Eva Turns 5

My beautiful sweet Eva is 5. I can hardly believe it. She is such a darling girl. We are so blessed to have her in our family. This year we are celebrating with family parties. We had cake and presents on Sunday. Then on her birthday we went to Boondocks, her favorite place.

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Leah and Ronan bought her Barbie Potty Training Pups. It was a big hit.

Davy and I bought her a new bike. It is a big improvement from her barbie one that constantly felt like the brakes were on. No wonder she couldn't ride further than a block last year.

Hope all your wishes come true sweet girl.

A Telephone Call to Ethan

Putting Ronan to bed the other night. I put him in his room then sit against the inside of door so he can't get out. He is very upset by the thought of having to fall asleep. Ronan finds his play phone or in his words a real cell phone that really works. This is the conversation, "Ethan come and get me my mom is trying to put me to bed. Get on your bike, go on the secret path, you see my house, then you bust me out." Ethan is really Ronan's favorite person in the world. He says Ethan is soooo coooool. Anytime he talks about a friend it is Ethan. I wish we could just adopt Ethan to come stay at our house but I don't think his mom would go for it.

Kids They Say the Darndest Things

First of all sorry for the no posts for awhile. Reason being there has been nothing good to post. I feel like I have spun into a deep hole called January. Where the weather stinks and then we try and do all our New Years resolutions. January should be the month to start more bad habits not get rid of the ones you like. All the kids all had croup. We were home from everything for 2 weeks. I nearly lost my mind. But now we are back to the land of the living and feeling much better. I just really need a vacation somewhere with sun and a beach.

So moving on. Driving home from school the other day I overhead the funniest conversation. We car pool and had neighbor A. who is very sensitive. Leah asks, "who here like Barbies." Neighbor A responds, "I do." Leah says, " I don't I am a bobby boy (her way of saying a tom boy). I am a lot like my mom she was a bobby boy not a girly girl when she was little." Neighbor adds in, " I am a lot like my dad." Eva chirps in, "You mean your dad is a girly girl." We all are in stitches laughing while poor neighbor A is in tears in the back seat. I try to compose myself to not hurt her feelings. But then Ronan continues with his Simpson laugh ahhhhaaa haaa. And I just give in to the giggles.

Update from the Halls of Terror

Please read my previous post if you haven't. Then let me tell you that we went to bed only to find poop wiped on both Dave and I pillow cases. Good thing we looked before we settled down for a long winters nap.

Ronan MIGHT be a Terrorist

Can I even say that on a blog. Probably when I am referring to a 2 1/2 year old. Let me set the scene up for the day. Trying to clean up from a trip and Christmas. From the cleaning downstairs I smell something poopy. Humm I better check Ronan who is potty trained and much to independent for his own good. Sure enough. Bathroom is covered in half a roll of toilet paper and poop smeared on the floor. Where is the child who did this? On my bed still covered in the stuff. I drag him like a roped calf into the bathroom and wipe him down. Then this evening kitchen is looking pretty good until after dinner when I have to go run an errand. Come back to water and yogurt all over my newly moped floor. Do you know how hard it is to clean up dried yogurt. After a wipe down and a mop it is still murky on my floor. Then just 10 minutes after the yogurt there is a minor incident of butter wiped all over the counter. And to top it all off it is 9:47 at night and the terrorist doesn't rest. He spends his time trying to keep his sister from going to sleep. All I can say is there is a cute and charming boy for sale at my house.

All I Want For Christmas

Leah's gifts inclued; a DS, a few games, Guess Who, Bendaroos, and Paperoni's.

Eva got Sorry Sliders, her Zhu Zhu pets, Bendaroos and Paperonis, Walkie Talkies, and a Light Bright.

This guy was the perfect age for Christmas. Every present got an ohhh and an ahhhh. Even the smallest of things he loved it. Ronan got a basketball hoop, soccer net, Batman car, and Fisher Price car garage.

Is a DS. She said, "I am not very greedy because I only asked Santa for 2 things. A DS and Petz Nursery." And she hasn't stopped playing them yet.

The much anticipated Zhu Zhu pet which actually lives up to all the hype.


Ronan with his large dump truck

Christmas Eve Festivities

Christmas started off with a bang this year. We usually stay home and have all evening for the traditional Christmas Eve. This year we amped it up stopping 3 different places in 1 day. It was a little crazy but so fun.

We went to Auntie Pauline's for dinner. She always spoils us all with nice presents.

Wednesday we went to my mom and dads until Christmas Eva afternoon.

Nana Clause as we like to call her pulled through. Nana and Papa got the kids a Wii which has been a huge hit.


We were lucky enough to see our good friends the Kanigan's while they were in town. It had been a long time since the kids had seen each other. We visited and let the kids run around.

Here they all are. The first 3 of each of our kids are all the same ages. Then I woos ed out on a fourth and Becki had cute Ellie. Weird to think I would have a 1 year old.

Logan and Leah have wedding plans still. They spent their time having "private talks" in my dads office. They told each other what they have been up to since the last time they saw each other. Logan was embarrassed by all of Leah's hugging.

Davy the Lion

Ronan the Lion. Love the little body big head.

Dave's work hosted a Christmas party for the kids. We saw Santa and got a family photo. Then there was presents for each of the kids. Plus hot chocolate and cookies. We love this Real tradition.

With the staff out of town someone had to fill in for Leo the Lion on Good Things Utah.

Merry Christmas!

Happy Birthday Davy!

Dave celebrated a birthday yesterday. I wont say how old the old man is getting but it is above 30. I am amazed at all the things he has accomplished in just the 10 years I have known him. He has excelled at every area of his life. Not only is he a great husband and father but he has blessed the lives of many others. He manages to balance church callings and a busy work schedule and still find time for the important things in life. I am so proud of him and lucky to call him my husband.



He brought the MLS cup home for a lecture he did at Weber State. I wish we would have got a picture of the trophy seat belted in the front seat of the car with him.

I had him take his birthday off from work. For years I have felt that it should be required. Lets face it what else is exciting when your our age. Dave didn't heed my advice last year. Drove 2 hours to work in a snow storm, got yelled at by his boss, and crashed his car. Needless to say lesson learned. This year he stayed home. And I think it was a much better day. We had a big breakfast, went out to lunch, he did a project in our entryway (I'll post pictures when we have painted it), I sent him to a massage, then Leah had a school performance, and last of all he went out to a movie with some friends.

The old trick candles are funny every time.