Dancing girl

Our little dancing girl. Abbey is loving her new ballet class and I love how her teacher turns everything into a game, she is so creative. I think the little girls just think they are dressing up and playing the whole time it's great!!!

And here she is all scraggly and cute! I wish I could remember what she said when she put on her daddy's shoes that morning but it is eluding me. Sometimes she is sooo funny. One day in the car Tim asked her a question and she yelled out BIIIINGOOOO instead of saying yes.

Move over Harley Davidson

Our cute little motoring guy. I think he will get bigger some day, at least I hope so! Last year he couldn't even peddle this thing and just scooted about on it and this year he is peddling all the way up the hill! There is hope for him.

Sleepy Cousins

Jo and Tony and kids came down and went to dinner with us for my B-day oh forever ago but hey if you hadn't noticed I've been missing on blogger. So anyway this is a picture of the boys hanging out watching some boy thing. They look half asleep because they probably are, when the Schleichs and Jenkins get together we don't shut-up until VERY late. And all that paper.....evidence of McKenna and Abbey playing together, they both love to draw and create things out of paper, McKenna gets giddy to come to our house with all my paper stash. I wish I could draw half as well as her or Abbey.

Sleep tight

The other night Tim went to do the nightly check to see if Porter was in his bed or in Tucker's bed. And as happens oh about 75% of the time he was with Tucker. We have to move him cuz he sleeps like a Jason oh I mean maniac. But Tim said bring the camera they look so cute and snugly. Well poor Porter got scared to death with my pre-flash and woke up. So this picture didn't turn out quite as cute and snugly.

Another tooth story

This is tooth number 3 for miss Abbey and the strange thing is it's on the bottom, I always thought the middle bottom and then the middle top went first. Oh well she is changing it up a bit. Ever since she lost number 2 anytime a tooth is remotely loose she wants to do the door trick. She finally got her wish with this one.

Basket ball

I think he is supposed to be making a shot in this picture ;)

Tucker started a basket ball skills class this last month and has just loved it!!! He thinks he is sooo cool in his Jazz jersey and BB shorts along with his new BB shoes. So with his head as big as it is I didn't tell him how much he rocked the 5 minutes I watched when I picked him up. Now don't get me wrong I told him he did great and was very good but I toned it down a bit so that we would be able to fit his cute little head into the car to drive home :)

The coach was doing drill where he had them line up in 2 lines under the basket and then he threw the ball out and the first 2 would run after it. The one who got it had to dribble back and shoot while the other played defense. Well my little guy got it 3 times and made the shot, I was in shock, I had no idea he could do that. Then the other time just as the kid was shooting he totally (yes I just said totally) jumped up and knocked it out of his hands. It was awesome and obviously not the norm because Tucker was soooo excited after words and kept asking " mom did you see that" I love it when they get all excited like that.

What I don't love however is when they take the stone that has fallen off the side of the house and use it to smash taco sauce all over the porch :) Yes he had a good day at BB but the kid is not perfect!!!

Should you really smile this much....

the day you have surgery? You'd think this kid was at Disneyland with all the smiles he gave all day!

HE was so excited to get to play with SPIKE the dinosaur!!! of course now he asks daily if we can buy him NOT!!!! that thing is tooo much money for a little guy's toy.

look closely and you can see him licking at the flavoring. They let him smell some samples and pick which one he wanted, when he smelled rootbeer he said pop i want pop. the lady thought it was so funny, he's just a smart kid, and my kid!

Does this look like someone who just came out of anesthesia?

of course he was only under for a very short time but still.

A Day Out (outside that is)

Porter needed a walking stick after he saw Abbey with one.

I had so much fun playing with my camera, I need to take a class :)

Some good looking guy I found to take photos of

Tucker and Porter looking at the pretzels they apparently were sharing with nature. 

And here is my favorite photo of the day, it just turned out PERFECT if I do say so myself.

doesn't she look cute in that hat, I made it to match her coat

oh I like how this picture turned out too, although I wish you could see him holding my hand a bit more, the white jacket doesn't help in that area.

Porter moping as he was denied access to that lovely puddle. I wish I had caught his face as he saw it and approached it while looking at his dad to make sure he wasn't being seen. 

So tired after all that walking and shoulder riding.

Mr. Imagination

Porter has such an imagination these days he's not even himself!!! just yesterday he was so many different people/animals here's a rundown.

• snake
• bug
• Scooter (from Fly me to the moon)
• Dash (from Incredibles)
• Wall-E & apparently I was EEEEEvvvaaa
• Chicken Little
• Mr. Incredible
• Little foot (oh the whole family has names to go with this one!!!)

I know I'm forgetting some if you can believe it. It sounds cute, and well it really is but.... when I say "please go get your shoes" he looks at me and says "say  Chicken Little please go get your shoes" and of course he can't move until you've said it. this goes with saying thank you or love you or what ever.  And frankly I have a hard enough time calling him Porter and not Tucker or Abbey and I'm supposed to remember what other name he has  :)     and I don't even know who I am anymore...Am I Eva or Mama longneck? I think right now I'm actually Julie since they are all in bed!!!

Ice cream and strawberries **EDITED****

HMMMMM

 ****EDIT*****

The ice cream maker is a cuisinart. it is sooo simple, you just freeze the container and put it on the machine and you have ice cream in 25-30 minutes!!!********

We went to our friends for their son becoming a deacon. They have recently moved here from South Africa and well lets just say the ice cream there is not made of cream. Are you ready?? It is made from vegetable oil. YES you read that right. DISGUSTING. She said that after about 2 bites you would get this awful film on the roof of your mouth. So.... I decided to take home made ice cream. okay it was really Tim's idea. I had bought the berries and cream to make short cake for V-day and when he saw it in the fridge he said oh we're taking ice cream on Sunday? 

Here are some pictures to make your mouth water. 

With quite a few people there from S.A. it was gone in no time flat, and now I want more!! but I lent out the maker to our bishop and his wife who are thinking about buying one.

and thanks Jas and Dani for providing the hardware to make it happen.

I had a brilliant idea while slicing the berries... well I thought so, use my egg slicer!!! it was so fast and easy. don't know why I never thought of it before. My mom taught me to just add some brown sugar to the berries and they make their own syrup after sitting, it's soooo good. SPRING where are you???? of course we haven't gotten any of the snow this time so I can't complain.

Spill

did you know that if you drop sour cream this can happen?

Abbey thought I was pretty silly for taking this picture, I guess it is, but did you get a good laugh? I was just glad the tub landed up and not DOWN!!!

And here are some random pictures. Just playing around with the new camera.

11 and counting

Well I never did a cheesy anniversay post and guess what I'm not doing one now either =) I will however show you the REALLY cute shoes that we bought after dinner on our night out together. We went to McGrath's which we had never been and it was really good. Thanks to great friends who volunteered to watch the kiddies (newly potty trianed kid and all, he was dry when we got back 4 hours later, wahoo, only day 3 too)



Oh and I bought myself a new clock (LOVE Rod Works.) The one we had up here was  a wedding gift, don't get me wrong it was still nice but I was just ready for something new and updated. I've been doing a little too much retail therapy must stop!!!