TODDLERS ARE TROUBLE

So just when I think I'm getting our upstairs Jake proof, he proves me wrong! In a matter of seconds just long enough for me to wash Malorie's hair Jake comes in the bathroom saying OUGHT OH MOMMY! and I'm immediately scared of what I'm going to find. He had managed to somehow get the what I thought was a kid proof lid off my craft paints and had unscrewed the lids off of blue and pink and dumped the whole pink bottle on our carpet. It looks like he was trying it on as makeup, who knows. Then yesterday he just grosed me out I was fixing Malorie's hair downstairs and looked out the bathroom door for a second to see him with a chair up to the fish tank scooping water out with a little cup and drinking fish pooh and disgusting fish water, I keep waiting for him to poop out a fish! And I won't even go into the details about his recent obsession with the cat litter. This age is so cute but man they are into everything and just absolutely disgusting little things! Its a good thing we love the little guy.

EASTER

Easter was a lot of fun this year it started with what we call Christmas breakfast, but we always have it on Christmas and Easter and Grandma and Grandpa Casper came down for the day. Next we went to the ward Easter egg hunt which is always fun for the kids and Malorie gets to hunt with her neighborhood friends. Jake really had no interest in putting the eggs in his basket he mostly just whined at my leg when Chelsey or someone would try and get him to pick them up. Then we went home and died eggs. Malorie loved it and could have dyed 100 eggs. Jake got really into it once he realized he was allowed to actually touch the eggs and the dye. Plus this is one activity Chelsey still likes to do with us. My parents even brought their own eggs to dye. We had a lot of fun and I love that Malorie really believes in the Easter bunny its so much fun to see how excited they get and its just not the same when they stop believing. However, I know she'll believe for a while still but she sure had a lot of questions about how the bunny gets in your house and how he gets to so many places and would someone please tell me where in the world the bunny lives? I mean with Santa its all just common knowledge but I have no idea what to say about Easter bunny. I almost started laughing at how ridiculous it sounded when I told her he has magical hopping powers and she thinks he just walks magically right through the front door without opening it. Oh well, I'm kind of curious what everyone else tells their kids cuz it took me a minute to think of something to say about all those questions.

CHELSEY MADE J.V. CHEERLEADER

Chelsey being kidnapped and forced to wear a blind fold and a giant I'm a new Springville Cheerleader sign


Finding out she made it!


I am so excited and proud of Chelsey for making it on the Cheer team or squad, whatever. Its just so crazy because she has never had any desire at all to be a cheerleader. But thanks to her new and much improved friends this year who have helped her realize not being in trouble and doing normal teen things is definately the way to go she has ended up trying out and making it. She of course is a great dancer and she was the only one her age trying out that did a standing backhandspring on her own. I have never seen her so excited about anything and she can't wait until they start. They just came and blind folded and kidnapped her so I'm sure she's in for lots of fun!

It's probably a GIRL!

Today I had my 20 week ultrasound and I was a little disappointed. The U/S tech I think was in a huge hurry to be done because she rushed through so fast I could barely see what was going on. So I wish I had some good pics of the baby but she printed out some crazy ones that weren't very good. She told us the baby was curled up and very quickly looked for parts and said she was 85% sure it was a girl. It does kind of look like those white lines baby girls have and I've thought it was a girl so we will go with that for now. I just think its to bad that our family was so excited and she couldn't take the time to do a good job for us. So since I am an impatient person I will be going to gender u/s to get some better pics and find out for sure, so I'll give a new update soon.

Malorie had her 4th birthday on the 20th. We had her family party at Chuck E Cheese and it was great for me because they clean up the mess and it held both sides of the family and all kids and adults were entertained. We have gotten away with one more year of no friend party, but I'm afraid next year will be the start of that. I think 4 year olds are a lot of fun so I'm looking forward to this next year with her.


Jake learned to love all the driving games and he was worn out by the time we left


Malorie's cousins and McKailey her friend she couldn't live without inviting

Malorie and her Barbie Pegasus horse cake

They gave her a birthday star medal and she has slept with it every night since.

Dancing at the Jazz Game

So I'm a little slow but a couple weeks ago Chelsey got the chance to dance at the jazz game against the Hornets. Last year her Senior class won a high point award at a competition at the Delta Center and they invited them to perform at half time during this season. She was really excited, it was a great opportunity for them. Plus Chelsey got a lot of Jumbotron time so that was pretty cool. We were up in the nosebleeds and I forgot my long lens so look closely.


Chelsey is the one on the left


She is the one at the top dancing beside the boy in the red shirt

chelsey's back on the jumbotron!

December

I really should post more often because then I don't have to put so much in to one blog. December has been fun and Christmas was great, Malorie was really excited about Santa this year and Chelsey thought it was fun to help me set up for Santa. Jake wasn't really interested in the tree, presents or opening the presents and I think his favorite gift was the spatula Malorie gave me. (Yes, I got a spatula, thats what happens when we get old) My wonderful husband made Jake a train table and Malorie a huge Barbie house, they turned out great thanks to him. Chelsey got a lot of snowboarding equipment and is learning how this winter. We have all been sick the last couple weeks and havn't really gone anywhere but I wanted to post some pics of the fun things we did get to do this December!


Malorie on our friends giant tube when we went snowmobiling


Chelsey & Malorie riding the snowmobile

Malorie & McKailey trying to ice skate. That was a lot of work!

The girls at their Christmas dance program

Jake with his train table the Jason made, he mainly just stands on it and throws the trains off.

The awesome and huge Barbie house that Jason made but I would have loved this when I was young.

Besides the spatula, this is Jake's other favorite toy. He looks so cute packing it around and feeding it.

Chelsey and my nephew Cody, he took her snowboarding for the first time and tried to teach her a little bit.

Sausha's annual Christmas photo. She loves all the paper!

Christmas pajamas from Grandma Stika for all the cousins.

They were both smiling, I love this picture

Malorie and her best friend McKailey(with her nice new haircut done by herself) making Christmas cookies.

We started to string popcorn for our tree this year but it didn't make it very far around so this will have to continue on next year. The kids had fun though.