Cat in the Hat day!

Maycie is having Dr Seuss days at school. Yesterday was cat in the Hat day... but I was not allowed to call her Cat in the Hat because she wasn't wearing a hat. So she's Cat Without a Hat!

Just a bunch of pictures

Ok, ok, I know, I know...
update your blog shiann...
we want to see pictures...

I know. 

I. Know. 

Well finally, I'm giving you pictures! Yay!

First up, the girls wanted to have a picnic breakfast with Bronco. He normally doesn't eat at the table. In fact, he was very confused. But the girls thought it was the best thing ever! 

Maycie has always loved making surprises for Haylee. We started doing things when Haylee was in kindergarten. Mace missed her so much while she was gone. She was constantly coloring pictures to give Haylee the second she stepped off the bus. Finally we decided to hang them up as a huge surprise for Haylee when she walked through the door. This was our latest. I made dotted lines for Maycie to follow and she did the rest. (Except for coloring in "HAYLEE" I did that with our new fun crayons!)

Maycie colored a picture of our family by a tree (left) I colored an alien owl (right).

Ok so I really, REALLY want a trampoline! Maycie and I spent an afternoon measuring and outlining so we could talk Bret into it. (He hates the idea but it's 3 against 1 right now.) We figured we could fit a 10'tramp and there would be a little room to get a lawn mower around it. A 12' would pretty much touch the fence and the deck! But mark my words, we're going to have something fun to play with in our backyard! 

This is Maycie pretending she's jumping on our rock tramp. 

One of the benefits of working all night is I get to see the sun come up.  This is from about 10 days ago. It's amazing how fast things are changing. Now it's so light that the street lights have all turned off by the time I head home. It's going to be summer soon!!! (I say that so I don't get too sad about the 6 inches of snow we have)

This was my personal superbowl party. It was exciting. Go Broncos! 

We've now made it to this stage in Haylee's life. She thinks she's hilarious. 

Yeah, laugh all you want. 

She does. 

Maycie is a goose. That's all. 

Ummmm can you say traumatized?! That's a grey hair. From my head! 

The girls love to work on word things together. I made a "key" Haylee writes a secret message and Maycie decodes it. This keeps them busy for at least an hour. 

This is when I chopped Haylees hair off! 

Just Bronco. Sitting on the couch. 

I catch the girls standing in these windows all the time. This evening they stood there for the longest time talking about the sunset. It was really colorful! 

That's me. Blowing a bubble. 

Maycie was teaching me how to write my name. Isn't it adorable?! She does dots for me all the time. 

And that's all for now. Enjoy. 

Maycie lost something

Yep, that's right, SHE LOST A TOOTH! 

She's so excited!!

She keeps saying how weird her mouth feels without her tooth in there.  

First day of Thanksgiving break!

It snowed!! This is what one of our "big storms" looks like. The girls and the dogs loved playing in it!

This is Zeus. He's our friends dog. Bronco stayed at his house when we were in Salt Lake. Now Zeus is with us for Thanksgiving.

After the girls were done playing outside they wanted something to warm them up. Hot cocoa and carmel popcorn. I have no idea why.  I'm pretty sure Maycie has never even had carmel popcorn. It's not something we usually have just sitting around. So we decided to make some. Luckily I had all the ingredients! This is the batch that burned. The girls were more than happy to pick through it to get some good pieces. The other batch is cooling right now. It's perfect! 

That's all for now. 

A picture for Grandpa!

It's especially for Grandpa but everybody can look at it!

I know it's not the exact tractor you have but at least it's not one of those awful green ones...

P.S. This is a sneak peak of our trips (yes multiple trips) to the Pumpkin Patch. I have tons of pictures but not tons of energy. You'll eventually see the rest. 

The last two days have been exciting!

First, Haylee won a coloring contest at her school. The same contest she won first place in last year. It's for Fire Prevention week. This contest last year is what got Bret interested in the fire department. It's crazy to see how much has happened in one year! 

There are winners from each school but the grand prize winners aren't announced until tomorrow.  Last year Haylee won and her prize was a $50 gift card, a smoke detector/co2 detector AND she got to ride in a firetruck during a parade! This year, because of Bret, both girls get to ride in the parade.

I will see Haylees poster tomorrow. It's hanging in the fire hall. She tells me is really cute! 

Next, we got a SUPER AWESOME halloween decoration from a friend of ours. It's kinda the only one we have and I'm pretty sure it's the only one we're going to have this year. Isn't is awesome?!

Ok, that's all.

Enjoy your day. 

Birthday cakes!

I made Maycie's cake! Yes, I MADE IT!!!!! This awesome my little pony cake was made from start to finish by me! 

Haylee's monster high barbie cake was frosted by my young women's president, Spring. 

I'll share more later but I just wanted you to see the cakes because I am super proud!