Happy 33rd Kefford!

Kefford turned 33 yesterday and we celebrated by getting Chinese food for us adults while the kids got to eat chicken nuggets. We then gave him his presents and ate some yummy cake

I really try hard each year to get a picture of Kefford with the kids and, like his Dad, he makes it an almost impossible task.
If it wasn't him messing around, it was the kids goofing off.

We found this fun Batman bag to put his presents. In it we put a bunch of candy for him to eat and let Avynlea give it to him. He also got a 15 bottle pack of orange gatorade, his favorite, from Kenedy.

Ryker saw this "Super Dad" gift bag at the store and had to get it for Kefford because it said Dad on it. Ryker gave him two movies, "Darby O"Gill and the Little People" and "Ghostbusters 1&2" Rylee gave him a couple boxes of BottleCaps. We did not get him a whole lot of stuff because we got him something REALLY GRAND for Fathers Day.

I tried one last time to get a decent picture. I really appreciate Kefford trying so hard to make this one a winner!

I didn't have a number 33 candle and I couldn't find the little candles so I found this 7 and 6 and put those on his cake as a joke. It was Kefford who pointed out that 76 was the year he was born. I wanted to pretend I did that on purpose but I couldn't, oh well next year I will switch the numbers so that they read 67!

Kefford had Rylee help him blow out the candles!

I think he had a good birthday and we tried really hard to make it special.

Love You Kefford!

The Great Shiner!

So that nasty bump on her forehead has let gravity pull itself down into her eye! My sweet little girl now has one big shiner on her right eye!

I thought she looked like one of those accident victims taking pictures for insurance in this picture!
So I told her to smile for this one.
Despite the bruising on her face she is still one cute girl!

poor baby

While Kenedy and I were at Kaylie's baptism, Avynlea fell off the top of the swingset and did this to her head..

She landed on her forehead right onto the concrete. It looks so much worse in person, in fact Kefford recommended cutting the poor baby some bangs.

What am I to do with this girl? Will the injuries ever end?

Fancy hair

So my friend Lynn's little girl was getting baptised today and she called me this morning to see if I would do her daughters hair. Of course I agreed to do it. She wanted me to put french braids in but I wanted to try something a little bit fancier so I looked at one of the hair blogs I often read for some ideas. I found a cute little style and was able to do Kaylie's hair with a few little tweaks.

Here is cute Kaylie showing off the front.
And here is the back of her hair. It turned out sooo cute and Lynn absolutely loved it. I was pretty proud myself of how it turned out. All of my girls have short hair and so it was a lot of fun to play with the longer lengths of hair on Kaylie's head.
She really was an adorable kid all dressed up in her baptism dress!
So much fun!

Kindergarten Celebration!

On Tuesday Rylee, Avynlea and I went to the school to watch Ryker in his Kindergarten Celebration.

Here he is waiting for the program to begin. Good thing I got this picture of him smiling because it didn't last very long.

See..I think he got tired of waiting and decided to start making crazy faces. Or maybe he wanted to ham it up for all the cameras that were taking pictures. He is such a goof!

They sang a bunch of songs that they learned throughout the year. It was really cute and all the kids did a great job.

Afterwards they got their certificates from the principal. I thought I was ready to take the picture right when he was being handed his certificate but my boy is fast! He got it and quickly made the turn back to his seat, no posing for pictures from this kid.

As they filed out the principal turned on some funky music so that they could dance on there way out. Ryker had fun with that and showed us some pretty cool moves!

Ryker with his teacher Mrs. O'Connell. We really liked the teacher he had this year. She is a lot of fun and has a lot of patience for these kids. She is moving up to first grade for next year and I think it would be fun if he got her again.

It was a great program and now I cannot believe that my little boy will be in the first grade next year. So much fun!

Spiders!

Rylee found this plastic spider whistle and would not let anybody take it away from her!

Even while relaxing with Daddy on the couch she had to have it in her mouth.
She is a sweetie pie with sass!

end of year recital

Kenedy had her last piano recital on Friday. She tried practicing it earlier and had to get out her book cause she couldn't remember parts of it. But she gave it a whirl a couple of times and quickly got re familiarized with it. So it cam time to go to the recital and it was only Avynlea and I who went with her because Kefford was not feeling well and the other two just needed to be left at home with him. I was supposed to bring a treat to share and I had no time that day to make anything so I grabbed my package of peanut butter Oreo cookies out of the pantry. I was really hoping nobody would want them because they are my favorite and sad to say I wanted to be a little selfish and keep them for myself, but no such luck, they were gone pretty quickly.

Kenedy didn't bring her piano book, on purpose, and on the way over got a little nervous that she might forget her piece. I reassured her, told her she would do great , and then got a little nervous for her myself. But you know what? She did GREAT! She was the only one who did it without her book and she did it perfectly. Her song was called "whirling Leaves" and it is a very pretty song, she liked it a lot and was happy to play it for her recital.

Take a bow baby! All of the kids were instructed to introduce themselves, say the song name and then when they were done to take a bow. It was really cute and I loved seeing her "embarrassed yet so pleased with myself" smile when she was done!
At the end all of the kids got a certificate of achievement from their teacher Darci.
Great job Kenedy we are excited for you as you develop this talent on the piano!