It was a pretty LAZY sunday morning at our house. We were at some friends house until late the night before so everybody was sleeping in. Cole was the first to wake up and he came in and climbed into bed with us. Layed there for a few minutes and said the inevitable "I'm starving" Cody replies with "Cole go in and pick out your cereal and we'll be there in a minute". I soon hear some serious rattling going on in the kitchen and then Cole comes in and asks us what kind of cereal we want. He was fixing breakfast for all of us. He's so freaking CUTE. I told him I wanted the box with the big red K on it. (Special K with fruit and yogurt clusters) Cole comes in and tells us breakfast is ready. So we all drag ourselves into the kitchen. We are all quietly eating our breakfast when i notice i haven't had any fruit OR yogurt clusters. I look over into Ry's bowl who had the same kind and noticed she didn't have any either. "Cole, did you pick out the fruit and yogurt clusters from Ry and I's cereal?" I look over to see a very sheepish look on my little man's face. That little stinker picked all the good stuff out of our cereal. I guess i get what i get and i don't throw a fit....RIGHT? Thanks for breakfast Cole!

Happy Birthday to our PRINCESS RY RY

It's all we've heard about from our little princess for the last 3 months "my buthday's comin up....it's Apwil 21st" "my buthday's comin up it's Apwil 21st" So when the day finally came we had to make it a big one! I had the feeling the expectations were high.

So the first thing we did is invite 3 special little princess friends.




and then we got everything ready. I had lots of help in the kitchen. Ry and Cole frosted the mini cupcakes. Rylee's favorite part was licking the frosting off her fingers.




and then the princesses arrived.



and a princess tea party it was.







I think our little princess had a pretty good day!


To top it all off we had a little family party that night. Rylee requested tacos for dinner and Uncle Dal came over. We had dinner, opened presents and had cupcakes and strawberry ice cream cones. (she got to blow candles out again, she really likes that part) Ry got a new cradle for her baby, a shopping cart, polly pockets, and makeup (her favorite)




Happy birthday my little Princess!

The effects of raising kids with DVR

My kids have become pretty good about knowing what button pauses the cartoon they are watching when they need to go potty or knowing which button fast forwards the commercials so they can get to the good stuff. Something we didn't have back when we were watching little house on the prairie and the brady bunch.

So we were watching General Conference on tv this weekend. Sunday morning we really made a point to try and have the kids sit with us as long as their little bodies could handle it. I printed off some little conference related activities to keep them busy as we did. Cole was working on this coloring sheet that had pictures of those men speaking with a tie next to it. He was supposed find the picture of the speaker and color his tie the way it looked on tv. So the first speaker came on and he was pretty excited. He colored it the way it was, took him all of 2 minutes and then he says "k, i got this guy now can we fast forward it to the next one" Cody and I fell on the floor laughing. hmmm...this kinda defeated our point. We both agreed that that's what we get for having a DVR, our kids don't know any different! Wow how things change!