Monday, March 10, 2014

Everyday life & Tee Ball Opening Day

With the off and on rainy days we have been getting a lot of rollie pollies. The kids have been playing with the.
Payton had them crawling all over his hands. They are cute but I don't like the thought of them crawling on me. 
Payton had to do his first report for school. He did it on Cougars. He did a good job. I got to watch him in class show his report and talk about it. I was one very proud mom!
As a family we got my mom tickets to go see Donny and Marie. She has been wanting to do this for a very long time. She and my dad were able to go and they LOVED it. The smiles on their faces in these pictures shows it all!
Payton and Scarlett being goofy and playing in the garage.
Mckinley being silly with mommy!
Opening Day for tee ball! The kids were so excited! Payton and Scarlett are on the same team and Josh is one of the coaches. They are loving it!
Waiting for there turn to go out on the field.
Mckinley wishes she played!
The A's out on the field after being introduced. 
Having a little snack waiting for Josh to get his coaching picture taken.
Payton is #6
Scarlett going up to bat. She is #8
Scarlett giving coach Bobby at high 5 on first base
Mckinley thinks she should be playing. She loves to go into the dug out and get the helmets. She always puts them on backwards. She just cracks me up! They kids first game was a success. They are so fun to watch. I laugh quite often.

Friday, March 7, 2014

Scarlett turned 4

Scarlett's 4th Birthday! March 1st! The princess in our house turned 4 years old! Where has the time gone. She is growing so fast and becoming such a sweet little girl. 
We were able to spend her birthday up in Oroville with Josh's family because we got to attend Madalyn and Olivia's baptism. 
A few facts about Scarlett:
We call her Bum and Scar
She loves princesses mostly Rapunzel
She loves junk food
Her favorite colors are pink and purple
She is the sweetest most thoughtful little girl
She is also the most frustrating to deal with at times
She is VERY strong willed
She brings a lot of joy into out family
She is VERY smart for her age
She knows all the letter upper and lower case and she knows all the sounds they say
She can read any word that can be sound out (she has read a few level 1 BOB books)
She loves her hair down like her mom but hates getting it brushed
She loves her finger nails painted
She is a good eater and will try just about everything once
She loves to watch Barbie, Care Bears, and Leap Frog
She still loves wearing dresses and wears one just about every day
She can write her name 
She can count to 30 but misses 15 and 25 every everytime
She always picks Old McDonald for her song each night
She loves any and all games
She wants attention 24-7
She LOVES puzzles she can do 48 pieces without much help
She can hula hoop like no one else
She honestly can do anything if she wants to do it bad enough
(she's like her dad: she will do whatever it takes to learn how to do something and refuses any help from anyone else)
She is our princess. Yes she and I butt heads a lot, but I love her so much I wouldn't change a thing
Since we knew we would be in Oroville on her actually birthday we celebrated Thursday night. She loved opening her presents from Josh, Payton, Mckinley and I.
She got puzzles, a dress, a jewelry kit
A Sleeping Beauty dress, shoes, crown, purse, and gloves
A backpack with a barbie inside. Her big present was a new bike. Since she is an all star at riding a two wheeler we knew she needed a bigger bike.
Her face says it all! She was thrilled!!
Her pathetic cake was 5 hosted cupcakes with 4 candles on them.
She and Mckinley trying on her new gifts.
Friday night we headed to Madalyn and Olivia's birthday party at John's Incredible Pizza. The kids loved it!
The tine train ride
Bumper cars
Eating Ice cream
Playing games
Saturday (Scarlett's official birthday) She got to lick the bowl from the birthday cake we made for her. Mckinley loved in cousin Camden. This is a rare thing with her. She doesn't love many people. It takes her quite a while to get used to people. 
Opening presents with her cousins!
A happy birthday girl!
We celebrated cousin Bryce's 14th birthday. 
Scarlett and Ella being super cute in aunt Shannon's shoes. 
We came home Sunday night and Grandma with calvin came to visit for a few days.
Scarletts' birthday celebration continued as she opened presents from grandma.

Grandma of course spoiled her with a hat, a giant puzzle, and a scooter. She had been wanting a scooter with only two wheels for many weeks. So she was thrilled when she saw that grandma had gotten her one. 
 Grandma and Payton doing homework together. Payton was being silly and wearing grandma's glasses. 
Grandma is very brave! She lets Scarlett put her makeup on for her. It was rather interesting if you ask me, but Scarlett LOVED it. She was very proud of herself. She tells me all the time she does such a great job and Grandma says she's prefect at it. 
We loved having grandma at our house for a few days. She spoiled us all rotten.