Trying to catch up

I am really behind as usual on my blogging. So here are a few things that we have been up to lately. This is only a few. I hate feeling behind. I really need to set aside some time once a week and make myself blog!

Kaden turned 6! Really where has the time gone. To me he is still my little baby. Wonder if I will ever stop thinking that? We took the carpool gang to bahama bucks and had a cool refreshing treat. Then kailey brought home tons of snowballs and we had a snowball fight. That was a lot of fun for the kids. I think he had a special day. I love him so much!











We have been working on Makenna's new room for quite some time. Kyle moved out and so she got his room. Rob in all his wisdom decided to retexture the walls and put a smooth texture on them. It looks really good but I have had a layer of dust all over my house. What a mess. Rob eventually wants to do the whole house that way. Oh joy! So we have had fun going to goodwill and finding the bed. We repainted it. Picking our her bed spread. I will post more picture of everything we did. But for now here is a picture of her relaxing on her new bed. She loves having her own room. Kade has done quite well being on his own too. I worried at first because he thought he might be scared but nope....sleeps like a baby.


I was happy I was off of school and got to go watch Makenna. The whole 5th grade did this little thing on explorers. They researched the person they were assigned and wrote a paper and memorized it. Then they dressed up and were "statues" that would come alive if you pushed a black button on their desk. Once they were finished they would freeze again. It was really cute. Her explorer was Vicente Pinzon. She looked pretty close to her guy except for I made the black hat a little too tall and it looked like the popes hat. She did awesome! Interesting hearing about so many different explorers. All the kids looked great and did a fabulous job!




Our Saturdays have been consumed with Kaden and his flag football team the Tarantulas. They are undefeated so far so that is awesome. I enjoy watching him trying to figure out what to do. He really wants to tackle and has a hard time not doing that. He likes the contact. He is a good little blocker and I crack up watching him. I think we have 8 more weeks left. I just hope that the weather starts cooling off. It is so hot even so early in the morning. We are all sweaty messes by the time we get home.

Wednesday night fun.

A few weeks ago for mutual we were having a back to school party for the girls. We in all of our infinite wisdom decided it would be fun to do a fondue party. Have random things for the girls to dip. My counselor Emily graciously volunteered her house as she always does. Let me describe her home. It is beautiful. It looks like it came straight out of the pottery barn catalog. So cute and decorated beautifully!

Anyways back to the story.....

So we were busy cutting up all the yummy things we were going to dip. I look at the time and it is about a half hour before mutual is supposed to start. ( Or that is my recollection) I said we have got to get the chocolate fountain going so we can see if we need more chocolate or not. We had borrowed it from another friend and none of us had experience with the machine. How hard could it be right?? So Emily starts pouring the chocolate, and I say wait I need to turn it on so it doesn't overflow. Suddenly the very warm chocolate just starts whipping around.....EVERYWHERE! Leslie is in the corner of the kitchen screaming Oh, Oh, Oh.....Emily is screaming and I am madly trying to turn it off which was difficult because I was getting splashed with chocloate and I couldn't find the button. Finally managed to turn it off and we just all looked around. I just burst out in to laughter.....mostly because what are you going to do??? We just stood there.....in a daze looking at each other.....looking around the room......at emily's beautiful home covered in choclolate. All of this of course right before the girls are supposed to get there. Emily's white curtains.....splashed with chocolate, her freshly painted blue walls splashed, her floor covered, Emily covered, me covered. It was a mess.

We madly made a call to our good friend Kristine who came over and helped us put the fountain together correctly and start running. We put a plastic bag over this time just in case it malfunctioned again. Poor emily...it ruined her night I could tell. She immediately took the curtains down and tried to salvage those while the rest of us madly cleaned. I didn't have time to go home to change and actually the girls thought my shirt was supposed to be splashed with brown color. They had no idea what had just taken place moments before they arrived. All in all I think the party was fun and the girls liked it. We played games and had lots of chocolate covered food. Emily wanted us to throw out all the food covered in chocolate and we said no they will love it and they did. I wish emily and I would have taken a picture together. The two of us were covered. It was funny. Emily has since gotten over it because she continues to let us use her beautiful home! I love her!