Football Game, House Painting and Birthdays

We went to my parent's house this weekend. It was a lot of fun. Here are some highlights.




FRIDAY: Watched Jared's high school football game in the pouring rain and they won!, eating tri-tip steak dinner at the game which was oh so good. Seeing all my brothers and sisters.


SATURDAY: Painting Kyle's grandmas house from an ugly blue (right family?!) to a much nicer tan with white trim. The neighbors are already thanking us! :) (We had resided it this summer so we are now just painting it and it's still not done in the back, but from the road it looks great.) Making cupcakes to celebrate Preston's soon to be first birthday. Getting my hair cut by Melanie, eating Cafe Rio pork for dinner- yum and making adorable cards at the girls' only stamp camp with my sisters and soon to be sister-in-law.

Kyle taking one for the team and painting from the roof!

Preston and Reed chillin' in the grass

Preston's sport ball cupcakes. I found the idea off the internet and I thought they were so cute.

Preston devouring his cupcake, love the squished frosting between his fingers.

My Mom's barn cake she made to celebrate Aubree and Preston's birthdays this week (we have 4 birthdays within 6 days- 2 are on the same day!) My Mom had farm themed games for the kids to play. It was her little party for the kiddos.

SUNDAY: Watching General Conference, watching Preston open presents, going for a walk and visiting with neighbors and celebrating Sara's 19th birthday!

"Whatever"

It's official!!! Jeff is engaged to Sadie Vandersloot from Idaho Falls!!! It actually happened a month ago, but it's still new. :) We are excited and are looking forward to going to the wedding in the Idaho Falls Temple in December.

The grandkids (r-l: kate, carter, paige and aubree holding preston) after church a month ago. My Mom and Sara LOVED how Kate was "posing" and asked me if I taught her that! What?!
After my Mom's quick trip to Utah she decided to stay the night (instead of driving home late Friday night) and hang out with us on Saturday. It was fun and I'm glad she did. In the morning, Kyle and my Mom went with the kiddos to the Children's Museum (I had a primary program practice and pizza party that morning- FYI- our program went well on Sunday and I'm glad it's done!) and I think she probably had more fun than the kids- not really, but she liked it. It is a cute place, but our membership ran out and I'm not sure if I want to renew it so I wanted Kyle to take the kids one last time.
Preston on the tractor

The other day, Kate was eating candy out of this goody bag from a birthday party and said, "say whatever, Daddy." I was wondering why she wanted him to "say whatever" and quickly realized she was asking him if she could eat another piece of candy and then was telling him to say "whatever" meaning she could eat it!!! It was so funny. Normally, you tell your parents, "say yes!" but we must say "whatever" a lot around here because that is what she was saying. She did eat a lot of the candy, but when we didn't say "whatever" tears started streaming down her face and she was so not happy. It's tough being a kid. :)

Ear Infection x 2

Is it bad that I am glad Preston has double ear infections?! I took him to the doctor on Monday because he has been sleeping horribly for the last week (waking up through the night, not crying, but babbling for an hour before falling back asleep and then only napping for 45 minutes in the afternoon). He has a cough and cold (passed down to him from me) and so I didn't know if he wasn't sleeping because of that or teething (he's getting an upper tooth) or maybe it was an ear infection. It always annoying taking kids to the doctor and then they say nothing is wrong. It's like "your just stuck with a fussy kid for a while." So I was a little hesitant to even take him, but once I did and my suspicions were confirmed, I was glad!!! Horrible. :) I gladly took the Zithromax prescription and out the door we went. It's been a few days, and I think he's starting to feel better, but he still needs to get back into his better napping habits.

My Mom made a quick visit on Tuesday night. She flew out to Utah on Wednesday morning so she stayed here and then I took her to the airport in the morning. Kate loved showing her all her dress up clothes, reading books with her and then cried in the morning when Grandma Vicki wasn't sleeping in her room. (so cute!) Preston stared at my Mom, either mesmerized or confused- not sure. :) We pick her up again on Friday night from the airport.

Lazy Dazy Day

This weekend was pretty laid back. On Saturday, Kyle went to get a haircut at this place where it's all sports themed. While getting a haircut he watched a football game on this tv that sat between two chairs. He said it was a pretty cool place and liked it better than Great Clips! Nothing is better than his sister, Melanie, though. We got the oil changed in the Honda and went shopping at Walmart. After naps (I went grocery shopping at Fred Meyer while the kids were napping), it was still torrential downpour rain and we were stir crazy so we decided to go try out this burger place that Oprah's friend Gayle said had the best burgers in Seattle. It's called Red Mill Burgers and our friends Nick and Natalie tried it out a while ago, but we are just now trying it for ourselves. I had the verde burger with fire roasted verde peppers, jack cheese, Red Mill sauce and the fixings. Kyle had their bacon cheese burger and he liked it. Mine was okay. It wasn't my favorite and I am still totally satisfied with Red Robin. The kids ate McDonald's and Kate loved her burger. :) So overall, I wouldn't say it had the best burgers, but it was fun to try out and fun to eat somewhere new.

Then, we ventured into the Fremont neighborhood to find the famous Troll that sits under the Aurora bridge and to drive around- their are some interesting people there. When Kate saw the Troll she said, "scary!" But then her and I got out and she thought we were at the beach with all the sand that was there. She loved climbing up the hill and around the troll. I didn't have my camera so I took pictures on my cell phone and got this one from the internet.

Preston playing with his new birthday toy. Yes, he got it a bit early. :) I couldn't resist. Thanks Gma Dee Ann and Aunt Melanie!

Randomness

Preston standing on his own. He's taken like 2 steps on his own and thinks it's pretty fun to stand on his own and try to walk between me and Kyle.

"Fancy Nancy" with her new hat and feather boa from Gma Dee Ann. (Kyle is already wanting to hide the feather boa because of all the feathers that fall off!!!)
Twirl...
Already into football?! Oh no!!!!

And off he goes

Preston really likes using this walker to get around. He's pretty funny to watch when he runs into things.