Blue and Gold Dinner

Tonight was Jason's first Blue and Gold Dinner for cub scouts. They were given the assignment to make a cake with a state theme with their dad's help. Jason chose Utah because that's where he was born. Daddy wanted to put at big "U" on it for the University of Utah. The other parents and leaders gave him a hard time for not including BYU. I tried really hard not to help, but I did whip up some frosting when their can of frosting ran out. They got the award for the "This is the place cake".

Name that song

So, I'm sitting here on the computer and Jacob is playing with a car on the windowsill talking and singing to himself. This is what I was able to make out "pictures you, pictures me, pictures you, pictures me". It was very cute, I know what song he was singing, do you?
I grabbed my camera and told him to sing that song again. Of course it's not the same but he was still so cute. You can here Kami screeching in the background. She was probably wondering why Mommy's attention was on Jacob and not on her.

This is Jason racing at the skate rink when we went for Katie's birthday (see post below).

Valentine's Day

This is how we spent our Valentine's Day this year. We went roller skating for Katie's birthday. Lisa and her family went with us.

The birthday girlKatie in her new Rollerblades from ChristmasShe later switched to rollerskatesJacob started off with help from DaddyBy the end of the night he was going by himself, he just needed supervision because he couldn't get up when he fell down. Daddy and Jason Taking a break

Doing the Hokey Pokey
We all took turns sitting with the babies. They were very good considering they spent most of the time toe to toe in their car seats.KamiLogan
Afterward we got pizza at Round Table

Katie opening presents at our house while the kids looked on. Kami and Logan finally got to get out of their car seats and they sat and watched Katie open the presents. They had fun playing with the wrapping paper, of course, I don't have pictures of that.
Katie blowing out her candles on her homemade ice cream cake. It was a long day but fun was had by all. Thanks to the Saunders for celebrating Katie's birthday with us on Valentine's Day.

The Sixth Challenge

Okay, so I was just given the Sixth Challenge by my good friend Lara.

The Sixth Challenge is this:

1. Go to your photo folder

2. Go to the 6th folder of photos

3. Go to the 6th picture

4. Put the picture on your blog and a description.

5. Invite six friends to join the challenge.

I was anxious to see exactly what picture it would end up being. Luckily it was a cute one of Jacob. I have a quite a few pictures of my computer screen. I keep my camera by the computer and sometimes Katie likes to sit there and take pictures of the trash can, or the computer screen, or her brother up close. Anyway, this picture was taken in June of 2007. The kids and I had come across some old Halloween make-up. So I decorated Jason and Katie's faces. Jacob wanted in on the action so I put just a little on his face. The only way I could take his picture was to swivel the screen around on my camera so he could look at himself while I took the picture. So you can see me trying to get out of the shot with Jacob on my lap.

Sooooo. I challenge Mom, Lisa S., Julie, Sarah, Lisa R, and Rachelle to take the Sixth Challenge.

Saturday cleaning

On Saturday I put my kids to work cleaning. They moaned and groaned at first but then they worked hard. After Katie would finish a task she would say "What's next?" After sweeping and mopping the kitchen, I put Katie in charge of dusting the two tables in the living room. Jason was already in there vacuuming the floors. Pretty soon Jason was in there scrubbing away at one table and Katie was working hard on the other. I had given her a pre-moistened cleaning wipe to wipe the tables with, but Jason thought the scrubbing bubbles he used in the bathroom would work good on the tables, so they were using that. I liked their enthusiam to get things clean, but I explained to them that different cleaners are meant for different surfaces. Luckily, there was no harm done to the tables. Thank you to my hard little workers.

Jacob vacuumed the stairs.

Katie swept and mopped the kitchen floor.

Jason cleaned the kids' bathroom (I didn't make him do the toilet).

Happy 6th Birthday Katie!!

My little princess on her blessing day.

Katie's 1st Birthday We celebrated Katie's birthday yesterday. She wanted an ice cream cake with chocolate ice cream in it. I made one myself and it actually turned out pretty good.

On a side note. I was making breakfast this morning and tried to slice some cheese and sliced my finger instead. So it was off to the ER at 8:30 this morning. I got 6 stitches on my finger. The kids were glad they got to miss church, and I'm glad I get out of doing dishes for a few days.

Leavenworth now and then

Last summer we went to Leavenworth, it was only my second time. The first time was almost 10 years ago. We passed this bear painted on the wall and I remembered having my picture taken with him before. I tried to pose the same way and had Justin take my picture. I haven't been able to find the other picture until today. Don't ask me why I decided to be kissing the bear.

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