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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Halloween 2010- How to Train Your Dragon

This year we all went as characters from "How to Train Your Dragon." Brian was Stoic, Jami was Astrid, Brinley was Death Nadder or the Blue Dragon, Matt was Night Fury and Addi was just a cute pink winged creature. We had watched the movie the week prior and Matt loved it. He wanted to be Night Fury for Halloween so at the last minute (literally) I threw together these costumes. I had all the fabric thanks to Karen's garage sale pile! :)
Blue Dragon and Night Fury

Matt loved being Night Fury. Once he got his costume on he thought he could fly and was jumping off the couch and doing belly flops onto the big pillows!




Brian always seems to have some kind of dead creature hanging on him for Halloween! Last year it was a dead snake and this year it was a bear skin on his back, a fox on his belt and a sheep skull from his neck!!

We went to our ward Trunk-or-Treat and had a yummy dinner, played games and of course got lots of candy!

This is my friend Shanda and her little pea pod and me holding my pink dragon.


Getting ready for candy!!

So cute!

 
Addi liked the suckers.

Excited?


Wednesday, September 1, 2010

The kids decided to help us mop....

Head Banging

Addi's Attitude

Sunday, August 22, 2010

1st Day of Kindergaten

Brinley was so excited for the first day of school. She was dressed and ready 3 hours before we had to go. The whole week prior she had a countdown for every day that passed. The second day she was there for the whole 3 hours. After I picked her up she said that kindergarten felt like "30 hundred thousand hours." She is too cute and growing up too fast!
We walked to school on the first day. The kids were so excited.
Brinley and Matt are such cute little friends.
Mom. Brinley 5. Matt 3. Addi 10 months.
Daddy with the kids.
Brinley and Daddy
Brinley and Mommy
Brinley so cute and excited for the first day of school.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Broken Heart and a Contrite Spirit

Tonight for scriptures we were reading out of the Book of Mormon and read about having a "broken heart and a contrite spirit." Brian asked the kids what they thought that meant...

Matt: "A girl fell in the fire and saw a bear in there and then the bear helped her out" (Matt is quite the story teller and it usually includes lots of  AND THEN'S, and GUESS WHAT's (pronounced GISS WHAT),  MONSTERS, and HE DIED's.)

Brinley: "You have a boyfriend in California and he goes away for the summer and you really miss him." When we asked for clarification she said this..."When your boyfriend leaves and you've been dating him in the springtime and hes gone from his trip and your broken hearted." I think she is getting Karen and Shayla's stories mixed together! :) I think that girl hears and comprehends more than I know!!

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On Saturday we were dejunking a bit and decided to take our D.I. pile to the ARC (which is the equivalent to D.I. out here). I had previously gone through Brinley's room and found lots of stuff she didn't play with anymore and stuck the stuff in the "pile". As I was documenting everything for taxes Brinley kept coming over and checking everything out. She kept saying that I had her toys and that she "had good eyes" and could see all her toys hidden in the pile. She got upset when I wouldn't let her take her stuff back and went crying and stomping her feet off into the house.

Well today (Sunday) out of the blue Brinley says to Brian,

 "Heavenly Father answered my prayer yesterday."

Brian: "Really, tell me about it."

Brinley: "Yesterday when Mom took all my stuff and I wanted to keep some of my stuff and Mom wouldn't let me I said a prayer that I could keep some things and then I went downstairs and Mom said I could keep some of my toys."

Super cute girl....She doesn't know that I am going to make another ARC run when she starts school!! :)

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Family Pics

A couple weeks ago we all matched for church so we snapped a few pictures. I thought they turned out pretty cute. I wanted to get some pictures with everyone together but Matt ran off and changed too fast. He changes 3 or 4 times a day and it drives me crazy! Brinley loves to pose for the camera and Addi is such a cutie pie....she is growing up way too fast. 



Brinley is such a good helper with Addi. Addi just loves her!

Monday, June 7, 2010

Time to lower the crib...


Saturday, May 15, 2010

Kids Say the Funniest Things!

Matthew

*My Dad has come to visit a couple times in the last few months and my kids love him especially Matt. My Dad bought him a ball and bat a couple times ago. After my Dad left Matt was sitting on the stairs holding his ball and bat looking all sad and said,

         "Hey Mommy, I really miss Papa."

*After trying to go potty:

           "I tried but I didn't go. I lost my pee in there."

*Trying to help Matt get dressed...he is very picky...he usually only wants "awesome long levi's", Cody or Carters clothes, or well.... thats about all he wears these days.

          "I need you a pick out the shirt I want!"

Brinley

*She was giving the family night lesson and showed a picture of a bunch of men (with lots of different nationalities) blessing a baby. It was also during the time that we usually go to Mexico and so we had been talking a lot about Mexico. She showed us the picture and asked us what the picture was about. We told her it was a baby getting blessed. She then said, "Now lets count the Mexicans..1, 2, 3, 4,"

*Matthew had been potty training and had been having a hard time hitting the water in the toilet the whole time. Brinley had just gone potty when she walked out and said,

          "Can Matt start going potty in your Bathroom because I keep feeling wet on the floor and it's pee!"


*After hearing that Grandma K burned her wedding dress..

          "Grandma K is out of her mind. She should have not burned it...she should have selled it!"

Sunday, May 2, 2010

What's Up?

I went to my blog for the first time in awhile and thought it was time to not have the stupid snake story be the first post to read! So.....

Little Miss Addi...she is very quiet and calm and yet seems to always be getting into things.A couple of weeks ago she ate a candy wrapper she found on the floor and started to gag and throw up. I heard her gagging so I picked her up and then she just kept of throwing up. After 3 or 4 times throwing up I saw the candy wrapper in her mouth and grabbed it out. It was so scary!

Friday night we were at a reception and I gave her a long mint chocolate thing in a wrapper to play with while we were getting food. Next thing I know she has chocolate all over her face, hands and jammies!

Today in church I had her on my lap and I was feeding her tiny pieces of bread and I turned my head for literally 1 second and the next thing I see is a big piece of bread in her hand and more in her mouth. When did she get that??
One more story...she was in her saucer in the kitchen when I realized she was being really quiet. I looked over to see her chewing on paper that she had reached out and grabbed from the garbage can! I have forgotten about the whole baby proofing thing!
We call Addi the "Grabber Girl" because she is constantly trying to grab something! In the picture above she is having a photo shoot with Brinley as the photographer. She gets held A LOT by Brinley. I will often have to tell Brinley to just leave her alone and let her play! Lately she has been a momma's girl and cries when I leave the room. Her first tooth broke through today so hopefully she will be more friendly.
These two keep my hopping! We were working in the yard on Saturday and they made mud and decided to paint themselves.They are so creative and cute playing together.
Matthew has especially been keeping me busy. The other day he clogged the toilet and then decided to take care of it himself during the time I was teaching preschool, dumped out the hermit crab food all over his room and poured water on the leap pad.
 Matthew was also really sick (he has had croup 5 times in the last year) so it was nice to see him taking a nap with Dad. Naps are a rare occasion for him these days.
 He wanted to sleep on the floor??

He is my little sugar shark. We are trying to emphasize being a healthy boy and he had done really good at not stealing marshmallows from the cupboard, running to his room, locking himself in his room, jumping in bed, covering himself and downing a handful of treats!! The popsicle holder is from Grandma K's garage sale pile....one man's junk is another man's treasure!! :)
And I quote, "Hers gonna rip my face off!"
 Miss Brinley is getting so big! She is really taking off with her letters and writing skills. She loves preschool! She is so smart and so helpful. She is  a great eater...she will sometimes eat as much or more than me for dinner! She is also a collector. I remember when she was a little girl she was push her little push toy around and collect rocks from Grandma McDonald's house. She still collects the most random stuff....rocks, leafs, cut outs from preschool, receipts, old papers...etc. She will find something she wants to save and then will ask me for a ziplock bag. I joked about getting her a box of ziplocks for her birthday. She is so cute!

For a G.N.O. my Mom treated the girls to a pedicure and Brinley got to come and get her nails painted. She has been giving pedicures ever since and we LOVE it!

That is what's up with us!