more summer fun

Summer day

Kendlee's evil eye

Higher mom!! Like this!

The new racetrack

Mr. Boy

I don't know what my deal with the crooked picture taking was. I do like alot of the pictures though. Except they'll look funny if you print them and put them in frames. Oh well. :)

We had a fun day outside! The kids and I played on the swings, trampoline, sprinkler, ect. Had ice cream cones, watered the garden and the flowers, cleaned the dog kennel. Lots of fun!

Ice cream cones..

Just prior to dropping the ice cream part on Jerzie's head..

Relaxing

Smiling at Mommy!

The Bad Boy look.. The chicks dig it, mom!

Pictures

Little Sleeper

Slade thinks that he needs to sit and watch the dogs eat. Every. Time.

Kends is stylin.

Relaxing..

Mickey cake I made for Logan

Sleeping girl! Look at all that pink!!

It's a quarter after one...

I'm all alone and I need you now... (Kendlee has been singing this song nonstop for a week now.) Right now she is dancing and singing the song. Slade was dancing too. Super cute!!

What have we been up to? Birthday parties, busy trips to Minot, playdates with friends, gymnastics board meetings, meeting new babysitters (yay!) and so much more. Every sunshiny minute is spent outside (aside from naptime). The kids even ran through the sprinkler.. fully clothed but full of smiles!

Still no tooth for Slade. I can still see it and feel the bump but it hasn't broken through the skin yet. Stinker. He has been saying "Oww." Whenever he trips and falls. Just nonchalant, Oww. Like hes not even hurt or anything. Its funny.

Kendlee has had a few hilarious phrases lately.. "Doin the mamaw, cause I'm too slow.." LOL.  Not the mamaw WALK, just the MAMAW. Funny how she doesn't even go into depth on what the MAMAW is. :)  And then another "Oh no, I'm getting wrinkly..not old, just wrinkly.." LOL. And no, she wasn't in the tub. She was just playing on the floor.

Pestering me, or so K calls it, is something that the kids love to do when we are inside. I lay on the floor and they both run and jump on me. Kendlee basically has me put her up in the air on my legs (wish it was more of a workout than it is!) and Slade sits nearly on my head and bounces up and down. They also love to dog pile on a big pile of pillows.

Slade is still totally into tractors and cars and trucks. Vrrroooom vrooomm. Its too cute. Definately nature for little boys!

Kendlee counted her care bears with me. Picture coming soon, after I upload my camera. She has.. wait for it.. 94!! (possibly 95. We found one in the living room later that night but I dont know if it was in the picture or not. I haven't looked at the picture since to see if it was, but regardless, she has ALOTTA, as she told Daddy. "I have alotta care bears.")

I mentioned that we met two new sitters! One came to our house and the kids adored her!!! Shes going to be a senior in high school. Kendlee couldn't wait for her to come over to play! They had a great time outside and then played dress up inside after Slade went to bed. The other sitter is actually a drop in daycare, right around the corner from my house! The kids had a great time over there as well. Kendlee named the baby bunny that lives under their deck, Diffany. :) She didn't cry either time I left her, which is a relief for me. Slade fussed a bit at the daycare but the gal gave him some food and he was fine. Ha Ha.

Brandon has a softball game tonight. Kendlee said she is gonna go to the park at Daddy's "soccorball game" hehe. B and I both got the giggles and Kendlee got so embarrassed that she nearly cried. Daddy told her that its okay to say the wrong word, because Mom does it all the time. LOL thanks hon! He is right though. Cause Kendlee always calls me out on it.. "What did you almost say??" Just wait kid, when you're older and you only have half a brain left, you'll say the wrong word too. Or even forget things. Heck, you  might even find your kid's sippy cup full of milk, under the sink with the cleaning supplies.. with the baby locks on the doors, so you know your kid didnt put it there. Oh my. These are the days!

New tooth..

Did I ever mention Slader got another top tooth? It was 2 wednesdays ago. 3 tops and 3 bottoms. All going to the same side. Ha Ha. Silly!

the garden is in and we even got more veggies today for it and planted those too! Slade was loving the sunshine and playing in the backyard yesterday, such a big boy! He was on the tramp, then the swing, then up in the fort, then down the slide and in the sandbox. Just loving it! He likes when K is home too but sometimes she is just too bouncy or too pushy.. or too greedy. So its nice to just have him out there for once!

Brandon got the kennel finished. The dogs hate it. Oh well.

Dad is finally finished with seeding! Yay! It actually went pretty fast and smooth compared to the major problems he could have had! The kids were tired of their car seats and riding all day long in the pickup. Slade took a 5 hour nap on the day that we were home in between trips. 5 hours! Sleepy boy!

I have a ton of new pictures but need to upload them still. Hopefully i'll get the motivation to do so very soon! Until then, stay dry!

Rain, rain, go away..

Her ladybug face paint is wearing off but you can kind of see it!

`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````It has been raining here.. for.. gosh, I don't even know how long! It feels like forever. Rain, snow, rain, snow, rain, snow.. Repeat. The kids are getting antsy and restless, needing to get out and get some sunshine! I need them to get out too!!  Some of our indoor activities have become monotonous.. we eat, play toys, clean house, eat, play toys, clean house.. over and over!  One thing we have been working on is behavior AND keeping the house nice! Kendlee has been a little bit pushy with Slade lately. Partly due to his curiousity and wanting to do whatever shes doing. Partly because she is just 3, and shes a little turkey!

We did the Walk for MS on Saturday! I raised $685 for MS! Once again I got the top fundraiser! Though Lorisa, her husband and her sister all raised more than me. They don't count themselves for the prizes. So I won a sweatshirt AND a $50 giftcard to Johnny Carinos in Bismarck! That makes my total in gift cards up to $175 just from this fundraiser! Wow! Plus the sweatshirt and the tee shirt and all the other little things I won!

During the walk my friend Christy helped me push the stroller. I was all fine and dandy pushing it until we heard a hissing sound.. then about 5 minutes later my tire was FLAT. Flat, flat, flat! Not sure what happened but we had to push it back the rest of the way (we were halfway).. and it was HARD to push!  Then we got back and Slade thought it would be cool to eat my entire slice of pizza. Little piggy! K got a flower balloon from the clown and her face painted too. She got a lady bug painted on her face because she likes Ladybugs. Thats what she says anyway! Ha! Slade wanted a turtle balloon but the clown was so busy and we just couldn't stand in line for 30 minutes. Mommy might try to make my own balloon animals once I get some balloons to do it with. 

Neither of the kids slept on the way home but christy and I were exhausted. (the kids slept during the walk though). When we got home Slade took a nap and Daddy stayed home with him. Kendlee and I went to some garage sales but found nothing except some canning jars. So we went to the park instead.

Mother's Day was a bust. Sorry for not calling any of you. The kids were EXTREMELY crabby. To the point of where I thought maybe if we all just hid under a rock for a day or two we might return to normal. Brandon's sleeping patterns are all out of whack and so he was a little less than pleasant as well. Pretty much I spent the day organizing the closets and toys and hollaring at the kids for fighting. But I have my kids so I guess Mother's Day wasn't THAT bad. It just was pretty stressful. --I don't have any pictures of the kids and I on Mother's Day.

The coming weeks are still busy for me. Tonight is the preschool parent-board meeting. I won't make it, wish that I could though. Tomorrow is my last gymnastics class. Thursday is our MOPS picnic, though I don't think I'll be taking my 2 kids this year (or myself since B works) because K is afraid of the park that its at and Slade is just.. well.. he's Slade! He's too clingy and I think he would get bored! Perhaps if it is nice I'll take them but I have a feeling that we won't be going. Tuesday the 18th we have our Gymnastics Board meeting, to wrap up the year and elect new members for next year. Then both Dad and my bestie Amanda A have their birthdays on May 21st. Amanda's party is on May 22nd, and I REALLY hope I can attend. She is such a wonderful person and I would hate to miss out on her special day! You only turn 30 once! ;) Unless of course you decide to repeat that birthday for many years to follow.. which seems to be quite common around here! Ha!  Memorial weekend is Logan's birthday and I'll be making a Mickey Mouse cake for that! Busy days I tell you! And all the while I'm supposed to be at Dad's farming! I see a few back and forth trips in my future. If any of you want to take the kids for a day or two call me!

Lastly, I STILL have not gotten a new lens for my camera. Best buy was supposed to mail me my reciept but alas I have not seen it yet. I think I'll call them. I was so positive that I bought the insurance on it and they say that I didn't. I don't know why I would spend $1000 on a camera and not buy the insurance?

A few pictures for you all to enjoy. Since I'm pretty sure I just bored you to death! (And my Mom keeps hounding me because I haven't put new pics up since April. Blah Blah Blah.. still waiting on those copies of my picture CD's mom! Thats been.. almost 2 years now! ;) Just teasing.. sort of! ;) )

slade's first haircut

Oh my. I see Slade was pressing buttons while I was letting the pictures load! HAHAH!

Two sausages are definately better than one!

She is really sleeping.. inside this big tote!

this is actually the naughty step but She was "relaxing" and Slade was trying to sit on her and the step!

Little girls... and little boys..

Little girls and little boys, make a lot of loud noise!!!

Slade has been extremely vocal lately! Telling us his "stories" and such. One instance was this morning. I was sitting on my bed and Slade was wandering around. He decided he was going downstairs but wanted to tell me something first! He looked at me, from in front of the stairs and jabbered something "blabhalienbalahbial" then he went down a couple stairs and jabbered again "bhlahlfiahigahaballl..." then i couldn't see him. Then he came up a stair and jabbered, AGAIN! "blahlahalhba" and went back down where I couldn't see them.. then he repeated that a few more times. After he was done telling me his story he finally went downstairs!   --Oh and he has TWO top teeth now! And still 3 bottom teeth! how funny!

And whats with this spitting food out of his mouth to make room for a different kind of food? Just chew it and swallow buddy, chew and swallow! By the way, his favorite foods are Bread.. and Lemons. Yup. Lemons. Raw, Sour, Lemons! Goof!!

Kendlee has been vocal as well! Today I heard her tell Slade something about the principal in his office. And then I heard "Don't wake me up! Butt out!"  Her type of vocal is not something I particularily enjoy.

GYMNASTICS

Our season is finally ended. My last day of coaching for this season is the 13th. I almost can't wait to just have a break from it all!!

We had our Harley Drawing! A young gal won! She gave the bike to her Mom!! very sweet!



This coming weekend I have the walk for MS! Hopefully the weather is nice! The kids will be riding in the stroller and I have a weatherguard just incase its windy or sprinkling.