the most famous girl we know

Kyles girlfriend Jordon was a model in a hair style competion this evening. Serena had a really good time watching all the pretty and pretty wacky hair :) She also enjoyed the attitude of the models walking the catwalk and has been practicing her best walks since we got home. Iris and Xavier fell
asleep during the show despite the loud dance type music. Jordon did really good. She walked well, not any stumbles or wobbles ( many girls did). you cant really see in the picture, but she is covered in gold glitter. and the dress, thats a pillowcase :) all the models were wearing them.


And below is a Video that Stars Jordon and her sister Lauren (who was also in the show but I don't have a pic) Kyle helped them make it, watch the credits :)

summer fun

Bad news, the hose has a leak
Good news ... the hose has a leak!
Xavier is cautious, Serena skips around and
around the squirting water.










Serena telling Xavier how much fun it is to run in the water.












Iris prefers sunbathing :)

snakes at the zoo

time out for capri suns and sitting on a tiger.













Xavier doesnt stand still for long, but a cheeto slows him down for a couple seconds
Iris petting a snake in the reptile house at the Zoo.
So brave for a three year old ;)










Taking a lunch break

spring

The girls having a picnic,
Spring is here I hope.
hope its a long one, before the real hot weather comes.

St. Patricks day

The girls making Cookies to celebrate :)
We had an "Irish breakfast" for dinner.
Bacon, fried tomatos and mushrooms, eggs and soda bread. And we also had "champ" wich is potatos and green onions It was pretty good. but I think I am going use it as a base for cheesy broccoli soup.



































This is how Xavier occupied himself while we were making cookies, eating all our yummy spring strawberrys :)

Dads Birthday

Serena and Iris making Their Dad a cake, pineapple upsidedown cake as requested.
What a fun cake to make!
























The girls made their Dad some cards :)



The cake came out great and he loves it :)

winter blahs

I realized that I haven't posted anything except Iris's birthday in February and that actually happened in January.
The middle of winter isnt that exciting around here I guess. We have been doing lots of school.
Serena is reading and loving it :) Math is fun and I am so glad that she likes it. We started Spanish and that is also neat. We took a Spanish/English dictionary we have and looked up things around the house and labeled them, that is a really good way to learn the names of things. I just had to start doing school with Iris because she was quite unruly if she had nothing to do while I was doing school with Serena, so I have been printing out alphabet books for her to color a different letter everyday and we are going to collect all 26 to read to her as she is learning the letter sounds. When I do math with Serena I give her one of the preschool math readiness sheets froma book that I had lying around and she likes that. We just finished a unit on money and that was fun because I could give her a handful of pennies to count and stack and then They both love to play store, so my house is not only labeled with spanish words many things also have price tags and everything is under $1, lol.
The picture above.....Xavier was turning the tv off and on and the volume up and down while anyone was trying to watch so I had the great idea to put the toy boxes in front of the TV to keep him from being able to reach the buttons worked great for a couple weeks. There he is sitting inside the toybox and soon he will scooch up and turn the tv on or off or the volume up or down.:) We have been having Serena take him far down the hallway everytime he does it hoping that this will serve as some kind of "natural consequence" that would disude him, He is unphased.But sometimes he gets distracted on the way back into the living room which gives us a break for a bit :) Spring is coming and hopefully that willmean more posts.