Another Tooth Lost!

Jantzen is loosing teeth like crazy these days!   He came out of the bathroom the other day after school and opened his hand and said, "I just pulled out another tooth"...seriously!!  He was so calm about it.  That's so much different than Jaron is when he has a loose tooth.  With Jaron comes a LOT of drama when he has a tooth that needs to be pulled, with Jantzen we don't even know he has a loose one until he shows it to us...in his hand!  Jantzen's even had a loose tooth fall out of his mouth while he was sleeping.  The tooth fairy is going to be paying out a lot of money to this kid...and he's very happy about that!

    I think Jantzen will have all of his adult teeth before Jaron does...poor Jaron!

"Catching Fire" Movie Night

Tonight Josh and I took Jaron and Kennedy to see "Catching Fire".  We've all been patiently waiting for this movie to come...for about a year and a half!

   Before the movie started, we all had some fun taking pictures...mostly Jaron and Kennedy did.  Just look at them, it's like they're teenagers or something!           I love that Jaron and Kennedy get along so well.
Jaron didn't get off the hook taking pictures with me and Josh.  They weren't as fun as the ones he took with Kennedy.  I guess Josh and I aren't as much fun as they are.         The movie was awesome, just like the first one!  We can't wait for it to come out on DVD, so we can have lots of family movie nights.

Party Fun!

Last night we went to our friends the Larios' for their son Nicholas' first birthday party.  We were so excited because we were going to get some real Mexican food for dinner...and it was yummy!

Jantzen, JoseAlfredo (Nicholas' older brother and Jantz's best friend), and Jaron took off playing together for most of the night.  Zulema had some fun party games planned for everyone.  The boys, and Jaedyn, played musical chairs a couple times...JoseAlfredo won.  Then there was a game where Zulema would call out a specific item and the kids had to find it.  The kid who found the most items first would win.  Guess who won...Jaedyn!  She was sooo happy about winning.  Another game that was played was a balloon popping one.  Everyone got a balloon tied to their leg and they had to try and pop other people's balloons while protecting their own.  This was a fun game to watch because it all cam down to Josh and Zulema.  They were fierce competitors, but in the end Josh won...

    ...it was fun watching them, everyone was laughing and having a good time.
Here's Josh and Jaedyn with their prizes they won...     Jaron and Jantzen were really bummed they didn't win anything, but that's okay, they all had a good time.  I love having good friends to share fun days like this together.

Random Phone Pics...

Jaedyn LOVES to take pictures and have pictures taken of her doing silly things with my phone and iPod.  I thought I would include them so she can remember them always.  Here are some of the most recent ones...

(Clockwise from top left: Jaedyn wearing a stress relieving toy as glasses; me hugging Jantzen during sacrament; Jantzen being silly in sacrament; Jaedyn's bathroom reading material; and Jaron trying not to laugh in sacrament)

    (Clockwise from top left: Jaedyn playing "hide and seek" with a Minecraft sword; Jaedyn playing my iPod while waiting for Jantzen to get out of school; Jaron being a nerd on the way home from school; Jaedyn taking a rest in the toy room; some of Jaedyn's favorite "Cars" toys...she posed them all for the camera; and Jaron holding a cup to make his mustache look bigger and fuller)     I love it that Jaedyn likes to take pictures, she's just like me in that aspect.  But, sometimes I wish she wouldn't take so many pictures of random strangers!  NO, I won't be including any random stranger pictures, they get deleted immediately!

"National Teddy Bear Day"

Yesterday was "National Teddy Bear Day", so for preschool Jaedyn got to bring in her favorite teddy bear, she was so excited!  She chose to bring "Cheeto-Worm"...

      Yep, that's her bear's name...and she loves her to pieces!!!!

"Donuts with Dad"

Today was "Donuts with Dad" at Jantzen's school.   Since Josh has to be to work before any of us are even up for the day, I went with the kids.  I also went because I'm on the PTO board at the school and it's an event that we put on for the kids.  Jaron was excited to be able to go because he doesn't go to that school anymore and because he LOVES donuts!

Jaedyn chose a powdered donut and by the look on her face after she was done with it, I'd say she really enjoyed it!

    Jaron chose a glazed donut and Jantzen chose a chocolate one.   Here are my crazy kids enjoying their sugar filled breakfast with some of Jantzen's friends (don't worry, they did have a healthier breakfast before...this was just a bonus).             I'll admit, I had a crumb donut and it was delicious!!!  Sorry, you don't get any pictures of me eating it.    I hope all the teachers have fun with the kids today now that we've loaded them up on some sugar...good luck teachers, don't hate us too bad!!

Straight "O" Social...

Today was the Straight "O" Social at Jaron's school.  Every quarter the kids at Cram get celebrated for having good citizenship and so far Jaron has been able to go to every single social.

They usually get ice cream, but this time they got cake.  I'm happy about that because I was one of the moms that would help scoop all the ice cream and it was kind of a pain (There's usually about 700 kids that come to these socials).

 Against Jaron's wishes I took some pictures of him enjoying his cake, mainly because he was sitting by Addison.  She's the girl that he claims he's just friends with, but they really do like each other.  Kennedy came over to harass him too!  I think Jaron got a little embarrassed by Kennedy and I bugging him, but that's okay, it's my right as his mom to embarrass him!

    One of the perks of not being in school yet, is that you get to enjoy all the socials too...     Jaedyn loves coming to things at the boys' schools when she gets to enjoy yummy food.  She really enjoyed the chocolate cake!   Good Job on getting straight "o's" Jaron, keep it up!! 

Glow in the Dark Dodgeball

Tonight was a blast!! Josh and I went to my friend Natalie's birthday party. She had a "Glow in the Dark" dodge ball party, it was so much fun!

When we all got there, we picked out all the glow stuff we wanted to wear, then we started a super vicious game of dodge ball.  For the first few games we had mixed teams, then the last game we played was girls vs. boys.  Let me just say that the boys didn't play gentle with us girls.  I have a nasty bruise on the back of my thigh to prove it!  It was fun though.

After some treats and socializing, we took a few pictures of us goofing around.  Not everyone stayed for pictures though...including Josh.

       Can you find me in this picture???  I'll give you a hint, I'm wearing a shirt with polka dots on it.       And here's us girls...     Just because we're "old", doesn't mean we don't know how to party and have a good time!