So my little babe Ryker turned 2 on April 17. He always sees cookie monster on Sesame Street and makes the cookie eating noise so of course that was the cake he got. We all got extremely blue mouths.
Of course grandma gave him this goofy dog that rolls around and laughs and it NEVER EVER STOPS!! Leave it to grandma to constantly drive us crazy with battered powered noisy toys. Thanks grandma!
My lovely creation, thanks I'm crafty!
Went to visit some family in California this past week and Ryker had a mishap. Just running around a friend's house and right smack into a wall. Of course we all just thought it was a bloody lip until I looked closer and could see all the way through to his teeth.
The doctor gave him a little druggie to calm him so that they could sew him up, yep he fell right to sleep.
2 stitches inside and 5 outside. I figured he would be our first kid with stitches he is certainly the wildest and craziest one.I also had to post the funny video of him all drugged up on Versed. Look at his crazy loopy eyes and his crazy giggle. It was so funny!
My big girl Alli riding the train with little Makenna
Her gymnastics performance. She was AMAZING!!
I had to show a picture of her tricky hair-do!
Unfortunately she is at the weird tooth stage where they are growing in and she looks strange. She even pointed out that she looks like Mater. You will grow into your teeth my dear, just wait.
For crazy hair day I put some wires in her braids to make them stick out. I think she took them out at school, they were piercing the skin and didn't feel so great.
So one of the great advantages of living at a ski resort is that my kids have many opportunities to have some specialized lessons. My 7-year old Alli has grown leaps and bounds this season. She is doing moguls and is even catching air on the jumps at the terrain park.
Alli is the youngest kid on the Sunrise Park Resorts A-team. There were some pictures posted of her skiing on Fox 3 News in Phoenix this past week. I'm SO proud.
The team didn't have enough sponsorship to go to the nationals in Steamboat Springs this year but her coach said she would have done fantastic. I am SO grateful for the opportunities that have happened for our kids while living here. Look out Lindsay Vonn here comes Alli Schroder to the Winter Olympics!!
Well this has been the top of my dresser for months now. Trying to find an earring and dumping everything out and sorting through bags and detangling things and finally just chucking everything and leaving with no earrings on (a crime!) I asked for a new jewelry box for Christmas and... nothing. Waited until Valentine's Day and... nothing. Finally I said if I want something I just need to get it MYSELF! And therefore I did!
I am one of those mothers who have ALWAYS heard the scary stories of children getting caught in exercise equipment and therefore I have always been very cautious. If my children are young and I am on the treadmill they are in their cribs or confined to a high chair to keep out of danger. I always hide the key but unfortunately kids are sneaky buggers and my little 22 month old got hurt the other day. My oldest Porter found the key, plugged it in, and turned it on full blast while my 22-month old was on it. He was thrown back and was pinned between the rollers and the couch for maybe 10 seconds until I grabbed him out. I ripped up his ear a bit and roughed up the skin around his ear as well. I didn't even take him to a doctor so its not as bad as it could have been. I consider us to be very lucky. Let me be a warning to you keep your kids safe around exercise equipment.
Living in the woods I have all kinds of critters on my porch like raccoons, squirrels, and fun hummingbirds. The other night I heard some racket on the porch, flung the door open and saw a raccoon tail scampering off, until it turned around and looked at me. I stared right up at this little guy up in the rafters and said "What in the world are you"? I have lived in Arizona for almost 5 years and have never seen this little guy. A ring-tailed cat. He is so stinkin cute and he comes around every single night. I stood on the porch and talked to him in the rafters for awhile and he kept thumping his tail at me which I think means get outta here! He is super and he looks a lot like that little crazy guy in Madagascar. Anyways we have named him Kevin and he is our new pet.
I called my sister in early November and told her she HAD to come down to AZ and visit, and she DID!! I was so stinkin excited to have her. We had such a super time together and I so badly wish that we could live closer. I LOVE MY SISTER CONNIE!!
Come on you know me better than that!
I can't believe my kids stayed awake until midnight
My mom and dad also made the 7 hour trek up from Yuma, AZ to visit for a few days, it was so much fun!
My sister and I have fun no matter where we go, that's how awesome we are.
Alli played Mary
My little Porter turned 4 on November 28. He got a super great bounce back racer and a big dinosaur that growled from Grandma. He is just the greatest.
We spent Thanksgiving with my parents at the senior retirment park in Yuma, AZ and you know what that means. BINGO BABY!!! I played and had a blast.
On the way to Thanksgiving we checked out the Phoenix zoo with some of our friends.
Went flying up to northern Utah for Halloween where of course our family was The Wizard of Oz theme. I thought we were pretty stinkin cute and my husband was a great sport.
My scary little creatures.
We have 11 kids that live at the Sunrise Park Ski Resort with us so of course we had a Halloween party. Cookie decorating, Hocus Pocus, and dancing to strobe light. 
For the past 3 months I have been FRANTIC!! This wonderful product Neutrogena Anti-Wrinkle Anti-Blemish Cream has been missing from all the pharmacy shelves in my town. I checked Wal-mart, Walgreens, K-mart and even drove to a remote drug store to find it but it was nowhere to be found. I finally ordered it online at drugstore.com. I LOVE this product. I still get acne and if I use just an acne moisturizer it is too drying and makes my wrinkles show. If I use a wrinkle moisturizer it is WAY too greasy and it gives me zits and so this stuff is the best!! If I am ever out of it I always break out. It's my favorite thing and I wanted to share my joy. I sure hope that it doesn't get discontinued because I might freak out!!Yep, he's not quite 18 months old but he's gotta earn his keep. Ryker is now in charge of feeding our dog "Fat Boy". MY first job was putting the empty milk bottles on the front porch (that tells you how old I am)
This is what happens when I left Porter alone with scissors, he took a HUGE chunk out of the front of his hair and well.... therefore its all gotta come off!
He never usually cries when getting his hair cut but this time he was in trouble so it was a different story.
Ending on a high note we cut his hair on the front porch and human hair keeps away skunks (yep thats a tip from me to you)
We go every year my mom, sister, and I and we added my cousin Heather this year.
Me and my crazy mom
