Tiny O'Reily

What a fun St. Patrick's Day we had. This morning the kids had green eggs and green shamrock pancakes for breakfast. They were funny because they beg for green eggs all the time ... probably because they know I'll say no. So today I make them and they only took a few bites. Oh well, it was fun.

Paxton had a wonderful day at school. Yesterday his teacher chose him to help set a leprechan trap. He said he made a little slide with a box at the end to catch him. This morning the class checked and he had gone down the slide and ate through the box to get out! He said Tiny had walked through green paint and his little footsteps were across the chalkboard, on the tables, the walls, he had played on their leprechan ladders they made, etc. What a fun teacher he has! Then Tiny left them a note that said:

Dear Boys and Girls,
Please look on the other side of the paper. I left a magic recipe.
Tiny O'Reilly

He had also left some magic powder that they had to mix with milk and they got a magic green drink! He told me he could still feel the magic in his belly. :)

We had the missionaries over for dinner tonight and Ty wanted something green for dinner too ... he actually thought we should only be eating green things today and got mad at lunch when he had orange Spagetti-Os ... so we had brownies and mint chip ice cream.

The other fun thing about today is that its my mom's birthday and this year Pax was all about it. We've been talking about it for a week and he told his teacher his grandma has a special birthday. This morning he said, "If its Grandma's birthday and St. Patrick's Day then does she get pinched twice?" I laughed and said, "Grandma always says since its her birthday nobody can pinch her even if she doesn't wear green and if you do pinch her she'll get to pinch you back!" He thought about it for a minute and said, "huh ... well she'll still have to get birthday spankings! ... and I forgot to give them to Uncle Leavitt for his birthday!" So watch out when we come to visit! Pax has plans!

Halloween

What a busy and fun day. Paxton wore his costume to school all day ... well he was supposed to. I knew he wouldn't want to stay in it the entire day so he wore his regular clothes underneath and sure enough when I arrived to help with his class party his costume was off. I helped him get back into it but he said took it off since he wanted to be able to run at recess and it was too hard to go potty in ... totally understand that! Ty came to the party with me and Pax held his hand and let him walk with him for the costume parade. What a nice brother.

{Optimus Prime, Bumblee Bee, Zoro, Boo from Monsters, Football Player & Flower}

We went to Grandma's for dinner. That was the best trick or treating for me since then I didn't have to worry about it. We ate with Grandma & Grandpa and cousins and then headed to the trunk or treat. Pax was excited to see his friends. We also visited the aunts and uncles of course. Everyone was so exhausted that as soon as we walked in the door we got jammies on and headed to bed.

Happy 4th of July!

I sure love my little girl! She has been hilarious lately. He scrunchy face means lots of different things. Here she is not liking that grass on her legs. She also does it to be funny when we're trying to get her to show her tooth. She make that face when she's happy too.

Here's our hill billy! She's got three teeth that all came in one week and then nothing. Her other front tooth is starting to come through but it sure needs to hurry up!

We were getting ready to go camping and Pax wanted to clean his 4-wheeler up for the trip! He worked on it for an hour and did a great job!

Happy Halloween!

What a fun Halloween we had. This is the best picture we could get with all three of the kids. The boys had just come back from trick-or-treating at the neighbors and were anxious to get going to our family and friends homes ... I had just woke Zoe up so she's not quite sure what's going on.

{heading out to our first houses ... Pax is getting ready to do a Power Ranger move and Tyler won't let go of his bucket, which only had a few pieces of candy in it but they were his!}

Pax had a Halloween party at school and his favorite part was the slime table. He was excited another boy came as a blue power rangers and they played together. When I picked him up we headed out to Grandma Shepard's house. Tyler was the dog that he had picked out to be and we trick-or-treated. Ty normally gets shy when people talk to him or ask him for hugs but since Grandma had given him candy he was more than happy to offer up hugs ... this lasted all day. Then once Bryce got home I took the boys to the neighbors while Zoe slept and Bryce ate dinner ... Ty was really wanting Pax's costume but settled on being Spiderman. Then it was off to all of Bryce's aunt's houses ... all of whom spoiled the boys. They didn't even need their bags since they had other bags made up for them with candy, drinks, toys, etc. Too fun!

Zoe was our little lion. She looks so quite and peaceful here that I just had to get a picture. She is our car screamer. She just doesn't like it ... won't take a binky ... just likes to scream all the way to and from our destination. So as we headed home from Grandma Shepards she screamed for a second and then went to sleep. Its so nice to drive with her sleeping so the boys and I could actually hear what one another were saying. Hopefully soon she'll figure out its not so terrible to drive somewhere and she can just go to sleep ... as Pax says, "Zoe, if you're tired just close your eyes."