Back to School

We were invited to a Back to School party, I saw these cupcakes in a magazine and thought I would make them for the party. Just wanted to share them because they where a huge hit and they where pretty easy. I used fondant to make the apple, book and ruler.

*When I went to take pictures at Dallin's birthday party the camera was out of batteries. I borrowed a friends camera and she has promised to send them to me soon. I will put them up as soon as I get them as long as I get them before Friday.

Happy 8th Birthday Dallin

My baby boy is growing up to fast. thank goodness I can live in my own reality and keep him as my baby. I have absolutely loved being Dallin's mom. He keeps me laughing and on my toes. I couldn't ask for a better boy.
Dallin's first day of kindergarten.

It can be tough learning to grow up.

Dallin turned 8 years old on Aug. 4th. For his birthday he got an air soft gun which I don't think he has stopped playing with since he opened it. At 5:30 in the morning Dallin woke us up to open presents. We told him it wasn't Christmas and to go away until 7:00. By 8:30 we were in the forest shooting targets.

That night we had planned to go out to eat and then go and see Aliens in the Attic. Instead we organized a big air soft gun war that kept he and his buddies out until 9:30. According to Dallin it was the best birthday EVER.

Dallin and Taige shooting into the lake on his birthday.

Soccer, Soccer, Soccer!!!

Dallin loves to play soccer. I have been teaching him how to trap with your chest, head, thighs. It's fun to watch him try and do it in the games. If any of you know Dallin there is no aggression issues with him. He is always in the middle of the pack or at the bottom of the pile. It makes me proud.

Dallin and Eliza are loving soccer which of course makes for a very happy Mom. Both of them are doing really well, I am happy to say I have no flower pickers, although I have caught Eliza dancing with her friends a few times. Dallin loves to get in there a push around. They both love to play goalie, I don't really get it because I always hated it.Everyone should be proud that I have kept my mouth shut and have not tried to talk them out of that position. Even though sometimes I really want to.

Everyone keeps getting after me because I have not put up a pregnant picture. (That's because I am vain and hate being fat!) If you look very closely below there is a picture of girls playing soccer and a ref who is 4 weeks away from her due date. That's probably all your going to get.

BIG, BIG, BIG, EXCITING NEWS!!!!! Eliza scored her first goal. Don't get me wrong she is very good at soccer she just needs a little encouragement when it comes to being aggressive. So I told her for every goal she scores I will pay her a dollar and that her grandma said she would match it. Sure enough GOAL!!! She doesn't like any attention weather it is good or bad so after the goal she just stood there and then turned around and said to me, "You owe me a dollar." Then she just ran back to position. I was so proud of her, far more excited than she was. Now Dallin on the other hand after he scored his second goal he ran around screaming, "YEEAAAHH!, YES that's 2 dollars, YEEAAAHH!" Everyone was laughing.

Dad is helping!!!

Here is what I just over heard.I am cleaning the kitchen so I asked Steve to help the kids pick up there room. This is what Eliza said to Steve,"You really don't know your way around my room, because mom knows where all this stuff goes and you just really don't."

I wonder in the year we have live here how many times he has done this???

Swear words & induction date is set

First and most important my due date is set. I am being induced on Aug 28th. YEAH!!!! Just about 5 days early not to bad. So we will finally get to meet him(we still don't have a name maybe we should have a vote) then. Let me know if you like Spencer or Luke better??

Also this is funny. Although truthfully I know most people don't care what my kids say but this makes jounaling easy for me. I blog about it and then just print off all the pages and put them in a book. So last night at dinner Dallin asks,"Mom and Dad is, a line verses money, a swear word?" He was saying it fast so we asked him to repeat it a couple of times. We just kept looking at him and each other like what are you talking about? Finally he says,"It's in my book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, hold on I'll go get it."
So he comes back with the book and is trying to find it finally he says see right hear, and he starts to read. "This isn't the first time Mom banned us from saying certain words in the house. A while back, Mom made a 'no swearing' rule, because Manny was saying words left and right.
@!=$ this was the word he showed us. Steve and I could not stop laughing.

Cute Kids

Dallin will no longer sleep in his room alone after seeing the "Thriller" video. Aren't they cute when they sleep.

On the way home from Church
The kids where playing a game, Eliza had lost her memory and Dallin was telling her what everything was; trees, dirt, fence, cars, ect, ect.. and then explaining to her what the use of those things where. Steve and I where having a good time listening to this conversation. It turned silly pretty quick. Eliza, "What is my name?" Dallin, "Uh, weird girl." Eliza's, "What is my middle name?" Dallin, "Stinky." She has taken this name on and they both think it is so funny to call her weird girl stinky. So as we get a little closer to home Eliza asks Dallin what you do when you get home from church? Dallin tells her, " You get to change out of your clothes. (then I think he had a light bulb moment) Yeah, you take off all your clothes and then you run out the front door, up and down the street while screaming really loud." I'm just glad she didn't do it.

I will never leave Dallin in charge as an older brother!!

Happy 4th

So a couple of days before the 4th we went to Sam's bought 20.oo$ worth of fireworks(or so we thought and came home to plan or 4th celebration. Later that afternoon Steve and Dallin opened the package of fireworks only to find all of them were poppers. Apparently all fireworks even sparklers are illegal in Flagstaff, and there city fireworks are fire safe fireworks so they hardly leave the ground. Thank goodness we had enough poppers to make the kids happy. While watching the Washington DC fireworks on TV we went up and shot the poppers off the loft. I got to throw the big huge one which Steve and I both thought was going to be similar to the other ones with streamers in them. But OH NO when I through it all of these little pieces of paper went fluttering all over our front room. The kids thought it was great and Steve and I just laughed in shock. Then we had a Roman Candle left over from UT and some dynamite that is water proof so we all snuck outside around the lake and lit it off. All along watching explosions under the water. Dallin was beyond getty with excitement of breaking the law he could hardly contain himself. On the run back home after we lit off the firework a couple was walking up on us (We could not see who they where it was to dark) all of a sudden Dallin throws his hands up in the air like it's the cops. As pathetic as the city celebration was we sure did have a good time.

I had to wait till these eventually fell down.