I love it!

I love it when kids are learning to speak and they make silly little mistakes in their English. The other day McKenzie looked up in my closet and wanted to know why her clothes were in my closet. I asked her, "What clothes are in there?" and she responds, "Well, it's not clothes...it's just one cloe" So, cloe is one piece of clothing and clothes are two? I was laughing so hard it was hard to try and explain that cloe isn't a word for one article of clothing.

Then this morning I was listening to the kids play in the next room. McKenzie (again) says, "Ladies and Gentlemen...Boys and Girls...Welcome to the flableelus tunnel!" And she kept saying "flableelus" all day long! It was so cute, I couldn't correct her. When I asked her where she learned that word, she said she had heard it from Brayden, of course. I must have missed that part of the conversation.

Anyway, hope everyone has a "flableelus" day!

Messy Buns

OK, so I am on this new shift at work which keeps me there until 1 in the morning. Basically, that means that I have TONS of time to sit and do nothing on the internet. For the past couple of days I have been looking at various hair blogs (thanks Augustina!) and getting some really cute, simple ideas to do McKenzie's hair. Today, I decided to just be quick and put two little messy buns in her hair. We looked in the mirror and I commented on how cute she was...

Well, McKenzie was having none of that. She promptly burst into tears and hid behind a towel on the floor! She kept saying that she didn't want to be cute, that she wanted to be pretty! I was actually kind of hurt, because it was so quick and easy and looked so darn cute. Why do girls have to be so picky?!

Happy Mother's Day!!!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms. I wish that I could call you all and tell you, but unfortunately I have to work. Just know that I am thinking of you and hope you have a wonderful day!

Playing Catch-Up.

So, we still can't find the camera, but I have LOTS of pictures on my phone! So we're going to play catch up. Here are some of the things that we did in March and April....


To start with, Mason and I went to Disneyland for our birthdays. That's right - just us without the kids! It was nice being able to go on the "big" rides and not have to worry about the kids fighting over what we were going to do next. While we were there, we got our annual passes and put them on the new payment plan for socal residents. How cool is it that you can go to Disneyland all year long for only $20 per month for four people?! Anyway, Brayden and McKenzie stayed with our friends, and this is what they looked like on the way home:

After Disneyland, we all had a minivacation. We went to Las Vegas for a business trade show and had some fun while we were there. On our way, we visited a ghost town. In Vegas, we went swimming in the lazy river pool, played on the playground, saw the lions at the MGM grand, went to the m&m store, and to the Ethel M Chocolate Factory.

Then for McKenzie's birthday, we took her to Disneyland and let her do whatever she wanted. Most of those pictures are on a disposable camera that our friends the Coromandel's bought for us, so I'm going to get them developed soon. However, she wanted to dress up as Aurora so I do have a picture here...it's a little grainy. We let McKenzie pick all of our rides and activities for the day and we had a blast. For dinner, we ate at Ariel's Grotto with the princesses. We met Cinderella, Ariel, Aurora, and Snow White. They placed us at the first table, so they all came and told McKenzie happy birthday before they saw anyone else! It was super expensive, so it will probably only happen once or twice in a lifetime, but the food was fabulous and our little princess had a 3rd birthday to remember (we hope).

OK. Now onto Easter. My Dad, Corinne, Amber and Mindy all came down from Northern CA to visit. We haven't seen them since the previous summer, so we were really excited! We went to Belmont Park and had a nice Easter Dinner. Even my Grandpa and his wife, Alice, came to join in the fun!

After that we are now back to a normal schedule (if you can call it that) or soccer, t-ball and just plain life. We recently refinished our kitchen table, which Mason did a great job on for it being his first time.

And last, but not least, we have a family of opossum's at my work. There are four babies and Mom. They come out at night and take over our station cat's (Gary's) home. Here's the best pic that I could get of two of them the other night: