mal's b day party

mal had a birthday party today!!

she had katy and regan over.

they were just hilarious!

we did lots of stuff.

decorated the treat bags, made a bracelet,

played pin the crown on the princess (drawn by daddy again),

had a tea party with fancy glasses and "tea", decorated cupcakes,

opened presents and then played!

it was an awesome party!

as you can tell mallory got some MAKE UP!!

all three girls freaked out!

they all immediately starting putting it on eachother. 

it was so cute!

v day plate

made a valentines plate!

its alittle late for this year's v day

but there's always next year!

sleeping fighter guy

we have been staying up late the last couple of nights and poor bubba was tired!

i didn't know where he was and went looking for him...

that is how i found him.

totally out on the floor.

morning chore list!

i found a really cute

"i can get ready for school" chart.

the girls LOVE to check off their chores and i love it too!

i don't have to bug them every 5 minutes about getting stuff done!

we have a 5 year old!

Happy Birthday Mallory!!!

i can't believe this girl is 5 years old!!!

the party started early and lasted all day!

presents from nana and papa.

super cute lady bug blanket and some other lovelies!

wrastlin

kale and brett love to wrestle! 

it is a daily accurancy!

kale had a chocolate ice cream mustache!

too cute!

the party continues

we asked mal were she wanted to go for her birthday dinner and she said 5 guys!

you don't have to tell me and brett twice!

so off we went!

kale and mallory feel asleep on the way to maple grove! 

after 5 guys we got some frozen yogurt.

then greg showered everyone with presents!

greg had a birthday present for kale and mallory

but didn't want liv to feel left out,

so he got some mini eggs for her.

it was so thoughtful!  what a great uncle!

then we went home and opened presents. 

mal had a great birthday day!

we had a surprise visitor for dinner!

it's never a party until greg shows up!! 

kale would NOT wake up when we got there. 

he must have been really tired!!

shoveling

we live on the corner and the snowplow brings snow from the street

and puts it right at the end of our driveway!!!

we could not get out of the driveway after the crazy snow today!

so we all got suited up and went out.

the kids played and i shoveled!

i could not believe the amount of snow in our driveway!

yikes.

this is the pile the snow plow left for us!

it's great for a snow slide!



finally. 

after an hour of shoveling!

enough room for one car to get out.

potty training

after yesterday and kale not being able to go into the ikea play place,

i decided we would potty train today!!

it didn't go so well.

this is how both of us felt. 

fetal position!!

we are making progress becasuse kale actually let me

put the underwear on him!

the first time i tried he screamed "take this off me"

until i took the underwear off!

love this boy!!

one day, he will be potty trained.

but it did not happen today!

leap day snow

happy leap day!!

we haven't had very much snow this year,

so today winter decided to try to catch up!

it snowed all night and most of the day!! 

wow.  the kids are so excited to go and play in it!!

just for the records

we went down south of the cities today and went to the mall of america and ikea!!

of course, i forgot the camera. oh well!

we went to lunch with uncle greg!! 

 then got to go on rides at the MOA.

we had a great time!! 

 since it was only me and the kids i got to go on all the rides with the kids.

even i had fun!

mom and kids were happy.

well, that is until we got to ikea.

poor little kale could NOT go in the play place at ikea.

he was heart broken!

you have to be potty trained and mr. kale is NOT.

kale had to come into the store but

 i am hoping this will make him want to go potty!!

we have been talking about it all day!

we are going to try tomorrow!!