Friday Night Entertainment

Friday nights at our house can be pretty entertaining with two little kiddos. The kids wanted us to turn music on for them to "jam to" and these 2 videos are the results! I would just like all of you to note how Ethan tries to copy EVERYTHING that Hailey is doing. Also note the hip shaking on our princess, where did that come from? Grandma's and Grandpa's we hope that you enjoy these because they are a little bit long! Oh and sorry about Ethan in the underwear. We are re-potty training after the holidays and pants just get in the way. Remember to turn the music off on the bottom of the page before you watch the video!

Sand dunes in Moab

We went to Moab AGAIN this last weekend for some MORE family fun! We ended up most of the weekend at the sand dunes riding four wheelers, motorcycles and the rhino! The kids had a blast with their Uncle Jason and cousins. Besides Christina pushing Ethan out of the truck and Jason hitting on Ryan's woman, the trip was a success!

That's right, Ethan's first big catch!

Dan took the kids fishing last weekend before he went to Houston for 2 weeks. While they were out Ethan actually caught a fish on his Spiderman fishing pole! The fish wasn't huge, but it was large enough that his little pole couldn't reel it in! So, Dan had to pull it in by the line. He was fairly timid about holding it, so there were NO pictures of him at the lake holding it because he was to scared of it moving. The best part was when Dan went to gut the fish Ethan was devastated.
Ethan: "Daddy NO! My fishy!" while getting a little upset.
Dan:"Ethan it's okay buddy I have to do this so that we can eat it for dinner."
Ethan:"No fishy, No fishy...MINE daddy MINE." the tears beginning to fall.
Dan:"It's okay Ethan why don't you come and help me."
Ethan (tears flowing): "No, no, no daddy my fishy. Please my fishy."
Dan got it all cleaned up and put the kids in the car and Ethan fell asleep on the way home. When he woke up, Dan was gone a he started to sob while saying words that I did not understand. He wanted his fishy. So, me being kind of nice pulled it out of the freezer to show him that we still had it. He wanted to hold it and so I took a few pictures of his happy face. He was VERY proud of himself.

Take a guess

What do you think is on the other end of Ethan's fishing pole? To be contunued....

Giddy up cowboy!

The same day that Hailey started preschool we went to our friend Kelly's house and she let the kids ride her little miniature pony(I know that there is a technical name, but I have no idea what it is). The pony was so nice and easy with the kids, even Ethan was daring enough to get on Dara. They even got the chance to feed their other horses. I just have to say thanks to Kelly for taking my kids around her yard so many times they had a blast!

Shaving cream art

We had some extra kids here yesterday and we did shaving cream art. It went from an educational activity to a messy one very fast. Thanks mostly to Ethan and Lainey!

Fun, Fun, Fun~

We have had a busy past week. We went camping Monday-Wednesday for Ethan's Birthday. On Friday Dan's Uncle Jared and his family came and visited for the weekend. We had a really great time 4-wheeling and fishing on Friday and Saturday. We love it when people come and visit!
Happy Birthday Ethan!


Tiger's first swimming lesson.

Dan teaching Hailey how to cast her own fishing pole!

Ethan playing with the Cray fish.

Having fun at Meadow Lake.


Yum, Yum cray fish cooked and ready to eat!



Hailey riding Lainey's 4-wheeler

Hailey and Lainey in the dune buggy.

Ethan getting ready to ride.

I think that Ethan is in love, look at that smile!

Avery and Beau


Chris's big catch!

The family fishing

Happy Birthday Ethan!

Happy Birthday to Ethan! Today is Ethan's 2nd Birthday! Wow, how time flies. The past two years have been amazing and wonderful with Ethan. He is so sweet and loving to everyone he is around. But, he is all boy! We are going to have a little family party today and take the little tike fishing and camping for a couple of days.

Broken or not broken?

Okay so before you look at these pictures I have to fill you in on the story behind them. It was one of those moments that you thought for a second, "maybe I shouldn't let them do this it sounds like a bad idea, someone is going to get hurt" before you let you children do something, but let them do it anyway. I was on the phone with a neighbor of mine and Hailey asked me if she could put a leash on Ethan and play doggy with him. I asked Ethan if he wanted to play doggy and he said yes. So, we clipped the leash onto Ethan's overalls on the metal clasp. At this moment I am thinking that this might be okay (who knows why). They were having so much fun together. They both were very into the game, commands and all. Ethan had sit, lay, shake, ect. perfectly. I thought that it was pretty cute because they were doing together what we do with Tiger. UNTIL, the "someone is going to get hurt" moment arrived. This is how it all went down, literally. Hailey told Ethan "let's go for a walk doggy." Ethan being the good pretend dog that he was being got right up, but instead of walking started running. Hailey (being a good dog trainer) said, "No doggy slow down" and gave the leash a little yank to slow him down. Well... the results were not so good. At that moment Ethan had made it into the kitchen on the hard floors. When Hailey pulled it yanked Ethan straight to the ground where he smacked his face on the floor. I immediately picked him up and found that his nose was bleeding and he was slightly surprised. There was a classic look on his face, "how did that happen, I did not intend that to be the end result." It was around nap time anyway, so I grabbed some ice and his blanky and went to the rocking chair. His nose stopped bleeding pretty quick and he fell asleep really fast. When he fell asleep his nose looked normal, but when he woke up it looked like this.


Note the swollen upper lip and the right side of his nose and eye that are swelling. I think that there will be more pictures to come as the black eyes emerge in the next couple of days.

A hair cut with mom

For some reason this evening I decided to cut Ethan's hair all by myself. I am usually the one that does it, but Dan is always there as my trusty assistant. You know, to calm the tears and make Ethan happy. He absolutely hates getting his hair cut. We usually wait until it's absolutely necessary to do it. Anyway, it was getting out of control and I decided to do it alone because Dan was at Scouts tonight and the next couple of days were not looking great for getting assistance. I wish that I had a great before picture, but I did not think about taking a picture until I had made several swipes with the clippers and tears were flying.

After feeling guilty, I decided that I needed to do something to help him feel better because we were deep enough into the hair cut that we couldn't stop. So, I tried Nemo on the computer. That worked to get him to stop crying until I started to cut again. He then resorted to yelling at me, "NO,NO, mommy bad!" At that moment I was trying to get his hair wet with a comb and water because he wouldn't let me spray it with a spray bottle. He grabbed the water and started playing in it,"MINE,MINE" he said. So, I gave the water up in hope that it would occupy him. Soon there after Hailey decided that she also need a glass of water to play in that ended up on the floor in a million little pieces, on accident of course. Hailey with a cut toe and crying. All the while Ethan was occupied. Could I seize this moment of hair cutting peace??

After a 1.5 hour hair cut, a broken glass, bleeding toe and many tears, a bath was taken and the hair cut finally over. Ethan even smiled for a cute picture after his bath. I knew that I could conquer this on my own! What a cute little guy!

2 Fun weekends