On the Road again.....

Quick trip to Page, Arizona aka Lake Powell. Although we never went in the lake too much to do. My cousin needed to reroof his roof. So it wasn't exactly all fun especially for Dave!

Here is Dave and Maile on the roof. I think I was more nervous than her. She has no fear...ok maybe to strangers.
Since Maile went up so did some of the other kids. There's Dave the Paul J (my cousin), My two girls then Taylor (my cousins daughter), and Tony aka Uncle Funny (my bro).

It's rare if I even get Maile to look at the camera let alone smile. I am sure I take way too many pictures.

This is my bros girlfriend, Demi, I took some preggo pictures. She is 34 wks along and she looks the same way I do when I am about 20 wks. The really cool thing about them having a baby is that Malulani gets to name him!!!!

This is the "Beehive" if you look at it at the right angle it really looks like one.

Needless to say a short trip L O N G drive. In those six hours the was a lot of "are we there yet" (manly from me) catching up on this and that. Dave was trapped in that car and no where else to go so, he got to hear me go on and on....and on. Lots of air guitars and air drumming being played by yours truly! The kids did really well! I think I was there entertainment...............

And this is me being bored!!!! I wanted to see how a dog feels when he sticks his head out a window.

Dave couldn't believe that I wanted to do this let alone that I am posting it. But the kids where amused. I wanted them to do it to but Dave was right maybe not the safest for them! I wanted the whole lip flapping in the wind-oh well. Now I see why dogs get sooo thirsty. JEALOUS? DON'T HATE I look good :)

....Now I know you want to try it!!!

Tweens party Hannah style

Malulani's eleventh birthday! Its gets tough trying to figure out how to celebrate birthdays. Especially when you are a TWEEN!!! So we came up with this.....

A "late night" party! My wonderful brother has a movie projector and a screen so we asked him if we could borrow it and watch the Hannah Montana Movie outside. Of course he was more than willing!

Here is the invites: to 10 tweems and 3 seven year old (Aubree and 2 friends so that she wouldn't "bug" her sister's friends)

Malulani taught the girls how to do the Hoedown Throw Down!

Birthday cakes at our house are nothing but traditional! In fact it usually doesn't consist of cake at all. Some of the past birthday include dutch oven cobbler and ice cream, cheesecake, pies, even root beer floats-try putting a candle in a that. So this is as close as we have gotten....

A microphone....kind of! We baked the cake batter in the ice cream cones and frosted them!!!

And this is what the girls wanted to do ....there was a few of them that licked their microphones and if you watch at the very end at the bottom-Maile wasn't singing in hers at all (I don't think she had anything left)!

We broke out the dance factory and sing it (on the PlayStation) and dance and karaoke to Hannah Montana!!!

For their "goodie bags" they each got a Hannah scarf and made body glitter.

It started to get dark so they all got their pajamas on and grabbed the blankets.

My brother let the magic begin and he brought his fun popcorn machine......

which Maile totally loved! Here she is with a mouth chucked full of popcorn!

It was so fun to have a movie in the backyard and of course when the hoedown throw down came on they all got up and danced!Tell you what it scares me how some of these girls can act when their parents are not around. All the talking about boys and what not. I had to change the subject a few times. I am not ready to be a teenagers mom :(

It was fun but man I had the biggest headache from all the screaming!

Where does the TIME go????

Dallin is now SIX years old!!! Looking back just the last year of his life and I must say he has change a ton! We held him back from starting kindergarten til this year and he so needed it. He struggled with some sounds. He also needed a sometime to chill! He has so much energy :) Dallin is the most rough kid but so sweet. He is so protective of his sisters. He is very smart and catches on to things quickly. Very easy going and extremely helpful. A very hard worker (loves to wash and load the dishes)! I love his little raspy voice and his contagious smile. I love him so much and I am so blessed to be mother!!!!
I have an ELEVEN year old!!! I feel old when I think about it like that. I guess being married for almost 13 years that can happen :) Although very scary to think about her being a teenager-we are on the verge of those years. Malulani is so smart and very beautiful. If she would have a different personality I would worry but she is reserved. She is tenderhearted and sensitive. Very responsible and is an over achiever. She is a pleaser which is good and bad. Once you get to know her she can't stop talking and giggling. She is so full of life! It makes me sad to see her grow up! She is an amazing daughter and I am so very fortunate!!!

Bummer of a birthday :(

So a week ago Malulani got a cardboard cut under her finger nail and this morning she woke up and her finger is all infected. She poked it a couple of time with a needle and pus came out and then we pour hydrogen peroxide on it. I was thinking my mad skills in the medical field (ha ha) that would do the trick. Then I get a call midway through the day-it's Malulani crying and saying her finger hurts so bad. I thought to myself....she is not one for complaining - so it must really hurt! I encouraged her to stay and I would be there soon. You see today is her birthday and I was taking her birthday treats to her class so I went and took a look. Sorry for the bad picture- it is nasty. It was turning the fingernail yellow and you could see the infection working it's way down her finger. So I checked the girls out of school and we headed home. My mom came out to my house and watched the younger kids while we went to the doctors. Just before I took this picture she was crying :`( She is terrified of needles and that was her worry. I gave her the "be brave" talk but I am totally a wimp when it comes to needles. I don't blame her for not liking needles.

So finally the doctor comes in and was totally joking with her about needing to cut her finger off! She totally lost it! Then he said the word "NEEDLE" and she got hysterical. Another nurse came in to help she was hitting the doctor away. I felt bad for her but at the same time as I was looking at it as an outsiders view it was kind of funny. He drained her finger all while trying to dodge her fist. When it was all said and done she thanked him and apologized.

After leaving the doctors office and then going to get the prescription filled Malulani turned to me and asked if the $100 that I just spent comes out of her birthday stuff. OH how sad! Of course I said no! She went to activity days and went to sleep because she had been crying so much she had a headache. Then we had to rush to get dinner, presents, and dutch oven cobbler in before the night was over.

The saddest part of all of this .....last year on her birthday Dave cut his fingers on his table saw and Dave and I didn't get back until 10pm on her birthday and a few years ago she was swinging in a tree and fell out of it and broke her arm. So needless to say the last few years of birthday have been not so lucky :(