More Random Pictures

Remz playing outside on the swing set. He is such a monkey-- he has figured out how to climb this ladder and go down the slide all on his own. I think we will be having a broken limb of some sorts soon. He is so crazy!

Kaedynn at dance class. She LOVES her Caroline teacher... they get along so good. She told me that she wanted to go back to dance class as long as it was Caroline as the teacher.

Here are a few pictures:

Daddy playing with the kids. He is such a good dad and the kids LOVE it when he plays with them. They all get to roughhouse without getting in trouble.

Remz in his art class at the daycare.. lol apparently they had body art instead of on the paper. I love that he just sits there-- he loves to be around kids. As long as other kids are around, he generally never cries. He is such a good kid-o!

Kaedynn's 7th Birthday!!

My BABY girl is now 7 years old!! I can not believe it... where oh where has the time gone. She is such a great person and I love watching her become so independent.

A few facts about Kaedynn at her age:
-She loves to play with her brother (for a little while, then she is off to somewhere else, without him)
-She loves to READ!
-She always is willing to help me with anything I ask.
-She loves to do her chores (for her monthly allowance, which is currently $20 per month)
-Any time she has money... she is begging to go to the store to spend it.. she can NOT save!
-She loves to always be playing with her friends... she freaks out if i tell her she can not play for the night.
-She is a PACK RAT! She will stuff anything and everything in bags and hang them in her room to get more toys to stay upstairs with her. Her bed is typically covered from one end to the other with JUNK! Stuffed animals, toys, blankets, baby doll accessories, pillows (she has about 10 of them) --really anything she can find. Me and Riley are always amazed at the items we find when cleaning out her room. Nothing seems to surprise us anymore :)
-She loves to play computer games
-She loves to color; but not from a coloring book, it has to be printed pictures that she finds on the internet to color
-She loves to go camping (as long as there are other friends/kids there)
-She always says she "doesn't like school" but deep down she is very excited when I pick her up and always in a good mood... i think she just hears other people say they don't like it, so she thinks it is cool to say that.
-She does great on her spelling of words. (always 100% on her school spelling tests)
-She just recently started dance class again, and LOVES it... she asks to go more days a week then once.
-She hates flossing her teeth daily, but I enforce it due to her having 4 cavities on 1 dentist trip :(


Well, enough about the facts, here are the party pictures for her birthday parties this year.

Chuck-E-Cheese for her friends party. She went here a few years back, and hated Chuck E and was scared to do anything ... she has definitely advanced, she was up there shaking it to the song, and enjoyed being the spotlight there. The party was pretty fun and all of the kids enjoyed it. Here are a few of the pictures from the kid party:

Kaedynn in the "Ticket Blaster" -- she talked about this forever and was so excited to get to do it on her birthday!

Kaedynn's Party guests:
Chuck E. Kaedynn, Kota, Andrea, Katie, Paityn

Kaedynn with Chuck-E-Cheese

Kaedynn up dancing at the front of the room while everyone was singing Happy Birthday!!

Remzley looking at her cool Birthday balloon from Chuck E Cheese. He is quite fond of the balloon and likes to talk/kiss it :)

Here is Kaedynn's new birthday present from Mom and Dad. She has been asking for a pet for quite some time now... she wanted either a guinea pig or a hamster (i think from the movie G-force, but i could be wrong) -- but Riley and I wanted something different then those, as they are stinky, and run away fast from you if you get them out. So.... we thought on it for days and Riley finally thought of a Hedgehog-- so i got researching online about them and found a baby one for sale on KSL, so we bought it for her. We went and looked at the baby hedgehogs when they were just 2 weeks old, and we were able to take it home on her birthday, which made it 6 weeks old. She choose to get a girl Hedgie and she named her Sparkles.

Here are some of the pics:

Next up, Kaedynn's Family parties. We had her family party in the backyard at our house on Sunday with both sides of the family. She is all about getting money so that she can spend it on whatever she wants to at the store... she has a little shopping addiction.

Here is her Birthday cake:

Kota, Kaedynn, Crew, Sydnee, and Mati all helping and watching Kaedynn open her birthday presents/cards. Such helpful cousins :)

Kaedynn and Riley with the birthday cake before we took it outside.

Kaedynn with her birthday cake:

Me and Riley dishing up the cake and ice cream.

She had a very successful birthday and ended up with $90 cash and quite a few actual presents between her 2 birthday parties. I love her very much and am so proud of her!!

Our New Ranger

We got a new Ranger!! So exciting.

Here is our old one that we sold:

Here is the new upgraded one. We bought brand new it is the 2012 model. It rides like a dream, and is so much smoother then the last one.

Kaedynn's 1st day of First Grade!

My beautiful girly on her 1st day of school. Her 1st grade teacher is brand new to the school this year, her name is Mrs. Watters.  She seems to be very nice and has like 23 or 24 years of 1st grade teaching experience. So that is reassuring that she knows what she is doing.

Utah County Demolition Derby 2011

Here are a few pictures from the Utah County Demolition Derby -- we go every year, and it is so much fun. The kids always are asking when we get to go again. Always a good time, and is very interesting to people watch :)

Kaedynn and Kota

Braxten and Remz

Me and baby boy

Fish Lake in June 2011

This year we went down to Fish Lake for 4 days. It was excellent weather, but the mosquitos were AWFUL... literally every time you went out side 30 of them were on you... they were everywhere. The weather was really really nice, usually it rains every day when we go down there; however this time, there was no rain, it was sunny and mid 70's everyday... we defiantly packed for the wrong season.

Kaedynn setting up her new shooting target that dad bought for her.

As you can see, Remz has ALOT of fun playing in the dirt. This did not even bother him that he had dirt scattered everywhere.

Remz pulling his wagon along. Too cute.

Kaedynn and Maeson shooting her gun.

Morgan, Kaedynn and Remz going for a ride in Morgan's cute little mini pink razor. Remz didn't want to get out of it.

Kaedynn and Riley shooting her BB gun. I am actually quite surprised at how good she can aim and that she can hit her target from far away. Way to go sis!!

The Fish Lake Gun Club.. haha

A few more Random Pics of the Kids

Here are the kids on the four-wheeler at Strawberry... Kaedynn is such a good big sister-- she totes him around anytime he wants.

Here is my monkey man that thinks he always needs to be pushing all sorts of buttons and levers in vehicles. (Especially daddy's trucks) Any time a car door is open.. he books it to the car to get in before it gets closed.

Of course while he is in there playing, he tries on all of dads glasses that are laying around in the work truck.. lol

Remz riding on his FAVORITE trike.   Whenever we go to grandpas house him and Dalton fight over the bikes... Grandpa has since added more to his collection, and this one now comes home with us.

Remz driving Gramps truck.   He thinks he is king-kong in this thing.   When i tried to get him out, he would run from side to side to get away from me, so he could stay in there.

Kaedynn driving the old orange truck!

Remz outside swinging on the swing-set. He loves swinging as long as someone is always out there pushing him constantly.

Kaedynn out playing in her pool with all of her neighborhood friends. Always a summer time favorite.

Remz playing in his stroller... me and Kaedynn walked out to the garage and found him hanging out in here.. silly silly boy!

Remz and cousin Kota with Kota's new birthday present.. Humphrey!

Kaedynn and Remz playing on the toys at SubZero ice cream... best ice cream ever!!

Kaedynn and Remz playing at the park together. She is so funny.. she always begs to go to the park, then when we go she plays for about 10 minutes and then asks if we can go home.. typical drama girl i guess.