4H Car Wash - today in town - good cause

So McKenna is in 4H and today at Auto Zone by Panda Express they are having a CAR WASH to raise money. McKenna has been down there since 10:30am and they will be doing it until 6pm this evening. So if you need your car washed and feel like helping a good cause head down to Auto Zone. :o)

I promised McKenna I would tell as many of my friends as I could. :o) I love blogging!

Catch up post on Sunday Feb. 15, 2009

Shamrock Farms Fieldtrip...

A couple of weeks ago I got to take 6 hours off of work one day and go with Calvin & the 1st graders to Shamrock Farms which is about 15 minutes from here. Calvin loved riding for the fourth time on a school bus. They have it all set up for tours and it is really neat! We rode a tram all around the dairy went in the observation room to see them milking 200 cows at once and feel the metal tubes of the warm milk and then the cold milk as they cool it within 5 seconds and keep it 34 degrees or less. We learned that this female farm only allows cows who are 2 years old and have had at least one calf to produce milk. We saw all of the pregnant cows who were kept separate. We saw the cows that just had babies also kept separate and then we saw the babies. The boys are shipped off and although there are over 10,000 cows on the farm only 90 of them are bulls! By the way we didn't see them and they were kept far away from all of the girls. The only smelly place where where they put all of the manure to turn into compose/fertilizer. It was the cleanest and best smelling farm I've ever seen! We even got to see where the organic cows live out in the pasture. They had a cute playground for the kids to play at...all sorts of cute stuff....bottles of sour cream punching bags, cottage cheese slides, bottle of milk that was stairs to some other slides, a milk truck, an ice cream maze and of course a milk simulator & cows you could climb up on and ride. After we trammed around the farm, played on the equipment, named & fed a baby cow we went to the big red barn where Roxy the Cow was showering but we sat and ate lunch and the farm provided us all chocolate milk and then ice cream sandwiches or ice cream Popsicles for dessert. YUMMY! I had a blast and so did the first graders!

Calvin & classmates driving the milk truck.

I wasn't mad....

This is what you get when you take your own picture!

See how close the tram took us to the cows.
Mrs. Jenkins right in front of the milk truck she is a great teacher!

Isn't this a cool playground?

Cute Calvin on the tram up close

Calvin & his girlfriends Maritza & Ariana

He LOVES Maritza loves her :o) He tells us that he thinks she is the one that he will marry because they have so many things in common...this kid is 6 what is he thinking? He definitely has a preference for dark hair and brown eyes but all of them are totally sweet! The girls actually argued over who could sit by him there were 3 of them and Mrs. Jenkins said that he has many girls follow him around. It's got to be his charm always complimenting the girls on their clothes & hair etc. she says. :o) Anyways we had a great time at the farm and I think we'll go back as a family with friends. http://www.shamrockfarmstour.com/

Moving on.....McKenna & Chloe today Sunday 2-15-09

Mr. Bedhead sitting in Kenna's room chair today. Gotta love it when kids have their own idea on what hair looks good and be patient enough to let them grow it out even with a cowlick right upfront. :o) No it wasn't from Shamrock Farms.

So today Calvin had a little bit of a fever, sore throat and headache...said he didn't feel good enough to go to church so he and I stayed home. We had his favorite for breakfast maple & brown sugar Malt0meal and then we gave Chloe a bath.

She had him laughing in no time!

Her right after a bath & blow dry...fluffy!
Chloe a few days ago ringing her bell to go outside
Please let me go outside....I rang the bell.
A quick update on Chloe she weights 2.6 lbs now and eats all of the time little piggy! She is getting better at potty training and tries to bark and growl every now and then which cracks us up. She still takes lots of naps and is 12 weeks old now we hope she doesn't get over 5 lbs as they usually double their weight at this age and because she always wants to eat she probably will. I was hoping she would be 3-4 lbs because her Mom is just under 5 lbs and her Dad was right around 2.5 lbs. She doesn't like bows in her hair but we are trying to encourage her to like them. :o) Her hair is starting to turn the gray color which they call blue for some reason mostly on the top of her head. The kids love her to death and want to carry her everywhere. We did have a little mishap the first week we had her when a friend was over and accidentally dropped her outside but she was ok. We are training her to ring a bell to go outside and at this point I think she just likes attacking the bell but she has rang it a couple of times and then gone outside and went potty. YEAH!! We still all love her and think she is very adorable. We fluff her all up and make her smell pretty too! Just like the little princess pooch she is.

Back to our Sunday....McKenna & Will returned home from church and poor McKenna is either getting a cold or her allergies are terrible today. You can see in the pictures her eyes are all red she has the sniffles too. On her bed with the puppy.My two pretty in pink princesses!Dad sleeping on the couch. Sunday naps are the best! I decided to blog while Will was napping and the kids were in my office drawing on the dry erase board. Chloe doing her part delivering the eraser when needed.

And there you have it our Sunday and everybody is happy! Especially me since I've missed blogging so much and was able to today! I'm on facebook but I guess it hasn't excited me as much as blogging. I'm still new at it. We are also very excited that we don't have work or school tomorrow! YIPPEE

Valentines Cookies

Thursday as soon as I got home from work the kids were ready to make some sugar cookies for their class parties the next day at school. I thought oh no problem McKenna does this all of the time with the Betty Crocker mixes....but we didn't have any. Because I've never made sugar cookies and frosting for them from scratch I didn't think it would be that big of a deal. Wow I was so wrong....that is a lot of fun messy work! :O) The kids had fun decorating up until it was time for bed and came down stairs the next morning so amazed that the rest of them were baked, frosted, decorated and packaged for them already to take to school. We made big ones for McKenna's class and little ones for Calvin's class. I even took some to work the next day and we have some for today Valentines! :o)

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentines Day!

Going Crazy.....

It's almost midnight and I'm holding a sleeping puppy adding a post to my blog. Why so late you say when I have to get up for work early tomorrow morning....it's the ONLY time I have to do it. I love to blog and want to do it everyday...but have simply been too busy. I could go on and on about everything I've been doing and complain about working etc but even I don't want to hear it. I do have one quick good thing to say and that is that I finally got my Christmas tree's & all of my decor put away...only a month and 9 days later than I usually take them down and if you know me...you know that I've been bugged by that for a month and 8 days too long. Too too crazy busy. :o)

I do hope that I get some time this weekend to update and post some pictures etc. :o) Off to sleep am I.

And the name is.....

Chloe


and we are sorry to all of you that might have a child or family member named Chloe but it's also makes for a very cute little fluffy baby girl puppy's name. :o)

Our New Baby

I'm a little teacup short and stout here is my picture wow what a cute snout!

We got a teacup Yorkie yesterday from a private breeder and just wanted to add her to our family blog. I've wanted a tiny Yorkie for years now and Will finally got tired of me asking so at Christmas he caved in. I figure if I can't have any real babies I should have some sort of baby to snuggle, plus they don't shed, have real hair not fur, don't bark much, are inteligent dogs and best of all fit in most of my purses! :o)

It's taken me a little while to find one that was on sale because I bargain shop on everything including puppies. :o) She is 9 weeks old and weights .84 pounds. Her Mom was just under 5 lbs and her Dad was only 2.4 pounds so she should be small. They say at 8-9 weeks you triple their weight and that is what they should typically be full grown. These little dolls live to be anywhere from 12-20 years old so we anticipate on having her for a long time. :o)

Look at these cute faces!

Calvin & McKenna love her to fists well just yelling so far! ha ha
They hold her non-stop and only smile when it's their turn
Finally Kenna put me down that's Kenna's hand :o)


We had a rough first night but that is typical and because she is so cute I'll forgive her for keeping me up! The kids adore her and Will is starting to warm up to her even though he had to leave our room last night to get some sleep. We haven't come up with a name that we all agree on yet so do you have any suggestions? please :o) All worn out! So cute!!!

Catch up Post & Temple Pictures

The LDS Temple with a clear sky and bright moon!

Ok so I'm a slacker but I've been super busy. This working more than 40 hours a week is for the birds, but if I don't work then 900 people mostly teachers don't get paid so you see the obvious choice I have to make. ha ha Unfortunately talking to my kiddos & Will, eating, sleeping, grocery shopping, laundry, paying bills and trying to clean up the house take priority over blogging. Tonight I had a hair appointment after work and am so thankful, it's been like 6 months! I love Marley at Guy & Gal Salon here in town she is awesome!

Last Thursday night there was another green female praying mantis on our window by the front door so guess who has a new pet? Yep Calvin...he named her Lucky because he is so lucky we found her. By the way that was his second choice he was going to name her Manti like the first one but we suggested he choose a different name. :o)

Also, we measured McKenna and she is 5 feet tall now!! She made the honor roll and so we went to her awards ceremony. Calvin has all M's for mastery with the exception of 2 O's which are outstanding but they don't do honor roll for 1st graders. Calvin is growing his hair out again we tried this about a year ago but couldn't stand the shaggy look after awhile and made him cut it. We'll see how long this lasts. :o)

We went to the Mesa LDS Temple before Christmas with several friends from our ward and had a great time and then went and ate some awesome Chinese food. I have about 70 pictures from the night but they didn't turn out as well as I had hoped for some reason but there were thousands and thousands of lights. It was so pretty! They used all LED lights this year and so they are brighter. Here are a couple pics from that night.

Yes we have coats on 47 degrees is cold to us desert dwellers. :o)