Blogging Slacker…

I was looking at our blog today, and I realized that it had been two weeks since I had last blogged.  It’s not that we haven’t had anything going on, it’s just that I haven’t been taking pictures!  Get it together, Mom! : )

Okay, let’s see.  Since I’ve blogged last, Makenna made the treats for FHE and did SUCH a good job and had so much fun!  I really should let her help out in the kitchen more; she loves it!

Unfortunately I didn’t snap a picture of the finished product but they were cookies shaped like little hamburgers (including coconut “lettuce” and “ketchup and mustard” gel) and they were delicious!  Makenna should ALWAYS be in charge of treats!

Let’s see, what else…  Max had his one year check up and is right on track.  He is, however, a shorty—he is only in the 20th percentile for height!  So we have Makenna who was in the 97th and now Max who is only in the 20th…  Go figure!

We’ve been able to see a couple of movies in the theater with the kids—The new Shrek movie as well as Toy Story 3.  The kids and I joined some friends for Shrek and then Austin and I took just Makenna to Toy Story 3.  They only made it about an hour into Shrek (we ran out of popcorn so Max was DONE), but we watched all of Toy Story and loved it!  We also loved to get to take Makenna on a little “date.”  It’s nice to be able to spend a little Makenna/Mommy & Daddy time without her having to compete for attention with little man.

We also had Max’s one year pictures taken, as well as some fun family pictures.  We will be posting those in the next few weeks as they come in.

We’ve played LOTS AND LOTS with friends (both at our house and at theirs), swam in our little kid pool, played at the library, so on and so on.

We currently have Austin at home with us.  They have their “Boards Break” right now (it is a time set aside for them to study for their upcoming Boards) so he is home quite a bit and we LOVE it!

Hmm, oh Austin and I have had the opportunity to go on TWO dates in the last two weeks!  Amazing isn’t it?  The week before last we went to a movie preview with some friends and then Friday we went to Dave and Buster’s for dinner and to play.  Ah-mazing place!  Seriously, it was a blast!  It looks like we will be getting to go out quite a bit from now on—not only have I “made friends” with some young women in our ward, but we have also started up a little babysitting “co-op” with some friends of ours.  We will be taking turns watching each others kids. We have a 6 month old, 12 month old, 18 month old, 2 year old, and a 2 1/2 year old in the group.  So it’s a handful to watch that many kids who are that young, but it is also fun for the kids to get to play together and nice for us because then we get to go out and their parents watch OUR kids (we just take turns every week—so we watch the kids one week and then get two weeks of dates)! : )

Okay, last thing I’ve got—the other day Makenna was playing dress up and Max got in on the action.  He sat down at his little piano and I glanced over and I could have sworn it was Elton John! ; )  (Sorry for the blurry pictures—I snapped these fast on my phone!)

It’s hard to really see, but he has on a pink and a blue lei, is eating a pearl bracelet, and is holding a Sheriff’s badge.  Seriously, if he had the sunglasses, he would have been a dead ringer for old Elton!  Ha ha, should we be worried? : D