Daddy's Girls

Josh claims that the girls are both mama's girls. I beg to differ. On the days that Josh spends with the girls, do they stay at home and watch even one show on TV? No! They usually go to the park, go swimming, go to McDonald's, go to the newest kid movie, and sometimes all in one day. I love these pictures of the girls with their Dad.

Climbing Party

My "Sistah" Morgan works at a climbing gym. Because she is INCREDIBLY AWESOME, she scored us a party for Kadie there. Kadie invited her grammy and grampa, aunts and uncles, as well as all BOYS to her party. I'm sorry I only have a picture of Kadie opening her presents, but that is all she did. She opened, she played, she blew out a candle, she ate...but she was WAY to busy and excited to even climb.

Thank you everyone for coming! It was so much fun to have you all there, and see you and your kids climb! We will have to make another excuse to do it again soon. (I didn't post pictures of you and your kiddo's because I didn't know who does or doesn't want me to do that, but you have some pics coming your way!).

Baby Shower

My sister Kylie contracted a growing tummy about 7 months ago, and of course that required a baby shower. It was SO MUCH FUN, with all of us "sisters" there together with our mom.

Kylie got so many cute things for Baby Girl. We made her try a few of them on.

I am so excited for you Kyker! Of course she will be cute, and probably a tiny brunette with the Laney cackle-laugh. Can't wait to meet baby girl!

Let SIX be a SLOW year

Kadie Nicole Waldron is now SIX YEARS OLD! I can not believe that Kadie is six! I mean, seriously...SIX?

This year she will embark on the adventure of elementary school, where friends are made and mean kids are avoided. Except I am afraid Kadie will not avoid them, but try to take matters into her own hands.

She will probably learn to ride a bike without training wheels, and learn to read real books! I just hope that time slows down a little...but deep down I know it will just speed up. I hope that she has a lot of time to experience discovery and accomplishment, and maybe we can keep the disappointments and heart aches to a minimum. I really just hope that there are not many mean kids. I hate mean kids!

My favorite stories/things about Kadie:

Baby: No hair. I remember always having a bow on Kadie's head, and telling people that I was so glad that my baby had hair. Then when I looked back at pictures, I realized she had NO HAIR. And people obviously thought I was crazy. I also miss Kadie's kickstand crawl, she crawled with one foot and one knee...and some people were concerned. But she turned out just fine!

One year old: Kadie making me breakfast. She was more like 1 and 1/2, and we got her this tiny kitchen for Christmas. Every morning when she woke up she would come in my room and tap me saying "Bet-Test". So I would fall out of bed, and follow her into her room where she would make me scrumptious plastic food.

Two years old: going to Marine World, (now Discovery Kingdom). Kadie had a serious lisp at that age, and all morning kept saying "Eh-fant go pee peese" over and over. So finally we thought, well maybe we should take her to the Elephant show. We got a seat right up front, and when the trainer had the HUGE Elephant sit right in front of us, we thought we had the best seats in the house! Until the HUGE Elephant got up and let out a disgustingly GINORMOUS amount of pee, all over! Luckily I was fast to grab Kadie and jump out of the way. She just clapped and said "Eh-fant go pee peeeeeese!"

Three years old, Kadie discovers purses. She had been carrying around "little" things in her hands since she could walk, and now she has a place to put them. I LOVE that she always has a purse with her, filled with little things - although I don't like when the little things get lost and I have to try to find them. So purses are my friend.

Four years old: The girly girl. This was the princess year, anything and everything. She knew that her favorite color was definitely purple and NOT black. She was such a great sister to Laney, and claimed that she taught Laney to crawl and walk. This was the year of her discovering her hidden talent of singing as well. One day on the way home from church, Kadie was singing a song she made up. It took Josh and I a couple of minutes to realize she was singing "No body buckled me uuuuuuuuuuuup!" in a beautiful ballad. So we stopped the car off the road and buckled her right up cracking up about it.

Five years old: Kadie discovers boys. Her favorite friends are ALL BOYS. Brock, Gavin, Colby and Cole. She has excellent taste, and I hope she ends up with any of those 4 boys in the future. I think she has her eyes on Gavin. :)

Six years old: I can tell this will be a year with a little bit of sass. She already asked me today if she looked like she was six. I said "You totally look like you are six Kadie! Why? Do you feel like you are six?" She smiled and said "Totally."

We love you Kadie, and we are so proud of you! You are such a great sister to Laney, and you have such a fun personality. Keep up the creativity and the quirkiness. Happy Birthday you six-year-old you!

Indie Art Fair

Josh and I were able to get away for a night. It was because I was going to be doing an art show in Petaluma, and we didn't want to have to travel so early in the morning. All of the hotels were sold out because of a drag racing event...and this was the last place we found a room. Called the METRO, it was so cute and quirky. It is a 140 year old farmhouse, restored with a modern french style. Everything was Paris themed, which I told Josh was a sign we should still try to move to France for two years.



We went and got ice cream, and then went to this HUGE candy store which had everything from Razzles to any kind of Pezz dispenser you could imagine. We seriously thought about going to see Batman, but I was worried about being tired the next day.


We got Kadie a Kung Fu Panda Pezz dispenser, and Laney a Shrek one. I still wish I would have got some Razzles.







Despite the fact that I did so well at my art show earlier this month, this one was a BOMB. I should have known better, since it was and "Indie" art fair, at a Phoenix theater, set up with the name Running with Scissors, and it was the first year.

Here was my set up:

To say the least...I didn't fit in. AT ALL! This is what other people were selling.

Notice the Lovely graffiti on the walls. What you don't see are the scuzzy couches and chair all ripped up and graffitied on as well all over the room. I totally forgot my pacifier and a black light. If you can see, the table is sort of a "day of the dead" type of skull that were all painted in fluorescent colors.

This was a lovely lady I met who went by the nickname of Mrs. Evils. Her craft was re-inventing the barbie doll as a "My little Zombie" doll for collection. I think she has a myspace page if any of you are interested for Christmas or birthday presents.

Happy Birthday Nick-Josh

Can you believe it? My brothers are TEENAGERS! I still think of them as 4 years old, which is younger than Kadie is now. It has been so much fun to live close to them and continue to watch them grow up. They are such great Uncle's to Kadie and Laney, despite the fact that Kadie and Laney have ruined many of their creations. I love how brutally honest Josh is, and how Nick already lifts weights.

They have been building and creating things since they learned how to draw a turtle on blue's clues when they were only 18 months. I am totally serious. As adults - I imagine them being computer programers, architects, or something that requires that they have the need to create.

For any of you who don't know them...Nick is in the red, which has basically been his signature color since he was born, and Josh is on the left (his color is blue...but he isn't wearing it).

Back in the Day...

Utah Trip...Second Half

For the last few days we were in Utah, we stayed with my mom's parents, Grandma and Paco. It was so much fun going back to places I spent so much time as a kid. Almost the first thing we did was go out and jump on the "tramp".

We had a fun family barbecue, and I saw cousins I hadn't seen for years it seemed. It was great fun!, and Kadie and Laney loved having some cousins to play with.

The next day, we went down to my mom's sister A 's place. She commissioned me to do a painting for her front room, and it turned out so awesome and colorful!

Her little Cole entertained us by, 1). showing us his lizard, 2) catching a butterfly in the yard, and then 3) feeding the butterfly to his lizard! Kadie and Laney got a kick out of it.

It is a fun summer memory watching the humming birds drink sugar water outside the front window. I loved having the girls get excited about it this year!

The next day we went up to the "P". Or the "peep" as Laney called it. Any of you who have been to Alpine may have seen it. It has been there since I can remember, the letter of my mom's last name. It lays on the hill, bright white and standing for all of the hard work my great grandparents and grandparents put into their farm and land. Of course, it doubles as a slide!

Everyone wanted to try on Paco's hat. Check out these cowgirls...and cowboy.

Grandma was so nice to get Kadie an early birthday present for her upcoming 6th birthday! A little horse from Cabela's that Kadie named Spot. Kadie requested a cape, so grandma just whipped up a little cape and saddle in her sewing room. Kadie even put earrings in her horse's ears! Thank you for letting us stay Grandma and Paco! We had so much fun and miss you already!

We went the last day and saw my Dad's parents. They are the cutest little couple ever. I just love my grandma Laney's information on the entire family. I don't know how she keeps it straight with so many grand kids and great grand kids. They will be out this next weekend to California to visit, and we can't wait to spend more time with them!