Happy St Patricks Day

Better late than never I guess! Sorry it has taken a while to do posts lately!

We enjoyed wearing our green and eating our green and gold food! Dad was out of town so it was rather simple this year! We had rice and broccoli casserole, green jello salad, green grapes, and sprite. The kids loved it!

Mackenzie had a birthday! Shout HURRAY!

Mackenzie turned 7!!! in February! I can't believe my kiddos are getting so big! She spent the week before her birthday at Disneyland, so her party was the next weekend. She had a lot of fun! We love you Mackenzie! I can't believe that in one year you will get to be baptized!

This is her "little" cake for the family since her party wasn't on her actual birthday.

Her party!!!

So many fun girls! She wanted to have a pajama party and watch Tinkerbell, so we did! It was fun for the girls and easy for me :) what more can you ask for!

Her Tinkerbell cake

She wanted to do the candles HERSELF! Go for it!

All the girls!

Thank you every body for coming! Mackenzie, I hope you had a great 7th birthday and know that we love you!

Our day of LOVE!

We started Valentines day off with the always delicious, pink heart shaped pancakes!

And for dinner ....

Red Enchiladas, Sweetened Beets, Raspberry Jello Salad, and of course, Red Punch! (because we apparently don't learn from our mistakes around here) It was YUMMY!

Happy Valentine's Day!

"Where a kid can be a kid!"

While the big kids and Dad were at Disney for a week, I decided that we didn't have to stay home all day! So we invited our sister in law, Aubrey and her boy to come to Chuck E Cheese with us. The kids had fun running from game to game! I like how they stamp your hand and don't let anyone leave without checking your stamps, it helped me to feel less out of control and let them play.

My cute nephew, Cort

Jordan and Chuck, he is the only one that would go near him!

Every one on the trolley

my kiddos on the fun off road jeep. Now that is what I call, getting your moneys worth! ;)

Our trip to Idaho

At the beginning of February, the little kids and I, and 2 sisters and a nephew, went up to Idaho for the weekend to have a girls weekend and work on some goal setting that we had been wanting to do. One of my sisters lives there and is an amazing gymnastics/cheer leading teacher that she has been able to build a gym right in to her home! The kids LOVE to go there! These are a few pic's of the kids from that weekend. This was another highlight for Jordan! Todd got his snow machine out and was giving kids rides. All of mine, except Jordan, were too scared. He loved it! You could here him clear in the back of their property yelling... "go faster, go faster!" and laughing! How fun is that!!!!

You can barely see Jordan but he's there :)

So cute!

Macie trying out the trampoline in the gym

the kids loved riding this all over in there too!

Laughing so hard they couldn't drive!

Jumping in to the foam pit!

and trying it head first :)

So much fun! Terri's house is always a fun place to go! Brinley even chose to come here instead of going to DISNEYLAND FOR A WEEK!!!! Now that says something! Thanks Terri & Todd, for housing us crazy monkey's all the time! :) We had FUN!

Caught up through January!

Hopefully we'll start on February soon before it's over!

Dallas's Art!

Any one who knows Dallas knows that he LOVES to draw! He is well known in his classes at school for his drawing! This is one of his latest drawings that his teacher had them do. He always goes above and beyond everyone else... according to his teacher! She actually "bought" this one off of him for their school "bucks". He is quite proud! And so are we!!!

It wouldn't load without flipping 2 of them sideways... sorry!

These 2 have the doors closed....

This one is with the doors open.

Little Swimmers!

I PROMISE! I will NOT make this a habit to post pictures of our toilet on the blog! But this is the infamous collection of toys that Cohen gathered to let swim. There were close to 15 things from SEVERAL different rooms of the house! He had worked on this for quite some time. All that time I thought he was being good and kept coming in the toy room while we were dejunking it.... he was dejunking in his own way!

Some of the things you can't see were game pieces, head bands, hair clips, other pieces of paper, and a few doll house furniture pieces. Luckily he hasn't figured out how to "flush"!

Micailey is 9!!!!

The girlies making their bracelets....

Opening presents. Notice Brin.... she insisted that she be in on the Crazy Day too! She got herself dressed COMPLETELY by herself! She loved it too!

Blowing out the candles on her massively big cake! She wanted it to be like the one on her cake plates... so we did! 3 Layers later it was so tall that you had to slice off a SLIVER and that was still too much! But it was YUMMY!

Happy Birthday Micailey!

Crazy Day at School!

Wow! I don't know if I was this bold as a child! But they were SO EXCITED to go to school like this... so what ever! Crazy Day also landed on Micailey's birthday so you will notice some similarities in her birthday pic's... she wouldn't even change for her party!