A funny from today

I'm writing this thinking it's still Sunday but I know it's officially Monday.   Anyway, today after dinner the funniest thing happened.  It's one of those things that might not be funny to you, but when it happened we were just dying of laughter!  Cute Landon finished dinner first and he was just playing around.  As he did so, his pants started to get lower and lower.  Finally they just came right off and the best part was he didn't seem to notice or care.  Michael, myself and Kayleigh were laughing way hard! 

Landon definitely is a boy, into everything and trying to climb on things not meant to climb on.  But he does some pretty silly stuff and we sure love him!

Playing with cousins

 Lunch at Nana's

 Kayleigh and Grace

 Landon trying to figure out the whole pool party fun

 Kayleigh trying to float

 Girlies riding on the back of Grandpa's trailer

 Landon really LOVED his popsicle!

 YUMMY!!

 Phoebe pushing her lil sis!

 Grace pushing Samantha

Kayleigh having a turn, too.

With my sister having her baby and all, they spent a few days at my mom and dad's house last week.  Since we live close we have to be in on the fun, too so we spent lots of time there.  Kayleigh loved every second of it!  When my mom pulled in the driveway with and Marie and the girls, Kayleigh was so excited to see them.  With Samantha's birth, these cousins hadn't seen each other in about two weeks which is probably the longest they have gone without seeing each other.  They really missed each other and it was cute to see how excited they were to see each other.  They all gave BIG hugs! 

One of the fun things we did while they were here was break in our new pool.  We got a little blow up pool at Walmart and of course Kayleigh couldn't wait to try it out.  Amazingly we had one day in the 80's last week and we were able to try it out.  The girls loved it!  Kayleigh and Grace played in/around it for the whole afternoon.  Somehow I don't think it will be as much fun when it's just me, Landon and Kayleigh in our backyard. 

Grace had been dying to see Kayleigh's new pink room, so last Friday they came to our house to play for awhile.  They girls dressed up and ran around and had fun.   Marie gave them the idea to put Samantha in the baby doll stroller and of course they loved that and all had to have a turn pushing her around.  I don't think Samantha loved it too much.

Now they've gone back home but we know we'll see them soon.  Our family just keeps on growing, it's fun!  My parents have 8 grandchildren now.

Baby Samantha

As of June 2nd, I have a new niece!  My sister gave birth to little Samantha Marie, and she sure came quickly!  Cute little Samantha had to stay in the hospital for a few days.  For some reason she couldn't keep her own body temperature, had fluid in her lungs and needed some oxygen to breathe.   My sis also really struggled after the delivery.  She couldn't stop bleeding and after losing over 2 liters of blood, having two blood transfusions, a trip to the ER and lots of ultrasounds, they finally did a D & C.   In doing this they found a piece of placenta that had been left behind.  Now Marie is doing better each day but still is really weak and tired.  When you lose so much blood, it just takes time  for your body to replace it and feel normal again. 

We are so glad that both of them are okay now.  I know that many of you prayed for them and they appreciate it so much.  Hopefully things can calm down a little now...

The finished product

Here it is a few weeks later already, but we finally hung Kayleigh's things back up on her walls.  I love how it turned out!  Before we painted her letters were just straight across and I like this design better.  I also sprayed her letters and shelf so they are shiny now.  I love the contrast of colors.  And yes, she is asleep in her bed when I took these pictures tonight.  Hey, you gotta do it sometime, right?

Happy Father's Day

Just wanted to quickly say, before the day is officially over, Happy Father's Day to Michael.  He is such a great dad.  When I was dating him I knew from the beginning that he would be a great dad.  Kayleigh and Landon just love him!  They love wrestling with him and when he comes home each day they get so excited.  Michael helps so much with them, too.  He is even known to get up in the night with them.  When Landon was a little baby he would take Friday and Saturday night feedings so I could sleep the whole night through.  Sometimes that's how I got thru the week, just knowing I could stay in my bed the whole night.  I don't think too many dads do that. 

I  am so grateful for him and that my kids have the best daddy!  Happy Father's Day!

Preview of our Memorial Day weekend project

 Friday night when it all started Kayleigh could not wait to paint!  I don't thing she realized all the prep work first, such as taping everything!

 The before: boring, off-white, flat paint walls.

 Kayleigh giving the roller a try.  I told her that I didn't even know how to do that and she said, "It's really easy Mom, you just go up and down and then it sticks on." 

 Poor Landon didn't get to be involved too much but he sure wanted to.  Climbed to the top of this ladder by himself.    Most of the work was done during his sleeping time.

 What a helper.

The finished project, not a great picture.  Accent wall pink, other walls Baked Scone (tan) and ceiling/trim/door white.  All satin finish.  New blinds and light fixture.  It looks so good! 

We painted Kayleigh's room for our holiday. I am so proud of us that we, for the most part, knocked this out in one weekend.  After Landon's room took weeks when we did it, I was a little apprehensive about this, but I think we learned a lot from Landon's and could go faster this time.  Kayleigh has been wanting her room pink since we painted Landon's room.  We just kept telling her we would do it and we finally did.  She really likes it and was a pretty big help during the process. 

She got to sleep in Landon's room for three nights and they both liked that.  The first night Landon was asleep already when Kay went to bed so that was easy.  The next night they were awake together in there and Landon loved it!  He played peek a boo from his crib with her forever.  She soon fell asleep, only after telling him to "go to sleep young man!" but he stayed up for awhile before he finally conked out.  Silly kids.

We haven't gotten things back on the walls yet and the closet doors are in the garage waiting to be painted and put back on, but other than that we are done.  I am happy we could do it for her and it really looks nice.  A fresh coat of paint and a couple new things can do a long way!  When we are all done I will get some more pictures that will hopefully be better of the finished project.

Pre-school end of year program

 This is how we kept Landon quiet.

 The Bean Bag Bop

Kayleigh with her little gift from her teacher.

 This was before the program, she was so excited!

 Doing the colors song, Kayleigh was "yellow".

 Ringing "Jingle Bells"

 Mrs. Cyr and Kayleigh

 McKenna and Kayleigh-Kayleigh really liked McKenna from her class and even got to play at her house once.

 Our little family on the big day.

 Nana and Kayleigh

 Another one of the fam

Kayleigh, me, Grandma Suzy and Landon

Kayleigh just finished pre-school!  (Well, last week.)  She went to a lady a few blocks up from us who did it out of her basement.  Kayleigh really enjoyed it all year long.  It was Tuesday and Thursday mornings for a couple of hours.  She made new friends and got to do some cool, fun things.  Since she is only 4 she will get to do another year of pre-school before going to Kindergarten . She is going to attend the same place this fall. 

Kayleigh couldn't wait for her program, she was so excited!  I knew that they'd been working on songs to perform in class and I'd heard her sing bits and pieces throughout the year so I was excited too, to hear how they really go. 

Michael took the morning off from work so he could come which was fun.  My mom and brother came as well as Michael's mom.  It was fun to have them all there to see Kayleigh.  She did such a good job!   She knew all the songs and the actions and what to do when.  You could tell she was so proud of what she'd learned and wanted to show it off.  She was just grinning from ear to ear!  One of the moments that we just about died of laughter was when they sang this song about showing the world you are sad/mad/happy.  Kayleigh's mad face was hilarious!  What a cutie she is! 

They also sang a song about the alphabet and that was fun to hear because she has sung that a lot at home.  They also did a song about how they are "H-A-P-P-Y" and with each letter they tapped two sticks together and then it was kind of like B-I-N-G-O where they wouldn't say the letter, etc.  They also did "Three Little Speckled Frogs" and a few other songs.

Kayleigh was sick earlier in the week and Michael and I were just praying she'd be better for her program.  Luckily she was and it was a really fun morning to share with her.  Way to go sis!

April family time

 Kay had a great time swimming.

 Cute little Thomas, Landon wished you lived closer.

 Landon and Phoebe enthralled with the t.v.

 Dad, John and Michael skiing.

 All the yummy gyoza we got to eat.

 The kiddos just before the egg hunt, they were so excited they could hardly stand it!

 Landon stealing some popcorn from Nathan.

 All ready to go outside and hunt for eggs.

 Phoebe and Miriam (her head is cut off) blowing out their birthday candles.

 Landon opening an egg during the hunt.  He quickly figured out what this was all about.

 Counting our eggs to make sure we got them all.  We didn't and to this day we are still missing a few things.

 Landon was eating the treats soooo fast!

 All the kids got these little bunnies.

 Landon, we really don't starve you!

 We got loaded with candy and we are still trying to finish it off!

 Me and Thomas the night before they left.  He finally didn't cry when I held him.

 Phoebe, Anna, Kayleigh, Grace and Miriam all dressed up in me and Marie's old ballet costumes.  I guess my mom just knew they'd come in handy some day! ( Gotta love how the kids put the hair pieces on.)

 Attempt at a grand kid picture with them all in matching outfits Nana gave them. 

My brother and his family recently moved and as they drove to their new place they stopped in Utah.  We were all so excited to see them!  With them living far away we aren't really sure when we'll get to see them next.  They visited in April and were here for 3 days.  While here we packed a ton in and I think everyone had a really good time. 

The highlights of their time here were of course our annual Easter egg hunt and the big boys going skiing.  Besides that though, the kids watched Tangled together, pretty much the cutest movie of the decade I think.  They all quote it and act it out, they love it! 

We celebrated birthdays in the family near that time which included Miriam, Marie and Phoebe.  The girlies got to dress up to their hearts content and swim a couple of different times.  All the mommies got to go out for dinner by themselves, it was heavenly.  We attempted some pictures of the kids in matching outfits.  And we even got some game playing in after the kids had gone to bed. 

I love my family and am grateful for our time together.  I feel bad because you get that many people together and things are a little crazy and we make a big mess, but thankfully my parents put up with it at their house and all in all it was fabulous.  Kayleigh loved spending time with her cousins and was sad when their trip here came to an end.  We wish my brother and his family luck in their new adventures and hope all goes well.