My little brother Mikey stopped by for a quick visit the other day and proceeded to wound the kiddos up as much as possible. Here are some videos of the fun and a picture of Ella cutting his hair. She was playing the hairdresser. Mikey is also famous for rummaging through the cupboards for whatever he can find to eat. Oh we love you Mikey.
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Ok I am copying my sister Abby but, you gotta watch this -it is too important not to. This was created by my brother Michael and it does go fast so be ready with the pause button. He also created this one so if you have time, watch it too (actually he has created quite a few so if you like these you can look up all videos done by him).
Ok I was tagged by Hannah and have to say 6 things about me that you may or may not know, so here goes in no particular order of importance.
I am by far the most attractive of the girls in my family....ok totally kidding on that one.
here is the real list
1. I have to get ready each day (shower, do my hair, make-up, get dressed) everyday, even if I have no plans. For some reason it bugs me not to do this.
2. I am extremely frugal-not cheap-but frugal :) I love to bargain shop and stock up on good deals! One of my mottos at home is natural light is free light. I must have thoroughly ingrained this in Ella, as when she goes in her room to play she pulls up the shades so she does not have to turn the light on.
3. I can't stand a messy kitchen, while I do have stuff on my counters I do all the dishes and clean the kitchen while I am cooking and when each meal is over.
4. I work out every morning-no exceptions (unless I am totally sick-or we are out of town)
5. I am totally addicted to news right now. I constantly have FOX news on and then occasionally the other totally news channels. I love this political stuff and was bummed that I missed watching Bill O'Reilly on The View-only got to watch part of what he showed on is show the O'Reilly Factor.
6. I love to read (fiction) and read at least a book or two a week-I read while I work out and before I go to bed at night.
So there it is... I tag Stella, Kaitlen and Kristen....no pressure.
Very close to our house is a Fruit Stand (if you can call it that-it is really much more-gifts, fruit, fruit trees, etc.) and they do a few festivals throughout the Yakima fruit growing season. One is a Harvest Festival with Hay Rides, Pumpkin Patch, Hay Maze and Cider Making. The other day Katie, Hannah, and I took the kiddos to check it out. It is perfect as it is not too large and something you can do in about 30-45 minutes. The kiddos had a great time going through the maze and posing for pictures. They don't do the Hay Rides or the Cider Making on the weekends so Kevin and I took Ella and Roc today to do that. We had a great time and even decided to do some cider pressing. It is delicious. Our weather has been pretty good so we were able to enjoy it without being cold. I have posted my photos here for your viewing enjoyment.
I asked Ella what Daddy put on her for church (since I was gone at WOF) and she said a polka dot dress. I couldn't think of what she met so thought she meant a pink polka dot summer shirt she has that is a bit long. I was thinking how could he have thought that was a dress? I hope he put something under it... So I asked her to show me and she opened her closest and showed me a summer dress that she wore when she was 1 or 2. I couldn't believe it so I had her put it on for me just to see how it would look. The pictures don't do total justice to how short it was. Kevin did say though that she did get some complements. I just hope they did not think I set this out for her to wear! (now i am not ridiculing Kevin in a way-he did a great job on his own for three days, I just think this is so funny I had to share).
This past weekend my Mom, Abby and I headed down to Portland to meet up with Rachael and go to the Women of Faith Conference. I have never been to this and did not really know what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised (and would defiantly want to go again next year). I really enjoyed it and the speakers were not boring at all. And Nicole C Mullen was there (a great Christan singer)and I did not know she was a featured singer for the conference. She puts on a great show but is very humble and gives all the praise of her talent to God. We even got to sit in the box seating area as someone from Rachael's church knows the Pepsi people so they let us use their box, it was great. The conference was Friday and Saturday. On Sunday we did some marathon shopping and I got a great deal on a sweater-regularly $59 for only $4.99 and since we were in OR I did not have to pay sales tax!! I also managed to find a cute duvet cover for our bed, on clearance so it was an especially great deal. They were out of the sheets for it but I am on the hunt for these on ebay-since this stuff ends up there a lot of times.
We met Kevin after work at Red Robin-Kevin had is free birthday burger coupon so we could not let this deal pass by- Ella remembered going there for her birthday and the Red Robin bird happened to be there that night so she was really hoping he could show up again, and much to her delight he did! Oh I wish I had brought my camera. She was thrilled to say the least. Roc had a great time entertaining people with his loud cooing and his cute hair. (now this has nothing to do with the birthday, but his hair is finally starting to grow and it is so soft and fuzzy, I love rubbing my face on it, and he must love it too as he will rub it up against my face-I treasure these moments as I know they won't last long). On the way into RR Ella sang Happy Birthday Daddy-o to him.
During the day Ella helped me make a cake. Whenever we bake her job is to look at the box and tell me how many eggs we need and then she helped me put in the other ingredients too. She did a great job. 
(When we were talking about the cake making on the way to RR ((as I was telling her not to tell Daddy so it would be a surprise when we got home)) I reminded her of what she did to help me and she said oh yeah mommy we were like a team. I thought that was cute.) Then she had the job of decorating it and putting the candles in. Then she decorated a card for him and I wrote on it what she told me too. It really was quite sweet. She was so excited to give him the card and blow out candles with him when we got home. I love how excited she gets about these things. When she was decorating the card she found a picture of Kevin and me before we were married so somehow she got the idea that this would be a surprise for him too, so she got it in a box to give to him :) Roc was just thrilled to look on and eat his cake.
Here are some pictures for your enjoyment :)
To my sweet husband or as he likes to be called "my man!". Hope you have a great day.
my man and his boy.
whenever the kiddos are doing something cute, funny, etc and you run to get the camera, they stop?
Ella and Roc have had a lot of fun playing forts with the couch cushions and I looked over and Ella was lounging on them reading her new High Five magazine she got in the mail. I was only able to get one photo of this (and not a great one) before she noticed and then stopped.
Roc has learned the sound a dog makes and we are slowly working on the rest of the animals. I love the way he forms his mouth when barking.
He also has mastered the word hello, and was totally saying it last night while looking out the window, until (of course) I got the camera out:) But I was able to capture some of it!
Not much to report on this end. Just the same stuff going on around here. I have been slowly working on some of the craft projects I mentioned in a previous post and once I have actually completed some I will post some pictures.
Ella and Sadie had a great time playing the other day and somehow Sadie ended up with a head full of chapstick. According to Katie, Sadie did it because it was fun. Well Ella claims she had no part in it and Sadie put it in her own hair and even some in Ella's. Not sure if this is totally true but nonetheless I think most of it has come out of Sadie's hair and the girls had fun-so that's all that counts, right?
I helped my mom at a wedding on Saturday night, this is the first catering event I have helped at since Roc was born and it was fun, but I forget how much work these can be. The bride had a candy/cupcake table that she wanted someone to watch over so my mom volunteered me for this one! It was fun, she had various different jars filled with different candies and bags to put it in. I think this is a great idea and the people enjoyed it a lot. The bride also wore a brown dress, it was really pretty, but I have not seen this before. I have seen dresses that are accented in a color but not totally a color other than white/cream.
Hope you all have a good week.
Until recently I had not heard of this book, but my mom heard some great things about it and encouraged the family to read it. I just finished this the other day and I must say it was a let down for me. I found it to be incredibly boring -other than an occasional section-and found myself reading it quickly so I could move on to other books (I love to read and have a way long list of books to read). Have any of you out there read it?-Am I the only one that did not enjoy it? To be honest-and please don't be offended ((as I am sure a lot of books I like are not enjoyed by others)) especially anyone who enjoyed it-I found it sorta dumb(to put it nicely). If you have not read it or heard of it, go here for more details. I am thinking my poll queen sister Abby should do a poll on her blog about this :)
