Jeremy Reynolds Family

Animals on Parade

2012-01-31T13:36:00.000-08:00

As Jeremy and I went to bed the other night we found this on our headboard. Our cute Ty had played with his beloved animals until he fell asleep. I had to take a picture because I thought it was so cute. We find things like this regularly in our room. He loves animals of all shapes and sizes. They get much love around out house.

Ugly Sweaters!

2012-01-31T13:28:00.000-08:00

For Jeremy's Company party this year we had an ugly sweater contest. The above sweaters are mine and Jeremy's. We had so much fun picking them out. The below sweaters and the ones be picked out and decorated a bit for our friends.

Below is our friend, Stephanie, posing in her finished sweater. Isn't it lovely?

She was such a great sport. This is a blimp on her bum. They added pom poms for her sleeves. And receiver gloves on her cute pregnant belly!

Way to bring home the gold for us Steph!! She took first place in the ugly sweater contest! Below in the crowning. We had a great time making up her sweater!!

Christmas 2011!!

2012-01-31T13:23:00.000-08:00

We had a FABULOUS Christmas this year! Our kids loved it! As did Jeremy and I! I think the kids got everything they wanted.

Travis made this year especially fun. He spent Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with his biological Mom. He came home earlier then normal because he said it didn't feel like Christmas without US. He was so excited to be home with his family! He really enjoyed all of his gifts and could not thank us enough. He claims it was the best Christmas ever! I love that he loves to be with the 4 of us so much!! He is a great kid.

Christmas Programs

2012-01-31T13:19:00.001-08:00

We celebrated the Christmas season with a few programs! Above is Travis in his Christmas Choir program. It's fun to watch him try different things this year. Below is Travis in a play at the Dicken's Festival. He was in both, Oliver and A Christmas Carol. We had a great time watching him in his plays! And he did a great job!
And this is McKinley, along with all of my other Primary kids, in our ward Christmas program. They sang a few songs a did great! Aren't they cute?!

Thanksgiving 2011

2012-01-31T13:10:00.000-08:00

I decided since I haven't blogged in forever I would do a quick catch up. For Thanksgiving we went to Delta to celebrate with the Kirkland family! We always have so much fun! This was the little kids sitting on Santa's lap for the first time this year! Ty was not happy about it. Kinley did awesome!!
The day after Thanksgiving we went to Temple Square to see all the lights. It was a fun, crazy adventure. There were thousands of people there that day. We took our first ride on the trax train. It was a lot of fun! This is our cute little family in from the of Salt Lake Temple!
This is not a great pic but it's us watching the nativity seen. My Nephew, Brek, had never been there before. He had a ton of questions and it was awesome to watch Jeremy and Travis experience missionary moments with the family as they answered his questions. We had a special trip. I'm glad we got to go this year!

First Day of School!

2012-01-11T15:36:00.000-08:00

This was Ty's first day of school ever!! He started Preschool on January 3, 2012. He LOVES it!!

My Boy

2011-11-21T16:19:00.000-08:00

Who does this look like?
You will probably answer Ty. That is correct.
But the answer I'm looking for is Jeremy!!
He is Jeremy's mini-me! I LOVE IT!

Check out this adorable face.
He will pull this face numerous times a day just to make me laugh.
It works every time.

Ty LOVES these boots.
I had to take picture before he outgrows them and I regret it.
I like to let him express himself and wear them every where.
Church is the one exception.

I love this silly kid!!!

Sleepy Baby

2011-11-16T08:51:00.001-08:00

Awwww my sweet baby!
If only......
This is what happened last night when Ty was sent to his room to clean.
He didn't get much cleaning done but he did manage to get all snuggled up like a baby and fell asleep.
Good thing he looks so cute. I couldn't be mad.

Happy Halloween! 2011

2011-11-03T10:47:00.000-07:00

McKinley the Mermaid!! (Ariel)

Ty the Transformer!! (Bumblebee)

Travis the Hot Dog!!

What a dork. Trav had fun this year with his friends.
He even won the best costume award at our wards
trunk-or-treat for the 4th year in a row!!

We had a GREAT Halloween!

Who has the cutest kids in the world?

2011-10-27T13:14:00.000-07:00

I DO!!!

Fun in Vegas

2011-10-27T13:03:00.001-07:00

A few weeks ago we went to the truck race in Las Vegas.
We had so much fun spending the day together as a family.
These were the truck parked in front of us for a red flag clean up.

Jeremy and Travis are way into "COOL" cars lately.
We took some time to get pics by a few of them!

Of course they have to get a picture with their favorite drivers car!!

In our seats. If you look close you can see the cute little ear plugs.
They are definitely needed here.

After the race we wanted to go have some fun with the kids!
We headed to the M&M factory and the Coke factory.
We were nice parents and let them fill their own bags with any color they wanted. Even at $13 per pound.

We had a great time!
Kinley is a huge Las Vegas fan now. I think I might need to worry about that one.

Fall crafts

2011-10-26T17:26:00.001-07:00

These are made out of tights and left over felt strips.
So cute!

My FAVORITE so far this year!
I love this wreath.
Made out of foam pipe, ribbon and dollar store picks.
Seriously cost me about $3.
The cure pumpkins were made last year.

I know this one is random but I made it this fall too!
I have gotten into making my own jewelry so I needed somewhere to put it.
So I whipped these up!

How cute is this little ghost?!
Love!

And I'm in love with these pumpkins.
Made out of......toilet paper and fat quarters!

Three words...
I LOVE PINTEREST!

Pants to Skirts

2011-10-26T17:23:00.000-07:00

Those skirts were made out of these pants.

Kinley got too tall for her pants so I converted them to skirts.
She lives in skirts.
The striped one is my favorite.

Plan B

2011-09-19T14:55:00.000-07:00

FEEDING THE DUCKS!!
Kinley feeding her favorite duck. Now named cow duck.
Kinley's school was supposed to have a bike rodeo the other day.
Well it ended up cancelled due to bad weather but I didn't get the email before we left.
The kids were SO upset. We needed a plan B.
McKinley used her witty kindergarten brain and came up with feeding the ducks!

I had never been before and I was a little nervous.
I have heard stories about these ducks and geese attacking you to get food.
But I faced my fears and away we went.
Kinley wasn't scared. The geese were as tall as her but she is super brave.
See how close the geese are? They got even closer.
At this point Ty was in the car....exactly where I wanted to be.
But Kinley would not go so I took the moment to snap a few pics.

Look there is Ty! He is a scaredy cat but he had fun for a little while!!
We really did have fun!
Part two of plan B was ice cream! Also thought up by miss smarty pants, McKinley.

Posing for a pic! Isn't she adorable!!!

Ty is posing too!!

Check out his teeth. This was in between dental visits.
One crown had fallen out with his little tooth exposed. Ice cream was not a good idea for him.
The other tooth has a vertical crack in it.
These crowns were a mess.

All in all plan B turned out to be a fun night!
Thanks to Kinley!

First Day of School 2011

2011-08-23T14:48:00.001-07:00

Travis ready for his first day as a FRESHMEN!! I love that he is still a good sport about me taking his "first day of school" pictures.

McKinley's first day of Kindergarten. We did a joy school last year so this was the first time she was going to a "real" school. She was excited, I was COMPLETELY nervous.

Standing by her bus. I think the bus gave me more anxiety then school.

And sitting at her desk!
She is so big now.

I had so many emotions yesterday as I sent my baby off to school without me. It was a rough day for me but in the end all was well. She did great and I'm sure knows more about getting to and from home then I give her credit for. I love this little lady. I'm so excited for her to grow up and learn and experience life but it is hard to watch her go.

As a side note: She does know more than I give her credit for. Today (being only the second day of school) "mom of the year" here forgot to pick her up from the bus stop. She walked home by herself, knocked on the door then said, "You made me walk home all by myself?" She wasn't very happy with me.

I am not very happy with myself right now. I want to cry but I know it won't do any good. I'm very upset with myself but also a little upset that the bus driver let her go. I know he has a lot of kids to keep track of and it's my fault not his but I'm still upset. Good think for modern technology, I will be setting an alarm on my phone to remind me from now on.

Seven Peaks

2011-08-15T15:31:00.000-07:00

We go to spend the weekend with the Kirkland family at Seven Peaks! My parents, siblings and their kids go every year but this was our first year to join them. We had so much fun! Last time I was there I was pregnant with Ty and Kinley was only 16ish months old so I didn't get to do anything and I have been bitter ever since.

This time was totally different. The kids LOVED the lazy river so we went around that about 100 times. It was great cause the adults took turns with the kids so we all got a chance on the slides. We had so, so, so much fun!!!

I was going to take my camera and take pictures but I just wanted to enjoy the day and not worry about the perfect picture op. So I left the cameras home. However I did take the below pics after we got home. I just had to share my beautiful bruise to prove just how much fun I had! We all came home with a few bumps and bruises but I think mine takes the cake. This beauty measures 11 inches long (yes I got out the ruler) and stretches from my bum to almost my knee. How did this happen you ask???? Let me share the story.

Jeremy and I decided to take the kids down a few of the big slides. This was our first run down. Jeremy went first with Ty on his lap, Kinley and I followed after with her on my lap. Well apparently you are supposed to lay down on this ride and I was sitting up so about half way down we stopped. I tried to lay down but my swim top kept rolling up and stopping us. So I sat up and tried to push us down the slide. As I got to the bottom I saw the look on my family's faces turn from smiles to fear. I know we were about to get hit. Some poor guy slammed into us and pushed us into the water. I just wanted to keep Kinley above water. I didn't care if I was hurt. We got up and the poor guy apologized and asked if we were okay. We were fine. Everyone was worried that it hurt my back but that was fine. I did notice my leg was sore but I didn't think much of it.

A few hours later my two older sisters and I were in line for the same slide when my oldest sister told me I was bruised from butt to toe. I looked down and said, "Oh my gosh that is from when that guy ran into Kinley and I." As the day went on it got darker and darker. So I took a picture that evening. This first picture is about 10 hours after it happened. By the way, don't judge my fat legs.

And this is the beauty today. This one is roughly 48 hours after it happened. I think it's funny how it has lines in it. Almost like his foot rolled my skin as it slid down my leg. It's pretty sore but it was all worth it. I LOVE Seven Peaks!!!I wasn't the only one to escape with battle wounds. Jeremy accidentally did a summer-salt in the lazy river which is only 3 1/2 feet deep so he got "road rash" on his head. Kinley fell and scraped up her knee. And my sister, Cody, got a small cut on her toe. That's all of the wounds that I was aware of.

Little Mermaid at Tuacahn

2011-08-09T11:17:00.000-07:00

Last night we took the whole family to see The Little Mermaid at Tuacahn. It was SO FUN! Ariel is Kinley's favorite princess so we HAD to go. Notice Sebastian is missing a face? Ty is a turd and would not get in the picture.

Kinley and I so excited for the show to start.

Kinley sporting her Ariel headband!
She got this from a friend for Christmas.
When she decided to wear it to the play she said,
"Thank yoooouuu Taylee!" It was so funny.

Kinley standing in front of the stage at intermission
We were only a few rows up. We had sweet seats!

Travis, Ty and Kinley sitting next to all of Ariels "human stuff"!
She sang "Part of your world" Kinley's favorite song right there!
McKinley was in heaven.

This is the boys hangin' out during intermission.
I took this pic to prove Jeremy really was there.

And the all time coveted picture.......
McKinley with Prince Eric and Princess Ariel!
She even got their autographs!
The smile on her face made me melt.
Every thing was well worth it to see this smile!

Ready to go home with autographs in hand.
I had the best feeling ever as we drove away.
My daughter was completely happy for those few hours.
There is nothing better in the world than to watch your child enjoy complete bliss!!!!

Two Days of Swimming

2011-08-09T11:03:00.001-07:00

We spend friday and saturday last week swimming at the WCCC! It was so much fun!! Thanks so the Morris family for the great times! Ty LOVED the lazy river, or the "spinner" as he called it. We went around that thing over and over and over. He did great in his life jacket. He kept telling me, "Mom I'm big. Don't touch me."
McKinley and her BFF Aaliyah! These two had so much fun together! There were all over that place. They did well in their life jackets too. We just had to look around for two pink jackets holding up two adorable little girls every few minutes. It was always fun to try to spot them. Like where's Waldo!! Or rather where's the two mermaids? That's what they were pretending to be all day.
Every time Ty and I would swim passed Cyndi Ty would say, "Mom tell Cyndi to see me." Then he would smile and wave at her. He needed her to know he was swimming by.
I thought Paul was in this pic with us but apparently not. He was so cute. He had on bright green goggles and totally did his own thing.

And the best part of it all!! Kids are super sleepy after a few hours in the pool. Dad was out of town so they had a sleep over in my room! What a great weekend!

Pioneer Day 2011

2011-07-26T15:27:00.001-07:00

We had a great time at the Pioneer celebration in the park this year! We slept in too late so we missed the parade but the whole family had a good time at the park. Above is Jeremy helping McKinley swing this heavy hammer to ring the bell at the top of the pole. They did it!

They rang it 1 out of 3 times!!

Poor Ty was not strong enough. He didn't ring the bell but he got close.

And strong man, Travis, rang the bell all 3 times!!
Way to go Trav!

This is Daddy helping the little kids golf.

At the end of the day we went to Washington to watch fireworks. While we waited we did some sparklers and a few pop-its. The city fireworks were awesome this year! We had a great time!

Sweet Baby

2011-07-26T15:24:00.000-07:00

NO I DID NOT have another baby...
but one of my good friends did...
and we LOVE him!!

I love both of these pictures.
You can definitely see how much my boys love this little guy.
Unfortunately I didn't get a pic of Kinley holding him.

Chop Sticks

2011-07-26T15:21:00.000-07:00

We love Mongolian BBQ!
The food is great!
The atmosphere is fun!
The people are fabulous!
But the chop sticks rule!!!

Summer Fun 2011!!

2011-07-26T14:56:00.001-07:00

Summer fun 2011 !!
Above is me and Ty on the new St. George carousel.
Below is Kinley on the carousel. We love it!
I love this picture of Kinley.

More fun at the main street splash park.

Above and below are the kids playing in our back yard.
When you can't leave the house we make our own fun!!!

Below is the Kinley and Ty with some friend at a play date.
They all posed so cute for this picture!

Notice Jeremy and Travis are missing from this post. All of these times where when Jeremy was at work and Travis is a teenager so he doesn't like to hang out with us much.
Happy Summer everyone!

Sweet Deal!

2011-07-08T13:21:00.001-07:00

Oh how I LOVE sweet deals!! I went to Krumpet's today intending to score on some 4th of July decorations....and I TOTALLY DID!!!!

I got the above pictured items (9 to be exact) for....
wait for it....
A grand total of........................
$14.21!!!
Oh ya baby!!

My total before the 75% off discount was $53.49. I saved $40.12!

LOVE SWEET DEALS!!
LOVE KRUMPET'S!!

Too Busy!

2011-06-15T15:33:00.000-07:00

I've been entirely too busy lately to catch up on my blog! I was recently called to be the Primary President in my ward. This is a HUGE calling. It's taking up a ton of my time and consuming a lot of my thoughts. I have also been potty training Ty. Believe it or not it has been successful this time! YAY! And I have been crafting my life away! Check it out!

Headbands and Hair Bow for Kinley!!

A group of my friends have started having these AWESOME jewelry parties! I have gone to one every weekend for about 6 weeks now. The lady has all the stuff needed. She sets out the beads, chains and examples. You just go and make what you want then pay her when your finished! It's fun and super cheap! Plus you get to make jewelry to match your wardrobe. It's been a blast!!

This is the jewelry Kinley has made for herself.
She made a different piece each time she got to go with me.

This is my set. It all started with the watch band.
Then I made an additional piece at the other parties.

I made lots more earrings and needed a place to put them...
so I made this frame!
I LOVE it. I also made most of the earrings hanging on it.

McKinley needed and earring holder too.
This is hers with her baby picture next to it.

I have been working on crafts to auction at our family reunion.
This is one I came up with made from pages out of a book.

And of course more earrings and earring holders for the reunion.
I LOVE the purple polka dot one. I'm tempted to keep it. :)

I have also made these super cute rag wreaths.
I've had so much fun making these!
I chose these three to keep for myself.

And these four to be auctioned at the reunion.
I'm tempted to keep the purple, pink & blue on for myself too!
What is with me liking purple lately?
I have always hated the color until recently.

I thought I would throw in a picture of my kids entertaining themselves
on our new trampoline since I craft so much lately.
This trampoline was given to us the other day from a family in our ward.

Thank you Fife family for being so generous!!

We LOVE it!

That's it for now. I guess since the reunion will be over this weekend I will have to find something else to do to entertain myself. Maybe I should work on being a Mom. I'm sure my kids would agree!

My Tiny Dancer!

2011-06-05T17:46:00.001-07:00

This is McKinley after her very first dance recital!
Above is a picture of her and the two other girls in her class.
Below is my tiny dancer in her adorable pose.

We had so much fun watching McKinley dance. She is a born dancer and she can shake it like no other so we knew we had to get her into a class somewhere. The unfortunate thing is all the dance classes cost more than we felt we could afford. Well I went to ladies night at the Boulevard a few months ago and there was a lady there promoting her class. She only charges $20 a month and her costumes are inexpensive too! We LOVE it! And Kinley has a blast!!

Mini Vacation

2011-05-18T14:32:00.000-07:00

Sorry no pictures. I am a slacker but here is an update to read.

Last weekend we went on a mini vacation with our family! We never have the funds to go on a real vacation like we want so this one had to do for this year. My sister, Cody, and her family went to Lagoon over the weekend for a dance competition and invited us. We took her up on the offer and made a weekend out of it!

On friday we went to Delta to spend the night. Saturday morning we got up and headed to Lagoon taking my brothers kids with us. We had SO MUCH FUN!!! We spent all day at Lagoon watching my Nieces dance and enjoying the rides. What a blast! Sunday morning we got up and went to the Zoo! Ty LOVES animals so we couldn't wait to take him to see them live and up close. Too bad the Hogle Zoo sucks. I was not impressed but I don't think the kids knew the difference.

Here are 15 things I learned over the weekend.

1. I forgot how much fun Lagoon can be.
2. If you give your teenager a little bit of freedom at Lagoon he will have an absolute blast!
3. If your 3 year old is being brave do not freak him out and take him on a scary ride.
4. My kids LOVE to be with their cousins.
5. My 5 year old daughter is a dare devil. She rode all the kid rides and a few of the adult rides. She even went on rides that she didn't care for just cause her cousins wanted to go. I was completely impressed by her!
6. It feels good to find and return a lost child to his Mother.
7. The Hogle Zoo sucks right now. They don't have very many fun animals.
8. My sister can be brave with a little prodding.
9. I LOVE to spend time with my family!!
10. Children have complete trust in their parents. It is wonderful to realize how much they love and trust you.
11. It brings me COMPLETE JOY to watch my kids have so much fun. They had permanent smiles at Lagoon
12. My husband still makes me laugh! I love him dearly.
13. No matter where you are it feels like home if you are with family.
14. I still love the classic carnival rides. Tilt a whirl, scrambler and bumper cars are my all time favorite!
15. It's refreshing to relax and enjoy a few days of pure fun with my family!

More Refashions

2011-04-22T14:17:00.001-07:00

So this is a picture of ONE of Jeremy's old work shirts.
Picture this in a few different colors and styles.
These are what I have been using to make McKinley
and I a new wardrobe.
This particular shirt was turned into one of
the skirts pictured below.

This really is not a great picture.
They are two calf length knit skirts that
I will probably wear a lot during the summer.
They are super comfy.

This is an adorable bubble skirt that I made for Kinley.
Again made out of one of Daddy's shirts.

This is how it looks on her.
I am in love!

Thanks for the "know how" Megan!
She shared her mad sewing skills with me
so I whipped this up in like 30 minutes.

Another Skirt Refashion

2011-04-22T14:08:00.001-07:00

See the long skirt on the left?
I refashioned it....

Into this cute short skirt!
I love it!

This is a closer picture of the detail.

When I start making a project it never really turns out how I envisioned it in the beginning but I usually end up liking the end result so that is good. The ruffle on this skirt was make out of one of my husband's old work shirts. I make A LOT of stuff out of his old shirts. I cut strips from the back side of it and sewed three of them together. Then I gathered and sewed it to the denim. I thought it still needed more so I dug some lace out of the bag-o-tricks, doubled it to look thicker and sewed it on too! I LOVE this skirt now and can't wait to wear it to church with my new shirt that will match perfectly!!!

Easter Egg Wreaths!

2011-04-18T11:22:00.000-07:00

McKinley and I made these cute easter crafts the other day.
We had so much fun!
We made two for our house and the other two for friends.

This is a close up of the one hanging inside our house.
I really love it!
Inexpensive and fun!

So Sleepy

2011-04-18T10:34:00.000-07:00

How does he sleep like that?
I know that can't be comfortable.

Look close at his ear.
Wonder Mom here didn't put sunblock on him
so his ear blistered and popped when he was playing.
Poor boy. Lesson learned....use sunblock!

Sleep tight sweet boy.

Little Mother Hen

2011-04-13T12:57:00.001-07:00

I tend this adorable little boy. He came to our house two days ago and ended up getting really sick. This is Kinley helping me out! He was so sick he just wanted to be held all day long. When I had to put him down to help the other kids Miss Mother Hen would step in! She actually got him to go to sleep in this position. So sweet.

I am really impressed with the natural motherly instinct that McKinley already has in her. She seems to know how to console babies pretty quickly and easily. Today the baby pictured got a hold of a thick plastic beach bag. Without even being told Kinley knew it was something he should not have so she kindly took it away from him and gave him something else to play with. She is so smart and my best little helper!

Easter Crafts

2011-04-13T12:44:00.000-07:00

Egg shaped rice crispies!

Cute doggies out of plastic easter eggs!

Adorable pigs out of plastic easter eggs!

It was my turn to teach our little joy school again last week so we did fun easter stuff! They made cute easter eggs and decorated easter pencils then I sent all the kids home with an easter egg animal. My kids and I had so much fun making these animals. I thought they were adorable. There were lots more on the website but it was too late to try them all, maybe another day.

TREATS!!!

A sweet family in our ward had a yard/bake sale last weekend. The father of a young family was recently diagnosed with cancer and cannot work so they did a fund raiser. These are the treats I donated. They were simple treats for me and my kids to make together. We had fun and helped someone out in the meantime!

Lilacs=Grandma

2011-04-06T08:43:00.001-07:00

How beautiful are these?!

A few years ago I was surprised to notice a lilac bush in my back yard. You see lilacs remind me of my Grandma Callister. Now I get a daily reminder of her each spring as my flowers grow!

My Grandma has been passed away for over 15 years now but the smell of lilacs takes me right back to her. She used to have a beautiful lilac bush outside her front door. I loved the spring because it would blossom and fill the air with it's light, fresh scent. I remember smelling them ever time I went to visit her.

I miss you Grandma. Some day we will be together again!

Sick Boy :(

2011-03-22T10:23:00.000-07:00

This little man is so sick.

My little Ty guy is so sick. It makes me so sad. We had been fighting illnesses for over 2 months now. It's so annoying. The whole family has been sick but mostly Ty. In the last 3 weeks we have had Kinley into the doctor once and Ty in three times. He has had pink eye, a nasty cold virus and now a horrible ear infection.

I took Ty to the doctor 2 days ago. He had been running a fever of 102-103 for a few days then he started saying his right cheek hurt. I didn't know if it was his throat, ear or tooth so to the doctor we went. Turned out he had an ear infection so bad that it had perforated. I felt awful. How could I miss that? Probably cause we rarely get ear infections in our family. He is on amoxicilin for the second time in 3 weeks and has ear drops. His ear is draining some nasty stuff now. I hope he feels better soon. His fever is finally gone but he still coughs. He just lays around all day. He sleeps and wants Mommy to hold him constantly. Poor baby.

I just want to cuddle him and take his pain away. But all I can do is love on him and give him yucky medicine. I can't even kiss him cause I have nasty cold sores covering my entire bottom lip. It sucks. I really HATE it when my kids are sick.

Want to Color?

2011-03-17T14:31:00.000-07:00

McKinley was really sick the last two days.
First thing this morning she got up and got to coloring!
That is how I knew she was better!

Kinley has been into coloring SO much this year. Since Christmas she has already colored 3 color wonder books cover to cover. They have 18 pages each. Then she got this cute Strawberry Shortcake coloring book for her birthday and almost has it all done too. She LOVES to color and she is so good at it. It's great that it keeps her so entertained.

Hail Storm

2011-03-17T14:24:00.001-07:00

It hailed at our house about a week ago.
It was crazy, cool.
Probably only cause I was inside.

Are you prepared?

2011-03-11T12:02:00.000-08:00

Are you prepared?
Do you have an emergency 72 hour kit?
It's my new obsession.
Above is my list of items needed for our hygiene kits.
Below is all 5 of our kits completed!!!!

About a year ago a fabulous Lady in our ward did a Relief Society meeting on emergency preparedness. She challenged us to go home and make a 72 hour kit for everyone in our family.
I totally brushed it off and did not do it.

A few months ago one of my best friends was put in as our ward's emergency preparedness specialist. So that got me to thinking that I really should get those kits put together. So I started with going online and making list after list of items suggested for the kits. Jeremy and I also started shopping around at DI's to find nice, sturdy backpacks for everyone in the family. We still need to find two more so I got started on hygiene kits first.

I mostly used stuff from around my house. I did make a trip to the dollar store last night to get a few things that we didn't have. I have really enjoyed getting these put together. It is so nice to know that we are in the process of getting the items we need in case of an emergency.

The hygiene kits are all done and I have started on the 72 hour backpacks. I can't wait to see how it feels once they are complete. It is nice to finally have some food storage and other necessities that our Prophets have counseled us to get. If you have not started yours I would encourage you to do so. Love you all.

Skirt Refashion

2011-03-10T15:43:00.001-08:00

See this LONG skirt?
I cut it up and made new short skirts.
Sorry Renee I hope you aren't made at me.
This was for her wedding 7 years ago.
I thought I should make it into something I can wear!

This is the first of the two skirts.
I really like it....but.....
I'm not experiences and I cut it too short.
But that's okay cause I have had 2 kids in the last
7 years and it doesn't exactly zip us all the way.
I will have to see if one of my cute Niece's wants it.

This is the second skirt I made out of it!
I love this one, and it fits me!
This I will actually wear to church.

And this is Kinley posing for me, as usual.
This is the dress from my last post.
I made a sash for it and this is what
it looks like on.
She loves it and I think it's adorable!

Look what I made!!

2011-03-04T17:23:00.001-08:00

Isn't this cute!
My friend had a craft night and taught us how to make
these adorable cupcake trays.
I love it.

This is one of my refashions!
This used to be one of Jeremy's old shirts
now it's McKinley's new skirt.
I had plans to make a bubble skirt but Kinley
likes it the way it is so I left it.

And this I love!
This used to be one of my old skirts.
I turned it into Kinley's new dress.
I LOVE doing this stuff!
Sorry there aren't any before pictures.
I get so excited about my projects I forget the before pics.

T-Shirt Refashion!!!

2011-03-02T13:04:00.000-08:00

I'm in LOVE with my new sewing machine! And I need reasons to use it! So I came up with some. My wonderful Husband and Kids gave me a sewing machine for our anniversary. While on our anniversary trip my wonderful Husband bought me a bunch of new shirts because I'm sick of being the plain T-shirt mom. So I came home and went through my closet to get rid of the plain T's. I decided why throw that $$ away. REFASHION instead! So I have started. These are the first ones I have gotten done and I LOVE them!

The first two pictures are my boring T's that I made fun
by cutting a "too tight" T to make these ones
corsage T's.
LOVE!

The shirt below is a reverse applique.
Again I cut up a T that was too small to go behind this one.

Kinley wanted refashioned shirts too.
This is her corsage shirt.
I like hers even better then mine.

An this is her reverse applique.

I LOVE this one!

I can't wait to make more fun stuff! Stay tuned cause I have lots of ideas to make some of my old skirts into new dresses for Kinley and old shirts into new skirts for her. I also have more plans to refashion some more clothes for myself. Let the sewing resume!!!!

The kid's bedroom

2011-03-01T10:09:00.003-08:00

I FINALLY got around to redoing Kinley and Ty's bedroom.
So it only took three years give me a break I've been busy. Hahaha
Anyway the M pictured above used to be part of McKinley's name on the wall.
In my young days of creativity I had no idea what I was doing and used
outdoor mega stick stuff on the wall.
That's what the M looked like once I got it off the wall.

This is what the wall looked like.
Oh crap. Holes everywhere.

So I worked my magic and repaired it.

Then the painting began!
Viola!! A blue wall!
Now Ty is no longer trapped in a girl room.
All the walls are a different color; green, yellow, pink and now blue.

This is the blue wall after the redo.
It's cute but simple.

And this is the new bunk bed!
Kinley loves it....Ty, not so much.

The bedding I made for Ty for his birthday!

And McKinley's bedding!
I totally love hers!

So their bedroom is finally done. I might add a little more decor but
I have to decide what first.
We had a good time putting it together.
Kinley even got to help Mommy paint!

Kid's Quilts

2011-02-21T14:31:00.001-08:00

My fantastic husband gave me this wonderful machine for our anniversary!
I have wanted a sewing machine for about a year now and
I LOVE IT!!
Thanks so much honey!
I quickly put it to work making quilts for birthdays.

I have had fabric sitting in my room for about a year. I finally made my little kids
the intended quilts and pillowcases for their new bunk beds.
But it's okay that it took me a year cause they just got bunk beds a few weeks ago.
The above pic of Ty's.

And this beauty is McKinley's! I absolutely LOVE it!!

These are the pillowcases I made.
I found a tutorial online and threw them together.

These are the two quilts together.
The kids love them and they also got pillow pets for their birthdays to join the new bedding!
I will post later about the bedroom redo with more pics of the beds.

Anybody Sleepy?

2011-02-17T13:48:00.000-08:00

Pictures of my kids falling asleep at random times or in random places.
Like this one of Ty in a shopping cart.
I ended up buying a few items we didn't need to keep him comfortable!

Nice blanket.

This was just today.
He actually fell asleep in the shopping cart again but I didn't get a pic this time.

My sweet boy exactly one week old!

Chubby cheeks!!

Who gives a one year old soda pop? This Mom does.
Puts him right to sleep!

This is my adorable baby girl at five days old.
This is one of my all time favorite pictures of her.

Crash time.

This was just a few weeks ago.
This picture cracks me up. How are they even comfortable?
Ty had to sleep with ALL of his animals too!

I need to add a big
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MCKINLEY!
My sweet girl is 5 today.

Happy Valentine's Day!

2011-02-16T18:52:00.000-08:00

Did you all have a good Valentine's Day? We did!
We started by painting our nails a week ago.

These are my toes. Hooker red with hearts for the holiday.
Don't look too close they're not that great.

These are Kinley's with matching fingers!

Then for joy school all the kids decorated pockets to put Valentine's in.
Aren't they cute? I love how all of their personalities show in their artwork!

I also made some for a few of the day care kids I watch.

Then my husband ended the day by making us a FABULOUS meal!
Oh my gosh my husband is the BEST cook.
This picture is our appetizer! Grilled shrimp guacamole tostada bites!!!
OH SO YUM!!

And this was our amazing meal!
Barbecued ribs and shrimp scampi linguine!
AMAZING!!
We should have had a side dish but we aren't much for sides and
this was plenty of food.

We had a wonderful day!
Oh and don't forget all the chocolate that we all got!!

New Glasses Day!

2011-02-11T11:33:00.000-08:00

McKinley in her new glasses!

Kinley has now had glasses for a year and a half. Three days ago she got a new pair! These are only her second pair of glasses. She has done really well with them. We had the first pair for 8 months before they got broke. However, we did spend the last 4 or 5 months super gluing them together. Mostly because Ty likes to rip them off her face and throw them when he is mad at her.

Once January came around it was time for a new pair! Kinley picked these out all by herself. Personally they are not my favorite but I'm not the one that has to wear them. They are princess Ariel glasses! She loves them. The new place we went treated her like a princess and that made me really happy.

Now look closely.
Can you see it?
They are bifocals.

As most of you know McKinley has a "lazy eye". Her right eye tends to wonder. I have learned so much about this condition it is really interesting. Anyway, we patched her for a year and a half and she did okay with that. It did improve her eye a lot but the doctor felt we had corrected it as much a possible with the patch and now need to retrain it, hence the bifocals. Bifocals will teach her eyes to work together to see correctly both near and far. So far she has done amazing with bifocals! I have to admit I was worried. She is doing great and I have not noticed her eye wondering much with them! Cross our fingers that this will work for her.

I LOVE THIS GIRL!!!

Our 7th Anniversary!

2011-02-08T08:37:00.000-08:00

This post is mostly just for me to remember. I don't keep a journal. It might be kind of boring and there are no pictures so don't feel like obligated to read it.

This past weekend was our 7th Anniversary! We had the best time! Friday night we headed to Delta with the kids. We spent the night there then headed up to Salt Lake. We got to Orem and stopped for some seafood! So yummy. Then we did a little shopping at the University Mall.

We then drove to Murray and checked into our hotel, provided my EVCO. It was the annual company party so we stayed in a nice King suite for the night. After check in a sprucing up a bit we went to West Valley for the company party. We had so much fun! It was long but one of the better parties we have been to. They had Polynesian food with music and booty shakin' music. The entertainment was fun and we danced a little and laughed a lot! Thanks EVCO and friends for the fun time!

Sunday was our actual anniversary. Keep in mind we are simple people and we have never done more than go out to dinner for our anniversary so being out of town was a big deal!! Plus we didn't have any kids with us! SCORE!!!

We spent most of our day at the Gateway. We took in a movie and laughed! Then we did some shopping for ourselves, okay mostly me! Thanks honey!! We wondered around, talked and held hands! So fun to reconnect. We had plans for a fabulous dinner at Tucanos but they were closed since it was sunday. I was so disappointing but I decided not to let that spoil our day. We ate at Z Tejas instead and it was delicious!

Then it was time to head to our room!! Wink, Wink! We stayed at the Anniversary Inn! It was so fun and different for us. We stayed in the Phantom of the Opera room. We chose that room cause it had an amazing tub. It was a great time. We slept in until they brought breakfast to our room at 10. It was so nice and relaxing. And for those guys out there, we did watch most of the Super Bowl.

On monday morning we started making our way back home. We stopped in Provo and ate at Tucano's. It is so good! If you haven't tried it you should go. Then we went to Delta and pick up the kids from my parent's. It was a fabulous weekend!! Thanks to my parent's for keeping the kids and a huge thanks to my Hubby for such a wonderful Anniversary weekend! I love Jeremy way, way, way more now then I did 7 years ago!!!

Fun with friends

2011-02-01T15:58:00.000-08:00

We have been having lots of fun with friends around our house lately!
This is a pic of my kids painting with their best friend, we also call her
our 4th child, B.!!

Ty is working pretty hard on that airplane.

Kinley making sure all of her colors get used.
What a beautiful butterfly!

Being ballerinas!
This is Kinley's newest favorite outfit!
She dresses in this everyday and only puts on "real clothes" when I make her.

Now they are being SUPER HERO'S!!
This was a great activity cause it brought back old memories for me!
They had a blast for a few days with towels around their necks!

Fun stuff not pictured:
Making a hut with a blanket over the table.
Playing drums on the laundry baskets.
And many, many pictures created and painted.

Southern Utah Snow

2011-01-13T09:58:00.000-08:00

It snowed earlier this month!
It was so much fun the kids and I went out to build snowmen...
to bad I didn't take a picture of them.
This is my yard with snow in it.

Palm tree covered in snow.
Weird.

Check it out. Almost 2 inches.
It was all melted by the end of the day.
But, hey, at least we enjoyed it for a while.

Christmas Crafts

2011-01-12T19:40:00.001-08:00

Candy cane snowmen!
I was well prepared during Christmas time and got a lot done
so I decided to make these to go with our neighborhood treats.
Aren't they cute?
Kinley and I had a blast making them!

How many did we make?
About 36.

This is a cute plaque that I made for my Niece for Christmas!
She is a HUGE Dallas Cowboys fan.
Her Dad even took her to Texas to watch a game!
Spoiled girl.

I made these adorable plaques for the kids to hang their artwork
and other collectibles on.
This one is for my Niece Alix!

This one is for our sweet Brooky. She is like our 4th kid!
I couldn't think of anything that started with a B so she got "artwork" also.

This one is for my crafty Kinley!
I just love the bows and buttons on the bottom of the ribbon!

And this one is for my Ty-Ty!
I love how rustic and boyish this is!

I had so much fun making all these little crafts for Christmas! I love to personalize everything with color and character. I need to give a shout out to my friend and neighbor who helped me SO much with all of my crafts and with all of the vinyl. Thanks a ton Rachel!!!

Enjoying the Season!

2010-12-14T12:05:00.001-08:00

How cute are we?!
We ventured out to the Mall on black friday for a little shopping and......
to see SANTA!!
Ty was not a big fan.
After we left he told Jeremy that he wants Santa to bring him dinosaurs.

McKinley, on the other hand, couldn't wait to see Santa!
She told Santa that she wants an Ariel Baby.
She is definitely counting down to Christmas!!!

We have this cute white tree that we put out every year,
this year Kinley suggested that we decorate it.
We had a great time out there last weekend!
And the weather was beautiful.

This is our finished product.
I hung the lights all by myself!!
This was the first time we have every hung lights on our house.
The kids and I had a ton of fun!
I am a little afraid of heights that is why the other roof is not lite up.
I was too scared to get up there.
It's not great but hey it's festive!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Happy Birthday to me!

2010-12-02T14:17:00.000-08:00

Aren't they beautiful?!
My sweet hubby sent these to me for my birthday yesterday!
Oh how I LOVE him!!!!

Yes I know that it's a little weird to write about my own birthday but it was such a fabulous day! McKinley woke up and dressed herself then make straight to me, she gave me a big hug and said, "Happy Birthday Mommy!" It was a great way to start the day.

I took Kinley to preschool and spent the next 2 hours cleaning my house. I love to have a clean house and it needed it. The rest of the day was pretty normal other than lots of fun texts and calls and of course the flowers.

When Jeremy got home he had arranged for our Niece to come over and tend the kids so he and I could go out. We went to Cafe Rio it was so good. I haven't been there for about a year. After dinner we went and did some Christmas shopping. I love Christmas shopping with my hubby!

We came home around 10 and our poor kids were still waiting up for us cause they wanted to see me open presents. I got my favorite perfume and some cute new boots. Then we ate our cake and went to bed. It was a great day! Thanks to everyone who posted on facebook and texted me and called me and gave me awesome gifts. It was a wonderful birthday!!

Thanksgiving 2010

2010-11-28T18:05:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. I know we did!
These are my adorable little kids on Thanksgiving morning.
They are wearing their super cute turkey shirts that a friend made for them.

A few years ago McKinley got a turkey shirt from old navy. She wore it for a few years then it got too small so just 2 weeks ago it got relocated to the garage. When Kinley discovered it was gone she was all upset cause she wanted to wear it for Thanksgiving. She wanted a new one so bad she gave me the $10 she has saved and asked me to buy her a new one. We went to old navy and they didn't have any....she was so upset. That same day my friend had posted some turkey shirts she made for her kids on her blog. I bought shirts for my kids and enlisted her to make these amazing shirts! We surprised the kids with turkey shirts on Thanksgiving and it made their day!!

I apologize to my in-laws but I have to admit that I did not think Thanksgiving was going to be too great this year. We spent it with only a handful of Jeremy's family and I though that the kids and myself might be bored. I have to admit I was completely wrong. We had a fabulous time!!

There were only about 20 of us with 4 of us being kids. The kids had a blast at their own little kid table. The adults had the tables set up all nice and in a square so we could all talk. It was awesome! We had a wonderful meal with interesting conversation. After all the good food we headed to the gym (we were in a church) where we played a few games. Then we decided to play a game of kick ball. We had so much fun! Everyone played, from age 2 to age 80! I truly had a wonderful, wonderful Thanksgiving!! Thank you Reynolds family for a great time! We love you!

Ty's first haircut!

2010-11-21T16:31:00.001-08:00

About a week ago Jeremy, McKinley and Ty got haircuts!
This was Kinley's hair before they started cutting.

This was after a snip or two.

And here is the finished product! She looks so cute.
We love her new haircut. She cut nearly 5 inches off.

Now for Ty's very first official haircut....

This is the first swipe with the clippers.
Mom had to hold back my tears at about the same time.

As you can see he is not too happy to be getting his haircut.

And now he is a little more relaxed!

Aww he was SO good. I was SO impressed.

This is Ty after is first haircut!
Now he look like a little boy and not my baby anymore.
I am still sad about it.

Before his haircut Ty had beautiful red hair with sweet little curls in the back.
I totally wanted to keep it a little long but the girl cutting it suggested otherwise
because his hair is having a hard time growing in above his ears.
So we went short. So sad but I must say he is still super cute!
Most people find it funny that he is 2 1/2 and this was his first haircut.

We LOVE these cute kids!!!

Halloween 2010!

2010-11-01T13:54:00.000-07:00

We had a ton of fun this year for Halloween!
This is Ty as a monkey. He didn't want is picture taken.
And I'm special and can't figure out how to turn them. Sorry.

This is Kinley as an adorable Tinker Bell!
She was so dang cute and she is a wonderful poser at picture time!

Check out the old Grandma, Travis!
We had a BLAST getting him dressed up!
I had so much fun being creative with his outfit! I even curled all of his hair!
He has a walker to go with it but I didn't get that in the pic.

Tink and the monkey!

These are my 3 adorable little kids.
Ty, Kinley and the cutie B that we tend!
She was so cute all dressed up we had to include her in all our Halloween pics!

It was a great year for all of us!!

Burnt Bow Tutorial (this is for you, Valerie)

2010-10-14T14:03:00.000-07:00

Items needed to get started:
Piece of satin fabric (I was told the cheaper the better)
Scissors, Glue gun, Lighter or match, Candle, Ribbon, Prong clips & Brads

Cut satin into various sized circles.

Light your candle and singe all the way around the fabric.
You do not have to put it in the flame just in the heat.

This is what they look like after burned.

Use the brad to poke through all the layers of fabric from smallest to largest.

After the last piece, open the brad. It will look like this.

Then glue the ribbon covered hair clip onto the back.

Viola!! The finished product!!
Valerie let me know if you have any questions.

Fun with hair!

2010-10-13T09:21:00.001-07:00

Check out my adorable little girl!

Last night we decided to have some fun and braid her hair.
I have to admit it wasn't all my idea. My sister-in-law did this with her daughter.
This is how it looked this morning.

This is her after the braids were taken out
From the front...

And the back!
Too cute!
Kinley went to school this morning and she is the only girl there.
She didn't want to be too girly,
so she wore her multi-colored skirt instead of her pink one!
That's not too girly is it???

Insects & Indians

2010-10-13T09:16:00.000-07:00

In our neighborhood we are doing a joyschool for our kids.
Preschool is so expensive a few of us chose this instead.
Last week was my turn to teach and I had letter I.
What do you do for letter I? Well we decorated insect boxes.
We went on an insect hunt. Made our own insects.
And we made indian head bands.
We had SO much fun!
This is the kids with their insect boxes and indian headbands!
Aren't they adorable kids?!

My Creativity

2010-10-13T09:12:00.001-07:00

So I am not a creative person. Never have been...don't claim to be.
This is about the extent of it.
I usually just copy what I see when I do crafts but I came up with this all on my own.
I know it's not much to brag about but I was impressed with myself.
These are just more zipper bows.

The above zipper bow is supposed to be a butterfly.
Kinley loves this one!

These ones are not creative. Just some more that I made for a friend!

Gettin' my craft on!

2010-10-05T13:14:00.001-07:00

I look a long break from crafting and decided it was time to get back to it!
I wanted to make these cute zipper bows. I also made some smaller burned flowers.
And I had lots of organza that was already cut out so I made these pom-pom ones too.
Kinley loves all of them, of course. She wears the zipper ones daily.

Once I got started I just kept on going. Most of the fabric is already cute so I just need to put it together. The problem is....Kinley has way to many bows already.
I don't know what to do with all of these.

I gave some of them away for a birthday!

I made myself some cute headbands too! I love these.
Now I need to wear them!

Fire Station

2010-10-05T13:06:00.000-07:00

Last month for preschool we were learning the letter F.
One of the teachers for that week arranged a field trip for the kids.
This top pic is of most the the cute kids learning fire safety.

This is the lady that gave us our tour. She was really cool!
She got dressed in all of her fire gear including the mask to show the kids that she is not scary.
She then crawled next to each of them and taught them to yell and hit her so she would know they were there in case of a fire.

This in not a very good picture but it is the kids inside the fire truck!

Again not a great picture. The sun was so bright.
The kids sitting on front of the engine for a photo op.
Too bad the sun was so bright and the only camera we had was my phone.
All in all it was a great day at the fire station and the kids learned a lot!

Dentist Day

2010-09-15T14:26:00.000-07:00

Who is this beautiful girl???
This is my sweet McKinley girl....
right after getting her first cavities filled.

Notice the crooked smile!
Isn't it so cute?
I kept asking her to smile or talk for me cause she looked so cute.

She was such a trooper she got to get a treat for being so good!
She chose this make-up kit just like the one she gave her friend for a birthday present.

I was so proud of Kinley. At first I really considered giving her an oral sedative.
We decided against it and just went with the "happy gas".
She was amazing!!
I truly cannot believe how well she did.
She got two cavities filled, one in back and one in front.
Great job sweet girl!!!!

Peaches Galore

2010-09-08T14:58:00.000-07:00

I am the same as most of my friends right now
and I'm up to my ears in peaches!
We went to the church orchard the other day
and got 4 big boxes full of peaches.
I learned to do lots of different things with them.
BIG THANK YOU to my Mother-in-law!
The above pictures is the beginning of our process.
Canning!!

This is just a small portion of my kitchen.
Picture the ENTIRE kitchen covered in peaches.

This is my wonderful Mother-in-law and one of my
best friends skinning the peaches.

When we finished we had 44 bottles of peaches!!
Yahoooo!!

We also had 33 jars of jam!
Another Yahooo!

This is all that we could salvage out of two medium sized boxes.
They got too ripe. Sad. :(

Thanks to another friend of mine I learned how to make peach crumble!
Delicious!!!

And I froze the remainder!

This was such a wonderful experience for me. My family went to the orchard with two other families. Then I enlisted my Mother-in-law to come help all three of us Mom's learn how to can!
We learned the entire canning process and jamming process also.
It was so fun from beginning to end!!
Now I have yet another Suzy homemaker skill!!

Jumpin' Jacks

2010-09-08T14:52:00.000-07:00

Last month we got invited to a Birthday Party at Jumpin' Jacks!
It was our first experience there and we had a GREAT time!
Peek-a-boo Ty.

Most of the pics I take of Kinley lately are of her posing.
She is so cute!

Kinley tackling the guy.
You go girl!

Ty loves to jump so he LOVED jumpin' jacks.

Creative Minds!

2010-09-08T13:57:00.001-07:00

We had a great time at Creative Minds last week.
This is my little red headed shopper.
Isn't he cute!

Ty being a pirate with his friend in the background!

Ty had lots of favorite areas and this was one of them.
He put a ping-pong ball in these pipes then the air from the blow dryer
popped them out the other end!
He thought that was super cool!

Check out my handsome cowboy.

Ty LOVED this horse.
Staheli Farm was his favorite area of all!
He kept going back to play with all the horses.

This is Queen Kinley atop her throne at Creative Minds!
She loved the Princess chair.

She also enjoyed the play house.
This is cool for a little kid. Everything was just her size.

Funny part...she LOVED the construction zone!
She liked this more than Ty did.

The ultimate hit was the grocery store.
All three of the kids that we took loved shopping!

She is definitely my poser!
She really enjoyed being the cashier.

We will definitely visit Creative Minds again!

Sewing

2010-09-08T13:40:00.000-07:00

Sewing is something I have always wanted to learn.
So I am working on it!
I'm not great but I have done a little.
Above is the little table cloth I made to cover my TV tray
and make my VIDEO PHONE look better!

Yes, It is a video phone! You all need one! Call me!

I know this is a bad picture but I also fixed my curtains.
These used to be penned together.
I spent days gathering the front panels,
gathering is not very fun to me,
Then I sewed the panels together so no more pens for kids to get hurt on.
Yay! A new skill attempted for me!

Kinley's FIRST day of school!!

2010-08-17T12:51:00.000-07:00

This is my super adorable little poser McKinley.
This was her first ever day of school!

She absolutely LOVES school.
She asks everyday if today is a school day.
She will love it next year when she goes to school 5 days a week instead of 2.

I took first day of school pictures of Travis too,
but I will spare him the embarrassment of posting them
since he is a teenager now!!!

Scary

2010-08-09T12:52:00.000-07:00

Cute little Ty was watching Spider Man with Travis the other day.
I came home to see him watching like this.
I guess he felt better with his eyes covered. Hahaha

I had to take pictures cause he was just too cute!!
Spider Man is still a little too scary for him.

Cute

2010-08-09T12:50:00.001-07:00

This is my sweet Kinley just being cute!
I didn't get her hair done so she put her hat on. I love it!

We went to Old Navy and they had this in the front of the store.
My kids are super good sports and smiled for a picture!

Bye Bye Nackies

2010-08-04T13:51:00.001-07:00

Anyone who knows Ty very well knows he has an addiction. That's right my poor 2 year old is addicted to fruit snacks. Not just any fruit snack. They must be Welch's fruit snacks otherwise it doesn't count. To Ty these are called "Woot Nacks or Nackies" when I tried to offer him any other kind of fruit snack he would say "NO, WOOT NACKS!" On a normal day he would eat 4-10 packs of these babies. I guess he didn't really EAT them.....he SUCKED on them. Not good, I know. Fruit snacks turned into his comfort item. He wanted them first thing in the morning, last thing at night and all day in between, especially when he got scared or tired.

So last week the whole family (except Jeremy) made a trip to the dentist. Everyone did fairly good but poor Ty. Bet you can't guess? He has MAJOR tooth decay. OUCH! So now I am weening him off of his nackie addiction. This is not an easy chore but we are getting through it. We also have to brush his teeth really good twice a day and he has to take fluoride pills before bed. We go back in 6 months. If his teeth are any worse at that visit then we will have to take him to a Pediatric Dentist to get him put under and do extensive work on his teeth.

I feel so bad that I have done this to him. I am the enabler. Now all I can do is my best to make his teeth healthy.

Goof balls!

2010-08-04T13:47:00.001-07:00

Wow these two make me laugh! Ty found these glasses and wore them around the other day. He was so funny. These are the glasses you get from the movie theater when you watch 3D movies. Ty looks cute in them now but he refused to wear them to watch the movie.

Poor Kinley, you can totally tell she has crazy eyes with those glasses on. We are still patching and hoping to get her lazy eye corrected.

Fun in the Sun!

2010-08-04T13:39:00.000-07:00

How cute are these kids?!! I have to admit we have not spent much time at this (main street) splash park. This park gets so packed it's almost not even fun. I finally broke down and took the kids a few times. We have had a blast!

Along with splash parks we have spent lots of time at swimming pools lately. Last week my kids went swimming 4 times at 3 different pools. My kids are like fish. They love to get their life jackets on and swim there little hearts out. I tried to put them in a kiddie pool but McKinley says they are not fun. She likes to "get her whole body wet." Funny girl. Unfortunately I do not have pics of them swimming cause I was in the pool with them. Mommy likes water too!!

Interested!!!!??

2010-07-30T18:30:00.000-07:00

For all you ladies (and men) who are interested in what Jeremy and I are doing come to our house tomorrow (Saturday July 31) at 5:oo pm!!! This is so cool! It really is going to change our lives and possibly yours!!

Just Breath!

2010-07-27T13:41:00.001-07:00

Jeremy and I have just taken a HUGE LEAP OF FAITH in our lives! We are doing something to help secure our financial future. Right now this seems very big and scary to us, especially me. I just need to remember what our end goal is and that really this is not hard at all.

I know without a doubt that this is what we need to do. I prayed a lot about it and EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I got confirmation that this IS right!!! Heavenly Father has a plan for us.

Wish us luck in our new adventure!!!

Crafts

2010-07-15T13:02:00.001-07:00

Kinley and I have been crafty the last week.
It all started with these cute pots.
For scouts we painted pots and planted flowers in them.
I let my kids join in on the fun!

Then I made these, they have pins on the back so I can put them on my plain t-shirts.

I also decided to make some hair bows for my nieces.
Kinley already has a ton of these so I started giving them away.

We made these adorable flip-flops. I made a pair for Kinley and my niece, Lacie.
My other niece Alix bought a pair on the 4th of July for $5.
That is not a bad price but I made both pairs of these for that price!
Kinley loves hers and I heard Lacie does too!

Our last project was these cards.
For those of you that know me, I don't do cards.
I bought these at the dollar spot at Target. $1 for a pack of 4.
Then you get to put them together and decorate them any way you want.
We had a great time and now I have cards when I need them!

I have had a wonderful time with McKinley.
I love having a daughter to spend time and enjoy crafts with.
Kinley also learned to write her name this week.
She has practiced it a ton while I have been crafting.

Transition #2

2010-07-07T11:32:00.000-07:00

This is transition #2. TY IS POTTY TRAINING!
No more diapers for this household. YAY!!!

Yesterday Ty started wearing pull-ups. I have put this off for too long.
I think Ty was ready a few months ago but I wasn't.
I decided to buck up and take advantage of his readiness.
He is going potty every 30-40 minutes for now.
So far.....no accidents!!
OOOPPSSS as I was typing this he had his first accident. Jinks.

In the next few days Ty will transition to his big boy unders.
He LOVES Buzz Lightyear so this is great!

This is his potty setup.
Stool for little boys to reach and candy for every successful attempt.

This is interesting because Ty is so easily amused.
Candy makes him happy and so far he is much easier than Kinley was.
With Kinley it took months and lots of different ideas til we found something that would work.
Maybe boys really are easier than girls.
The jury is still out but I will keep you posted on this one!

Transition #1

2010-07-07T11:24:00.000-07:00

I, as the Mommy, went through some rough transitions this week.
This is the first transition of the week.
I don't have before pictures but these are the after ones.
I took down Kinley's twin bed and Ty's crib and replaced them with this queen bed.
I have to admit I cried as I took down the crib. No more babies for our house.
This was hard because my baby is turning into a big boy.
It was also hard cause all my life I have looked forward to having babies.
That part of my life is over so it's almost like a mourning process.

I do love that now we have room for more fun toys in their room.
Now they get to play tea party and school. We were able to get these out of the garage!
They are doing great in their queen bed.
In a few years we will transition them again into bunk beds!

Tea Party

2010-07-05T14:29:00.000-07:00

Sorry the pictures are turned. I can't figure out how to fix them.
This is me all dressed up for a fantastic tea party baby shower!
It was SOOOO much fun!!

Kinley thought I looked lovely!

This little man of mine knows how to tug on my heart strings.
I came down the stairs and his little jaw dropped.
He said, "Oh my gosh! WOW! WOW Momma!"
He thought I was so beautiful.
It was so much fun to play dress up for one night.
Did I mention I won chocolate because I won best dressed!!!

Can you say POP!

2010-06-30T13:50:00.000-07:00

Oh how we love the 4th of July and we love the POP that goes along with it!!!
Today I bought 12, 12 packs of pop for our annual Delta celebration.
Okay it's not all soda as you can see there is lemonade and fruit punch.
I wish it was all COKE and all MINE!!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY EVERYONE!!

The search was on...

2010-06-30T13:37:00.000-07:00

Two days ago the search was totally on for these little guys!
McKinley went to the eye doctor and had to have her eyes dilated.
That meant 3 eye drops in each eye.
She was pretty upset so I bribed her, that's right, whatever works!
I told her I would get her a Jessie and Woody doll if she would be good and get the drops.
It worked like a charm and she did great.

The only problem.....finding the dolls.
We went to 5 stores of Monday night and came home empty handed.
We could find Jessie and Buzz but not Woody. It was a joke.
Oh Kinley was so upset.
I told her I made her a promise and she would get those dolls in the morning.
So thankfully Target was my saving grace!! Love you Target!

Look how happy this girl is!!!!
She has not put them down in 2 days.
She loves them!

You can't have Woody and Jessie without Buzz so Ty got him.
Well that and Ty is spoiled rotten.

They have had so much fun with these toys it was totally worth it.
Kinley's eye appointment went really well too.
It has been a year since she got her patch and glasses.
Her left eye has changes slightly and her right eye is the same.
Her lazy eye is starting to improve!!! Yay!!!
It does not wonder anymore when she looks at objects in the distance,
close up it still turns in.
Patching has been cut back to 4 hours a day!
So sweet!! I was very happy!

Jam, jam and more jam!

2010-06-22T14:01:00.000-07:00

Let's make jam! Prepare to get started!
Had I bought just this many strawberries we would have been great.

This is the beginning process...just before my kitchen was COMPLETELY
taken over by strawberries and jars.

These are ALL the finished jars.
HOLY CRAP ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
There are 31 jars of jam there.

Okay so lesson learned. If you choose to make jam be more prepared for what you are getting in to. I bought 12 pounds of strawberries. I was not thinking. I thought I only had six. Yep, I am a blond. Due to my blond moment we had strawberries out our ears. After over 4 hours, 3 trips to the store, 24 jars and 25 pounds of sugar we got the jam done! Thank you so much to my WONDERFUL husband who is so AMAZING in the kitchen and so PATIENT with me! If it weren't for him this would have been a completely miserable process. Now we have enough jam to last us a few years!!

Delta & Reunion

2010-06-22T13:49:00.000-07:00

Jeremy and Travis went to scout camp from June 14-20 so I decided to take the two little ones and head to Delta to spend some time with my family. We had a great time! We were in Delta for 3 days. We got to watch 2 nieces, 1 nephew and my sister-in-law all play softball. We also got to visit for a few minutes with 2 of my uncles and an aunt from up north. I got my hair dyed. And it is WAY too blond now. We would have loved to go boating and skiing at the res but it was too cold.

My kids love it at my parents house! For those of you who don't know, Delta is a small town. My parents house is surrounded by lots of beautiful grass. McKinley loved to play outside with her cousin Alix, who is her same age. Their favorite outside activities are jumping on the trampoline and playing on the swing set. They also love to play barbies and dress up. Ty LOVED that the doors were unlocked and he could open them. That kid was outside every time I turned around. It was so cool for him to run and play and for me not to worry!

On Thursday we head to Pine Lake for the annual Kirkland family reunion. I haven't been in 4 years so it was way fun to go. We had a great time camping and visit with our extended family. We also had a great time playing games and eating lots of good food!

I need to give a BIG shout out to my Dad! He is a wonderful Dad and Grandpa. He helped me out with my kids when I needed and I greatly appreciate that.

Happy Birthday Baby!

2010-06-08T09:16:00.000-07:00

Today is Jeremy's birthday!
This is his cake....
baked by Mom,
decorated by McKinley!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!
WE LOVE YOU!

Pool & Party's

2010-06-08T09:07:00.001-07:00

This is our NEW pool!
After spending hours cleaning the old one...
it got blown around again and Popped.

This is Kinley with lipstick on.
I don't wear lipstick so this doesn't happen often.
When the boys went to fathers & sons a few weeks ago we had a girls party!
Mothers & daughters got together for food, movies, make-up and nail polish.
We let the girls do our hair, make-up and nails.
I wish I would have taken a picture of my toe nails.
They were painted white and it was all over my toes.
We had a blast!!

This is Kinley with her friend Ally.
Ally did Kinley's make-up.
Aren't they cute!

A few days ago I went to a party where we dressed our bananas.
This is Kinley's banana. It got a little brown cause she played with it so much.

This is my banana.
Sexy hula girl.
What fun!!

Ty & I have been sick :(

2010-05-31T09:22:00.000-07:00

These are Ty's nasty little eyes. A week and a half ago he woke up with his eyes all gross like this. Jeremy took him to the doctor and he had conjunctivitis. So yuck. We had to get a $50 eye drop prescription but it cleared them up really well.

Three days after that Ty and I woke up with head colds. We were sneezing and had runny noses and watery eyes. We stayed home from church to rest.

The next day I had to take the kids to the doctor for well child visits. Poor Ty was behind on immunizations and got 4 shots in his legs. He handled it pretty well, not much crying. He didn't want to walk for the rest of the day and kept saying, "Ouch! My owies." We doped him up with Tylenol and gave him a nice warm bath and he was all better. Now he is back to normal!!

As for Mommy I'm not back to normal yet. It all stared last sunday with the head cold. I HATE head colds. I whine a lot. I kid you not I can handle child labor better than a head cold. Ty and I had colds at the same time so I wasn't getting much rest. I had to keep getting up to take care of Ty. After about 4 days I started feeling a little better.

On Friday we went to Cedar to a graduation. I wasn't feeling to good but it wasn't a big deal so I toughed it out. On the way home my eye was really bugging me. I got home to discover I had conjunctivitis too. Well at least 2 of us got good use of the $50 prescription. The next morning I woke up with my eye sealed shut. That was a weird feeling. I don't remember ever having that happen. I will spare you the pictures of my eye. Note: Johnson's baby wash/shampoo cleans yucky eyes really well.

After getting my eye all cleaned up I realized how yucky I was feeling. I had another cold. This time it was a sore throat and a stuffy nose and head. Seriously!? So I have been treating the new cold and now have an ear ache. I cannot believe this. I feel like a toddler or something. I can't remember being sick like this in forever. What 30something gets eye infections, ear aches, and one cold on top of another? Not to mention all the adult female stuff that I have been dealing with during all of this.

Let's just hope in a few more days everyone will be feeling well. Go away sick bugs.

Work & Play

2010-05-18T08:54:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I decided to clean my disaster of a house. I spent all day cleaning my butt off. I vacuumed all the carpet and swept and mopped all the linoleum. I also unloaded and reloaded the dishwasher and cleaned all the kitchen. I picked up a ton of toys, made beds and washed windows. I cleaned all three toilets and wiped down all three bathroom counters. I will admit I avoided the bathtubs cause I hate to clean them. Among all this I also washed, folded and put away five loads of laundry.

Then we moved outside. I watered the plants and sprayed down the stucco. I washed the outside windows and sprayed down the patio. Then I attempted the swimming pool. I was a total slacker last year and I never put the pool back in the garage. The thing just blew around our back yard all winter long....so it was REALLY dirty. It took me quite a while to get it cleaned up. Lesson learned, put pool away this fall. So here it is! Crap, I'm special and I don't know how to move pictures so see the picture above. I cleaned the pool with dish soap, a rag and that tiny scouring pad. I hope my kids appreciate it!

After all the cleaning we had a few hours of fun!! It was overcast and a little cool so there were lots of lady bugs out! We ended up catching 8 of them! We played with the lady bugs and in the pool for a few hours then we let them go and came inside. It was fun cause a few neighbor kids came over to play. All three of the boys were afraid of the lady bugs but Kinley loved them. Ty would scream like a girl when they got near him. Too cute!!!

I love spring! I love seeing my kids have fun! I love St. George! I love a clean house!!!

Toddlers & Teenagers

2010-05-13T09:23:00.000-07:00

My recommendation to anyone who can avoid it.....DO NOT have toddlers and teenagers at the same time!

So let's get started with the stories. First McKinley, not much to say about her. Right now she is actually the good kid. Just a few strong opinions and temper tantrums here and there.

Ty. Where to start. Let's just say he is 2. He has all the sudden decided he is a BIG BOY. He no longer likes to sleep in his crib. He prefers Kinley's big bed. He doesn't want to sit in his booster seat at the table, so it has been replaced with a folding chair. He is also thinking he wants big cups all the time instead of sippy cups. This is all a little annoying but it's just him growing up the real problem is with his diapers.

Ty likes to remove his clothing and diapers ALL THE TIME. I have washed clothes and/or bedding every day for over a week now. I have put him in onesies thinking that might make it harder for him to get his diaper off. Oh no. He can still manage. A few days ago he woke up from his nap with his onesie still snapped but his diaper removed. Seriously! How? So I washed clothes and bedding. Yesterday he woke up with his onesie still on and his diaper on but his clothes were wet. Upon examination I determined he had "played" with himself and didn't get things tucked back into the diaper. OH MY GOSH!!! Yet again. Wash time. So is it time for potty training? You tell me.

Now on to the teenager.....Travis. Okay I admit I have NO IDEA what I'm doing here. Any advice is welcome. I have counted it up and in the last 9 months or so Trav has been grounded 4 times for issues related to this one girl. We are to the point that we don't know what to do anymore. Obviously grounding is not working. He keeps breaking our simple rules: tell us where you are, who you are with, and never be alone with this girl (or any other girl).

A few days ago we got a visit from this girl's Father informing us that our kids were caught "making out" near her house. What the hell! He is only 13. We had rules to avoid this kind of thing. Now what do we do? Seriously I don't know but I know that I am very frustrated. He is only 13. He is breaking rules. He is losing our trust. Normally he is a really good kid! So I can't decide if this is a trial for Travis or for Jeremy and I.

Mother's Day!

2010-05-10T10:45:00.000-07:00

I love Mother's day, I always have! I think of Mother's day as my one day off a year. It's really not true but my husband does his best to make it as wonderful and relaxing for me as possible. Jeremy always makes sure that the kids give me a wonderful gift, he is so good at gift giving. Then my wonderful husband makes me my favorite breakfast and whatever I request for lunch. He truly is amazing!

I feel so thankful to be a Mother. I love all three of my children, each for very different attributes. They are all a pleasure to be around and fill my heart with so much joy. I am thankful to each of them for the love they bring to myself and my husband.

I am also thankful to my Mother. Tears fill my eyes as I think of the love and appreciation I have for her. She is truly an amazing woman who has raised a wonderful family. I pray that I will be half the woman she is. Even now she does everything she can to make my life better.

I am thankful to Jeremy's Mother, who is also an amazing woman. She had and raised 11 children and I see the love and joy that she has for each one of them. She proves to me that you love your children no matter how many you may have. She has also proved to me recently that you will find joy in your children's accomplishments no matter how old they get.

My three kids will always be my babies. I love them dearly. I look forward to the future with them. I can't wait to celebrate their accomplishment. I love them for who they are now and who they will be. I am living in the moment with them and enjoying it every day!!

Hair bows for sell !!

2010-04-27T11:07:00.000-07:00

Folded ribbon flower $3 each/$6 pair.

I have decided to start selling all these bows that I love to make.
If anyone wants some please let me know.
I have decent prices and, as you can see, a lot of variety.
I can make 8 different styles in a huge variety of colors.

Sewn flower $3 each/$6 pair.

Pony tail holder $3 each/$6 pair.

Head bands $2 each.

This is what they look like with a bow on them!
So cute!!

Fabric flower $3 each/$6 pair.

Burned flower $3 each/$6 pair.

Standard ribbon bow $3 each/$6 pair.

Pin wheels $1 per pair. So cute in baby ponies!

Rosetta $4 each/$8 pair.

Like I said I have a lot of colors available. If you want something send me a message
here, to my email, or on facebook!
Please specify what kind of bow, what color and how many.
I will have to charge a little bit for shipping if it has to be mailed but it will be minimal.
Pass the word along or my blog address to friends who might be interested too.
Thanks friends.

Jeremy's Treats

2010-04-26T13:02:00.000-07:00

Saturday I felt like I was cleaning up the kitchen All. Day. Long.
It was worth it cause these were the result!!!
The first one is Jeremy's chocolate cake, made from scratch!
The second one is Jeremy's FAMOUS turtle cheesecake!

He made these for our Niece's birthday!
We had a great time!

Craft Day!

2010-04-21T17:44:00.000-07:00

On Sunday Kinley and I had a craft day!
I made these super cute hair flowers.

Kinley made this card for a friends birthday!

And, of course, we made cookies!!!
All four dozen were gone in 2 days!

Non-believer

2010-04-20T11:06:00.000-07:00

I must admit I was a total non-believer but........hair spray DOES in fact remove permanent marker from the walls!!!

Terrible Two's

2010-04-17T13:01:00.001-07:00

This is the work of my Two year old.
Nice huh?
Sharpie on the wall & cotton swab tin.

Sharpie on the wall & towels.

Sharpie on the side of the bathtub.
This is what's left of the sharpie that I could not scrub off.
There was also marker on the mirror and counter
and don't forget the kid.

Other signs that Ty is two:
He likes to remove his clothes & diaper.
He has removed his diaper then proceeded to poop on the floor and toys.
He likes to throw my folded, clean clothes all over the floor.
He LOVES to try my patience every.single.day.
Good thing I LOVE him so much!!!

Poor Thumb

2010-04-14T12:21:00.001-07:00

This is what your thumb looks like
when you try to hot glue an alligator clip to it!
Not smart!

Narrow Escape

2010-04-14T12:06:00.001-07:00

Sorry about the sideways picture.
This is my curio cabinet. It has been in this same spot for 5 years.
Until yesterday we never had an issue with it's placement.
During lunch time Jeremy was home playing with the kids.
All three of them, I was tending, were running and laughing.
I was in the kitchen thinking how wonderful it is to hear little children's laughter...
when I heard a loud crash of glass.
I threw the dishes I was cleaning and came running to the living room.
I knew it was either Ty or the little boy I was tending.
When I rounded the corner Rayce was lying in the cabinet face first with his arms outstretched.
Jeremy was already starting to pick him up.
I said over and over, "Please tell me he is okay."
We were both prepared to see lots of blood and have to race him to the ER.

To our surprise!
This is what we saw!!!

This is the adorable face of Rayce!
As you can see there is barely a scratch on the left side of his forehead.
Thank Heaven for little miracles!
There were some glass shards in his hair and on his shirt.
I took him straight to the bathtub to clean him up.
The most traumatic part for him....
getting the shampoo rinsed out of his hair!

Easter Snow

2010-04-08T12:23:00.000-07:00

It snowed in Delta on Easter this year. Weird huh?
This is the kids' snow bunny!

This is a picture of my Mom with most of her Grandkids.
We take annual Easter family pictures. They are fun to look back on.
We usually take a pic with both my parents and all their Grandkids
but my Dad was working. We sure missed him.
This was the first year that snowmen made an appearance.

Here is the snow family: Mom, Dad, Kid & Pet!
Aren't they cute all dressed up!
Even the Mom has a bow in her hair.

Sand Dunes

2010-04-08T12:09:00.001-07:00

Is there anything better than Coke and Cupcakes!?
Throw in Cheetos and the meal is complete!
McKinley & Ty with cousins, Keegan & Lexie.

Ty working on a sand castle.

We love to jump off the sand dunes!
Go Kinley!!!

Go Travis!!
Is he Spiderman or a Spartan? I'm not sure.

Easter 2010...the good, the bad, the ugly.

2010-04-06T13:13:00.001-07:00

So Easter was interesting this year. We went to Delta for the weekend as we always do. We had fun coloring eggs on Friday night! Saturday we woke up to some pretty cold weather, however, my Mom insisted we head to the sand dunes anyway. I was not very happy about it. But we got there and the weather was beautiful! We had so much fun playing in the sand and riding 4-wheelers! McKinley and Ty had a wonderful time getting sand in every single part of their clothing. Then we went swimming at the local pool. Again we had a great time!

Sunday we woke up the a few inches of snow on the ground. Are you kidding me!??! I have never has a snowy Easter before. Kinley was more excited about the snow than the easter bunny. Grandma is a total trooper and took all the kids out to build a snowman. They had a wonderful time and made 3 snowmen and 1 snow bunny! We took our annual family pictures by them. I will have to post those later. All in all we had a great time in Delta!!

Later that day we were traveling to Cedar City to spend some time with Jeremy's family. What happens on the way home??? We get pulled over....Not once but twice. Seriously?!? How crappy can it get? Thankfully it resulted in only one ticket but I was still pretty pissed about it.

When we arrived at the in-laws we were surprised to find out the whole family was coming for dinner. Yep, 8 out of 11 kids and their kids and their kids were there. It was a house full that we were not prepared for. So of course Ira was edgy and everyone felt it. We went home pretty early cause we were tired and were feeling antsy. When were got home we got a phone call that informed us of a rather large family feud at the Reynolds residence shortly after we left. That is the ugly part. I'm glad we weren't a part of it cause Jeremy would have had a lot to say.

So I am thankful Easter is over this year. I'm glad we all traveled safely, fast but safe. And I pray the Reynolds family can resolve their issues and we can all be a happy, close family again.

I Love JoAnn's!

2010-03-24T10:05:00.000-07:00

I had a crazy idea this morning.
I went to JoAnn's to buy some more bow making materials
and came home with this!
The printed fabric was on sale 50% off!
So...the above fabric is what I chose to make a quilt for Ty.
The below fabric is what I chose to make a quilt for McKinley.

I know they don't exactly match but they do have similar colors.
I am excited to make them but I am getting WAY ahead of myself.
I am planning on them being for Christmas.
Way to get a head start right!!!

This is the rest of my purchase. 1/2 yard for hair bows
and 2 - 8 yard spools of organza!

My grand total......$53!
Not bad for 16 yards organza
and 20 1/2 yards of fabric!
I love you JoAnn's!!!

Broken Glasses

2010-03-23T15:38:00.000-07:00

Check out these sweet, broken glasses.

I had stayed up too late on night and I was dozing on the couch in the morning.
Kinley comes down crying to tell me she did something bad.
I went up to her room to find these glasses.....broken.
I didn't say much about it cause she already felt bad and knew what she did was wrong.
PLUS......they were still under warranty!! Thanks for that!
So we got them saudered together and ordered both new frames and lenses FOR FREE!
Five days later Ty broke the other side of the glasses.
So Daddy took them to work and saudered that side together.
I know I can't complain. This is the first time they have been broken in 8 months. For being a 3/4 year old with glasses she has done a great job.
Needless to say. McKinley has new glasses and all is fine.

Cutest Kid!

2010-03-23T15:33:00.000-07:00

I took the kids to the library a few days ago. I couldn't resist taking a picture of Ty. This kid is so cute! I love him to death! He got this backpack for Christmas, once it was weighed down with books it went clear down to his knees. So cute! And he thought he was so BIG! That's Kinley clear up ahead of him with her cute backpack on too.