Haircuts!

My most favorite time of year is football time. Now not for the reason you think. I am not into watching football or really into sports (except shopping, which, in my opinion, should be a sport.) I love it because that is when my boys willingly get haircuts! They grow it out from March until football starts in the fall. I did not get a before and after picture of Josh, I have been a total slacker with the camera lately. Here is Jared (aka JD) before and after his wonderful haircut!

I love the way they look after a haircut. I think my boys look so handsome with shorter hair, and so clean cut. I wish they would keep it that way. they love having long hair in the summer when they go to California with their dad, because then they look like surfer kids. Since they spend the entire summer surfing, and it is their hair, I stopped fighting them on it.

Here is Miss Kayla with not one but two backpacks on. She loved the stuff the boys had for getting back to school. When Cayden's zipper on his backpack broke, he let Kayla have it. She walks around everyday with it in her hand until I put it on the right way. then she walks around with it on for about 20 minutes until it falls off and she comes back for me to put it on right. She does not let it stop her from playing with her toys, she just likes to have it on. She is such a silly girl!

Cayden has been so excited to start kindergarten. He has been asking me every day since we moved to Arizona if he is starting kindergarten tomorrow. He finally did start July 27th. I was sad to see him get on the bus. I was even more sad when I forgot my camera and the most sad when he did not get off the bus! After heading to the school and yelling for a few minutes and 45 minutes of panic, I finally found my little kindergarten boy. They had put him on the wrong bus! When we had gotten his bus pass, they gave him the wrong color pass. the teachers put him on the color bus that was the same as the pass. Unfortunately, it was not what bus he was suppose to be on. The good news is, they got him the right pass! His older cousin gets him after school and walks him to the right bus, they ride together, and then get off together. I can not even begin to say how upset and scared I was. I am just so happy that it ended well!

Three reasons why you do not give a 2 year old icecream in the car!

I thought if I gave my niece Cassia a shake with a straw it would be fine to take in the car. I guess I have forgotten that the mind of a 2 year old and the mind of a mom are not on the same track. She decided that it would be fun to paint with the straw as a brush. Here are the results of her painting. The two year old wearing a new dress.

The inside of my car when she was done.

The cutest face that I could not be mad at when she smiled and said, "Look Emily!"

The funny things Cayden says.

The other day I was having Cayden practice writting his name and do his ACB flashcards. I told him he had to know all this stuff before kindergarden. It was working for a while until he wanted to do something else. anyway to try and get out of doing work, he said to me, "Mommy, I can not think anymore! I think my brain got broken and the xbox needs to fix it." I had to laugh. Leave it to a 5 year old to figure out how to get out of homework already!

She's Walking

Really Kayla has been taking steps for 2 1/2 months, but this week she decided that walking was so much better then crawling. She now walks just about everywhere. My kitchen floor is constantly cluttered with tuperware, lids and toys that she drags out, I put away and she drags out again. This is a fun game for her. she loves to help me put the stuff back so she can pull it out again.

Although she does not look so happy in this picture, I think she is ready for bed! please note the cute little shoes, I got them at Savers for $0.99! They look brand new and are even Stride Rite, she likes the little sparkles on them and picks them out, of her 2 choices I give her, every time.

The Promised Photos

Kayla playing with the balloons at the 60th anniversary party

The entire Posey family, well minus most of the grandkids and one child.

Lexi

Cayden

Cody

The older kids eating

John and his sweet little Cassia

The happy couple after 60 years

Grandma and Kayla

Cayden and Lexi

Jared the chef

Josh the teenager

Lake Powell, beautiful!

Jenna and Cayden -best cousins

Jenna

Trey (the other best cousin)

Aunt Debbie with Cayden and Kayla

This is the bow holder that I made for Kayla's wall.

Fun in the Sun

I have failed to update my blog every week as I had originally planned. My excuses are usually long and wordy so, I just didn't get to it will have to be the excuse for this time. The past few weeks have been filled with fun in the Arizona sun. Blaine's mom and sister and brother in law came down for a week to see us. Blaine has the most crazy schedule in the summer. I am not really sure why, but he tells me that ice usually sells better in the summer. his family rarely saw him, but we had fun with them. One day we took a tour of Chase Field where the Arizona Diamondbacks play. Lynn (BIL) wanted to go to a game but they were in St. Louis for the week. It was pretty cool to see the locker rooms and all of the behind the scenes stuff and hear the history behind it. We were the only people in the tour so we got to ask lots of questions and take our time. It was cool. Our tour guy took this picture of all of us. Like I said we were the only people in the tour, so he was very accommodating.

Tammy (SIL) wanted to go to the Phoenix Zoo. We knew it was going to be hot, so we decided to go early and avoid the heat. Well, we got there early (8:30) but it was already 102 outside. I should have watched the news the night before because there was a heat advisory out for that day. by the time we left (1:30), it was 114 out. We were all very tired and ready to relax in a nice air conditioned house for the rest of the day. We did have fun at the zoo though. Here is Kayla, she was the only one that did not have fun. She pretty much just drank here juice, cried and sucked on her Binky the entire day.

Cayden got to feed the giraffe while we were there. He thought it was pretty cool. They have a huge long black tongue that scared him a little when the giraffe stuck it out to get the food Cayden was holding. I only took a few pictures the entire week they were here. I know, I was a major slacker!

The week before they came was the fourth of July week. I did not get many pictures of that either. Andrea and I took the kids to the beach pool. They love to swim there. It has a zero entry beach with real sand, so the kids built sand castles and played in the water for a few hours. I then took the kids home for naps before dinner and fireworks. I had to go collect rent from one of my dad's tenants, so I stopped by there on the way home. The kids were sleeping already so I left the car running in the driveway and went to get the rent. I did not realize that the tenant had 2 pitbulls. I am TERRIFIED of dogs.

This is why. I got bit! This is the picture 2 days later. My belly was too swollen to wear regular shorts or capris for a week.

We did have fun watching the fireworks out at my dad's house. We got eaten by mosquitoes, and killed a scorpion, and fought the heat. Despite all of this, it was so much fun. Kayla and Cayden loved watching the different colors explode in the sky in many different shapes. I loved seeing their faces light up. I can not wait to show them so many more things as they grow. I so enjoy being a mother!