Flavor

So we just went in for our 20 week ultra sound (a week late) and found out we are having a little GIRL. Tuns out I am following my moms pattern which is weird. Everyone thought boy (my kids that is) except Jocelyn who would whisper "sister" when I asked her today. So everyone can stop wondering and waiting because we finally know. We are all excited.

Mommy Musings

For anyone who cares, I posted something on my other blog finally. If you do check it out sometimes then sorry it took so long. If you don't then sorry you have to read this little note.

Ryker's Birthday Party

We decided to give Ryker a "friend party" this year. This is the first time he has had a birthday party (except for his 1st birthday). He was really excited when I told him we could do it. Reagan was not. We took him and 4 friends to a new place called Pirate Island. It is in Orem and is like Chuck-e-cheese but pirate themed and the food is WAY better. The kids loved it. The boys thought is was so cool with the pirates everywhere and the ship that would shoot cannons when they were eating. Reagan had a friend come too (a sister of one of the boys who came) she was not a fan of the place. She wanted Reagan right next to her. (Probably would have been hiding behind me but I was across the table. Skyler was sitting next to her. He is more scary than pirates.) They had videos games and a little play area for younger kids. We didn't use the play area though or even really look at it so I don't know how good it was. They had a balloon guy come around to the tables and make balloon animals for everyone. All the boys wanted swords of course, but this guy went further and made them a belt to put the sword in. Pretty cool. Reagan and Jaxon got parrots that hooked onto their shirts. I told him to make whatever he wanted for Jocelyn since he probably gets sick of making the same thing all the time. He made her a ladybug which doubled as a bracelet. It was cute. So now that I have rambled forever here is a collage of the pictures. (getting nine kids to pose for a picture when they are excited is hard)


For anyone who wants to do this for their kids or something here are some tips. ...
They do have party packages where they get tokens and a pirate hat for 7 bucks. And a couple others that include food, but here is the secret...... the kids menu is the pirate hat that they give you. Therefore every kids gets one with out payying 7 dollars. So it is cheaper to just buy how many tokens you want. Also a good thing kids meals are 3.99 and under. Pretty good. Cheaper for us than buy one pizza and drinks for them. (only by 5 bucks but still) They have a 24 inch pizza that you can split up with different toppings. That will feed quite a few people. (it is 35 dollars) One thing that made Skyler super upset was that our waitress lost our debit card on the way to the register and then tried to blame it on us. I wouldn't really hold this against the place just the person. It was found, but it was frustrating. So that was his fun party and I am sure half of you stopped reading along time ago.

More Party Fun!

We had a party with family on Sunday. We of course had to have noodles for dinner, which is fine with me because I an a noodle fan myself. I ended up making chicken parmesan. It was good and the only mishap was that my over caught on fire. (on the inside) Yep that's right, a fire. It was pretty fun. Why do they put fire alarm things at the very top of a twelve foot ceiling??? Anyway, we had a good time and Ryker of course got some good loot. Here is my handsome 6 year old.


We had some back and forth with the cake. He wanted power ranger but I didn't have black frosting for the mask over the eyes, so we did Bionicle. He really likes bioncles and the only one I have actually gotten him is the one I got him for his birthday. My brother gave Ryker his collection of bionicles when he moved. So here is the cake. No one can probably tell what is but hey I tried those things aren't exactly 2 demensional worthy.

This is what a bionicle is. I tried to copy this guys head. Can you sort of see it now???? I hope so.

And of course the blowing of the candle moment (he only wanted one that was a "6")

Happy Birthday to my big kid. He loves sports and loves to be around people. (except brothers and sisters most of the time) When he made a bag about himself for school the teacher asked that they put in three things that are important to them. The first thing he said was family, so that made me feel good. I actually had to tell him to pick a toy. (I couln't thing of anything else that would work that we cold find an object for) He is a kind kid who obeys way more than other kids. Parents tell me he is smart, sweet, polite, kind, advanced, and many other things. Makes me feel good as a parent, but I think it is just in him to be like that. I don't take much credit. Anyway, I don't like to brag about my kids like that but I thought that I might want to remember this some day. (when he is a teenager perhaps??)

First day of school

Ryker started kindergarten last week. He was very excited and talked about it for weeks before. He gets to ride the bus to school too, which was almost more exciting than school itself. The first day I walked him to the bus and waited with him then went back home to drive to the school to meet him there. (His teacher asked that we come for a few minutes on the first day to help them figure out what they are supposed to do.) By the time I got to the school Ryker was already there and in his classroom figuring out what he was supposed to do on his own. He was also the first one there.
So here are a couple of pictures I took later in the day because I was nervous for him and forgot in the morning. I know I never remember to take pictures but hey, I still got one and it IS on the first day of school.

You can always count on Ryker to do some kind of pose. It makes the picture more interesting.

How old are we????

This is what we did after Reagan's party. This is only one of the formations. We always did stuff like this when we were younger at our house in Woodland Hills. This was a fun way to remember those days. (yes Paige as a tube around her waist. wouldn't want to get hurt if she fell....)

It's her party......

Reagan is 4!!

This is miss Reagan on her birthday. She is getting so big.


Here are the gifts. She got lots of fun stuff and now everyone fights over them. That means they are good. We got her the bike. At first she didn't really want to ride it. I was expecting this so it was okay. We have tried to get her to ride Ryker's old one for a while but she always acted like she didn't know how to pedal. So when she didn't do it right away I knew she would do it on her own time. It didn't take as long as I thought for her to be interested. Everyone started playing on bikes and stuff so she joined to fun. She just got on the bike and started going. I was shocked. She is a lot smarter than I give her credit for most of the time. I just can't be there and want her to do it then or she won't. I don't think she likes people watching her. Anyway, she rode her bike for the rest of the night. She even went all the way around the "block". Of course she wanted her toys in the basket on the bike. Which is the reason I bought it so that worked out nice.

Here is the cake. She wanted an Aladdin cake. I was going to put the figures on top but thought that would look a little weird. So this is how it ended up. I like it. (by the way it is a magic carpet)

Happy Birthday to you!!!! Here is the cutie waiting for her lovely rendition of Happy Birthday to end so she can blow out the candles. I love this girl.

Flaming Gorge

We went to Flaming Gorge a couple of weeks ago with my family. We had a great time. We went boating, on the water wennie, and fishing. We were camping while there so we also did all the stuff involved in that. The only downfall was that it was FREEZING at night. One night it rained and when we woke up all the rain had frozen. Yeah.... cold. Anyway when we got there we went for a boat ride on. Most of the kids loved it. Ryker and Reagan acted like it was something they did every day and was no big deal. Jax was typical Jax and just took everything in quietly. Jocelyn did not like it when it went fast. Mostly due to the loud noise of the engine. After a while she was okay with it and wanted to walk around while the boat was going at high speeds. On the other days when we went out on the boat Jax and Jocelyn would almost always fall asleep. We had a blast but next year I hope it is a little warmer.


Skyler, Peter, and Michelle went cliff jumping. So naturally Ryker wanted to go to. I was a little worried about this but figured he would see what it was and decide no way. That wasn't the case, but there was just a tiny little cliff that worked great and Ryker thought he was pretty cool.......

But he did do a belly flop when I got the picture.

On one of the days everyone (except me and the two little ones) went on a rafting trip down the Green River. This was the coldest day there, so it wasn't as fun as it could have been. The kids got soaked bout stayed in the raft. Skyler, of course, jumped out of the raft (so I heard) and one of the rafts was having trouble and kept tipping over. (I think it was over loaded) Mom said I am lucky I didn't go cause it was so cold,but I think everyone else had a good time.
When we got done I only had 10 loads of laundry to do........

White Trash Moment

One day the sprinklers were on out by the basketball hoop so I told the kids they could go run through them. It is easier than sounding like a mean mom saying "no" every time they get close. For some reason the sprinklers got the cement court really wet and not so much the grass. The kids had a great time and were all cooled down by the end.

Jocelyn watched for a while then decided it looked like fun and then joined them. She would copy everything the older ones did, only slightly slower some times.

Say What?????

Yep you saw right...... baby #5. Let the craziness continue......... Really though we are excited. You can all start a poll on the gender.