Merry Christmas to Shayde and Tailan

So since the boys were on the naughty list this year, we told them Santa wouldn't bring them any toys. So instead we re-did their bedroom as their Christmas gift. We painted and purchased a new set of bunk beds that seem to be pretty indestructible...we'll see... they also have a set of stairs rather than a ladder, so i can sleep in peace without worrying that my children are going to ring their necks trying to get up and down a ladder in the middle of the night. the stairs are also drawers, and there are drawers under the bed as well, to maximize the space.

here are some pictures....
the brown in the middle is magnetic chalkboard..so they can write messages or draw. and yes, we did hang the curtains upside down on purpose. thought it added character...view of the awesome bunk beds... and shayde's head...
here you can see some of the cute magnets we found...well we found the cute painted wood pieces and added the magnetic strip on the back...i mean...SANTA did.....

also, the shelves were actually headboards. we bought them and i hand painted them ,b ut we decided to do the bunk beds and i didn't want to get rid of them because they are So cute and it took FOREVER to paint them! so we bolted the one to the wall down low, nad the other we chopped the legs of and hung up higher, you cant really see the inside bottom of the top one but its cream and blue checkerboard.

Silly Kitty!!!!

radar climbed up the tree today... he stuck his head out right over one of the bow...pretty funny!

On a Sunday afternoon...

Driving home from church yesterday, Shayde says "Mom, why did we have to move, I liked our older house better."

"Really?"

"Yes, I think we should pack up all our stuff and our TV and move into into Karyn's house"

"Don't you think that will be a little crowded with all of us?"

"Well, Karyn and Trevor can go to grandpas house too cook."

"How do you think Grandpa would feel about that?"

"I don't know"

"How bout we live at our house and we cook here. and Karyn lives at her house and she cooks there. And Grandpa lives at his house, and cooks at his house."

Shayde thinks it over... "No......no that doesn't make any sense."

Have you taken the pole? ------->

Hi friends, i am really just wondering how much traffic i get on my blog, so i don't really care what the answer is, because obviously if you respond in any way, you were here. waHAHAha im so tricky.

Family Photos

We were finally able to get our family photos taken, a bit later than usual, but well worth the wait. My friend Emily White is starting a photo business, and did our whole session for only $25! I will add a link here to her website Auntie Em Photography. Here are some of the pictures...

I know

So Shayde has become quite the know-it-all since he started pre-school two weeks ago. So every time you tell him anything he replies "I know."

So Spencer took the kids out on a date the other night, and in casual conversation Spencer said something to which Shayde replied "I know," and then he continued..."I have a special brain in my head......with decorations on it."

Our Awesome Weekend!

Once again, no pictures...I actually remembered the camera this weekends and still didn't manage to get any photos! ask me how it happens, no idea.

So Dave really wanted to camp this weekend, and I have had stuff going on almost every weekend, so we made plans in spite of my Saturday night activity. I drove up Sat morning to find a spot, then ran around crazy trying to get everything packed etc. So Dave got home and I drove the boys up to the campground, then came back down to go to our Happy Moms Club Movie Night, which was a blast!

On the way home fom the movie we realized that my tires were making this odd screech-ker-clunk noise, so my awesome neigbor (the same one who rescued my cat by the way) came out and took my tire off and we realized that one of the bolts holding the brakes on was missing!

I was supposed to head back up to the campground that night, and knew Dave would be getting worried, because it was already late, so he (Jay, he's my neigbor) let me take his truck up to camp, and he was going to go to walmart and see if he could find a bolt. We had invited them to come up for dutch oven dinner on Sunday anyway, so we could trade vehicles assuming all went well with fixing ours.

So I drove back up to camp and pulled in to the site and all was dark. I headed to the tent when Dave called out from near the firepit. I shined my flashlight (which I had also borrowed from the neighbor cuz I realized we had forgetten any and I didnt even have one that worked) over to where he was sitting and realized he was in the process of blowing up our double high queen size mattress manually. The best part- he had already blown up one for the kids! I forgot I had the air pump in my truck when I left, and didnt even have it then becasue I didn't have my truck!

So, Dave managed to get it filled up without passing out, by that time it was about one in the morning. Sunday morning the kids woke up and Tailan got to my glasses before me and snapped off the good side (if you didn't hear i already had one side stuck back together with some kind of bonding putty. Tailan again. lovely.) So I went blind most of the day. Luckily our friends were able to get the brakes fixed and brought out truck back, in which was some duct tape. so now i have one side putty, one side duct tape. its quite the fashion statement!

We also didnt know that there was no water source up there. It was a real campground but i guess it was far enough they didnt plum pipes, so we had a large jsut we brought with water but taht ran out sunday night, so i was kind of worried about making it through another day with no water. This morning when i went to the bathroom i looked out at the camp accross the road, which had been vacated, which i could actually see, thanks to my repair job, and noticed two bottle of water sitting on the table... all alone.... i took them.

Shayde was really offended... "those aren't yours mom" we have been teachng him about stealing. its sinking in dangit. but i was desperate. They were almost full and there were no floaties. and we drank it. now you know.

ok, my fingers are hurting. im gonna go to bed.

Whats YOUR case?

So the other day, over scrambled eggs, Shayde turns to me and says "I rest my case Mom."

"What case?" I ask.

"The red one, for my arts and crafts."

Radar Radar

For those of you whom i see on facebook, you may have seen my post about our cat being lost. He got out sometime Tuesday, I didn't know he had, and that night when we went to bed he was no where to be found. I kept checking all day Wednesday to see if he would come back around, and the later it got the more I worried he had been run over by a tractor or gotten stuck in one of the building they are constructing down the street. Well last night as I went to bed I resigned mylsef that we might not see his again, I had a good cry, and listened for him mewing outside till i finally fell asleep.

Sometime around midnight there was a knock on our door (which I did not hear, much to Daves dissapointment), he got up and there was out neighbor with Radar! He had been driving home from work and had seen Radar in the road down the street towards the High School, he pulled over and got to him right before the cat jumped down a storm drain! He was the only person I had told about the cat being lost and probably the only neigbor who would have recognized him!

We are so happy to have Radar back safe and sound, even though he is a little miffed that he's grounded from going outside without adult supervision!

Movie Mouth

So I'm sure most of you have heard of the term "Potty Mouth", well Shayde has recently contracted "Movie Mouth" when he gets mad or frustrated, or just doesn't know what to say he quotes movies.

Like one day in the car I was singing or something, and he looks at me, shakes his head and says, "Your one sad, strange little man Mom." (Toy Story)

Or when he is in trouble and doesn't like the consequences he glares at me and snarls, "Street Rat!" (Alladin)

Or yesterday when we were at Grandpas and he did something naughty and Grandpa called him on it, he used his most sinister voice, "You leave me no choice." (Bolt) The best part is that he didn't realize he had to follow that threat up with an action, so it was really funny.

Ah yes, it is a sad testament to the fact that we watch too many movies. But I must say I would rather get threatened with funny movie quotes than some other things he could be saying!

RADAR

This is Radar our new kitten. Dave picked him up last weekend to go with our new house. The best thing is he was already potty trained! The kids are having a blast and refuse to let him have one second to himself. He (we're think its a he) loves to hide under the chairs, and recently discovered if he dives really quick he can make it through the hole in the seat of the couch and hide inside the couch.

New House!

If you haven't heard, we are currently under contract for a new Town-Home in Hyrum! We are so excited, and a little terrified, but mostly excited!

We are set to settle on the 20, and close on the 21 of this month. So if you are so inclined feel free to stop by on Saturday the 23rd, I am sure there will be something for you to lift, carry, clean, haul, keep....etc.

Here are some pictures of the house, its a little boring since there is nothing inside, but use your imagination!




Living Room

Kitchen

Master Bath sink area

There are three bedroom upstairs, master bath and closet, and a second full bathroom. the main floor has the living, kitchen, 1/4 bath (sink, toilet), garage, and there is an unfinished basement, we are planning to make another bedroom/office downstairs and a family room and bathroom.

The curse of the "Black Kerr"!

So some may not know, that Shayde was born the day before out first Anniversary. You know, having a baby was wonderful, but spending out first anniversary in the hospital bed with bread sticks from Little Caesars and watching Clueless on the hospital TV wasn't an ideal celebration....

Since i love to celebrate things I have always tried to make our special moments a fun time, after a couple years Dave and I decided to trade off planning Valentines Day and our Anniversary, so we each planned one per year then traded the next year....

Well, since that first year our Anniversary has had a sort of bad luck streak. One year we were home and planned a romantic night in and then we both had the flu or something and were so sick we didn't really even enjoy it. One year Dave;s boss got us a deal at a hotel in Salt Lake s we went down for the night. The kids were going to stay at Dave's sisters house. We were planning to go to Hogal Zoo the next day for Shayde's birthday. That night we ordered room service for dinner and both ended up with food poisioning from the chicken! We were sick all night long and the next day, plus it was raining so we just went home.

This year I was in charge of planning our Anniversary. I was bound and determined that it would be a success with no illness, accidents, or intrerruptions!

I planned for months. It was a secret. Dave didnt know... basically every one else on the planet knew our plans but not Dave. We were going to stay at the Anniversary Inn (where we stayed for our honey moon). I looked at every room trying to decide which would be the best. Dave loves to scuba dive so I looked at the underwater rooms, they weren't that great. Finally I saw the Pirate room! Pirates are on the water, so it was close. Plus it left the field wide open for all kinds of pirate themed activities.

I made pirate outfits.... we did a pirate picture scavenger hunt.... we ate pirate food....we watched pirate movies..... it was awesome!

In the morning we got a phone call from our realtor letting us know a house we were interested in, but had had an offer made on, was on the market again...(my realtor speak is getting better but that still sounded wierd) Anyway. We had to rush down to his office that morning to sign the papers to get our offer in as tehre were several other interested parties...

So although we didnt have a completey un-interrupted weekend I consider the curse broken!

Cake Decorating!

So last year for New Years i wanted to make a cake from scratch. I wanted it to be delicious. I followed the recipe, I even made the frosting from scratch. Low and behold the cake would not come out of the pan, it literally turned into crumbs. I basically had to glue it back together with the frosting, which didn't turn out so good itself! I was so mad by the time I was done I made the following inscription...
Happy FREAKING New Year!!!

So..... one of my Christmas presents last year was a bunch of cake decorating supplies and admission to a Wilton class. I had four classes and it was really fun to learn some of the techniques. I had to decorate a cake for the last three classes so here are the pictures. I was SO sick of cake by the time I got one made that I gave them all away (well except for Shayde's Birthday Cake!)

The Fish cake was a coconut cream filled cake with coconut almond icing.

The Flower Cake was chocolate with a raspberry filling and chocolate icing.

The dinosaur cake was the finale, it was rainbow chip (per Shayde's request with a butter cream icing and a coco crispy volcano! Sorry its sideways o forgot to change it, but there are more pictures and a movie below!

I also made a red velvet cake for Summer's Birthday while she was here, but my mom has the pictures, I'll try and get them later.

March Madness

Ok, I realize some of this stuff is stuff that happened before Shayde's birthday, but forgive me, i couldn't get my photos off the camera so my cuz posted the stuff from the party for me, but here's to catching up...


Here are some our our St. Patricks Day foods! Shamrock pancakes, and shamrck grilled cheese sandwiches!

And The Cake Erupts!!

Okay, I just wanted to see if I could figure out how to do this. It worked! Yay! Enjoy the video of Shayde's birthday cake erupting: Take #3! Ha!

Props to my cuz

I know it's sad to admit, but I didn't even post that one about the party. I'm so lame. We did have lots of fun though, and thanks to Karyn for updating my life....lol.

I would love to write more at the moment but as it is late, nad uaualy things seem to slip downhill at this time of night, as evidened by my typin skills which i wil leave fr your entertainment....i am goignto retire,and perhaps another tme i will post some more news...untilllll then. night!

Mr. Shayde's 4th Birthday Party!

We celebrated Shayde's birthday this year with a dinosaur themed party for he and all his little friends.

We started the party off by decorating awesome dinosaur masks that the kids could wear. They also each got a cool party favor bag full of fun dino things.

Then the kids got to go play out in the yard.

And spent some time digging for...

Back inside to play some games.
Until it was time to eat the....Made by myself as my grande finale to my cake decorating class =)

Time for presents!Everyone helped, ha ha!

Then the kids ran around outside and played for a while.

The party was a success!!

Happy Birthday Shayde!

Babies

So my most favorite cousin has been expecting her 3rd baby, a boy after two girls! Yipee! and for each of her babies i have visited in the hopes of being present at the blessed event.....or at least nearby... and every time those sweet things come out within 24 hrs of me leaving!

So we went down on monday and spent the night and played and had lots of fun, all of which is more interesting if you read about it on her blog, and sure enough, we came home and this morning her mom called and she is in labor.....im pretty sure its cuz i offered him a donut if he'd just come out...don't worry buddie, i got your back! JELLY FILLED!

Anyway, i am so excited for them! i'll see if i can get a picture...or better yet...i'll have her put one on here, and make the whole thing more presentable!

Hawaii Book

Ok, My book is down there waaaaaay at the bottom, i dont know how to add it so it shows up with this post. but hopefully you can see what i have so far. I am not finished, so if you read it you may notice i am missing some names of people adn foods, i am waiting for some info and some more pictures before i can finish....

I havn't finished the page yet, but on the Porutguese Man-of-War page, i was indeed stung by one, but that is not a picure of the one i was stung by.

Hawaii

Aloha! I am working on a book with all our Hawaii pictures and stories that i will post here soon! I don't want to write and uplaod all the pictures twice! I will say we had a great time...and i am missing the GREEN!!!!

Year in Review

To start the year off I thought I'd include some of the highlights from last year:

April- We moved back to Millville...I realized at Christmas that some of our out-of-town friends didn't know we had moved, sorry for that. We moved back in April and did a bunch of work on the house we moved in to, which was my grandparents house.

June-August- We had a lot of fun camping trips, we went up Cub River Canyon for a few days. While we were there we visited Aspen Ridge and went swimming at Glendale Lake. In July Kristen and Casey (Dave's sister and her family) came down to buy a boat, so we went down to Jordanell and went boating for a day. We also got to take a camping trip with Karyn, Trevor, Kenzi and Ashlin. We camped at the campground in Mantua, the name of which is escaping me at the moment. We went over to the Lake and swam, during which time Kenzi lost her beach ball to the wind and some nice stranger lady swam out into the lake to retrive it. It was exciting.






























August- Family Reunion.....Rain....rain....wind...Rain..... what else is there to say? No, we had fun, we have to figure out alternate sleeping arangements for those who were planing to tent, we ended up with a wall-to-wall air mattress extraveganza in my parents garage. Good times were had by all....I think.

October- was pretty fun, the kids had a blast on halloween, Tailan picked up the whole candy retrieving thing pretty quick, I'm pretty sure he hasn't stopped eating sugar since...

November- We had a bunch of family from my Dad's side come out for Thanksgiving, it was fun to have company. My nephew Nathan, his wife Krystal and their kids stayed at our house, it was really fun to have them.

December- Yay! Christmas!!! We had a lot of really awesome experiences to celebrate Christmas, we got to see the Forgotten Carol's (which might have been in November...can't remember) and our Stake did a resentation of "The Savior of the World" which was amazing. The kids were nuts all month, Shayde was really into Santa this year, we went to visit him and we got to send our Santa letters to Summer who was working with him at her mall. Shayde also got to talk to him on the phone one day to ask him a question. It was pretty cool...

Ok I better wrap this up, this could be the longest post you ever get on here. I will try to be better at keeping you informed! Happy New Year!!!!