what a funny sista

When I was in college if someone left their camera out we would often do a self portrait of ourselves and whoever was with us. Rachelle and I were roommates and I don't if that is why she will grab any ones camera lying around and have a photo shoot of herself with it. So

as I was looking through my Christmas pictures I found these of my little sister. After she does something like this she asks me "why steph did you put these on your blog?" well you took them little sista. Rachelle must twist peoples arms to do this with her. She got Rodney in on the photo shoot. She is so funny. I guess it could also mean I am careless with my camera and leave it lying around way to much.

Winter trip to Salt Lake City.

This winter I got tickets to go to the Mormon Tabernacle Christmas concert. When I got tickets in the mail. I thought of Robins grandma. Kenidee calls her Markham. She loves Motab! When we got married she listened to them practice and has always said she would love to hear them again. So with the help of Robins parents Markham got to come to SLC to the concert. She has never been in the conference center, she was so excited. I was so excited! We spent 2 days in SLC with my mom Rachelle and My grandma. It was a regular girls weekend. Robin stayed home with the kids so I could go.
Markham and I have become good friends,and she has a laugh that can make anyone happy.While we were in SLC we did some shopping and walk around temple square. Ate at the lion house.
After the girls weekend Markham got to come to idaho for a few days to see Robin and the kids. Kenidee was so excited to have Markham sleep in her bed while she got to sleep on an air mattress in the same room.
Markham wanted to take Kenidee shopping for gifts for robin and I for Christmas, so we waited in the car at walmart while markham and kenidee went to find the perfect gifts. When she got back to the car she told me she found herself the perfect gift. It had 2 snowman mugs hot chocolate gram crackers and even a candy bar. She picked out popcorn for robin and a poinsettia for me (it is still living). We loved having Markham here with us. Kenidee still talks about having Markham stay at our house. We miss you Grandma and can't wait till we can see you again.

Do you think we had fun! If we got anymore we would have had to tie it to the top of the car.

The cutest thing

JuJu will often send the kids some way cute cloths for the upcoming season. (thank you) This time JuJu sent kenidee shirts and this way cute dress with scotty dogs on them. Kenidee and JuJu share the love of dogs. I just thought this outfilt was super cute. Bennett loves the hat too, he would crawl around wearing this way cute hat. I cannot for the life of me take a normal picture of this girl. One day when she is older she is going to ask me where are all the pictures of her looking at the camera, and I will have to tell her there aren't any. She is way to busy to stand long enough to have a picture taken of her.

homemade tents and butter yumm

One day Kenidee wanted a tent, so she asked her dad to build her a tent. So being the wonderful daddy any girl could ever have, he made her the best tent ever. He got a few hooks and started putting them in her wall. Kenidee came running to tell me that her daddy was putting holes in her new walls. I went to see what she was talking about and sure enough her dad was putting holes in her wall. Then he hooked a wire from one hook on one wall to the other hook then put a sheet over the wire. While Robin was figuring out how to make the sides of the "tent" stay out I told him why don't you just nail it down to the floor. Kenidee didn't think that was such a good idea and Robin thought it would be a wonderful idea. He didn't do it. thank goodness. Robin is such a good daddy to our kids. Kenidee shared that tent with anyone who would be brave enough to go inside. So her and Papa Glen hung out for a little bit.

We found the butter looking like this one day. When we asked kenidee about it she said that it was what she wanted for lunch. Sick. Keep the butter away from that girl.

Thanksgiving weekend.. I know I know

We had so much fun over Thanksgiving, my sister Liz and her kids came up and the kids love to play together. When Liz and her kids are in town it is ALWAYS a party. All the kids stayed up later then they should we ate, laughed, ate, bowled, ate, watched home movies, laughed ate. I am sure we all get the picture.

I wanted to do something to help with the Thanksgiving feast. So I decided I would teach myself how to make Lion house rolls, and they had to be perfect and wonderful. Aunt Paula always makes the rolls and they are always soooo good. So I had huge shoes to fill. So I started to practice, weeks in advance, I would always take the most perfect one to my Grandma to taste and to tell me how to make them better. I had a little helper most of the time and Kenidee became quite good at rolling up the "snail" rolls.

I do have to say in this case practice did make perfect. The rolls were super good. I didn't make all of them this year Paula still helped but I did make about 72 rolls for that day. (some we saved for leftovers)

One night we had a little party over at our house and Kenidee and Hailee had a bath together. Liz always has to give Kenidee a bath when they are here because Liz is the BEST hand bubble blower. I do have so say the lady is really good.

After baths we made them a little bed so they could watch a movie. I thought they were both so cute. they didn't want to give me the time of day and look at me for a picture but still so cute and what fun to have a cousin so close to you in age.

Pics from Bennetts Birthday Finally.

We decided to do Bennett's birthday party the weekend before his birthday, because family was here and we would know that Robin would be around.
Well the party day came and Robin had gotten the flu, and stayed in our room the whole time sleeping. poor guy. We had many members of our family still around to party with us.
I made monkey cupcakes and we opened gifts. It was very low key and simple until the eating of the cake. I took everything off the cute little monkey cupcake but the ears and gave it to Bennett. Well after shoving in what he could he started to choke a little bit. It turned really quick. Bennett was full on choking. I ripped off his bib and took him out of his chair, I called for Rachelle to help me and she took him and started the Heimlich, she then called to Randy who is an emt and he continued to do the Heimlich with Rebecca on the ground sweeping his mouth. It seemed like forever but I am sure it wasn't to long. Soon he was fine and we found out he was choking on one of the Oreo ears. sheesh. Why did I leave them on. I just held him and cried for a little bit but soon he wanted down. I couldn't even talk about it for days.
My parents gave Bennett a wagon, and after Robin put it together he wouldn't get out. He cried forever. We have used it once before it got to cold but I think it is going to be a popular item this summer.