Imitation is the highest form of flattery!

So I was trying to look at Lori's blog today and I kept getting so frustrated when it would only refresh to mine. Oh, wait a minute, that's not mine, that's Lori's but she's changed it so it looks JUST LIKE MINE!!! What a freaking loser! I thought Lori was the creative one! She even copied our title! Burnett Kingdom my a--eye! Lori, our alliance is no more, THIS MEANS WAR!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh and Kaylene, it was Lori who told Ned about your plans.

I know! Lets invent a holiday where people give away pounds and pounds of free candy to every kid in the country so that they can slowly poison themselves a few pieces at a time and by the time it has run out all of the mothers in America will have either been committed or imprisoned for unspeakable acts. (Run on sentence, I know.) For example:

The other day Emily was sitting on the toilet when I heard her usual call for help. (She is going through a "helpless" phase and would really prefer that everyone carry her around all day doing everything for her while she hands out instructions.) Anyway, she's on the toilet and wants help wiping. (sorry) I told her she needed to do that herself this time. Then I heard: "I'll do it myself when you give me some more candy."

I believe I have made my point.

Here are some pictures of the kids on Halloween. (Bailey is Holly Hobbie - incase you're not into that right now.)

We got the sun back for the afternoon!! This time of year these kinds of days are starting to be few and far between so you learn to take advantage of them.

Kaden got his first taste of "real" food the other day. As you can see, HE LOVED IT!! And who wouldn't? "Kaden's Glop" (as Bailey refers to it) is what every hungry person is wishing for! I figure this is what they make you eat so that the strained squash you get a few weeks later will seem like heaven.

All the kids in their festive outfits. I LOVE this time of year!

I have been trying to give Steve the benefit of the doubt and let him use the "busy" excuse but 3 months is a little excessive!! (And I, personally, have to take issue with that anyway. I mean come on! How busy can you be when someone else is doing all the homeschool, preschool, diapers, feeding, bathing, cooking, cleaning, laundry, bills, activities, shopping, scheduling, and, apparently, corresponding, for you!) So, I figured it was time to save our honor and put something up here. Here you go.

The girls new, twirly, church dresses.
This next one is Emily's choice for her birthday BREAKFAST!! (pasta)
I always said I was going to be like my mom and make everyone these elaborately decorated cakes that look like trains or bears, (in my case I once ordered the BYU logo - mountain and all) but I tried that for a couple years and found out it makes me tired! So, we do cupcakes and plastic figures a lot! Can't believe she's 4 already!

No explanation required - although I should say that you are supposed to look at Kaden in this one since this is NOT Bailey's best picture!

OK--So Steve IS busy. He just finished his first volleyball season as Head Coach and will be starting basketball up in about a week. He's about halfway through the semester at WSU and, of course, there are those high school kids every day which I wouldn't wish on ANYONE. (I STILL say I win though!)

More pictures

Thanks to Lori, Kaden knows which team to root for!
Kiddie Kandids picture of the kids. For the living room, we zoomed in on the faces and made it black and white. It looks really good!

Emily's 3 year old pictures

2 happy little girls with their baby brother. They LOVE to have their picture taken (although he's looking a little more concerned)

Handsome little man

Bailey's 6 year old picture

Another pose

Been SOOOOOO Busy!

Sorry for the lack of updates, with school and work and family, I've just been a little overwhelmed! I finished class on Thursday and of the 14 credits I took, I'm sure to get an A in all but one (it will either be an A or A-, just haven't heard from the prof). I'm sure no one cares about that though and just wants to see pictures, so here you go :-)

This is Kaden on June 15th.