Happy birthday Halle!

We had birthday cake with Halle Friday night...Saturday morning Ryan caught Mia enjoying the rest...
And while we were talking about it and documenting it, she went to town on the top. I don't really like having leftover cake in the house anyway. Thanks, Mia. (For the record, she was on the counter getting into the cupboard sneaking Starbursts and happened upon the leftover cake-double bonus!)

I know this one doesn't look too bad but Brooke was on the phone with me while it happened. I was trying to frantically get out the door to Enrichment with 4 kids, 4 desserts and no husband (Ryan was out of town as he conveniently has been for the last 4 Enrichment nights and I'm the Enrichment leader so I have to go). It was a little bit chaotic trying to get everything ready and I turned around to find Luke digging his fingers into some Vaseline (we do have child-locks on our cupboards but the older girls forget to close the cupboards after getting stuff out). I was still talking to Brooke and washing his hands and then turned around to see Mia putting lots of hair product into her hands and hair to "make her hair pretty". Brooke was thoroughly enjoying all this the whole time, by the way. Not a bad one but a typical mom moment we have all experienced.

Christmas in April

The other day Evie and I were at Michael's picking up stuff for Cub Scout Pack Meeting. I was focused on trying to pick out the best pipe cleaners and I heard Evie excitedly shout out "Santa!" I looked up and she's pointing at this old man a few feet away who had a very fun white bushy beard and a red baseball hat on. The old man clearly had heard her and so we just smiled at each other and I pushed Evie away as she continued to point and shout "Santa! Santa!" I had a good laugh and tried to steer clear of "Santa" the rest of the time.

Artichoke

Ben was asking Amber if she likes Artichokes. She said, "yes I do". He thought for a second and then said, "and then you start choking?".
I just thought it was funny.

Engagement Picture

I found Ben and Emily all dressed up and playing going to the temple.
I just thought it looked like an engagement picture...ring and all.

All colored in

Ben decide to color Emily "like a rainbow".

Special Drinks

Last month I was running errands with the kids and they were just super hyper and acting crazy for me. I couldn't figure out why until as we were pulling into the garage...I hear Emily whisper to Ben, "Lets go get our special drinks." After interrogating Emily on what she meant by special drinks...she happily showed me, (and of course, Ben took off running to hide). Two Mountain Dew 20 oz. sodas and several pop tarts had been stashed away in Ben's closet. Luckily only one Mountain Dew was drunk. I asked Ben how he had gotten into the cold storage once again. (Since the first raid occurred, I now keep a key in my pocket and all other keys hidden.) Well Jonathan had accidentally left it out the night before and Ben took it and hid it in his room.