Monday, September 9, 2013

Preschool

It's Rocket's first day of preschool!

3 years old

 

This was the first attempt at a photo....

 

Favorite food: macaroni and cheese

Favorite song: twinkle, twinkle, little star

Favorite treat: suckers

Favorite color: green

Favorite animal: elephant

Favorite book: Rescue Bears

Favorite store: BiMart

Favorite activity with Daddy: help him clean up

Favorite activity with Mommy: hugging

Favorite TV show: power rangers - samurai

Favorite movie: ice age

Who are your friends: Griffin and Addi

Favorite thing to do outside: ride my bike

Favorite thing to play with inside: Legos and a big sword.

 

Sunday, September 8, 2013

You can have your cake and eat it too.

 

We'll even throw in some whipped topping.

 

First day of school

First day of third grade for Ninja!

 
First day of first grade for Gambit!
 
The first days of lunches-
I love those lunch boxes.

 

Ta-Ta-Ta- TAYLOR!

Here's how a recent Thursday afternoon went.

 

Athena called me and said that a few more tickets to the Taylor Swift concert the next day were just released. Should we go? I responded, that would be super awesome! She calls back a few minutes later....GOT THREE TICKETS FOR ME, YOU, AND MOUSE!!

 

Much screaming and excitement ensued. Yes, I realize we were acting like prepubescent little girls.

 

So the next evening we went to an AWSOME Taylor Swift concert. We had soooo much fun acting young and carefree :-) As we were walking in a really nice lady and her daughter gave Mouse their VIP bag. It was filled with lots of goodies and awesome Taylor paraphernalia.

And Ed Sheeran, who opened for Taylor, sucked. I was super disappointed with his performance. Oh well, the rest of the concert was amazeballs!

 

Labor Day Weekend

It was the last weekend before school started and we decided to go camping on some great wooded property that Athena and Falsh have. When I say "we" went camping, I mean Antonio slept in a tent out there all weekend with the boys and I came to hang out during the day but went home to sleep in my amazing bed :-)

Slithery creatures!
 
Lincoln and Ninja playing on heavy machinery.
 
Burning stuff is always fun! This was an old chicken coop.
Oh dear. Ninja has his first BB gun. About 20 minutes after this the boys decided to stop following the VERY strict and specific rules that were set in regards to shooting the guns. This resulted in Gambit getting shot in the thigh by Lincoln (accidentally) and sporting a pretty gnarly welt from it. Needless to say the BB guns were confiscated after that and both boys got a verbal lashing on safety and responsibility.
 
Hammock hanging and Kubota riding/driving.
Rocket loves it when Falsh let's him "drive".
 
No bites today :-(
 
One afternoon the guys had to break out the big guns.
Don't piss off the pregnant lady!
 
And lots of good riding, of course.
 
We had the missionaries come out for a BBQ one evening and it was so fun. Elder Jackson decided to hunt down and catch a chicken. It was hilarious!
Then some throwing knives...
It was Elder Derbidge's birthday so we had birthday s'mores.
Such a fun weekend to wrap up our summer!