Happy Anniversary ACW

We have such a great daycare and this week they celebrated their 16th anniversary.

They decided to have a party for all the kids and their families. It was a afternoon full of snow cones, rides, and face painting.

Ryder... Heart and sunflower

Reganne.. Vampire's Bride


Rylee... Butterfly

Ryder and swings

He wasn't so sure he wanted to be on the ride.

Reganne, Rylee and Jacy

We are cool we don't need to hold on.

Ms. Dianna

Wow look at her go. This picture might be good blackmail. Are women our age supposed to be able to do this? Go For it!!

If the smiles were anything to go by the party was a great success.

Reganne 6th Birthday

Finally, Reganne is 6 years old. She has waited for this day for along time. Everything has been measured by her birthday since Christmas was over.

Reganne & Unicorn Pillow Pet

This is the one thing she has said she wanted since after Christmas. She was very specific the Pink & Purple Unicorn was what she wanted. She has slept with it each night and carries it around with her.

More Presents!!

Birthday Cake... She ordered this one all by herself with the baker at Harmons.

Happy Birthday to you sweet Reganne.

Dig into the cake.

She had a wonderful birthday weekend. Monday night she asked me if her birthday was finally over? I told her yes at Midnight. Can't it be over know? My reply was go to sleep Reganne.

Reganne & Chucky Cheese Birthday

Reganne has asked for months to go to Chucky Cheese. Each time we visit Grandma & Grandpa we haven't had time. When Reganne was planning her birthday she really wanted Brinton to be there. We decided to grant both wishes. Go to Chucky Cheese in Orem and invite Brinton to come along. We had to wait until after her soccer game to leave. We then made the long drive to Grandma's house. The whole way she kept asking if we were close yet.

Reganne with her token total.

The Pizza Dinner... Cardboard tasted better.

Reganne and Dad playing games

Rylee and her pizza, she soon ate all the toppings and left the crust.

Ryder found the monster truck to ride. That was how he spent his tokens.

Rylee & Grandpa playing games

The kids had a lot of fun. Thank you Uncle Randy for bringing Brinton.

Reganne's Birthday Weekend

Wow it is hard to believe that Reganne is 5 years old. She could hardly wait for her birthday and her party. She had great plans and was eager for Saturday to get here. This was the year for her big party. We decided to share her party with a daycare friend who's birthday was October 1st. This way the kids wouldn't have to decide which party to attend. The theme was Pink Princess. They had a fun time in our backyard jumping on the trampoline, playing on the swingset, and bouncing in the bounce house.

Reganne; she needed a juice break.

Reganne's Cake "Barbie Diamonds in the Castle" This was the final choice.

Reganne & Sierra "Birthday Girls"

Ryder & the pinata

Little brother had to be in on the action and try. Everyone had to stand way back because he was crazy with stick.

Sierra & Uncle Randy

This pinata broke much easier than the purple horse. Just a note buy authenic and not from Walmart & Target. They are much easier to break and the kids loved the colors.


Wow look at the candy and toys! It was a mad scramble to get the goodies.

Robin & Brinton

I am not letting go where is my goodie bag.

Sunday was the official day. Reganne could not believe that she was five. She kept giving us strange looks and then would smile. So I am not sure what was running through her head.

We had a smaller family party with Macaw, Uncle Randy, Brinton, and Holland. She loved every minute of it.

Reganne opening her presents. Each one was greeted with the same excitement.

This picture says it all. WOW!!!!

She got her big girl bike. She has been riding a very small bike and we thought she was going to break it with her wild riding. This one is much better suited for her. Thanks the salesman who helped us size it correctly.

Our birthday tradition is the birthday person gets to pick their favorite place to eat. Reganne's first pick was Del Taco. Dave promptly told her that she needed to pick someplace she hadn't been for awhile. Del Taco is her weekly choice for Monday. So she decided she wanted the peanut place. Translation: Texas Roadhouse. We asked them to sing to her. They brought a saddle for her to sit on as they did a cheer. She turned to Dave & I and asked how they knew her name.

After all the exitement she told me she loved her birthdays and can we do this again tomorrow. She thinks everyone gets a birthday weekend.

Ryder's Birthday Party

Ryder's 2nd birthday was a family & neighbor party. Everytime anyone would sing or say happy birthday he would grin from ear to ear. Then duck his head. His theme this year was motorcycles.

Ryder's Motorcyle Cake

Ryder & his cake. He ate the whole piece

Time for presents

Finally I get to play with my new toys.

He loved all the attention and new toys. He continues to sing Happy to Me, Happy to Me.

Happy Birthday Rylee #7

The day finally arrived that Rylee has been waiting for since Christmas. Her Birthday!!!! She is finally 7 years old. Her special day was full of wonderful plans. It was Reading Day Mom for me so I got to share the morning with her and have lunch with her and her friends. The treat she decided on what glazed doughnuts and an Alpha Pets story to share with her class. The class all made birthday cards for her. She was in heaven. Next came our family tradition of picking dinner. She chose to go to Olive Garden for spagetti and bread sticks. She promply told everyone that it was her birthday. Of course they came over to sing to her. She was all smiles.

Present Time...

The Birthday Cake

Happy Birthday to Rylee!!!

We had a family party with Grandma JeanAnn & Grandpa Chris, our friends the Wheelers and DeMacedos. Hamburgers and hot dogs where on the menu. As we were singing happy birthday and she took a breath to blow out the candles and a breeze blew and went the candles. Her face was priceless. We tried lighting them again and this time only three stayed long enough for her to blow. The wind picked up and the sun went behind the clouds. So we went inside for presents and games.

She had a wonderful birthday. 4 days full of celebration with family and friends. What more could one little girl ask for. More presents of course.

The count day has begun for Reganne's birthday.

Happy Birthday Dave

Dave celebrated his 43rd Birthday this week. Reganne & Rylee are becoming great party planners. Reganne decided Dad needed a cake. A boy cake to be exact. It should have Flounder on it and be a white cake with white frosting. I couldn't convice her that Dad doesn't like cake but loves cherry pie instead. Rylee remembers ages and loves to sing to them. Dad was to pick dinner for the night and he chose McDonalds with the playground. He also bought each of them Happy Meals. What a great dad!!! The girls talked him into playing wii dancing. Let's say everyone got a great workout.

I love this they are finally starting to play together. It lasted only about 10 minutes before they were tormenting each other, but I will take whatever I can get. For some reason they love playing with Ryder's head. They either are patting, pulling, or rubbing it. Reganne keeps trying to wrap things around his neck to make leashes. Maybe she thinks she will have more control over him.

Here is his latest playground is the table and chairs. He crawls in and out of the chairs. Then he pushes the chairs to another spot and does it again.

The Reflections Contest Winner's were announced this week. Rylee took 2nd place for the First Grade and in Visual Arts. The prize was a necklace which she wears constantly. She was so excited about winning. They had an assembly with the whole school and she had to go up in front of everyone. She is getting to be a good artist.

Reganne was so excited for soccer this week. She really wanted to play. However, that lasted until they took the field. She played more this week. She is always off to the side and not in the group. She would rather watch them and when it comes time to kick it in. She quickly volunteers.

The game is over for Reganne. She is done. She can be so dramatic and even more so with a crowd.

Game was over and back to the car. Ryder decided he wanted to walk and push the stroller like a big boy. He walk the whole way back to the car. This was with only a couple of stops. Oops!!! I forgot his shoes and his socks are now green.

IT IS SO COLD !!!!!!

I love the watching the weather. It is constantly changing and yesterday was no different. Except it started out cold and ended cold. We had sunshine and cold in the morning. In the afternoon clouds and cold. Then early evening it started to rain and it got even colder. We went from being in the low 90's on Friday to the low 50's today.

So everyone bundled up for soccer. Rylee dress in shorts and a t-shirt. I sent her outside to see if she would be warm enough. She quickly changed in to long pants, shoes, socks, and a jacket. Ryder we tried to dress warm with long pants, jacket, and socks. He wasn't so sure of the socks and kept pulling them off. So today one of our many errands would be to buy him some shoes. Reganne we dressed in layers and she didn't complain at all that she was cold.

In fact she played better than ever in the game. She loves kicking the ball and she wanted to be the one to kick it in all the time. Taking turns is not her thing right now. She also found the sand and was dumping sand in the coaches sandles. Boy! I'm glad that he is patient because he just laughed it off as he was dumping out his shoes. She disappeared at one point and everyone was calling her name. She was up by the goal and was waving to everyone. She was so excited that we had treats for the end of the game. She planned Cheese Sticks, Capri Sun (Sun Juice), and Fruit Rollups. I couldn't disappoint her.

The wind started to blow and everyone bundled up the best that they could. Rylee was so cold she ended up in the car and watching the game from there.

Reganne and Ryder loved being out there and didn't complain about the cold. In fact Dave decided it was to cold for Ryder to be out there and put him in the car. He was not happy about that.

After the soccer game the girls had a birthday party for a friend from day care. They were so excited to go there was going to be a clown and swimming. They were doing face painting when we arrived. Both girls had flowers painted on their cheeks. Rylee's was pink and Reganne's was white.
There was no peace until they went swimming. I love this pool they have life jackets for the kids that can't swim. So I could watch them from the side and let them play.
I am so lucky they like to play together. They were chasing each other down the slides and around the splash pad.
Reganne & Robin love playing together as well. They also think they are as big as the older girls. So they took off to the middle of the pool. When we tried to yell at them to come back they would only giggle and turn away from us. We sent the older girls out to get them and then they were all out in the middle playing. Finally, a lifeguard blew his whistle at them and told them to get back to the splash pad. Finally, they listened and came back. They played in the shallow end until another mom decided to get in and take as many as wanted to go down the slide. It turned out to be only Reganne & Robin. They were both smiles when they reached the bottom.

Wow!!! what a fun and busy day...they should sleep in....NOT!!!