Alexa's 1st grade talent show

Alexa participated in her first talent show with her friend Emma. They did a dance routine to "Queen of the Waves" which is a Barbie deal. So much for saying ,"never". I have learned that I should not have said this. I have never really been a fan of Barbie, but here I am letting her dance to a Barbie song. Oh well. It was very cute

Globetrotters!

This girl here "TNT" is the main reason Dad bought us all tickets to see the Globetrotters. In hopes that Lexa will start to become interested in basketball. :) Alexa really enjoyed getting the autographs of the players.

Flip, Globie and the kids, this was all before the game. These two are pretty funny. Very entertaining.

Milo working on many of the new tricks he learned. When we got home he worked on his backwards shot. After Jeff lowed the hoop he actually made the backward shot. Once.

Lexa has been working on sitting down dribbling.

Great family time. We loved it and would go again! Thanks Dad

Monster Trucks!

This here is Milo riding in a monster truck at the end of the night.

I got tickets for a guys night out. Dad, Jeff and Milo went to see the monster trucks. Milo was very excited and was interested the entire night. They did not get home until after 11pm, and Milo was wide awake wanting to tell me all about it. We got a tip that we should buy the monster trucks at Target as they are triple the price at the show, so Milo was happy about that too!

As the guys did their thing, Mom, Alexa and I went for pedicures, lunch and to paint ceramics. We had a great time too. Although somehow I have no photos of our girl time together.

Milo is playing football

Milo started playing flag football at the Edge. He loves it. It is too funny to watch. Mostly it is drills they do and some times they actually put on the flags. He is having such fun. After the first session he wanted to try soccer, but when time came to go he decided to change back to football. He has his 3 point stance down and is quite the kicker. Jeff and I tease that maybe he is our retirement ticket, kicker and all. HAHA

I just love watching him run around, he gets so excited!

Funny Lexa talk

Alexa and I were driving home from school. Me,"Would you like to take some of your money to buy any family members Christmas gifts,or do you just want everyone to buy you gifts and not give any?" (I am hoping for a good answer here) she thinks about it. "I like things just how they are" (Wrong answer!)

Lexa " I hate the dentist"
Me "You love the dentist and always want to go" (she was just there 2 weeks ago)
Lexa "When you get older, things change"


Talking about candy
Me ," Candy is not good for you and I don't like having it around"
Lexa," When I am an adult I will never eat candy..... but I'm a kid, so I'm going to eat some candy"

Christmas Tree Adventure

It all started out just fine. There was a soft snow falling, it was quiet, and peaceful. We walked through the forest with fresh powder. It was beautiful....

Then Alexa fell into the soft powder and screamed on and on and on. She was FREEZING. It is interesting to me how the day before she can be outside with no coat and trying to see how long she can leave her barefeet in the snow. Today, is a new day, and 5 minutes outside and laying in fresh powder with all of her snow gear on is too much! She wants to go back to the car and will still not stop screaming. Jeff and I are both frustrated. We all walk back to the car. I tell Alexa to stay in the car and not to open the door for anyone. I do not go that far away from the car, but move so Alexa can't see me. While I am hiding from Alexa I watch Jeff decide that the perfect tree is a the bottom of the hill we are on top of. It is all by itself in a meadow at the bottom about 200 yards away. I am thinking, wow that will be a long way to pull a tree, and uphill. Jeff went...... and he came back, no tree, good workout. By this time we are wanting to find a tree close by. A truck pulls up, Alexa starting honking the horn. I come QUICKLY as I want her to stop. She wants to know who is in the truck. The family in the truck heads down to find their tree, I come closer, Alexa has the window down her t-shirt on and is talking to them as they pass by. Not cold anymore. Jeff brings our tree to the car. He is still frustrated with the screaming, and decides to talk to Lexa about what over reacting is. Jeff decided to show Alexa how she was acting, he proceeded to scream a blood curtling scream. I yelled, STOP, someone is going to think you cut your arm off with the saw. We left.

I thought it would be a great idea to go down the sledding hill. Jeff was done climbing up hills, so he opted to stay in car with Milo

The sledding hill was all powder, it had not been packed down. Lexa and I made it down twice before Milo convinced his Dad to bring him up the hill. Lexa and Milo went down, powdered snow in Milo's face..... more screaming. Kenna Christmas tree adventure. OVER

The whole thing was very comical afterwards. Our tree is awesome and we had a fun time decorating it! Although, Milo can't not figure out the difference between decorations and toys that can me hit.

Lexa lost a tooth

Her tooth has been getting wiggly for awhile. She was showing her Dad last night how loose it was and he told her she should wiggle it more. She did then she got out the Kleenex to get a better grip.






All by herself she yanked it out. Glad that she did as I do not think I would have been much help in this area. It creeps me out to even think about yanking her tooth out. ugh

She is putting her tooth under her pillow for the tooth fairy. Ammy made her a pouch for her to put it in. She is very excited for "tooth fairy" night. I was excited to pretend to be the tooth fairy. We have recently had a conversation about Santa, the tooth fairy, etc. I was curious if she would still be excited to pretend that she would visit. She was excited and so was I. I think it is just as fun to pretend when she knows the truth.

I have a video but I can not get it to load. Let me know if anyone out there has a trick.