The Park

It’s been awhile since we’ve been to the park and I really miss it. The weather hasn’t been that great lately so we’ve been spending a lot of time inside. I’m really looking forward to some nice weather. The pictures below were taken a few weeks ago. I guess I was waiting for a rainy day to post them! Hopefully the weather will cooperate this weekend and we can head back to the park for some outside fun.

Daddy and MaKena going down the slide.
MaKena sitting on daddy's lap and going down the slide.
Climbing the wall with daddy's help.

Jacob going down the slide.

Jacob and Lane racing to the top of whatever this thing is called!

On the way down, Lane decided to tie Jacob's shoe lace to the rope. Jacob thought it was funny! (Can you see it?)

Jacob and MaKena going down the slide. (MaKena likes the slide!!!)

Power Wheels

For Christmas, Lane and I gave MaKena a Barbie Four Wheeler Power Wheels. Up until recently she’s only driven it in the house because it wasn’t warm enough to take it outside. I finally put the stickers on it and brought it outside for her to try out in the driveway. She was so excited to have the stickers on it you would have thought she got a new toy with her reaction! When we brought it outside she drove it to Beth and Eric’s house (which is only 2 houses away) to play with Anna. Good thing it’s not very heavy because she made it half way and then decided she was done driving it so I had to carry it. She needs some help with the steering but for the most part she has it figured out. I think she feels like a big kid when she’s riding on it!

Watch out, here I come!

Checking out the stickers on the tire.

Look at the wheel mom!!

Mallorie's Birthday Party

The end of our fun sleepover weekend with Jen and Emma we helped Mallorie celebrate her 6th birthday at my mom’s. It was another beautiful day to be outside. The kids had a lot of fun running around and being loud. That’s the nice thing about moms, she has so much room for the kids to play outside and it’s relatively quiet in her neighborhood too. We let the kids burn off some energy and then we sang happy birthday to Mallorie and ate ice cream cake. It was delicious! It was a wonderful way to end a fun packed weekend!!

Jacob and MaKena in the power wheels. This was a popular toy!!
Emma in the car.

Mallorie, Karlee and Jacob. (I'm not sure who's riding in the car with Jacob)

MaKena, Jacob, McKayla and Mallorie

McKayla and Karlee driving the power wheels.

MaKena driving the power wheels.

Jacob and Emma.

Singing Happy Birthday to Mallorie!!

The Sleepover with Jen and Emma #3

On our walk to the park, MaKena and Emma talked each other’s ears off. Any puppy we saw they’d say “I see a puppy” and any bird MaKena heard she’d say “there’s the birdie.” I’m sure people on the next block over could hear our girls!! I don’t think we could walk fast enough for the girls. Once we got to the park they off and playing. And boy did they play hard. Of course the drama queen MaKena started to show. She didn’t want to share “her” Jacob with Emma. She wanted to slide down the slide with Jacob. So the tears started if Emma would get up the slide first. She’s very possessive of “her” Jacob. Just ask her who’s Jacob he really is and she’ll say “my Jacob” and correct you if you try to say he is yours. It’s cute. MaKena eventually stopped whining and got back to playing. But then she saw someone flying a kite and she decided she wanted the kite. Thankfully it was time to head home for lunch and nap. We had 2 little girls who needed a nap!

Walking/riding to the park.
Swinging, MaKena likes to sit in the big kid swing!
Emma loving the swing. She wanted Jen to push her higher!

All three kids swinging.

The girls getting ready to go down the slide.

Emma always put her hands up in the air when she went down the slide. It was cute!

More swinging. We love the swings!

Emma on the big kid swing.

This was probably the only time these three kids sat still at the park!

Getting ready to go down the slide.

The Sleepover with Jen and Emma #2

The weekend Jen and Emma slept over was a beautiful weekend. Saturday morning we got up and ate breakfast and took the kids outside to play. The weather was perfect. We got the riding toys out and the girls had a lot of fun. Jacob even enjoyed hanging out with the little girls and playing. After the girls played with all the outside toys I decided we should take them to the park. The park is only a couple blocks from our house so we loaded the girls up in the wagon and walked to the park.

Emma riding in the car.
Jacob riding his bike.

Emma riding MaKena's new power wheels.

I'm not really sure what MaKena is looking at. Either Jacob or Emma.

We got this bike from Isabel (Brec's daughter). MaKena loves riding the bike. She can reach the peddles but sometimes she has a hard time making them go!! So we usually walk behind and push. Oh, and she doesn't steer very well either!

The Sleepover with Jen and Emma

A couple weekends ago Emma and Jen came down from Grand Forks and had a sleepover at our house. Both of my kids were so excited about them spending the weekend at our house. When Jen and Emma got to our house on Friday the girls went right to playing. It was fun to see them interact with each other so well.

After the girls played for awhile it was bath time. So we threw the girls in the tub together and let them splash around. Jen and I ended up getting the girls dressed in the same jammies that Grandma Kathy got them for Christmas. Emma was so excited when she saw MaKena had the same jammies on. So we had to get some fun pictures of these two monkeys. After bath we made some popcorn and watched one of MaKena’s favorite movies………..Strawberry Shortcake. I think we’ve watched this one a million times. By the time the movie was over it was bed time for the little girls. Jacob was at Walking with the Dinosaurs with Grandma Kathy so he got home just in time to say good night to the girls.

I ended up taking so many pictures when Emma and Jen were in town that I had to break it into several different posts. Otherwise I would have had a post with 30 pictures!! I’ll have more about the weekend Jen and Emma spent with us to come!

Emma and MaKena in their matching jammies!!
I love the look on their faces!!

Emma was putting her arm around MaKena, so cute!

Watching Strawberry Shortcake and eating popcorn.

Mmmmmm, that's good popcorn!

Silly Daddy!

MaKena loves to read books and have books read to her. I love it! For a while she didn’t have any interest in them. She’d sit with you for a few seconds and the she’d be all done. Now we have to tell her one more book and that’s it. The other night after bath Lane was sitting in MaKena’s room reading her princess book. I’m not sure why, but he had on her sunglasses. I’m sure MaKena wanted him to put them on so he gladly listened. It was so cute I had to run and grab the camera and take some pictures. I have some pictures of Lane wearing Jacob’s sunglasses and playing cars when he was about MaKena’s age. What a silly daddy!!

So cute!!

Playing at the Park

We are really enjoying the nice spring weather in Fargo. It’s nice to finally be able to get outside with the kids and play. Thankfully we have a park close by our house that we can walk to and the kids can play. We walked to the park one night after supper with the kids and I brought the camera with to get some pictures. MaKena had a lot of fun going down the slide and swinging. Jacob and his friend Andy rode their bikes around the park for most of the time. I did manage to get a couple pictures of them playing on the slide with MaKena. She really liked it when they race her down the slide. I think MaKena could live at the park. She had a lot of fun and didn’t want to leave when it was time to go home.

MaKena being goofy! She's sitting in a pull up box!
MaKena at the park.
Jacob and his friend Andy playing at the park.
Jacob and MaKena getting ready to race down the slide.

MaKena and Andy

MaKena swinging.

MaKena sat down on her butt when she tried to get off the slide and sat in a big wet muddy spot. She didn't care!! Although it slowed her down when she went down the slide.

Daddy and MaKena racing down the slide!

Mommy and MaKena swinging.