Happy Birthday Jakey!

April 22, 2007 Our sweet little readheaded stinker came to us. I can't believe he's already 3!!

We deciced to go to the Zoo with our neighbor Bella and her Grama (GeeGee) who has become our surrogate grama lately. We love hanging out with them after school several days a week. This trip was especially fun because there's a new baby Giraffe at the zoo. It was very cute!
Gee Gee bought Lemonade for a treat for everyone after a long walk at the zoo looking at all the animals. Then we went back to Bella's and had birthday cupcakes baked especially by GeeGee and Bella for Jakey. He loved them, well, the frosting mostly.

He got a few new Dragon toys from Gee Gee and Bella, One that makes a lot of noise, but is really fun and these eggs that we had to put in the bathtub to find out which kind of Dragon they were.Of course we had to get in the bath as soon as we got home. It was really cool, the eggs fizzed up in the bath until all the dragon parts were exposed and then we got to put them together. Obviously he loves them! Friday night we had a few friends, 3 because that's how old he turned, over for a party. He and Aiden would not stand still long enough for a non-blurry picture, this is the best one. He got some super fun presents... Jets, books, Dragons, clothes, and a t-ball set which he loves. Here's Dad giving a little instruction.And the Hit! Of course we finished the party off with the cake and ice cream. He wanted a Rocket ship cake it turned out pretty good. We love you Jakey. Happy Birthday!

Photographer or Fashionista...

Margie has her very own and very independent fashion sense. I cannot usually pick out clothes for her, and even if they are ok, she'll pick something else just to be the one to do it herself. Sometimes it turns out super cute....Sometimes I wonder if she got dressed in the dark... She especially loves to dress up on special occasions... Here is the Easter photo posted earlier, purple and blue flowered skirt, purple polka-dot shirt(barely seen poking out of the bottom of her sweater), purple and pink striped sweater.

This one takes the cake, I have no idea where we went this day, but I know she wore this.... Gotta love that little girl.

So, she'll be dressed in her very own style, which is fine with me, (I only put my foot down occasionally on an outfit), and she'll be taking pictures whenever she can get her hands on my camera. Here's a little slideshow showing some of her photo's in the last few months. There's a lot of them and it's only about half. Thank goodness for digital cameras!

Happy Easter!

Ok, so this wasn't Easter weekend, this was a few weeks ago, but I had to show you these awesome snowmen Dan and the kids made after our latest (and hopefully last) snowstorm.

They were just too cute! So, on Saturday we went to the Yukon park Egg hunt. Our neighbors invited us, we were a little late so we got there right as the horn sounded to get the eggs, they didn't get very many but it was still fun.
When we caught up to the neighbors the girls quickly filled the kids baskets because theirs were overflowing as you can see. Bella and Shelby (one of our babysitters next to Margie and their friend and two cousins)
Where's Jakey you say?....

... He was grouchy and didn't want to be in the picture...

...Until I let him open up an egg and have some candy!
Candy makes everyone feel better!

We dyed eggs after conference on Saturday. Notice the huge goose eggs our friend gave us to dye! They were awesome! Jakey also tried his first hard boiled egg. He won't eat another one. what do you do with hard boiled eggs nobody will eat? hmmmm......
by the way the goose eggs tasted great, just like chicken eggs!!
On Sunday we had the Brewers, Sautters and Asays over for dinner and conference and of course an egg hunt. The food was delicious, ham Turkey, rolls, salads, ... so good, all of it. We hid the eggs in the backyard and let them loose.
Don't look too happy about your eggs Jakey.
"Mom will you hurry up, I'm ready to eat some candy!!!"
Margie, (our little fashionista (more on that in another post)) loved the egg hunt and was proud to show off her found eggs in a photo. Cute girl!

And here's the whole gang of kids we had over. Jake, Aiden, Dimitri, Elaine, Emma, Lilly, Kailee and Stella, Margie and Londynn. Yeah for the egg hunt! We had a golden egg this year, Emma found it, Laurie has a picture of her with it on her blog as well as the beautiful and yummy desserts she made for everyone.

Everyone stayed all afternoon and into the evening when it was time for baths and bed. We had a fabulous time hosting everyone.

Happy Easter!

Fun stuff We've done lately...

The ZOO.. we went to the zoo over spring break and had a great time. The kids got to pet the rabbits and brush the donkeys in the new children's petting zoo.

They got to ride the Merry-go-round also. Jakey had to ride the "spotted Tiger" and enjoyed every second of it.

He also loves the "eepos" (hippo) and had to have his picture taken with it also.

Margie got to go to the play Cinderella put on at the High School which two of my Young Women were in. We got a group together and had mother-daughter dates to the play. Here's Cinderella and all of our little princesses

Here's Heather Thomas as Joy one of the step-sisters, she did a fabulous job!

And here's Catherine Thomas the Fairy Godmother who also did an amazing job and had a huge beautiful dress!

Three of the little princesses on their way to see Cinderella.

Sick

We've been through a week of stomach flu at our house and after losing a week I'm not sure where February went. March starts tomorrow! Here's a few pics I never got around to posting of stuff we did in February. As you can see we had the extremes of weather- that's Oklahoma for you. Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to Dan!

Happy Birthday Dan! To a wonderful husband and Daddy and the most fabulous man in the world! We love you and were glad to finally be able to celebrate your birthday with you! The party was only one day later than the big day, but the post is a week and a half late! Sorry.

Christmas is so over and New years was 3 weeks ago!

So here finally are Christmas/New years/January photo's.

We had friends over Christmas Eve who braved the Blizzard to get here (barely) unfortunately the snow wasn't slowing down so all the daddies shoveled snow to get them here and then we had dinner and they shoveled snow to get them out and home for Christmas at their own houses. We did make time for a very fast nativity pageant and the kids opened their pajamas. When Dan came in finally and everyone was gone I got a great shot of the snow frozen on his eyebrows.

Christmas Day was magical and fun as it should be. We woke up to a white Christmas of course with a bizzard all night, and all got wonderful presents and cinnamon rolls for breakfast and spent the afternoon of a beautiful sunny day playing in the snow and with all our new toys.

The snowdrifts were quite amazing and when we did finally venture out in the new car - Oh yeah, we got a new car right before Christmas also, a Honda Pilot and it's awesome!!! Merry Christmas to me! -Dan was dying to use the 4 wheel drive in the snow. We found lots of roads blocked still with huge drifts and cars stuck everywhere! the entrance to our neighborhood was a one lane passage because of the drift, there's a photo of the car next to it, all the way up to the door.

By new years most roads were clear, we went to the cowboy museum. Dan went to a Thunder game on New years eve. New years day, we played at the park and had a fabulous time (anything to get us our of the house and get some energy out). and Then the Hansen cousins came and stayed the rest of the weekend.

We're finally back in school and back on a normal schedule for the most part. Thank you everyone for the wonderful Christmas cards and e-mails. We love to stay connected with you even if it's just once a year!