Parker's Birthday!

Saturday - May 19, 2012

Parker's birthday is on a Saturday this year.  That makes it a perfect day for a birthday party.  Parker is turning 8 years old!  He has grown up so fast.  It's crazy!  Here is a picture of his Lightening McQueen birthday cake and all the other decorations I stayed up late preparing.

 The kids are always so excited to see all the goodies on the table and all the fun birthday decorations on the morning of their birthdays.

 Parker loves these little spinning tops.

 Here are the kids waiting as patiently as they could for all the party fun to start.

 Parker begged and begged for me to let him open some gifts before everyone got here.  I let him open two.  He opened his new truck and a fun game where you throw the balls into the holes.  The weird looking noodle thing outside, is my creation.  I was trying to make a game that I saw on Pinterest.  I thought it would be fun for Parker's party, but it didn't stay up long enough for any of us to enjoy it.  It was a fun idea, I just need more time to figure out a good way to get it to stay up.  Your supposed to stand back and throw pool noodles at it and try to get them through the holes.  I'll figure out a good way to make it work eventually.

 We went across the street with all of Parker's friends and played at the playground.  When we finally got tired of this, we headed back to our house for cake, ice cream, and gifts, then the party was over.

 Grandma Moser came.  She brought some beef jerky for Roger for his birthday.  His birthday is in 6 days.

 After the party, we set up the pools and spent pretty much the rest of the day playing outside.  The kids love to dry off by laying out on the driveway.  They love the way the warm cement feels.

 After all of the friends had gone home, Alissa said she was going back out to swim.  I peaked out the window to see how she was doing and I saw that she was asleep on the chair sitting in the pool.  So, I grabbed the camera and snuck out to take some pictures of her, then wake her up.  I snapped the first picture, then Alissa jumped up and yelled, "Aargh!"  I, of course, jumped and screamed.  She had been planning it the whole time.  She knew I would come out and take pictures when I saw her.  I don't know how long she laid like that before I saw her.  She's funny.  I can't believe she did that.  It was funny!  Parker had snuck out behind me and watched the whole thing.  they thought it was hilarious.

Swimming in the front yard - May 14, 2012

Monday - May 14, 2012

We are too excited for summer and so happy that it is warm enough to set up our pools.  Brinley was really enjoying relaxing and chillin' in the pool.

 Since we set it up in the front yard, we ended up with lots of neighborhood kids coming and going.  The kids had a ton of fun.  In the pictures below, we have Kason, Jeshua, and Shaylie over.

Pinterest Fun - May 13, 2012

Sunday - May 13, 2012

We tried out a couple of the fun ideas I found on Pinterest.  We made some bubble solution that was supposed to be super strong and make bubbles that don't pop easily and we made cloud dough.  I didn't get pictures of the kids playing with the cloud dough, but you can see it spread out all over the driveway.  They had fun.  The bubbles were fun also, but I don't think they were any different than regular bubble solution.  It was fun to have a lot of bubble solution for a lot less money than buying a big container of it at the store.

Brinley and her friend, Kaylie - May 12, 2012

Saturday - May 12, 2012

Brinley's friend Kaylie came over to play for a while today.  Again, the kids asked if they could have the camera and take some pictures.  Here they are.

Sleepover With Sydney - May 11, 2012

Friday - May 11, 2012

Alissa's new friend, Sydney came over for a sleepover tonight.  We set up the tent inside for them to sleep in.  It was a lot of fun.  The only bummer was that we used to have a smaller tent that worked great for indoor camping, but it broke.  Now our only tent is much bigger, which is nice for camping outside, but terrible for someone like me who likes to play pretend camping indoors.  So, we couldn't fully set up the tent.  We couldn't put the side things up.  the middle part of the tent just barely fit in the living room.  The kids thought it was lots of fun.  The kids asked if they could use the camera to take some pictures and make a video of their fun, so most of these pictures were taken by them.

Playing in our pools - April 23, 2012

Monday - April 23, 2012

It turns out that the kids' friend, Paige lives close to us now.  Her grandma lives a few houses away from our old house on Tremont Street.  She spends a lot of time at her grandma's house and that is how the kids met her and became friends with her.  She used to come over and play at our house a lot when she was visiting her Grandma.

Now we live closer to her.  The kids were so excited when they realized this.  Paige came over after school today.  We set up the pools and the kids have been having so much fun playing outside today.

School Program at Mckinley Elementary - April 13, 2012

Friday - April 13, 2012

Playing at Meadow Park - April 9, 2012

Monday - April 9, 2012

Alissa's friend, Erin came over to play today.  The kids had a lot of fun playing on the playground at Meadow Park.  Alissa really misses living close to Erin's house.  They like it much better when they can just walk to each other's houses when they want to play.  They are happy that they still get to play together, since we moved.  But they can't play as often and they are really missing each other.

Easter - April 8, 2012

Sunday - April 8, 2012
Sorry I haven't posted in a while.  I've been busy with school and moving.  After I got all our stuff put away in the new house, I got sick.  It was miserable.  I lost my voice completely (that's never happened to me before).  My voice is still recovering.  It was not a fun.  So anybody that tried to call me and I didn't answer, that is why I didn't answer.  I really couldn't talk.  Anyway... we love our new house!  It is so nice.

Since church starts at 9:00 am, we had to wake up early to have our Easter fun before church started.  The kids were super excited, so getting up early was easy for them.  They had so much fun finding their Easter baskets and eggs this morning.

 We didn't get a chance to decorate our Easter eggs before Easter, so we decorated them today after church.  The kids loved it.  We did it a little different this year.  We had a lot of different decorating options.  We normally just dip the eggs in a color, but this year we had paint, glue with sparkles, stickers, and all sorts of fun stuff.  The kids loved it.  I think I want to do it this was every year.  I just need to make sure we have time to decorate them before Easter from now on.

 Brinley finished her eggs first and went in the living room to practice her hula hooping.

 When Parker and Alissa finished we all ended up in the living room playing. Roger came and joined in on the fun.  The kids love it when their dad plays too.  They had fun playing with their hula hoops, the big bouncy balls, and Parker's new bat.