We Rock Family Night!

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Don't you want to come over for family night now? Bring the refreshments, we'll provide the entertainment!

Slack

The tooth fairy was very slack this time around. The first night it was Preston's fault for not putting his tooth under his pillow. But the second night.....there was no sign of the tooth fairy, meaning the tooth was still there. Preston and Bryce were both equally upset and the tooth fairy. Why didn't she come? Why oh why didn't she come????

Well, I'm pretty sure that the tooth fairy stayed up fairly late watching New Moon with her husband and totally forgot about that tooth. Baaaaad tooth fairy!!!

Or, the tooth fairy got very confused (because we moved) and didn't realize we are in Arizona now. Preston seemed to accept this explanation and decided we needed to write her a letter to tell her about our location.

It worked! And he got a REAL candy bar so the tooth fairy could redeem herself and all was forgiven. And now the tooth fairy knows where we live! ;)

Update

Here's what's going on with us lately:

-We're in Arizona.
-We're sleeping on the floor. Well, not really but we do blow up the bed every night.
-We're in a 2 bedroom place with 6 people.
-Kirsten (Erik's sister) is a saint for putting up with us!
-We're waiting for "our" house to become our house.
-I keep thinking it's summer so to think about Thanksgiving or Christmas blows my mind.
-Preston started school and it's full day now. (eeeek!)
-Makayla has become a very difficult, demanding child who still melts my heart.
-Bryce is being, well, Bryce. (pushing limits, giving hugs, running around, yelling)
-When 65 degrees is cold, it's heaven!
-I miss the rain. (don't get me wrong, I don't miss the cold but I do miss the rain.)
-It feels like Utah here.
-We're together.
-It's all good.

-Oh, and I took off the privacy settings just to see how it feels. I'm living on the edge!

T-W-O!

While we had everyone there for Halloween, and it is her birthday, we decided to have Makayla's birthday party. I feel really grateful for my parents and all they did for her birthday. I don't know how I would've got through it without them. My dad had to come up to Portland to get me after spending the morning cleaning up our place and I had been stressing about what to do for Makayla's birthday. I hadn't had any time to get a cake or get food or buy her a present. My mom went out and bought all the food and even made cupcakes. Then my mom and sister-in-law decorated the cupcakes. Makayla had a great birthday because of all the details my parents did and the family who came to help us celebrate. Even the family who couldn't be there made it a great day. Thank you everyone!

Cute cupcakes.

That's Makayla's "please" sign.


Our dancer and her tutu that she has to wear every morning now. So cute!


Her Dora backpack but she actually only cares about Boots.


Her new baby. She LOVES babies. She points them out everywhere and says, "ahhh cute baby!" every time. Although I have to keep this baby away from the boys because the eyes open and shut so they tell me the baby's dead. I try to tell them that the baby is sleeping but they insist the baby is dead. So we just put the baby up when Makayla isn't playing with it.


Her with all her birthday loot. Doesn't she look so big?! I can't get over it.

So here's some little facts about Makayla:

1.) She is so hard headed sometimes. She will want something but won't take it from my hands. You have to put it down, walk away, and don't make eye contact. Then, and only then, will she take whatever it is.

2.) Where did she learn about princesses and dancing? She is all about being a princess and a princess always has to dance when music is on and if there is no music she will sing, like a true princess. Although I don't know if princesses actually sing the Star Wars theme song but we'll just say they do.

3.) She really doesn't have much of an opinion about what she wears but she cares about shoes. "Cute shoes" to be exact.

4.) She should teach a class on how to use crocodile tears and a pouty lip. They work on her dad real good.

5.) She loves her brothers. She will do anything they are doing and smile the whole time. But don't think she's a push over. She fights back if she thinks she is wronged in any way.

6.) Makayla really does have a lot of empathy for people. If someone is crying or sad she hugs them and tries to make them feel better and will sometimes cry with them.

We love you so much Makayla! You are such a sweet, beautiful little girl and we are so blessed to have you as part of our family! Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Halloween

Halloween this year was a lot of fun for the kids. Since we were transitioning from Portland to Mesa, the kids and I were staying with my parents so we had a big crowd with the cousins joining in the trick-or-treating festivities.

Makayla was a butterfly princess. Really we were lucky Erk's mom got her the costume because I didn't know what to do for her and she loved it!


This was as good as I was going to get with Preston. I know he was Superman last year but the costume still fits and it was already there, so why not? He didn't care so I didn't care.


I don't know how many kids this Buzz Lightyear costume has gone through but I think it's quite a few. Again, we had it in a bin and decided to recycle it for one more year. Bryce loved it!


Makayla trying to steal some candy before we leave.


I thought this picture was kinda cool. Very spoooooky!


The little miss wouldn't go to any doors without someone holding her hand and at some times holding her. She also had to have the candy put in her hand so she could put it in the bag. It was like she didn't really believe the candy was there unless she did it.




Hope you all had a great Halloween!