Max's 2009 Christmas list....

Today Max wrote this, he wanted to make his Christmas list so he did not forget. It reads....

I want all of these for Christmas

X-box

Halo guys

Pokemon

Halo game

I love that he is starting to read and write. He will write me little notes and I just love them. Sometimes they are sweet little notes and sometimes he is mad and venting! This one made me laugh, nothing like preparing 8 months early for Santa.

Weekend of Easter Fun....

Max just loves Easter, it is one of his favorite holidays.

Our weekend started out coloring Easter eggs, on Friday night, with Aunt Julie. Then we went to dinner at Iggy's sports bar. mmm it was good!

Max showing off his bunny hat he made at school.

They had a party Friday and when I picked him up he told me "Today was the best day of school EVER!"



Saturday morning we headed to Discovery park, in the rain, to the city egg hunt. Kate was a little go-getter. She was cute she was definitely hand picking the ones she wanted she would pick up one from a group and leave the others there. Max moved up to the big kid area, it is 6-10 years old. He is now in the rat race for eggs. Jake was worried he had not got any. He did get 4, Jake watched my sweet boy take some out of his basket and give to a girl. He would rather share than let someone be without!

Kate blowing bubbles!?!

Look at that kisser, she cracks me up!

We had dinner at our house, my Mom and Dad along with the Sutch family came over. We ate and then had an Easter Egg hunt around the yard. It was a little different from the Arena hunt we usually do. It was fun the kids had to look a little harder. Uncle Jared was laying down the rules before we let them loose.

They always make a haul, candy, kites, bubbles... But Kate was the big winner, she found the egg with $1 in it.Wahoo Kate!

OK Braden and Uncle Jared helped her a little.

And of course the Easter Bunny left baskets. This year Max had to read his clues instead of picture clues. He did great. Kate loved her picture clues. We went all over the house and funny thing...their baskets were in their beds!

Happy Easter!

I love weekends filled with fun, family and chocolate!

Why do they have to grow up???

I love looking at old pictures, they are so priceless to me! I can't believe he is 6 and almost finished with kindergarten, reading, spelling and growing at the blink of an eye!

Going to "dirt work"

Jumping on the bed at Moon Lake

Doing homework with Dad

Camping at Payson Lakes.

LUNA!

Driving home tonight Kate says "I see a banana!" Jake asks concerned "Where?" He thinks she has smuggled a banana in the car. "Out dare (there)!" she replies.
But what she saw was the moon !
I love the moon, and always point it out to my kids. They are getting to where they see it first!

Tooth Fairy tragedy

This is Max's story of loosing his first tooth!

His permanent tooth was coming in behind his baby tooth and that baby tooth was not going anywhere.

We gave it a couple of weeks and told him to wiggle it and we had been wiggling but no luck so we had to go see Dr Blake. Max was so excited to loose his first tooth and all weekend he asked how much longer until I go to the dentist. I don't do well at the dentist myself, so Jake left work early and took him. It sounds like it was quick and easy. He put some topical numbing agent on it and then just popped it out!

Max was so excited to see me and show me his hole in his mouth.They gave him this cute tooth shaped holder that he could wear around his neck and he carried it around all night.Bedtime came and he was so excited to leave it under his pillow to get some money. I should have known when he came down 15 minutes later asking for me to take his picture with his tooth because this was his BEST TOOTH.

Well the tooth fairy came while he was sleeping and left him $4. She thought he would be pretty excited but, morning came and she was wrong!!!! I had my camera all ready and I went in his room and he was just laying there no expression... I ask, "What did you get?" Max replies bummed "Only $3 dollars, I wanted $20!" I help him find the other dollar under his pillow, but it did not matter he was set on $20. I try to explain she could not possibly pay $20 for every tooth to every child, but he does not care. So I go back to my room to finish getting ready for the day and 10 minutes later I go back to see why he is not up and going and he has the blanket pulled over this head.

I ask "what is wrong?"... no answer so I pull the blanket back and find this.....tears, tears, tears. SHE sniff sniff sniff TOOK sniff sniff sniff MY TOOTH!!!!! I WANT IT BACK! Oh my gosh is this for real?

So I try to explain that the tooth fairy takes your teeth and leaves you money. So he finally comes down to breakfast and I ask where his money is and he tells me back under the pillow. He does not want it, he wants his tooth. So I tell him I will try and get a hold of her and see what we can do. That night after work the first thing he asks "Did you talk to her?" I told him she emailed me and will bring the tooth back for $2 he says "fine all leave it all for her I don't want her money." Well, bedtime Tuesday night he quickly put all $4 on his night stand with his little tooth holder.

Good thing the tooth did not go in the garbage Monday night. Well we were all smiles and giggle this morning and he told me he is never leaving the tooth fairy ANY of HIS TEETH. More money in the bank for me! Ha! Ha! I Love this Kid! He is definitely one of a kind!

Bonfire+ Vampires = FUN!!!

Grandma Sutch had a Twilight party last night at her house. Grandpa had some big stumps in the field so we had a bonfire and roasted hot dogs and marshmallow's. Then we went and watched Twilight. It was fun, my camera died early so I did not get many pictures. I made cupcakes with fangs and blood and the boys loved it. They were out running in the field with there vampire teeth! The movie was pretty cheesey! Cindy and I were sporting our Bite me and Bella T's! We were hot! Ha Ha!Thanks for the fun night!

My new baby!!

Well we thought it was time to add to our family so we bought us a new car. It is used, but new to us. It was kind of a sad day to part with the Honda, it was 11 years old and we have had it for 10. I had been admiring this Armada for a few weeks now and after I drove it again on Saturday and I told it I loved it, Jake gave in and we bought it. It has so many buttons and features I don't know what to do. Some of my favorites is the pedals move forward for shorty's like me and my seat has a memory , heated leather seats, tons of room..and Jake's head clears! My kids think they have died and gone to heaven. I was worried about Max he gets attached to things but when saw it he said he liked it 100 %. And it is cool because it is black and that is his favorite color! I'll be a frequenter to the car wash for sure. Kate loves that she can see out!

I guess it was worth the wait!Thank you Mr. Sutch!