Tooo Quiet!

It was quiet today.

too quiet.

so I went to investigate.

and what did I find?

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I found these 2 sweet boys, sitting in Cayden's bed reading books together!

I love it when they do sweet things like this!

Sidney SMILES!!

We gave little miss Sidney her first bottle of EBM yesterday.

She snarfed it down and LOVED it.

Daddy was busy talking to her after he gave her the bottle and she gave him a whole bunch of sweet smiles.
SO SWEET!

PARADE DAY!

Well today was the parade. The boys were so excited to go. Uncle Ryan met us at the house and came along. I had to get a picture with all 3 kids as I haven't had one until now. You can just see Sidney's little head popping out of the sling. :)

The boys were excited when they hear the sirens, then they new the parade was about to begin. Uncle Kerry and Nana and Papa all were there too!
WHOOHOO, a police car!

At first they were ALL over the candy, grabbing it as fast as they could. Prestyn only wanted to hold onto the candy, not put it in the bag, and he even threw some back out to the parade participants. If we offered him another candy, he'd drop what was in his hand and take the new candy. Cayden was a madman after the candy.....that is....until he saw the cheerleader girls. Then he said "mom, look at the girls" and he stood there open mouthed! UGH

Auntie Heather was in the parade and even saved a bunch of candy for us!

Sidney slept through all the honking and ruckus.

You know you live in North Dakota when you mount a deer head on the front of your 4-wheeler - right?

It was muggy & hot, Papa was so sweet to shade Prestyn from the sun!

Cousins Kole and Beau were in the parade too. Beau even threw us some straw!! :)

After the parade we came back to the house to cool off.

Of course Nana had to get her snuggles in with little missy.

Papa too!

Meanwhile Prestyn was busy kissing/attacking Uncle Ryan.

Cayden even managed to get Nana to read a book to him!

We waited for Daddy to wake up & all went out to lunch! It was a great morning/afternoon. I love days like this! Nothing better than spending time with family!

Little Johnny!

Tonight was Sidney first "star" sighting. I was headed over to watch the Johnny Holm Band play and nurse her, on the way over we got stopped by some friends. As we were chatting this man came up & oohed over her. He asked how old she was & I told him and then realized it was JOHNNY HOLM. I asked him if he'd take his picture with her. By then his daughter had come over too, so they were sweet and posed for a picture with her. Johnny thought she was so cute & fake kissed her! :)

After sitting and listening to the music for awhile, Prestyn decided to join Johnny on the dance floor. He was an instant hit!! He followed Johnny around shaking his bootie.
He loved the spotlight!

The crowd was roaring with laughter at Prestyn and his shenanigans.

He kept pointing mid dance move. Johnny joined in and pointed with him!

He even introduced Prestyn as "Little Johnny"

Prestyn had a great time and was all tuckered out when it was time to leave.

I think we might have a future rocker on our hands.

The Fair

The Fair is in town.

We went this afternoon to watch Beau show his chicken.

He did a great job. This little man has certainly found his love.

We're so proud of him!!

We went home & cooled off for awhile before heading back. We met up with our friends Terry, Lorisa & Kael. The boys were so excited to get to ride rides together.


Sidney was kinda ticked for awhile by the heat, but once it cooled down a bit she was happy.

Justyn had the luxery of riding some of the kiddie rides with the boys!!

He won't admit it but he secretly LOVES riding these rides.
Especially the ones that go HIGH up in the air!

right hun?


More of the 3 boys riding rides.

They were all cheesed to ride the "choo-choo" and even more excited to get the caboose. Well after 1.5 rounds it "derailed" so they had to get off. BUMMER

What awesome men we have riding the rides with the kids. Seriously...these 2 men are amazing. They wrangled the boys all evening and rode rides, bought treats.

It was fun!

See...don't the big guys look excited??

Come on Terry - I know you wanted to smile.

All in all the fair rides were a huge hit, nobody got sick, and we are SO THANKFUL for wonderful friends.

Thanks Terry & Lorisa!

For the Grandmas

Here's for the grandmas...you know your missing your newest girl:

THE BOYS!

The boys had a water fight last night. Cayden got Daddy soaked, so he (daddy) decided to plop down in the kiddie pool with the boys! They thought it was so cool to have daddy hang out in the water with them. However, it's looking like we might need to "upgrade" the pool if this continues....

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY (the shirt says it all)

Our kids!

Well I have to say the boys are pretty in love with their new sister.

The biggest adjustment at this point has been to them fighting over who gets to hold her first and the constant kisses and head rubs she gets from them both.

They (so far) are very gentle with her and love on her whenever they can.
If she's on the floor, they want to be right there snuggled up next to her.

This one is from Church on Sunday

And this is from Saturday after our Airplane day.

I love seeing the 3 of them together!

no more bragging

so enough of this bragging about getting out of the house before 9:30 with 3 kids. i just realized that
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Cayden's shirt has been on backwards ALL day! teehee

AIRPLANES!!

First off I just have to say -
~I MADE IT OUT OF THE HOUSE WITH 3 KIDS BY MYSELF!!~
(and it was before 9:30am) whoot whoot

We went to the Beulah airport this morning to see the airplanes. It was the "Fly In" (i think that's what it was called) and they had all sorts of airplanes. They also served a free pancake breakfast - which we took advantage of. The boys both thought it was great.
This guy was flying this huge "toy" airplane. The kids thought it was great.

We ran into a bunch of friends while there so I had to grab a picture. Check out all these adorable boys! Regan was a little outnumbered - guess I should have put Sidney in there with her. :)

Prestyn thought the airplanes were cool "look, mommy, up sky" :)

Cayden was beyond thrilled to be there too & BEGGED to get a ride in an airplane. "REALLY?" I asked Cayden, "are you sure you won't cry & be scared - mommy won't be in there with you" Cayden told me "No, I won't cry, can I go mom??" So I went & asked the lady how old they had to be and she told me as long as they will go without a parent they could go (NOT the answer I was looking for - he's only 4) So I went to Cayden and again said "are you sure?? I won't be there with you & they can't just come back down if you get scared" and he started jumping up & down "yes, I want to go, can I go please??" So I went & put his name on the list....eek.

Sidney was with me on this one - she was already praying for Cayden's flight and that it would be safe & he would land back on dry land safe & sound. (she slept through almost the entire morning)

When they came & told us it was his turn he took off running after the lady to go get on the plane - meanwhile yelling back to me how exciting this all was.

Here he is waiting to get in the plane (I'm about to freak out - waiting for him to cry & say he doesn't want to go anymore...you know...because he's still my baby & he couldn't possibly want to go in a plane without me by his side - right?)

WRONG - He climbed right in & let the lady buckle him in. Then when I popped my head in to take his picture he told me "Mom, this is so exciting" (CRY)

Doesn't look one bit scared to me....what a brave boy!

TOTAL CHEESE HEAD = CAYDEN

Peek'n out to wave at me!!

and some more waving - he went up with our friend Carter and his friend Noah who we just met today! :)

getting ready to go



after having just landed

He made it back safe & sound, he said they got to see the lake, daddy's work & our house (i'm not sure about our house - but I believe him on the rest) He said they even turned to the side and it was "so cool"

I can't believe my BABY Cayden is growing up and wanting to do these "big boy" things all on his own. I was so proud of him!!

Oh & my friend Heather was awesome helping me with the kids and took Cayden to the bathroom before the flight (you never know) and she said he told her that he wasn't going to be a girl. She asked him why? what do you mean? and he told her that when they flip over & hit their head he wouldn't cry. :) teehee funny boy.