Essential Ingredient!

I copied this from my friend Dedre's blog... I've read it before, or something similar to it, and I just felt that I needed to share it with everyone. SUCH an important part of raising a healthy family, I think. I am so glad to know these things before my kids get caught up in sports and after school activities... hopefully Joe and I can make it a habit for life!

http://www.ldschurchnews.com/articles/59080/Essential-ingredient.html

SNIP SNIP SNIP!!!

No words. And of course, it was bad enough that we had to go in and have it professionally fixed.
I actually love this picture. It's so "Before and After"-ish.
You can see where she snipped off her hair in the front...

Look at those beautiful locks! :( Getting ready to say bye-bye. She didn't even care...

Thankfully Miss Kortnie is good with kids! She fixed Haylie's hair right up and it looks SO cute. It was actually (probably) a good thing that Haylie got a hold of the scissors... It was time for a big girl hair cut. :)

Ah yes. The back comb. She looked SO cute!

There's my big girl! Every time I look at her, it reminds me that she is getting so old! Starting kinder in the fall... :/

The Boy.

Ohhh the boy. What can I say about my little man? Words to describe him: bipolar. Yep, that pretty much sums it up.

One minute he's screaming at me. The next he's my best friend.

I cut his hair today, and Joe is out on the road for work, so he wanted me to send him some pictures of the "new do." Well... for the first time EVER... Connor got a little into it. I told him to make a funny face, and these are what I got.

Of course, Miss Haylie (who, for some reason, was brushing her teeth at 5:00 in the afternoon) wanted to be in on the picture taking.
A lot of the time he makes me crazy. But this face makes me melt.

New Names!

Sooo... I know I just posted that poll the other day... but we sort of came up with some new names AND narrowed down our list. So VOTE AGAIN (please)!!! :D

They Grow Up Too Fast...

This little girl amazes me. February 18th (just so I know), since it was already in the 50's, we decided to put Haylie on her bike without training wheels. She was a little apprehensive at first, but soon got over it. We have a rule at our house that we always try everything once, and if/when we don't like it, we don't have to try it again. SO, luckily, we didn't have a huge melt down when we reminded her of the rule. Joe took the training wheels off and I kid you not, pushed her from behind and off she went. Just like that.

It's so exciting to me, for her, at this age, to be able to do all of these things. All of the things that she wants to do, she does, she does them well, and she never looks back. When I think about the future and the fact that she will grow up, I wonder if I should encourage her so much to be so independent. But in all reality, do I really have a choice? She's always been my independent girl. How can I stop her?And there she goes. One of the many times I will say that, I'm sure. Such a bittersweet moment. I mean, it's just riding a bike. Right...??

Nakies!

I hope these aren't too risque for whoever looks, but apparently when the temperature reaches 60, it means STRIP!!! I was talking on the phone the other day and looked out the window to find my children naked, pretending to ride this imaginary tractor (obviously Connor is in the driver's seat). Oh dear.

It's going to be a long summer.

Boy's Night ~ Girl's Night!

It has been a while since my last post. Every time I sit down and log in to my blog, I browse through the updated posts, and then try to come up with my own new post. But as I start typing, I think, who is going to want to read this? I'm so boring. All I blog about is my kids. And while, to me, they are definitely entertaining a lot of the time, I think, 'Everyone reading this is going to be bored out of their mind.' However, it's not really fair of me to be disappointed that some of my favorite blogs to read don't get updated often, when I don't update my own.

SO. I'm just going to start blogging about the things that I want to remember. About the things that I think one day, I will be thankful for documenting. So to all of you: I'm sorry if I am boring, but I guess I just don't know any other way to be! :/

(These pictures are backwards.. sorry) So, to start off, last weekend, Joe and Connor were able to go on their first father/son camping trip! And BOY was Connor EXCITED!!! He talked about it for the whole week before, and to be honest, I think Joe was even more excited! They went to a place near Cle Elum called Camp Ensign. Unfortunately, when they got there, Joe felt very unwelcome and some of the men were pretty rude. Joe took Connor back to their little room and they watched a movie on the laptop. Connor was REALLY hyper, and so at about 10:PM Joe loaded up their stuff and they drove down the road to this little campsite.

Luckily, they had brought the tent, just in case. I know this is what Joe had wanted to do all along anyway. He said he was excited to do something with the church, but that really he just wanted to hang with his boy. There was still snow on the ground and he said it rained the whole night, but they stayed warm in their sleeping bags. :) Connor was excited because they even had a FIRE in the tent to keep warm(propane heater)!!

This was their room in the lodge.

We are so happy they went! Haylie and I got to have a "Girls Night" and Gramma Jackie even got to come to dinner and get her nails done with us! We ate at Nothin' But Noodles and then went over and got pedicures together. Haylie LOVES to get her toes done. She thinks the way the ladies talk is super hilarious and just sits and smiles the entire time. :) Unfortunately, Joe took the camera, so we didn't get to take any pictures. But we had a great time! Afterwards, we came home and stayed up late, watching princess movies and eating snacks, took a bubble bath, and then went to bed! Overall, a great experience for all four of us and very important too, I think.