Rock Stars

So, the kids have been getting a hold of my phone and taking tons of pictures and videos. This post is all mostly things I've discovered while browsing through my pictures (a few I've taken). These kids are little rock stars in the making. Enjoy!

Train Ride @ the Mall

Yearly Interviews

Allison Katherine ~ 6.5 years 

      1.  What is your name? You know my name. Allison
2. How old are you? 6
3. What is your mom’s name? Brooke
4. What does your mom do during the day? Watch kids
5. What is your dad’s name? Derek
6. What does your dad do during the day? work
7. What is your favorite color? Blue and pink
8. What is your favorite thing to eat? Ice cream 

      9. What is your least favorite food? Broccoli

    10. Who are your friends? Lilly, Mason, Morgan, Kaiya, Abby, Kiya (she was naming people she had seen most recently...even a girl she just met at her new school!)

    11. What is your sister’s name? Avery

      12. What is your favorite place to go? Pump it up or chuck e cheese
13. What is your favorite thing to do? Go to school
14. What do you like about your Mommy? Uh, don’t write that. She does silly stuff.

      15. What do you like about your Daddy? um, he skypes a lot

      16. What do you like about your sister? she hits me. You like that? No. She helps me.

      17. What do you like about your brother? he plays around with me
18. What do you want to be when you grow up? teacher
19. What does Avery like to do? Hang around with her blanket. 

      20. What does Blake like to do? he likes to play with cars

      21. What is your favorite toy? I don't know

      22. What is your favorite fruit? Strawberry

      23. Favorite vegetable? Green beans

      24. What is your favorite tv show? Max & Ruby

      25. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? jello

      26. What is your favorite outfit? My dress. The pink sparkly star and pink ruffles.

      27. What is your favorite game? Clue

      28. What is your favorite snack? Pretzels

      29. What is your favorite animal? Monkeys and pandas

      30. What is your favorite song? I can't remember. Taylor Swift.....cuz we are never, ever, ever getting back together....we - eeee

     31. What is your favorite Book? Junie B. Jones

     32. Who is your best friend? Lily

     33. What is your favorite cereal? Frosted Flakes

     34. What is your favorite thing to play outside? Freeze tag

     35. What is your favorite drink? water

     36. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

     37. What do you like to sleep with at night? my pillow

     38. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? toast

     39. What is your favorite movie? Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (WillyWonka)

     40. What is your favorite vacation? camping

    41. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? Indiana

Avery Elizabeth ~ 4 years
(you can probably tell that Avery was not happy with me. She did not want to do the interview).

1.  What is your name? Avery

2. How old are you? 4

3. What is your mom’s name? I don't know

4. What does your mom do during the day? Don't know

5. What is your dad’s name? Derek

6. What does your dad do during the day? don't know

7. What is your favorite color?  pink

8. What is your favorite thing to eat? Chicken nuggets and french fries

9. What is your least favorite food? Don't hate anything

10. Who are your friends? Blake and, ummmm, Allie. That's all. Only 2 friends.

11. What is your sister’s name? Allie

12. What is your favorite place to go? Museum

13. What is your favorite thing to do? Color

14. What do you like about your Mommy? Nothing

15. What do you like about your Daddy? I don't know

16. What do you like about your sister? Don't know

17. What do you like about your brother? Don't know

18. What do you want to be when you grow up? Princess

19. What does Avery like to do? I don't know

20. What does Blake like to do?  play with cars

21. What is your favorite toy? Minnie Mouse

22. What is your favorite fruit? Strawberries

23. Favorite vegetable? Don't know

24. What is your favorite tv show? Minnie Mouse Clubhouse

25. What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? don't know

26. What is your favorite outfit? This one. New pink/silver striped shirt w/ stretchy jeans

 27. What is your favorite game? I don't know. Duck duck goose.

28. What is your favorite snack? Goldfish

29. What is your favorite animal? Elephant

30. What is your favorite song? Here we go Being who I want (and she sings on and on. From Barbie: Princess & Popstar)

31. What is your favorite Book? Minnie Mouse

32. Who is your best friend? 

33. What is your favorite cereal? Don't know. Honey Bunches of Oats

34. What is your favorite thing to play outside? Play and go on the swing

35. What is your favorite drink? water

36. What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

37. What do you like to sleep with at night? my blanket

 38. What is your favorite thing to eat for breakfast? cereal

 39. What is your favorite movie? Don't really know

 40. What is your favorite vacation? 

 41. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

TAKKK Visits

We were so excited to get a call from Kevin & Tami's family last week! They had spent the holidays with Tami's family in Illinois and wanted to stop by and visit with us on their way back to Maryland. The girls had SO much fun reconnecting. They are all such good friends/cousins. They did so much in the little time they had together. Blake and Kinley got along great too. It was nice to see Kevin & Tami too!! :)

The sweetest thing happend with Blake and his Uncle Kevin. Blake totally thought he was Derek! He ran up to him and just squeezed his legs......then came and ran to me and checked him out from afar. Not too much later he was running in for another hug. This time Kevin picked him up and Blake just laid on his shoulder for the longest time. He wanted to get his cuddles in! Every once in awhile when Kevin would talk Blake would take these peeks at him. I think he was getting pretty confused and at some point realized it wasn't his Daddy. Sweet, but sad too!

Happy New Year, 2013!!

I'm looking forward to a fresh start in this new year. Half of the year will be spent here in Indiana and the other half......well, who knows where we'll be. Just got to keep a positive attitude and, although I'm not always good at it, "go with the flow." I actually woke up this morning feeling pretty good. I don't know how to explain it but it really makes me hopeful for a great year. :)

Sometime today I'm going to do my yearly interviews with the girls. I tried looking on the blog for last years and didn't find it. Then I looked further into and it was still written up as a "draft" and never got published. The reason being, I never completely finished their interviews. :( I will make sure I get them done this time. It's so fun to go back and see what's changed, what's stayed the same, you can tell how much they've grown by their answers......and just really see their personailties come through. Next year Blake should be able to start being interviewed!

So, last night to celebrate the last day of 2012 we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese. All three of them had a blast, even us three grown ups had a lot of fun. Allie won the "Super Bonus" on one of the games she played and got a lot of tickets. The look on her face was priceless! Blake loved the rides. His favorite seemed the be the Noah's Ark boat. Avery was constantly going back and forth between the rides and the games but her favorite actually was probably the play place.

Chuck E Cheese was giving away free tickets as soon as we got there. The other little girl in the picture (and her brother) were constantly begging us for tickets. Their parents were not paying any attention to them. They were off playing games themselves.

This rollercoaster ride was intense!

After Chuck E Cheese we went to a place where everyone would eat........Golden Corral.

yep, she ate that entire thing.......

well, Blake got one bite.

By the time we got home from our night out it was already 9pm. We got Blake in bed.......he fell asleep on the way home. Then we figured since the girls were wide awake we'd see if they could make it to see the ball drop. We got out the board games and let them choose which ones to play. First was Yahtzee........that lasted a while. Then we played Clue and by the time that was over we had just a few minutes to go until the new year!

10 seconds!

Happy New Year!

2013