More SOUR!?!?!?

The fam decided to try Max's favorite sour candies all together! I grabbed the camera and away we went....again! You would think they would learn their lesson but Max seems to LOVE them! I love Max and Dash's faces when they first pop it in! Dash isn't to sure about how he feels about his choice to participate! You can see the pain working on everyone else!
Dash has taken his out and is now reconsidering this choice. (I love how he looks at B like Brandon made him do this....he looks totally disgusted!) Darby and Max and Daddy are holding strong though!
Dash has decided to ponder the candy and see if it really is a piece of candy!
Getting up.....
Candy in the trash!
Everyone else still hanging on by a thread!
Dash is pleased with his decision...the others are still working and Darby is trying not to cry.
Almost there.....
Ahhhh the candy is good now! Dash is coming back with a bowl of m&m's because he wants to try this experiment with "good candy"! He is a clever kid!

Rat Babies

I said I would NEVER be the mom who let her kids dress in miss -matched clothes, wear pants that were too small to church with white socks or no socks, and have dirty shirts! EVER! Well now I understand why sometimes that happens! Dash put on pants that I thought would fit and he was very proud. White socks. Tennies. Church. I tried to fight it but I had to let it go. Next week the pants were gone and I learned a lesson to not judge when I see kids with dirty faces, runny noses, clothes too small. Sometimes it is just an over look on mommies part or letting her kids be grown up! I wish my kids were NEVER "rat babies" but alas sometimes we are all a little "Rat baby"!


Dirty face! You can't see her rat baby hair but she wouldn't let me fix it or take it out so we had to go to the store this way so it didn't get to late to go at all! (yes we did go in jammies)
Tanner was the only one this day not being a rat baby! These pants are too small for Dash and even though we were just going to the park, I had to let it go and get rid of them after the park!
There is no excuse for this Rat baby because she has parents that get her dressed. All I can say is daddy! I wish you could see her dirty sand eating face better! True Rat baby at it's best! (I think the pants and shirt are 2 different shades of pink too!) Nice hair! ?
The only reason this dude is a rat baby is because he is eating candy before breakfast and I think he is only wearing a t-shirt! (JUST a t-shirt!) This is after I washed his face!

spaghetti!

Juliet LOVED eating spaghetti by herself! She was all ready a mess so we let her top it off with a choc. chip cookie!

SOUR!

We got to celebrate New Year's with one of our Best buddies, Tanner Thomas! While he was here we did tons of fun things! Some of them were a little crazy!

One of Max's favorite candies are "Extreme Sour Heads"! I love to snap pictures as fast as I can when he eats them. He and Tanner decided to eat one together! It is HILARIOUS!

Right when they pop it in there mouths! It makes my jaw tight and my mouth water just to look at the pictures! Max: "Oh, My ears are ringing"
Tanner: "this is stupid man!"
Max: "If I hide my eyes they can't see me cry"
Tanner: "I'm gonna cry man!"
Max: "Hallelujah these are strong!"
Tanner: "Just breath through your mouth and it will be ok!"
Tanner: "whew, It's gettin me right in that spot!"
Tanner: "Dude, I'm gonna puke!"
Max: "It's almost over! Just hang on!"
Tanner: "How did I let you talk me into this?"
Max: "I almost got this!"
All the sour is gone! Now it's the sweet! What a fun ride!

Happy Happy Birthday Max B Dear!

Our Max turns 7 today! He is soooo big! I can't believe that he is all ready 7! He is a great big brother and Loves life!
Daddy said: "I love his intensity for life and his curiosity and creativity. I love his sense of humor and his contagious laugh!"

Darby said: "He likes playing petshops with me. He named my Barbie Sparkle and he loves me!"
Dash said: "He's gonna get the freeze guy from Crash on Playstation for me. He's really good at video games!"

Mommy said: "He's spiritual. He's a great speller! He loves SO much it hurts!"

Juliet said: "He dances in front of me to make me laugh! He hugs me A LOT!

We love you Max B! You are the best Max ever!

The end of 2009!

Happy New Year! We had a few friends over on New Years eve for some Kareoke and munchies! SO much fun! The best way to end a year! Kat Badget, Ireland, Marilyn, and Domenique!
Max made it to the New Year and had a bit of the bubbly (fake) with daddy!
Me, Anna Giles, and Kat!
Steve Badget and Kaleb!
Happy New Year friends and family! Here is to another great year!

McDonalds in Victorville

We met Tiffany and her kids at the 1/2 way point between L.A. and Vegas so that Hailey could go to their house and Tanner could come to ours for a few days! It was so much fun to see them and hang out at one of our favorite places ! MCDONALDS! Juliet in the slide! I loved this picture cause, well, these are my kids! It struck me that they look so old and so complete! This is our family!
Hailey, Tanner and Trey! They are all so old too! I can't believe how fast the time goes! Our girls will be in YW before we know it and the boys will be in scouts! (If I let them...we all know how I feel about scouts!:)

Christmas Morning!

Here is Max AFTER we opened all our gifts! I love it! This is how we all feel I think on Christmas Morning! Coming down the hall to see what Santa brought!
Juliet got a new rocking chair! She LOVES it! She sits in it and slouches down and rocks herself with her tip toes. She doesn't like to share her chair!
It goes along with her thinking she is so big and important! Santa knew her too well!
She got another book on Animals that she is very serious about! (Someone should comb that babies hairy!)
She also got a baby doll that she loves to hug and hit!
Max did get a DSi. I think it was the letter he wrote to Santa in his best penmanship that he would take really good care of it!
Darby got a DSi and an art kit! She was very excited because she couldn't decide if she wanted a DSi or a camera. The DSi has a camera in it! Too much fun! (Mrs Santa was saying maybe next year. Santa is a sucker for both of them!)
Dash finally got his pink DS! The case looks black but that is what you get when Santa gets things on ebay! (Santa knew that one day Pink would not be his favorite color any more but he is very wise to know that he has a little sister!)
Oh the glories of Christmas morning! Nothing to do but play play play! (you can see all the toys in the back of Max, they came from the Thomas'! They were getting rid of baby toys so Juliet got Christmas early! Santa only brought her books and her chair!)
Daddy helping with the new Ds.
Everyone was in spread out all over connected to the plugs so they could play their new toys!
Juliet had to relax a bit and watch her new animal dvd from her sister!
Brandon wishing his mom a Merry Christmas and apologizing that her gift was found under our tree! (oops)
Christmas day before we went to the Cannon's for dinner!
We had a great Christmas and felt very blessed! It is one of our favorite times of the year. It is steeped in traditions and filled with the Spirit! We love it!

Christmas Eve

The kids were sooooo excited to get home from dinner to open Christmas eve gifts and homemade pajamas from Nana! This year all the pj bottoms were made out of fleece! SO cozy! Dash's were monkey jammies. Max were G.I. Joe (camo, or Gee Jy Joe if you say it like Dash). Darby's were pink with frogs all over and Juliet's matched hers. Brandon got 2 pair because we know he is my mom's favorite. I got a pair of Footie p.j.'s. NOT PRETTY! They were not long enough for my tall body and that is all we are going to say about that!

Juliet in her cute p.j.s! She is looking at the book Darby got her! It came with a dvd about animals and she watches it all the time now! Dash got Max a millennium falcon galactic heroes star wars thing! Max freaked out because it was AMAZING! (Dash had help picking that out) Juliet got Daddy teeth whitening strips. (B and I always wanted to try them but could never justify 20$....so Juliet sprung for it this time....they were pretty cool and they work!) I got Darby the 2009 Ripley's Book. (She collects them.) Brandon got Dash a puppet making kit! Too much fun! And Max got me vibrating foot massaging slippers! The Best gift ever! I love this new Tradition. Everyone had so much fun buying for each other and feeling like they had found the most special gift! It saved me buying a bunch of trash at the dollar store so that every one has a gift from each other! We will for sure keep this tradition!

Santa!

We visited Santa this year before Thanksgiving when my brother was here! It was tons of fun and NO lines because it was so early. It always disturbs me a little when my kids sit on Santa's lap in summer clothes. There is just something not quite right about that! :) I love the progression of the years too in seeing who loves Santa and who doesn't. Juliet has hated him the most! :) Maybe next year she will like him more!

Christmas Eve dinner!

One of our Christmas Traditions is to go to Cracker Barrel for Christmas Eve Breakfast. They don't have any in L.A.! Grrrrrr! SO we borrowed the Thomas' family tradition and went to dinner at Red Lobster! We had a great time looking at lights, doing our last "knock and run", then going to dinner. The kids were super ready to get home though because they wanted to open their p.j.'s from Nana and their gifts from each other. This year we drew names and they were sooooo excited to show what everyone had gotten each other! Max had me, Dash had Max, Darby had Juliet, Juliet had daddy, Daddy had Dash, and I had Darby! It was so much fun because they had ONE person to shop for and they really put a lot of thought into it. I never thought my family would be big enough to draw names for each other! Again with the faces! Jefford's are famous for face making. (There is usually a noise that goes with the face so you have to take the picture quick if you are in a public place!) They learn at a very young age!