Free stuff at the park

On Saturday, a local park put on a Family Fun day. The kids had fun jumping in the jumping castles, getting free snow cones and cotton candy, and picking up the free little trinkets that the local vendors were handing out. We actually got some pretty fun stuff like mini aprons and squirt guns.

Sidewinders Game

On Friday we went to a Sidewinders baseball game. We went with the Jones family. Spencer grew up across the street from Johnny and now they both live in Tucson! We had a lot of fun, but we didn't end up staying for the whole game. The kids got tired when the game was in the top of the 4th inning. We signed Eli up for T-ball this summer so Spencer was explaining the game to him. I think that it helped to get him excited about playing!

The Baby

101 days left! 101 degrees outside. I've gained 22lbs. The baby is about 9 inches long and weighs about 2 of those pounds! Now that the end is in sight we need some suggestions for the baby's name. Feel free to send any boy names our way!

Cousin Quilts

We have a fun tradition in our family. Each time one the grandkids gets married, my Granny sends each of the cousins some fabric to make a quilt block for a cousin quilt. The couple getting married chooses two colors of fabric to be the solid squares and the cousins get to go to the fabric store and choose two other patterns of fabric for the other squares. Then we send the block back to Granny and she puts all of the blocks together to make one big beautiful cousin quilt. Spencer and I have been enjoying our cousin quilt for nearly 8 years! We enjoy cuddling with our family under the quilt and feeling all of the love that went into our quilt.

Our cousin quilt


These are the quilt squares that I made for my sister Mika and her fiance Jordan's cousin quilt.

Makenzi Graduates from Kindergarten!

Our graduate!


Makenzi & Mrs. Mikkelson
We are so proud of our precious girl! She has had a great time in Kindergarten and is looking forward to being a 1st grader.

Yesterday.....

Well yesterday was one of those days! I promise that the following was not intentional. I had been thinking to myself for awhile that I needed to document a day in the life of Eli and when yesterday started out the way it did I thought to myself, this is the day.......

First, this is almost a daily occurrence at our house. Luckily I usually hear Eli pulling the bar stool across the tile and run to stop him before he eats the whole bowl full of candy.

While I was trying to put together a photo key chain for Kenzi's teacher, Eli was content using my scrapbooking pop dots to decorate the TV armiore. I took this picture and then he took a picture of me trying to pick 100+ individual squares off of the carpet. I almost posted that picture but you don't want to see me in my pajamas!

Then when I thought that Eli was in the bathroom taking care of business, he was really emptying the toothpaste in the bathroom sink!

I had just finished ironing Kenzi's dress for graduation when...Eli decided that he needed to use some Vicks vapor rub for "his heartbeat". He had the greasy stuff on the front and back both hands. I was alerted to this one by the smell!

Finally, we were babysitting some friends kids, when Kenzi came in and told me that Eli had just peed outside on the back patio cement. What?? This is the picture of him wiping off his feet and legs in case of any over spray.

Oh yah, between the toothpaste incident and the Vicks fiasco, he decided that he needed to lie on the couch and take a nap. I don't think so buddy. If I don't get to take a nap, then you don't get to take a nap!!

You know those days when you look around before going to bed and think to yourself, what a mess, what did I get done today? I'll have this to look back at and remember what being a mom really means!