Strawberry rocks

One Sunday afternoon we painted rocks to look like strawberries..... I had read that it was supposed to confuse the birds and help to keep them from eating your real strawberries. I don't know that it helped since our strawberry crop left a lot to be desired anyway..... but the kids had a great time with it. I love to see them get so into projects - I wish I did more with them. I also wish I would have had Caleb change out of his church clothes...... :)

Doll bunkbed

Another salvage pile build..... I found a bunch of 1x2s in the pile so I looked up the plans for this doll bunkbed on anawhite.com - completely awesome wood building site with free plans for all kinds of things. It took about 2 hours and then I had some very excited little girls. Now I just need to have them help me make some mattresses and blankets for it...... and maybe we should paint it.......

Nap time

Sometimes they get timeouts for behaving badly only for me to realize that I should have been aware of the fact that they were just REALLY tired......... 

(on a side note - yes, that is a slide down our stairs. This is the first house we have lived in that doesn't have a wall right at the bottom of the stairs so I convinced Matt that there should most definitely be a slide there. He came up with the plans and built it. I married a good one.)

Caleb turns 4

I am going to try to get all of last year caught up before the end of the month! Lots of posts.......

Caleb is 4!! We went to a motorcross event months ago and Caleb has been obsessed with motorcycles ever since so that's what we chose to do for his cake :) It's been fun to make cakes according to their interests over the years. He loves the attention of a birthday. He gets so excited.

We ran out of birthday wrapping paper and the girls were so excited to decorate this present for Caleb that we may just need to do that all the time! They had fun drawing all the things he likes on it.

Matching  boys. Someone gave us some extra clothes that happened to have these two spiderman shirts in it. The boys were pretty happy.

It's the little things

We went to a splash park at their favorite playground in Ogden. The water was freezing so they really didn't last long in it at all. There were numerous other kids having a great time but ours hate to be cold (maybe just maybe they might have gotten that from me) but I let them each buy a bag of chips from the vendor guy and that made their day. They were all sitting in the sun, eating their chips and talking about the cold, cold water and their awesome bags of chips :) Kids are funny.

Lego Lego Lego

These were brown, broken dressers I found in the salvage pile. I added a shelf and painted them green so that we would have somewhere to put the Legos in the boys room. It's not perfect but it works much better than all over the floor! As time goes we will try sorting them a little more. (This was in June - around Oct/Nov we bought a few more buckets for the other side and sorted most of them by color. It helps somewhat but they build and play fairly random so I'm not sure that it will last. They like to just pull out a big bucket and take it wherever they are playing and build from whatever is in it.)
Now the girls are amassing their own collection of Legos that need some sort of organization. This is a toy they all play with pretty much everyday so someday it would be nice to just add them into the playroom now that we don't have babies around.......

Scootin'

I finally let Caleb try out Jackson's electric scooter one his own. This was also in May. He crashed right away but tried again and handled it like a pro. He loves it!