Kenden's 4

Happy Birthday Kenden!

Today is Kenden's 4th birthday! I can't believe how old he is. I could not ever imagine my life without this boy! He brings me so much happiness. He's a little comedian, he makes me laugh everyday. Love you Kenden.

Okay So I haven't posted in a long time! Let me do a quick update. Thanksgiving we spent in Klamath Falls, it was really good seeing the fam. I was especially excited because my dearest cousin Jackie was visiting too. She lives in Utah with her husband Ben, and I haven't gotten too see her in about a year and a half or so. I didn't get to spend too much time with her, but things are always crazy going home trying to visit everyone. They are expecting, and lil baby Atkinson is due in June. So I hope to see her sometime soon after the babe arrives! I am so excited for them. My boys were sooo excited to see there cousins, Chloe and Annali. Tate and Chloe are just 5 weeks apart, and they are so cute together. They both have the same type of blankie that is there favorite so they fight over them. Tate -tate always says "I wuv my Chwoe wynn" (translation: "I love my Chloe Lynn") It's so Cute!My sister will probably not be too happy I put this pic up.The boys also really enjoyed there other cousins Kyle and Kelsey! Poor Kelsey got attacked right away.

This was just a cute picture. We stayed with Erics mom while we were in Klamath. Erics brothers Trent, Mark, and there families were staying there too. Talk about a bunch of dog lovers, we had erics mom and stepdads 3 dogs, Trents dog, marks dog and our 2 mini dogs. We had 3 mini dachsunds, 2 springer spaniels, 1 cocker spaniel, and 1 choclate lab. Good thing we didn't bring our other 2 big dogs! ha! So this pic is of the 3 weenies. Max, Martini, and Ruby! Max was in love with Martini and followed her everywhere!

Mujeres Volleyball Team:
I don't know if I ever mentioned before that some of the salon girls formed a city-league volleyball team. So we have been having volleyball games every tuesday, well we had our last game a couple weeks ago. In the beginning we started out with like 8 girls or more, but there was really just 4 of us that continued to try and make it every week. So of course we lost almost all our games, but it was so much fun! Well, our last games were no different we lost all 3 of them. There were 6 players on the other team so that was partially it, but really we just got stuck with a horrible ref that wasn't really paying attention and cut all the games short, so I actually believe we could have won atleat 2 of those 3 games!

This is us after our last games: Kristen, me, Ivy, and Ginger! I can't even tell you how much I enjoy working in my salon I just love all the girls working there. And I look forward to going to work!

I just can't handle hearing, that one more person I know is Pregnant. I'm just gonna go crazy! It's not fair, I still have 4 more months of waiting!

Gobble-gobble

On wednesday afternoon, I thought I would have the boys make some little turkey's as a craft project. They had lots of fun, and made an absolute horrible mess. There was feathers, buttons, and paint all over them and the dining room. They turned out pretty cute tho. Here are a few pictures.

Kenden and his turkey

Tate and his turkey. (I think he was about to blink.)

So those of you who know me really well, know how much I want a little girl. And after much debate Eric finally agreed to have one more child. I wanted sooner he wanted to wait awhile so we wrote the months and years on seperate pieces of paper, put them in a bowl, then drew a month with the yr. We drew April 2009 like 3 times. So that's when we will start trying.

However, I am having the hardest time. It's seems there are pregnant ladies just surrounding me everywhere. My boss Rachel is pregnant, a real good friend Lexi, My dearest cousin Jackie, one of our babysitters Jessica, the list goes on and on.... I am just going crazy.

I have been doing alot of searching for the best ways to get a girl. I've learned so much! Although, If any of you have a method that worked well. Please share! I know if I am not ment to have a girl, then nothing I do is gonna work, but I gotta try! Both my boys were not planned at all. So since, I have 5 more months of waiting, planning is whats gonna be going on!

I don't know why I felt the need to post this, but anyway, if you have some advice let me know!

HaPpY bIrThDaY MiSs KaTiE

Today is my little sister katielynn's 17th birthday.

I love my lil sis. She is a crazy, out of control girl.

She is probably one of the most outgoing girls I know.

So many times she's come up to Eugene and gone to the church dances all by herself. And didn't care, she didn't even know anyone. She automatically made friends and probably gave like 10 guys her number. She is a complete flirt, and has guys following her around like lil pups!

She is a cheerleader at KUHS, a gymnast, and teaches gymnastics at the Gymnastics Academy!

She is such a big help when she comes up to visit me, pretty much my little slave. Except she is not clean, her stuffs always all over the place.

Anyways Happy Birthday Lil Bug!!!

This is a typical Katie face she makes in pictures!

I just like this picture alot! AHEHE!

More Tate mishaps!

I know you all think it is so funny, the messes my lil Tate makes! Well this is a few of the latest!


I don't know what his obsession is with the fish food! It's not fun to clean up! It really stinks! And the poor fish, I am really totally surprised that they are not dead!

This one wasn't too bad to clean up. Just a whole lot of lotion smeared everywhere, including the mirror and the floor which you cannot see in this picture!

Halloween!!!!

Halloween was a pretty busy day! The boys spent most the day in there costumes. And were so tired by the end of the day. Even with taking a nap!

This was taken at Kenden's preschool Harvest Party, with Kenden and Tates Uncle Colton!

I love this picture.

By the way if you didn't relize Kenden was a Monkey.

And Tate was a Lion!

pumpkin carving

On the thursday night before Halloween we finally decided to carve our pumkins. They were really simple, but the boys had so much fun!

New posts coming soon.

My internet has been down for the last week and half. So, theres new posts coming soon! Watch for them!

Usually everytime I take Kenden to preschool. Tate wants to hold his papers that we pick up out of his cubby. I usually don't give him the things kenden's made or colored. Just the handouts for upcoming events. After we dropped kenden off, Tate and I went by the beauty supply house. I usually leave the boys in the car when I go in cause they terrorize the store. (Don't worry, i can see them the whole time i'm in there). Well today when I got back into the car. Tate says to me "I wip". He was very sad. I thought he was saying that he was wet. So I asked him if he wet his pants. He said "No, I wip" Finally, I figured out he was saying rip not wet. So I asked him "you ripped?" He said "Ya, I wip tenden's papore." (translated: I ripped Kenden's paper.) Then he started to pout. It was so cute (not that he was pouting) I assured him that it was ok and kenden wouldn't be upset. He was ok after that.

Pumkin Patch

Last friday we went to the Shady Oaks pumkin patch in Cottage Grove with Kenden's preschool class. The boys had so much fun. They had a little hay maze, and some animals. We went on a tractor ride out to the pumkin patch and the boys picked out there pumkins. Tate found one pretty easy. Kenden got a little sidetracked cause he saw some cows and he wanted to pet them. When I finally got him focused on finding a pumkin, every pumkin he picked up he didn't like cause it was too dirty. We found one tho!!! After we got back from picking out pumkins. The kids had popcorn, apple cider, and an ice cream cone.

Somebody HELP me!

Please tell me there is other children out there that do this kind of stuff. Tate has been on a rampage, just one thing after another. He is driving me crazy!

These are just a few of the things he's done lately!

Remember the shapes he drew all over my floor? Well this is his newest art. Acrylic paint smeared all over my bedroom floor! How he got ahold of this stuff, I do not know. There is nothing too high or hidden well enough for Tate. Except maybe the attic or the rafters in the garage. Hmmmm.... He probably could still figure out a way.Apparantly while smearing on the floor, he decided to do a little face painting.His feet needed some color too.

Okay now this is from Tate climbing on the counter getting into the medicine cabinet. He dumped childrens tylenol out (I thought those bottles were supposed to be childproof) and some vitamins, a bunch of fishfood. Looks like he tried to stir it together with some spoons. I don't know what he planned on doing with those dvds and that phone charger. This picture really dosn't do any justice, cause this was only a part of the counter. It was really smeared all over the kitchen and like with everything else Tate had to put it all over his face.

And, you might be thinking..........Where in the heck is his mom, when this is going on? Well, I was probably cleaning up another one of his messes. In this case, I was cleaning up all the clothes he had emptied out of his dresser drawers and closet.

Yes, Your Majesty!

Kenden wouldn't leave the new puppy alone. I told him to go put her down on the floor in the living room. His reply was "Yes, your majesty" He put her down and said "Is that okay? Your majesty" I think he learned that from Cinderella.

Can you draw your shapes?

I was mopping the floor earlier and when I finished the living room, I moved on to the back of the house. When I came back out to the living room I found Tate practicing his shapes on my nice clean floor with his brown color crown. I'm talking all over.

Heres a couple of them.

For a 2yr old, i'd have to say he's pretty dang good at his circles and triangles.