Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

Today Jaxon's preschool took a field trip to Black Island Farms in Syracuse. He was so excited because he remembered it from last year. He even woke up today at 6 am!!! Brooklyn got to come too and she loved it but she froze!! The slide this year was bigger than it was last year. I couldn't believe that he dared go down it. Here they are on the little cow/pig train...they had to be right behind the tractor!

I loved the way that Jaxon had his arm around his 'sissy' the whole time!!
They got to pick a pumpkin from the patch too!!! How fast time goes....here's last years picture of them getting ready to go.. And, last year in the pumpkin patch!! I can't believe how fast time goes...I was pregnant with Gabe in this picture and now look at him.. He had to stay home...maybe next year!!

The good thing about Campbells

So I got some inspiration from my friend Liz (thanks LiZ!) to clean out my pantry-YIKES!! I keep thinking that we need to get our food storage in order so for starters I went to Macey's and loaded up on some case lot items. I came home and looked at my pantry and wondered where it was all going to fit. It became evident that the pantry was going to need a makeover. I decided to take a before and after picture.

I learned some useful things from this little project:

#1: The makers of Campbells soup knew what they were doing when they designed their cans. Unlike the off brands, their cans stack impressively well.

#2: The Great Value Wal-Mart brand stacks the WORST!!! (I guess you get what you pay for aye?)

#3: We NEVER use cream of celery soup

#4: There CAN be such a thing as a lone weevil....or can there???

#5: My kids Do notice when things are clean...especially Jaxon (big surprise) who said, "Good job Mom!"

#6: I do have a little OCD in me.

#7: We do pretty good at eating things before they go old....This was the oldest thing I found...

Yes it says 9/13/06...

#8: It will only look this good for today so I'll enjoy it!!!

The Train

Jaxon got this wild idea that he wanted to build a train. He said we could use wood and the wheels from his cars to make a train that everyone could ride in. I tried all morning to tell him that it was really hard to build stuff like that out of wood but he was relentless!! I don't know what he saw on t.v. that gave him the idea but he kept saying, "but they did it on t.v." I don't blame the kid, I was the same way- always wanting to build tree houses that looked like the Swiss Family Robinson's. So..I finally came up with this idea....I'm such a dream killer, I know.
It was actually pretty funny. Gabe got the whiplash effect a few times!

Deja Vu

Jaxon wearing the hat in the walker.... and Gabe wearing the hat in the walker.. I couldn't resist although Gabe is about 2 months older than Jaxon was in his picture-sometimes it's crazy how similar they are.

Jaxon's FIVE!!!

I can't believe my little guy is already 5 years old!! How time flys. I don't think there has ever been a kid so excited for their birthday as Jaxon was.
Squeezing Brooklyn he's so excited for what she just gave him. He got the thing that he wanted most, a.....Drum set!!! I know, what were we thinking!!

Brooklyn took a turn.

Here's my scary attempt to make a cake. We tried to incorporate everything that Jaxon loves: Boats, tractors, and four-wheelers (he really wanted a REAL 4-wheeler for his birthday after the drum set but we told him that he'd have to help pay for something like that).

On Saturday Jaxon had a swimming party with all of his cousins on both sides. He got MORE presents...
..and had fun swimming!!! What a great birthday!! Thanks everyone for all the gifts-whoa spoiled!!

Busy Brooklyn

So I decided to take pictures of everything that Brooklyn got into in one day. I keep trying to figure out why I am so worn out from her-well, this explains it.

Here she is after she took the stuffing out of the new pillow I put in her bed. My fault-I didn't have a pillowcase for it yet.

This happens almost daily-the wet wipes-and usually she does the toilet paper too but I didn't get a picture of that. Here she helped herself into Jaxon's chair and into the candy that I thought was safely on the middle of the table.

No explanation needed-I guess she was hungry.

And last but not least-she pulls out every DVD- this time she decided to put them in Gabe's hamper.

We love our little Brooky!! (She looks pretty innocent here!)

Whiting Family Reunion

Last weekend was the annual Whiting family reunion near Bear Lake only on the Idaho side. It was fun to get together with everyone and relax....although I think it was more relaxing for some more than others- (I know, I won't let it die-sorry Jace).

Here's a picture of a typical moment this weekend.

Most of the kids slept in the loft area and stayed up REALLY late!! It was hard to get Brooklyn to cooperate with going to sleep because it was so noisy.

Here she is pretending.
Jaxon and Brooklyn had fun on the four wheeler with Dad. Jameson had fun on them too!! Thanks Rick and Cherice!

Jaxon loved going on a scooter ride with "Gramp".

Jaxon got to fly the kite! Thanks Curtis!

The spaghetti for dinner was really good!

DORA, DORA, DORA!!! McKenna and Brooklyn had the same Dora shoes! Yeah for Payless!!

Our Sunday meeting. The kids were supposed to be upstairs-I guess they couldn't resist.

Brooklyn and Emily were getting bored so they fenced themselves in.

Jaxon and Jake found out that they had a lot in common....CARS!! They both love the movie and they played together the whole time.

We had such a fun time! Thanks everyone!!