Happy 4th

Dawson's Birthday Weekend.

This post is going to be a conglomerate of pictures from Dawson's birthday weekend. We started it off with a party on Friday. We played water balloon baseball, played in the trough, opened presents and spilled cupcakes on the cement. Great fun was had by all.

Then we headed to Grandma's house for a fun filled weekend. We played all day Saturday and then went to the Mormon Miracle Pageant last night. That is always fun and it is more fun when your 7 year old is really into it.

And today was the big day. My little Buddy isn't 4 anymore. He's a big boy now. He got to choose his birthday breakfast and eat it on the Happy Birthday plate, which he was so excited about, he was sung to in Primary, got a treat from the bishop, opened presents, and had a yummy birthday cake. Busy, busy day. I love my little Buddy!

This is Buddy doing his "I am getting all the attention but it is making me feel a little insecure" stance.

Birthday presents are great, especially when its a bike, along with dragons, dinosaurs, 3D bubbles, batting Tees, Bakugan, bows and arrows, and walkie talkies (not all presents pictured).

Besides the birthday this morning we also got to watch hot air balloons floating around the valley. One even landed in the neighbors field and one in my day's field out on the farm. All of which we could see sitting on the back porch. The kids loved it!

This one is out on my dad's farm about 2 miles from the house.

This one is about a block from the back porch in the neighbors field.

And to end my night I found a stalagmite of Tang in my fridge. How cool is that?

Happy Birthday My LOVE!

Today was my Love's birthday. I love him so much and adore him. I am so grateful that he chose me to be his eternal companion. I couldn't have asked for more! Happy Birthday, David!

(Look, I just noticed that the cloud above our heads kind of looks like a heart. Kind of like in this picture).

Dresses and Hoops!

I have been crafting again. I made another pillow case dress for Cait, but this time I shirred the top instead of just using an elastic. I love the way it looks. And I love the summery feel to it. Cait has become a pro at hula hooping. She just needed the right hoop and she has taken off. Right now even, she is trying to walk while spinning it. Doing great too!

My crafty!

I saw these cute Scrabble Tile Pendants online and thought "Good Grief those have to be easy." So I researched how to make them, hunted the DI for an old Scrabble game, bought some paper, resin and bales and got to work. The resin wasn't the easiest to manage on such little tiles but most of them worked out. David even really likes them, which is amazing because he is not much for tee-he's as he calls them. The little butterfly necklace that I am wearing is the one that the kids gave me for Mother's Day. The hula girl is the necklace Cait picked out, she loves being crafty with me.

Crappy with a capital C!

If there was ever a day in the last 30 years I wish I could rewind and do over, yesterday would be very near the top. Good Grief! It actually started the night before. The only thing I could think about is what my family is going to wear for family pictures in a couple of weeks. I could find something I liked for everyone but me. So I was getting frustrated. I ended up not going to bed until midnight and slept in until almost 8. Bad timing when the kiddos have to be at school around 8:30. I successfully got them off to school on time but when I got home I was crushed. Dave has been wanting a new hunting rifle for a long time, and his birthday is coming up so I was going to go get it for him. I wanted to get it early, but now I have to wait until his actual day and that is irritating to me. I was getting over that and going back to obsessing about clothes for pictures when my friend called and asked a very simple favor; pick my kid up from school. Okay not a problem. I went about my day not too horribly miserable until 3:35 rolled around and the phone rang. It was an Activities Day girl wondering if we had AD yesterday. We sure did in 25 minutes and I was in charge of the craft and didn't have it yet. So I spent the next ten minutes searching the Internet for an easy craft and the house for my keys. I ran through Walmart so fast, grabbed some fabric and t-shirts then ran back out. As I was nearing my destination I drove past above mentioned friends house only to freak out when I realized I didn't pick her kid and the neighbors kid up from school. It is now 4 and school got out ten minutes after three. I start driving towards the school and then think duh they have already made it home I am sure. So I call said friend, no answer so I call said neighbor and she had received the call from the school at 3:45 to come get the girls. I was completely embarrassed and feeling lower than low. I was feeling so bad said friend and neighbor received peanut butter bars as a peace offering (sorry again).

So I was getting over my two blunders and delivered the peanut butter bars then ran to Macey's to got get a quick bite to eat and as I was driving out of the parking lot, I looked down at the clock and realized it was 17 minutes after 7 and my nephews were supposed to be at my house just after 7. I screamed a really loud scream and drove 40 mph through a 25, just praying that my sister just left the boys and didn't wake David up doing it. She left the boys, but woke David up in the process. I collapsed when David came out of the bedroom wondering where the heck I had gone and why I had forgotten yet another responsibility for the day. What a miserably crappy day. It's sure is a good thing sleep has the ability to erase the previous day and we have the opportunity to start anew. I still can't figure out where my brain went yesterday, but for safety reasons, you probably shouldn't ask me to do anything for you today, I might forget!

P.S. To add to the bad day, the frosting I put on the peanut butter bars tasted like flowery dish soap. Yeah, super great! The powdered sugar I used was in the same cupboard as my scentsy bars and apparently absorbed the smell. You can even smell the scent on the powdered sugar.

Memorial Day Weekend!

We went to Doug and Emmie's out in Mayfield on Monday morning. The restaurant used to be in Layton and Dave and his dad loved going there, but Udot is putting in a new freeway right through where the restaurant used to be so they moved to Mayfield. We decided to take everyone out to breakfast. They give you huge portions of homemade breakfast food. Super yummy and very filling. You can tell by Cait's huge pancake too. She only ate half of it. Dave made her a deal if she could eat it all, but she got too full too fast.
Coraline got her first real haircut yesterday. She had cut it herself about a month ago, you couldn't really tell, but why have one hair shorter than the rest and she has had those long locks since she was born and they were getting snarly and broken, so it was time. I cried and I think Dave is not too happy, but she looks cute and it will grow back, just without the curl is all (insert me still crying right here). My baby isn't so little anymore wha wha wha!

We went to the mountains on Sunday with Grandma and Grandpa and the uncles. It was super great fun. I love going to the mountains.
Uncle Craig erected a swing the kids all loved playing on.
Serious daddy daughter time looking at shells from the lake. Notice the headband Cait is wearing in this picture and the one below. I made it, along with four others. They are reversible and super cute and easy. Cait and her girl cousin's loved them.
S'mores lots and lots of S'mores. Cait is an expert marshmallow cooker. Yummy!
Keaton giving Cora a ride in the dump truck.
Even a little wild life. If you can't tell (I couldn't if I hadn't seen it myself) that's a beaver. We were walking around the lake following him. We even got to see his big flat tale.
Baseball. If you zoom in on David's had you can tell he is wearing a child size mitt. Craig was using the bigger one so Dave opted for the smaller.
Sewing with Grandma. Cora was way into grandma's stitching. She watched her for more than 10 minutes.