Valentines day

Dad: Hopefully I did something right this year. It was our 10th anniversary. It was hard to plan a good one because I was very busy this week, as I am working two jobs and I'm in school and I have no money, and I have especially have no time. I got Danielle roses and green M&Ms and a card (Gabi: with a button on it) and a book Rough Stone rolling and um um we went out to eat at a La Vigne, the French restaurant that is nearby.
Gabi: Can I sing my song? It's about Valentines day. Valentines day, Valentines' day basket of roses, people all day, everyone cheering and going out, people are happy without a doubt. Everyone will be happy when they find presents hidden within.
Katie: [singing] I love you little, I love you lots. Sixteen cans. Fifteen buckets. Wait! Fifteen buckets yeah. 16 can comes after fifteen buckets. I didn't want you to say..... Hey that is not my song. That is very not good. I love you little, I love you lots hmm hmm hmmm, sixteen buckets sixteen cans, that's the end.
Dad: Oh, I got little boxes of candy hearts for the girls too.
Gabi: My singing part at the beginning it was a song.
Katie: I wish we could have more candy hearts. I gave McKay the last big one. I want to eat some more candies and cookies.
Dad: Let's go make some cookies.
Gabi: no no no I want to say more. On Valentine's day I got lots and lots of candies and I made like a hide and seek game that we didn't get to play yet but I'm going to play now. It is where you have to find the hearts and the love bug and the candies, there's seven of them.
Katie: Yeah Gabi, and you go potty every day.
Gabi: Hey Katie, you said that in the last thing we just did. Man.
Dad: Let's go.

Bicycles and Boo boos

Dad: A couple weeks ago Gabi finally learned how to ride a bike.
Gabi: Well, a big bike. A bike with training wheels. I mean without training wheels.
Katie: Out is a bad word.
Gabi: No it is not
Katie: Uh heh heh heh.
Gabi: The reason why Katie has that boo boo on her face is because she was running with her shoes on at church.
Katie: Um, Gabi she has played with me. She is nice. My boo boo hurted. I was running at church and had church shoes and I had circle on the bottom of my shoes. And I was running and my shoes tipped over. When it tipped over, it hurt.
Dad: I am very proude of Gabi learning to ride a bike. I had to take the training wheels off of Katie's so that Gabi could learn on it. Gabi has a bigger bike but hasn't learned to ride that one yet.
Gabi: It is way too hard that one. Katie got hurt because she was running with church shoes on, never run with church shoes on.
Dad: Katie got hurt when she was running like a maniac. She makes a habit of running and talking and yelling like a maniac without exercising self control.
Katie: I'm going to do a poem, you can write it on the computer. Humpty dumpty sat on a wall. All the kings and horses couldn't put humpty dumpty back together again.
Gabi: Katie, you missed a few sentences. It goes: Humpty dumpty sat on a wall, humpty dumpty had a great fall, all the kings horses and all the kings men, couldn't put humpty togther again, that's how it goes. And riding a bike, it starts out hard, but it starts to get easy once you do it for 3 days or something.
Katie: Well, Gabi she says I'm going to go potty on me and she is lying.
Gabi: HEEEEYYYYYY! Take that off! Take that off. I did not say that (crying). Take it off.
Dad: I know you didn't say that. Katie did. That is why I wrote it. I'm writing what people say, not if it is true.
Gabi:That's not very nice what Katie said.
Katie: [giggling] Gabi writes on the computer but she doesn't eat rats.
Gabi:[Growl]
Katie: One time Gabi she rode her bike the first time and she liked it, but she was not going to fall off. There was a phony obstacle on the ice, it flied up in the sky.
Dad: Katie talks like this all the time, she makes no sense.
Katie: Gabi is my friend.
Gabi: This is my turn. Why do you talk like potty talk all the time if you are my friend?
Katie: Potty talking is not good, because if you sit on the rat, that would be yuck. Don't put rats on your peanuts. If you put rats on your peanuts why should you get in trouble from your mom? Why do you have to put dirty rats on everything?
Gabi: Rats aren't dirty if you put them in a cup and clean them.
Katie: I'm going to say something that is not true. Well, one time I sat on a rat, it hurted so much it bited me. heh heh heh. On the next day, everyone had fun and at lunch. It was fun, munch munch munch. Why do you have to be a manic every day Gabi?
Gabi: Hey! I am not a maniac every day, you are ,really.
Katie: Gabi, don't fart on a rat, that is yucky. Is she going to toot on everything today?
Gabi: Hey, you are being mean Katie, a potty talk on the computer too.
Katie: Gabi don't write like a maniac.
Gabi: Hey, my writing is good. It is mean when you talk to me like this. If you are my friend, why do you talk to me like this? You are really being mean now.
Katie: Don't add fart music to my music. Chicken chicken fart fart. Chicken chicken fart fart. Chicken chicken fart fart. heh heh Chicken chicken fart fart.
Gabi: Crazy head.
Katie: Gabi, you're moo-haka.
Gabi: Grrrrr
Katie: Maybe Gabi can eat batterines.
Gabi: I would not eat a bat, and I would not eat green beans, no.
Katie: Gabi eats cockroaches.
Gabi: I do not. Hey we are talking about bicycles, not chickens and stuff.
Katie: I'm going to say something about bikes and it is not going to be true. I'm going to fart on my bike. Heh heh heh.
Gabi: You are a defininte potty talker girl.
Katie: heh heh heh. Gabi Gabi ping pong. Gabi Gabi ping pong.Gabi Gabi ping pong.Gabi Gabi ping pong.Gabi Gabi ping pong.Gabi Gabi ping pong.
Dad: Enough of this.

Katie's 6th birthday

Katie: This is my cake. Emily got the McDonald's pants (a friend of Katie). She is in my class. She came to my birthday party. She had fun with playing with Penny. Penny is fun. You get to do whatever you want with Penny.

A bunch of people had a bunch of fun at my birthday party. Rachel played with Penny too. Rachel had fun at the birthday party. I like Rachel being at the birthday party. Rachel had fun. I like you Rachel, I hope you had a good time at my birthday party. I hope you can go to my birthday party again Rachel. Rachel I hope you had a lot of fun.

I was sad because Teresa didn't come. She's my best friend and she was sick.

Gabi: She had the chicken pox.

Katie: I loved her. I hope everyone had fun at the birthday party. Jalen is very mean. I didn't want him to come and he didn't. Everyone was happy that he didn't come. When everyone was talking, they ate the cake. Everyone had fun. I turned 6 years old. I liked it!

I liked the presents. I got Barbie balerina dolls. I um got a cake set. I made some jewelry. I got pajamas from Sebastian. Sebastian came in our car. I got a ball from McDonalds for my birthday.

Gabi: Gabi found 2 rings. Well 4.

Katie: McDonalds, they bringed ice cream too.

Guns!

Dad: Today we did an activity called the Turkey shoot. A group of us from church went down and enjoyed sausage and pancakes and lots of shotgun action. A pretty cool helicopter, an apache I believe, flew over low while we were there.

Fall Festival

Dad: Our kids have been going on and on for weeks about the Fall Festival. This is something that the school puts on to raise funds. I was surprised to discover that they put on a full blown carnival right at the school....at night...in the fall. The weather was great. Poor McKay really wanted to do things but he is too small. I took him through an inflatable caterpillar and it terrified him.

The girls did a cakewalk and I wanted them to win. (I still remember when I was in elementary school and a kid pushed me off my spot when the music stopped and that was the winning spot. Oh well.) After $4.00 worth of trying with the girls we still had no cake. I would have been better off to buy a cake. At least we supported the school.

Breakfast at South Mountain

Dad: On the 10th of November we ate breakfast with our local church at South Mountain Park. It is crazy to realize that this late in the year you can have a fantastic outdoor activity first thing in the morning.

Gabi: We got to make a turkey after breakfast. It looked real silly.

Katie: Katie went on the swings.

Dad: Earlier in the week in the evening the church did a tri-stake youth dance at a larger campsite. It was really cool that they can do that kind of stuff outdoors, late in the year.

IKEA

Dad: On November 3rd we ate dinner at IKEA (Danielle's idea). Going anywhere in public with McKay is a little rough. They ran out of what I wanted to eat and so I got a bunch of meatballs.

Gabi: I got to watch tv before I ate. I got a lot of really yummy foods. I love them all.

Saturday afternoon Drawing.

Gabi says that she did this picture for her family, and especially for her parents. Gabi: "See what's in Dad's hand? It is a basketball. Mom has a brush in her hands. I wrote love because my parents are married and that would make more sense. I drew a heart around my parents. I underlined love because that's the most important part. I put red shoes on mom because she is a girl. Hi to all of you. Love Gabi."

Halloween Rocked! Viva the Incredibles!

Dad: These are photos from Halloween this year. It was pretty cool to be in Phoenix this year. The weather was warm and we didn't have to cover up our costumes with coats. Thanks to my sister who worked at Disney this year, our whole family has these costumes of the Incredibles. One of my best memories from this Halloween was at a house that went over the top to be scary. They had spooky music blaring and animated creatures that came to life when you walked by. The best part, however, was how they had people dressed up in scary costumes with blinking eyes and battle axes and claws and they chased the older kids down the street.

Gabi: At the Halloween party at church we saw someone dressed up in a monster costume.

Dad: Yeah, the Halloween party at the church was very cool. The haunted room that was in it was very well done, with vampires, gargoyles, etc. The adults did a great job too. There were many rooms decorated around the church and lots of activities.

Gabi: We did pin the tail on the cat.

Dad: The home made root beer was delicious

Gabi: Also, the root beer smoke coming out of it but it was really cool and delicious, just like Dad said. We had a bag full of candy after Halloween and we still have a bag FULL of candy.

Mom: McKay ate probably 10 suckers. And his Jack Jack costume was riddled in dried sugar syrup slobber. He seemed to really get into the idea of going around to the neighbors and collecting candy.

Katie: I got a bunch of candy. I was wearing an Incredibles costume. At school I colored this [a pumpkin]. This is me, I'm a pumpkin head.

Mom: 20 different people must have said "Hey, it's the Incredibles, awesome". And Dad even met his nemesis, Syndrome.

Dad: Yeah, most people missed it, but the family where the Dad dressed as Syndrome was pretty excited and got lots of photos.

Gabi: I went to so many houses that my legs got so tired I started to complain. But still, I liked Halloween, it was fun.

Sunday Jan 28 2007

Gabi brought home a bag of candy hearts today.
She ate some, then taped up the plastic. She said she wanted to save them to eat with package. her husband when she gets married. She said that he will eat "my girl", half of the "I love you" one, and half of the "my baby" one. She is not going to open it until she gets married. She taped them up really good so they don't get dusty.


Yesterday I did a thing called an Aquathon. I didn't get any pictures of me on my camera, but here are some of Sam, Gabi, and Katie.