Happy 80th Birthday Opa!

Today is James' Uncle Boyd's 80th birthday. On Saturday his kids' threw him a surprise party. It turned out really great and everyone seemed to have a real good time.

Silly Kitty

I came home from taking the kids to school Friday morning and I kept hearing this noise. I finally tracked it down and it was Bindi IN the washing machine playing with a nickle that was in there.

Curly Sue

As you can see from my last post Maddi had sponge curlers in her hair. She has an obsession with them lately and has to have them in all the time. She doesn't want them in for her hair to be curly, she just wants to wear them. She sits real still as I put them in and hands me curlers as I need them. She looks so cute with them in too!

Cookies for Kenni

Yesterday morning I went to Kenni's class to help out for a little bit. The teacher just kept telling me that Kenni is her favorite and that he is so funny. Kenni reminds her of her Dad when he was a little boy. She said that she has a ton of stories about Kenni. The funniest one was from last week. She was teaching the kids about our country and showed them a picture and it happened to Barack Obama. She said the kids were all telling her President Obama. Kenni shouted out "Hey! That's Obama and he wants to take our guns sway from me and my Dad!" She said she couldn't help but just laugh. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes!

After I was done there and getting ready to go Kenni started to cry. I promised him that if we got homework done on time then we could make some cookies. So that is what Kenni got to do last night. He did all the adding ingredients, mixing and putting the cookies on the sheet to be baked. Laura got to crack the eggs and Maddi was the expert taste tester!

Kenni's Japanese Dance Moves

Yesterday morning we were all getting ready for church and Kenni was supposed to be getting dressed himself. Instead I found him in the living room watching tv and doing some funky dance moves. He stopped when he noticed I was watching him but I got him to do it again on video. The way he is dancing reminds me of Napoleon Dynamite. He kept referring to his moves as the Japanese dance moves. I have no idea why...It is Kenni.

Slippin' and Slidin'

Friday afternoon the neighbors invited us over for dinner. Daddy had to work so the kids and I went. The neighbors have a slip and slide that they made themselves out of a huge tarp and a huge piece of plastic and they got that out. The kids all had a blast and surprising enough (with 9 kids playing on it) there were no injuries! We had dinner and then went back outside to play. Eventually it got dark and the kids decided that instead of playing on the slip and slide they would take the water that didn't drain off and bring it over to their sandbox. They turned it into a huge mud pit. Everyone was covered from head to toe in mud! It was a really big mess but contained pretty much to the sand box and they all had such a great time. I didn't get any pictures of the mud covered kids but I got some as they were playing on the slip and slide. I'm sure you can imagine what they all looked like!

Kenni's Photography Debut

For Kenni's last birthday Aunt Tam got him the coolest present. It's an orange (of course) Vtech kid camera. He has been bugging me since his birthday to put some of his pictures on the computer like I do mine. It's a long story but this weekend my camera (along with the house a/c and the van's battery) broke. On Saturday we went up to Oma & Opa's with Greg and Laurel. Opa had cooked ribs and got some sweet corn and invited us up for a feast. Since my camera was broke I let Kenni bring his. I then finally downloaded them onto the computer. The camera can be very annoying at times and one of the other kids usually end up taking it from him but it's fun to see his "memories". He took videos too but all they are of is the kids screaming and yelling. They make you dizzy to watch and also not pleasant to the ears!

Kenni and Laura

Aunt Lisha

Oma

Uncle Charles

Opa

Greg

Laura behind the railing

Laurel and Lisha

Kenni, Maddi and part of Laura in the Front room