Little Girls

This is just a random post but I just wanted to post these pics of our 2 tots. Lily is obsessed with the movie "Tangled" . She wants to listen to the soundtrack or watch the movie from dawn to dusk. On this day she grabbed this pan from their play kitchen and swings it around saying "Let go of my guide!"

Cati....she was having a rough car ride so Dad did the best thing he could do calm her. He held her hand and it worked. She fell right so sleep holding his hand. Sweet moment!

Dance Contest

We were doing some deep house cleaning and were set to Mike's music playlist. But of course all our kids just danced instead of doing their chores. So we made a deal...clean now AND after lunch we'll have a dance contest. 2 grand prizes- 1 prize for the most silliest dance and 1 prize for the most awesome dance. This kicked the kids into gear to finish up their cleaning.

After lunch Mike tuned up his tunes and let the dancing begin!

 ( I really need to get a camera that has a movement setting.....any suggestions?)

 (Mike and I weren't sure what Mason was doing with trying to flip his legs over his head. He's a funny kid)

But after the judges (mike and I)  seen everyone dance their best and most silliest dance we talked privately behind a pillow and announced the winners. And the winners were............

Mason for most silliest dance. clap,clap,clap

 And Ducati won for most awesomest dance. She just shrugged her shoulders to the beat of the music. It was way cool!!! clap,clap,clap

 Grand prizes were a fruit by the foot AND a package of fruit snacks.

 Hailey and Lily got a package of fruit snacks for participating in the contest.

But the best treat for them was watching Mike bust a move. He showed them some crazy kick flip dance moves that left the kids in awe. Of course when he was done amazing our kids everyone got up and  tried their hand at copying him. Not even close but everyone was great for competing in our family dance off! 

Mixbooks

I am a big photo taker. I try to snap every little thing I see our kids do.....but what do I do with those photos? I use to print a few off and put them in each kids baby memory book. Then download them onto a CD. But we can't really enjoy photos on a CD so when I a $50 gift certificate for product on Mixbook for $8 (www.mixbook.com) . I knew I couldn't go wrong. I fully intended to use this gift card for something else but due to certain circumstances I used it for something else. Books for my family! Each person has a book fully dedicated and filled with pictures of just them. It was nice for each person to feel individually special.

 I must of clicked a different size for Ducati since her book is so much bigger than everyone elses or maybe since there was so many photos in her album maybe it just automatically upgraded to the next size.

Mason really loves his book. He didn't know I took so many pictured of him.

 Lily really didn't show much appreciation for all that time I had to paste electronic flowers onto her pages. I hope when she's older she'll show some appreciation.

 Ducati....she had over 200 photos in her book. I blame the fact that from birth to current I've captured almost every smile, giggle, step, coo, and lovable moment she's ever had.

 Hailey loved her book! She asked to have it. I told her it's hers but she can't keep it in her possession until she's grown and we give her her memory box. Until then HANDS OFF!!

I even got my awesome hubby a book.

My favorite page is this one where he's making a funny face that's adjacent to this other page

 with this love statement. It fits us to the TEE!

" we are all a little weird and life's a little weird and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours we join up and with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love"......I can't deny it-Mike and I are totally weird together and only we get it most of the time. I love him!

 Since these books were a big hit for sure I'll be making them again next year for all the adventures each kid has this year.

1 Nephi

After weeks of reading 1 Nephi we finally completed it. It is such a great triumph especially since 1 Nephi is the book where I end up giving up. But after completing this book in the scriptures we were going to go ice skating to "skate away from Jerusalem" but after thinking it over our 2 tots wouldn't enjoy that very much. So Mike and I chose swimming. Nephi was asked to build a ship. Ship=water. Water=swimming. Hey it works for us! We enjoyed ourselves very much. Mason was excited that he was old enough to not need an "under 9" wristband. Hailey loved the water slides. Lily loved the water fountains that you can stand on and Cati....she just loved it all. She wanted to walk and do it all....but since she's a short stack of cuteness she kept falling face first into the pool. And since she came too close to drowning herself I couldn't calm my nervous enough to let her walk alone. So either Mike or I had her hand the entire time. She's so courageous. But we all had such a wonderful time celebrating our scriptural goal.

She's taken after her daddy

M+A

I love having date night with Mike. Some dates are at home and some we go out on the town. But all our dates are either fun, romantic or adventurous. Tonight it was FUN!

I got this idea from the dating divas website. While Mike put Lily and Ducati down for bed I set everything up. Red lanterns in our living room, Orange Chicken with Rice and noodles, and Poky cookies. I'm not sure what they are made from but Yummy! Mike and I ate all of them before we even finished our dinners. After dinner we played a game. It was from the dating divas website. It's kind of like the game Mad Gab but with fun and romantic verses like......

"MAID FUR REACH HOVER"

"DUKE HUM MERE OFF HEN"

 This game was so fun to play. We laughed so much listening to eachother talk in weird and funny voices.  Mike so rocked this game! When we finished up we made origami roses. Mike learned how to make them for Mother's day so he taught me how to make them. Really easy and cute! After origami we watched the movie, The Tourist. I know....it didn't really go with the Asian theme.....but I can't control Netflix. I would like too but I can't. But it was a great evening in with my bestest ever hubby. Can't wait for next date night :-)

Let me OUT!

At home we have a million and 1 things to do. School lessons, chores, cleaning, cooking, blah,blah,blah. So after a few days of trying to fight the time crunch we just gave up and went for a much needed break.

Lunch time + sunshine= park picnic!

I love living so close to so many parks,streams, and mountain views. Lily and Cati kept venturing to this creek. Don't worry Mike was right next to them and the stream was about 1 inch deep.

Back at the family blanket everyone feasted on sandwiches and snacks. Afterwards Mike and our 2 tots enjoyed the playground.

 (Mike is teaching me tic-tac-toe strategy. Who know there needed to be a strategy? So now that I know how to win....anyone want to play?)

But unfortunately Mason and Hailey decided to fight with each other within minutes of getting to the park. So they lost the privilege to play for today. It's so hard being a consistent parent....but don't get me started on that topic.

Cati really enjoyed herself. Lily had fun playing with the other neighborhood kids. It was really funny to watch Lily interact with 1 particular 3 year old girl. I know I shouldn't laugh but this girl wasn't being nice to Lily so Lily said to her "You have a poopie diaper, Poopie Diaper!" Mike and I just laughed. That's Lily's "I'm-going-to-get-you" insult. But of course our parenting instincts kicked in and we had a talk with Lily about saying only nice things to people. If it happens again we'll just laugh in the inside.