What I Love

I absolutely LOVE SONIC drinks.

I love Happy Hour--2-4pm, EVERY DAY,

half-price.

Diet Coke with Lime--

real lime, not the lime juice!

Sonic Ice--yum yum

The Styrofoam cup--keeps the ice from melting!

I have to talk myself out of going EVERY day.

If I have a bad day, SONIC makes me feel better.

Sweet picture

I just thought this was an adorable picture of Paige.

Never-mind the tear and the runny nose!

Our Spring Break trip...

It's Spring Break!! And, St. Patrick's Day!!

Our exciting "trip" was to Newton--

to go to the park with Grandma and Aunt Amanda.

Paige is a little dare-devil. She can do ANYTHING the boys can do. She would climb up the ladders and Grandma and I would say, "you can't do that." But, she could!!

Pure Delight!!

Sweet Jaden on top of the jungle-gym!

Tyler likes to take care of Mason. He followed him around and

wanted to walk around holding him!

Paige and her cousin!

Jaden would NOT wear Green! I tried EVERYTHING to get him to wear green for

St. Patrick's Day! He didn't care that he would be the only one not wearing Green.

I guess I don't have to worry about him being a follower!

Grandpa even showed up to surprise us!!

We got 1 water at Sonic and the 4 kids all shared it!

We didn't know it was going to be SO HOT!!!

We played for over 2 hours. The kids were HOT and TIRED!!!

One last picture with Grandma before we leave!

Where to Sleep?

On any give night, it is a toss up where the kids will be found sleeping.

Our moto at our house is--

We don't care WHERE you sleep, just as long as you SLEEP!!

We have found Jaden under his table in his room. Not sure about this??

He actually slept like this for several nights in a row.

Notice his pet monkey is asleep on his pillow next to him.

The boys usually sleep with some type of animal every night. Not always the same animal--that's not what's important. It's just to sleep with SOMETHING!

On this night, Paige was found sleeping on her Princess couch!
She ALWAYS sleeps with her pink/leapord blanket.
Neither of the boys were attached to a blanket, so this was new for us.
When she's tired, she'll ask for her blankey!!

So, sweet......

Some nights we will put Paige to sleep in her bed and when we go to check on her,
she is asleep on the couch (on the floor). But, all that matters is that she is
ASLEEP!!


And, Tyler....is always in his bed.
The animal he sleeps with changes, but he always sleeps in his bed.
When he first got his bunk-beds, he slept on the top bunk.
Now, he sleeps on the bottom bed.
Again, we just want him to SLEEP!!!



Tyler's bedtime ritual right now is that he wants whoever puts him to bed to tell him a story. We just make something up !!
When I tell the story, it's usually about a little boy named, (whatever the name is for that night) and I tell a story about what Tyler did that day. I do the same thing every time I tell a night story. And, Tyler still LOVES it. He likes to help add things to my stories too!
Then, we always pray.
Tyler says the sweetest prayers. I need to record one.

Right now he has been praying this every night, "thank you God for loving us more than anyone, even more than my mom and dad. We love you Lord...." It's so precious.

And, now I'm going to sleep....in my bed!!

Holes--cute or not?

You know how it's the "style" to have holes in your jeans? and "worn spots". Well, I like to be "in style!" So, I bought Jaden the CUTEST pair of worn jeans. They are possibly the most expensive pair of jean I have bought him. Remember--I buy my kids clothes CHEAP!! -- like $4 for EVERYTHING I buy. Sometimes I find shirts of $1. So, I paid $15 for these jeans---because they were SO DARN CUTE!!!Here he is....sitting on the stairs to the back door--in the garage.

What do you notice?

The hole in his knee??
Here's the hole---how it came... how I bought the jeans!

After having him wear the jeans many times, I decided that on a kid, it really looks like his jeans are "worn out" and doesn't necessarily look "stylish". I think what made me decide this for sure was when Steve dressed Tyler in his old/play jeans with holes for church. I was out of town that Sunday morning and came home later that day to find Tyler is a nice shirt and holey jeans. I asked if he wore those to church and Steve said, yes. I about died and then Steve explained I let Jaden wear jeans with holes.

BUT, I PAID for those holes. Didn't he know the difference?? (he he)

There are "old" holes and "cute" holes...... or maybe not!!

So, I guess I won't pay for holes anymore.....

On a slightly different note----but still clothes...

Grandma Roth had Jaden and Paige over night a few weeks ago and when they came home, Paige had 2 new pairs of shoes (GREAT!), Tyler had new snow boots (awesome!!) and Jaden had these......

Character shoes. They are BubbleBee shoes (from Transformers). Linda knew I wouldn't like them, but said Jaden just LOVED them!!! Tyler just had a Transformer b-day party so I bet Jaden did think he was "all that" with Transformer shoes. Jaden does love his shoes, so thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for buying them, because I would not have :) That's what grandparents are for!!! Grandma Roth is also a bargain shopper. I think she got 4 pairs of kids shoes for less than $10. What a steal!!!

Shoes for Paige

I love shoes and my love has over-flowed to my daughter!

Paige is 2 1/2 years old and has at least 14 pairs of shoes.

In this picture, are 12. I took all her shoes outside to take a picture of them under good light. (My sister-in-law told me the outdoor light takes better pictures, so I tried it.)

Then, when I went to the basement later that day, and found 2 more pairs of shoes down there---and just laughed!!

And, yes, my neighbor came outside to ask what I was doing.

Embarrassing....

And, then she proceeds to tell me her daughter has 2 pairs of shoes.

Awkward....

Well, I love shoes and they are so cute in this size.

And, then reality sets in---most of these are not fitting her now. In the last week, she has started telling me that shoes are hurting her. So, now we have to start all over, re-building he shoe collection. I may not buy this many for Spring /Summer. But, they are so cute!

And, my disclaimer is this--- Grandma Roth bought her some of these and I only buy if they are ON SALE!!

Fun in the Snow

The last time we had snow I took these pictures of the kids all bundled up in the backyard!

Paige is the only one that doesn't have snow pants. So, she never matches outside!

I need to buy Tyler a new pair, then give his to Jaden and Jaden's to Paige!


I think this picture is PRECIOUS! He looks cold though.

Inside to warm up! And, then to the kitchen for hot chocolate!