HAPPY Kitty Cat Birthday KARA!

Kara was very excited about her birthday and has been counting down for over 3 months now! The day before her Birthday she said, "Mom, you know why I am not getting too excited?" I said, "Why?" and she said, "because if I get to excited I will not be able to sleep tonight and then it will take longer for my birthday to get here!" She was very good at controlling her excitement. Here are the Kitty Cakes I made! I was very proud of these. Kara loved them. She told me "Mom it's O.K. if they don't look exactly like the picture!" Thanks Kara your always so thoughtful..

The Kitty Table! We made Kitty dishes and I made little Kitty ears and tails! I have to say the girls looked very cute!

The Birthday CAT!! Kara decided she wanted to have a Kitten party so we did! Who would have thought that a Cat party would be so much fun!!

The Birthday CAT and her CAT friend!!

The Girls making their cat collars out of beads and bells!

Kara playing the part!

Halle wanted a pink nose!

All the CATS at the party! Their were a couple bats at the party, but they were all over the place so I never got a good picture! These little girls were the sweetest little girls ever!!! I am not even kidding they were so well behaved and so nice and polite. We played a game called I had a little Kitty and he wouldn't scratch you (like duck duck goose), well each little girl made sure that everyone had a turn before they chose someone else. I had not said anything, they just automatically did it. They also made sure everyone had candy when the pinata broke, and were just so kind.

We also made little paw print cup cakes!!

Halle had grandma's help during the party!! Lucky little girl!

Kara and the CAKE!! Can you tell I am proud of my Cake(:

Blowing out the candles with a little BAT close by!

Me and Kara and the Cake!

Opening the presents!

Thanking her fellow Kittens.

The pinata!

It is hard to keep your eyes open when you are swinging so hard!

That night I went in to check on Kara and Kelton after she had gone to bed and she was wearing her Cat ears. I was glad she had such a good time!

The Family Party on Sunday! Hayden got the flu, so it was a little anti climatic!

Grandma gave Kara these cute little Kitty's from her ceramic collection! As you can tell Kara loves animals!

Hugs for Grandma Benge!

Kara reading her Birthday Card. Everyone was very interested!


Hugs for Nanny!

Kara and Grandpa!

Hugs for Grandma! Grandma and Grandpa gave Kara some new books and a stuffed Kitty!

Sharing her new little Kitty with Tiger!

Halle holding Tiger!! She loves Tiger!!

This is the note Kara made for Hayden since he was sick for her Birthday! She also cleaned the entire upstairs! Made all the beds and cleaned Hayden's room really good as a surprise!! All on her Birthday! What would I do with out my little Kara!!

These are the notes Kara makes for me and Brent everyday!

Here is another little note that Kara made for us one Sunday! Every Sunday Kara and Kelton sit down and draw us beautiful pictures and make surprises for us!! As you can tell Kara is a wonderful little girl and we love her so much! We can't imagine life with out her!

It is amazing how much work a party is! I decided this year to save money by having it at my home and making everything! Well, I definitely did not save any money, and I did not save any time, but we did have a lot of fun! What is that quote??? Anything worthwhile takes Effort.

RAINBOWS

We love Rainbows at our home and Kara is an expert at drawing the rainbow and the correct order of the colors of the rainbow so when we saw this beautiful rainbow we had to get a picture! We all ran out to see this beautiful Rainbow in our yard! Halle was down at Grandmas and when she saw the rainbow she said, "Who colored that?" Grandma said, "God." Halle then ran into the house to get uncle Dallas to show him the rainbow! By the time Dallas came out to see the rainbow it was gone. Halle looked up at him and said, "Oh it's gone, maybe God will draw it again."

ICE SKATING

We took the kids Ice Skating for Valentines Day and they had a blast! Halle did great with this little walker!
Halle was skating all over and having so much fun. She thought she was a big kid!

Kelton was soooo fast!

Brent, Kelton, and Halle skating out in the middle! Reggie is falling and they are all watching!

GO HALLE!

The wreck! Hayden on bottom, then George, and then Kelton! George was soaked by the end! Good thing they all had their snow pants on! We learned our lesson after the last time we brought them all, and they all had come home completely soaked!

Hayden and George raced around the ice rink like maniacs falling like crazy! They were too funny to watch!

My little careful Kara barely fell at all. She was very graceful ( well, I don't know if I can really use that word, but she wasn't like the boys that is for sure!)

Aunt Natalie with George, Kara, Reggie and Hayden skating right for me!

Me with the kiddos. Right after this photo every child fell to the ground like dominos!

Brent carrying Halle all pooped out! She was completely exhausted by the time we were done!

Little buddies Reggie and Kelton!!!

Trip to the Hospital!

Halle at the hospital, taken from my cell phone! Halle reading a book she was really out of it here! She couldn't talk at all at this point.
Breathing treatment.
Completely knocked out!

So here we are at the hospital after Halle got a peanut close to her mouth. It was pretty scary we even ended up having to use the epi-pen before we rushed her to the hospital. Lets see she started out vomiting and then started to have trouble breathing. We had already given her 2 doses of Benadryl, and so decided it was time for the epi-pen. Dallas came over and helped Brent give her a blessing and then we were off to the hospital. Grandma came with us. Halle was very pale at this point. By the time we got to the hospital she seemed to be breathing a little better, but had broken out in hives all over and was itching her head, neck, and ears a lot. Her SaO2 levels were pretty low so they started her on a breathing treatment and started an IV on her to give her some meds. She responded well and they kept us overnight to make sure she was O.K. They sent us home with prednisolone to give to her for the next 5 days(you know the happy pill j/k)!

The hospital stay was long to say the least. I haven't had to stay awake all night in a long time. Halle slept pretty good until we received a room with another bed where I could lay down. They came in about 1am to give her her meds through her IV. At about 1:45 her IV came out of her hand and sprayed blood all over the room. Halle then woke up and was very upset that grandma was not with us anymore. She also was upset that she was at the hospital. She said "I don't want to be here I want to be at home in my bed with my mommy and daddy!" She was awake the rest of our stay. She was hungry and did not want anything hooked up to her. She was happy to go home and we are so grateful to have her home with us, and are a little nervous about her eating anything!!

Brent was home with the other kids and Kara began throwing up with the flu! When it rains it seems to poor! Happy everyone is alive! Happy to be tired! Happy to have lots of laundry! Happy to kiss all my kids goodnight tonight!

What bored kids do!!

Halle, Kelton, and cousin Reggie enjoy the weather! The Sun Came out and the socks and shoes and jackets came off!!

Kara eating lunch! Waiting for the rain!

Hayden taking a picture of himself!

Kelton making a funny face!

Kara also making a funny face for Hayden the photographer

Kara and Kelton! P.J. swap!

Kara doing a boy pose. Kelton doing a girls pose.

Funny Kids!

I thought I would write a couple funny things the kids said.......


Hayden came home from school and asked me a question and I said, "I thought Dad was going to do that," and he said to me "Mom, expect nothing from DAD, except that he will workout and make money, otherwise expect nothing!!!" Well I guess that has been my problem all these years, I have been expecting too much.


Halle was wearing Grandma's expensive necklace and Brent took it off over her head and it broke. Well Grandma saw Halle the next day and she asked Halle "Did you break my necklace?" Halle looked her in the eyes and then placed one of her play necklaces around Grandma's neck and said, "Relax, calm down, it will be O.K.. Mommy will fix it, Daddy broke it!"


Halle hates to be babysat and she usually cries as soon as she spots a babysitter. Well tonight she decided she would be good, so the babysitter came and she looked up at me and said, "I am going to be a good girl, so I will not cry!"

Karate Kids Testing!

Little Friends!
Kelton giving his best Karate yell!

Focusing!

Kara standing ready!

Kara and Kelton tested for their Orange Belt decided, which means they get these orange headbands and a tiger for their orange belts! They were very excited and did a great job! Kelton was nervous, but he just got out there and did it! Kara also did great and was definitely the loudest kiddo on the mat! You really wouldn't think she would be, but she is!!

So the kids decided they wanted to celebrate by getting a Main Street Burger and eating them at the house! Good for me, because it was getting late! Well we got home and the silliness begins! Nonstop giggling. Me and Brent tried to carry on a normal conversation, but to no avail. The kids just continued to say words like banana(you know how funny that is) or anything really and it would send them all into giggling maniacs. Well they finally laughed themselves to sleep. So this morning when they woke up I thought they would be all laughed out. No they laughed all through breakfast, which caused us to miss the bus ( you know how it is when your giggling so much and you choke on your food and can't get your shoes on). So hopefully when the kids get home today everything won't be quite so funny!

Day to Day!

We got to babysit cute little Tiger! Halle thought it was the greatest and wanted to help do everything! She would look at him and say "OH, he wants his Katie, OH, he wants his Dallas!" She does this little sigh whenever she says Oh wa, it is very funny and sounds very sympathetic. He was such a good little baby! Katie keeps him so cute we could have just kissed and hugged him forever. The kids were very helpful and wanted to make sure Tiger had everything he could possibly want or need!!

Sunday Dress UP!
Introducing Keltina, Kar, and Haydina!

They thought they were so funny! Who thought of this idea?

Hayden and Kelton are wearing Kara's clothes and Kara is wearing Keltons clothes!