First day of preschool!

Today was Doran's third first day of preschool and Brock's first day! It was so fun. Brock woke up at 5:40 this morning and I made him go back to bed. When I woke up at 7 he was up again and had snuck upstairs to play the Wii. I guess he was restless. They were both excited to wear new outfits and Brock was sooooo excited to wear his backpack!

We walked the boys (and Sharky) down to Miss Julie's house and they were so excited. When Doran's little crush Kamree drove by he started running as fast as he could showing off!

She is the cutest preschool teacher! The boys both love her!

Brothers!

Grandma and Papa K came to see them off on their first day of school. They were so excited that they came. I just can't believe we already have a three year old and a five year old!

Sunday

A couple months ago I told Doran he wasn't allowed to eat donuts anymore. He was heartbroken! He cried and cried. He didn't even care that the last few times that he had eaten them he had gotten sick. Finally after him crying for along time I asked him what I could do that would make him feel better. His answer was pretty simple, make me donuts that don't have egg and put sprinkles on them. So today I finally did that. I woke up and didn't let the boys know what I was doing. I fried them and when I was icing them is when Doran discovered what I was doing. He was very excited and said, "Make sure you put sprinkles on those Mom." I made donut holes too which I think he actually liked better. Either way they were both happy little boys eating donuts on a Sunday morning.

Brock got pretty messy with the chocolate icing.

We missed church today because I was having tooth problems. The boys got pretty bored until Doran had the brilliant idea for me to make them a 'blanky house'. Once I made it they got inside and were laughing and having fun, or so it seemed. Doran came out and told me, "This isn't very cool. Can you make it bigger or something?" I extended it a little bit, but my fort making ego was definatley hurt!

Game time!

Doran had his second football game on Saturday. They are such a blast. It is so cute to watch the kids try to figure out what is going on. A couple kids seem to get it a little, but most are clueless. Doran gets a little bit, but he just has so much fun! In the picture below Doran kicked the ball to the other team. He kicked it so far!

Here they are in the huddle at the end.

I think his favorite part of the game is giving the other team the high fives. You can tell how much he loves it by the smile on his face!

the cabin

We went to the cabin this week. Doran asked in the morning if we could go to the cabin. I didn't think we would be able to because we were planning on hiking Timp cave that afternoon. When we got to the canyon we found out the cave was closed! So on the way home we decided we would go up. Doran and Brock were so excited! They love it there! We had a blast!

September 11th

I can recall September 11, 2001 very clearly. It can remember it as well as I remember my wedding day and the days the boys were born. I was driving to school and the djs got very quiet and then they reported that a plane had just struck the World Trade Center. I arrived to school quite early and just sat in my car listening to the radio. I was so scared. A little bit later my friend Nicole came and got in the car to listen with me, and then Jolynne. We stayed in my car the whole first period listening to the radio and feeling so scared. We finally ran in to the school when one of the towers fell. Then I found out I didn't need to ditch first period because all the class did was watch the news. All my classes except one watched the news all day. Teachers were just as sad and scared as students. I watched the news during lunch. When Brooks got home from school I told him he couldn't play. It was a bad day. We had our senior picnic that evening. I remember thinking we shouldn't be there trying to have fun with what was going on else where in our country. That day was the first time I truly felt patriotic and proud to be an American. The next few weeks and months the feelings even intensified. Driving down state street it was hard to not see a car with an American flag. The stories of heros in New York, D.C., and the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania were inspiring. I will never forget how I felt that day and year. I love our country. I am proud to be an American.

Practice

Doran had his first flag football practice today. We have been practicing throwing and cathcing at home ever since we knew he was going to be on a team. It was so fun to watch all the little 5 year olds practice! They are so cute and funny!

Here is his team! He is probably the youngest on it. It is a kindergarten team... He is still in preschool, but he could have gone to kindergarten and he is too old for all the itty bitty ball groups so I didn't feel too bad signing him up anyways. He did just as good as all the other kids and he had so much fun. The coach asked Seth if he would be his assistant coach when we got there. His first game is next Saturday and we are so excited!

painting

On Thursday morning my friend and neighbor called me and told me she just left work sick and is on her way to my house to paint the boys room. (Apparently her headache got better as soon as she left work.) She would not take no for an answer! She came over with all of her painting supplies, she prepped the walls, and taped them. She taught me how to paint and I did the bottom half of the room and she did the top. I am really happy that she was so crazy and wanted to paint a friends room because it is so nice for the boys room to not be purple! It looks great now.

Seth and I decided since the boys share a bed anyway we wouldn't make them share the smaller then twin bed and would get them a new bed. We went to a couple different places and didn't really like anything, but then we went to IKEA and found it! Right when we walked into IKEA there was one of their cheap, low beds on display and they both jumped on it and loved it. I wish we went there first! We found a cute toy story comforter and got that for them too. Their room is transformed!

5 years old!

Monday was Doran's 5th birthday! I can not believe I have a 5 year old. Time has flown by way to fast! It really feels like weeks ago that I was in the hospital in labor and watching shark week! He has grown to be such a big sweet boy! Seth and I love him so much and so does Brocky! Brock looks up to him so much! I took the boys and Cassie to Brick Oven for Doran's birthday meal. He loves the garlic bread!


They came out with a lollipop sundae for him and sang happy birthday and he was so shy and embarassed! He wouldn't even smile or look at them. He was trying to pretend nothing was going on! I had to take a picture of his face!
Look at my handsome little dudes! They are such good little brothers!
This week Brock and I got new Giants jerseys! Brock was so excited. We got him the Nicks jersey and he kept saying, "I catch the ball and run fast with it! That is what my jersey does!"
Brock has said a couple sweet things lately I don't want to forget. He has been trying to understand what happened to Poppy. Doran and Brock were talking in the car one day and Brock said, "Poppy is in heaven with Sampy and Jesus." He was happy that Poppy could take care of Sampy for us now. The day after Poppy passed Brock came up to me in the morning and said, "Jesus' friends hurt Poppy!" He was so worried about it and it was so sweet. I told him Jesus' friends are nice and wouldn't hurt our Poppy. Later that day we were driving home from Granny's and he said, "Poppy is Granny's best friend! And he died! Right mom?" The day after the funeral I had the program sitting on my dresser. He saw it and picked it up and said, "This says that Poppy is in heaven with Jesus."

5th birthday party!

On Saturday we had Doran's 5th birthday party. We did it a couple days early so Jen and Jayce could be here. Doran wanted a Harry Potter/Shark Attack birthday party. We had it planned for weeks and then the night before he decided he wanted beyblades on the cake. Ok! He dresses up as Harry Potter and was very insistant that his hair must be black. He was so cute with black hair!
For his cake I made a soda cake. It is just a box mix and a can of soda. Nothing else. He still wouldn't even take a bite. He did eat the icing though!
After cake and ice cream we did a shark pinata. I love this picture of Doran because you can tell how hard he was trying!



Yay! Candy!
Next came the presents! He got lots of fun stuff! He had a really fun party!

zoo

I took the kids to the zoo the other day! It was a lot of fun, but really hot! We went in the afternoon so lots of the animals were sleeping. I asked each of the kids what there favorite animal was. Doran's was the snakes, Brock's was the 'rilla (gorilla), and Cassie's was the elephant, then it switched to giraffe, and then after she heard Brock say gorilla it switched to that. While we were watching the gorilla he kept turning his back to us. After watching him for awhile Brock looked at me and said, "He has a BIG BUM!" I was laughing pretty hard! It was cute.


None of my pictures worked with animals behind glass. I need to learn how to work a camera!

Porter

A couple weeks ago Seth, the boys, and I went to Seth's friend Matt's house to help bale hay. I moved about two things and was done. While we were there we got to see our little calf Porter. (Seth just needs to earn him) Seth picked the name hoping the boys wouldn't get attached to it or anything, so I guess naming it after a steak cut will do the trick!

The boys had so much fun while we were there. They rode on a tractor, sat on a cow, rode on the hay trailor, fed goats, and played toys! I think we will be back in September so we will get to see how our little Porter house steak is growing!