Splash park!

Our little town of Holbrook just put in the funnest little recreational park. It is such a fun place to go to just have some fun with your family. The original idea was to put in a splash pad, which is so fun- but for the most part my kids hate it. They DO love the goofy golfing, the horse shoes, and the shuffle board though! When they are a little older there are batting cages! The best part? It's all free!

Homecoming Week!

Homecoming is a small town pretty much takes up the whole week! The funnest part about Homecoming? Spirit days! It's a little tricky with London and Bentley's school on a different spirit schedule then Macy- but we make it work. We combined their "crazy hair day" and "twin day" the first day. London really really wanted to be twins with Macy and found these two shirts all on her own. She also found Macy the right pants to wear and decided that tennis shoes would be best because they both have those. Macy kept saying "Mom- we don't even do to the same school. No one is even going to know." But London knew- and she was loving it. I'll have to admit- I explained to London why her hair was a little crazy, she just laughed and told London how much she loved. it.

The next day was Macy's PJ day and London and Bentley had mismatch day. London is pro at styling herself- even though it doesn't "match" she still just looks adorable. Macy was a little nervous about how I was going to do her hair for PJ day. "I want it to kind of look like I'm going to bed, but still pretty. I don't wan messy hair." We came up with braided pony tails. Bentley was easy- I just told him to pick some clothes. He did a great job at not matching :)

The biggest most excited part of Homecoming week?! The homecoming parade! I've kind of made it a little tradition that we pick up happy meals and have a little picnic at the park right before the parade. The kids love the whole afternoon. Kyle's choirs didn't do a float this year (all his kids were already on other floats) so he got to enjoy the parade with us. It came in handy too- these two kids got candy from everyone that walked by. They had way too much. I was tired of them constantly asking for candy, so I just gave them their bags a few days later and said "go for it". I'm pretty sure Bentley had 12 suckers in one night. At least it was out of the way though!

The Flour Game

Every Monday night we have Family Home Evening. We sing a song, have a prayer, have a little lesson, play a game, and then have a treat. One of London's favorite games for FHE is the Flour Game. We put a quarter at the bottom of a cup, fill it up with flour, and then flip it over. Then you take turns and slice the flour until someone accidently knocks over the quarter. Whoever loses has to get the quarter out of the flour with their teeth. The girls in our family didn't do too well this particular night. :)

Memorial Day Camping 2015

Labor Day camping this year fell on our little London's 5th birthday. This was a huge camping trip for her- not only did we get to go camping but she got to turn 5 years old! 

 My mom stopped by the party supply place and got a bunch of Doc McStuffins decor for a our own little Doc McLondon. The kids played some party games- Red Rover Red Rover and then we played a little musical chairs and topped up with a cute little Pinata.

 Then it was cake and ice cream time! This girl loves her sweets- she was in heaven.

 As always, we had a blast camping. I love getting out of the hustle of life and just enjoy each other and the family.

Random

Just some random pictures from around the house. I switch this one was in focus, but I love it anyway. 

 When the girls noticed it was raining they ran outside and were so excited to play in it. They wanted to lick the drops but hated when it hit their eyes. They told me "It's like a bath.. but rain!"

 I'm sure I have other pictures on our blog of our kids laying like this in front of the TV. They love to "make beds" by the TV and watch shows. When they are so cute, how do you make them go to bed?!

Bentley's 3!

Sometimes I hate technology :(. I think all Bentley's birthday pictures got deleted. We had a cute little birthday party for him and invited some friends over. We had leftover hamburgers from Kyle's choir camp that was going to go to waste, so we had a BBQ and invited a few friends over for dinner and cake. I asked Bentley what kind of party he wanted and all he said was "blue". He wanted a blue cake and birthday decorations. I went to the dollar stores around and rounded up some party decorations and he had a blue cake- easy peasy! The birthday boy got to come home with a cute little Happy Birthday crown on his first day of school. He is so excited to be 3- he tried to up it when people ask how old he is. His normal response is 5 or 6. After a few seconds he says "I'm 3. Just 3." He seriously is the cutest little boy. He gets away with a lot at our house just out of his pure cuteness. Seriously, it's probably going to become a problem. He is such a loving boy- he always tells us how much he loves us and is just sweet. He has the softest heart. If he hurts someone or does something wrong he always says he's sorry without prompting. Potty training has been a struggle compared to Macy and London, but it's much better since he started preschool. He still has his accidents though. We were at a football game watching Kyle Ref and he tells me he really needs to go potty. We ran around trying to find a bathroom when he starts the penguin walk- we didn't make the bathroom. I took him back to the van to figure out what to do when he looks at me with the sweetest eyes and says "I sorry Momma, I sorry." It's just adorable and so sweet, you can't possibly have any amount of anger toward this kid. We LOVE our Bentley. Love love love.

2015-2016 School Year

This is kind of a big school year for us! All there kids are in school! Macy just started 1st grade, London is in 4yr old preschool, and Bentley is in 3 year old preschool. London and Bentley each go 3 days a week, three hours a day. Two of those are on the same day which means I get two mornings a week all to myself! I'm not gonna lie- I'm kind of loving it. Another new thing this year is I'm back on the substitute teacher list! I really just want to sub a few days a week and so far it's be going very smoothly. We are loving it. 

Bentley is pretty obsessed with his stuffed giraffe and after a lot of conversation we finally agreed that he could take it in his backpack- but he couldn't take it out at school. The first day he tried to take it out and his teacher made him put it back and we haven't had any problems since then.

 Since Kindergarten here is full day, moving up to first grade wasn't that big of a change. She has a brand new teacher and almost a completely new class, but the school and times are the same. She told me the other day she misses Kindergarten and her old teacher but I'm sure she'll say the same thing about 1st grade when she goes into 2nd. Her teacher this year is Mrs. Radzanowski. They just call her Mrs. Rad :)

 After we walked Macy to her classroom and dropped her off it was Bentley's turn to go. He's been looking at this playground for the past 2 years wanting to go to preschool so he was very excited.

 We walked into the classroom and he just went right over to the toys- didn't care about me much at all. He is loving Preschool. London's actual first day of school was the day after these kids. She is in the 4yr old class with Mrs. Ceccareli and loves it. We are lucky to have such a cheap/fantastic preschool program here. It's part of the joy that comes from living in a small town- in the valley there is no way we could afford to send just one to preschool let alone both.