Happy Birthday Brianna

Brainna proudly displaying her new cars

She counted them and she got 27! new cars

Brianna claims she is allergic to fire so she was rubbing her eye the whole time we sang "Happy Birthday"

Kaylee enjoying some cake batter

Yesterday was Brianna's sixth birthday. She was so excited for her birthday to come. She has been counting down the days for a month. Makell woke her up at 6:30 to open presents! We got her an art easel, a blanket, new cars, High School Musical 3, a car mat (that still needs painted), shark attack for hot wheels, a barbie (just to keep her a little girlie) and a new shirt. Makell gave her a calendar and Cameron and Conner gave her candy. Brainna is our little comedian of the family. The video of her opening her presents is hilarious and a little long to post. All day she kept saying she had butterflies. When I asked her why she said because we were going to sing to her and so was her class at school. For the last two years we weren't allowed to sing to her and the year before she cried during the whole song! So we are making progress. Everyone knows she loves hot wheels and so everyone that came to her party gave her new cars. She has been playing with them all morning. She even keeps the packaging they come in and pretends they are the cars bathtubs. We are thankful Brianna is a part of our family. She keeps us all laughing all the time. She is kind to everyone and is especially kind to Kaylee. When it's the kids birthdays we let them choose a place to eat out at and Brianna choose Artic Cirle. When I asked her why she said because I know Kaylee will love the new playgound there. We love you Bri!

Kids These Days

I came downstairs the other day and this is what I saw. I thought it was funny and had to take a picture.

Enjoying Winter

Makell and Shadow
On President's Day the kids didn't have school so they invited Cody and Baylee to come over and snowmobile. They were outside all day having a lot of fun. The girls pulled Conner around in a sled behind a snowmobile and Cody and Cameron just had fun riding around. After lunch Stan, Kaylee, and myself decided to join them. Brianna hates to ride so we took her up to Grandma's to play with Kynlee. Kaylee on the other hand loves to be outside and riding on the snowmobile. We took them up on the hill sledding but I think they enjoyed just riding around more. It was a really nice day and some faces even got a little sunburned/windburned!

That's What Parents Are For

I am forbidden from posting pictures of Cameron on my blog......but I think that part of the job description of being a parent of teenager is to embarrass them as much as possible. Cameron made the 8th grade basketball team this year. He practices 2 hours three times a week and has two games each week. Needless to say I do a lot of driving him around! He really likes his coach and has fun with his team. On game days he has to wear dress clothes to school so I was trying to take a picture of him dressed up and then I wanted some of him at his game tonight but he wouln't cooperate saying that I would just post them on my "stupid" blog. Stan decided he would intervene and help me out by holding him down for the picture. He also told him he was going to stand under the basket tonight at the game taking pictures! Can anyone see Stan doing that? Cameron didn't believe him for a second. I am going to get some pictures of him playing sometime. I may even video him!

Hepatitis??Gingivitis??

No, that is not an actual picture of Kaylee's throat but the doctor did say her throat was all swollen, red, and had pus on it...yuck! Sunday morning she woke up with a fever and continued running one all day and into Monday so we took her to the doctor. They checked for strep, ($60.00 test by the way) ruled that out, diagnosed tonsillitis, and gave her a prescription. What I was wondering is if they were going to give her the prescription anyway why the strep test? I think doctors just assume everyone has amazing insurance that will cover all kinds of things. They gave her zithromax and she is all better now. She didn't eat much or drink much for two days so she made up for it yesterday....I think that's all she did was eat and drink. Cameron thought I told him she had had hepatitis and then he thought it was gingivitis. It was kinda funny! Makell stayed home sick from school today because of a sore throat but amazingly she was better about 15 minutes after the bus came. It really is amazing how that happens somedays!

First Day of Preschool

Today was Kaylee's first day of preschool! She was so excited to wear her packback and when we got to the school she didn't want to take it off! I was worried that she would cry when I left but she ran in and started playing. There is a little black boy in her class that she is intrigued with. It was pretty funny to watch her watch him. She had a lot of fun and started saying "school" as soon as we left. There is a speech therapist and a developmental therapist in the classroom so hopefully they can continue helping her progress. She continues to say new words almost everyday. It is fun listening to her. Two days ago her new word was "me". Her siblings think it is hiliarious to say things like: "who is a dork?" or "who thinks Cameron is cool?" and then she keeps saying "me"! It is pretty funny.

Christmas Catch Up

We had a fun christams this year. It was fun spending our first Christmas at our new house. Santa made it with lots of gifts. Cameron and Conner were up at 2:30 a.m. (yes I said a.m.) checking out what santa had brought them. Cameron got a new snowboard, a wii game, clothes, and a few other little things. Conner got a big remote controlled airplane (which Stan and him already broke and are waiting for new parts), a wii game, face mask for airsoft gun wars, and a rubix cube. Conner spent many hours watching you tube and memorizing how to solve the rubix cube. He can solve it really fast now. That child has a lot of patience! Makell and Brianna got up at 3:30a.m. checking out what santa brought them! Makell got lucky the pup, clothes, earrings, and some crafty things. Brianna, much to the delight of her dad, loves playing with hot wheel/matchbox cars. So she got a haunted house for her cars, lots of new cars, a new track, clothes, and Hannah Montana dolls. Kaylee didn't wake up until 7:00, much to the dismay of her siblings! She loves looking at pictures on our camera so santa brought her a small digital photo frame, thinking she would love it, but no, she still likes the camera. She got a lot of other toys also which I can't seem to remember right now. I guess I should have posted about Christmas sooner! Stan and I got a new computer right before Christmas so we didn't get each other much. But we did buy each other the same cd, I guess great minds think alike. Oh, he and the boys also made me a bench to go in our mud room. We needed somewhere to sit to put on our shoes. They did a really nice job of building it and I was really surprised! It was nice seeing our families and visitng with ones we don't see often, and I guess even the in-towners (haha)!!