Kaylee's 3rd birthday

So yes Kaylee is now 3 and a half and I am just now getting to her post on her birthday.  One of these days I am going to be a great blogger but for right now this is going to have to do:)

Kaylee wanted a Mickey Mouse club house party so bad, so I decided we would try and do it just like the show.  So we went to go do different things and every time we got there we needed toddles to come and bring us whatever was missing.  It was so cute listening to the kids yell out of toddles, I loved every minute of it.  We played pin the bow on Minnie but we didn't have tape, we did bowling but we didn't have the balls, we did bubbles and didn't have the wands, and finally her cake we didn't have the candles.  It really worked out great and kept the girls attention really well.  She is still months later calling Aunt Charlene toddles sometimes:)  I dropped her cupcakes the morning of the party and had to make new ones fast, so they weren't super cute but she didn't seem to mind.  I made Mickey Mouse ice cubes with kool-aid ahead of time and they were the hit of the party, I have no clue why but they were!  If only everything was the simply and easy to please everyone.

 

Kaylee is getting so big and it makes me really sad sometimes to see how fast she will be gone :(  She loves to play right along with the big kids and is pretty good at it most of the time.  Of course she has done a ton of new things this year which I can't think of them all right now.  The big ones that are coming to mind are riding her bike and scooter, dressing herself in clothes that normally match:), drinking from a big girl glass, and more recently since her birthday but still SHE IS POTTY TRAINED!!! Yeah that is right no more diapers for me in this house (at least for right now).  She is pretty spoiled rotten but still a good girl.  She loves to play a game where I hold her and run and daddy chases us, her faces and screams while we are doing it would make anyone happy.  Also when daddy tries to wrestle with her she says "no, no daddy we is friends!"  it is the cutest thing ever.  We love her death and can't wait to watch her continue to grow.

Brayden's Birthday

We had SO much fun at Brayden's party this year, he turned the big 8 and wanted to do a science party.  We got him a lab coat and then everything just started to fall into place.  We of course had to make slime his favorite thing in the world to make.  Then we also did tornado tubes, which the kids are still playing with weeks later.  We also made fake snow which was a lot of fun and super easy (it is kind of expensive but I think it is worth it!).  For his food we just did simple cupcakes, but his was a mad scientist compelete with green hair to match his.  And we did the homemade rootbeer so it would look like a big experiment going, as always the kids LOVED doing that part.  It really was a fun party and it came together super fast, possibly the easiest party we have done, simply because we make most of the things are a regular basis.  At the end to finish it off we did Mentos Geysers which are always fun but make a huge mess, so yes I am out in the street but notice the kids aren't:)haha

 
Brayden has really been surprising us lately with what he wants to learn about and what he works really hard on.  We have always had difficulty reading but lately he is very into reading the scriptures at night, sometimes he is even reading the entire passage that we are trying to read that night.  He has such a big heart and is still my little boy but I have noticed lately that I do get less public affection but he is still my loveable hugable boy at home.  He is getting ready to get baptized at Thanksgiving, and he is so excited.  We are excited too because there will be a lot of family to be with him on his big day.  He is such smart little boy and I love watching him get older and can't wait to see all that he accomplishes in his life!

Finally Kenzie's party!

We had a great time at Kenzie's Spa Party this year.  It was the only thing that she wanted and it really turned out great.  We started off with everyone soaking their feet in the pool to get them all nice a soft:)  Then they got to have pedicures and Aunt Charlene even put little designs on their toes for them.  We made foot scrubs and did scratch art while we were waiting for everyone to get their nails done.  Then we had cake and ice cream, the cake was a bottle of finger nail polish and it turned out okay.  Not as cute as I would have wanted but still it worked.  The girls really all seemed to have a good time.  At the end we had a pinata that was filled with fingernail files, bracelets, rings, and necklaces, and then they all got fingernail polish to take home.  She had so much fun she wants to do it again next year (we will see)!


I really just can't believe that my baby girl is 5 already!!!!  Where does the time go, Kenzie is so much fun to have around.   She is a little mom, always wanting to help everyone and taking care of everyone around.  Her favorite chore to do around the house is to help me mop the kitchen.  I love it because she wants to do it pretty much everyday:)  She started preschool this year with Aunt Charlene and she is doing great at it.  She loves to learn and always has been it has really taken off now.  The first week they did the letter a and then she decided that she needed to write and entire book about apples so she could take her book the next week for the letter B!  It is just so fun to watch all of the things going into that beautiful little brain.  She is still dingy a lot and makes us smile tons.  Life wouldn't be the same without her smile around.