Beautiful Day

We have been having more and more good days lately but haven't made it to the park yet. We told the kids we would go feed the ducks on Friday after school but when there was a blizzard outside when I picked them up that idea fell through. Steve had to work Saturday morning so when he left and went to the temple and the tempertures raised a little we headed off to the park. It was still a little breezy but the kids still had fun and got a little energy out that has been building up all winter.

Space Derby

We just had the Cub Scout Space Derby in our ward. I don't know who was more excited Damen or Steve. As Dad's are, Steve helped out A LOT. I had to keep telling him to let Damen do some things. But Damen was so proud of his "Shark" Rocket. The worked hard on it and it paid off. He won the first race, but it only went half way. The second he didn't win and it still only went half way. He came over pretty upset and started to cry. The funny thing was is during the opening prayer one of the 8 year old scouts prayed that no one would cry if they lost, all the adults started chuckling, but I guess it really was needed. After that though he won two more races and the rocket went all the way to the end (we prayed hard for that). All in all it was fun and "my boys" had fun working on it and racing it. But we are glad it's over.

painting the rocket

all done painting


finished product

ready to race

with his partner Damen (J/K)

The Race

(his is the silver one that goes the furthest)

Can't Hold Still

So as I mentioned in another post Railey can't hold still for anything. Which is fine and I really don't expect my little almost two year old to hold still, in fact I think I would wonder what was wrong if she did but it sure makes taking pictures really hard!

What the wound looks like now.

My climber

So Railey was out walking on the wall and we thought it was super cute (cause the wasps aren't out yet!), she is our little climber and has been climbing up on everything. We were glad to see her climbing outside instead of up on cupboards that was until...

she fell and cut her chin open then she was crying hysterically.

Two Months Old!

McKenna is now two months old! Holy Cow where has the time gone? She is now up to 14 lbs. I think that's the smallest. All the rest of the kids were at least 15 lbs by two months. She continues to get cuter and the cheeks chubbier. I am starting to see a little bit of Seth in her but not as much as everyone else can see. She continues to sleep through the night thank heavens and she is starting to make little gurgling sounds which is super cute and she is starting to smile all the time. She also loves the song "Beautiful Kenna"and always smiles during that. For some reason she is much better at posing for pictures right now than Railey is (next post). We sure do love her and are so glad she decided to come join us.

Girls Weekend

This past weekend I went with all my sister-in-laws and Mom down to St. George, Darc didn't want to come with being a few weeks away from having a baby and all. We had a great time. We soaked up some sun on Friday and went to dinner and played some games and then went swimming when it was raining on Sat. It was fun to get away and be with everyone and just have some girly conversations. I had to take along Kenna of course and she actually did really well, but got sick of her car seat but did sleep through the night the whole time. We were the party poopers and went to bed earlier than everyone else, I just couldn't keep my eyes open!

All minus Darc

Too cute to not post.

This is how I felt trying to keep my eyes open

But this is what would happen to me a few minutes later

Here's Kenna and Brindee (sp?) playing with each other they kept grabbing each others hands.

At last!

Kenna has now slept through the night the last two nights in a row. I was going to blog about it yesterday but didn't want it to jinx last night. It didn't though because she slept another 8 hours last night. I was starting to get a little perturbed because both Seth and Railey were sleeping through the night at 5 weeks. I took Kenna 2 weeks longer but she was also my smallest maybe that has something to do with it. Who knows, I'm just glad to be getting some sleep.

Many Faces

Railey has many faces. She is very expressive with her eyes, I love it. She will look at us out of the corner of her eyes with her head cocked, open them wide, squint them when she smiles, somehow she can even laugh with her eyes. She gets it from her Dad, Steve has very expressive eyes too. I only caught a few and hope to catch some more because they make us laugh all the time.

Smiles

Kenna was all smiles this morning! I know some are blurry but she and I were both laughing. She does have a beautiful smile in our humble little opionion.

All in a matter of days

You saw how we were out in the yard working and power raking the lawn on Monday and Tuesday. Then on Wednesday Steve went out and transplanted a few plants and puttered around again all because the weather was beautiful and in the high 50's. Well then we woke up this morning to this:

That is 5 inches of HEAVY WET SNOW!!!

The kids are out of school today. So instead of going to the park how about skiing?

Better than Leaves!

We went out and thatched the front yard today and had it all raked up into a pile when the kids got home from school so what did they do, they had to play in them. What's better than leaves? Grass!

Seth in his King bed says "Go fetch me some fruit juice"

Finally a family picture