Saturday, August 20, 2011

Sis is 5

 playing on a beach just outside of San Fransisco p.s. she is wearing a swimming suit
Rilynn is my little breathe of fresh air.  She is my most content child and loves to be by my side, no matter what we are doing. Since she is the only girl, I am grateful that she is a girly girl-loves skirts, pink and purple, shopping, shoes, etc., but on the other hand; she is not afraid to get dirty-she loves to be outside playing anything and is our best hiker.  She and Cooper play better than any two kids I've ever seen.  She did swim team this summer with her two older brothers and is so good at freestyle and breast stroke.  She has just started kindergarten (which is KILLING me :(  ), and she LOVES it.  Her obsession with horses has not dwindled as I thought it would...she dreams of riding and owning them.  The best part of her whole summer is when we went to Boise in June.  My brother Chris's friend let us ride their horses and Rilynn hasn't quit talking about it.  She was most excited about a miniature horse named Bobo
Here are Rilynn's current favorites.
Best Friend- Ethan and Carley (a little girl in her class)
Favorite food- macaroni and spaghetti (she is a carb junkie)
Favorite Movie- Spirit (a horse movie-surprise, surprise)
Favorite book- Any book she can get you to read to her!
Favorite toy- her baby dolls and make up
Favorite song- Mama Mia
Favorite color- Purple
What she wants to be when she grows up- a cowgirl
Hero-Phyllis Livingston
Seriously how cute is this picture of her "dive" at a meet (thanks Adamson's!)?

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Boy Update

Three of my four favorite kids have recently had birthdays and I want to document their last year.  First off, EVAN.

Evan came along way this year.  He was on honor roll 2 of the 3 trimesters at school and started a program for reading and in just a few months his reading level went up by one whole year!  He played soccer last fall and found he is really good at goalie.  He was also in a 4th-5th grade show choir where they preformed "Lion King."  He and 3 other boys sand a song "He Lives in Me" and did sooo good.  He is changing from little boy, to a little guy.  It is fun, I can have real conversations with him, and he is becoming quick witted like his dad. His favorite thing he did this was was going to Disneyland. Here is a run down of his other favorites:

Song-Big Time
Singing Group- Big Time Rush
Color-Black
Books-Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Food- nachos and mint chocolate chip ice cream
Movie- Rio
Toy- Bike riding, Wii, and hang out with friends
Best Friend- John Pallinger and Logan Jenkins
Hero- Dad
When he grows up, he wants to be an inventor or an army man


PAXTON

Paxton is my kid that is most homesick for Boise now.  He constantly tells me that we need to move back because he misses all or our family there :(  He does really good in school and absolutely LOVES it!  He had a wonderful teacher this year and is reading pretty good. He played soccer last fall and really liked it, and in Nov. 2010 he lost his first tooth.  He still loves anything outdoors-riding bikes, swimming, jumping on the tramp, basketball....

Song- Big Time
Singing Group- Big Time Rush
Color- Red
Book- Kung Fu Panda 2
Food- Watermelon and cheese pizza
Movie- Cars 2
Toy- Spider Monkey (from Ben 10)
Best friend- Alyssa
Hero- Iron Man
When he grows up, he wants to be a fireman


COOPER

Cooper has calmed down a little, but is still our craziest.  He would sit and read books with you all day, he talks a lot, loves to sing, and best of all he still takes a 3 HOUR nap! (Oh loveliness for mom!) He would rather be outside than do anything inside and more than anything he loves to play with his sister, they are so cute together and have such a sweet closeness.  He is now saying everyone's names right, but up until just a month before his birthday he called Rilynn "Yah Yah," Paxton "Paxy," Evan "Da da" (Jeff was Daddy), and called himself "Booper."

Song- Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle Twinkle
Music Group- Just like his brothers he loves Big Time Rush
Color-Blue
Book-any
Movie-
Toy- Buzz Lightyear action figures
Best Friend- Laker Livingston and Haefan Skeehan

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Fashion Police, we have an emergency

 Paxton has always let me pick out his clothes and not cared, recently he has decided that he wants to pick out his own clothes for school.  Here are some examples of his chosen attire. 
Ummm, yes, those are shin guards...

He was sure these looked great together since they were both red, white, and blue...and the medal??? I don't think I even asked...


 
 This may not have been soo bad if we were going swimming, but we weren't.
 "But Mom, they are both stripey!" (plaid)
 We sure do love this Paxton boy (but it isn't for his sense of fashion).  If your wondering (I'm sure my mom at least is ;)  ) I did not let him go in any of these outfits, I "guided" him to things that matched a bit better.
This boy is obsessed with silly bands.  If you don't know what silly bands are, they are these rubber bracelets that form into shapes when you take them off.  Anything from food, to animals, bugs, he's got them all and Loves them all.  We've had to limit him on how many he can wear.  His dream is to have them go from his wrist to his shoulder.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

My New Year's Resolution

Dear Blog,
You have been very neglected, I know, and I'm sorry.  I've got a few excuses reasons, 1st my computer screen was broken thanks to a certain little boy, Cooper, whom I will not name, 2nd we seem to be having a long run of bad luck (no major health issues or anything like that) but I didn't want to be a Negative Nancy blogger, 3rd I've started working part time and I'm having troubles balancing, 4th I've been in a kinda weird funk that I can't totally explain-kinda tired, kinda lonely, even though I am never alone, just kinda blah, I'm hoping it's just a combination of our bad luck and homesickness for my friends and family in Boise.  BUT, I'm pretty sure our bad luck has to be about out....so "Nancy" is hopefully soon-to-be gone; and therefore, my New Year's Resolution is to be better about blogging and to quit ignoring you. I usually fail struggle with my annual "resolutions," but this is one bad habit I am determined to break- especially since it is my only form of journaling (shhhh don't tell anyone ;)  ).