A picnic in February

Anthony came home to eat lunch with us yesterday, to make it fun for the kids we had a picnic. It is still freezing cold here, so we improvised and had the picnic in the living room. The kids loved it. Kenzie thought she should be the main course:

Parker was adorable, he not only helped pack the lunch, but dished up every one's plate. It was funny to see what portion size Parker thinks is adequate. Parker gave everyone a little bit of everything then put the rest of the food on his plate.

As quickly as Kenzie was invited to the party she then had to be un-invited. Her idea of a good picnic is to dump all the food all over the blanket. Kenzie spent the rest of lunch next to us, but in her high chair. Although she couldn't eat on the blanket she (and everyone else) seemed to enjoy the picnic.

Not sharing

Sometimes Parker has a real hard time sharing. On a daily basis he takes toys away from McKenzie. Tonight he stepped it up a notch to ensure McKenzie could not play with the toys he wanted. He took a whole basket full of fake food and shoved the food in his pajamas, just so McKenzie couldn't play with the food.

Kenzie's busy week.

McKenzie has had a couple "firsts" this week:

For the past couple of weeks McKenzie has wanted/tried to throw objects in the toilet. This week was her first successful attempt.

She was my first kid to poop in the tub. Poor Parker was the finder of this "first" and was not very happy about it.

This week she started a new thing where during the hymns at church she dances.

Happy Valentine's Day

Love,
Parker and McKenzie

No, No, No

Kenzie gets in trouble when she throws her food on the ground. The other night she was taking forever to eat so everyone had left the table and McKenzie was left in the dining room alone to finished up eating. When I came back into the dining room I found McKenzie throwing her food on the ground. I didn't say one word I just looked at her and she gave me this huge grin and shook one finger at me and told me "no, no, no" I laughed so hard, she totally knows when she is doing a no, no and she totally got caught. Here is her telling me "no, no"

A party at the Moeller's

This weekend my brother and his wife Alex, and my sister and her family of 5 came for a visit. It was pretty crammed in our little 3 bedroom apartment, but we ate good and had lots of fun. Every time I left the house I forgot the camera, but I did remember to take a couple pictures. We got to celebrate Alex's b-day

Jason tried out some wrestling moves on Parker.

The first couple days were real cold, but thanks to the Wii we could still golf, play tennis and do lots of other fun games you usually can't play while there is snow on the ground.

Parker and Ben played hard. Jacob and Angie were good supervisors.

Here is Brian and Maddie playing

Besides seeing my wonderful family, my favorite part of the trip was watching the boys (Anthony, Jason, and Brian) compete on the Outdoor Challenge. I could make fun of each of them, but choose to leave no pictures and poke no fun. I just enjoyed the show.

What now?

Kristie+Anthony's Christmas money= 1 Nintendo Wii

We bought our Wii with a couple accessories for a good deal on ebay but only ended up getting 1 nunchuck for the price. Our good deal turned out to be not such a good deal. Thank goodness Ebay and Anthony were on the ball and Paypal agreed with us so we got all our money back plus we got to keep the nunchuck.

After a couple days of looking we are now proud owners of a Wii. As we sit back and play it I keep thinking to myself: "what now Ebay seller: apromise318"? He tried to rip us but only ended up riping himself off. It bothers me that someone can be that dishonest.

2 Lessons I learned this month

Lesson #1

Don't use my only broom to brake icicles off of the roof. I am not sure what I should have thrown at the icicles to make them fall, but my broom is now stuck on the roof under 1 foot of snow and my kitchen is very much hurting for a good cleaning.Lesson #2:

Vegetable Oil is very different from machine oil. I ran out of machine oil so got creative and used vegetable oil to oil my trimmers. My trimmers broke so I took it to the repair man a.k.a. Anthony. It turns out the vegetable oil was so thick it made so much nasty stuff stick to the blades that they couldn't even move.