Misc.

If you remember from my last post I mentioned that one of my pictures had been altered by one of the children. I said they had cropped Halle out of the picture and only Brent's head was left in the picture.... well guess who the little Turkey was???? That's right BRENT!!! My biggest kid! Kara and Kelton are loving that we have had some Popsicle weather. I love the warm weather, but not the sticky floors!
Hayden's playing football and still loves Krispy Kreme donuts!

Halle playing at her favorite place Grandma and Grandpa's house!

All dressed up and looking oh so beautiful! On our little walk to preschool Halle asks me, "Do you think Jada (little girl at preschool) is going to look beautiful today?" I said, "oh yes I bet she is" Halle said "Oh I think so too! I think she'll have her hair down and it will be beautiful!"

Halle with some of our tulips. I love that tulips grow in Idaho so beautifully! I think I'll plant even more next year. I planted the tulips so I had something to look forward to as the winter seemed so long. I was so excited when they started popping up all over my yard.

Halle learned about mister yuck at school! So she found all my cleaning supplies and labeled them with Mr. Yuck! I think she did a good job learning about things that should have Mr. Yuck on them. She wanted more stickers because we have lots of Mr. Yuck supplies it seems.

Unfortunately my camera would not take a picture in focus, but Kara is on the front row. The second one from the end. She did a great job singing and the program was really cute. The kids stayed all together and all the songs were really cute songs from the past! She 'll have to sing them for you sometime.

Halle had her Ballet pictures taken! She can't wait for the "STAGE!"

Halle with her two adorable, lovable, sweet little friends. They all play so good together and are so kind to one another.

Shriner's Hospital Visit!

We took Halle to Shriner's Hospital in Salt Lake City to visit a pediatric orthopedic surgeon. I did not get a very good picture of Shriner's. Halle was refusing and the one picture I did get with her on Brent's shoulders some how was destroyed. I went to upload it and found that some little child of mine decided to crop the picture down so that only Brent's face is showing. I can only guess which child decided to do that!
We left town on Sunday afternoon and returned home Monday after her appointment, but first we made a stop at Liberty park. Halle really wanted to ride the Ferris Wheel, but it was not running!

Halle thought this slide was a little scary at first so Brent had to go down with her.

The apt. went really well. Halle's legs actually looked great. The doctor said she had other patients with rickets and none of them looked as good as Halle. Her right tibia is the bone showing the most problem. This is the reason her right foot turns in and causes her to trip when she runs. If it does not correct itself by the time she is 6 then they would go in and break the bone and straighten it with a plate. The doctor believed there is a good chance it will straighten on it's own. It was probably one of the best doctor appointments we have had, so I am glad we made the trip.

Grandma and Grandpa watched the other 3 kids for us, which made the trip a lot easier. Halle was a little bit of a pill on the trip, she had gotten sick right before we left.

I had to give her a steroid and give her albuterol treatments every 3 hours to keep her from wheezing.

So the trip probably would have been a little more fun if we didn't have a child that asked for vanilla ice cream with sprinkles and than cried because she wanted strawberry ice cream and then when given strawberry ice cream decided she didn't even like ice cream. Then decided she wanted to watch 12 Dancing Princess, and then when 12 Dancing Princess was put in she cried because she did not want to watch that movie. Who fights with themselves over a movie? Halle on steroids! Thank goodness she's back to her sassy nice self. I'm not a big fan of the rollercoaster of emotions that a sickness and some drugs seem to bring on!

Undercover Boyfriend (:

Normally I don't take my camera on dates, but this was a special date and the camera just happened to be in the glove compartment! My sister Natalie has been dating this mystery man for over a year, but no one has been allowed to meet him! Our fam is a little weird so I understand (:

Brent and I with our cute caps! I don't know why we took this with our caps on. It was fun racing around the track, but after I have to admit I felt rather sick from going in circles while breathing in gas fumes.

Natalie and Dan the mystery man! Can't believe I was finally allowed to meet him. I'm posting these for all the family who was wondering what Dan the mystery man looks like!!

Tooth Fairy Strikes again!

Kelton lost his first tooth and he was soo excited! He misplaced his tooth after he lost it, but he made sure to leave a note pleading with the tooth fairy to please leave him a little money even though he could not find his tooth. Luckily the tooth fairy was sympathetic to his plight.

Kelton still loves to dress up, but his dress ups are getting a little small!

Halle did not loose any teeth, but still wanted to show off her teeth like Kelton!

Just being a little Sassy for the camera!

Kelton started playing baseball! If you know Kelton you know why I put an explanation point. Well he was doing pretty good until the coach pitched a ball that hit him in the chest (this actually is not a suprise because something always seems to happen to Kelton). The coach is a good friend, and felt horrible. It really did not hurt Kelton, but now Kelton is positive that the ball hit him in the face! I did try to correct him by saying you mean you got hit in the chest. He said, "No mom I was hit in the face!!" That little face looks pretty good for being pelted by a baseball don't you think(:

Hayden wins Paramount Read-a-thon!

Hayden read 4290 minutes during the read-a-thon at his school. The funny thing is I did not even record every time he read. He love love loves to read. We actually take his books as punishment. I feel kind of bad doing it, but it really is the only thing that works. As top reader of his school he received 15 free books of his choice! Knowing how he loves to read we had been talking about different books he could pick, so I was more than surprised when he brought home 10 books for Kara and 5 books for Kelton. I was really proud of him for reading, but I was even more proud of him for being so thoughtful. These moments are the ones that make you so happy to be a parent! It may seem funny, but I almost cried when I saw that he had gotten all the books for his siblings (of course they were happy tears (: )!!

Life

These pictures are actually backwards, but you would never know since we are dyeing Easter eggs a week late. We got back late Saturday night from our little trip and did not have time to dye eggs. I kept telling the kids we'll do it on Monday and then Monday would become Tuesday and Tuesday would become Wednesday. Kara finally looked at me and said, "are we ever going to dye those Easter eggs?" Seriously I was beginning to doubt it myself.
Last night we finally dyed eggs. The kids loved it. I'm glad I didn't let life continue to get in the way of this fun little tradition.

Actually the project was uneventful. No one drank the dye or spilled the dye all over like in years past.

We made a short stop and saw Brent's good friend Matt and wife Ann. Brent went to high school with Matt. My parents also know the Marquis as my Dad actually baptized Matt's mom Cheryl. It is such a small world.

Matt and Brent! Matt is really good about keeping in touch, and we had a great time with them. I hope we get to see them again soon.

They also have 4 kids. There kids were really nice and fun kids. They all seemed to get along great.

Lots of car time. Me and Brent drove separate cars for half of the trip. He had to drop his car off in Utah for a tune up.

This was actually on the way home. The kids were really pooped out!

Couldn't help getting a picture of this sweet little sleeper.

I finally pulled my camera out for the trip. My camera is still broken, so the pictures are not very good.

Is she the cutest thing? We stopped and saw my brother Brady and sister in law Brandi. We had so much fun with them. There little Cozette is so cute.

Brandi had ordered butterflies, and the kids had a ball with them as you can tell.

Kara was doing her excited clap in the background of all the pictures.

Kara cried most of the way home about not getting to spend more time with Teja!

Can you believe this is the best picture I have of Halle and Roxie. They really did have fun together even though this picture does not show it!

This is the dog's toy in the garage. The kids thought it was a rope swing! AWESOME!

Brandi did the girls hair too. Kara thought I should learn how to do hair really fast like Brandi!

Kara was star student and made a poster for her class. She loved being the star student. She told me she had been waiting all year for this moment!

Kelton made this little bunny hat at school. As soon as he came in the door he said, "Mom get the camera, you've got to get a picture of this!"

We had to get a picture of the back pack bunny too.

We had a great little trip with the kids. I really did not want to come back to reality, but we had to. I guess that means it was a great trip or reality is really bad (:

Almost Easter

Halle's little preschool class had an Easter Egg hunt at the park next to our house! The kids were all super excited to search for eggs.


I have decided that I don't really need a camera anymore. I'll just carry my SD card around and then borrow other peoples cameras. Hey that is a good idea. I'll just look around for someone that looks like they have a nice camera, and then ask them if they can take a quick picture for me with my SD card!

Halle more than excited about her loot! She asked me if I had seen the bunny hiding the eggs.

Halle with her preschool teacher and class!

A trip across the street to grandmas! The other day this little girl and her brother went out in our front drive way right before the big kids got out of school. I thought to myself "they really shouldn't be out there with out me. I could hear Halle's loud voice echoing from the drive way into the house, and at that moment I knew no one would ever kidnap her. They would take one look and think that kid is way to much trouble! They'd be right too. They would probably bring her right back! I do love this girl, even though she's trouble!

Halle is old enough now to ride her bike down grandma's little hill on the the path up to her door. A favorite hill among little children in the hood.

Trouble #2 (: had a singing program at the school! He did a good job singing even though he has decided he does not want to sing in public anymore. There were so many kids it was hard to see him, but he sang all his songs for us when he got home from school.

See the little bald spot on Hayden's head? No I did not do that to him. Yes I did cut his hair. Yes he is 10 years old and yes he did do that to himself!

He was showering in my shower and decide to use Brent's razor on his head. I don't know why, but it seemed like a good idea at the time. Afterwards he thought he should do another one on the other side so that it would match. He also thought a Mohawk would be nice, but Kara told him he should not do that because all the kids would be afraid of him (the little boy across the street shaved his head into a Mohawk and Kara's little friend is scared of him now).

Nanny came for the performance! Kelton tried to arrange a play date, but unfortunately he had to suffer and come along.

Grandma and Halle at the performance!

Dad came too.

Halle also has a new uncle named uncle Crank! She was naming all her aunts uncles and cousins and she said "oh yeah uncle Crank too, uh that's not right, what is the name again?" Uncle Frank and Uncle Creg makes uncle Crank! Every night she asks me to sleep by her and if I agree she proceeds to whisper shh shh at me (I'm never talking). Then she'll proceed to tell me she forgot to read her scriptures, so of course I can't object to that, and then she will proceed to read me the scriptures from her mini dictionary that she keeps by her bed. It is actually really cute listening to her make up what her scriptures say. On this particular evening every family and extended family member happened to be in her scriptures. She would say "oh yes what is that sisters name again" when ever she forgot one of the girl cousins or aunts names. I wish I had recorded her, see why I keep her around, she's a Turkey, but unbelievably loveable!