Missing Teeth and 3 Cute Kids!

We had a pretty good weekend...we missed being able to go to the "Rex Family Camp". We hope they all had a GREAT time! Logan lost his two front teeth, I think he looks way cute with out them. The rest of the pictures are of our cute kids!

Logan's Missing Teeth!


Cute Kody!


Lucie Hiding


Lucie being found!

Tag

I've Been Tagged!

Four places I go over and over
~My Mom's
~The Church
~The Library
~The (FREE) Movie

Four People who e-mail me (us) regularly
~Jared's Grandma Rex
~Jared's Mom & Dad
~People from church
~JUNK MAIL (yuck!)

Four places I would rather be right now
I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be right now...I guess anywhere Jared is!

Four People I talk to on a Regular basis
~Jared
~My Mom
~My sister Carrie
~My sister Hanna

Four favorite places to eat
~Macaroni Grill
~Cafe Rio
~Tropical Smoothy Cafe
~Panera Bread

Four Shows I would Watch over and over
~LOST
~King of Queens
~Friends
~According to Jim

Four People I tag
~Brittany
~Carrie
~Desi
~Anyone who wants to!

What Disney Princess Are You?

You Are Cinderella!

Dignified and hard working. With a gentle and soft-spoken manner you have something many people don't. Patience. Even through the moments of heartbreak you're still able to hold onto all of your hopes and dreams. Bide your time; your dream will come true.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

No Good, Horrible, VERY Bad Weekend

What is that a picture of you ask? That is a close up of this...our sliding glass door.



It was just one of those weekends, I'm sure you have all had them, or days when you wished the whole weekend/day would just end...that you could just fast forward over that little part of your life until the bad part was over. That was this weekend. When I was little, my mom would read us this story called "Alexander's, No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day" It's about this boy that just couldn't win, his brother took the toy from the cereal box, the store didn't have the cool shoes that he wanted and so on. Let's just say I wish that was the extent of my No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Weekend, but mine was worse. I won't go into all the details but let's just say the broken door was probably the least worst thing that happened!

The story...Logan and Kody were taking screws out of some electrical stuff for Jared. Logan wasn't giving Kody the screw driver that Kody wanted, I could tell Kody was starting to turn into Frankin-Kody, so I reminded him that he need to chill our or a time out would be in his very near future. That's all it took. He look at Logan...screamed his HIGH pitched squeal (he can out screech any girl) and threw a drill bit at Logan, Logan laughed and ducked out of the way of the drill bit. The bit hit the lower right corner of our sliding glass door and instantly I heard it starting to crack...it just kept spidering until the glass pane was completely covered in tiny little cracks.

Please some one explain this to me...that door has been hit with so many things, baseballs, sticks, baseball bats, and our big chocolate lab constantly jumps up against it, how could one tiny drill bit do SO much damage?

After a VERY long time out, Kody came to apologize to Logan. After saying he was sorry for throwing the drill bit, he looked at Logan and said, "Logan you should be more careful. If you wouldn't make me mad that drill driver (drill bit) would not have had to hit mom's door." Maybe someday that will be funny! :)

I am trying REALLY hard to see any good part of this weekend so here it goes, Our door is doubled paned, only one pane was broken, so we still have glass shielding us from the 108 degree temps. outside (I can't even imagine what our power bill would have been like if we would have had to run the air conditioner with out ANY glass in the door. And Jared has a friend that is part owner of a glass store...he's coming over tonight to give us an estimate...

Summer FUN!

Every summer I try to find fun, cheap things for my family to do. I always have grand plans at the beginning of the summer that tend to get pushed aside by the many other summer activities that pop our way. While we always have fun, at the end of the summer I am left looking back wishing I had done more. This summer I decided that I was going to make a plan and stick to it (as much as I could with 3 little kids). I know it has only been a few weeks but so far, so good! This summer we have tried a few new things that I wished I would have tried a long time ago! Here are a few!
1. FREE Family Festival: We have done this every summer since we have moved here, Regal Cinemas opens a little early and shows two (already out of the theater) family friendly movies every week. My kids LOVE this! and so do I because it's FREE! HERE is a link to their website...just type in your zip code to see if there is a participateing theater near you!
2. Public Library: I know...I sound like a really bad mom, I have been putting off taking my kids to the library until they were "older". I finally got brave enough about 6 weeks ago...oh how I wish I would have taken them sooner! It has been so much fun! We have checked out books on lighting, earthworms, snakes, lizards, the list could go on forever!!! Our library has a Summer Reading Program, you win prizes and other fun things, even Lucie can sign up, she LOVES handing in her tickets and getting prizes just like her brothers! Also, did you know that you can check out movies from the library? Logan and Kody LOVE going every week and picking out new movies.
3. School: Don't laugh, every afternoon we have been doing "school". Logan and Kody have LOVED doing "school". If I am running late one or both of them will ask me if it is time for school. They even have started calling me teacher (while laughing) and raising their hands to ask questions. It is SO cute! They are so proud of their work and can't wait to show their Dad all their hard work when he gets home from work!

I hope that these help someone...also, if you guys have any other summer fun activities I would love to hear them!

Chicken Noodle Salad

My sister in-law Heidi asked me for this recipe and I thought...mmmm, that's sounds good! I haven't made that in a long time, and it's a great summer salad! So I thought I'd share with all of you (since I know there are SO many of you reading this!:))So next time I go grocery shopping I am going to buy all the stuff to make it! Thanks Heidi! Sorry no picture, but believe me when I say it's delicious!

Chicken Noodle Salad
3 cups cooked chicken, diced
1 small head cabbage, chopped
2 pkgs Top Ramen Noodles (uncooked)
4 green onions, chopped
2 Top Ramen chicken flavor packets
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 Tbsp vinegar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 cup slivered almonds (optional)
2 Tbsp sesame seeds (optional)
In a large bowl mix the first 4 ingredients (Break up the uncooked noodles into small pieces). Stir oil, vinegar, seasonings, and both flavor packets. Pour over chicken mixture and refrigerate overnight in airtight container. Before serving sprinkle almonds and sesames seeds on top! Enjoy!

Once I make this I will try and post a picture! ENJOY!

Logan's Kindergarten Graduation

Today Logan gratuated from kindergarten! I can't believe it! This year went by way too fast! Logan was very excited for today, he kept asking me who all was coming...we weren't sure if Jared was going to make it...you should have seen Logan's face when he saw Jared there! The multi-purpose room was kind of dark, the only lights on were pointed at the kids on the stage so our picutres didn't turn out very good, there was a ton of people there, so that also made it hard to get a good picture. There were 4 kindergarten classes (each with 25 to 30 kids) that sang songs. Each of the kids got to tell what their favortie part of kindergarten was, Logan said "What I liked about Kinderagrten was learning, playing outside, and play with the toys". He did such a good job! He didn't act nervous or anything! He stood very still, said his part and then passed the microphone on to the next kid! He has grown so much this year! We love you Logan and are so proud of you!

Below are some pictures of Logan's special day! Grandma MacKay brought over some ice cream left over from her ward's Enrichment night so we got to have a little celebration after graduation! Thanks Grandma!

Logan's Kindergarten Graduation

Kody's Preschool Party!

Ella's Blessing

On Sunday we went with my parents up to my sister's house in Cedar City to her daughter's baby blessing. This was the first time we (Jared and the kids and I) got to see her! (Ella is my first niece or nephew on my side of the family!) Oh, she was so cute! Logan and Kody were SO excited to see their new cousin! Logan has been telling me since she was born "Ella misses me and wants me to come hold her!" I was a little worried about how Lucie would react to her since she has never been around a baby before. The first time I held Ella Lucie came right up to me and wanted me to hold her too, I thought that she was jealous, but no, she just wanted to see her! I was SO surprised by how gentle Lucie was with her, she kept hugging Ella, no squeezing or anything! At one point Ella spit her binky out and Lucie reach over and grab it, I thought "Uh Oh, Lucie is going to try sucking on it!" (we recently took Lucie's binky away) but she instead tried putting it back in Ella's mouth. It was so cute!

Congratulations Hanna and Forrest!