Wii Boxing - Video

A little shout out to "little Josh D". Josh is one of Brian's best friends (they met as young teens). Josh and his family currently live in Missouri. Brooks, having only met Josh about 3 times I think, is completely enamored with him...we really don't know why, other than he loves what Daddy loves. And of course, Josh is pretty great too, who doesn't love him? haha.

"Who are you being?" - Josh.

In case you wondered how the pointage works with Wii...it's something like fifty fousand

My Favourite Things

Ever tried these? We love them! I started with giving the kids the Gummy Vites (middle), but Brian (who will not take a regular adult multivitamin for anything), would eat them...but then they'd be gone too fast, as the adult dosage on those is 4 gummies per day! I was always fussing at him to stop eating the kids vitamins.

Then I saw that they made Multi Vites for adults (2 per day - on the left). Problem solved!

And have you ever tried to take fish oil? I know we're supposed to, yadda yadda yadda. But even the "no flavour, no burp" ones would make me burp this horrible fish oil, and it's disgusting. So I don't take it, let alone force anyone else to. Enter these little gummy gems (on the right). They taste like lemonade with no fish oil burp issues.

So now we're all being healthy taking our vitamins every day, thanks to the gummy bear! Each of these large containers is 9.99 at Costco (but sometimes they go on sale for $2 off and I stock up!). Adult vites = 200 count, kids vites = 220 count, fish oil = 180 count.

You can also buy gummy vitamin C (never tried it), and a gummy calcium/bone development vitamin (I get these off and on for the kids, they go through phases of drinking more or less milk/yogurt/cheese, so I'll dole those out if I feel they are lacking in the calcium department. Don't have any right now to show you:-)

Kayla Grace is here!

Congratulations to my wonderful sister Lauryn, Mark, and little Mattea on the arrival of Kayla! She was born on March 19th, at 11:05am, and was 8lbs 1oz, 20in long. She is the cutest thing! I really see both Mark & Lauryn in her from the pics I've been sent. A neat little thing too...she was born on her Uncle Lehman's 13th birthday! That's kind of cool right? Uncle and Niece, 13 years apart, exactly. (She was due on Grey's birthday, and that would have been cool too!). We hope we get to meet our niece & cousin someday soon! We keep trying to convince them that a beach vacation is pretty nice (hint hint:-). We are very grateful for a new family member to love, and for her (& Lauryn's) health and safety during delivery!

Lately...

I've been pretty busy recently and not taking as many pictures of day to day life as I should!! So these posts are like an eclectic smattering of life:-)

Someone took a cake pop, and left it on the table...guess who can reach onto the table now? (Both Grey and Sonny can, actually, so we're doomed). Things need to be left WELL back from the edge, or you get this little guy walking around drooling red velvet everywhere:-)

Our very well used toaster oven of 6 years died recently. On the plus side, look at how much more (lovely yellow) counter space I now have?

On the down side we are trying to master the broil function of the oven, and using the burners to make certain things, like grilled cheese. That toaster got more-than-daily use. We can't wait to replace it!..all I need is time to get out shopping, and time is kinda hard to come by these days! Somehow we'll survive, lol:-)

Cute little thank you's from Kenna for her birthday gifts. Perfect for practicing writing "big words" in a small space! It's a stamp from Stampin' Up (of course!)

It's Darth Maul!...On Friday (the birthday party day), Kenna (who has had a cold for about 10 days now), woke up with a BLOOD shot eye. The entire white was sooooo red. It looks as though they were actually bleeding. I thought maybe she had a weird pink eye (I'd heard it was going around the church), or something. So on Friday, thankfully, Auntie Lauren was not working, so she came and watched all the kids, while I took Kenna and Ardyn (didn't want to leave her with sooo many kids, and infants can be picky if they get cranky) to the Dr's. I warned Kenna we may have to cancel the party. I thought for sure she would need drops of some kind, despite her claims that they didn't burn, itch etc. They tested her for strep and the flu. Negative. It's just a cold, and either sneezing or coughing (neither of which was she doing a lot of) caused a conjunctival hemorrhage. The Dr said it was impressive!

I forgot to take a pic Friday (busy day!), and took this last night (Tues), so it's had 5 days of healing. It was 100x worse than this on Friday! She looked like a horror movie candidate or something:-)

MUCH smaller than it was on Friday. The Dr said it would take awhile to heal, but every day its getting less red (more yellow), and much smaller. They don't give you drops or anything for this, so it was kind of a wasted Dr's apt. Now I know!

And lastly. This is mostly to document something in a place I KNOW I'll be able to find it again...Inspiration! Our bedroom is completely not done. Drywall is hung, and thats it...I have been thinking, once I am afforded the time (and the money), that I would like to do it in black and white. Simple, elegant, and I want to do lots of family pics on the walls all in black frames. This came in a flier, and I really loved it's look. I want to save this pic, so that when I am ready to do the room, I can look for something similar. White walls. Perhaps a black crown molding (non-conventional, but cool?), Paint my furniture black and distress, and then a black & white bedding. With black frames on the walls, with some of our best pics throughout the years. I have a vision and it seems like it will work (and look decent). We'll find out someday when we ever get around to it!

Rock Beats All

I must have a warped sense of humour! I saw this posted on facebook by a friend (no idea where it came from, or if he took the original pic). I laughed, out loud, so hard. It actually disturbed Ardyn sleeping on the couch beside me! I can't figure out if it's not that funny and I'm in a weird mood, or if it is indeed *that* funny. I guess you can be the judge!

Click pic to enlarge if you can't read it!...and have a laugh!

Happy Birthday LG!

Happy First Birthday to our Grey Grey! It's hard to believe that this little guy entered the world a whole year ago! I remember during his traumatic birth actually telling myself (in my head) not to freak out, because I thought he would not live. I'm so glad God had other plans for his little life, and we get to be blessed everyday with his sweet smile and personality. I especially love that he is a "Momma's Boy", since every one else around here loves Daddydaddydaddy. It's about time Mommy got some attention! He lets big sister baby him, and big brother beat on him, almost always without complaint (well...a little bit of complaints when hit in the face with an incoming baseball. What else are brothers good for?!).

Eating his first birthday cake...with that winning smile!

Lleyton Grey,

You light up our lives!

Love, Your Forever Fan Club (Daddy, Mommy, Kenna & Brooks)

Party like it's 2011! - Video

Warning to all those not related to me: These might be a bit boring (hah!). They are all very short (around 30 seconds each). Enjoy!

To celebrate the BIG milestones, of turning 5 and 1, we had a few friends over, our "Aunt & Uncle", Sam & Heather, with their little girls (and Kenna's best friends) Gracie & Libby. They brought over some of their friends, and their little son Ray, who were in town for the weekend, and then of course Auntie Lauren, and then Ryan & Mary and their little girl Ivana. It was a full house, for sure! Sam & Heather have been "complaining" that we never invite them over for our homemade pizza, so we decided to have everyone over for our traditional friday night pizza night!

I made 4 recipes of dough! Which makes 8 pizzas! Lots of mouths to feed around here. We had fun playing Wii, cornhole, and visiting. Of course the pizza was great, and so were the cakes! Here are few little peeks at our night!

Grey, as with all one year olds, didn't know what was going on, and could have cared less. LOL. Don't waste your money on a big party for a one year old folks. It's just like every other day for them! Except they get to eat cake of course. He wasn't really into that either, as you will see!

Here's his very first happy birthday song ever!!

And Kenna turns 5 year old, which astonishes us...time FLIES! Here's her birthday song!

Trying to get Grey to eat his cake! He didn't really seem to want it.

If you leave him with it for awhile, he'll make a little dent in it! He's just the sweetest kid ever, we are so blessed with him!

Some present opening. Mostly just watching Grey because he's so cute!! (btw: Brian's comment about Orange and Drew...Drew's Dad, Tom is our good friend, and he loves the Broncos and all things orange. Brooks gets lots of hand me downs from Drew, and lots of them are orange!)

Ok - even if you aren't related to me, you'll like this one. He kisses his birthday card y'all, he's just so cute!

And finally, here's Grey with his "woah woah woah" rant. His favourite word!

And that was our party folks! We wish we had a bigger house so we could have had more friends and kids over!!