Kelsey's turn to be funny

Ethan is usually the one saying hilarious stuff and I occasionally blog about something he has said. Well, the other day Kelsey said something funny that I just had to share.

We were reading scriptures and after we were talking about who Jesus' parents were. Of course his father is Heavenly Father and we asked Kelsey if she remembered who his mother was. She couldn't remember her name so we reminded her that his mother's name was Mary. Then Kelsey thought for a minute and said in all seriousness, "Mary? Mary had a little lamb."

Aftter laughing for a minute I thought, this is true. She did have a little lamb. A little "Lamb of God".

And now for a test question:  Which one is Kelsey and which one is Juliet?

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Birthday Princess

September 24, 2010

My baby girl turned five!  WOW!!!

I'm not sure how I feel about that, but we tried to make her day very special.

Here is what we did.

She had school so we took cupcakes to share with her class and she wore her very favorite outfit and a brand new tiara.

For dinner she wanted hamburgers so we tried this new place.  It was SO GOOD.  Best burger I think I have ever had, ever.

 Kelsey thought one of the bus boys that worked there was cute.  She said, "I like his face.  It is cute."  I wanted to take a picture of the boy but I didn't dare.  I am such a coward, he probably wouldn't have cared.  I just thought it was funny that my little girl is already noticing boys.  This may mean trouble.

 Opening presents was her favorite part of the day, of course.

September 25, 2010

The Party

Kelsey loves Sleeping Beauty and thinks that she IS Princess Aurora.

The invitation, so cute, said, "Once Upon A Dream the three fairies bestowed upon Princess Kelsey a magical birthday celebration with all of her best friends.  Please make this dream come true and join the fun."

So I made this cake:

Not easy to decorate.  The towers were leaning and I felt like the green fairy in sleeping beauty who tried to make a cake and was struggling to keep it from falling over.  I wished that I had a magic wand to magically make it all better.  But it turned out ok, after two hours of stressful work.

Oh, and I love how the princess is as big as the towers.

 I also stayed up into the wee hours of the morning making this cardboard castle (which was a huge hit).

That's right: Spit, Grit, and a whole lotta duct tape.

I would have loved to have painted it white with purple trim and lots of sparkley glitter.

But that would have taken an entire extra day of work.

 After playing for a little while we went into the kitchen to make princess hats.

The two boys (Ethan and his friend Matthew) made shields.

 I think they turned out quite darling.  Or maybe just the girls are darling and anything looks good on them.

 Next, the kids were required to go treasure hunting.  I told them that the three fairies had hidden some treasures for them.  They each had to find 3 bags, one pink bag(from the pink fairy), one green bag (from the green fairy), and one blue bag (from the blue fairy).  The two boys had to find one blue bag, and a sword.

The pink bag was the "gift of beauty" and inside was a princess crown and some lip gloss.  The green bag was the "gift of song" and inside was a little horn.  The blue bag was the "gift of true love's first kiss" and inside was hershey kisses.

Then we all had some lunch

And played a little more.

 Opened presents

 And sang "Happy Birthday"

 I think everyone had a lot of fun.  It was one of my most succesfull parties, which may be due to the fact that the kids were a little older than in times past.

Happy Birthday Kelsey

We sure love you.

Preschool and other fun

Kelsey started her first day of Pre-School today.  She is a september baby and missed the deadline, which is why she will always be the oldest one in her class.  She was SUPER excited.  She had so much fun, I am so glad that she gets to go (even if I have to drive through Tropical Storm Hermione to get her there).

This is her favorite outfit that she picked out, and she looks just darling.  I am so proud of her.

Here is a funny story about Ethan today:

We were reading scriptures in Jacob 2 where it was talking about how the rich people began to oppress the poor and Jacob was calling them to repentance.  So I explained to the kids that if you have a lot of money you are supposed to share it with those who don't have as much.  To see if Ethan was listening I said, "So Ethan, what are you supposed to do if you have a lot of money?"

Ethan looked up from his book and shouted, "Go to CHUCK E. CHEESE!"

Yup, that's my Ethan for you.

Ethan also got a new "big boy bed" this week.  Matt was so patient and let Ethan "help" him set it up.  I don't have a picture of the final product.  I should try to get one for y'all.

And Lastly, here is sweet Juliet.  A dear lady from Church gave her this GIGANTIC pink bow.  It is to die for, it is so darling.  It is cuter in real life than in this picture because the picture doesn't show how sparkly it is.

It is hard to find a spot on her head to put it where it isn't in her eyes so we have to turn it way to the side of her head.

Here is a pic of Juliet with her "best friend" JJ.

And here is a pic of Kelsey and Ethan with JJ.  We must copy everything Juliet does.

Adventures (Scott always brings them)

My most cool brother came to visit me.  The best part was that he didn't tell me he was coming until last minute so I didn't have to suffer the anticipation of the event.  He brought his two kids and MY MOM.

Tuesday we met them in San Antonio at Sea World.  Sadly we were too busy having fun that we didn't take many pictures, but I will post the ones we did take.

This is when we first arrived at Sea World:

We couldn't find my brother and mom right at first so Matt and the kids played in this splash are while I walked around the HUGE park in 100 degree weather, but I did find them, so that's all that mattered in the end.

This ride is called Atlantis.  Kelsey was tall enough to go on it.  She loved it so much that as soon as it was over she said, "again!"

One of my favorite parts was the Shamu show, of course.  There was also another very entertaining show called "Azul" but I didn't get any pictures of it.

We all bought an all-you-can-eat-and-drink pass, but it wasn't really worth it because the food was NOT good, except for the fresh fruit and diet coke.  Oh yeah, and they had pretty good cookies shaped like Shamu and they were served in a Shamu bowl, so we all got lots of those and kept the bowls for souveniers.  There was even one time when we had eaten all the cookies we could handle but wanted one more bowl, so Scott went up just got the bowl from the cashier without the cookies (otherwise we would have just thrown the cookies away).

Later that night when we were all exhausted from the day's adventures we went to my house.  Savannah slept over (Kelsey's wishes) and Scott, Jared, and Mom went to their LUXURIOUS La Quinta hotel.  I told them they could stay with me, but they preferred the ghetto.  You can ask them about it sometime.  Matt and I had already experienced the fabulousness of Corpus Christi's La Quinta, we should have warned them before they booked  hotels.  So sorry, Scott.

 The next day (Wednesday) was a "relax" day.  The kids played together and Scott went off to tour the USS Lexington (which he said was really fun).  Mom and I got lots of time to talk.  I made peanut butter bars and when Matt got off work and Scott came back from his tours of the boat, we had a BBQ.

Thursday started early with breakfast at IHOP, compliments of Scott (Thanks it was so nice, these are the reasons why you will always be my favorite brother), and then we went to the beach.  Sadly, I didn't even take my camera to the beach with us so I have no pictures of it.  But it was very sunny. 

When Matt got off work, Mom took us all out to Rudy's (Matt's favorite, my most hated).  Thanks Mom, I was truly spoiled that day.

It was hard to say goodby, we had so much fun.  They left very early friday morning.

Now for some cuteness.

This is Juliet in her new sun hat that Grandma Jill got for her.

I think she really likes it :)

Ways To Cool Off

It is SO HOT here in south Texas this time of year. Running through sprinklers is one of the ways the kids like to cool off in the middle of the afternoon.

"Mom, help! Ethan is Stuck"

Those crazy munchkins filled this bucket with water.  I could hear Kelsey saying, "Is it my tun yet?"  Ethan-"Not yet sister."  A couple minutes later Kelsey would say, "Is it my turn yet."  "Not yet."

And now here is a picture of Juliet.  She is getting so big so fast.

Question

For all the moms out there who have taken their kids to get immunizations:  Have you ever gone to the dr to get immunizations and they were out of the MMR shot?  I like Kelsey's doctor a lot but I have taken Kelsey in two times (in april and again today) and they have been out of the MMR both times.  I can understand being out of the flu shot during flu season but I never had that happen to me before in Utah.  Has it ever happened to you or is this a bad doctors office?

New Pics of Juliet

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