Busy January

To start of the month, Randy turned 35 (don't tell him I told you).  He hinted to me that he thought it would be fun to have a party, a surprise party to be exact.  I'm not a huge party thrower, that is why my kids only get a party every other year, but Randy has been working really hard to get us out of the circumstances we are in (through school) and so I figured I needed to be nice this year and do something for just him.  My friend Matney offered her house, I got the invites out, and ordered a cake (cuz I can only do so much when I feel like crap most of the day).  Our neighborhood friends, his parents and sister showed up and gave a him a good surprise. (Or so we tried, he figured it out earlier but was a good sport about it).  I, being the lame wife that I am, didn't get any pics except the cake and a video of us singing to him (which I will spare you the excitement).  It was fun and I think he liked it.  Thanx to all who helped out and showed up.

 Last Friday was Micah's 7th birthday.  He had a birthday presentation in class and I brought the class donuts to celebrate.

 His teacher wrote a story about Micah and he read it to the class and showed off some silly pics of himself.

 Gma, Gpa and Kristi came down for dinner and we went to Applebees, cuz that's where the "loud guy" is.  Unfortunately he wasn't there that night, but he still got sung to.

 We came home and ate a Lego cake (I know, not one of my best, but hey at least it was done which is all I can ask for at this moment).

 Oh and at Applebees, there was a balloon lady that made some awesome balloon figures for the kids.  The 1st on the left is a double helix (ya know DNA Strand) she even put two bouncy balls in it for fun. The next is a yellow monkey on a tree, then there are 2 dogs a poodle and a wiener dog and the far right is an octopus, amazing  I know.  This lady was awesome.  Very clever and the kids loved her.

 We didn't have time for our bday pancakes on Friday so we made them Saturday AM.  I just wanted to extend his bday a little, lol. Later that day we finally went to Trafalga to get our pictures taken for our Pass of all Passes.  We played a little black light mini golf, went in an XD Theater ride then Gma and Gpa took the older 3 up to the North Trafalga to play some more while Malia and I went home to rest (since I still don't feel great and Malia was a little under the weather).  The kids had a ball.

 Also this month, Malia's preschool class(es) went to the Dinosaur and Bean museum on campus. I went and helped chaperon (since I usually feel ok till 1).  Malia was crazy the whole time, can ya tell?

 She couldn't sit still long enough to look at anything.  Good thing I only had her and one other little girl.  The other little girl was very well behaved and stayed by my side (unlike my daughter).  It was fun to see everything for eleventy billionth time.  The Bean Museum is always a fun place to go. This is a pic of her teacher showing the kids the butterfly made out of hundreds of little butterflies.  Pretty cool eh?

I can't believe we are already in the 2nd half of January, time sure gets faster with age, lol.

Let's play "What's your prediction"

I put a little baby ticker and a gender poll on my blog for fun.  I want to see what kind of predictions I get for this bambino. So go ahead, vote and tell me what you think.  Who knows, when the day comes for my ultrasound, maybe I'll have a drawing for a prize for those who got it right.  I guess in that case, leave me a comment as well and let me know what you think it's going to be since I can't tell who chose what on the poll.  Happy Voting!!!

The New Addition

Ya, that's right!  The woman who was convinced she was done having children is having another child.  Luckily we have not gotten rid of everything yet, but there are still things we are going to have to replace not only cuz I don't have them but because they are as old as McKenzie.  Our little M will be here hopefully by or before July 12, which by the way was not what we intended.  We were going to wait until Randy was done or almost done with school to start in this new adventure since I just had a miscarriage and didn't really want to be pregnant in the summer again, but as we all know, when KT tries to make plans, someone else seems to always step in and say, ha ha sucka.  The morning sickness and headaches are getting old, but hopefully in the next few weeks will get better.  The kids are extactic and now that we are past 12 weeks and there is still a heartbeat they couldn't be happier.  Malia has been announcing it to the world but usually asks me first if she can tell whoever she's talking to at the moment the "secret."  McKenzie has been a huge help especially since around 1 PM is when I start feeling like poo.  The place I like to rest is on the couch in the living room so I can still keep up on the kids and they now call it "Mom's couch," gotta love that.  I'm just grateful for a strong heartbeat that I can hear.  Last time was torture not being able to find it and then realizing that it had stopped growing a few weeks prior.  Who would have thought that someone who had 4 healthy pregnancies and children would still be suceptible to a miscarriage.  So here's to pregnancy #6.  One of these days I'm going to make it through a day without wanting to vomit. 

Christmas 2011

We had a great Christmas at Gma and Gpa Tucker's home this year.  The kids got their pajamas. BTW McKenzie came to me the day before and informed me that she really didn't want character PJ's this year, like Hannah Montana.  She wanted me to do what I did last year with the PJ pants.  It's a good thing I already had done that.  I found these pajamas about 3 or 4 months ago for a killer deal.

 The Christmas pickle that my kids go nuts looking for.  Morgan found it last year, this year Micah was the big winner.

 Christmas morning the kids slept in until about 7 (which was a miracle I tell ya).  We even had to wake Malia up, can ya tell?  Oh and that is her hair sticking up on top of her head.

 The kids opening some family gifts from Santa.

 The kids got Angry Bird blankets from Gma and Gpa.  They are their new favorite blankets.

 Had to get one shot before the mess.

 Randy and his new BYU Santa.  Very appropriate I thought.

Kristi and McKenzie did this in the middle of the night for Gma and Gpa.  Kristi enlarged a recent family photo and changed it out for the old one and then wrapped the frame.  We wanted to see how long it was going to take for them to notice it was up there.  We had a good laugh.

After church and ready to play with their new toys.  You can just see the excitement on Malia's face. 

 Christmas is now over, everything is put away and we are ready for what 2012 brings on to us.  Happy New Years Everyone!!!!

A few of my Favorite Christmas Things

My kids have been a little crazy this Christmas season and have made me laugh, cry, scream, smile and just all around be grateful that I have them.  Malia loves to sing, never the right words mind you, Christmas songs, let's be realistic, any songs for that matter.  Recently, the song of choice has been "Santa Claus is Coming to Town."  Here is her version of it.

The words are not always right, but man she is sure of herself.

Micah has written many letters to Santa this year and apparently just making sure Santa knows he's here.

It says:

"It's me again, reminding you I'm here.  I'd like a robot that does homework and can also use a broom and a globe of the North Pole.  And can one Elf come to my home?  And can I keep him here?  Are your Elves okay?  When you come to my home there's cookies for all of your Elves." 

The corrections are from his teacher, he must have done this for a school assignment.  This kid never ceases to amaze me with the things that come out of his head.  Who even thinks up these things.  What a thoughtful kid though to ask about the Elves.  He probably just wants to make sure they're OK enough to stay with him forever so they can make him as many toys as he wants.    That's thinking outside the box, eh.

This isn't very Christmassy, but I want to make sure I got it on here.  Morgan got glasses last week.  She was very excited to finally be like her bigger sister.  We'll see how long it lasts before she starts begging me for contacts.  I know McKenzie has been for a few years now.  But for now, she loves them and I think they're pretty stylish.

So Far this December. . .

It's only the 12th and I feel like it should be Christmas already, not that I'm ready my any means.  It has just been so busy already.  Probably because we live so close to BYU that we have to do our Christmas stuff early in order for the students to be able to enjoy so Christmas traditions with their ward before they head off to see their families.  Regardless, it's been nuts.  The 1st weekend of Dec. was the annual BYU family Christmas party.  I can't believe this might be our last year we might go. Notice how everyone is wearing blue to support BYU except Micah.  What have we done to make him think supporting the Utes is ok?

 Malia has this weird obsession with making "crazy eyes."  Everyone decided to try and join in.

 Notice Micah's list.  He wants an Elf so that he can have him make Micah toys all year.  Where does he come up with this stuff?

 After the party we went and got ourselves a tree.  We had to wait about 4 hours to put it up though cuz Randy had a huge paper due, so we had to wait for him to finish.

 Then this weekend was our ward's Christmas party.  They decided to be a little different and go Hawaiian.  It was catered by a family in our stake from Hawaii and we even had some Polynesian dances to enjoy.

 Even Santa came dressed for the event with his shorts and lei's.  Micah asked for a robot to do his homework this time. He cracks me up.

 Malia letting know Santa she's 4.

 Morgan had a grass skirt on but kept stepping on it (since it was really mine) so she gave it up.

 Oh and another exciting thing that happened already this month is . . . Malia cut her hair.  In my 11+ years of being a mom, I have been very lucky to not have a child cut their hair.  Malia said that she didn't like it in her eyes anymore.  When she realized what she did, she started crying immediately.  We couldn't figure out why for another 5 minutes.  She looked natural with bangs, until you looked more closely at the side.Malia has always been my button pusher.  Here she goes again.  My friend Brookie cut it and blended it in, but it is still driving me crazy, so I'm going to take her back and have her butch it. 

 Here's the clump of hair McKenzie found in her room. 

Next up. . .Christmas.  Hopefully we'll be ready.

We love Crazy Hair!!!

It's Red Ribbon week at school and each day they have a themed dress up day.  Tuesday was "Crazy about being drug free" with a crazy hair day!  My kids look forward to this day every year, and last year I was smart and bought a ton of colored hairspray after halloween so we'd always be ready for this day.  The kids (plus our nieghbors that we take to school with us) before school.

 Top view of Malia.  She really wanted pink and purple in her hair.

 Micah's top view.  Too bad Halloween was the day before because I totally would have left him with his old man hair-do.  Oh well, this is the best we could do.

 McKenzie with her colorful "mane."

 Morgan wanted to be like Mak but McKenzie wanted nothing to do with that, so I improvised and added a few shrek ears to the mix.

It was a ton of fun to wash out that night, let me tell ya, but they all had fun.  SAY NO TO DRUGS!!!