Bubbles & Water FUN!

We've been loving the nice Spring weather. The kids ask to ride their bikes every day so as long as it's nice, we do! Sometimes we bring them to a park and sometimes we just ride them out front...luckily we live on a pretty quiet street so they can ride in the street. Kylie LOVES to be outside. She is constantly requesting to go outside by saying, "ouw-siyde." She got this lawn mower bubble blower for Christmas and she used up all the bubbles pretty quickly. We finally got some new bubbles the other day and she's already gone through 2 bottles! She played with this thing all day today. If you have a toddler, I definitely recommend this toy...it has provided so much entertainment for Kylie and I'm sure many many more hours.

After a while of riding bikes outside it got kinda warm and the kids wanted to play with the hose so I turned it on the "mist" and let them at it. They got their swimsuits on so of course, Kylie wanted hers on to0. She kept saying, "shwi-shoot" till I gave in and put hers on too, even though she wanted nothing to do with the hose water. She was so excited to be wearing her swimsuit. She kept touching it and smiling and saying "shwi-shoot."

They had so much fun and were actually getting along so well!

Happy Halloween!

K, so I know these pictures are totally late, but better late than never, right? My little sister Kelsi came and carved pumpkins with us, and the kids had a blast.

The kids had so much fun trick-or-treating with their cousins this year. Here we have cousin Lucas(Pluto), cousin Bryson (Buzz), Alyssa (Alice from Alice in Wonderland), Trevor(skeleton pirate), and Kylie the flower.

Last Chance to Play in the Water!

Fall and Winter will be here before we know it, so we took advantage of today's heat and went to the fountains...

Alyssa was feeling really brave today and was really having fun getting wet...
I think Trevor was a little cautious because last time he slipped and got some pretty bad scrapes. He didn't get very wet here today...
Kylie had fun getting close to the water, but didn't get close enough to get wet. :-)

Kid Update

Alyssa is doing great in Kindergarten. There have been no complaints about her teacher, in fact one day last week she said, "My teacher was so silly today!" She's not always super enthusiastic about going like she was last year about pre-K, but hey, it's going much better than I thought. She complains that it's not as much fun as pre-K, that they do a lot of work, and she never gets to bring anything home. I think that will change soon though when she starts getting homework every night, as her teacher warned us parents. She has a new little friend she tells us about...her name is Elizabeth and she has red hair. I'm having a little bit harder time adjusting to her being in Kindergarten than I thought. It's just so...real. I don't sign her in and out anymore, there's no snack, it's required that she goes, and she had a fire drill today and everything! I feel like she's a 6th grader or something. I don't know...it's weird.

Kylie is walking ALL over the place now. She hardly ever crawls anymore, it's so stinkin' cute to see her tiny little body walking everywhere. She is so silly, she had a fascination with licking the oven a few days ago...

...and I just can't figure out what to do with her shaggy hair. It's driving me nuts! It's all in her face all the time and she always looks all ratty...
... but if I put it in a Pebbles ponytail or in a clip, she just rips it right out, as she's about to do here...and then her hair looks even better, from being in a ponytail. She loves to suck on chapstick and Trevor's nerf gun darts like they're binkies.

Trevor is doing really well in his preschool too. I don't have a picture of him because this stupid blogger was being retarded and I couldn't get it on. But anyways, he likes it but everyday he complains because "he doesn't get to bring anything home." I don't know what they do in there, I guess they don't do projects or something...

Waterbabies

Everytime we go swimming I bring my camera and forget to take pictures, so, we had a little photo shoot today, to make sure I got pictures of them swimming this summer!

Getting pictures taken with 3 kids=Exhuastion

Last Friday I got my kids' pictures taken at Picture People. I have never attempted to get a professional picture of all 3 kids. I've been meaning to for a whole year but somehow it's always been on the back burner and therefore it never got done!

Let me just say that I do not enjoy taking my kids to get their pictures taken. It is absolutely exhausting. That is why it's been 1 1/2 years since A & T had gotten theirs taken. But I had to suck it up and do this.

So I got to Picture People and memories of why I hate this so much came flooding back. Alyssa would not do anything the photographer told her to do...Trevor did great at the individual shots but would not hold in position for more than 2 seconds during the group shot. Kylie was a typical 1 year old and crawled away the second I walked away. It was EXHAUSTING. I think all mothers know what I'm talking about.

I am very impatient when my kids are being photographed. It's like, Please, just for ONCE in your life, stay still for 5 seconds in the position she puts you in, PLEASE!!! I'll do anything! Just Pleeeease!! And I turn in to this completely desperate person. I think of saying things like, "I'll go buy you anything you want at Toys R Us after this if you just hold still and let her get this picture." But then I realize how desperate that sounds and don't want the photographer to think I spoil my kids and give them anything they want so I don't say it. (I seriously was so desperate, I almost said that)

Anyways, so then comes time to see the results. And this is where Picture People is soooooo smart. They bring out already printed pictures all in frames and everything. And they catch you when you're already soo emotional from the previous 30 minutes, and you've got to walk away with something good for all that work you just put forth. And you have the mind frame of, "I don't care how much it costs, it's worth it for what I just went through." And they actually got a pretty cute group shot...

California--Fairytale Town

On the way home from the airport after arriving in Sacramento, we stopped at the kids' favorite place, Fairytale town...here are some pics...

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! This morning, beautiful little Kylie, all ready for church in her new Easter dress that Grandma Michelle made for her, was caught picking her nose. She would not stop! She had that finger up there so far, it actually bled.

Alyssa absolutely could not wait to put her Easter dress on.
Mommy and Kylie on her 1st Easter!
Poor Trevor has not been feeling well today. He woke up and was ECSTATIC to see what the Easter Bunny had brought him, and a few minutes later started complaining that his tummy and forehead hurt. He layed on the couch for a while, and I knew he must not be feeling well when after breakfast I told him to go in to my bedroom so we could hide the easter eggs around the house for a little apartment easter egg hunt and he said, "No, I don't want to get off the couch, you just hide them right by me." He's been excited for an easter egg hunt all week. We gave him some Motrin and he was fine the whole morning (and did participate in the hunt) until right before church we caught him in bed half asleep. So we took his temp and it was almost 101. So we gave him more motrin and told him he could go back to sleep. So I did not get the pictures I wanted of all the kids in their Easter outfits...

Decorating Easter Eggs

The kids and I decorated Easter eggs tonight! Thanks to Grammy, we had a great easter egg decorating kit and the kids had SO much fun.

These are Alyssa's creations (the middle one is a bunny)

These are my creations...I had to do one for Kylie since she couldn't decorate one herself!
The kids hard at work
Trevor and his creations...

Wait...is this Easter or Halloween?

Swimsuits in February

Poor kids. I think they're really excited for summer. Today I caught them playing in their swimsuits. :-)

Pics of all the kids

The Children's Museum

Today for the last day of Christmas break (yay!) we went to the Children's Museum. The kids love this place...

This is the firetruck section where they get to put little coats and hats on and go inside what looks like a real firetruck!

This is the Vet room, where they get to take care of little stuffed animals. They love to give the animals shots. :-)

This is the painting section...They decided to paint their hands today and do handprints on their papers. It was a real mess!


This is the grocery store, they get to go around and gather food for their baskets (the shelves are pretty bare right now, it was pretty busy and the kids did some major shopping), and then they get to go check out.

This is Trevor's favorite thing to do at the Children's Museum...shoot hoops.

In this section they get to crawl through all these underground tunnels and climb trees. They can put little "bug" costumes on too, Alyssa was a bunny today.