It was a night to remember..........

Kennedy went on her first date! It was with a man she referred to as her "Sweet Prince"! She was all excited about it the weeks leading up to it! On the night of her date she could barely contain her excitement!



Her "Sweet Prince" took her to the "Daddy Daughter Dance" at church where she had a ball!!



Our awesome Activities Committee had the night centered around lil princess'. They even had a carriage...modern day style...they had a Excursion Limo there and the girls and their fathers got to pile in and go for a ride. They had dinner, dancing and activities planned out to do.



Here she is practicing her dance moves/twirls as she is going from one activity to the next.



Kennedy and Addy! Every Princess has to have a sidekick and she was pleased that one of her two Best Friends was there.



Story time! The stories were read to them by Cinderella herself!!



The girls enjoying the stories.



They made magical wands! The wands were rice crispy treats shaped as stars that they put on the end of a dowel rod! So they were a cute idea and delicious too!



When she got home she was so excited to tell the boys and me all about her evening! She just glowed with enthusiasm! Rob enjoyed the evening too. He loved spending time with his lil princess and said the whole evening was well planned out and fun! Thanks Activities Committee for a great night!! Hope this becomes a tradition. I am glad Kennedy and her "Sweet Prince" had a great time and I am glad that her "Sweet Prince" is my "Sweet Prince" too!!

What we did while the bigger boys were away.......

Well I am behind in blogging....DUH..... but I wanted to post this anyways.
Back in May Rob, Tanner, Cooper and Carter went on the Father and Sons Camp out! Yea!! So I would looovvvveee to show you pictures of how that went but ummm I wasn't there to take the pictures and Rob didn't take any. I was told it was alot of fun!

Walker, Kennedy and I had a nice time together though and WE DO have a few pictures to share. We started off our afternoon after they left by running to Target and looking at toys and of course picking out goodie snacks for the evening and a new toy. Walker got a Star Wars action figure and Kennedy got a princess movie-or two!:)

Then we went to Costa Vida for dinner.




The kids enjoyed it so very much.



Walker loved the queso and chips best.



Kennedy was pleased to get a cheese crisp/quesadilla and share Walker's queso and chips.



After dinner we went to Dunkin Donuts and picked up donuts for breakfast for Saturday morning. Of course they both agreed that this was a great idea too! When we got home we snuggled up all together in bed and watched movies together till they fell asleep,yes they were the new Barbie movies of course!! They were happy not to get kicked out of my bed to go sleep in their own rooms! It was nice to be able to sleep-in the next morning with my two favorite snuggle bugs!! We had a relaxing and enjoyable time together. Kinda makes me sad that next year Walker will be going with them instead of staying with us at home but I guess it will finally be a "real girls weekend"!!

Oh a swimming we will go......and go...........and go....

This summer we enrolled Carter, Walker and Kennedy in swim lessons. A lady in our ward was teaching the lessons and we thought what the heck even if they wound up not learning anything at least it would give them something fun to do. They had lessons Tuesday - Thursday June and July 45 minutes each class. I was so impressed at the progress they all three made in the short time!



Carter can swim now...he is not a strong swimmer but he has the basic concepts and tries to do it. He has pretty good form for diving too!



Walker is not as terrified of the water as he was and he tries to swim but he will still need more practice....but the concepts are there to now work with at least.



Walker was so funny EVERY time his teacher would tell him to hold his breath he would puff his cheeks out like a frog the whole time. It was so exaggerated looking he cracks me up!!








Kennedy last year would not even go in the pool area now she is just loving it. She is still timid but she enjoys the water and she also has the basic concepts that we can work on.




I am glad we were able to do this even though day after day of sitting out in the heat was draining and it seemed like I got nothing done most of the time. Thanks to Jaime we are on our way so that next year maybe all of the kids will be able to swim!! Thanks Jaime for putting up with my ornery wild children!!

Father's Day 2009

So a few years ago while Visiting Teaching a friend of mine in my old ward she showed me the cutest idea her Daughter in law had done for Father's day. I have wanted to recreate it ever since and this year as I was browsing other blogs and saw other people doing it for Fathers Day too I knew this was the year to finally do it. So I made the signs up while Rob was sleeping and hid them in my purse (thank goodness for a big purse) then the next day I got the kids gathered and told them we were taking pictures because we have so many empty walls in our house and I wanted more of their pictures on my walls which was in part the truth! We drove around for a lil while looking for a good spot and as I drove I told the kids what we were really doing and they were so very excited!! I reminded them it was a surprise for Dad and not to tell him when we got home. I had waited till the last minute because they can't keep a secret but I am happy to say that this year they kept it for the whole 2 days leading up to Father's Day!! So I got the pics I wanted then put them in the following order in one long black 6 opening collage frame!








Rob really liked it and thought the idea of it was really fun and cool. I am so lucky to have him as a husband and the father of my kiddos. He is a great Dad and a great example to the boys. We love you Daddy!!!!

Lil Tumbling Girl

Kennedy started doing Gymnastics a few months back and LOVES it!! We are lucky enough that a gal in our ward was a gymnist and now teaches classes from her home.

Here she is doing her back bends/bridges.



Learning the placement on how to do cartwheels.



Kenna likes the balance beam work alot! She likes baby crawls on the beam and bunny hops on the beam!



She likes just the regular walking on the beam too! Overall she enjoys the beam.



One of her favorite things is the CHALK!



She loads up her hands of chalk to get ready for the bar work!



She plays with it too!!

Here she is on the bars. Her teacher has to do most of the work for her still but she thinks it is so fun.




She enjoys the tumbling part maybe the most but all the pictures I took were too blurry. I am glad she enjoys it all so much.

Look at me, me, me,.... I'm three,three, three.................

Hard to beleive that it has been three years since Kennedy was born and came to join our family. April 6th 2006 was a wonderful day!! I always knew I would enjoy finally having my lil girl to play with and dress up and enjoy I just never knew how much fun it would actually be!! She is such a delight and sweet addition to our family. She brings out a side in the boys that is so sweet to witness and no it isn't all the time they all still have their moments but over all her sweet caring spirit is a blessing in our home.





She has changed a bit since birth. She has gone from a brown haired darker skinned baby than what we were use to, to a glowing white sandy blond haired baby that is totally what we are use to!!





For her birthday this year we had to do somthing that she wanted to do so of course we ended up at the Build-A-Bear Factory. When all the fun was over then we went to Dairy Queen right next door. My mom and dad had came to enjoy the fun. I don't know if I can honestly say my dad had fun but my mom did. My dad enjoyed the icecream at least!



We had to pose for pictures first. Kenna is a total ham she LOVES to have her picture taken and she loves to look at pictures of herself!!! She was sportin her pink tutu with her blingin "Birthday Princess" tank, cupcake necklace and cupcake purse!






She picked out a pink monkey with hearts on it. She named her Strawberry Cupcake! She has recently fell in love with strawberries and she was happy to have birthday cupcakes. Walker got a Zebra he named "Zippy Zebra". He is into rhyming right now and thought that rhymed..ummm...yeah... we had to tell him they only have the same first letter!LOL He trys. Carter got a scotty dog that he named Rhino. Cooper decided he was to big for a stuffed animal so he gladly helped Walker. I think he secretly wanted one too but was being a "Big Boy". Tanner just went around helping out with which ever sibling needed his help. He is a great helper to me almost all the time. We all had an enjoyable time!

On a side note we had been working on this whole potty training thing but she hasn't figured it quite out yet........

EASTER

We had a nice Easter this year. We got the kids sand buckets for baskets so they could use the buckets and toys at the totlot across the street when we go over there to play. My friend Vicki had said that that was what they always do for thier kiddos and I thought it was a great idea! We had a nice sacrament service at Church then we went home early....everyone did actually. There was not enough people there to teach classes so we went home to enjoy the day with our family. I hadn't seen our ward so small before. After some last minute location changes we wound up having my parents over for Easter dinner. It was nice to be able to enjoy the day and remember the true meaning of Easter and the blessings and love our Savior has for each and everyone of us.

Start your engines..............

Well in March Cooper participated in his last Pinewood Derby Car race! When it rolls around for next spring he will be in 11 year old scouts and Carter will be having his first Pinewood Derby experience. He was all into making his car and loving all of that process but when racing time began he wouldn't race. He is so weird about having attention drawn to him he stood in the back of the cultural hall. I put his car up and raced it any ways after he won the first race he inched his way over to watch. After he won another then he put his car up on the platform himself to race whenever it was his turn. He didn't get second place like last year he got either 4th or 5th. I am happy he participated!!



We had Pack Meeting immediately following the races and he was thrilled with his awards he had earned!


Kennedy and Walker entertained themselves by watching the races and crawling under the chairs. Kenna also was seeing how close she could get to the rope without getting in trouble for going under it!! LOL