Done

We've back-posted (and front-posted) a few more things.  I think this makes us completely caught up.  Now we can sit back and get behind again - hooray! (j/k)  Here are the dates to look for, if you're interested:
September 19, October 30, January 16, January 19, January 31, February 26, March 15, and March 16.

Happy 4th Birthday Megan

We didn't mean for it to become a tradition, but since Katelyn's birthday last year the girls expect that a birthday breakfast has to be breakfast in bed. And, why not? Megan's birthday breakfast choice was a chocolate sprinkle donut. I added the banana to try to make it look healthy...it wasn't even touched.

Our day then moved to the Phoenix Zoo. It's nice to have Megan's birthday during Spring Break. Then we get all the cousins to join in the festivities!

Keep your eyes open, WILD animals ahead!

About mid-morning, the kids started to say they were hungry for a snack. We brought the leftover breakfast donuts to share.
Mmmmmm....donuts.

Megan asked all morning to see the zebras. We finally made it there, and it looks like Megan was on her way in! She climbed as high as she could on all the fences. She didn't really ever try to go inside, she still had enough fear of the animals. I think she just wanted to be taller and get the best view.

This is our attempt at a cousins picture in front of the elephants. Here we got not so much elephant and an attempt by Blake to run away. We love all of you!

Stroller buddies! Brock had the right idea to take a nap. Adam finally did give in around lunch time and he took a small nap too.

Thank you zoo for a fun outing! The kids enjoyed it.

The evening party was all chocolate, chocolate, chocolate...Megan's favorite food group. Her birthday cake was a chocolate cake with chocolate chips inside, chocolate icing, and covered in M&Ms. When we asked her what she wanted for her birthday, she said, "I don't know, but it's going to be pink and purple." We decided to that pink and purple M&Ms on the cake would do the trick.

Happy birthday princess Megan! We love you!

Gorgeous weather

Katelyn has Spring Break this week and the weather couldn't be better. The kids played outside most of the day today. Adam has discovered that he LOVES the outside. He found a puddle and started playing in it, so since his pants were wet, we just took them off. Ahh, who needs them anyway in this weather?

Catch-up time at it's best

I'm starting to post again! Except, I'm going to put it chronologically as it really happened, so you'll want to scroll down or look at the archive to make sure you've seen everything since September. We also added the video to the girls dancing at the State Fair, a must see. And, although this seems like a lot of posts, get excited....I'm not done yet!

I made it!

In Primary, we have decided to teach sharing time for the entire month to keep the theme consistent for the month. February was my turn and I made it through! I think I had some good teaching moments, some great teaching moments, and some not so good teaching moments. But I am closer to knowing most of the kids names, and that is a huge accomplishment for me. I'll take it.

Dad said you could do what?

We went to the Hermosa Vista Elementary School carnival fund raiser last night and had a really good time.  Katelyn was a monster on the rock wall, Megan owned the bounce house, and Adam was a champ in the stroller.  Amy and her family came along to enjoy the carnival with us.

I went there straight from work and met up with the group to walk around with the kids and dish out the tickets. At one point, I had to go meet Kaley in the parking lot (she wanted to borrow Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs), so I had the girls come along.  Near the parking lot was the station where they were hairspray painting kids hair.  Katelyn asked if she could do it, and then Megan did too.  I was happy to go through the tickets and move on to the next thing, and figured it wouldn't hurt, so I said yes.  Katelyn picked orange, because they didn't have brown.  :)  Yep, she wanted her wacky hair color to be brown!  Megan went with blue because they were out of purple.  The good news is that it is washing out good and will be out for church tomorrow.  I suppose the bad news is the look that I got from Cassi when she saw what I let them do.  :)  I think Amy was siding with Cassi.  I told Katelyn it's a once-a-year deal, so she doesn't get any ideas.

After the carnival, we all went back to our house for movie night and then Amy's crew went home and we got the kids in bed.  Here's how they looked last night going to bed (Megan is faking asleep much better than Katelyn).  You can barely see the blue streak in Megan's hair.  By the end of the night, that's how she preferred it. :)

My baby turned ONE!

I know I say this every time I reach an age milestone, but I REALLY can't believe Adam is ONE! He is such a good baby. He started walking at 11 months, and is a pretty accomplished walker now. That is early for my kids. He still looks too small to be walking. Adam's favorite toy is a ball. I think I'll just claim that this is his first word. I made him an ice cream cake shaped like a basketball. We invited family over for dinner. Then when Chris got home from work, we opened presents and had cake and ice cream. Of course, Adam loved his first introduction to cake. We just love having Adam in our family!