Forever Family Times

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Hoola Party

Birthday cake $.99. Ice cream $3.49.

Hoola in Hawaii... didn't even have to leave the house!

And we had a professional to demonstrate for the kids!

Everyone got in on the action at David's post b-day cake hoola party!

Good thing Zachary got his Dad's hips!

He really got going by the end of the night!

How many uses can you find for a hoola hoop?

Macey learned how to jump leap frog from circle to circle. When Joshua got in on the game, he couldn't really jump but he sure laughed a lot and so did the rest of us!

Even Grandma Karen got coaxed into a little hip action.

Boy was David in trouble when she found out he captured this moment on camera!

Thursday, April 2, 2009

March Fun

We left our carrots in the ground through the winter and it looks like they became the jumbo variety. They are really sweet, we had some for dinner!

We all gathered around Queen Angie on her birthday night and Joshua got to hold her wand of ultimate power and authority. He was pretty excited, after all it is very rare for a male to wield such a thing.

While I took Angie out for her birthday grandma and the kids finished her fruit pizza (her chosen alternative to birthday cake). They did awsome decorating it and it tasted so good.

I added rear suspension to Zachary's Jeep he wanted it to be like Dad's buggy. I think they like it. Zachary saw Speed Racer and now he always wears his Speed Racer helmet and glasses to drive.I have ben working on my buggy some more. In the first half of the video I have re-timed the engine and re-jetted the carbs. After tuning the engine I broke the drive chain, you can hear it skipping when I launch about half way through the video. So I changed out the sprockets and chain for the next larger size. In the proccess I also changed the "rear end" gear ratio from 3.28 to 4.77. After you see Zachary and Macey in the wheel I have the new gear ratio, it made a huge difference. Way more torque off the line.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Macey's #3 Birthday

I'm this BIG!!

"A GIRL is innocence playing in the mud,

beauty standing on it's head and motherhood dragging a doll by it's foot." Allan Beck

Do you think they would win a look-alike contest?

Here's Macey with her Christmas doll and Birthday dress.
David and I made the strawberry dress from material that Macey picked out. We so enjoyed doing the project together that we took some more time to make up an outfit to match the doll.

Time to make a wish!

The Pink Pony Cake
Macey said that all she wanted for her birthday was a pink pony cake. Oh, the simplicity of youth! David and I again had fun doing a project together. When we got the cake all finished I put it up on the kitchen table and David went out to the shop. I went on to clean up the kitchen when I heard Macey squealing at Joshua. He had mastered a new trick. He had climbed up on the kitchen chair and progressed on up to the top of the table where he was eating handfuls of the nose off the pony cake! Luckily I caught him before he got much more than the first layers of frosting!

The three little monkeys posing with the window clings that they made with David.

Did anyone notice how ironic this picture pose is?

Hurrah! Grandma Jana came to visit us a few days after Macey's birthday.
What a treat for all of us! We love you Grandma Jana!

This is a photo of the tickle monster caught on film during feeding time!

What do you do when the party is all over?

Try out the new toys, if you can get them away from the big kids!

Saturday, February 14, 2009

One Sweet Day!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

We wish you were here because we have a lot of cookies to eat! Since we've all been sick we didn't make our traditional valentine cookies so Grandpa Ron "ordered" cookies from cousin Tom. There will be plenty to go around.

In honor of the day, I wanted to share with you one of our sweeter days when we did make cookies. David's college class schedule is thinner this semester so we've enjoyed our Daddy time. These pictures are from a day when we just decided to bake. The kids had a blast!