KIDS!!

I just wanted to share some of my weekend madness with you. I took the girls swimming and put some of the pictures on a slide show at the bottom of the blog and added some of our summer adventures as well. I attempted to clean and iron my clothes for work this week and this is what happened. Maddux has become obsessed with eating toothpaste! Every time I come down the hall I have to pick up a trail of toothbrushes and I find him like this (look at the picture) sucking on the toothpaste. I am aware that he shouldn't eat toothpaste but it is watermelon flavored so you can't blame him.
Malie and Averie were playing so nice together FINALLY so I didn't check on them in the playroom. This is what I found when I went in last night to clean because you couldn't see the floor it was so messy. When I finally dug out the kitchen set from under the blankets and pillows it was buried under I about died. When I asked Malie about it she just said "It's crayon Mom". Like that made it okay. I do have to give her credit she was able to spell Averies name and MacIntosh right.
I had to confiscate the black crayon and I am wondering if I need to start with the Santa Claus threats already.

Where's the Camera???

This is what Wayne said to me when we were at the parade on Monday. Yes I spent the weekend in Parowan with the family and forgot the camera. I am so bad and this blogging thing. I am glad my sisters had theirs!! Averie also started preschool Tuesday and I didn't take a picture of that either. Maybe it's not that I am bad at remembering that I want to blog everything maybe it's that I AM A BAD MOM!! Well you will have to get on their blog to see the fun. Sorry!

Wayne's First Kill!!

This is Wayne's first deer! He shot it Friday morning. He was so excited. He has been bow hunting all week and his brother and friend Justin both had one so he was getting a little frustrated. I told him we don't eat deer so he dropped it off to have it made into jerky. He is having the antlers fixed so they won't loose the velvet . He is threatening to hang them up in our bedroom. Nothing like a romantic night in the bedroom with antlers hanging on the wall!

This is Wayne with his brother Ron and his brother Jace. Wayne was alone when he shot it so he had to get back up to help him gut it and drag it out. He hurt his back on Thursday so he was a wounded hunter. I am so happy that he has one even if he does hang it on our wall!

First Grade! First Grade!

This is Malie on the first day of school. She is getting so big and her pretty red hair is getting so long. She begged for these black shoes with a small hill for school and I let her get them. She has been dying to wear them so she was so excited to put them on the first day. I told her they would hurt her feet and she should pack an extra pair. When she came in my room after school she sat down and took them off and said "These shoes are crapping me out. I learned my lesson. I am not going to wear them again unless it's church". I couldn't laugh because she gets mad so I was trying so hard to keep a straight face. I told her she should listen to me because I am smarter than she thinks.

He is getting so big!!

I don't know if it's because I know he is my last, my baby, but it kills me to see him grow up. I love every minute of it. Sometimes I wish he would cry at night so that I could put him in bed with us and cuddle him all night. I don't know if it's because Malie started First grade or because Averie is starting preschool but I suddenly realize that soon they will be teenagers! NO!!!!!!

Family fun at the new Rec center

We took the kids to the new rec center and it is so fun. These are some pictures of them in the toddler pool. On the other side they have a lazy river and a big waterslide. Malie went down it with Wayne and loved it. Maddux crawls around in the water because it's only a few inches deep. He is a little scary because he has no fear of the water.

They also have a big playground in the other pool with two smaller slides. They even have a splash pad outside. The kids would play there for hours if I could take it.


This is a picture of the girls in the toddler pool on the kid slides Averie is a little scared still so Malie has to help her.