Rainy Season = Wet Kids

Right now is the rainy season so it has rained almost every day. Kelsey and Ethan love it. Almost every day they bolt out into the rain and get as wet as they can. I think it is a game for them - "Lets see how wet we can get before Mom notices and makes us come in." In these pictures they have taken off their pants. I guess they figured that they have more of a free motion range without them.

Little Monkey

Kelsey loves, loves, LOVES to climb in the trees at our house. The pictures were so darn cute I wanted you all to see them. Happy viewing.

I Love Fall

Fall is the best because of all the Halloween activities and fall festivals. This morning we went to a festival at the Asbury Church. We played games, went on a hayride, got faces painted, took pictures, ate lunch, and watched a puppet show. The best part is that everything was FREE including all of the food. The pastor said that he wanted everything to be free because God's grace is free. We were there for two hours and had a wonderful time.

Here are the pictures, uploaded for your fall viewing enjoyment.

Kelsey's Big 4

Sweet Princess Kelsey turned 4. I can hardly believe it. It seems like just yesterday I was turning 4 and getting my first Barbie.

But it was Kelsey's turn and she is such an angel girl so we celebrated all weekend long.

We had her open presents first thing in the morning before daddy went to work. This way she could play with her new toys all day long.

Look at that cute darling in those cute jammies.
We were excited to surprise her with the "Swan Princess Palace" that she has wanted ever since she saw it in the toy store.
That night we had the missionaries over for dinner, and after singing "Happy Birthday", Kelsey blew out the candles on her pink cake.

Saturday was her party. She really wanted a Mickey Mouse birthday party.

It is too bad there are no pictures of the truely adorable decorations but that is what happens when you put daddy in charge of the camera. Daddies don't care about decorations. They only care about cute pictures of the kids. And he did get some cute pictures of the kids, so at least that's something.

At the party we played games.

Hereis one of the cute kid pictures as mentioned.

And another cute kid picture.

By the way, everyone got a mouse ears headband but only a few actually wore them.

After games we had an indoor picnic and watched "The Mickey Mouse Clubhouse" while we ate.

By the way, I was going to have the whole party outside but when I went out to set up it was just so darn hot, so I brought it all right back inside.

After lunch we opened presents.

Then sang "Happy Birthday", blew out candles, and ate cake.

By the way, It is a good thing I took a picture of this right after I made the cake because I think

Daddy would have forgotten to get a picture of it and it would

have been a shame to erase the memory I have of decorating this darn cake for over an hour at 1:00 am the night before the party.

Three Ethan Things

1. Yesterday at church Ethan was being bad in Sacrament meeting so I took him out and made him sit on the couch in the foyer with his arms folded. After a while I pointed to a picture of Jesus and said, "Who is that?" Ethan answered, "Jesus Christ." I said, "Can you tell me something about Jesus? Is he nice?" Ethan answered, "ya, Jesus nice. Jesus good boy, like Ethan."

2. Ethan just does really weird things. Random, like his father. In this picture he is watching a comercial and dancing to the music. Popcorn anyone???

3. Ethan has never seen the new Batman movie but this picture might make you believe otherwise. My new personal theory is that the movie makeup people gave a two year old a bag of makeup and let him have at it. They then copied what he did and put it on the Joker.

A few random things

It has been a couple of weeks since my last post so I have a few random things for you. We have been doing a lot of stuff but I forget to take the camera and I don't think that blogs are as fun to read if you don't have pictures.

I rarely put up pictures of me, so here is one of me cooking. I find cooking much more enjoyable in my new kitchen than in my tiny Tooele kitchen. Here is a random picture of Ethan with no clothes on.
Corpus Christi has been in a drought for the last year and yesterday it finally rained sweet glorious rain. Here is Kelsey dancing in the rain. She is wearing one of Matt's t-shirts because she was playing in the rain, got wet, changed into Matt's shirt, then went out again.

Try not to notice Ethan in the background. He went outside to dance too but with ONLY his umbrella!

Scooby-Doobie-Doo

Our Scooby-Do0 obsession started with our weekly Friday Family Movie night. We pick a kids movie and have popcorn and candy and it's a blast. For the past two months we have been watching Scooby-doo movies. The kids are obsessed and the Parental Unit finds it entertaining as well, which is why this has gone on so long.

We also have season passes to Six Flags. Six flags is all about Warner Brothers so they have a Scooby-Doo ride. This is the favorite ride in the whole park. I am going to walk you through it.

Here is where you enter the ride.

A close up of Shaggy

You enter this really cool room decorated all ghosty. It is air conditioned and it is the only ride with an air conditioned room to wait in. It's fabulous.

You ride in this cool blue "mystery mobile" and everyone has a Laser Gun. You get to shoot all the ghosts and monsters with your gun and it keeps score of how many points you get for each monster.

At the end you get to how well you did

We even got to meet the REAL Scooby-Do0. He is the only character our kids liked. The rest of the characters walking around just creeped them out - especially the Joker. We saw Shaggy walking around but we didn't get a chance to get our picture with them. But it made the kids happy just to see him.

One more thing. There is a live action Scooby-Doo TV show starting in September on the Cartoon network. We are totally excited for it.