Happy Birthday Makayla

I can't believe that my firstborn in the wilderness is now five years old! The thought of sending my child to kindergarten was forever away and now here it is! I am so glad that Makayla is my oldest, she is such a wonderful big sister and a great friend. I have loved watching her grow up. She is such a little smartie pants that sometimes I tease her that she is going to pass me up soon! Makayla I hope you have a wonderful Birthday. This morning you told me that you just love being five! I love you Makayla Happy fifth Birthday.
This is Makaylas first night home from the hospital. And typical of first parents we just stared at her until the wee hours of the morning. We put it all on video and as much as I love my little girl it is a painfully long video of her sleeping. If anything it is funny to see how googely we were over her.

The Magic Wishing Well

One of my neighbors comes in my house telling my that my kids have found a magic wishing well that they want to jump into to go to a magical land called Enchanted. I went outside and my kids were gathered around ready to take the leap. It was pretty funny to see them so excited about it.
Make a wish, and then jump!

She's on the move!

I was doing laundry the other day and I heard Savanah fussing, which usually happens when she is tired or Ben is "loving" her. I knew Ben wasn't sitting on her because he was with me, so i thought I had better go check. Thank goodness I did because she was halfway up my stairs! I wasn't expecting that! I have forgotten all the things you need to do once they start crawling around, like sweep and vacuum every day, block off your stairs, cover outlets, etc! She definately keeps me busy.

I looked out the window and what did I see...?

Well it wasn't POPCORN!

After the first snowfall one of my friends who moved here from Florida was a little worried about having to drive in the snow. "Oh don't worry." I tell her. "It never snows in Idaho, infact I am suprised we even got this much snow." Open mouth, insert foot. I think I picked the worst year to be sayin that! With the way we're goin now, we might even have snow in July!

Im a Princess!

Word on the streets of disney is if I were a princess I would be Poccahontes. I should probably learn how to spell that eh? I have always wanted a tan! So I found this princess thing on a friends blog and wanted to try it out. You just take a little survey and voila, you are a princess. I suddenly have this urge to go somewhere...maybe London, or somewhere warm where it's not going to snow any time soon.

There's nothin PHAT about this lip!

We found out that speed two is just too fast for these little legs to keep up with. This is the second run-in we have had with the tread mill. You think he would avoid it all together? It could be the male ego getting in the way, he's out to prove something. Well you have to admit the boy has determination.

April Fools!!

It all started last year when me and a friend got together and pulled a prank on her hubby for april fools. She had just had a baby, and I was prego, so I gladly gave her a pregnancy test. She played it out so well, it was hilarious. I wish we would have recorded his reaction on tape. So this year I wanted to do something funny to Mike. Mike was exhausted so he fell asleep within minutes (I would like to know how men do that!) while he was sawin logs, I decided to pull out the red nail polish! His foot was hanging out so I thought oooh perfect, I will do his foot too. No sooner had i started on his big toe when Savanah starts crying. I thought I was caught, but no worries he is still asleep so I feed Savanah and when I come back he put his foot in the covers but his hand was laid out perfect. So i painted his fingers. I was trying so hard to hold in the laughter because it was making me shake. So then i thought he's sleepin so well i think i will try to uncover his foot and finish painting it. I was able to paint his toes, and by this time his other hand was laid out perfect so i painted it too. I was having a hard time trying not to laugh. After I finished it took me awhile to get over how funny i was and fall asleep. When morning came around and he woke up i watched his every move to see if he would notice. He had an 8:00 apt. with the orthodontist so he went to shower. Ooo this is gonna be good! I was waiting in bed trying to contain myself. When i heard the shower door open i went into the bathroom and he was standing there looking confused saying "what the heck?" I bust up laughing "April Fools!" He started laughing then he asked how do you get this stuff off? I told him I would take if off after his appointment. I asked him when he noticed and he said he was stepping in the shower and he thought I'm bleeding! then he wiggled his toes and realized it was nail polish, then he noticed his fingers were painted too. It's not quite salon quality, but I found out it's a little hard to paint nails in the dark...especially when you're laughin!

After he had left for his appointment I quickly called the office and asked them to pull an april fools joke on him. After i got off the phone i again couldn't stop laughing (I was having a Clay Boyce moment) So when he came home I casually asked him how it went and he said fine. Well did they do anything to you? He said when he got there Anita looked at him and said his appointment wasn't today it was tomorrow. Then at the end she walked in and said someone walked in and said there is a bmw in the parking lot with a flat tire. Mike was so mad he was like you have got to be kidding! Anita said don't worry i already called les schwab and they are fixing it, but you owe me 150 bucks. Then he knew she was kidding. After that morning I thought I would give him a little break from the jokes!

I think savanah wanted to get in on the fun because she had a blowout up to her armpits so we had to scrub her down.

And then to finish the day we had some juicy grub worms fresh from our garden, deeelish!