Easter 2013

I didn't realize I had gotten so behind on the blog! Hopefully I can get caught up soon but its been a crazy few months!

We had a great Easter with egg dying and hunting plus yummy food at Mimi's house.

Easter Bunny brought fun stuff

Mimi spoils the boys with fun treats

Grandpa Mayhle came over for Easter lunch

Egg hunting in Mimi's backyard

Mimi collecting the eggs to make sure we found them all. We had one missing for a week or so

I think Jeff has a nasty eye infection! Showing his egg dying skills

Jorden at our MOMS Club egg hunt in the park

February 2013

crazy kids Jorden and Julia in a toy box

Jamie sells her vinyl signs at a huge craft fair twice a year and I help her work her booth. It can be stressful but we have fun and I get free signs

Jorden is very opinionated about what he wears and for a couple months he has worn a belt over one shoulder.
 It's weird and cute!

Me and my favorite 7yr old at his class party

 

cuddly cheddar kitty

brothers being sweet for once

  

We go to my mom's for dinner every Sunday for supper then Jeff's parent's for family time. You can tell it's a computer geek family when you have computers set up in the living room for the 7 and 8yr olds, ha ha! 

January 2013

Mimi and Jorden at a basketball game

Jorden trying out his new skates

We rode a trolley in downtown OKC with cub scouts so Jensen could earn a badge

Jamie and I did went to wine and palette and had fun painting a pretty dress

Our masterpieces

Jensen and Jeff built a pinewood derby car for scouts.

 

I was sad I wasn't able to go to the pinewood derby since I was in Phoenix but my mom took pics and they said it was fun

 Jensen chose to do a camo one and it did ok but wasn't a top winner

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Phoenix Girls Trip 2013

Our bff Kimberly lives in Mesa, Arizona and Jamie and I miss her a lot. She had her second baby, a boy named Bradley on December 2 which is the same day as Jamie's twin girls. We loved going to visit after Kim's first baby Ellie was born in 2008 so we made plans to go to Arizona again on January 25 2013. We flew out together on that Friday afternoon and had a 7 hour layover in Denver. Yet that's right, 7 hours. We got our tickets for only $135 round trip and the small airport in Mesa only has 1 flight in a day. It went by fast though since there was plenty to see, good food and good company. That was a vacation itself since there were no little kids or husbands asking us to do anything. While at Kim's we mostly just relaxed and helped Kim with the kids. Jamie went home on Monday and I stayed until Tuesday. 

 

On the plane getting ready for take off

Teenage cheerleaders in the OKC airport doing strange things

 

Jamie with baby Bradley- he was about 7 weeks old

We just had to go to Ikea while we were there to shop. We ate lunch in the cafeteria and shared a piece of chocolate cake

Jeff's Aunt Joyce lives not too far away from Kim so she picked Jamie and I up for breakfast. It was nice visiting with her

Jeff and I love In-N-Out Burger so Kimmy took me there to eat twice while I was in town since we don't have it here

Kim and her babies

Kim's hubby Bezan with Bradley

Me with baby Bradley

Cheddar Kitty

It's been a year since Jay Jay disappeared and two years since Squeak died and Jeff finally talked me into getting a new cat. He really wanted an orange kitten and originally we found one at the shelter but they gave us the run around for several weeks so we ended up getting one from someone my mom knows. We brought him home on Jan 17th and he was about 6 or 7 weeks old. It took us several days to agree on a name and we decided on Cheddar. He had some litter box issues at first and I felt like I had a newborn up crying all night but I think he will be a good addition to our family.

 

The night we brought him home. It wasn't that long ago but he has gotten so much bigger already

 

Aunt Carrie and Mimi came over to meet Cheddar and he fell asleep on Carrie upside down

Keeping me company while I work on the computer

My 3 boys...of course we didn't find a female kitten so I'm really outnumbered in this house

cuddling with Jensen

December 2012

After 10yrs of owning a house we finally put up Christmas lights this year. It wasn't a lot but it was pretty

Jorden had a Christmas program at school and it was really cute. He was a little ham

Downtown OKC had some pretty decorations and we braved the cold to see the lights

Crystal Bridge at night

I think I was more excited to go sledding than the boys. We got a decent snow so we went to a park with hills and had a blast

Mommy and Jorden sledding

Jorden did not like getting snow in his glove, it was too cold

Jensen went ice skating with Cub Scouts and did really well for his first time

We had a fun "Noon Years Eve" party with some friends since the kids are in bed for the real thing