Easter finery

With Easter this year falling on General Conference weekend we decided to wear are spiffy's yesterday. I just love these guys!! Aren't they so snazzy!?!?!

Keegan turns 6!

We celebrated Keegan's birthday last weekend. We decided to have it at one of the parks in town. It was VERY windy, but otherwise I think all who attended had a great time. I know I enjoyed it!! He wanted a Transformers themed party and picked out vanilla cupcakes and I improvised and made cinnamon buttercream frosting. I think it might be MY new favorite frosting. So YUM! I also made him a small cake to go with it that we'll eat on is his actual birthday. He also wanted pizza for his birthday dinner and decided to do that on his actual birthday as well. By the time we got home from all the fun, we were exhausted! He got lots of fun toys and has had a great time playing with every one of them!!! Happy Birthday Big Guy!!! We Love You!!

I don't do traditional party favors. These are much better!!!

I made cupcake picks from a picture I found on line. Spiced them up a bit. I thought they turned out great and they were super yummy too!!!

Because of the picks, we left the cupcakes in the box we brought them in, the wind was so fierce that we were afraid they'd blow away!!

birthday cake...just a small 6 portion cake. perfect for our little family!

some of the toys he got!

Because of the wind we didn't light the candle, just sang to him. We'll light it inside later.

playing with bubbles and having a great time! We practically had the park to ourselves! It was awesome!!!

3rd quarter awards

Yesterday the school held it's awards for the 3rd quarter. Clifford the big Red dog made a showing and scared one little girl about to death. But it was a good day. Both boys got an award. Only 1 more quarter left in the school year. Hard to believe. But I think we are all looking forward to summer break.

Kaleb's Cake

Our friends from the ward asked me to make a cake for their son's birthday party today. I said of course (I mean hello....practice, practice, practice!!!) The theme was Naruto (anyone else have to google that?) So once I figured out what it was I went on a hunt to get some ideas. I saw one and decided to take my inspiration from that one. Can I just say that finding obscure Japanime in small town USA is NOT the easiest thing to accomplish. I was about to give up, but I found it and went about my business of getting this cake done. It was a basic yellow cake with cinnamon cream cheese filling and a cinnamon butter cream under the fondant. I marbled the fondant and placed the cards along the outside and put a naruto figure on the top. It didn't take me a long time to do it and I think it turned out ok. I'm pretty sure the birthday boy liked it and it tasted great!! (i stole a bite of seth's piece).

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Got school pictures back today. I love how they send this lot of pictures and when they turn out really good it's hard to say no to buying any of them. Dang it!! Oh well, I just have to be strong about it!! :) But I did take pictures of them because they did turn out so well that I just couldn't go without some memory of them. May not ever happen again. But on a side note...my boys sure are handsome!!

Plane Exhibit

On the way to the rodeo, the kids saw these planes and wanted to stop. I told them on the way home that we'd stop and they could get out and i'd let them wander around. Since the rain had stopped we decided to stop and check it out. I've seen it before but wasn't really sure what it was all about. Basically just a couple of planes and 2 UAV's. Nothing major but the kids were stoked about seeing it, so why not. By the time we left here we were all starting to feel the affects of being out and about all day. Ready for home and the warmth of jammies.

MWR Rodeo

The rodeo was back in town this weekend and since we had a free ticket for Seth and the others got in free I figured why not go. Only had to pay for me. Not too shabby! This year we decided to go today instead of last night so we could actually see what was going on and possibly not freeze our tails off. Well the first part was true.... Dan unfortunately was not with us because he's in the field with his students. Joy....Oh well at least it's only for a week. Not like when he was in the army and was doing Robin/Sage support...3 weeks and no bath....trust me, it wasn't pretty. But anyway....it seems like everyone else in town had the same idea that we had, it was really busy. We parked at the end of the parking lot. When we arrived we loaded up with drinks and kettle corn (i'm such a pushover) and found some decent seats and commenced to watching. 3 hours later we had seen it all, been in a downpour or two (very small but very heavy) and lots of wind. But everyone had a great time and enjoyed watching all the horses and the cowboys/girls doing their thing. Seth wants to learn to ride horses now. Of course he does. We'll see....Anyway..we got to see a lot more this year than we did last year and I think if we do this again next year we'll plan on the Saturday session. Way more to do. Just a warning...picture overload.

this is as close as the kids wanted to get to the rodeo clown

i loved these foam hats that lawley toyota gave to all the kids! I wanted one too!!

notice the addition of coats. this was after the first rain and the temperature dropping about 20 degrees.

the announcer called some of the military firemen that were there to the center to help dress a steer. this was an after picture as i was taking someone to the potty during the event. all i know is that steer in the picture is wearing underwear. i'm pretty sure i'm glad i missed it.

barrel racing, these girls were fast! i'm surprised i got the picture!

getting ready for the highlight of the day, bull riding!

he is so ready to go at this point!

the bull. the rider didn't last very long so i wasn't able to get one of him actually on it. come to think of it, none of them qualified for the next round. too bad. and there were only 5 bull riders. bummer, but at least we saw it and that was pretty exciting.

Reading Rocks March

Once we finished up at Home Depot we headed over to the library for our monthly dose of Reading Rocks!! Found out recently that Ms Sierra Vista is the one heading this up. Cool. Guess this is her thingy. The kids really enjoy it and we will all be sad when it ends next month. This month's theme was Circus. They read stories about the circus, had snacks, and got books with animals that you'd find in the circus. All of the kids picked out Bernstein Bears books. All in great shape too for being donated. Keegan even won the door prize this go around, markers and a coloring book. Another fun time at the library!

playing telephone

circus stories

lining up for snacks, paige is the shortest so she got to be the train engine

coloring and decorating clown puppets