messy girl strikes again!

On Saturday Kenedy pulled out her easy bake oven and, along with her friend Maggie, proceeded to make a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. She kept getting frustrated with Rylee because, of course, Rylee wanted to be in on the action. So despite Kenedys protests Rylee sat on the table and watched her work. Once Kenedy was about finished Rylee took it upon herself to try the treats and then try to eat the flour Kenedy left out. This is Rylees face after she was done!

I love this one sided smile she is starting to sport!
Giving Avynlea kisses was fun!

We told her to do her "mad face". Loving it!

Now come on, how can you not love this little face!
Adorable!!

Ryker news

On Thursday I went to Wal-Mart to get some groceries and I picked up a couple pair of jeans for Ryker. He needed new ones because he has holes in his others. While there I also looked for a new belt because the one he has been using is really getting too small. I found this cool belt and was excited that it was only $6. I guess Wal-mart is good for some things:) Ryker was really excited to get his new Jeans and loves the belt. He put on his new items immediately and kept talking about how he wanted to wear his belt to school to show his friends. This morning Ryker got up early, like 6:45 early, and came in my room completely dressed. Now that is excitement!

He also had his fourth tooth pulled out by Kefford on Wed. so now he has a big hole in his mouth because the bottom teeth are only halfway in and the top ones are gone!

In other Ryker news, Kefford bought him these new shoes and decided it was time to teach him how to tie his own shoes. Kefford sat down with him on Saturday, showed him twice how to tie and Ryker has been doing it by himself ever since! Now that is fast!

These shoes were tied by Ryker all by himself!
I tried taking a picture of Rylee and Avynlea decided to jump in on it!
For Young Women's we took the Beehives over to Penny Keys house so she could teach them about photography. While we were there I let one of the girls, Courtney, use my camera and these are the pictures she took!
If you couldn't tell I am wearing my Top Model shirt because Wed night was the premier of Top Model cycle 12! It was appropriate that I wore it on the night we were learning about photography and taking pictures of each other. I swear I did not plan that on purpose, I did not remember what we were doing for Mutual until I got there and I didn't even know it was the premier night until Ashleigh texted me, so then I had to hurry and change into top model appropriate attire!
I thought this picture that Courtney took was pretty cool!

Cliff Hanger

I came downstairs to see that Kefford had put Rylee up on our very tall plant shelf. She really enjoyed being up there!
Rylee would have made a really cute addition to the items on that shelf but unfortunately she had to come down. Kefford tried to get her to jump down into his arms but she would have none of that till finally he climbed on the couch to pull her down!

messy, messy

While I was in the bathroom drying my hair Rylee found the inkpad in my bedroom that I kept forgetting to put away.

Isn't she lovely?
I wish I could say that it has been put away so that this can't happen again, but it has been two days and the inkpad is still sitting on my bathroom counter. But she wouldn't get into it again, right?!

I still love my messy girl!
I was making pizza for dinner and of course Rylee and Avynlea were right there helping me! This is what they did with the dough I gave them!

Avynlea said Rylee looked like Santa Claus!

She really loved this piece of dough and could not put it down! I eventually cooked it for her but then had to throw it away when it was left on her plate! Smart girl, I wouldn't have eaten that mishandled thing either!

some randomness

It was looking like a nice day on Monday so I thought it would be good to get us all out of the house and walk to the school to get Kenedy today. My kids like doing this and especially little Rylee loves getting into her stroller for a ride. Isn't she cute...
So after getting everyone ready we start walking only to discover it is very windy and that wind is making it even colder. I debated whether to turn back but thought we could tough it out and walked a little bit further only to discover that we are wimps and had to get out of the windy cold! Everyone was on board with this decision except for Rylee. And why should she have been? She was bundled up in her stroller covered with a blanket having a grand time. As soon as I took her out the fit came. She screamed and fought me the entire process of getting her out of her stroller and into her car seat but I did it and hopefully warmer weather comes soon so that we can walk.

Avynlea and Rylee are showing me they finished their milk. Avynleas Dr told her how important it is to drink a lot of milk and since then Avy has been good about drinking hers all gone. Most often I flavor it with chocolate or caramel and they love that! Ryker and Avynlea were playing in the backyard yesterday and decided to make lots of mud which they then tracked into the house. So I swept up what I could and then had the kids wash the floor. They all loved doing that but eventually I had to pull, make more mess Avynlea and Rylee away and talk them into helping me vacuum.

Avynlea just sat on the couch and watched but Rylee was very dedicated to walking around with me holding onto the vacuum and helping me. It was tedious and harder with her in the way but I know she was enjoying it so I let her keep at it. Finally when we were done I just let her hold it by herself and give it a go.

Busy day!

Yesterday I took Kenedy to the Dr. for her 9 year well child check up. She did great and her stats are.. Height 54 inches (75%) Weight 55 1/2 (20%) and Blood Pressure 98/74 As you can see she is very tall and quite slim. This is normal for Kenedy and the Dr. had no concerns. Kenedy did get the second half of her Chicken Pox vaccine and although she did say ouch she was really brave and acted like it was no big deal! Good girl!
After Ryker got home he and Avynlea took advantage of the nicer day and went into the backyard. Yes it is quite Ghetto but that is because we killed off the grass last fall so that we could put better grass in this spring. Ryker does not want grass put in because it will take away his ability to make monster truck tracks. Which is what he did in this picture. You can see Avynlea swinging on what is left of our Ghetto swing set.

In other news I was driving by Albertsons when I saw a sign out front saying they were having a sale on some food items. Alison gave us some money this Christmas for a years supply so I went to the bank to pull a little out so I could go take advantage of the sale. It is a bounce back sale and the way it work is that you buy ten of the items at regular sale price and then you get a 10 dollar coupon back. Then you buy the next ten, use the coupon and then you get another ten dollar coupon and then so on and so on. I ended up with a lot of receipts because you have to cash out each 10 items in order to get the coupon and it took quite a while but I am really excited with what I ended up with.

This is what I bought and it may not look like a whole ton but I had 2 kids with me and a short amount of time before I had to get Ryker so I couldn't get everything I wanted but I am thinking of going back today. Anyway I spent a total of $103 on what you see in the back of the expedition. Good right? Well the impressive part is that I saved a total of $277!!! I know, now your jaws just dropped! (regularly the soups were three bucks a can, the granola bars were 4 bucks a box and the fruit snacks were 3 bucka a box)I am really excited that I could be thrifty and use the sale to stock up for our years supply! So fun!

One last fun happening is that I got a package from my oldest sister and she sent me a couple things because she knew that I had been feeling really homesick this past winter. One of the items was this really cool BathBomb she bought from Downtown Disney. This kids were intrigued and so I started my bath last night and then let the kiddos in to see the BathBomb in action.

They thought it was pretty cool and now I think the next time I go down to Cali I am going to have to stock up on some for the kids baths. Oh and in case you did not know a BathBomb is a ball that you drop into your bath and as it fizzles it colors and scents the water. The one I was sent was called :Pacific Ocean". I took a picture with the flash off so you could see how dark it got.

It was really fun and I had great bath! Thanks Steph for my "Pacific Ocean" bathing time! It was just what I needed!

Happy 9th Birthday Kenedy!

Kenedy started out her big day by me allowing her to open one present that came in the mail from her Grandma Lutes. Kenedy was really excited to open the package and find money and candy bars.
Kenedy kept saying that she wanted us to go to Red Robin for her birthday but I had Young Women's to go to that night and Kefford had Elders Quorum business to attend to so that was not possible. I decided to send the kiddos to their friends houses and I went to the school and "kidnapped" Kenedy to take her out to lunch just the two of us. I bought a Happy Birthday crown that I told her she had to wear and she finally did. But took it off after a while because it was hurting her head.

While we were there I gave her the Baptism book that I completed and she thought it was really great. She liked all of the pictures but said that she would look at it another time to read what was written.

Of course I had to have the Red Robin staff come and sing to Kenedy. She thought that was fun and loved the sundae that she got to eat.

Me and the birthday girl! Love this kid!!

As we were leaving she told me how much fun she had and then thanked me. We stopped in at Krispy Kreme to take doughnuts back for her class.

Later that day I picked up a pizza for dinner and we had that with a salad. Afterwards we let Kenedy open her presents. Here is her quilt that I made for her! She loves it!

Kenedy with her gifts, quilt from Mom, Easy Bake oven from Avynlea, Easy Bake foods from Rylee, and Wii gift card from Ryker. Keffords birthday gift to Kenedy and Avynlea is the bunkbed! Grandma Alison came by when Kenedy got out of school and gave her a visa cash card, chapsticks, tootsie rolls and a money holder.

Kenedy wanted a chocolate cake with the Disney Fairies on top. So I bought some miniature toy Fairies from Target and then green edible glitter and flower candies. I think it turned out really cute. Kenedy thought it was great and her opinion is the one that counts! I also got candle sparklers and those were really fun. I thought they were going to be like the fourth of July sparklers but they weren't. They were subtle but still pretty cool!Lighting the candles. Kenedy was nervous about the sparklers and stayed pretty back until we realized they were not that bad.

Birthday girl and her Daddy

Make a wish!

It was a fun day for Kenedy and we sure are glad that she is in our family. We really love her and love watching her grow.