Something about Camping

There is just something about camping.  The kids are so good and so cooperative, always happy and helpful and always hungry so they eat good.  This year we stayed at the KOA in Moab.  It wasn't what we expected, but that didn't stop us from having fun.  They all love to sleep in the tent trailer.  They can all sleep through anything and think it is pretty cool.  Aubrey even sleeps really good in there.  I think they get so worn out that they could sleep on a rock and sleep good!  There was a park right by our campsite with some seriously old playground equipment.  The kids had a blast on it.  They even found a lizard that Dallin almost pulled the tail off of and then some other kids came and took it!

Say "Cheese"

I was playing with Aubrey and taking some pictures of her.  She was being super silly and these were the smiles I got.  The funny thing is that I always smiled like this when I was little.  I always had the crinkled nose smile.  It is good she is so dang cute!

 

St. Patrick's Day

We love excuses to have a fun day!  When I got up the kids told me they made the toilet water blue.  Those crazy leprechauns turned the toilet water green and therefore the kids turned it blue.  They also got a hold of the milk and it was also green.  So we decided to top it all off and made green pancakes.  The boys wanted green hair, so not thinking about what could happen I used food coloring and turned their hair green.  Joe came out and always thinks logically says, "what is going to happen when they get sweaty and it gets on everything?"  and I came back with "Boys don't get sweaty!"  It all ended up ok, no major stains on anything, except Dallin's hair which after 4 days and many washings is still a little green.  I don't know how I got by without a picture of their green hair.  It was quite a sight.

Mason was pretty cute today, when I was dropping him off at school and told him to have a good day and he turned to me and said, "I will have a GREAT day on leprechauns day." He had the biggest smile on his cute little face.  He always has a great day.

  Aubrey posing in her green with crumbs all over her face!

Little Wizard

We get a lot of wand waving going on at our house.  Dallin read all the Harry Potter books this year and got his brothers into it too.  The boys each carved their own wands and play Harry Potter with their friends.  They are always trying to cast spells on me to keep them out of their jobs, but luckily they don't work on me!  They are pretty fun to watch and listen to.  They get pretty creative.

Joe's big day!

 For Joe's birthday, I kept telling him I had a big party planned with everyone he new.  He wasn't liking that idea at all, so I kept building on it to the point that he couldn't decide if I was serious.  In the end he got just what he wanted, lots of hugs and kisses and a pretty mellow party with cake and ice cream.  We are all pretty lucky to have him in our lives.  We love you babe!

Mason Turns 5

I can't believe Mason is 5.  He has been counting down the

days to his birthday for months.  It just couldn't come soon 

enough.  Me on the other hand would like to just keep him

little forever!  We kept asking him what he wanted to do for

his birthday and he would always say, "you know mom, call

Mickey". (Mickey Mouse) I guess I should have known it!
Mason is such a fun kid, always smiling and having fun.
He has so much personality packed in his little body and
never leaves us with a dull moment!  We love you little man.

He is so fun to have surprises for, because he gets excited 

over everything.  We could give him a box of rocks and 

he wouldthink it was the coolest thing ever. (In fact Chase 

did give hima bunch of rocks, and 25 pennies and

he was thrilled)

He woke up to a trail of balloons leading out of his room to some presents. We only let him open 1 that morning and then made him wait until later for the rest. (we are mean parents, just ask him)

The other thing he was sure he was getting was breakfast in bed.  How do you not give it to him!  He thought he was so cool, especially because he got it in mom and dads bed!

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We had a fun construction party with some of his friends.  I made this way cute cake. If you haven't tried chocolate cake with chocolate frosting topped with crushed oreos, you really should!!

We got each kid an apron and a couple tools and we showed them how to use each one.  They sanded a piece of wood.

They measured the wood

They are really cute

They hammered nails and screwed in screws.

Mason and his buddies: Andrew, Jaxson, Mason, Logan, Teiken, Jack and Jaron

He is so excited for his presents

Dallin made him a homemade card and $5 out of his piggy bank. (Mason, thanks for being such a good brother I love you, Dallin}

The kids all got a construction truck and they made their own construction site in the dirt.  They got really creative.

Mason & Jaxson driving their trucks

He finally got to finish opening present

We had to get one picture with his mom to prove I was really there!

Everytime we went to walmart the hot wheels suitcase was what he always wanted to take home.  He was so excited.

We finished the night off with some pizza and root beer and movie night!  I think they were all ready for bed at this point!

Our big girl

Aubrey has decided that she really doesn't like to have a wet diaper.  Everytime she would pee she would take her diaper off.  I usually didn't know when or where, I would find her naked playing with her toys.  We bought her a little potty and she loves it.  Right after bringing it in from the store she wanted to use it.  So I put her on it and she sat there and sat there. (she had never done anything in the toilet before.) I told her to just sit there and let me know when she was done while I put some groceries away.  A minute or so later she comes running in, "Mommy, Mommy"  I asked her if she went potty in the toilet and she said "Yes"  I didn't believe her, but followed her into the bathroom.  And sure enough she went.  But not pee, she pooped.  I think we were both shocked.  She has been using it pretty good and is excited to be so big.

She can't do anything by herself!  Chase was reading her stories while she sat there.