it's been a while....
10 years ago
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
ALL BOY!
Kaden has found a new love.....Grandpa's 4-wheeler. He gets so excited when Grandpa gets it out. He loves to have Grandpa rev the engine. Should I be worried?? When I tried to remove him from his ride he threw a fit. Guess it's time to invest in some boy toys!!
Kaden's Masterpiece
Kaden is full of mischief these days. The girls had been drawing with markers and he escaped with one....next thing I knew he was drawing a masterpiece of his own. Luckily this wall was already scheduled to be painted with our downstairs remodel.
What's the Weather Like??
It seems as if Spring is still trying to emerge here in Utah. It has been mostly rainy with few scattered sunshine. Although we love the moisture it has hampered our soccer season a bit. The other day the coach from the other team said...rain or shine....we are playing. And play we did. Here were are to prove it. WET! WET! WET! The girls on the right came late.....hence they are not as wet as us on the left.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Lucky....
I'm feelin lucky today....I'm enjoying a quite afternoon on the computer. Our lives have been crazy lately. We have had some people working in our basement so I don't get on the computer plus Kaden has been on a really weird nap schedule the last few weeks. I blame day light savings....see what you miss AZons!! So today the workers have left and Kaden is down for a nap. All the stars aligned for a nice afternoon on the computer. LUCKY DAY!! So here's an update on our lives.
Yesterday Mckenna came home from school frantic that a Leprechaun stole her library book. She was determined to catch a leprechaun and take him to school with her. She told us how they are attracted to shinny things so she found a box and wrapped it in tinfoil....then she placed some food and candy gold coins in the box. She put a sign on the box that read "Free Food in here and Gold." All in hopes that a leprechaun might come along and be fooled to get in the box. She even asked me to leave a night light on so that the Leprechaun would see the gold. Unfortunately no Lepracon was caught last night....maybe we will try again tonight. The kids did find gold though. We left a path of Gold Coins that lead to a lucky pot of Gold and a Box of Lucky Charms for Breakfast....(you all know cereal is my cooking specialty). Anyway they all had fun this morning. Later in the morning Mia and I were discussing Leprechauns....and she decided since they like shiny things like gold they would love the brass plates! Gotta love that.
Catch Up.....AGAIN!!
I looked at my last post.....another month has flown by. Here are a few highlights!
I celebrated a birthday....Mckenna snapped these shots of me.... MAKING A WISH....notice the smoke! Great Job Mckenna.
Dr. Suess also celebrated a birthday (same day as mine). Mckenna got to dress up for this event. She was Thing 2 and her friend Carter was Thing 1. Thanks Heather for the costumes!!
Mckenna dressed up again for literacy week. They dressed up as a favorite character in a book. Mckenna chose to be Katy from the book Katy No Pocket. (A Kangaroo with no pouch so she finds an apron instead). I love that book. It is fun to see her excited about reading.
I hosted a baby shower. It was a win win situation. My friend and I decided to throw the shower since no one had offered. I had two weeks to get my house in order. It was nice to have an incentive to get some things done that I have been wanting to do for a long time. I haven't done much since I was pregnant with Kaden.....and now that he is a year old I guess it is about time. I finally finally finally (we've only lived here 3 1/2 years) painted over the "HOMEMADE MEMORIES" sign in our kitchen that was left by the previous owners. I don't know why I didn't do that sooner. I fixed and painted the baseboards.......from when we put wood in 2 years ago. OK maybe I am embarrassing myself. Yea, we don't get things done too quick around here. Too many others things that take our time. I got a few new decorations to go above our kitchen cupboards.....now that took time. Thanks to all of you for your never ending input....especially Matt. Does this look good? Do you like this better? Should I move this? Each day he came home to a different arrangement! You all know I don't make decisions well! Happy to report that I haven't rearranged them in almost a week now! Oh brother!! Anyway the shower went well. My sister in law, Heather, gave me some darling ideas to decorate the shower with. She told me to take some pictures.....I forgot to take them while it was decorated so these pictures are after the fact. At the shower we had the jars sitting in Tule. I just filled the jars with things I had around the house. The funniest part about it was when I took Mia's little bear and put it in the jar. She told me that she thought Missy (the girl we were having the shower for) was allergic to bears so I might not want to use the bear as a decoration ....obviously Mia really didn't want me using her bear. It was cute. Missy was Mia's nursery leader. She loves her. Like I mentioned I just put things in the jar that I had around the house and all I needed to buy was some ribbon and some scrapbook paper to go around the napkins. 5 scrapbook stores later....I decided to make my own paper with digital scrapbooking supplies. None of the stores had brown and blue paper!!......they all had to include the color green in there too....urrrr. That would have totally messed up my color scheme. JK. But you know I still made the paper so maybe I wasn't joking. Sometimes my prefection really drives me crazy!!
We spent a fun day out with the Willey Girls. We attended Disney on Ice. We had a wonderful time with Grandma Mimi, Mimi, Ellie, Mckenna, and Mia. Mia's favorite part was of course Ariel and Mckenna liked it all. I loved Peter Pan and Tinker Belle! Makes me want to head back to Disneyland.
The other day Mia's cheeks were flushed looking so I asked her why her cheeks were red. She said, "Nothing is wrong with my cheeks mom, I am just turning into a mother." Made me start to think.....do I ware a lot of blush or what???? It made me laugh. She is so funny. She is always making me laugh.
Yesterday Mckenna came home from school frantic that a Leprechaun stole her library book. She was determined to catch a leprechaun and take him to school with her. She told us how they are attracted to shinny things so she found a box and wrapped it in tinfoil....then she placed some food and candy gold coins in the box. She put a sign on the box that read "Free Food in here and Gold." All in hopes that a leprechaun might come along and be fooled to get in the box. She even asked me to leave a night light on so that the Leprechaun would see the gold. Unfortunately no Lepracon was caught last night....maybe we will try again tonight. The kids did find gold though. We left a path of Gold Coins that lead to a lucky pot of Gold and a Box of Lucky Charms for Breakfast....(you all know cereal is my cooking specialty). Anyway they all had fun this morning. Later in the morning Mia and I were discussing Leprechauns....and she decided since they like shiny things like gold they would love the brass plates! Gotta love that.
Catch Up.....AGAIN!!
I looked at my last post.....another month has flown by. Here are a few highlights!
I celebrated a birthday....Mckenna snapped these shots of me.... MAKING A WISH....notice the smoke! Great Job Mckenna.
Dr. Suess also celebrated a birthday (same day as mine). Mckenna got to dress up for this event. She was Thing 2 and her friend Carter was Thing 1. Thanks Heather for the costumes!!
Mckenna dressed up again for literacy week. They dressed up as a favorite character in a book. Mckenna chose to be Katy from the book Katy No Pocket. (A Kangaroo with no pouch so she finds an apron instead). I love that book. It is fun to see her excited about reading.
I hosted a baby shower. It was a win win situation. My friend and I decided to throw the shower since no one had offered. I had two weeks to get my house in order. It was nice to have an incentive to get some things done that I have been wanting to do for a long time. I haven't done much since I was pregnant with Kaden.....and now that he is a year old I guess it is about time. I finally finally finally (we've only lived here 3 1/2 years) painted over the "HOMEMADE MEMORIES" sign in our kitchen that was left by the previous owners. I don't know why I didn't do that sooner. I fixed and painted the baseboards.......from when we put wood in 2 years ago. OK maybe I am embarrassing myself. Yea, we don't get things done too quick around here. Too many others things that take our time. I got a few new decorations to go above our kitchen cupboards.....now that took time. Thanks to all of you for your never ending input....especially Matt. Does this look good? Do you like this better? Should I move this? Each day he came home to a different arrangement! You all know I don't make decisions well! Happy to report that I haven't rearranged them in almost a week now! Oh brother!! Anyway the shower went well. My sister in law, Heather, gave me some darling ideas to decorate the shower with. She told me to take some pictures.....I forgot to take them while it was decorated so these pictures are after the fact. At the shower we had the jars sitting in Tule. I just filled the jars with things I had around the house. The funniest part about it was when I took Mia's little bear and put it in the jar. She told me that she thought Missy (the girl we were having the shower for) was allergic to bears so I might not want to use the bear as a decoration ....obviously Mia really didn't want me using her bear. It was cute. Missy was Mia's nursery leader. She loves her. Like I mentioned I just put things in the jar that I had around the house and all I needed to buy was some ribbon and some scrapbook paper to go around the napkins. 5 scrapbook stores later....I decided to make my own paper with digital scrapbooking supplies. None of the stores had brown and blue paper!!......they all had to include the color green in there too....urrrr. That would have totally messed up my color scheme. JK. But you know I still made the paper so maybe I wasn't joking. Sometimes my prefection really drives me crazy!!
We spent a fun day out with the Willey Girls. We attended Disney on Ice. We had a wonderful time with Grandma Mimi, Mimi, Ellie, Mckenna, and Mia. Mia's favorite part was of course Ariel and Mckenna liked it all. I loved Peter Pan and Tinker Belle! Makes me want to head back to Disneyland.
The other day Mia's cheeks were flushed looking so I asked her why her cheeks were red. She said, "Nothing is wrong with my cheeks mom, I am just turning into a mother." Made me start to think.....do I ware a lot of blush or what???? It made me laugh. She is so funny. She is always making me laugh.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Catch Up! If you Can.....
BIRTHDAYS
A few weeks later it was Mia’s turn to celebrate. Mia anticipates her birthday for weeks and has grand expectations. She notes all the things Mckenna does and wants the same attention. Can’t blame her there. Mia told me, "I can’t wait for my birthday because you get whatever you want.” I am not sure where she came up with that concept but I am using that philosophy on my birthday. She picked "Under the Sea" for her birthday theme. For her birthday we put the birthday sheets on her bed the night before her birthday and she woke up to a bedroom filled with PINK balloons (pink at her request). That started off a “Perfect Mia Day.” We had donuts for breakfast, had Ellie over to play, watched The Little Mermaid, she painted her own nails, had hot dogs for lunch, went swimming with her cousins Abby and Eric and Grandma Jacobson, got PJ’s shes been wanting, had Mac n Cheese for dinner, enjoyed a birthday celebration with Grandma and Grandpa Mimi, Britt, Spencer and Ellie. We had Little Mermaid cupcakes and bubblegum Ice Cream. All in all that was a perfect Mia day! She told me birthdays are sad because they only last one day. She’s learning quick. Don’t we all wish our birthday could last forever….get whatever you want, everyone tells you how much they love you, eat unhealthy meals without thinking twice, etc. I agree.
10 days later we celebrated Kaden’s first birthday. We did a Chinese celebration for his birthday. We did this for a couple of reasons. First of all Matt served a Viet mission and in their culture your 1st birthday is huge. After that they don’t really celebrate birthdays. 2nd we celebrated his birthday on February 9th. (His birthday is the 10th but Matt had Bishopric.) Matt and I got engaged on February 9th and Inside the fortune cookie was "Will you marry me?" So we thought it would be fun to celebrate the memory of that too. We had Chinese food and fortune cookies dipped in white chocolate. It was a fun night. We ended with a raspberry cheesecake icecream cake (delicious). We lit the candle and Kaden put it out all right…..not with blowing but by grabbing it. He did is so fast we didn’t have time to grab him. Glad it didn’t hurt him. Kaden is such a joy right now. Granite he is is into everything but I wish I could just bottle him up and preserve this stage. I love watching him walk (wabble) and try to talk. I just want to squeeze him and kiss him all the time.
MILESTONES
Our joy this last month has been watching Kaden expand his mobility. He started walking and mastering the stairs. He loves to slide down them on his belly. Can't imagine where he got that from....Jacobson Cousins!! We figure now that he has his walking down.....he can help around the house (hence the pictures below). JK We were over at my parents house the other night and he came walking out of her bathroom with the garbage can. He loves garbage cans. Everything we have put in.....he empties out. Lovely!
Friday, January 16, 2009
Out of Commission
We've been a little under the weather lately....but I think we are going to make it. Gotta love this time of year. Mckenna informed me that she wants to move somewhere warm so we won't get sick. I informed her that her cousins in AZ and TX still get sick in the winter! I don't blame her though! I have tried to recapture our last few weeks......
Monday, January 5, 2009
HAPPRY BIRTHDAY MCKENNA
Our sweet little Mckenna turned 7 this weekend. She is such a joy to have in our family. Mckenna at 7 - loves playing card games, playing her DS, gymnastics, soccer, friends, jump roping, playing on the computer, staying up late, drinking hot chocolate, making crafts (and messes), reading, playing spy and going out to eat! It is hard to believe 7 years have gone by since she joined our family.
Mckenna had a fun filled birthday. She started off the day with going out to Breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa Mimi, went to the movie Bedtime Stories, enjoyed the company of her friend Carter, made homemade suckers, went to dinner and then ended the day ice skating with her Grandma and Grandpa. She's looking forward to a "Rock Climbing" birthday party with her friends in 2 weeks. (They wouldn't schedule birthday parties during the holidays.) So her birthday is ..... to be continued.
Mckenna had a fun filled birthday. She started off the day with going out to Breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa Mimi, went to the movie Bedtime Stories, enjoyed the company of her friend Carter, made homemade suckers, went to dinner and then ended the day ice skating with her Grandma and Grandpa. She's looking forward to a "Rock Climbing" birthday party with her friends in 2 weeks. (They wouldn't schedule birthday parties during the holidays.) So her birthday is ..... to be continued.
The Holdiay Season
We have had 2 full weeks of family fun. Life will probably seem a little boring now. We enjoyed spending time with Matt's family before Christmas, Christa's family after Christmas and all the parties in-between.
Matt's Family
Matt's Mom and Dad have lots of fun traditions around Christmas. Here are a few we enjoyed this holiday season.
CHRISTMAS ATTIRE
COOKIE TRAINS
Each year we make cookie trains at Matt's parents. The kids really look forward to this occasion.
FAMILY COMING HOME
We look forward to Matt's brothers coming home over the holidays. They both live out of state and we don't get to spend much time with them. Matt's brother Travis and his family came this year. The kids particularly love when they come. Travis is a fun uncle. He took the girls to the movie, played with them in the snow, went sledding, 4-wheeling, teased them, etc. We look forward to next year when all of Matt's family will be home for Christmas. We missed Brian and Katy this year.
Travis , Mckenna and Frosty (with oreo eyes and buttons)
Travis, Sienna and Mckenna (on top)
Mckenna catching some air (sledding) in Grandma Mimi's backyard
CHRISTMAS EVE
READING THE STORY OF CHRIST'S BIRTH
We have always gone to Matt's parents on Christmas Eve. Matt's dad reads the Christmas story. While he is reading, Matt's mom helps the grandkids put the images from the story on a Cloth Christmas Tree (ie Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, the Star, Camel, Wise Men, etc.). It is a fun way to get the kids involved in the story.
CHRISTMAS EVE PJ's
Matt's parents give the grandkids Christmas PJ's on Christmas Eve. My kids love this tradition. They always know they will be getting them....and wonder what they will look like.
The Grandkids (minus the 3 from Texas)
CHRISTA'S FAMILY
Christa's two brothers and their families came in after Christmas. Never a dull moment around here. We enjoyed entertaining ourselves and eating mom's good food. I think we played in the snow 90% of the time - we were either sledding, 4-wheeling in it, skiing or just playing in it. Rich and Heather don't see much snow in AZ so they have to get their year supply while they are here.
Matt and Mia pull the sledders behind the four wheeler
Mckenna, Mia, Grandma and Richard
The Audience (watch out for that snowball coming right at you - thanks Chris!!)
SKIING AT ALTA
Mia - Loves to Pose!
Mckenna
Sierrah, Mia and Christa
Sierrah and Mckenna on top of the World!
Sierrah and Mckenna riding on the lift
Mia and Sierrah on top of the World!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR
My brother Rich made a quick trip to Wyoming......his purchases provided our New Year's Eve Fun!!
Grandma helping the kids come up with New Year's Resolutions!!
MAKING FRESH LEMONADE
Rich and Heather brought up fresh lemons from their tree in AZ - the kids had fun squeezing the juice out of them. The rest of us enjoyed the end product - fresh lemonade. YUM!
That wraps up our holiday fun. We miss having everyone around.
Matt's Family
Matt's Mom and Dad have lots of fun traditions around Christmas. Here are a few we enjoyed this holiday season.
CHRISTMAS ATTIRE
COOKIE TRAINS
Each year we make cookie trains at Matt's parents. The kids really look forward to this occasion.
FAMILY COMING HOME
We look forward to Matt's brothers coming home over the holidays. They both live out of state and we don't get to spend much time with them. Matt's brother Travis and his family came this year. The kids particularly love when they come. Travis is a fun uncle. He took the girls to the movie, played with them in the snow, went sledding, 4-wheeling, teased them, etc. We look forward to next year when all of Matt's family will be home for Christmas. We missed Brian and Katy this year.
Travis , Mckenna and Frosty (with oreo eyes and buttons)
Travis, Sienna and Mckenna (on top)
Mckenna catching some air (sledding) in Grandma Mimi's backyardCHRISTMAS EVE
READING THE STORY OF CHRIST'S BIRTH
We have always gone to Matt's parents on Christmas Eve. Matt's dad reads the Christmas story. While he is reading, Matt's mom helps the grandkids put the images from the story on a Cloth Christmas Tree (ie Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, the Star, Camel, Wise Men, etc.). It is a fun way to get the kids involved in the story.
CHRISTMAS EVE PJ's
Matt's parents give the grandkids Christmas PJ's on Christmas Eve. My kids love this tradition. They always know they will be getting them....and wonder what they will look like.
The Grandkids (minus the 3 from Texas)
CHRISTA'S FAMILY
Christa's two brothers and their families came in after Christmas. Never a dull moment around here. We enjoyed entertaining ourselves and eating mom's good food. I think we played in the snow 90% of the time - we were either sledding, 4-wheeling in it, skiing or just playing in it. Rich and Heather don't see much snow in AZ so they have to get their year supply while they are here.
Matt and Mia pull the sledders behind the four wheeler
Mckenna, Mia, Grandma and Richard
The Audience (watch out for that snowball coming right at you - thanks Chris!!)SKIING AT ALTA
Mia - Loves to Pose!
Mckenna
Sierrah, Mia and Christa
Sierrah and Mckenna on top of the World!
Sierrah and Mckenna riding on the lift
Mia and Sierrah on top of the World!!HAPPY NEW YEAR
My brother Rich made a quick trip to Wyoming......his purchases provided our New Year's Eve Fun!!
Grandma helping the kids come up with New Year's Resolutions!!MAKING FRESH LEMONADE
Rich and Heather brought up fresh lemons from their tree in AZ - the kids had fun squeezing the juice out of them. The rest of us enjoyed the end product - fresh lemonade. YUM!
That wraps up our holiday fun. We miss having everyone around.
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