April Fools

The boys are so much fun. We hate to see them grow up so fast, but the older they get, we find new ways to have fun with them. This year, our April fools day was a blast. We explained to the boys about how April fools works, and they seemed to understand. They would try to trick us in little ways, and it was cute to see how much they enjoyed it. But if anyone "won" the day, it was Clint and I. We decided to try and trick them with their dinner. I made dinner that looked like desert, and desert that looks like dinner. First up was dinner. There is a picture below. They look like cupcakes, but it was actually meatloaf, covered with mashed potatoes (with some food coloring to get that nice pink color). We kept telling the boys that they were going to have something special for dinner, so they were excited once we told it was ready. They came out and saw the cupcakes in the pan and got confused.

Tyson said "Mom, we don't eat cupcakes for dinner!" And Owen, thinking a little more clearly, said "well, sometimes we can have cupcakes for dinner." He didn't want to lose out on a good thing. Gavin was just excited to eat. We pulled out the cupcakes and dished them up (they lost their authentic look out of the pan, as you can see below.)

They were pretty cautious about the whole thing. It was so funny to see the twins faces as they started to eat them. They would take a bite, then sit and think about it. Gavin just dove right in, he didn't care what it looked like, he was just happy to eat.

Tyson finally said "mom, this dosen't taste right." We decided it was time to tell them. They thought it was so funny. They laughed and kept saying "you tricked us mommy and daddy". They thought it was tasty too.

After dinner, we took a little walk and played outside. While the boys and Kenna played, I ran inside to get desert all ready. We made the desert look like dinner. Below, you can see how yummy it looked.

The potatoes and gravy was actually ice cream with caramel syrup, the peas were green sixlets, the carrots were orange tootsie rolls cut into small squares, and the chicken nugget was a twix bar covered in frosting and rolled in graham cracker crumbs. The boys noticed the ice cream first, since it was cold, then they thought it was hysterical. They then went for the peas and carrots, and were pleasantly surprised. Everyone was pretty reserved about the chicken nugget. It wasn't until they got brave enough to take one bite that everyone decided it was delicious. We had a lot of fun with the boys, and I think we made a good, memorable April fools day for them.

Video and random pictures

Its my turn to write (Clint), since I don't post very often, I thought I should give Tiffany a break. I have been looking to upgrade my camera (a Nikon D40) for some time, but never got around to putting it online or seeing if anyone I knew was interested. When I realized that I had an opportunity to make some money by doing freelance work, I realized it would be best if I got a new dslr that does video as well. Realizing that I should get a camera soon, to avoid missing an opportunity, I bought a Nikon D3100. I finally got around to selling the D40, and I have been very happy with it. It has taken me a little while to figure out all the differences in the camera, and I'm still learning, but I've gotten some pretty good pictures lately. Here are a few random pictures I thought you may enjoy.

This is our nephew Noah, taken at his house. He is such a cutie!

This is our niece Brylee. She loved playing with the sunglasses, and she thought she was pretty hot stuff.

After seeing Brylee in glasses, Rusty naturally wanted in on the whole thing. He looks a little like Elton John.

Im going to try and get a video of this as well, but Kenna has developed a new, weird, trait. She gets into this position, and bounces up and down. It looks so painful, I hope she stops it soon.

This is Kenna and Gavin playing with some sidewalk chalk while it was decent weather outside. We have been glad to get out more and have some fun times as a family. Hopefully we get more pictures of this during the summer.

Tyson and Owen have fallen back in love with their sandbox. Any time we go outside to play, I know they are, at least, going to open the sandbox and make sure everything looks ok. Most of the time they are outside they play in that sandbox.

This video is for those who have not seen Kenna crawling yet. She is getting quick, and its so cute to watch her get around.

This is another video of her crawling This was at a park, and she was moving right along. She kept trying to get into the dirt and get herself all kinds of dirty.

This is Gavin playing outside. I realized I have very little footage of Gavin, so I need to be better at that. Im hoping with a new camera and the need to figure out how to run the thing best, I will probably have a lot more videos in a while.

the twins turn 5

Wow I have two five year olds! Ok it has been over a month! What fun they have been. they got spoiled this year. we didn't have a party for them this year we decided to just dedicate the whole day to whatever they wanted to do and we did it as a family. Then my friend falawn and her kids came over for dinner and desert. I think they loved the fact that they got whatever they wanted that day and got to play with their toys instead of sharing.


They got lots of presents



They opened presents right after breakfast and then we just played all day it amazes me how well they are at sharing a birthday, I know it wont always be this way but they enjoy it now and are truly best friends










Of course what would a birthday be without a nose butter. they were begging me to do it. Oh they have so much to learn about nose buttering :)

Ok so the cake was different this year. I always make them some elaborate cake but since we weren't having a party I wanted to just do easy cup cakes but they kept fighting over what cupcakes they wanted so one day I told them how about no cake just dirt, they laughed and continued to tell me what they wanted. I started saying no we are not having cake just dirt, mud and rocks. they just thought it was a joke boy were they surprised when there birthday came and I had no cake just a pot of potted flowers. The whole day they thought I was kidding. after dinner I pulled out my dirt desert and a shovel. It took some convincing but I finally took a bite, well ty took a bite owen said I will let ty take a bite and see if it is good. Tyson took a bite and said "its only a little good" they crack me up. I finally got owen to take a bite. after that I explained it was cookies and pudding. The chocolate rocks also to a lot of convincing. for like 3 weeks after that owen told me he loves dirt.

Kennas getting big

Kenna is getting big, we dont have many pictures of her on our blog so here is a little sample. she is already changed so much since we took these pictures like 2 weeks ago. She is so big she is 8 1/2 months but in 12 month cloths, she pull her self up and walks along the couch. She is our little busy body.






She had pig tails in before this hence the hair.

The circus

We went to the circus. I dont think I have been to a circus since I was like 5 so it was fun for all of us. All the kids were free so it just cost clint and I. It was a really fun family outing. Sorry some of the pictures aren't great it was dark and smoky a lot of the time.

Tysons fake smile changes in like every pictures. here they are in front of the pony ride, It is kind of nice when your kids are afraid of everything since the pony rides were we 5 bucks each and the elephant rides were 10 bucks. They were happy just watching


Gavin being gavin
Aw cute group we were trying to get kenna to look but there was way cooler stuff to look at then me





Gavin was still in his cat stage so you can see his cat puppet that went everywhere with us in his hand.
These guys did a lot of the acts in the circus they were really funny.
The black bears and elephants were are favorite we probably have way to many pictures of the elephants but we all loved them







the plate spinning masterOwen was freaking out during this guy He got so high on his stacked chairs and did a hand stand it was wiggling a ton so owen had his eyes covered most of the time.
This one was smelly and loud but it was really cool they eventually had 4 motercycles in that tiny circle going upside down.
We had a lot of fun at the circus and the boys pretend circus all the time now if it ever comes to your town you should go it is so much fun.