below)

He finally decided on 3 Bakugan figures! I still don't know what in the world Bakugan's are or do, but he loves them and at least these ones don't transform into balls, so I don't have to constantly be stepping on them or listening to the kids throwing them on the ground so they pop open into some strange creature! Thanks auntie for the fun gift!!

Happy #5 Kenyon!!

Can't believe that my little guy is 5! This is one of my favorite pictures of him!! I love his vampire teeth!

FYI......

Did you know that if you take your SIM card out of your phone, it can still call the police? Kamden called the police twice from my cardless phone last night and the cops came to our house because I yelled "get off the phone" when he was playing with my phone and they thought I had yelled "get off of me"!! It was a big misunderstanding, but at least I know the police will be to my house in less than 1 minute if I ever need them!!

Adriann's 7th Birthday Party

Adriann and Kenyon's Birthdays are 3 weeks apart, so we have always done their parties together. Plus their friends have always been siblings, so it just seemed more cost effective to have a joint party. Well since all of those sibling friends have moved away, thanks military, they don't really have any friends that are from the same family.

So this year we started to plan their joint party and Adriann informed me that she wanted only girls! So I figured she was old enough that yeah she probably didn't want little boys at her party, plus she wanted to do a girl themed party. We started trying to figure out who to invite. She wanted to invite her whole school class! 25 kids! I said, how about just the girls. There are 15 girls in her class!! So then we said, how about just your girl church friends? There are a whole lot less than 15 at church. So she picked out all by herself who she wanted to come. Plus the adorable girl we carpool with since she invited Adriann to her party, you know all this party politics is driving me nuts!! So she invited some friends, had a princess themed party and it was a blast. They had pizza, made candy bracelets, played pin the jewel on the crown, ate cake, and had popcorn while watching Barbie and The Three Musketeers!!