BEST VACATION EVER!!!

Last week my family went on a vacation to St. George to go boating.  I made a last minute decision to tag a long with my kids, and I am so glad I did.  We had so much fun!  It was so warm, the water felt so nice, and the kids loved the beach!  I hope we go back there every year for the rest of my life!  Here are some pictures:

This tube was awesome!  We went flying!  My kids enjoyed it too, because they were too light to fall off!

Life doesn't get better than the beach and cookies!

My boys loved the boat! 

Poor George!

Jenni dug herself into the mud a couple of feet.  I am glad she isn't really that size.

Katelyn ate a lot!

I thought Jackson would hate the life jacket, but he loved it if it meant playing in the water

What can I say, best brothers in the world!

The beach was awesome!  The sand was great for playing in!

Kately wouldn't touch the sand, so we had to pull her around in this tube all week.

Christmas Pictures

Here are some cute pictures of Christmas this year.  This is Katelyn in her new dress. 

This is Brayden's Bakugan Arena.  Yes Bakugan.  We have gone from Pokemon to Bakugan in the space of 4 months, but these are more fun to me.  We have had a blast playing with it.

This is Jackson's computer. He loves his computer!

Katelyn with her new Teddy.

Plum Tuckered Out!

So I am not a fan of 1:00 church at all!  We have had that time all year, and it feels like you sit home the whole morning, then right at nap and lunch time you pack everyone up and drag them in the car for church.  Plus, if you get ready at 9:00 in the morning, your kids are dirty by 1:00.  But if you wait until 11:00, somehow you are always late!  I am glad this year is coming to an end, and I am facing 11:00 church for next year!  So excited!  The other day though we came home and Jackson had been horrible the entire time!  He was so tired.  We sat down to eat and by the time I got his plate ready, this is what he looked like!

Brayden decided it was kind of smart to fake asleep.  You get out of eating your vegitables, which I always make my kids eat before I put out dinner.

And here was Katelyn.  That girl is like her mom and is willing to stay awake for food no matter how tired she is!

We're Walking!

Katelyn has been 1 year old for a month and a half now.  She could take a few steps on her birthday, but she didn't seem to like it and she would sit down and crawl where she needed to go.  This last Tuesday, out of no where, she up and walked around the house!  That was it!  She walks everywhere now.  She follows me around like a little puppy.  I LOVE IT!  I think I have been a mother of infants for too long.  I couldn't wait for her to his this stage.  She is still very needy, but she is also way more capable of doing things herself and entertaining herself for just a little longer.  Here are some pictures of her birthday and some recent ones of her and the boys.

Dinosaur Train

So PBS has a new show on called Dinosaur Train.  This is Brayden's new favorite show, and I have loved it too!  He will run in and tell me what dinosaurs he learned about and if they were carnivores, herbivores or omnivores, what time period they lived in,  and many other things they went over that day.  Yesterday, I sat down to watch it with him.  Jackson was sick, so I held him while we watched.  The subject for the day was-POO!  I'm not even kidding!  One of the main dinosaurs was having trouble going potty.  She was embarassed by it.  So they talked about what poo is and why we poo.  They even had a part where they were playing hide and seek and found out they weren't hiding behind rocks, they were actually giant dinosaur stools, feces, or poo. (whatever you want to call it.  Now Brayden knows all three names and is using them in turn when he goes #2)  Then to finish it, they showed the bottom part of a giant dinosaur dropping poo, and as a grand finale they had a poo song!  I about died laughing!  Brayden walked around after singing, "All kinds of species have to make their own feces, the more you eat the more you poop!"  I had to think about the show for a while.  I wasn't sure I liked them teaching my son about poop.  At the end of the show, a paleontologist came on and told the kids how they use fossilized dino poop to determine what the dinos ate and what kind of surroundings they were in.  All in all, I decided I liked it.  It was an educational light hearted way of teaching the kids that pooping is normal.  Maybe my son, being a boy, won't have to go through that phase where poop is funny and they use it as a bad word.  Maybe he will understand it in a different way now and won't think it is that funny.  He did laugh in some spots, but mostly he thought the new words he had learned were cool and he thought it was awesome that they can use poo to discover things about dinosaurs.  So thank you PBS for teaching my son about POO!

Halloween!

I love Halloween!  I think that holidays just get better as your kids get older and enjoy them more!  This year was a blast!  Jackson was so excited that when he knowcked on doors and smiled at people, they gave him candy!  He would look at us and yell, "I got a nodder cannie!" and "Dis Awesom!".  Brayden was a hoot too!  MY favorite though, Kirt!  My dad, Kirt, and I took the kids out this year and half way around the block Brayden told us his feet were exhausted and he needed to go home!  Well Kirt figures that half that candy is his and there was no way he was letting Brayden go home with half a block of candy!  So He pumped up Brayden and would yell with him about every piece.  He would race him to the doors and freak out over every candy he got.  Brayden was so excited and finished the rest of the block!  Last year Kirt convinced Brayden that the orange candy, (recess peanut butter cups) were the best thing to choose.  (they also happen to be Kirt's favorite!)  Brayden came home with 50 recess cups!  Kirt was thrilled!  Also, half way around Kirt started with his mathematics.  He figured that candy probably costs $4.50 a pound.  He figured that after 2 hours, each kid would probably have 2 pounds of candy.  With 5 kids that totaled $40 in candy.  We were making $20 bucks an hour!  He is so funny!  Here are some pics of my kids in costume!

kozy contest

So Kosy 106.5 is doing a contest, well I'm not sure if they are doing it anymore; but You submit a picture of your "prince" or "princess" and people vote on the cutest pictures.  The prizes were tickets to the disney on ice tickets, and the grand prize winner was a free trip to Disneyland!  I haven't been on a vacation in more than 2 years, so I was so excited to win this contest!  I dressed up Jackson and Katelyn, and sat them down to take pictures to enter.  They were so cute.  Jackson wrapped his arms around Katelyn and she smiled, they were adorable.  I took them upstairs to submit them, but our computer wouldn't pull up the link to do it.  We have tried 4 other computers and can't enter our picture!  So my photos were never entered =( but I couldn't let them go to waste, so I am putting them on here so that someone can see how cute my kids look!