Something New

We had some friends over to play our angry bird game... that's not what's new... They were having a great time, I looked around and noticed Katelyn on our couch completely engaged in one of the fairy books we got at the library

Katelyn was completely content to sit and read while everyone else played. Looks like we could be entering a new phase in our life. we've already had to make multiple trips to the library because our library only lets you check out 6 book from the same series and Katelyn reads through them too fast. when she finishes them she begs me to take her to the library... how can you say no to that?

also newish, Peter thinks he is the expert dish washer emptier... and he is... if only he could put the dishes away instead of in his mouth and on the floor...

Lilly also enjoys emptying the dishwasher... and eating anything she can find on the floor... it's hard when you're so good at so many things.

Random

Lilly's hair is getting fun to play with.  I've discovered if I pull the front of her hair into a small ponytail then i can put two pig tails in the back.  She seems to like it when I fix her hair as long as I don't take too long.  She is 11 months today and loves to stand up in the middle of the room,  it wont be long before she's walking.  She loves her cuddle blanket and binky she is a speedy fast crawler and will eat an entire banana in one sitting one time she even ate 2 bananas.  She loves to clap and wave, especially to whomever happens to be sitting behind us at church. She is a daddy's girl and loves it when Cameron comes home from work if ever he has his arms full when he gets home she crawls around following him until he can pick her up.

Peter is also 11 months old today and is so playful and fun loving.  he likes to turn his head sideways at us and smile a big toothy grin.  He likes to play with whatever Lilly is playing with. he a lot stronger so he usually gets his way. He especially loves the reaction he gets when he gets a fistful of Lilly's hair.  We love making him laugh, he Loves watching the kids jump and dance.  He has a delightful full belly laugh.  we love that little guy.

For my birthday Cameron made me a jewelry board,  a board as big as a cupboard door filled with pegs to hang my jewelry on.  I love it!   so for activity days I decided the girls would have fun making their own jewelry boards but on a smaller scale. unfortunately, I was on my own the week that we had planned to do it. and there is no way I could tackle a project that big with 12 girls, by my self.  so we made jewelry instead but Katelyn had in her mind that she wanted a jewelry board so we had a few friends over and made jewelry boards.  It was great!

The boys wanted to make some too but we decided to make something they could hang their ties on.  it's still a work in progress.

I found the boys matching outfits and had to take of picture of them together.  don't they look great?   I love that my boys get excited to match.  it's fun.

rolling along this summer

 This summer we took a break from the pool and instead spent mass amounts of time at the gym, not the kind of gym you might find a elliptical in, no the type of gym you would find trampolines in. a local gym offered a summer deal where you could pay a set fee and take as many classes as you would like, so to get our money's worth each of the kids took 1 to 3 classes everyday.

Lilly and Peter were good sports as they sat in their car seats an extra hour or two everyday.

Dallin and Grant got to take a super Hero class with other boys their age, they got to learn to do cool jumps, rolls and kicks.

Chick- fil-a's Cow Day

Some people will do just about anything for a free meal.

 K was especially excited about dressing up, and insisted that the girls all wear a flower on our ear.

 D wasn't so sure about all of this and ditched the costume as soon as he could.

 G thought it was pretty awesome. I tricked him into wearing the same costume I made 2 years ago, he thought it was too small and brought me a new shirt to sew felt spots to.  the she he brought me was only 1/2 an inch longer then the shirt that was already made, so I sewed on 2 more spots and called it good,  he thought it was great.

 L and P did not get cow shirts.  sometimes a mom can only do so much before she runs out of time.

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A Birthday Party in June

You may not know this about our family but we don't have any kids born in June... or May for that matter. but Dallin was born in April, the first week of April in fact. Unfortunately that was right smack in the middle of soccer season and we had 3 players this year which made for very busy Saturdays and even busier week day evening so we kept putting it off until we hoped he would forget, but that's the thing about Dallin, he NEVER forgets ever!  so in June, long after soccer was over and we didn't have any more excuses we threw the most amazing Angry Bird party.

We started off a week early creating paper Mache pig and red bird... it was much trickier, messier and in general harder then I thought it would be.  The last time I had done paper Mache was over 10 years ago when I was a sophomore at BYU. Still trying to figure out why my roommates and I were doing it then.

We put the red bird on display... not sure why we didn't take a picture of it, the photographer should be fired. and the Pig we filled with candy the kids got to throw bean bags at it until it broke... I think... I can't really remember what happened, I know bean bags were in the plan but it doesn't seem like that ended up working out for us... that's the problem with blogging months after the fact.

Of course we don't know how to have small parties, there are just too many people we love it's hard to not invite them all, so the night before I made 4 dozen cupcakes.  They were much easier to make then I thought.  and Dallin LOVED them.

Lilly and Peter loved the party, especially because their daddy was happy to play in the water with them.  What lucky babies.

another shot of the pig... because you can't get enough of that guy.

I was busy doing birthday party thing, Thankfully Robyn is always willing to help with one of the babies. 

Katelyn thought it was an awesome party,  how could you not?

Dallin's birthday and our special Easter.

 This year we wrote the Easter Bunny and explained that we wanted to do our own special Easter on Saturday and we wouldn't need him this year.  and We had an amazing Easter.  It also happened to be Dallin's birthday and that was super fun too.  

 Saturday morning the kids woke up, super excited and ready to find Easter eggs, and gifts.  Each child got the same amount of eggs they each had a color that they found which made it more fair for everyone.  Last week Target had a sale on their toys and I made the mistake of taking the kids with me to go see what they had, of course the kids found some toys they couldn't live without and they were a good deal so we got them and decided to give the toys as Easter presents. so that morning I hid their toys, the eggs and their Easter baskets which mostly had random things I found on clearance after the summer.  The kids LOVED it.  and I loved it.  I loved having this part of Easter be on Saturday, I loved getting credit for everything the kids got and I loved having 3 special eggs that didn't have candy or a prize but had a slip of paper explaining that the child got to choose a red box movie for the family to watch, and someone else got to pick a date to get donuts or ice cream as a family and the last one got to do a family swim at the indoor pool that we happen to have passes for.  Also because it was Dallin's birthday he got to choose a special cereal to eat for breakfast, He choose Cookie Krisp

Lilly and Peter didn't get anything for Easter, I know, mean mom, but they didn't seem to mind.

 after our special Easter, we went down to Cameron's work Easter party.  in the past they've had bounce houses, and train tractor rides and all sorts of fun, this year they didn't have any of that but they did have live bunnies, hey we'll take what we can get.

 Cameron makes this twin thing look pretty easy.

 The kids had fun with the snow cones and the egg hunt.  I'm pretty sure that was their favorite part.

 unfortunately they got banana and bubblegum flavored snow cones... really?? that's just gross.

 Lilly got a bit hungry and tired as we waited for the egg hunt to start.

 Peter was a bit concerned about the whole thing.

 Everyone looks better with a fire truck on their head.

 the kids have decided to try their hand at photography, so we've been getting a lot of pictures that look like this...  it may be hard to tell in these pictures but Peter is usually all smiles.

 after the egg hunt we went to the baby blessing the Brough's baby, of one of our dear friends.  The kids had fun running around outside with their friends after the blessing.