Summer Bugs.

It is a beautiful summer day and we should be at the pool...instead, we are hanging out at the pediatric walk-in.  Apparently, just because it is summer does not mean you are safe from getting sick.  Sunday evening Landon started complain of a sore throat.  His tonsils were swollen but he didn't have a fever so I proceeded to give him some ibuprofen and make him go to school for the next 2 days.  It wasn't until Tuesday evening when he came out of the shower to let me know he had "gnat" bites all over his abdomen that I realized he probably had more than a virus.  Tuesday night both girls also started to complain of sore throats and headaches.  So I decided we should go to the clinic to make sure it wasn't strep throat.  As it turns out all three little munchkins did in fact have strep throat.  Yikes!  We have had strep throat in our house several times but never all three at the same time!  Looking back I am regretting letting them share that smoothie on Friday afternoon...

Last Day of School!

The 2014-2015 school year has just flown by.

Kadence had a fantastic first grade year with her teacher Ms. Gregory at the Osgood K-1 center.  I can not believe how much she has matured both physically and mentally.  She has had a busy year with dance, gymnastics and swimming.  I love her enthusiasm for learning and school. Some of her favorite things...

Color: Purple
Song:  Blank Space- Taylor Swift
Book:  Storytown
Movie:  Monkey Kingdom
Candy:  Peppermint Patty
Place:  Florida
Animal:  Cheetah
Toy:  American Girl Doll

Landon also had a great year with Mrs. Stormon at Aurora Elementary.  He has made tremendous progress with his reading and is still excelling at math.  He has had a busy year with gymnastics, basketball, flag football, soccer and baseball.  He has grown a ton and goes through tennis shoes faster than ever.  Some of his favorite things...

Color:  Green
Song:  Uptown Funk
Book:  Hot Wheels Books
Movie:  Monkey Kingdom
Candy:  Skittles
Place: Skyzone
Animal:  Cheetah
Toy:  Cars

First Day of School.

We celebrated the morning with some yummy donuts!

Another year in the books!  We are all excited for a fun filled summer that will go by even quicker than the last!

Hiatus.

Hiatus.

I am not really sure how to even start this blog post.  For some reason I fell so far behind with our family blog that I just gave up.  I kept thinking about how I needed to log on and back blog and I just didn't have the energy.  The days kept passing by and before I knew it it had been a whole year.  An entire year.  I had even stopped reading my friends' blogs because it just reminded me of something I was not doing.  I just gave up.  This is so uncharacteristic of my personality that the guilt has just been eating away on me.  The sad part is that writing about the daily happenings in our life was so good for me.  I found it therapeutic.  I also loved having an organized way to look back at our life.  So, instead of starting where I left off I am going to start in the now and work myself back.  That way I won't keep falling further behind trying to catch up.  The truth of the matter is life is busy.  Busier than I ever imagined it would be.  With that said, I have decided that this is something that I am really going to try and make time for.  For me and for my family!  Wish me luck!

Kadence Poetry Café

 Kadence was very excited for her Poetry Café at school.  Kadence and her classmates have been very busy over the last month learning about poetry and writing their own.  She was so excited she was up early and asked me to curl her hair before school!

Kenzie looks up to her sister so much and had to dress up in a dress and jean jacket just like big sister.  Then she begged me to take a picture of the two of them.  Hard to say no to that.  Love these sisters!!

After each student had read their poems we had time for a snack and for Kadence to share some more of her poems with us.  She was so happy to have both Ryan and I there along with Grandpa Gary and Grandma Sue!

Kadence and her class was lucky enough to have eggs and and incubator right in their classroom this spring.  She has been giving us updates on them very frequently (unfortunately 21 days is a loooooooong time when you are 7).  I had to snap a quick picture of the 4 chicks that had hatched.  Kadence was so excited to show us all!

As Kadence was flipping through her poetry book I saw this poem titled mom and asked her to read it.  She was really shy about it and didn't want to read that one.  Well...after she read it, I kind of understood why.  This one stings a little even though I know how much she loves me.  I guess it's probably true...

This has easily been one of my favorite kid events thus far!  We are so lucky Kadence is at such a great school with such a phenomenal teacher!  

Kenzie, I know you're in there...

We have been struggling getting Kenzie to bed for a long time now, months even.  I am not quite sure what happened but she has seemed to flip a switch.  She has been going to bed very well for almost a week now.  It is heavenly.  She insists on having the covers completely over her head to go to sleep.  I think she was getting scared and she feels safer with the covers over her.  It's a good thing she's #3 or I am not sure I would let this fly.  I usually give her a little time then go in and make a breathe hole and then uncover her head (if she hasn't already) when I check on her before I go to bed.  Whatever it takes I guess.  Love the little stinker!

Sunday Spa Day.

We had a pretty relaxing day at home after the busy birthday celebration.  When Kenzie asked if she could put lotion on my feet I was very excited!  How cute is she?!

 

Then  this one decided she wanted a turn!  Her massages are wonderful!  She could have a massage career in her future :) I just love relaxing low key days with Ryan and the kids!

Later on the girls decided to put on their spring dresses and pretend like it was actually spring.  They had fun dancing around the house to Frozen in their dresses and longing for warm enough weather to actually wear them outside. 

It's hard to tell in this picture but Emma is also longing for Spring.  She found the only ray of sunshine shining through the window by the front door and took a nap.  How cute is she?!

Kadence is 6.

 Kadence is 6!  Happy Birthday pretty girl!  We love you and are so proud of you!

 We started out the day with some scrumptious Sandy's donuts! 

Since her actual birthday fell on Saturday Kadence got to open her presents from us right away in the morning.  She was so excited and happy!

After a loooooong few hours Kadence put her new leotard from Aunty on and we headed to American Gold for her gymnastics party.  She was so excited!! She had a Monster High theme and wanted her hair pink, so we did that before we left. 

 

 

Setting up the party room and waiting for friends!

 

Ready to party!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kids had an hour in the gym to play and do things with the teacher.  Kadence was excited as she got to pick everything they did.  It was a really fun party and I would have one there again!  The kids all had a blast practicing their gymnastics!

 

 

 

 

After playing it was time for presents and cupcakes! 

I think Kadence had a fun party even without a couple of her friends who were out of town for the long weekend! 

Since the party was only an hour and a half long we took Kendallynn and Kendra back to our house for supper and to play for the evening.  All 4 girls had a blast together and Landon had fun, too! This owl was Kadence's favorite birthday present because Kendallynn had a matching one! 

 

We ended the night with Cherry Berry before dropping the girls off! 

Kadence had to try out her new read along book with a CD that she got from Grandpa Ken and Grandma Debbie.  Goes right along with the movie she got, too!  Happy Birthday Princess!