Crafts, Kids Fun, and Preschool Mess!!

I've recently found a new love of crafts. Its something I have always loved doing, but recently made it more apart of my life. I LOVE IT!! Jaymon's wedding has kind of brought this all about but making a cupcake tower, picture blocks and family name clips (all pictures to come after the reception).

Since then, I have a huge list of things I want to do. Just a matter of actually doing it.

This wreath I found here Tatertots and Jello. No mine doesn't look like here with lack of places to get those same items, but I think it still turned out fun.

Now on to the kids. I had Ava and Dee over yesterday and we enjoyed a picnic outside. The weather has been so strange, yet has had some great moments. The kids have really loved getting out more.

During preschool today, I attempted a super messy craft. Attempt is definitely the key word. We pulled it off, but every kid was covered and I don't think the end result will be exactly what it should be. They still had fun. We made paper mache dinosaur eggs with balloons. They didn't quite get the concept of covering the balloons, and not souping up the balloon with the mixture. Made for interesting 'eggs'.

So here they are. We'll see how they dry. The hopes is to paint them and then have dinosaurs 'hatch' out of them. Obviously more pictures to come.

Funny Stories

I just have to document some funny moments we've had lately.

A couple Sundays ago, Curtis and I were telling Ridge how cute and handsome he was. He started crying and saying no he 'wusn't'. I finally asked him what he was then and he said 'um I a dinosor'. After that point, if we told him he looked like a dinasaur, he would just smile so pleased.

We were in the car in the Walmart parking lot leaving. There was a car in front of us taking their time. Well out of no where Cambree goes "that stink'n car needs to move". I couldn't believe what she was saying. I asked her again what she said and she repeated it again and followed it up with "that stink'n car" like she was frustrated. Just caught me off guard.

Ridge's vocaublary grows daily but it cracks us up all the time how he says things. I want to try to write them how he says them

He calls Brecklynn, "ba-bwekwynn" as in Baby Brecklynn

Firetruck, biretruck

Tractor, trrActur

Cereal-cureal almost like surreal

Little- our in-laws dog wittle

Incredibles- incwebles

sucker-swuker

When we tell him to smile- he closes his eyes and does a closed mouth smile. If we say "show us your teeth" then he'll open his eyes and give us a smile.

Whenever we say "I love you Ridge" he just knows to say "I wub you too".

Just had to write this down some place before I forget. These moments go too quickly!

Cambree is a SUNBEAM!!

I cannot believe I have a child old enough to be in primary!! Today she graduated from Nursery to Sunbeams. So scary to me :) We've been talking it up all week. So of course I had to take some pictures to document this BIG event. She was even willing to wear a hat which was big news around here.

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Brecklynn is 5 months!!

I'm a bit late on this since she turned 5 months on December 21st, but its better late than never.

Its been super crazy with Christmas and New Years but I had to take a second for this little one. She's worth it :)

I haven't taken her in to find out how much she weighs or anything, but she is definitely growing. She's getting a lot more chunk on her and I love it. Her voice is getting louder and louder. To the point that it truly hurts our ears, but at least its happy talk. She's VERY close to sitting up alone. She can do it for a little bit and then gets excited and pushes back.

I also made the big decision to try her on babyfood. I didn't want to try quite yet because we are headed to Disneyland in a couple weeks and didn't want to the extra issues with the food, but she's gotten so curious with food I had to try. I think she's going to be like my other kids in that she HATES baby food but likes real food like bread. We'll see though. I'm not giving up quite yet. She cries the entire time that I give it to her and gags, all that good stuff, but I have to keep telling myself that she has to get used to it. She still will not take a bottle for anything. Really frustrating. She loves to grab at anything in her reach. Christmas was fun with all the paper. She was constantly trying to get it in her mouth. She's teething constantly on ANYTHING!!

She's starting to know who I am which is getting interesting. Its a love hate phase in that I love that she knows me, but hate that if she does see me, she starts to cry till I get to her. Starting tomorrow, she's going to my sister-in-laws during preschool so hopefully that will help her get over that before it gets too late. She still loves her daddy too. She just stares at him forever. So cute.

Christmas Outfits

I tried before to take pictures of the kids in their outfits and didn't go so well, but this time didn't really go any better. Here's the 'best' that I got.

Happy Late Anniversary Mom and Dad!!

I planned on getting this done on time (which was the 28th) but I just forgot. Better late than never though, right?

My parents have been married now for 27 years!! Over the years-especially being married, I've come to love and respect my parents so much more. There obvious affection for each other is so neat to see and I took that for granite growing up. I appreciate the respect they have for each other.

Even though this is late- I hope they realize how much I love them. Happy Anniversary!!

Family Christmas Party!!

This is a bit late, but before Christmas, we went down for our McKnight Family Christmas Party. We eat dinner and have a little talent show. It was a lot of fun.

Brecklynn was wearing a red vest too which was so cute, but everyone thought it was torture. :) She was still cute though.

The kids didn't get any kind of nap, and I thought for sure Ridge would be my grumpy testy one. Boy was I wrong: This was Cambree pretty much all night.

Sweet Uncle Bill doing his traditional talent of leading music while singing!

Ridge was just hilarious all night long.

So my kids were signed up to do a talent as well but I was unsure if they would actually do it. They were supposed to sing Tinkle Twinkle.

So here Cambree is warming up to the microphone but realizes she can't sing twinkle twinkle so we switch to 5 monkeys jumping on the bed. From there it got hilarious.

Ridge started to realize how cool it was for Cambree to sing in the microphone and they started fighting for the microphone.

Trying to maintain composure and still keep them going, was impossible.

I finally couldn't stop laughing and just had to call it quits. Everyone was dying from laughing.

Brecklynn was so good all night. She was lacking a nap as well, but bounced from person to person and finally found her resting place on Uncle Bruce.

It was a fun party. I love getting together with everyone and catching up!!