Honesty

On Sunday MacKelle's primary class was talking about making good decisions. She has two wonderful teachers that she LOVES! One of them was teaching the lesson and asked, "What would you do if you found a purse with some money in it at the park?" The kids in the class answer something like: "I would leave it there", or "I would turn it into the lost and found", then MacKelle answers "I would take a little bit of the money and leave the rest"...One of the teachers turns to the other and says "Watch your purse."

I guess that is honesty.

Picnic at the playground

So, it wasn't as warm as we thought, but we had fun anyway...Until it looked like it was going to rain on us. We picked up some personal sized pizzas and sodas and went to the playground. It was a blast! I love how fun and energetic kids are when you get them around toys!

It all goes in the mouth!

So, for the last, I don't know...12 months, everything Mason picks up goes in his mouth. Usually it is one of MacKelle's toys. I honestly think he tries to irritate her.

 

The other day I was running a bath for MacKelle and found this:

 

I don't think that Mason enjoyed that bite. It is just funny to me because I'm always threatening to use the soap in my kid's mouths when they are mouthy, but...YUCK! I would have loved to get a picture of his face when he bit that off. Maybe it won't go strait into his mouth so much anymore...

What we've been up to...

Trace finally lost his first tooth! Yea!! He has another one that is getting pretty loose too. Crazy how grown up they keep getting!

 

Bobi and Ryker stopped in for a little bit and I thought this was too cute. The kids just hanging out. MacKelle helped Mason onto the bed and they were just watching t.v. Ryker just fits in with my kids pretty good I think. He could be a Moss...

 

I've been busy making these little heads lately. They are for a baby shower this weekend. I made some last weekend for another baby shower, so we're getting it down with all the practice.  It's kind of funny to see the herd of little giraffe heads.

 

You'll have to check into my cake blog later to see the end result...

What a weekend!

This weekend we were lucky enough to have Justin's family come and visit. They got here on Friday night and stayed until Monday afternoon. We were all so excited to see them, and had so much we wanted to do.

But you know how it goes...It started off with MacKelle getting sick. She was sick the first night they got here. She wanted to go to the community Easter egg hunt SOOO bad. I let her go. (mostly because everyone else was headed to town after the Easter egg hunt and she wouldn't be able to go there.)

 

Because MacKelle was't feeling good, she got carried (which, if you know my Micky, she LOVES to be held-so it was great medicine for her). We also got a LOVELY spring storm on Friday night (notice the snow in the background-so much for spring break!). So when we got there, they were just handing out eggs. The wind and snow were just too cold I guess.

 

Easter morning was better, MacKelle was feeling better and the Easter bunny came, so that gave her the eggs-tra energy she needed (in the form of peeps).

 

Trace seemed to have fun too, he  found his Easter basket under the sink in the bathroom, sneaky bunny.

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And I tell you, that Easter bunny knew just what Mase wanted.  The basket is behind him, unnoticed with exception of the ball.

... I ended up getting sick the next morning...I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to eat ham again.

Here is MacKelle with Aunt Kylee. The kids LOVE their aunt! But unfortunately for her, she got sick the day after she got home. Trace also got sick that day. Justin just started getting over it too.

So, besides the sicknesses and the snow it was a great weekend. Dena highlighted my hair (which desperately needed it), we got to watch New Moon (again), had some good visits, got to watch some awesome conference talks, and the healthy ones had a fun trip to town.  It was good to see Dena, Paul, and Kylee and so nice of them to drive down and see us. Kylee is so grown up! I just can't get over it! Watch out boys!!

Our April Fools

 For April Fools day I got some ideas from Family Fun. I made a fun dinner for my kids and the Babcocks. We had a blast laughing at the kids. I made mashed potatoes (ice cream) and gravy (caramel syrup) with fish sticks (kit-kat covered in graham cracker crumbs) with ranch (frosting)

 

 Then we had cupcakes (meatloaf with mashed potatoes on top).

 

The drinks were Jello. They just had to see how much they could eat through the straw. It sounded like a group of intoxicated crickets. It was interesting.

 The kids didn't know what to think. Sometimes it is hard to eat something when it looks like something else.

 

Some thought it was fun, but some were NOT amused. Ü In this picture of Ryker, he JUST barely took a bite. He wasn't a fan.

 

 Corden was pretty sure he wouldn't like it either.

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Trace hardly ate anything! He usually loves all of those things, but couldn't stomach them when they looked like something else. It was a good prank.