Girl birthdays

These are of the Kayley and Kenzie's birthdays.

We have them open usually two presents before school so they can wear the clothes they get for their birthday on their day.

 This was after Kayley was done opening her presents.  Yes Kenzie is all attitude.  So cute.

Kayley had two friends over the night after her birthday (April Fool's day) to have pizza and watch a movie.  We had cupcakes for dinner, then ate tortilla pizzas.  No one chose to try the "octopus" (hot dogs).  Then they watched "Tangled."

Cami Schlerf, Kayley, and Ellie Johnson

Kenzie was extremely excited to open her presents.  Unfortunately she couldn't wait til Dad got home from work so she opened one or two while Kayley and Cory were still at school.

She is really into Littlest Pet Shops.  She is fun to watch play with them.

One day as she was playing she said, "come on, vamonos."  She likes Dora too. :)

 I made this for her.  So easy and fun.

Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of all their presents together. But they got lots of fun things.

The Cakes:

 Kayley's Horse

Kayley's cupcakes that  I made these for the night her friends came over.

 The "Letter" cake as Kenzie called it for family.  I was going to do one that was a little more festive, but when you have been up til 3 am with your son at the ER my creative juices just weren't flowing.

 Ethan, Jared, Hannah's arm, Sera, Kayley, Emma

Lucy, Brent, Kenzie

Kenzie's Hello Kitty

 The other day I put Signing Time on for Kenzie to watch while I ate breakfast. I looked over and thought it was cute that Hannah was watching with her.  (No she isn't sucking her thumb, she was eating a toy.)

Bonus crazy picture.  I made this tutu for her birthday.  Apparently it can double as a hat as well.

Pretty Princesses

For Kayley and Kenzie's birthdays Grandma Palmer made them matching princess dresses and got them gloves and tiaras to go with them.  They look so cute. 

Catch up photos

I have gotten very behind on posting pictures.  Our computer has some issues and so I haven't been too trusting of it with my precious pictures.  This is now probably overload; so sorry.  These aren't in any order either.

 She rolled completely under our bed.

 Kayley's group science fair project.  Her project went on to the district.  Unfortunately we didn't get to see it because she was very sick.

Cameron explaining his science fair project.

Hannah is such a happy girl.

Cory was sound asleep when I took this.  I was laughing as I took this.  I was in the room to check on them before I went to bed and all of a sudden he sat up, mumbled something, and laid back down.  Sure wish I knew what he was dreaming about.

Cameron playing the air guitar during the 2nd grade Valentine's day program.

Cory's kindergarten field trip to the zoo.
I couldn't go, but Brent took part of the day off and met the class there and had fun with Cory.

Such cute angels.

Cameron's 1st Pinewood Derby car.

Singing her solo during a choir assembly.  She did amazing.  She is really talented.

Kenzie wanted to be Cameron's helper during General Conference, so she is feeding him fruit snacks.

Kenzie loves this cow pillow.  It's name is "Milky."

I think I have a great looking bunch of kids.  I love them so much. 

Cameron's cast- deja vu

On Saturday we were at the park by our house with a bunch of moms and kids from our ward.  Cameron came over to me in tears and told me that he had gotten hurt when he slipped off the monkey bars.  I looked at where he said it hurt the worse, and in my mind kept telling myself it wasn't broken.  So after seeing that he could bend his arm and move his fingers (although in pain and his hand was a little limp) I told him he would be ok and to stop crying.  {Yes I know Mother of the Year material right there.}  I walked away to check on something.  My neighbor called me back over and as we were looking at his arm it had started swelling.  So I packed everything up and walked him home.  At that point I tried calling Brent during Priesthood session of conference but he didn't answer.

Finally at about 9 pm we decided that it would be best to take him into the ER.  (Another Saturday visit for us.)  They got it xrayed and it was broken right above the elbow on the growth plate.  So Brent and Cameron were there for 6 HOURS!!  Apparently it was a very busy night and a constant line of people.  They put a splint on it and then told us to make an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon to get it casted.

Since I knew a good one we went back to the doctor that did his other cast.

This is a picture of the splint.  It was so HUGE.  I think that is the only size that ER knows how to do.  When Brent went there for his hand the splint they put on was gigantic.

Can you tell which one is from today and which one was from two years ago?  (And yes he is still that skinny, just taller.)  Same kind of break and same kind of cast.

Guess we can put this jersey away for now.  He won't be finishing out the last half of the season for flag football. :( 

Ouch!!

So this is what happens when you fall out of bed at 3 am and hit your head on the nightstand.

She had been having trouble sleeping and I was tired of getting up every half hour to hour with her so I brought her into my bed.  I guess I should have just let her wake up Kayley instead so at least her head wouldn't have a big cut in it.  As if she isn't already miserable enough from the virus she has.  Poor girl.

Perfect for Kenzie

Today after grocery shopping at a Wal-Mart I came out and found a very flat tire.  I had two men that came and helped put the spare on for me.  I had to then take the tire to Sam's Club to get fixed.  While I was waiting for it to get fixed, I walked over to a different Wal-Mart.  I found the perfect shirt for Kenzie on clearance. 

The shirt says "I LOVE GRANDPA"  and the only thing that would have made it better was if it said "and he's my friend".  I have to point out that she completely posed for this picture all by her self.

She absolutely loves Grandma and Grandpa.  Sh always talks about them being her friends.  She also wants to go to "Mytah" to see them.  You know a child is going through a my phaze when they even change the name of a state.  Anyway I never thought I would be grateful for a flat tire, but today I was.  I am so thankful that I found this plus lots of other good clearance deals on things I needed to get.