Smore's room!

So I decided to paint the master bedroom, this is a big step for me! I always panic about color on the the wall, when I am finished I always ask myself why I took so long. The master bedroom was a challenge for me, a previous owner took 2 rooms and combined them into one, this would be my room. It is long and not very well laid out. I was nervous if I picked the wrong colors it would make my room look even longer. So I set out to the paint store after Rick left to take Trever rabbit hunting for the last time this season. I was going to paint 3 walls tan and 1 wall green, when I got there I started to look at chocolate for the accent wall. I went with chocolate, each other time I have painted I chose a green. Well after a long day of driving and stress (Rick never made it hunting, he got in an accident in the canyon, which I had to drive to pick him up) I decided it was never to late to start the task of painting. at first the tan color scared me, but as it began to dry and lighten I was in love, the kids said it looked like peanut butter, but as it dried it changed to graham cracker, the chocolate wall I love!!! But that color is not a far stretch for me, I use it as my staple color in pretty much all of my scrapbook, card making projects. When finished the kids told me my room was the smores room, graham cracker, chocolate and marshmallows(the ceiling). Leave it to the kids to help me think of food each time I go into my room! Now I just need to do all the finishing touches, pine base boards, pine window sills, blinds, curtains, matching bed set, oh yeah my pine bed frame needs finished as well (it's been in Ricks shop for 16 months), I guess I have more to do than I thought decorating is never done.

Donuts With ...

Sunrise Elementary does a great job of reminding the parents as well as ingraining a commitment into the student to participate in "extra curricular" activities. The Valentines dance was so packed you couldn't even move. They send home a note a few days before, then the day of my little learner comes home with a sticky note. Donuts with Dad the note reads, or uncle, grandfather, or special someone. The annual event Is such a good thing, bring a book or there are some in the classroom, read the book, have a donut and orange juice. Each year Rick tries his hardest to get his truck loaded and out the door so He can get to school. The first year it didn't really happen, Rick was adorable he came home from work that night with donuts, orange juice and a Doctor Suess book. Last year I waited in the driveway of the school for a few minutes, Super dad came through and was able to spend a few minutes with T. This year it just wasn't going to happen. Trever gets so upset when we cannot participate in these events. I called my dad up at 7am arent I nice! He was so amazingly patient as I bumbled through my explanation, invitation. He had plans later in the morning but was able to come read a few books with Trever. I am so glad that my parents have been able to be there on such short notice for so many different things, often I feel that I only call them when I need something. So this post is dedicated to my father! You are truly an amazing selfless person, you have no idea what this meant to my son or I! Thank you~

Valentines Fun

For Valentines this year we decided to spend a nice potluck dinner at the neighbors. We cooked crab legs for dinner, it was my first time and it was so delicious. The kids ran wild playing and the adults played games!

Breena decided to help Kambree do her hair! It was so beautiful. She was so proud of herself, and yes she used every hairbow she owned.

Bat Boy, Playing with the camera, and Lion kids

Cody loves Batman! He wears his batman jammies almost every night. When I saw the batman mask at Wally world the other day I couldn't pass it up! Trever always favored Spiderman. I really enjoy seeing the difference in their personalities.

I was playing with my camera the other night and i found out that I can take black and white pictures. I love the way the kids look! They wanted to do all sorts of poses!

I hate kids in my bed. Each night we ask the kids "where do you want to sleep tonight" and they answer "in your room" so foolishly we lay the comforter on the floor, pile it up with blankets and pillows, get Breena's little pink couch that turns into a bed, lay that out on the floor, tuck the cute little kids on their spots, kisses and hugs, good night, don't kick, or tease each other, lights out. A few minutes later "Cody kicked me", "Mom, Breena scratched me", "Mom Trever hit me". after a few pathetic attempts at threats of sleeping in their own beds they finally doze off. That is where the fun begins. IF we make it until Rick and I go to bed we are lucky, usually we have 1 kid in our bed. They aren't normal sleeping children, no no no, you move and they slide under you and soak up your heat, then they get hot and kick off the blankets, before you can pull them back on they have flipped themselves the other way so you are smelling feet, and cannot pull the blankets up because you will cover their heads. so by morning there are 2 to 3 kids in the bed, maybe one adult. Where did the other adult go, and again i said sometimes both? well of course on the floor where the kids should have been. Yes they have us trained well.

Sunday evening I went down stairs to find the children playing in the boys room, Breena and Cody had taken the mattress off of the bed and were jumping on it. I told them to clean up and I would be back in 5 Min's to check. When I returned I found something else. Breena told me that they wanted to be lions. I told her it was ugly and she disagreed. She thought they were beautiful. So here's my lions! GRRRRR. (that's exactly what I did. I wasn't sure what kind of markers they were since I was letting Trever use my scrapbook supplies to make his own valentines this year, he left those supplies out. Luckily they picked the Crayola washable ones.) as I got to looking they must have spent the entire 5 Min's making themselves beautiful. It was all over their tribal faces as well as arms legs, palms of hands and yes bottoms of feet! I love being a mom!

You've Met our #4! (see uneventful day) Cody spilled his milk and what a good boy decided to clean it up! and Yes he still has marker on his face.