Birthday Dinner

We took Reygann to Red Robin for her birthday dinner, Kylie loved it when we took her so I thinking that this is going to be the place to go from now on. Dinner was good of course, but she was waiting for dessert!! If you know Reygann you know what a silly little cheese ball she is, here she is hamming for the camera.


She isn't really sure what to think about them singing to her, she liked it but she wasn't sure what to do.


The best part about going there for your birthday is you get this killer sundae. We never get things like this at home so this is a super treat! Plus at home we are not allowed to lick it out of the bowl!


I didn't think she was going to like the cherry but she did


Kylie was DYING for a bite!


Reygann was kind enough to share with her


I don't know why they take such huge bites, they must be trying to eat it before it gets taken away or something.


Reygann shared a few more bites with Kylie (we lost a little on the table this time)


She needs to get EVERY drop out of the bottom of the glass!


Hot fudge face


Kylie thought she would help Reygann get all she can


Kylie really wanted one more bite (you can kinda see the spoon in her right hand) and after I took this picture she tried to get one more spoonful and got hot fudge on Reyganns forehead!


That was pretty much it. Daddy had to leave dinner early because he had a thing at Church he had to be at, but soon as Reygann she called daddy to tell him about her ice cream. I don't remember exactly what she said (I'll have to ask her in the morning), but it was something along the lines of it 'being so yummy and making her very happy!'

More Birthday Pictures

Daddy finally came home and Reygann got to open her presents!! (Actually daddy came home early but she still had to wait till after dinner.)


Reygann got a Cindrella dress just in time to wear to her Cindrella party

She also got a stroller for her baby, I knew this one was going to be a hit


And she got a new baby, this one wiggles, giggles, and coos, it is motion activated and pretty cool

I accidentally left her big gift in the garage and had to go get it. I made her close her eyes and this is when I told her to open them.

It is a 'new' baby nursery toy

I didn't make her a cake since her party is coming up, so we had brownies instead.



Kylie got a stroller for her birthday, but since our house was small it went in the closet and got forgotten about, this was the perfect time to pull it out!

Brody took his turn when the girls went to bed (don't you just want to bite that huge belly!)

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday Mom!

(and a few days late for me!)

I scream you scream

...we all scream for homemade snow ice cream! As most of you know we have been in a winter storm watch for the last 2 days and ended up getting 6-8 inches of snow today. And what a better way to deal with all that snow than to make ice cream! It all started when I was outside waiting for the dumpster to be dropped off, I was standing there watching the driver trying to back his truck up the driveway and I got the urge to eat some snow. So I'm standing outside muching on the snow and thought the girls would like some too, so I had the girls get me cups and I gathered some snow for them too. When the driver was gone I went inside and gave them their treat.

Of course they loved it, and I thought what could be better than eating snow... eating snow ice cream of course!

So I set a bowl outside to catch some snow so we could make ice cream after dinner. There was a small kink in the plan when the neighbor came over and plowed our driveway for us (but we got the bowl filled up later the old fashioned way). Since it was only 10am we had lots of time to kill before it was ice cream time so we went about our day.

Of course the girls played dress ups for a while, it's a favorite pastime of theirs. Do you like her 'pants' they are supposed to be puffy sleves but Reygann liked them better on her legs, she also likes putting the handless gloves on her legs too silly girl!

I tried to get a little work done on the old side of the house, since the dumpster was delivered today that means Deric is going to start gutting that side of the house and phase 2 is starting!!! The downside is I still don't have it cleared out 100% and I have no idea what to do with the stuff that is in there! One of the times that I came from that side into this side I saw Kylie standing on the stairs and she looked a bit different

...can you tell what's different?

She blossomed! It's hard to tell from the pictures but she was standing there on the stairs stuffing her shirt and she was quite impressed with her new look!

Brody's favorite thing to do lately is stand at the window watching the goings on outside. Usually he vrooms at the cars when the pass, and he loves it when the neighbors are outside he bangs on the window shouting hello to them over and over and over again! The neighbors (who are across the street) are completely oblivious to what is going on, but I am about to lose my mind from all the hollering and banging!

Today he figured out if he pushed the chair over to the stairs he could climb up the chair and then get upstairs! I figured since the bottom of the stairs wasn't finished he would be safe and could only go up and down when I approved, looks like that theory is shot! It is nice though, he can follow the girls wherever they go now, he usually gets a little cranky when they go upstairs and he can't follow, he feels so left out!

Dinner time finally came and went and it was time to make the ice cream!! We stuck to traditional vanilla, if we make some again I think I am going to try almond or mint...

Ice cream time!!

Oh, it's so yummy!

My silly little cheeser

She thought it was pretty good too!

Even Brody got to try it

Yum-o, he was a fan for sure!

This will take you back

Does anyone remember some of these?

Joan and Amanda getting high on Tide (it was Tide, right?) in the laundry room at camp? I remember finding a swimsuit behind the washer and fighting over who got to keep it.


Adam and Kevin wearing garbage bag togas (remember adam is holding?)


Some of the guys from the 'other' youth group


How 'bout this one Michelle? We thought we were hot stuff taking these glamor shots of ourselves!


Awww, Manda and Doug!


Look at you hot stuff!


Marlana and Dave

And Joan and Amanda once again sniffing something! Who did these belong to anyways?

Michelle and I at my birthday party... man do I wish you could see my outfit behind the sweatshirt!! (this is also a picture of the reason why I have bangs, ewww). Then Chris and Jeremy

And I think this last one almost looks like Michelle and Kaden

Amanda and I taking a break from the dining hall


And me, dad is taking my picture so I could see how dumb my hair looks. We took pictures in both directions like a mug shot, and I actually loved the one of me facing forward (I can't find it though...) I must say it was very well crafted hair, it may look dumb (but it was the style!) but it was a very well done dumb hair doo!