Catch Up Time

well it feels like forever since i have blogged, probably because it has been a couple of months. but my computer is now working and i have a lot to catch up on. so this will be long but there is a lot of great pictures you are not gonna want to miss. lets go back to...

September 17... my baby kelton turns 1

kelton is now one and is so adorable. he is such a good baby and i love him to pieces.

for kelton's birthday we had a little celebration at our house with pizza, cake, and water balloons.

here is kelton before the party started.. he is excited

now the water balloons were originally supposed to be a fun activity for the kids to do because it was something different and you know kids love getting wet.... well what it ended up being was a 5 minute water balloon fight with john, my b-i-l troy, and my bro tyler using the balloons to try to drench me and my sister laura. as you can see in this first picture, the patio is soaked where we were standing. everyone had fun and that is all that counts.

the kids scramble to get balloons before they are all gone.

a quick shot before we go back inside.

kelton was not a great present opener but he got a lot of toys so he was happy

a clown was on the agenda for kelton's cake. i though it was cute, but of course i did make it. i guess i was satisfied with the outcome of it.

October 1...Superhero's

my kids go through stages of what they are into and for the month of october it was superheros and fighting. so they are very creative and spent a lot of time running around playing. i love to see mikenna and andon use their imagination

October 15... Mikenna turns 6

mikenna got a real special present for her birthday... a surprise visit from her nana (john's mom) and nana nani (john's grandma) from arizona. they had been planning to come for about a month and we kept it a secret from mikenna. just a little background, mikenna and her nana are real close, mikenna had the hardest time moving away from her. they talk a lot on the phone and it's like two best friends reuniting when they see each other. so anyway, i picked them up from the airport and we got home right before john got home from picking up mikenna from school. he told her there was one more birthday gift in her room. she walked in and the nana's jumped out of the closet. here was her reaction.

mikenna enjoyed opening all her gifts.

after our family left we had a get together for mikenna and my nephew mason's birthday. here is mikenna with uncle tyler (any one who is looking or knows anyone single, my brother is available :))

the boys like to play with mikenna and her new doll house

October 31... Halloween

i had the privilage of attending mikenna's fall party at school. it was so fun and the class even performed a couple of songs for the parents. it was cute.

this year we had our first annual baker family halloween night. it was so much fun to stay home and just be together as a family while enjoying halloween activities. i forgot what we ate for dinner but after that, we

made cookies and frosted them

and mikenna and andon both got a pumpkin to carve

okay so our night didn't sound to exciting but it was and it is something we are going to do every year.

we had our ward trunk or treat halloween afternoon with dinner, games, contests, and a parade

mikenna was a pretty witch (i tried to get her to be a mean one but she didn't go for the idea)

andon was a blue ninja. he just wanted to have a sword

kelton was a lion. the cutest one around

kelton was so fun to watch. one, his mane was so heavy that when he tried to walk, he fell over most of the time with his head being so top heavy. two, he went off wondering in the parking lot at the church when our friend, sam, who was dressed as a safari hunter, followed him and pretended to hunt him. it was hillarious, we laughed so much. but it was such a cute moment, i had to take a picture.

my kiddos were so adorable for halloween and we had a great night.

so to end my blog, i guess i will share the news that somewhere in between all these crazy events (to be exact it was oct. 10) we found out we are expecting baby #4 (crazy!!!) in mid june. i feel like i have know forever and i am only 10 weeks, but here is my official announcement. it took some time for the news to really sink in but we are excited. mikenna swears the baby told her she's a girl but we will see in january. we are still deciding whether we will find out what we are having, it just might be another surprise. i'll keep everyone posted.

Kindergarten

My baby girl started kindergarten this morning. i have known this day was coming soon and all summer i have prepared for this....

i have never been sad or worried about mikenna. she is almost 6 and so ready to be in school. plus, she needs something to do during the day because she gets bored. i was the weird excited mom that couldn't wait to get everything on her school list, help her pick out a backpack and lunch box. i sat down last night and enjoyed filling out all her papers she needed to take back and double checked her list, set her clothes out ( which mikenna picked ), and dreamt about her first morning getting ready but...

i woke up this morning with knots in my stomach. i was nervous. i followed her around all morning because we were the only two awake. i talked to her about every little thing before school and was weird. 

Mikenna, on the other hand, has been excited about school except last week when we started counting down the days. she went back and forth saying whether she wanted to go or not. last night before she went to bed she finally started screaming that she was so excited. that made me feel better. this morning she was silly. she laughed and was just being silly.

we got to school and i walked her into her classroom. she was quiet, shy, and, calm. she sat down and i helped her put her stuff away. i said goodbye and i left. no tears from me or her thank goodness. as soon as i got home my knots were gone and the house was quiet. 

I cant wait to pick her up this afternoon.!!!

mikenna in front of her school

sitting down in her classroom

A Quick Update

i realize it has been a month since i have posted anything but i just feel like time is never there for blogging. no excuses, just that i have been busy like everyone else, my computer was down for two weeks, and i have not taken many pictures lately. but for anyone who wants to know here is a little update about the past month. 

kelton is now 10 months old, and WALKING. i love it and he is so cute. he is just so small but he loves to walk. he is 17 lbs 15 oz and in the 7%ile for weight. he is 28 1/2 in long and in the 44%ile for length. he eats well drinks a lot, sleeps great, plays with everything and is very snuggly. he has 6 teeth and uses them to bite everything, including me.

he loves to take baths. he actually cries when i take him out. 

mikenna is almost 6 and will start school in a few weeks. i cant believe she will be in school but we are ready and have shopped a lot for her to prepare. she is my big helper at home but did give me my first experience to the er. we were at my sister laura's house. the girls were back in the room playing and we were on the couch when kaden brought mikenna out and said she was bleeding. we found a gash on the back of her head gushing out blood. after about 5 minutes we decided i better take her to the hospital to get it checked out. it ended up not being a very long cut but it was deep and she got three staples. mikenna did not cry at all in the er, she actually was giggling when they were numbing her head. she did great and a week later we went back and got her staples removed. oh we figured out she fell off the bed and hit her head on the corner of the window sill. 

the pictures are not very good of her head but the first two are of the staples and the third is after the staples were removed.  

andon is 2 1/2 and is so adorable. i just love to give him hugs and kisses. he loves basketball and just got a new golf play set that is his new interest. he likes to wear glasses and his lip lops (flip flops) all the time. and i am not kidding, when he wakes up his shoes are the first thing he puts on and they stay on until i make him take them off for either a bath or bed. he plays with mikenna and kelton real well and likes to be outside. 

i love being a mom to these kids and life is good. john and i are great and just enjoying our family. hope everyone has a good rest of the summer before school starts again. :)

Father's Day

i know i am posting this a week late but this past week i have not been my computer at all, i have been just crazy busy. on father's day we had laura and janell and there families over for dinner and we hung out and played games. it was a lot of fun. normally we have dinner at my mom and dad's but they were out of town. 

here is the wonderful father of my children with our beautiful kids.

you know i had to jump in for a picture because how often do we get a family photo... not much.

two weeks ago i told john that on monday the 22nd he needed to be completely free and make no plans. monday are john's saturdays so i had planned a special fun day for him. he had no clue what we were doing. on sunday i gave him his fathers day card and in it told him to be ready in the morning at 8:30. he was hoping to sleep in but didn't get too. 

monday morn i got up at 6 and got ready and then woke the kids up and got them ready. we left at 7:30 and john was still asleep. i took the kids to my sister's and then was home by 8:20 to pick john up. we left and started driving. we drove to arlington (about 2 hours) and went to six flags for the day. john was impressed that i planned this but i felt we needed a day alone together. the timing was perfect after a rough previous week and we had a blast. it was an awesome day.

so here we are right when we get there and wanted to take a picture with batman. the other character was aquaman. not a huge fan of whoever he is. all i can say about him is his ride is the first one we went on and we got soaked from head to toe. 

this ride was the titan, the monster roller coaster. this was the end of our day. we pretty much went on all the big rides and that was good for us.

after we left,  john wanted pf changs for dinner. i was not a huge fan of there even though i love chinese food but i am now because it was excellent. and i tried something new i have never had, chicken lettuce wraps, they were amazing.

john is my amazing husband and i love him more every day!!