Wellness Event

On Thursday night, our insurance hosted a wellness event to encourage a healthier lifestyle for families. I thought it sounded fun, so we went.

Things started off with a presentation. During the presentation, some kids won “prizes.” Here is Makenna with her prize—broccoli!!!

Max was actually JEALOUS that he didn’t win the broccoli (can I add that neither of them will actually even eat vegetables?), so we let him take a picture with it as well:

Afterwards, there were a lot of activities put on by our insurance and Radio Disney. Right off the bat, Makenna got picked to come on stage and participate in a game! It was a relay race to see which team got the most fruits and veggies for their team.

Her team won! She won a Monster’s University tshirt!

Well by this point poor little Max was pretty sad that Makenna kept being chosen to win prizes, so we took him over and let him spin a wheel and answer a question.

He was so excited when he won a jump rope!

He didn’t even care that Makenna won a jump rope too. : )

Next they got to go and color pictures.

Baby Myles didn’t really care…

Then the kids went and got tattoos (only we told them they were stickers because we don’t get tattoos!):

For the rest of the time we watched the games on stage and the kids danced to the music they had playing. They were so cute out there dancing! I loved watching them—they were not shy at all!

We left a little unhappy, however. Max REALLY wanted to get picked to go on stage to compete in one of the games, but they kept over looking him and picking other people! Well then people from the community kept coming in (it was held at the community center, but it was supposed to be for our insurance members only and we had to register to attend and sign in when we got there and everything) and THOSE kids kept being picked to play in the games. Seriously, these kids were wearing athletic clothes or swimsuits and didn’t even have parents with them, how did they not realize they weren’t supposed to be there?!? So poor Max NEVER got chosen and was upset. And then I got so irritated and frustrated by it that we left and then Makenna was sad because we left. So it was a fun evening, but the way it ended put a damper on it for all of us! : (

Birthday Party to the Farm

On Thursday, we went to a birthday party at the farm. I thought that was just a genius idea to have a party there! We started off by playing on the new playground there, and then we all gathered under the pavilion for yummy cupcakes and presents for the birthday girl.

The kiddos with some friends:

Then the rest of the party we walked around and looked at the animals and spent time with friends.

When I first saw this next picture, I didn’t even recognize that it was Max! Doesn’t he look so big and grown up?!?

Do you know what I noticed as I was looking through these pictures? Makenna and Max are ALWAYS together, haha. It makes for easy pictures of both of them! : )

My sweet little baby got tired so I put him in his stroller to attempt a nap. Instead he propped his feet up and chewed on his blanket. : ) I loved his adorable little propped up toes!

It was such a fun day! Not only did we get to celebrate a cute little girl’s birthday, but we also had a fun outing to the farm!

Summer Fun Week #8

Well now that we have access to a car again, we are out and about several times during the week. And then we get home and the kids still want to do their fun summer activity. I’m not going to lie; it is just way too hard on me to take them places AND do a lot of planned activities at home PLUS all my normal at-home chores. I have SO much to do still to get ready for preschool, so I just do not have a lot of time! So I decided that for the rest of the summer, for the most part, we are going to be done with our planned activities at home. We will still do our Make a Treat Monday because we need a FHE treat. We will also continue Trip to the Beach Tuesday. And if we don’t have anything going on, we will also do our Who’s Up for Crafts? Wednesday. But other than that, I think we are about done with planned activities at home!

On that note, here’s what we actually did this week:

On Monday we wrote letters to the kids’ new pen pals. We are doing a pen pal group with a group on Facebook. Makenna is now pen pals with a little girl named Shelby from Oregon (who is also 5) and Max is pen pals with a little boy from Utah also named Max (and also 4). They are so excited to get to know new friends AND get mail. : ) I thought their first letters to their pen pals were too cute!

Max can’t really write yet, so I wrote what he dictated:

Love them! Makenna has already received a letter back from her pen pal and she can’t stop talking about her new friend!

This week for our FHE treat, I got to use my Christmas present I got from my parents when we visited last week—an ice cream maker!

This sucker is awesome! The ice cream tastes just like the usual homemade ice cream, but it is SO easy to make! You just freeze the bowl and then the ice cream is made in less than 20 minutes—no ice and no salt and no loud noises. And delicious!

You have got to get one of these!!! : )

On Tuesday we went to the beach but it was so, so, so cold!!! The sun was shining and it was a nice day, but when we got there it was only 61 degrees! So out by the water and with the wind blowing, we were freezing! The kids couldn’t get in the water, so they just played in the sand.

Well even THAT was too cold. So after just about 15 minutes, we decided no more beach! So instead we went back to our house with some of our friends and had a picnic in the school room and had a play date! So much fun AND the baby got to take a nap in his bed AND I didn’t have to constantly watch the kids, haha. It was a really fun day!

On Wednesday, we were staying home all day and the kids wanted to do a craft, so we got out the dot paints.

Max’s paintings:

Makenna’s paintings:

This is a self-portrait:

She painted me:

She also made a butterfly and flowers:

On Thursday morning we went to a friend’s birthday party at the farm and then Thursday evening we went to a Wellness event sponsored by our insurance. On Saturday we went to a cool car parade/show. But we took so many pictures at each of those I will do a separate post on them! : )

On Friday I went out to check the mail and saw a package on our doorstep. It was from Amazon and had my name and address on it, but there was no return address. So I opened it up and there was a set of Lincoln Logs in it! Now I have been looking at Lincoln Logs on Amazon for a while. I need to buy them for preschool, but I just never have bought them. So I was so excited to get them! But… I didn’t order them! So I asked Austin… and he didn’t buy them either! There wasn’t an invoice or anything in the box. So we have no idea where these came from! But we were THRILLED to not have to buy them ourselves, haha. So on Friday we spent our afternoon building houses with Lincoln Logs! : )

This morning (Sunday) I got up and went to the bathroom and when I came back, I found this in my bed!… : )

A little while later I nursed the baby and he started throwing up. He threw up over and over again. Austin gave him a bath and then he threw up again. So we decided I would stay home from church with him. Well Austin took the big kids to church. He and Max looked like little twins so I just had to take their picture!

The poor sick baby is still such a cute, happy little guy. Who smiles and acts happy when they are sick?!?

This cute guy! Feel better Baby Myles!

It was a really fun, full, and busy week!

Other pictures from this week:

The kids thought it would be fun to “lock” me and the baby in “jail” one day. They made us stay there until Austin came home from work!

Hair this week:

For some reason, I just wasn’t feeling up to doing hair this week! So we don’t have much to show…

I braided the top of her hair, did a pony tail. and then did some twists.

I’m not positive what I even did here. I did like two lace braids and then braided them together? Haha, I don’t actually know!

Some topsy turveys:

I put her hair half up and then used that hair to do a lace braid on each side and then did a Dutch French braid underneath and then braided it all together.

A side fishtail braid:

Two French braids twisted up: