Fun and activities

last weekend Nick took Preston to play golf with his buddy Kyler and his son Gage. Its was a sort of father-son double date. :-) They went to Steakburger and golfed 18 holes in the cold. But they didn't seem to mind the weather. Then they went to McDonalds for lunch. They had a fun time and I love that Nick takes time to spend one-on-one with our kids.

Ashleigh got some new boots today. She loves them. Nick sent me this picture with a caption that she looks like a mini-Quinn. I completely agree. :-) They have such similar personalities and character qualities. It makes me happy.

Occasionally my kiddos like to have "sleepovers". This was one of those nights. Aren't they cute?! Preston's bed isn't complete unless he is sleeping with his angry birds though too.

Before bed...these angry birds and pig needed to have shoes for some reason. haha. I love my kids!!!

Preston got in trouble (can't remember why) and had to do nose-and-toes.

After, Preston thought it appropriate to give Nick a wedgie as punishment for making him do nose-and-toes....

But of course, Nick got the last word in and got Preston back with a major wedgie. Lol...boys.

I came home from work to find that Preston set up his Angry Birds and stuff to make a fun war zone. This kid has the most impressive imagination!!!

Another of Preston's wild imaginations: using his helicopter to rescue a yoyo that had gotten stuck to a cup with an easter egg inside that had a yellow angry bird inside it. whew.

Preston and I saw this huge slug on our driveway...it was easily 6" long, but we kept scaring it by touching things to it and it shrunk to about 2-3" and really really fat. Then it started playing with this dandelion we put in front of it...I didn't know a slug could be so entertaining...

Ashleigh loves iCarly (Miranda Cosgrove) Victorious (Victoria Justice), and Wizards of Waverly Place (Selena Gomez). Big steps up, in my opinion, from liking Hannah Montana...

Here Ash is clicking through an album of Miranda Cosgrove doing concert performances.

Ashleigh took over my phone's camera and took a bunch of pics...enjoy! Lol...













Preston taking a picture of me taking a picture of him at Ashleigh's soccer practice.

The kids and I went to run some errands today and we took an impromptu stop at the train station. Ash showed me that she can roll up leaves with her shoes.


love this picture of my awesome son!!!



Love these pictures of my amazing daughter!!!
I'm so happy and feel so blessed!!!

Ashleigh's outfits

So Ashleigh will always remember the things she wore growing up, I'm going to start posting pictures of her outfits. :-) I always loved looking back at what I wore when I was a kid...I was an '80's kid, so I'm sure you can imagine the clothes!

I just love her no-nonsense sense of style and her carefree attitude. She's not all hung up on what people think of her or how she looks yet and I'm so glad for that. She's being a kid, and to me that's most important!

Gold and white zip-up hoodie from Just Between Friends consignment sale. Blue knit gloves from Walmart. Pink Hello Kitty skirt from walmart. White Capri-length sweats from Kid-to-Kid in Utah. Pink sparkly slip-on tennis shoes from Payless.

And here are some other good ones. :-) I actually really love the yellow and white outfit...

2 wheels

A couple weeks ago I went on a bike ride with the kids. Ashleigh says "mom, watch Preston ride, he doesn't use his training wheels anymore!"

It was true! he didn't use his training wheels at all except when they would scrape the ground when he'd turn.

Nick and I had been thinking about taking his training wheels off for a number of months, but never really thought it was a good idea.

I told Preston that we was riding on 2-wheels the whole time and he was just as shocked as I was.

Last week before Nick left for work he took the training wheels off.

Preston got on his bike. Nick held the back of the seat to help him, like dad's do when they're teaching their kids to ride 2-wheel bikes...

Preston started to go and immediately said "Dad, let go!"

Nick--"Are you sure?"

Preston--"Yes, let go"

Nick--"Really? you're ok?"

Preston--"YES"

By now, Preston had stopped riding...waiting for his daddy to NOT help. It was so funny...

Nick backed off, Preston got on, and away he went! He rode down our driveway, around the cul-de-sac, and back up again...over and over and over. He was having so much fun and you could see on his face that he felt like he had way more freedom now. We were both beaming. So proud. :-)

Soccer....

After watching Nick's cousin Jessie and then Ashleigh's cousin Bridget play soccer, Ashleigh decided she was done with gymnastics, so I called Salmon Creek Indoor Soccer and asked about their classes. I actually thought it would be good for both kids, but after seeing how Preston refused to participate for the entire trial class, I decided it wouldn't be worth my money to put him in classes. Ashleigh, however, absolutely loved playing and says she can't wait for Thursday's so she can go play soccer again! :-) here are a few videos...