Birthday weekend

Naomi helped me clean the kitchen floor with the shop vac. She loves to vaccum up peas from Abigail's lunch and she did a good job. She was happy to help Mommy! She vaccumed for about 30 minutes. It kept her busy.

Naomi's little "boyfriend" Cameron turned 4 this week and his mom Amy made the cake. I love the cake! He had a camoflage party. Naomi wore her camo in honor of his party.
Right after bus ministry we went to Cameron's party and then from there to our Assistant Pastor's son's 16th birthday. Happy Birthday Cameron and Spencer! Abigail and Amy

The children play in Cameron's room and make a mess.

My little soldier,
Cameron had to concentrate hard to blow out all the candles.
Kristi wanted a corner piece of cake with lots of frosting, but when she was brought the cake Brian had scraped it all off. It was funny:)

Happy 33rd Birthday Baby!

Sunday night we actually surprised Ken with a party at the fellowship building. I never surprise him because somehow he gets the girls to tell him any surprises or someone else slips up and tells. I didn't tell Naomi and Cheyenne find out until we went shopping for the party. I really didn't know how I was going to get him down there and I am not a good liar. He didn't figure it out until we got to the fellowship building and he saw all the cars. We were also very surprised by Ken's Uncle Gaylor and Aunt Dorothy showing up at church. They are missionaries to Australia. I hate that I didn't get their picture but we hope to see them again before they return to the field. It was such a pleasure for them to stay with us. The girls are already asking when they are going to come back. Their son Scott is a missionary in Kenya, Africa. The girls call him Uncle Scottie and they are wondering when he will be back too.

Amy made this really cool cake for Ken. I never would have come up with such a perfect cake for Ken.
A bathroom reader book, that is already being used and will be well read.
Salt and Pepper Shakers and oil bottles. They were the coolest and the bottles are filled and on my counter.
An Auto Vacuum!!!!!! Too funny!!! I may be the only one to use it!!!

His own first aid kit with Super glue, Duck tape, and a smaller first aid kit.

Sports video??!?? Ken????
Ken got two cool games to play on the TV.

Abigail was singing on stage.

Abigail fell asleep on the floor and it scared me at first because she didn't cry or anything. I was typing a song on my computer while Cheyenne was doing some school work. It had been about 5 minutes or so since I had heard or seen Abigail and Naomi was playing in the living room. I jumped up to find Abigail and went around the couch and there she lay. At first I thought she choked on something and made sure she was breathing. When I realized she was breathing I tried to figure out what else could have happened. I still can't believe it.
I made Ken's favorite, red velvet cake, for his birthday with the girls.
To all the ones who answered to my request for help with what to do with Abigail my stubborn one. I don't know what happened. For two days in a row she has just lain on the floor and fallen asleep while we are doing school with no crying or anything. Should I be alarmed or jumping for joy??!!??!! None of my children have ever done that!

Happy 15th Birthday Jamie!



For Jamie's birthday we went to Mom's house for sewing class and celebrated it. Every week we have to deal with his poor etiquette so I bought him a can of fabreeze to bring, Gas x, and an air freshener for his room. I just hope he uses them. He is a boy. We could really use the fabreeze on

Tuesday nights!

Snow?!

Today we got snow! Well if you want to call it that. I was up at 2:00 am with Abigail and checked on the snow and we had about an inch. When I got up, it was the same and then by 9:30 it had been raining and was going away. Naomi was so funny because she woke up early and didn't even realize it had snowed until it was raining out and it was going away.

Abigail also tried to feed herself some yogurt for the first time today. I had not let her try before today. She enjoyed it.

Someone please tell me how long it takes to break a child of waking in the middle of the night and crying herself to sleep. I have always put Abigail to sleep and lately she has been waking up as soon as I try to lay her down. She has a scream and a half. If you have ever heard her, you would understand why I have a hard time letting her scream in the middle of the night. She is very stubborn. I'm not sure which one of us she gets that from more. But I really am trying to break her of it. Any suggestions???

Back to School

It has been an OK start back to school. Abigail is being more occupied with toys now except at nap time and I am still trying to juggle Abigail, Naomi, and teaching. Last week we had to take Naomi to the doctor for a little check up. She was fine. We also had our monthly co-op meeting with the homeschoolers. I was in charge of the birthday cake this month and I saw this cake in Taste of Home. I thought it would be a huge hit with all the kids. Well, it didn't look as nice as the one on the magazine but it was fun to make and eat. The kids picked out whatever part they wanted and everyone got just what they wanted. I even saved myself the Reese cup. I almost had to fight for it but since I made it I was OK. No one had to fight it out. It was a fun time. I forgot my camera but I did take this picture of the cake before I left in case something fell on the way to the fellowship building. It did. The big Ice cream cone fell off. I fixed it by putting a huge mound of frosting there. It was our healthy food and exercise lesson co-op too!!!!!!! I had to make this anyway. I hope everyone enjoyed it.

Happy New Year!

On Christmas morning the best things Mom bought were these pop guns. They shot balls like ping pong balls. We had the best time with those even if they did have to stay at Mom and Dads house. Pops even got in on the action and broke a glass in the kitchen. I only wish I could have caught that on video.

Before we left Colorado the girls went out to clean off the porch at Grandma's and Pop's house. Naomi really worked hard on this Mom.

On our way home we flew out of Hayden in a snow storm at about 6:00 am. We were up at 3:30 to get to the airport by 5:00 am. When we got to Denver they had bumped our flight back an hour. We were delayed several times and finally got on the plane at 12:30 or so. We had to sit in the plane and wait for all the luggage to be loaded and then for a place on the deicing mat. Abigail was not happy about having to sit in one place. This is out the window of the airport while waiting. I wanted to post on my blog in the airport while we waited but I took the girls to a small play place while Ken "Read a book and watched our stuff".

Abigail's birthday was December 31 but Naomi thought we needed to celebrate a few days early.

Abigail's 1st birthday. Cheyenne was in NY with Mom and Paw Paw had dropped by to see the girls. Naomi and Daddy had made a cake and Naomi made one in her e-z bake oven for Abigail.

We then went to Pam and Joel's house to help rebuild their garage that burned down and bring in the new year. It was actually Abigail's birthday so I made a cake and we celebrated with our friends.

Toward the end of the night Abigail was very sleepy and couldn't sleep because we were playing a game and being very loud. Rebecca held Abigail while we played a game with a ball that shocks you sort of like a hot potato game. It was really fun. I know she really didn't want to play. We didn't get to bring in the new year at their house. Everyone left early.