1/27/11

I know it's gonna be a long day when Kiersten wakes up and says, "I want daddy to stay home today". I had to be the bad guy and tell her he was already gone to work. a classic, pouty bottom lip was her answer to that, and I've been hearing about how much she misses daddy all day. (I didn't even mention that he has a late meeting in Seattle tonight and will be home extra late). Kara joined in the daddy missing when I agreed to let her play wii. The controllers wouldn't link up, and I had no clue what to do about it. So they both were wishing he would come home. Luckily, they had a dentist appt. to look forward to. They are still at the age where going to the dentist consists of getting fawned over, and told how cute they are, getting "pictures" of their teeth, a little cleaning with bubble gum flavored toothpaste, and "mr. thirsty" to suck the water out of their mouth. Then they are sent home with a goodie bag and stickers, so it's something they really look forward to. While we were waiting for it to be time to go, Kara was still upset about the wii, so I told her we could do any kind of project she wanted. She chose a "fashion shoot". She wanted to be the photographer, but I talked her into being the director instead, so she could be in the pictures too. She chose everyone's outfits, tons of jewerly, and picked the settings. She tried to pose her sisters, but that didn't work out too well for her. This first one was cute, but the lighting was not working out, so I encouraged her to find another spot for the shoot. This worked out better, but Evie had started to get cranky.

The best Kara picture. She loves coming up with poses, but sometimes they just turn out looking odd. So this one was the best.

Kara got to help take the pictures of the other girls. She really loved Kiersten in this pose, and did about 8 pictures all posed the same.

Kiersten finally changed it up on her own, and we got this one.

Evie was crying a little, so we were trying to snap pictures each time she was calmed down. But once she saw the flash and heard the click, she'd start crying again.

Finally, the last pictures I'm gonna post from Kara's birthday. Kiersten helped me bake these big cupcakes while Kara was at school monday. I've had the jumbo cupcake pan for several years, and this is the first time I've used it. I can see why. They were really huge cupcakes. Who wants to eat that big of a cupcake?!? (besides Kiersten...) I didn't have quite enough chocolate frosting, so 2 had to be pink. Kara wanted her 5 candle on one of the pink ones. The other pink one mysteriously disappeared when Kiersten was left alone in the kitchen for a few minutes. I still can hardly believe she could eat such a large cupcake so quickly, but I have to believe it since I haven't been able to find any remains anywhere.

I got out the milk for the girls to have a drink, and by the time I turned back around, this little rascal was investigating the refrigerator. Since the camera was already on the counter, I had to snap a picture.

Kara asked for mac and cheese for her birthday dinner. I made chicken with it, and made her pick a veggie. She went with broccoli. While I was making the dinner, she had Kiersten help her set the table. I took their plates over first, and by the time I made plates for Ben and me, these 2 had already started scarfing down their dinner. notice she even made place cards.

Even Evie had a place card.

making a wish on her birthday cupcake. She got that crown at school. She was so excited to come home and tell me that she got a pair of sharp scizzors to use at school, and no longer has to use the little plastic safety ones.

I told Ben to take a picture of Evie by the cupcakes. He kept telling me to let go of her, and finally convinced me she'd be okay, so I let go. She didn't fall, but she did grab a handful of chocolate frosting, so I quickly grabbed her again as he took the picture. She was desperately trying to get her fingers in her mouth as I cleaned her off. So Ben felt badly, and snuck her a little of the pink frosting while I wasn't looking. Kara was talking to Nancy on Ben's phone.

Kiersten just had ice cream since she'd already snuck a cupcake earlier.

7/27

This is a picture from last week, I just wanted to sneak it into this post. Mom and Dad left on Friday morning. I got a few pics of Dad with Evangeline. He did panic a bit when she started puking while he was holding her. It sounds like they had fun driving home, and stopping at lots of fun places.

We left home at 10:30 PM on monday evening. We finally arrived in Pleasant Grove at 4 pm the next day. Jackie and Josh were nice enough to let us spend the night at their house. Here is cute little Cash wearing Ben's hat.

Evie and her cousin Kaymie. They are just 6 months apart in age.

Laynee, Kara, and Kiersten playing in Cash's room. He has lots of fun toys that he shared.

Angie's little Kyrie. She is just adorable, and reminds me so much of Angie.

Shelly and Angie both came over with their families, and Nic came over too. So we took all the kids outside to play for a while.

Nic and shelly

Angie holding little Evangeline.

Ben and Nic went to the store and got ice cream for everyone, and Shelly brought some brownies. Laynee and Kara are just like 2 peas in a pod.

New Year's Eve

We spent New Year's Eve at Troy and Shelly's house in Eagle Mountain. It was really fun to hang out with everyone. I really like this picture of Ben and Kiersten. The guys watching sports together. Josh, Dad, Kiersten, Ben, and maybe you can see Zac sitting on the floor.

Andrew, Jayden and Lathan playing their video games. They were really upset when Shelly took them away and said they had to do somthing else the rest of the night.

Addyson, Karalee, and Afton playing together. I have only a few pics of Kara because I barely saw her all night. She loved playing with Addy and Laynee, and threw a tantrum when it was time to leave because she wanted to have a sleep over.

Cash, Linkin, and Kiersten all wanted to play with bouncy balls, but even though there were more than enough for all of them, they still kept fighting over them.

I was surprised to walk into the kitchen to see Afton eating this huge jelly filled, frosted donut, and he even put cherry chocolates on top. He is just the cutest, sweetest kid.

more guy bonding time. Josh, Clint, and Ben STILL watching football instead of playing games with the rest of us. I guess some of the games would have been chaos with any more people playing, so it's okay.

waiting for the ball to drop. you can tell some people were getting really tired. Mom, Dad, and Chris on the couch, and Angie holding Kyrie in the chair.

2 of my favorite nieces, Makayla and Laynee.

I just adore my cute little niece, Rylynn. She is just the daintiest little thing. Kiersten did start to get a little jealous of her though, because I was holding her so much.

Happy 2010! It's fun to think what will happen this coming year. I hope it will be a fun filled and exciting year for all of us.

Easter Sunday

cute egg hunters on Easter sunday. Here they are ready to go with their cousin Nicole. there were tons of eggs and toys for them to find. It took quite a while.

Ben helping Kiersten.

Me and my cute Easter baby! She had such a fun day.

This didn't turn out as nice as our picture up at the top of the blog, but I thought it was a fun picture.

more sibling pics

Here is a nice picture of me and my siblings, (minus Janae) with my parents. Chris, Shelly, Becky, Angie, Jackie, Joyce (mom), Nic (dad), Nic, Jerry, Cory, and Alan


For this one, I want to say, that the photographer said, "Okay, lets do a silly one now. Everyone squish the person next to you." So I guess I'm the only one who thought a "silly one" meant to do a silly face too. gggrrr!

I wont name all the faces in this pic, but these are my brothers and sisters with spouses and children. I can count at least 18 more children and grandchildren that are not even in this picture, craziness.

new pics of the girls