Mommy & Me Crafts

Every Tuesday at the Ben Franklin in Bonney Lake is a Mommy and Me Craft Day!  It is a lot of fun and Kayden and I tend to go often.  Well, today I took Charlie with us since she is now out of school and Katie went too, along with her friend, Marin. 

Kayden absolutely LOVED Marin.  He says she is his girlfriend!  Yikes!  He followed her around everywhere, wanted to hold her hand, sit by her and give her hugs.  He even wanted her to ride in our truck!  It was all too cute and I loved watching every minute of it!

I wasn't able to get too many pictures today because I was pretty involved helping out and it was a little crazy with all the kids, but I was able to capture a few.

This is Marin.  I'm sad I didn't get a better picture of her!  She is super cute!

I regretfully forgot to get a picture of each of the kids with their finished project!  :(  Hopefully next time I will be able to! 

Puff Paint!

Some of you don't know how addicted I am to pinterest, I am actually very addicted and it is because of cool things like this, homemade puff paint!  You mix together 1C water, 1C flour, 1C Salt and food coloring.  I thought Charlie and Kayden would love it and they did.  Kayden mostly made blobs on his paper, but Charlie had fun making different stuff. 

Here are the pictures from our morning outside with the artists!

Their works of art turned our wonderful!  Towards the end Kayden started getting the hang of moving the paint bottle around so he didn't end up with a big blob on his paper, he kepts saying, "I make circle, I make small circle, I made big circle".  Too cute.  Charlie was able to make two in the time it took Kayden to make four!  :)  I think next time I might try to double the recipe, just because Kayden does use so much on each project, this way there might be enough for everyone! 

Birthday Cake

I had a birthday yesterday and to celebrate we had a bbq over and Jim and Cindy's house, the party came with lots of yummy things, hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, chips, beans, and of course birthday cake!  Charlie decorated it and did an awesome job!  Christy might have some competition in a year or two! 

Seattle's Rock -n - Roll Half Marathon

Yesterday a few of my friends ran and completed the Seattle's Rock - n - Roll Half Marathon, 13.1 miles!!!  My friends asked me to be at the finish line when they crossed it, so Kyle and I headed down there yesterday morning to be there.  Luckily it was a nice morning and the rain stayed a stray until after they finished! 

While we were watching and waiting for them, Kayden was having a good time playing with Daddy.  Pretty much over night, Kayden decided he isn't afraid of dogs anymore.  He wanted to pet every dog that we saw yesterday.  I love that he isn't afraid anymore, but wish that he would ask before petting every dog that he sees!  :)

Here are the half marathon-ers!  They did such an awesome job, what an accomplishment!  Good job ladies!



This is Trainer James!



Katie's Bridging Ceremony

On Friday, Katie graduated from being a Daisy in Girl Scouts to a Brownie and in honor of that they held a bridging ceremony.  The girls did awesome, each of them had to memorize certain things in order for the ceremony to be a success.  Once the bridging ceremony was over they did a couple songs and then it was time to eat.  It was a potluck with hamburgers and hot dogs, lots of yummy salads, fruits and desserts.  So many yummy things. 

It was fun to watch Katie graduate, she loves Girls Scouts and learns a lot of valuable lessons through them.  It really is a positive impact in her life!

Kayden's New Tricycle

Last year for Kayden's birthday, Nana bought him a new Radio Flyer hot wheel.  The weather went sour after his birthday and we never had an opportunity to open it and put it together until last night.

Kayden and I were outside playing yesterday when I saw the box sitting in the garage.  I had confidence that I could put it together so I drug it out and opened the box.  Got all the pieces out and looked at the instructions.  My confidence soon disappeared.  I was lost, so I left it where it was and did what any person in my shoes would have done, waited for hubby to get home! 

After dinner last night Kyle and Kayden started putting it together.  Kayden sure has a lot of fun helping Dad do anything around the house.  He loves tools and knows the name to many of them already!  He sure doesn't get intimated by manly stuff, that is for sure.

Before Kyle could finish assembling the trike we took a break and headed over to Cindy's for ice cream.  Then resumed tricycle building after that and it all went really smooth! 



Took a picture of Kayden with his ice cream too, but it didn't turn out so well!  Darn.

After seeing Kayden play on it, I wish we would have opened it sooner.  He loves it and already cruises around.  He is still a little small for it and can't fully reach the pedals yet, but he can scoot right along in it.  We walked up to the mailbox last night while he moved right along side of us wearing a smile the whole time!

I am getting so excited for summer, I sure hope we have a nice one and can get outside to play more often than not.  So far we are off to a good start, just hope it stays this way!



Kayden giving Daddy a hug for putting his trike together.



He was sitting on it backwards and using it like a wheelchair.  He does this same technique with his dump truck.

 It was so fun to watch him have a good time on it.  Thank you, Nana for the great birthday gift!