Gwenevere's Birthday Questionnaire

How old are you?  5
What makes you happy:  Kittens
What is your favorite animal:  kittens
What is your favorite thing to eat? Cake and Ice cream and a Sundae
What is your least favorite thing to eat?  Chicken
what is your favorite thing to do? play Guess Who
What is your favorite TV show?  My Little Pony and Franny's Feet
what is your favorite movie?  Despicable Me 2
What are you really good at?  the new game I got for my birthday Guess Who
What is your favorite color?  Purple like Twilight Sparkle's hair
What is your favorite Song:  The song from Everett's new toy: he got a My First TV that plays a lullaby
Who is your best friend?  Reagan and Heather and Chloe
What do you and your Mom do together? Play board games
What do you and your Papa do together?  go on daddy daughter dates
What is your favorite Sport? soccer
Where is your favorite place to go?  to Grandma Sharolee's house
What is your favorite book?  The one I am making
What do you want to me when you grow up?  You (pointing to Mama) wait  A veterinarian

 

weekend fun and more

I'm going to attempt to blog while making silly faces at my social butterfly.

Never mind I give up.  I'll try again later.
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Okay so he's asleep now.  Wow what a fun weekend we had.

Friday night Papa went with the girls to pick up a free fish tank that was offered to us.  Grace fell asleep before the Daddy Daughter date was over so they brought  her back home and then Gwenevere and Papa went to the store to buy Ice Cream.

Saturday we very blustery so we bundled up and drove to SeaTac to visit a new pet store.  We found Rainbow (our new fish) there.  Then we drove to another pet store to pick up rocks and supplies for our new tank.
The girls helped Papa set up the new tank

this is a picture of Rainbow, He's a male Bata

James has also added some new fish to his other tank, as of now we have 21 fish in one large tank and 1 fish in the little tank.  we hope to add more to the little tank soon.


The girls aren't the only ones fascinated with our fish,  Finn has grown interested too.

Speaking of Cats the other day I thought it would be fun to take comparison pictures of the girls with their kitties.  I was surprised to find that they even posed the same way in both pictures.

okay so enough about pets on to other news

I found the game Hungry Hippos after Christmas on sale I got it planning to give it to Gwenevere for her birthday but I got to excited and I pulled it out for Family Home Evening a few weeks ago.  oh my goodness!  We've had a blast playing as a family.  We've also been doing a lot of puzzles lately.  It been really fun family time.  

James has also pulled out his old Nintendo and the girls got to play for the very first time.  It was fun to watch them.  We stared them out with Duck Hunt.  

The girls had so much fun they started hugging each other.

Our night time routine has been altered lately.  We (mostly me) have been dragging our feet lately with no desire to put the girls to bed, so bedtime has been more like playtime.  But it's been super fun.  Thanks to Dalynn and Daniel we have had some amazing shadow  puppet stories and lots of silly ones too.

Today we had lots of fun exploring the beach, turning over rocks and finding crab cities, collecting seashells, sand dollars, and pretty pebbles, and taking an evening bike ride in our neighborhood.  

Tomorrow is Gwenevere's first day of Gymnastics I  hope to get some pictures and hopefully post soon.

PS.  This post took me 3 days to finish and 50% of it while typed one handed while holding Everett.  Just thought I would share.  

So if Mom says "No" just leave her home

Grace is her usually upbeat happy voice  "Mom, can we go to the store and by Doughnuts?  Cause we don't have any doughnuts!"

A few minutes after I tell her no.

Grace talking to Gwenevere and holding her piggy bank  "Gwenevere do you want to go to the store and get doughnuts?"

So if mom says no, just leave her home,  lol.

Potty Talk

Grace:  "Mom, I go potty in the froggy seat or I go potty in the litter box?"

Big Sisters are the best

On days that Grace decides she doesn't need a Mama. I thank Heavenly Father he gave her such a wonderful big sister.

Gwenevere you give me strength and a spiritual giant.  Thank you for being my partner in life as well as eternity.

Grace I love your spunk, you boldness and you adventurous spirit.  I look forward to getting to know you better in years to come.

little voice quotes

OH man,  We've had so many epic quotes the last couple of days I wish I could remember them all.

Grace showing me a picture of a gingerbread man with a very large head and in a very sweet little voice as if it's a baby puppy she is looking at says:  "Mama can we make some Alien cookies like these?"

Grandma Sharolee comes to visit

We had the best visit with Grandma Sharolee the weekend after Christmas.  She drove up Friday afternoon, James came home from work the same time Grandma drove up.  We had wonderful fish and chips for dinner and then watched a movie together in the family room.  Saturday morning Grandma Sharolee entertained the kids while James worked in the back yard and I took a shower and had some time to myself.  It was wonderful.  Then Grandma Sharolee watched the kids while James and I went on a group date with some good friends.  We hoped to meet up with Grandma and the kids after the date to go see Frozen in theaters but by the time we got to the theater it was all sold out.  So we went back home had dinner and watched a special movie Papa got just for the girls, (mostly Grace) Despicable Me 2.

Then Sunday morning Grandma made waffles we got everyone dressed and we headed to Church.  I was lucky enough to substitute teach the sunbeam class.

After Church we came back home and packed up the girls for Grandma Sharolee had invited them to go spend two days at her house.  Yippee!

Monday Grandma took them to the Children's Museum with Charlie and Auntie Becca.  They stayed up late and had lots of fun with Uncle Daniel and Uncle Austin.

Grandma brought the girls back Wednesday morning.  They had a blast.   Next time I promise to take pictures.

Thanks for coming to visit.  We can't wait to have you come again.