June 2009

Well, since I'm logged in I might as well take a few minutes and post June happenings.

We went camping in the Colorado Sand Dunes.
We had never been there before. We generally camp up the mountain by the dunes. The kids had a blast. I think Steve was some what impressed too. Yes, they aren't the Oregon dunes, but not to shabby for Colorado.


Kyler

MaKenna

Jake

Another trip to the zoo (Father's Day)

Camping at the lake (Glendo Reservoir actually) in Wyoming.

This was another 1st for the kids. I don't think they had ever been on a boat, and definitely hadn't been tubing. As some may know - I don't do well with Lakes, Rivers, Streams, etc. If it's not a pool with clear clean water - I'm not not getting in. I think my kids conspired against me, and yes, I did get in the gross, dirty water. There was a lot of "muck" as Farmer Jones would call it between land and the boat. Once you got out in the lake, the water was OK (if you like lake water). Jake cut his head playing around on the front of the boat, so my motherly reaction was to get to him as fast as I could. This was very slow because I kept loosing my flip flops in the muck. To end the rambling - his head was fine the water made it look worse than it was. Since I had already been in the water, I went out on the boat and even went tubing with MaKenna and Jake.

MaKenna and Kyler

Tyler, MaKenna and Jake

Jake's Birthday - 8 Years Old

Jake wanted a camping cake. This was the best we could come up with. We got him back in touch with his Indian heritage and used a Tepee.

What does every 8 year old boy wants his dad to give him...



Stay tuned for July updates ...

May 2009

Let's see... What happened in May?

Planted a Garden. Here is Dad and Jake getting it ready for "Farmer Jones"

Mother's day (Jake showing me my present)

"Uncle" Darin came to Visit and we went to the Zoo

Last day of School

(Can't find those pictures right now...)

Lots of Spring Storms

Do you see the double rainbow? This rainbow was awesome. At one point (before I got my camera) it was against a very dark sky and was a full rainbow.

WOW - Where does the time go...

It seems like just a week or two ago I was telling myself that I needed to post about the kid's last day of school. Now I'm getting excited that I will be able to post about their 1st day of school. I'm sorry that I am so bad at posting, for those couple folks that read this...

I'm going to try to capture the last couple months with a few words and pictures over the next couple of days. Things have seemed to slow down a little and I might just have some time.

Stay Tuned!

FAB-U-LOUS Fun and Games...

OK - I'm all for taking a break from the normal blogging (which is completely random) and playing a game. So thanks to Laurie - here it goes...

The first 5 people to respond to this post will receive something made by me for you. My choice made especially for you. Of course there are some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It will be done sometime this year.
4. You have no clue what it will be... it may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure. ;-)
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.
6. I will send it anywhere! It doesn't matter where you live!

The catch? The catch is that you must repost this on your own blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on their blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!!Oh! And be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it."

Happy Easter

Happy Easter everyone. Here are a few pictures of the kids...

New Easter Dress and Ties

Finding Easter Eggs

Coloring Easter eggs

April Fools

I started April Fools off by taking Kyler to the dentist. Yes, I know, the joke's on him right...

We decided to go to a pediatric dentist because we wanted Kyler to feel relaxed and not get traumatized and hate the dentist for the rest of his life. He had some minor work that needed to be done ( a couple teeth didn't completely seal when they developed, and a little cavity in between his 2 front teeth - thanks to all the apple juice he drinks). We choose to have Kyler sedated so we could do everything at once and he'd be sleepy and relaxed.

He couldn't eat before the appointment, so I made sure it was 1st thing in the morning. We got there at 8 AM and he had drank his "sleepy medicine" by 8:15. Now we just had to wait for it to kick in.

After the medicine he should have been doing this.....
but instead he was doing this....

Kyler had been listening to Jake and MaKenna all morning try to "joke" each other. I think he really caught on to the whole thing.

I kept hoping that the medicine would work, so I wouldn't let him walk around by himself - in case his legs were wobbly. Kyler kept telling him that he was a big boy not a baby and he knew how to walk - "I'll show you mom!". I even buckled him in the car and drove around with him... no luck. We tried nitrous - didn't work. Finally, they just wrapped him up, did what needed to be done. He relax a little except when according to Kyler "they kept getting water in my mouth, and I didn't want water in my mouth". They didn't even have to numb his mouth. I'm not sure it was worth the $$ to have him "sedated".

It took this little stinker 5 hours to go to sleep - and that was only because it was WAY past his normal nap time. He fought it so bad and so hard. Yesterday, we learned that he has a high tolerance for Choral Hydrate and Demerol (something like that). The only thing that medicine did for him was make him grumpy, irritable, and mean!

When it was all done, I thought he would come home, relax and sleep for several hours. Again... April Fools on me. He drank, ate, and watched Caillou. I had all I could take and loaded him up again and went for a drive to sleepy town. On the way home he started yelling like crazy that he wanted me to stop and pull over. I was a little scared and not sure what the problem was. After talking with him and telling him we were almost home he told me "You have to stop driving mom. My eyes are getting tired and I don't want to go to sleep". He did finally go to sleep when we got back home and sleep for a whopping 3 hours! Not exactly what I thought would happen.

On a happier note, I got the kids... I made them grilled cheese sandwiches for a snack after school.

It's really..... pound cake that I grilled then put frosting colored orange in the middle. For dinner we had "Breakfast" with purple french toast and scrambled eggs, blue hash browns, bacon, pink and blue milk, and an orange punch "drink" (jello).

Spring Break photos

Well, Spring Break came and went without major issues. Here are a few pictures.

SNOW! (not exactly the "Spring" I wanted)

Jake got a new Lego Set

MaKenna played dress-up (She loves her "ankle breaker" dress-up shoes)

Kyler has discover puzzles (he loves to do them by himself)