Ty Turns The Big #6

Ok so it has been about a month now but it is never too late to celebrate the birth of one of you children right. Ty's B-day was at the beginning of February and he decided this year for his party to invite a few friends to go to Kangaroo Zoo. This is his not so beautiful cake. He wanted blue frosting, with stars on it, and a sign that said Happy Birthday. I know I stink at making Birthday cakes but, all that matters is that he liked it. First we had some yummy cake.
Then it was Present Time!!!
Then we were off to Kangaroo Zoo. This is Ashton and Gavin playing King of The Mountain.
This is one of Ty's best buddies Cy.
Jordyn and Ruby taking down an Alligator
Big CHEESE!
Caleb and Ty sunk in on one of the blow ups.
They all thought is was funny to sink in. If you can't guess by looking at them. These are brothers Gavin and Nick that Ty has know since birth they are basically another two brothers to him.

Ty had a great day! With every year it just amazes me how much they grow and develop. Ty is such a good kid. He loves to laugh and be silly. He tries really hard to be a great friend and brother. I still call him my oblivious child because he misses everything right in front of his face and runs into shopping carts at the store. The crazy thing is when he wants to focus his attention to detail he is very impressive even when he was little. Like coloring, making his bed, and reading. He loves to make people happy and feels so good when he is a good boy. He loves to ride his bike, go to his Karate class, play the Wii, swim, school, Sunday school, to gross people out by showing them his chewed up food, and most of all making people laugh. Happy Birthday Ty we love you with all our hearts!!!

Sugar and Spice?

Sugar and spice and everything nice that's what little girls are made of

Sunshine and rainbows and ribbons for hair bows that's what little girls are made of

Tea parties, laces and baby doll faces that's what little girls are made of

So I have officially decided that who ever wrote this poem was full of it! I wrote this poem that better matches my darling daughter as of late.

Hair full of bows but a mouth full of no's that is what my little girl is made of

I love you's and I don't have to's is what my little girl is made of

When my back is turned she's out the front door and screams with kicks on the floor

is what my little girl is made of

"Daddy can I snuggle?" are words said almost every night to stay out of bed

is what my littl girl is made of

I just have to say that I was warned about having a daughter and the drama that comes with it but, wow they weren't kidding. Cory has to remind me that the boys were all very frustrating at this stage as well but, this little girl may do me in. Don't get me wrong the pinkie promises, the mom your the best, the socialite at the store, the princess dances with her brothers, cookie maker helper, and her adorable laugh do make up for a lot of the toddler moments. I just wish that those moments would out number them. I love my sweet little Jordyn more than anything I truly do but, hats off to those moms who are blessed with all girls!

Russell Family Picture Time 2011

The silliness of Jordyn
Typical Reggie attitude lately
Oh the fun awkward teeth faze. Hey he is still a good looking kid.
What a hottie he never has a bad picture.
My sweet angel girl. I'll take it even if it is only for a moment

My little miracle man, so adorable!

Hey five out of six looking that is pretty dang good.

Tis poop or chocolate that is the question

Being a mom I smile, I am proud, I giggle, but there aren't not too many times now a days that I can think that I have laugh until I cried. The other day I was changing a poopie diaper on the bed and (sorry if this is too much info) it was that kind of poop that is lots of little balls. I thought I got it all and didn't think anything of it until later that evening. Cory was just about to lay on the bed and picked up something brown and small on the bed. He asked what is this and then smelled it wondering if it was chocolate. Can you guess what it was? Yes it was a little poop that I guess got away from me. The look on Cory's face was priceless! This is a man that it takes major teeth pulling to change diapers and he now has a little piece of something special in his hand. He rushed to the bathroom to throw it away while gagging and I was laughing sooooo hard as it all played out. Needless to say he didn't think it was as funny as I did. The best thing was that later I had made some whoopie pie cookies and I watched as Cory was eating one on the bed and dropped a piece he picked it up to eat it but, did pause and smell it first just to make sure. Once again I was in tears and writing this now a few days later gives me the giggles.

HALLOWEEN 2011

This is the traditional Russell/Wilson Halloween picture. It is getting harder and harder to keep all the kids together for Trick or Treating but, we all still get together to check out each others costumes. Not a bad group-A cheerleader, Scooby, Shaggy, a ninja, Jessie, batgirl, a chef, and a cowgirl.
I had to get a picture of Shaggy and Scooby together. The Jessie on the side was a sneak in bonus.
I think she was he cutest costume of the night (ok I may be a little biest or it just is true). When we tried this costume on I was done. She is so freakin cute and I was glad it was more original than a Princess.
This was the first year I decided to dress up. I know it isn't to crazy of an outfit but hey it is better than nothing right? My BFF dresses up every year with the kids so I didn't want to be a party pooper this year.
My little "Superman" the costumes just fits what he is. Plus this is him walking around, yes walking!
Grandpa got into the Halloween spirit this year which was really surprising because Halloween is his least favorite holiday. I asked him if this is what I get to expect that he will look like in about twenty years. MAYBE?!
Google Eyes:)

HOPE IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT FOR EVERYONE. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!

Fall Break

This last weekend was fall break so we decided that we needed to do something "fallish". Instead of hitting the local attractions we thought that it would be less money, work, and chaos to just do something fun with my BFF and her kids. So we found a local pumpkin patch and took the kids to pick out their very own pumpkins to take home and decorate.
This is Ty's pick. Don't ask me about the hat he just brought it maybe he felt pumpkin picken was in need of a cowboy hat. He looks really cute in it so why not?!
Once again obviously I am not a photographer. I didn't even get one of them looking at me.
Reggie has some kind of reaction to pumpkin picking or to hay bells because he was a very mad little man.
So much for a cute photo op. Between my picture taking skills. lighting, and a really ornery baby this is all i could get. Oh well cute enough!

Ruby's pumpkin
Ashton and Ty were the only ones that wanted to carve theirs.
Jordyn double painting
Gavin's artwork
Nick concentrating very intently on his paint job.

After pumpkin decorating I made some sugar cookie dough that they all got to cut out their own cookies. Then after they were done cooking we were going to decorate them but, the cookies didn't really make it to that faze. Most of them got eaten even before we got frosting on them. Oh well:) We had a really fun day!!!!

Jordyn the big #3

My one and only daughter is officially three! I love having a girl. She is a typical toddler terror but at the same time the cutest little princess that we just adore. She makes us laugh all the time. She dresses up in dresses taps us on the shoulder and ask you to dance (it just makes you melt), she has the most adorable laugh, loves to have tea parties, tries to be one of the boys (taking her shirt off like the boys do when they wrestle), and likes to tell you princess stories. An example of a princess story is "Once upon I time there was a princess me and lived happy after after. She also an expert at staying out of bed at bed time all she does is say that she is snuggling with daddy and it gets her an extra half hour/hour of stay up time. She already has daddy rapped around her little finger but, it is ok he doesn't really mind. We love her so much and are so grateful to have her apart of our family. This year was Jordyn's third Birthday and this was the first time I decided to do something "girlie" just for her and it was a lot of fun. She had I very fun and busy day. First thing she did for the day was get a surprise from her dad. He showed up after breakfast with balloons (he tried to make sure that there was a picture of every princess in the bundle) and a really big cupcake for her. Jordyn thought it was so awesome. Then later in the afternoon she had her first party with her little girl friends.
Reggie enjoying the party. He got to be the only boy. I had the party when the boys were at school so they wouldn't over power it. So it could be all about her.
We played a couple of games, hot potato and this is a picture of duck duck goose.
My niece Ella playing duck duck goose. She was the youngest one there so it was a new concept for her, she made me laugh.
All the girls got to decorate their own cupcakes.
Fun times!!
"Happy Birthday toooo Youuuu:)"
Oooo I wonder what's inside
This is all the party goers. We also had some beads and chains and they all got to make their own necklace to take home. I wanted a picture of all of them with their necklaces on but not thinking very well I didn't do a close up for you to see them. My BAD! Oh well they all looked really cute in them.

After the party was over she decided to chill out, watch a movie in one of her birthday presents, and take a much needed nap.
After nap time G-pa and G-ma came over with another present. Her first tea set or in Grandma's words a cocoa set. She loves it and plays with it all the time.
Then in the evening when dad was home. He wanted to take her out to dinner and have everyone that works there sing happy birthday to her. So she got a Olive garden dinner, another present from the family, and ten waiters sing to her which she thought was so fun. At the end of the day lets just say she went to bed without any snuggle time with dad she was done. It was a really really GREAT day!