The Little Princess

Sadly, Landon was gone this year for Easter. So, the Easter Bunny only had one child to leave a basket for.

Mackenzee woke up and the first thing she said was, "treats?" because I told her the night before that she had to go to bed otherwise the Easter Bunny couldn't leave her any treats. :0) She remembered. Luckily, the Easter bunny didn't bring too much candy our way this year. I put in a special request because the person that ends up eating the candy in the end, is trying to make her "end" smaller. Instead, Kenzee was given oodles of Barbie Mariposa fruit snacks. OOOhhhhhh AAAhhhhhh. Right? :0) She also got lots of stickers and a brand new package of Dora panties. The Easter Bunny must have known we were doing well with the potty training. :0) He's such a smart guy that bunny.

The best thing he left was a beautiful new "Princess Dress". That's what Mackenzee called it. She wanted to put it on right away. I knew we'd never make it until church without getting something on it, so she had to wait. That didn't keep her from asking every few minutes though. She carried it around the house with her and everything. Sadly, she wanted to wear her crocs with them. What? She only has three different pairs of "princess" shoes! We did some negotiating and we compromised on her black sparkly shoes. They worked.

Isn't she adorable? She knows it too.....

I hope the Easter Bunny treated all of you as well!

We've Dyed and gone to egg heaven!

It's true... :0)

Ok, not really. If you've been reading along, you know I've been yucky sick this last week. It hasn't been very fun. But, Easter is coming this weekend and I had bought the fun little egg dying kit for the kids to use and I wasn't about to let it go to waste! Besides, it's tradition. We ALWAYS dye Easter eggs.

Let's just say it wasn't the most fun we've ever had doing it, and it was probably the quickest egg dying party ever held. BUT! We did them and the kids had fun...as short lived as it was. :0)

Here's hoping you have a very Happy Easter!

Splish Splash

Landon is taking swimming lessons this week at the YMCA. Sadly, he is 8 and hasn't ever taken "real" lessons before. He took a few at the gym a couple of years ago before Mackenzee was born, but all he got out of that was how to doggy paddle. :0) So, I figured it was about time he learned how to swim for real. {I'm such a slacker mommy}

He has been having so much fun with it. He's learned to float on his back and stomach {he loves the "Dead Man Float"} and he's started to swim forward and on his back as well just using basic strokes. He's doing pretty good too! I know I'm his mom, and so I'm extremely partial, but when they did their little race at the end, though he didn't win, he was the only one that actually SWAM for real. They are in water that's only up to their shoulders, so the kids usually just walk as they move their arms. You can see them bouncing up and down as they tried to "swim" to the finish line. Landon doggy paddled the whole way across the pool. I was pretty proud of him. :0)

And, as I'm trying to watch my son and be a good mommy, my dear daughter is trying to slowly kill me with her toddlerness. I love her to death, but today was definitely one of those "I'd love to trade her in for a new pair of shoes" days. We had places to go after swimming lessons. Important things to do. So, she couldn't get dirty and wet. She didn't care. She ran splashing through all of the little puddles that had been created by the previous swimmers and crawled around on the dirty pavement barking like a dog. At one point, she booked it for the pool. I was waiting for that one and caught her before she reached the steps. I swear she does stuff like this just to watch me get frustrated. Here she is with that little smirk on her face, like, "will you catch me if I make a run for it?" Sadly, she looks so much like me as a little girl in this picture that it's scary. Was I this bad? I tell myself that I wasn't....mom...you tell everyone I was really good ok? Mackenzee gets her "crazy" on because of the Burnham genes, right? It can't be because of me......sigh. :0)

Anyway...Landon's favorite part of lessons is free swim, because then he gets to go down the slide. It would be my favorite part too. :0)

Here's to hoping he learns how to swim even just a little bit out of this. Make this slacker mommy feel better! :0)

Weekend Getaway

We had planned on going to visit by brother Cameron in Utah this last weekend. It's been planned for about a month now. We had to wait for basketball season to be over so we'd have a free Saturday. :0) Unfortunately, Mackenzee decided to get sick on Tuesday. We kept our fingers crossed that she'd be better by the weekend. Thankfully, her fever only lasted for 24 hours, but then her nose exploded with a cold and a cough magically appeared. And, to top off that, Jaysen had to go and get sick on us as well. He had caught whatever bug Kenzee had. I called my SIL, Holly, on Thursday night to let her know we might have to bail. She said that as long as it was just colds to still come. So, I told her I'd keep her posted.

{This is Cameron and Holly}

Miraculously, Jaysen woke up Friday morning feeling better, but with the same nasty cold that Kenzee had. So, I called Holly again, and she said that we still had to come, colds and all. :0) I think both Austin and Landon would have had heart attacks if the trip was cancelled. So, we packed up the car and headed off.



And, though I know most of you will be shocked at my laziness...I didn't take a single picture the entire weekend! What's wrong with me? I took the camera...just didn't take the pictures. Sigh.

{Landon and Austin}

Anyway, we had a great time! We did absolutely nothing and it was fabulous to just hang out. They have a new home now and so we got to snoop around and check it all out. It's ginormous! So much so that they don't even use the basement. I think Holly should use it as a girl haven though. Set it all up with her crafting stuff and have girls nights galore down there. :0) I would come!

{Greta and Alina....and Santa too. :0)}

The kids had so much fun playing together even though I heard Alina tell Mackenzee "I hate you!" a few times. Gotta love girls.....they didn't really like "sharing" too well. I told Alina that she could come home with me and she was mad when she found out it wasn't real. :0) Normally none of my neices and nephews actually take me up on the offer. It's been made to most of them because they're all so stinking cute...but she's the only one that literally wanted to hop in the car and head out of town. I loved it. :0) And...I've never heard Greta talk SO much. It was non stop. I couldn't believe my ears. Normally you have to drag even just a word out of her. She is still scared of Jaysen though. She said it's because he's a boy and has cooties. I can't say that I blame her.

Poor Jaysen slept most of the weekend trying to get better, and Kenzee nose was an ever flowing river of snot. So gross! Cameron had a hey day playing the Guitar Hero we brought with us {Just go buy one Cam!!!} :0) and the boys tormented the girls non stop. What can you do? I just sat back and watched it all. :0)

We did go to the Mayan for dinner on Saturday night. I can't say that it was the best food I've ever had {Kind of like Cafe Rio} but the atmosphere was so fun for the kids. We had to wait an hour for our table {With 2 two year olds!} but the kids had so much fun watching the little shows and the people diving into the water. Kenzee was scared to death of the man walking around in the headdress and loincloth. :0) It didn't help that Cameron growled at her to scare her when the man came around. {MEAN!} But she lived.

And now we are home...Thanks so much for putting up with us this weekend! We hope we weren't too much trouble! Unfortunately, I have begun to get whatever Kenzee and Jaysen had. I hope your family doesn't get it! I'm sorry! But you said we should come! :0) I'll send a couple bottles of cold medicine to replace the ones we drank. :0)

March Madness?

Saturday was Landon's last basketball game for the year. Landon played great and scored 5 baskets! He was definitely on a roll and had so much fun playing with his friends. It's been so much fun to watch him play with his friends.
After the game was over they had an awards assembly where they passed out medallions to each of the kids. In 2nd grade, they don't keep score, so there was no 1st place team. Everyone gets a participation medal. He was so excited to get it though! In soccer they have only passed out ribbons, so to get an actual engraved medal made his day.

I want to thank all of the family that came to his games to support him. He really loved having you there rooting him on and it made him feel truly special. :0)
Now that basketball season is over, we are able to get our Saturdays back, which will be nice. It's been almost three months of Saturday games, and Jaysen and I were ready for a free weekend. There won't be much time for relaxation though. He's got swimming lessons starting next week and then soccer starts up the beginning of April. Jaysen is already thinking of coaching the soccer team too....I swear it never ends! :0)

Can We Go Bowling?

Landon has been bugging us to take him bowling for a while now. It seems everytime we go down to the bowling alley or call in, it's league night and they have no lanes available! Apparently, EVERY night is league night.

So, when he asked me yesterday morning if we could PUHLEASE go, I let him know they probably weren't open AGAIN. Miracle of all miracles....I called down there and they were letting "regular" people play! Finally!

We had Landon's basketball game at 12:15 and while we were there Jaysen's parents invited us to go out for lunch with them and Jaysen's brother, Jeff. So, off we went to eat and Landon was so excited to see Gage there with his dad, Jeff. Gage is the same age as Landon. So, of course, there was some instant negotiating going on between Gage and his dad over our bowling outing. The begging and pleading if he could come. Finally, Jeff caved under the pressure of Gage's pleading eyes. Not only did Gage get to bowling with us, he got to spend the night too!

So, off bowling we went and on our way there Gage reveals that he has NEVER been bowling! What? Well, he did pretty well for a beginner....

Do you see that picture of a strike? That was Mackenzee's first ball...the boys went crazy!

We had a great time, and now Gage wants to go bowling ALL the time. :0)

Pinkies Up Daddy!

I caught Mackenzee sneaking MY Pepperidge Farm Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies into her bedroom yesterday and figured I better see what she was doing with them. This is what I found.....