Friday, September 2, 2011

BIRTHDAY BOY




Happy Birthday Gavin

Today we celebrated Gavin's 2nd Birthday ( a day early yes).
We decided that it would be best to just have a family party, just the four of us, and we headed to Boondocks!
It's a good hour and 15 minutes away but it was so worth it. Gavin received a free unlimited pass for his birthday, but due to his size he could only golf and play in the kiddie jungle gym...which was totally fine with him!
We spent a good 3 hours there and we were able to get some great prizes with our tickets, one of which Gavin is surprisingly terrified of (see video).
Half way home we stopped at Red Robin (Yummm) for his B-day dinner, and they gave him a bowl full of whipped cream and sprinkles (per my request since he dislikes ice cream....weird I know), and we left with a balloon for each kiddo.
Man, even with stopping and eating at the half way point, it was still a long drive home with those two....
We did finally make it home to open presents (yes he is spoiled) and have cupcakes.
Now, Gavo loves the Goldfish Crackers, so that was kind of the theme for today. I attempted to make a pull-apart cupcake-cake but it didn't turn out so well. So in case you are wondering what the candle is sitting on it is suppose to be a Goldfish.   :)

Gavo tasted the icing and was ready to get back to his toys.
Its been an hour and a half and he is still loving his Cars race track.
Happy Birthday Gavo! My most favorite boy in the whole world!!!!

Gymnastics meet

Ok so "it has been a while" is the understatement of the year.
There are two events that I will update you all on.
The first is Bryton's second gymnastics meet. So here are some pics and possibly some videos of this event.
She has been improving sooo much this past year and has made it from beginners 2 to Gym 1.
There are so many moves that I am just amazed she can do.
She is loving it for the most part but other days it is a struggle to get her to put on her leotard and go.
anyways enjoy!




Sunday, April 24, 2011

Easter slide (sorry some pics are sideways)

Easter!

Hey everyone,
Despite dad being gone, we had a pretty good Easter.
This was the first Easter I have had to play Easter Bunny all by myself. I must say some of the fun was missing. Hopefully we won't have to miss Jason over too many holidays.
We we ended up having a lot of eggs, and I only opened up one bag of left over eggs. a total of 45 eggs per kiddo. ya.
I made out like a bandit with the candy, I only paid $11 for $37 worth. (thank you coupons)
Bryton woke up a quarter to 6....ugh.
We woke up Gavo and he was like...ugh too.
But we headed down stairs and found their baskets and gifts at the bottom.
I gave Bryton and Gavin a gift each. Gavin got a froggy pillow pet and Bryton got Crayola Color Wonder Metalics. ~very cool if I do say so myself~
It was a challenge at first to get Gavin to even notice the eggs, he was too busy with his car that he got.
When he did finally start looking for eggs he was in heaven! Eggs here and there, eggs everywhere.
He found about 10 when he finally busted one open and was done. There was candy inside. And no need to look for anymore.
He did pick up a few more here and there but Bryton had to pick up his slack.

Bryton, now last year she found every egg in the house in less than 3 minutes. So this year had to be a little more challenging.
I hid them everywhere, and while she was still really good, we were missing three by the time we gave up. They were finally found, (medicine cabinet, snack cupboard).

We really had a good morning.
We wish dad could have been here. We will see him soon though, and make up for lost time!
We love you Jason!!!!!
HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Friday, March 18, 2011

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Lazy Butt

Well I am taking a break from my homework right now and thought I would get caught up on a little bit 'o blogging.
(No pics though....I'm lazy, and like I said, I'm only taking a break from my homework)

Okay, so let's start with me.....because I am awesome.
Right now I am still sitting in my church clothes and its nearly 10 o'clock. I have been dealing with kids, cleaning (sort of) and as stated above, doing homework.
I have been a full-time student for about a year and a half now. I was taking a lot of prerequisites from American Public University (APU) online so I could stay home.
I finished many of my prerequisite classes and I have about a 3.4 GPA.
I started taking on-campus classes at Laramie County Community College AKA L' Trip.
I am hoping to get into the Radiography Program they have here. It's a 24 month AAS and I turned in my application the 2nd week of January.
Scary story:
Before I took any prerequisites from the online college APU, I called the registrar at LCCC to make sure that the credits would transfer over from APU to LCCC and that they would satisfy the requirements for the Rad program.
Well, she told me they did. So I took them
Last week I get a call from the Rad Program director and she said based on my credits from my previous college I didn't qualify! -WHAT-!!!!!
Well it all got figured out and I do qualify...jerks.
Anyways I will find out April 1st if I was accepted.
So, enough about me....even though I know you want to hear more.

Jason just left this past week for Afghanistan again. He will be gone for 2.5 month which will end up being 5 months in a year.
We have been able to Skype and talk online while he makes his way there.
He is doing good so far, but he will be there over his birthday and Easter. So any moral packages would be most appreciated. :)
He recently bought us a four-wheeler and we are planning on have many a good time this summer.
He did get a little spoiled for his bday. He got a Kill-Audio collectible, a Coheed and Cambria Mug (that I painted) an awesome BBQing book, a loop station (for recording music and whatnot) and thanks to my skillful sister who shall not be named (Taryn), he also received a hand-made Coheed and Cambria afghan.

Bryton is doing very well is school. She hit a couple rough patches with spelling and math but has been showing a great deal of improvement. She is still going to Gymnastics and is doing well in that too! She has been attending a free after school program everyday and loves it.
She currently has 5 continuous companions with her at all times. A beanie baby cheetah she names spots, a turtle named turtle, a wolf named wolfie, a squirrel named squirrelie, and a chipmunk named....can you guess? Chippy...(I think)
She sleeps with them every night in a very particular manner.
The other day she came downstairs with all of them in tow, and I instantly get hit with a waft of Jason's colonge in my face. She had sprayed all her animals several times with his colonge.
So needless to say we are smelling Jason, quite a bit.
She loves to do puzzles and is amazing at building lego cities, cars, people, houses, monsters, etc.

Gavin......OH Gavin! Some days that boy drives me to my limits. He's really big into "helping". His favorite tasks include bringing me every shoe I have ever worn, also my jacket. He loves "organizing" my wallet by removing anything and everything in it. He has become a very good thrower and likes to practice with everything, especially his food. ya...lots of fun.
He has also become very stealthy and can manage to climb on our bar height chairs and onto our table. Not fun for me!
We managed to finish his nursery in frogs and its very cute.....sorry no pics.
Eventually I will have some pics.

well that's it for now...Hopefully I didn't leave out too much