St. Patrick's Day

The leprechaun left some fun treats at the end of the rainbow!

Blakely fell asleep on the floor of my room...

Fun leprechaun drink for dinner.  

Dyer wanted to try corned beef for dinner so we gave it a try.  I'm not sure it was a huge hit though.

Field Day

Blair and Dyer's school had field day in March this year and it was so much better!  All the other years they wait until the last week of school and it is so hot and humid. 

Dyer's class tug of war

Here comes trouble!

She sure is cute but sassy as can be!

Blair's class tug of war

Happy Birthday Handsome!

Nathan was still deployed for his birthday so we sent him a birthday package.  He didn't tell anyone that it was his birthday but shared some of his birthday goodies.  One of his coworker's birthday was a day or two before or after his so he thought the goodies were for him!  Haha!  His coworker was a little upset that Nathan didn't tell him it was his birthday.  He found about about a week later.

The kids singing to Nathan.

Easton made me breakfast in bed on Nathan's birthday!  It was really sweet!  It probably would have been for Nathan if he was here but I'll take it!

Happy 2nd Birthday McKK!

McKinley woke up and was a little confused what was going on.

She loved her trampoline

This thing was a pain to put together.  I thought it would be an easy thing to put together but boy was I wrong.  I'm pretty sure it took me over an hour to put it together and by the end I had rope burns on my hands and I was sweating like crazy!  Who would have thought it would be a workout putting this thing together.  By the time I finally got it together, it was all skiddywampus so I took it apart and put it back together again.  Even after taking it apart and redoing it, it was still off.  She still had fun with it.

Ready for church

Easton helping her open her cards.

McKinley loves ice cream and doesn't seem to care too much for cake so I decided to make her a mud pie cake.  

Gift from Gma and Gpa Earnest

Apparently this is what happens when someone turns 2!

Going for a walk with her baby and stroller.

Movies, playground, and Barnes and Noble

I took the kids to the Lego Movie 2.  I should have known better than to take McKinley because she is the worst in movies.  She definitely doesn't take after her siblings when it comes to screens.  The only thing that keeps her in a seat for any amount of time is popcorn.  Once the popcorn is gone, she is done!  I'm not sure if her and I even watched half the movie.  The rest of the kids enjoyed the movie.

Afterwards I took the kids across the street to the new playground they built.  It's a crazy maze contraption thing.

Where's Blakely and Blair?

Where's Dyer and Easton?

For Christmas Mr. Roger gave the kids each a gift card to Barnes and Noble.  Since we were over in Destin we decided to stop in and use the gift cards.  I thought all the kids would get books but apparently I was wrong!  I would have encouraged Dyer and Blakely to get a book but McKinley was throwing a massive fit (past nap time!) so I hurried them along as fast as I could.  They all seemed happy with their purchase so I guess we'll go with it.

Broken Toe and Valentines Day

Blair was outside playing with some neighbor friends.  She came in almost in tears saying she hurt her toe.  It was bleeding a little from the tip and nail bed so I put a band-aid on it.  Eventually she told me she was running off the porch (bottom porch) onto the trampoline (it's only about a foot off the ground) and then landing on the grass.  The last time she jumped she hit her toe on the metal bar of the trampoline on her way to the grass.  This happened Saturday.  By Monday she was still complaining that it hurt really bad and was walking on the outside of her foot.  I made a same day appointment for her.  The practitioner she saw didn't think she broke it but because the nail bed was damaged she sent Blair down to get an x-ray.  The practitioner said she would call us later with the news.  I brought Blair back to school only to turn around an hour later and bring her back to the hospital.  She did in fact fracture her toe and she had to go and get a tetanus shot.  Poor thing!  I felt really bad that I didn't get her in sooner, but really there wasn't anything to do other than buddy tape.

 Dyer and Blair had to make their Valentine's boxes for school.  Dyer wanted to do a minecraft spider.  I think it turned out pretty well.

Blair wanted to make a wolf.  I didn't want to go out and buy anything extra so we used only what we had on hand.  The only grey spray paint we had was more metallic than either of us wanted.  We ended up saying her box was a robo dog!  Blair seemed pleased with the end result.

Nathan made me this amazing video for Valentine's Day!

100th day of school

A couple of 100 year olds!

No teeth!

This little one claimed that she wasn't tired but I think it is safe to say that she was wrong!

Things got a little too quiet and I eventually found her like this.

Yes, I started potty training her right before she turned 2!  She's doing pretty well.  As long as there is candy and stickers involved she does fairly well.