He Did it! It's Done!

Stewart graduated from BYU!  He is now officially a Chemical Engineer.  And hopefully soon, will have an official chemical engineer job.  :)  

We're so proud of you Stewart!!!

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Top 5

1.  Finally blogging again.  

2.  Stewart graduating from BYU this last week.

3.  The show Impractical Jokers.

4.  Learning why the mom, of the kids I used to watch, has PTSD.  (I've been super curious for over a year.)  She gave me all the details.  And I think I would have PTSD too, if I were her.

5.  Getting a car.  He's old and special but he works.  Yay!

Bottom 5

1.  Relief Society drama.

2.  Our tv is dying.  Farewell old buddy.

3.  Little Ryan deciding that hitting as hard as he can is the way to solve all of his frustrations.  And he is surprisingly strong.  I got clocked on the side of my head by his little fist and the tears could not be helped.  

4.  Evie drawing out losing one of her front teeth for days.  (days!)  I could have pulled the sucker out in two seconds, it was just barely dangling there.  

5.  Several times this week getting conned into babysitting kids for hours longer than was originally planned.  

Evie is now 7

Evie turned 7 on Aug. 7th this year.  She was so excited the night before that we may have threatened that she wouldn't receive any presents unless she finally went to sleep.  That did the trick.  :) 

 We created a balloon avalanche on her door so she would be surprised in the morning.  Unfortunately, she had a nightmare during the night and opened the door to come tell us, so it might have scared her even more since she couldn't see what was falling on her face in the middle of the night.  (And there were suppose to be more balloons, but I forgot to tell Stewart what I was planning when he bought them.)

 We lit candles at every meal for her to blow out. She just wanted cereal for breakfast, so there is a lone ladybug candle representing.

 We played pin the ice cream on the ice cream cone.

 I'm pretty sure there was a lot of cheating going on.

 She wanted to do a craft, so I made her help me make her own tissue paper flower decorations.

And then later that night after Stewart's class, we all headed up to Chuck E. Cheese's to really let the celebrating begin.  She blew through a  whole cup of coins on one game in about 4 minutes.  But she was a proud little chickie when she showed us how many tickets it produced.  :)  Stewart and I had to continually recite, "At least she is having a fun."   And I forgot to bring the camera, but go here and picture her just a year older.

A couple of days later, she walked around like a snaggle-tooth waiting and drooling for her front tooth to come out.  

What We've Been Up To

Ryan strutting his stuff.

 Stew finding ways to entertain himself while Evie's at school.

Ryan mastered the little slide.

 I cut my hair short.

 Evie earned some crazy straw glasses.

 Coloring Easter Eggs

 We made them into little chicks.

Ryan played with the chicks for several days.  

Clearly we weren't going to eat those guys.

 Ryan learned to wrestle.

 And he'll surprise attack anyone.

 Ice cream before bed.  

 Ryan learned to pick his nose. 

 (I think we can thank a 4 yr old for that.)

 Stew discovered more places to stash his animal crackers.

The kids are ready to head out on a Sunday walk.

Ryan trying to wind down before bed.