Jam Session

About a month ago Steve was able to take J and Hud  to the NBA All-Star Jam Session with all their cousins (thanks to Uncle Dave) They had a blast 

Meeting Pro Ball players

Can you believe that form- Future NBA Star

My Bead Party

For everyone who did not come to the bead party, you sure missed out. There was tons of great food and good company. It took me the whole night to decide on a necklace, but I finally did and this is the result.

How cute does she look in it. 

She loves it, mostly to eat.

Thanks to all those who came and made and especially Wende for all her hard work.

My Oldest

J is definitely my challenge, but sometimes he does things that make it sooo worth it.  

The other day at PPP, he was such a sweetheart. He was helping Huddy and Maddux out the whole time making sure they had tokens, tickets and prizes. He perfected the art of scavenging. I didn't give him one token but he made it out of there with a boat load of stuff. He scoured the floors for tokens and tickets, hopped on the carousel once it was already moving and even got the ticket guy to give him stuff that was worth way more than he had. By the end of the day he made it out of there with an airplane, ring, bracelet, bat ring for Huddy, & a lizard for Maddux. I gotta tell you I was pretty impressed.

Jackson loves learning in school, lately he loves to add things but for some reason he thinks that using his fingers is cheating or something since whenever I ask him to add something he either turns around or hides under the table to add it. He is such a cutie, and very smart.

CARDINAL FEVER

For not being a very big football fan we definitely got the spirit when the Cards made it to the Superbowl. While J and I were watching the news we saw that they were giving away all this free food for wearing Cardinals gear. We went around looking for some but either there were none, or they were expensive. Syd was making shirts for her and her family so we got in on that and made some shirts for the game. 

The day of the free food we all borrowed shirts. 

First Chick-fil-a drive through. Next was Sprinkles for the Cardinal Red Velvet Cupcakes.( which happened to be my first time at the Scottsdale location)

The boys loved it

Hudson ate every last bit of it. 

We had planned on going to Chipotle but once we saw the line. It was a Heck no, ( with 10 kids in our group that was not going to happen)

yeah still going.

The next day was Grandma C's Souper Bowl party! With all kinds of Yummy soup, and goodies. It was perfect, except for the mud in the backyard. 

This is Hudson after 15 min. of being there. 

The game was a good one. That got pretty intense for a lot of the guests.

Jon the only Steelers fan getting excited about the interception touchdown in the first half. 

Parker getting real worried. 

It was a sad loss.

The next day at school J insisted on wearing his Cardinals shirt. A true fan. 

VALENTINES BEAD PARTY! COME AND JOIN IN ON THE FUN

GNO

I am having my 1st BEAD PARTY!

VALENTINES DAY is just around the corner and who couldn't use some new BLING for You or your Girls. 

 

When: Thursday the 5th from  7 -Whenever

Please come and bring friends. It will be a Party all night long with Yummy snacks too.

if you would like to come email me and I will give you the address. 

crystalannie60@yahoo.com

Museum & Light Rail

Last week my mom invited us to the Phoenix Children's Museum, since her work got in free for the week and anyone with them. Since it was in Phoenix we decided to take the new Light Rail. It was so much fun, first we got on the wrong bus and it wasn't moving so we got off that one and onto the right one. We were pretty much all alone on the way there. The boys loved it and just stared out the window the whole way. Hudson was in awe. 

After we got off the Rail we had a short walk to the Museum. It was so awesome, I had never been but I absolutely loved it. There were so many things to do there for all ages. 

They also had an art room with tons of free projects for the kids to do and take home. 

They made clay snowmen.

One of my favorite things was this huge hallway of noodles that you would just run through. 

Another favorite room of mine was the Supermarket with shopping carts and tons of food. With checkout lanes that were exactly like the real thing even the noises.

Hudson felt so big he loved it.

Jackson kept saying that he needed to find the olives. I think he thought he was really buying all of this stuff.

I definitely reccomend going to this museum but it is a bit pricy $9 for ages 1 and up. But it really is so worth it you will love it just as much as your kids. 

School Days again

Now that we live in Mesa, J has been able to go back to school after his semester break. Since there is no pre-k programs in QC at the schools and preschool was getting too expensive I decided to take him out. So he went for 2 yrs. and then nothing. Needless to say he was pretty bored, but now he is in Pre-k at the local school with his cousin and our new next door neighbor. He absolutely loves it. The first week it was Easy to get him out of bed at 7 in the a.m. ( being that he usually sleeps till 9 or 10) but he was so excited about school that he jumped out of bed. Of course the excitement has worn off so getting him out of bed is a bear. But he still loves being there, he loves his teachers, P.E., recess, class and especially all his new friends. He thinks school is play time, so I don't know how his teachers are doing. He says that his teacher always calls him Cooper ( his older cousin) since they both have shaved heads. Luckily there is no one else Jackson would like to be compared to more. Coop is his Idol. I am so glad he loves school and his homework. I hope it lasts.

The other day J was at his cousins house and a friend of theirs came up to him and said "Hi Jackson" he replied with " you can call me J, J -dawg, Z, Zilla, thats what my friends call me." 

We all got a huge chuckle out of that.

The Suns

A couple of wks ago we got tickets to the Suns Game and what a night. P & Kanoe got 4 tickets the same night and took Jon and Summer so we all carpooled. during the second half of the game P & Jon switched their courtside seats with Summer & Kanoe the second they got down there they decided to go under to get some food and decided to stay the rest of the game. They wouldn't come up after the game ended because they were waiting for the players to come out, so Steve, P and I all snuck down. We got caught right as we reached them but luckily they had made friends with the wife of Mark West who said we were her guests! so we hung out waiting for the players. Most of them came out except for Shaq ( but we did see his wife), so we got some pictures except for the ones that snubbed us ( Stoudemire) The best pic. was of course with Nash oh I just love him.

I think the best part of the night was not having to drive all the way back to QC after, oh how I love that.