Rainy day fun!

It finally rained here in NASTY HOT ARIZONA!!! It started at about 5:00 this morning. I got up to do my usual bathroom run and got back in bed. I turned to lovey and said "look lovey the sun isn't up,which means winter is coming." Lovey got up and looked out the window and said "No, it's just overcast." He totally ruined my excitement at 5:00 in the morning. Then is started raining! I got up around 8:30 and came down stairs to it dumping outside. It was coming down pretty hard. All the kids wanted so badly to go outside to play in the rain. Lovey and I kept saying, No that they would end up getting electrocuted. Lovey was more persistant than I was. He is very much a no water person when it's raining! So I got on the phone with friend for a while and went in the living room to see what was going on and the front door was left open and they- Lovey,Cameron,spencer,payton,Aaron, and Mady were all playing in the rain. The Road outside our house was flooded and the retention basin looked like a swimming pool. I quickly grabbed my camera and clicked some shots of "The Kids", including Lovey, playing in the rain.
So much for electrocution!!!!!!
Cameron had already come in the house to take a shower, so I didn't get any pictures of him. But he played in the rain. He just doesn't like being wet for too long.

First day of School! Yahoooooooo!!!!

It was the first day of school on August 10th. I think that I was the excited one. Cameron was not so excited, he wanted summer to continue as long as possible. Mady was a little nervous about going. I was nervous thinking we may have another Aaron incident. You know the one where the child is hanging on the moms leg and screaming his head off to not leave him, refusing to let go of her leg. Insisting that he doesn't need school to be smart, he already is. That one. That was Aaron in Kindergarten. It was such a lovely day for me. All the moms were looking at me wondering what in the heck was wrong with my child, and really I didn't know what was wrong with the him, at that point I just wanted to say "he's not mine". We did not have that kind of reaction with her, she did great! She loved it. spencer said that he actually likes his teacher and Aaron and Payton also like there new teacher. which I was glad, I didn't want another leg incident on the first day of school. They came home happy, and I enjoyed the quiet for 3 hours. So far so good!




The first day of School. Some are happy some are not!

OH CRAP!!!

Mady and me were making frosting and she put the powdered sugar in the mixer with the cream cheese. I turned around to wash my hand off and as I was turning back around I told her don't turn the mixer on or the powdered sugar will fly right at the moment what do you think she did, she turned the mixer on high speed and powdered sugar flew!!! She looked at me like, OH CRAP! and I started to laugh because we were both covered in powdered sugar as well as the kitchen. It took a good 15 minutes to clean up.
Don't look at my hair, it was one of those really bad hair days. The next day I cut it. It looks stupid in these pictures.

Mady's 5th Birthday

Mady turned 5 on August 4th. She got to start school this year and was so excited for her birthday and school starting. It was a lot for her. She had a great birthday. Nonni and Poppy and Aunt Jodi (cocoa) came and had dinner with us and cake and ice cream. she got some fun things for her birthday. She got makeup and money and a new bike and helmet. She rides around with her makeup on her bike purse (that is hooked to the handle bars) and just thinks she is all that. I told her that she could have her nails and toes painted and so she came down with 4 bottles of nail polish. So we painted each hand and foot a different color. She was quite a happy girl.We also had a wrestle mania. nonni and Aunt Jodi got into it with the boys. I think Cameron beat Nonni. And Spencer side swipped Aunt Jodi. She ended up with a bruised rib. spencer said he had a very small bruise from her. Aunt jodi, Cameron, Aaron and Spencer had a cupcake eating contest. Jodi and Cameron tied!
It has been a great 5 years with Mady in our family. She has brought some much needed quiet around here. The boys love giving her hugs and kisses. I think it's good for them. she knows how to wrestle and dog pile and isn't afraid to jump in when there is a room full of boys.

Lovey Turned 37!!!!

Lovey's Birthday was July 24th. he turned 37. He is getting so old! Just kidding. I made him pancakes for his birthday breakfast to start off his happy day! Then me and the kids wanted to surprise our lovey so we headed for his work. We stopped by to get him some balloons and candy. We thought there was a Sees candy down by his work and of course my luck, it was closed down.So we went to CVS to get him his other favorite, Reese peanut butter cups! we showed up to work with balloons in hand and candy. All the kids walked in with a balloon. His office is in the back so we had to walk through the whole office. Some of the older kids (namely, Cameron and Spencer) felt like dorks. I told them who cares you are doing it for dad! When lovey came home from work we went out to dinner as a family to Daves Barbque. It was pretty good! We came home and did pie and ice cream.

4th of July

It has been a while since I have blogged. I was waiting for my lovey to download pictures from the cameras so I could blog. I just need to learn how to do it.
Anyways, 4th of July was great! We went to Utah to Aunt Sharon's. It's the beest place to be for the 4th of July. Utah knows how to do it!!! We spent a couple of weeks there and everyone had tons of fun. We went to cowabunga bay in Draper. It is a huge water park with huge slides and a wandering river. I sat under the shade while everyone else had fun. mady on occassion talked me into coming into the pool with her. Cameron and Spencer spent their time at Brendan and Leslie's, which is the highlight of their summer. They get to hang out with jake and sleep in and go to bed REALLY late!! We watched the fire works at timpview highschool. There is a great hill and we all sit there and watch. We have a great view of the stadium of fire without paying the ridiculous price of the stadium of fire. We did a barbque and played games and Jessica and Brian gave a great 4th of July presentation.Every year they have something called "Tank Wars". I think Brian and Jordan started it. It's essentially that you build this tank with fire crackers on it and you have a war with an opponant! Cameron and Spencer were up against each other. It was just a ton of fun. Me and Friend did our usual trip to the quilted Bear for of course, the yummy food! The soup bowls are so good. I also got to visit with one of my friends from way back, Ida Riggs Ewing. She has not changed at all. She looks great! It was fun to talk to her and visit with her. we also went to Cabellas and wondered while our kids looked at all the dead animals. We went to church with her and her family and had dinner with them. It was just fun to see an old friend. It was a great trip.

mady and her locks of love!

For the last couple of years I have been prepping Mady for a hair cut and donation to locks of love. The day was coming near and she was not wanting to give her hair anymore. I brought her in the office and got on Anthony's laptop and brought up locks of love website. On the website there is a little girl that is bald. I started telling mady about Nonni when she had cancer and her hair fell out and how sad nonni was that she didn't have anymore hair. And I said like Nonni the little girl on the website has cancer and her hair has fallen out. I explained that when people have cancer one of the side effects is that your hair falls out and how sad people are when that happens. So mady responds with "O.k. mom I want to cut my hair and give it to nonni." I told her nonni has hair and doesn't need hers, but that this little girl does. I talked a little bit more about it and she said again that she wanted to give her hair to nonni. I told her again that nonni's hair had grown back and that she didn't need her hair. so more talking and then mady says with her hands, o.k. mom how about I give half to nonni and half to the little girl. Again I said Mady,nonni would love to have your hair but she already has some of her own. She said fine I will just take the hair and hide it for nonni. I said no Mady I am the one with the bag. You can't have it we are putting it in the bag and away it goes. She said o.k. mom. She continued with "that is so sad that ,that little girl doesn't have any hair mom." She was actually concerned and sad for her. I thought, does she really understand what she is doing, and I honestly believe that she did. She was happy to do it and loves the new do! She keeps moving her hair around. All of her brothers gave her high compliments and she turned to me and said "mom I want to grow out my hair again and cut it off and give it to another girl." I said sounds good to me. What a great opportunity for my 4 year old to give to someone in need, and to know that someone else had a need greater than her own (wanting to keep her hair).