Random Pictures

Coleman loves playing with cars... Even more than going downstairs for breakfast. 

She's so stinkin' cute :) 

Have I mentioned that this boys LOVES playing with water in the sink. Sometimes I'll just fill up a bowl and let him pay. Doug doesn't really like that much because water usually gets on the floor :) But the baby loves it. He always runs over to the sink, pushing a chair and yells "help! help" help" It's super cute. 

Jordan playing on the kindle. 

Kenzie playing on the leapster. 

Jackson doing an art project from his art lesson DVD. 

Building with magnets. 

This picture just makes me laugh. I let him take pictures one morning and he took a ton. Mostly of nothing, but a few of the kids and me :) 

Jackson. 

I'll be honest, I'm not 100% sure who this is, but I think it's Jordan. It could be Jackson though. There's a picture Jackson took right after this one, but I think Jordan took all the ones before, so it could be either.  

Jordan 

Jordan sad. 

 I let Kenzie paint her own fingernails. Well, actually, she just started doing it by herself and then once I saw her, I let her continue and gave her a paper towel. :) 

She was pretty excited she did it herself. She loves when she does things herself. She feels so big and gets so excited. She also loves to be told how great of job she does when she does things on her own :) 

Doug wanted me to video some of their swimming lessons so he could see the kids in them, since Jordan was so funny in his first lesson and was laughing a lot. He didn't do that his second lesson though. They both had colds that day and weren't as in to their lessons.  

Doesn't he look ready to take a nap? 

Jordan doing back stroke or zipper, airplane, rocket. 

Coleman and me. I usually stick him in the stroller while we're there, because he doesn't expect to get out as much as he expects to get down when I'm holding him. But that week we got to swim lessons and I saw my stroller wasn't in the car. It's always in the car. I pretty much always have 2 in my car. And I used to always have 3 in my car until I let my sister borrow one. But my single wasn't there (and I wasn't going to bring in the double). I had used it that morning and didn't remember taking it out at home. I was kind of sad about it because I really like that stroller. I decided I must have left it at the library that morning and we drove by the library on our way home from swimming and it was still there in the same spot I left it. Right next to where I parked. It was wet because it had rained some that. But I was so happy to have found it :)

 Jordan diving in.

They have playtime at the end of every swim lesson. It's fun because they get to practice swimming while having fun playing. 

Birthday Interview

What’s your name:     Jackson
How old are you?     7
Who is your best friend?    Cole and Mason
What is your favorite thing to do?     Do art
What is your favorite color?     yellow
What do you like to do with your family?    go to fun places
What is your favorite toy?    Cut the Rope
What do you want to be when you grow up?    An artist
What makes you happy?    Silly words. actually that's not the thing. Colie. Colie makes me laugh.
What makes you sad?    When I'm mad and Daddy does this: smiles really big.
What is your favorite show to watch?     The Backyardagins
What is your favorite book?    Billy and Blaze
What do you love to learn about?    space
What was the best part of your birthday?     Going to the jumping house.
Where do you like to go?     to Odyssey 1
What is your favorite food?    Garlic Bread. It's the yummiest thing in the world.
What was your favorite birthday present?    Cut the Rope, my car that I built and painted, and the artbook from grandpa
If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?     Odyssey 1
What food do like the least?    sweet potato fries
What is your favorite song?    How I love the Statue of Liberty
What’s your favorite thing you did last year?    My birthday party (that was the Saturday before he turned 6). Because I was 6 that time. 
What’s your favorite weather?    sunny
What’s your favorite season?    spring
What’s your favorite holiday?    Easter
What’s your favorite month?     April
What’s your favorite day?    Wednesday.
Anything else?    I love daddy, and mommy, and Colie. And Jordy, and Kenzie.
What do you want for your birthday?    a car that changes into a dinosaur. Awesome!
What's your favorite snack?    square crackers.

Jackson's Birthday

Jackson had a great birthday.  He's always so excited for his birthday, more so than my other kids, I think. He chose to go to a bouncy house in the morning. Then in the afternoon we worked on building a catapult that he had received and played the Wii. That night we went to Olive Garden with my parents. Jackson loves Olive Garden, just like his daddy. And they both like the chicken alfredo. 

It was our first time to this bouncy house. It was pretty cool because it had foosball, air hockey, basketball hoops both outside the bouncy houses and inside them plus a lot of balls inside the bouncy toys. They also had a baby area for the littlest kids to play in. The kids loved it. 

They were told to cross their arms so they didn't get burns on their arms. They did still get a few though. 

Kenzie kept climbing the ladder and looking down from the top. She really wanted to go down but was also very scared. She'd never gone down a bouncy slide before, other than when Doug took her down one with him. And I think she cried the whole way down that day...

Jordan getting ready to go up. It worked out well that he wore a long sleeve shirt. He didn't get any burns on his arms. Although he did end up pretty sweaty... 

Kenzie finally did it! 

 And she loved it!

And was so excited that she did it. I love how much expression she shows on her face. 

Kenzie, Jordan, and Jackson climbing up. 

And sliding down. 

Coleman playing in the baby area. He didn't want to do any bouncing. 

They had a cool birthday chair (that used to be at McDonald's... I could even still see the M that they tried to paint over:))  

Coleman's turn.

He opened presents as soon as daddy got home, before Olive Garden. 

He really wanted a dinosaur that could also be a car (he got one for Jordan for Jordan's birthday and thought it was pretty great) 

3D dot to dot book. Each page has hundreds of dots. I'm not sure if he's finished any pictures all the way yet. 

And Cut the Rope.  

His Uranus cake. 

Thinking about what to wish for :)

Happy Birthday Jackson!

Family Birthday Party

We had Jackson's family birthday party on Mother's Day at my parents' house. We had yummy dinner, opened presents, and had cake. It was a great party :)

The Crabtrees brought Jordan a present too because they missed his family party since it was in Arizona. 

I think he kind of loved it :) 

Jack was so excited to open all his presents and loved them all.

My dad 

Ashlee, Kimber, Alli, my mom 

Kenzie checking out his presents. 

I got to hold baby Camryn for awhile :) 

Jackson wanted Cinnamon Toast Crunch Muffins (we saw a box when we were going to buy a cake mix, and he said he wanted that instead) They were pretty good.