Double-digits

Devin Celebrated early with some friends at Fort Fun! Saturday he turns 10...Double Digits!

Arcade Fun

 The Crew

These girls were busy out in the heat playing mini golf with Jana after pizza & cookie they headed back outside to do bumber boats. Kendall drove her own boat and got stuck in the middle doing circles...Jana had to go out and rescue her!

 Devin choose a Broncos giant cookie instead of traditional cake.

They could not finish fast enough as they were heading to laser tag as soon as the cookie and gifts were done!  After Laser Tag they played more arcade games, did bumper cars and cashed in thicket...THE WORST PART EVER!!!!! They take FOREVER to decide on a little piece of junk.

School days

Devin and Kendall helped me cook dinner Tuesday, Kendall wore her apron that my aunt made her and she thought it was chalkboard worthy! That is a picture of her with the apron on and me cooking with her. She also fixed the sunshine for me :) 

I painted the top inside panel of the pantry door to leave little notes to the kids.

Since the kids are in school, I have a little extra time...my Kitchen Aid went into over drive!

 I made these oatmeal cookies, protein cookies, and zucchini muffins while the kids were in school... going on day 3 today

The after school kids devoured them in no time! I did freeze some :)

All 3 were excited for school this morning! Monday was the ice cream social and drop off supplies, so we did that, packed our snack and water bottles, then headed to bed.

Andon went to one of his friends b-day parties this summer in which they tie-dyed shirts. The plan was to wear the shirt on the 1st day.  I need to ask him if the others remembered ;)

Super excited for the 1sst day!

 Waiting at the bus stop...I walked with Kendall so I could take pictures. The boys said I was embarrassing..hehe, that's what I do! I got a good pic, but I need to figure out photoshop so I can hid the bus #

After school I was waiting out front to hear all about their day!

Devin said kinda bad because of a girl(won't tell me more).

Andon said "Brilliant, fun, superb" & he thinks his teacher is nice

Kendall said good and she told me more about her day. They are sound asleep ready for a new day!

While the kids were gone, Deon and I went on a bike ride and got ice cream, went to dinner another night, worked on home projects (I painted he added some wires and changed up some of the outlets), and watched the Olympics!
Saturday morning we went to Chocolate Rose for brunch after a workout and packed our bags for a get-a-way to Burlington, CO. Why there you may ask? Well, Sunday we were meeting Shirley to get the kids and this way we had less drive time in one day. Sunday was our 12 year Anniversay so we wanted to have something special even if it was in Burlington.  I had an amazing time on our little get-a-way!

We meet my kids and grandma n grandpa at the VFW, had brunch then rode the Carousal. If you are are passing by Burlington-you should ride the 24 cent Carousel!

 Fun for ALL ages !

Tuesday Deon worked at the fair with his work, so we stopped by and had dinner with him, rode a few rides and played a few games!

Flippin out

Iron Man Challenge-how stronge are you

The Devin had a sleep over Friday and we went to the gardens

pics coming

Catch up time

Since my last blog...

Kids had their last baseball & tee-ball games

Kendall in her pink gear

 All the kids had their last game on the same night - same time. I got pictures of the boys after the game. Coach grilled hot dogs and the team brought sides.

Friday after the last game(Tuesday) I drove the kids to KS. Sharon had a House warming party on Friday night, Saturday we went to G-ma Shirley's and headed out to the horses.

 Grandpa built a club house that according to Julia, will sleep all 10 grandkids :)

 Later that afternoon we met up with my aunt, Emily, and Nolan in Victoria(they had a reunion). The cousins met back at Sharon's house later-where we had some good laughs, a late night Taco Shop run and good memories!

Sunday we had brunch at my mom's house and went to the museum with 8 kids.

 Andon and Nicholas in the learning room playing a dice game.

 Devin, Dylan, Lauren, Andon and Kendall by T-Rex

Kendall and Preston

Playing animal kingdom

 Puzzles

 All the kids-minus Nicholas

 

Sunday evening Kendall and I went to Leigh's house-we spent over an hour trying to fix Andon's Ipod then headed to Chinese with Georgia, Kendall and cousin Emily met us there.

Taco Shop Monday with Emily and my parents before I headed back to CO.

In CO I got the painting Bug & painted the bathroom

 I didn't take before pics, but it was the original white-ish paint from when the house was built and I could not wash the walls without paint rubbing off.

Then I painted the family/playroom yellow (2 walls & 2walls were painted grey)

This room is the family room/playroom/preschool room; it is in transition right now. I am trying to organize it to be all three room in one



Renaissance Festival

Sunday Kendall and I had a girls day together at the Renaissance Festival with Girl Scouts

 Love this sign

 Princess Kendall

Huge rocking horse ride and the girls in our group(others were there too with different parents from the troop)

 Kid area-with a petting zoo and a few rides

For the longest time I thought this was a real horse and knight-I wondered why it was walking so close to others. I stand back when a horse's back legs are close to me.

 Parade

 Jesture

 Twig the fairy

The day went by so fast, we left at 9:00 a.m. and got home at 7:00 p.m. The boys practiced baseball with dad and went to Berryblendz for lunch. The rest of the weekend was quite, Devin slept over at Evans, then Kendall and Devin had Faith & Michael over Sat. while Andon went to get a hair cut with dad.
This week is the last week for baseball & tee-ball games!! The kids and I are heading to KS Friday :)

American Girl Birthday Party

Kendall turns 6:

She got her 1st American Girl Doll from papa and Grandma

Birthday Girls:

 My American Girl cake I made, I did not want to buy more frosting for just that little section so I added a #6 candle.

{not finished}

{finished cake}

 I bought this wooden frame at the thrift store, painted it with chalkboard paint and Grandma Shirley wrote on it for me!

{Fun Photo Shoot}

Kendall and Cheyanne

 William and Andrew

Party Planning:

Streamers for outside- tied cut fabric using a "tutu" tie around twine

 The girls crafting out back in the tent-It was a "stay late" party. The girls brought PJ's and changed into them at 5:30, played dolls, did crafts, served doll sized food on doll sized plates, and tried to Keep the Boys OUT (notice the boys in background)!!

Doll sized smores to go with the movie-The American Girl McKenna movie was aired on TV the same night as the party! I bought the movie just in case we missed the movie.

My crafts planned for the girls: We made star wands with American Girl stickers, popcicle stickes and cardboard stars; Stencils and notebooks(I made the star note books with red foam and white paper; I sent home paper dolls-we were going to make envelopes to store them in but I ran out of time and I got those Cootie Catchers that we did not have time for either.

Kendall's farovite part of the party was crafts in the tent and presents-her least favorite was the boys bothering her and her friends in the tent.
We also did not have time for the movie and smores :(  I over planned for the party and it was a 4 hour party!

Each girl got a pillow case dress and badanna for their dolls

 After presents the boys and Lauren went swimming with grandpa and grandma and we did cake time and more doll/tent playing. The tent really kept 5 girls busy all evening!
When all the guests left, Deon, Kendall and I watched the movie and slept out in the tent!
Sunday Kendall got Holly the hamster(real hamster) from her brothers for her Birthday! Turning 6 was Awesome! Happy Birthday Kendall-ina!