Kate says the funniest things!

Ok - we're in St. George so I don't have access to post a photo at the present time, but just thought I would leave some thoughts from Kate (she just turned 4)- she is hilarious.

First some background leading up to Kate's Quotes. You must know that my parents own a dog "Brittany" that is 13 years old (that's 91 in dog years) that is now deaf, toothless and must be fed a special diet of soft meaty bites and wet dog food. You all know what wet dog food looks and smells like. Well, this weekend has led to Kate's first encounter with wet dog food.

Also - most of you are aware that my daughter Nicole (Kate's sister) has some anxiety issues (she gets it from her Dad). Nicole makes herself nervous about a variety of things, which usually leads to her making herself sick and she throws-up or cries a lot. One thing she is deathly afraid of is dogs. And sometimes, she gets nervous about going to school.

That should be enough background...so here are the quotes: (also - it's funny to know that Kate just made herself lunch. She poured about half a bag of pretzels onto a plate and got out a juice box).

Also, please remember Kate's special squeaky voice...it's a cross between Minnie Mouse and a little girl...

Quote #1: Last night, Kate was closely watching Grandpa as he made Brittany her dinner. He scooped out half a can of wet dog food and then kind of smashed it up. Then Kate said, "Granpa, Does Brittany eat dog pooh?"

Quote #2: "Granma, guess what? If I go to pre-school without throwing up or crying, then I get a toy!" Mom's (Amber) response: "No Kate - that's just for Nicole."

and Quote #3: this one came in the middle of the night the other night. My alarm went off which woke me up, but just caused Kate to stir. She was in the middle of a dream and started talking in her sleep. Kate(crying) :"Nicole!...Nicole!...Daddy - Nicole just took my coloring book!..." How would it be to be so young and innocent that the worst nightmare you can have is that your older sister just took your coloring book.

I'll put more pictures up on my next post.

See you all later!

Picture Post

Okay, so I think I can put a few pictures in the same post. I'm really getting good at this. Here are a bunch of pictures:

This one here is a picture of Ethan sleeping on top of me. He must have been super comfy sleeping on top of his soft pillowy Dad.

Here are our 3 kids driving their pink Cadilac Escalade. When Ethan is old enough to drive, I will be spray painting it and having it "murdered out" just like Big Black's Pinto.

Here are Colo and Kater-Tots getting ready for Kate's water birthday party for her friends. They are eating popsicles, because those popsicles are not allowed in the house.

Here's Mom (Amber) and the two girls riding a space ship to outer space at Disneyland. Kate is classic, everytime the ride went up, she would ask if they were in outer space. Just like when we took off in the airplane on our way to California, she kept asking when we were going to "Blast Off!"

Nicole is our ballerina. Here she is preparing for her recital. It's funny to know that about 30 seconds before this picture she was bawling about who knows what, but as soon as I pulled out the camera to get a picture of her being a baby, she immediately put on a big smile and show for the camera.

While Ethan and I were waiting for the girls in the princess shop, I put this "Prince" crown or whatever it is on him. He smiled for about 2 seconds before ripping the thing off his head. Kudos to Mom for capturing this picture while he still had a smile on his face.

Here is me and all the kids on the teacups. I don't know if Ethan was supposed to be on the ride or not, but I snuck him on and he loved it. Nobody even threw-up! You should note that we are, of course, riding in a pink teacup. I wonder who requested that?

Lastly, here are my 2 princesses with their favorite princess, Cinderella. This would be like me hanging out with Emmitt Smith or John Stockton. They sure had a fun time.

Nicole Elise

Here is our big girl Nicole Elise. She is 6 and a half and just started 1st grade. Her teacher's name is Mrs. Bickmore, but she might as well go by Sargeant Bickmore. I call Nicole "Colo". She is a good helper around the house (when she wants to be). She loves princesses and Barbies and most of all, she loves her sister Kate and brother Ethan. The first picture is taken at Disneyland where Nicole was trying on some princess tiaras. The other picture is taken of Nicole in our front yard on her first day of 1st grade. She is wearing her favorite Hello Kitty backpack.

Kate Marie

So I'm on to post #2 - I'm too dumb to mess with this too much, so I figure I'll do one post for each of my kids with a picture of each... Then, I'll just upload as many pictures as I can so Lori can see us.

This one is Kate, I call her "Kater-Tots". She is a genuine sweetheart. She just turned 4 and had a horrible birthday. She got the 24 hour flu and laid on the couch for her entire party. She did wake up long enough to barf all over the place and said, with her little high-pitched squeaky voice, "it's no fun to throw up on your birthday."

She is my favorite 4 year old in the world - and the cutest one too!

First Post Ever!

Okay - I don't know what the h I am doing, but since my dear sister Lori is on a 4 year mission and keeps giving me crap that I don't have a blog - well, I am going to attempt to post some pictures for her benefit. I can't imagine any other person will ever look at this and I'm sure it is going to be ugly (except for the pictures of my kids). But here goes...

Here is a picture of child #3 Ethan Jeffery. He is a machine. He turns 1 on August 30th and he is taking 3-4 steps at a time. He loves to crawl upstairs and get into trouble