Calories and Tornados

Jake is obsessed with the calorie count of what he is eating and if a tornado is going to hit us. You can ask him anytime how many calories what he is eating has and he will tell you (assuming it was a prepackaged food item).
One day he said "Wow, this has a lot of calories! That is why I like it!" I never knew if he was counting calories to make sure he wasn't eating too many or if he was eating enough. Sometimes Jake gets confused about cold and hot. He will climb into bed and say "I am so hot!" and pull the covers all around him. Or the water temperature of his bath he will say is too cold and then add cold water to it. So I was not sure what he was thinking about calories. I just know he is obsessed about them.

Earlier this month there was talk about the tornado that went through Salt Lake 10 years ago. Jake was already worried about weather related trauma but this just added to his fear. Luckily his fear has subsided.

more birthday pics of importance

We took Rian to Little America for the breakfast buffet also. He was able to meet the head chef and get a tour of the kitchen. When we left we found a special visitor on the car.

Sweet sisters

more sweetness

Sarah at Build-a-bear (while the boys were at the sports store). She found a dog that she fell in love with. I was strong and didn't buy it for her.

My mom insisted on a hug and possibly a kiss for Rian to get the present she brought. If you are 14 there might not be anything worse than kissing your Grandma....no matter what the present is. But he handled it well. What was the present? A special coin for his collection.

A 6 year old Jakeism

When asked what his favorite part of the day was he said "The soccer game". We had Kache and his family over for Jakes birthday dinner and the kids went out to play soccer in the back yard.
Just goes to prove that the best things in life really are free. Especially to a 6 year old.

Birthday time

Jake turned 6 on the 6th of June. He has been so excited to be 6. For a year he has been 5 1/2. The "half" has been very important. It is not his year for a friend party but we let him pick one friend to take to a movie. We saw "Up". But I think he was most excited to see the transformer movie cut out.

About a month ago Kaches dad gave Jake a whole bag of Rolos. Jake thought about it for a few minutes and said "I want to make a cake and put these on the top and have the stuff come up the sides." Of course that made me happy to think he was thinking cakes. So I suggested we save the Rolos and make the cake for his birthday. I tried a new recipe and it turned out very yummy.

For his birthday he got a new wii game, 2 pair of shoes (one soccer and "croc" type shoes), 2 webkinz, a bakugan and a few other things. He requested home made pizza for dinner with Kaches family. It turned out to be a sweet six birthday.

Kindergarten Graduation and show stopper

Jake had the cutest graduation program. He loved the songs they had been learning all year. Luckily I was able to get a front row seat (you have to arrive very early to do that). And sitting on the front row gave Sal a lot of room to show off.

The first thing that happened was she had a dirty diaper. I took her out to change her. She escaped from me while I found a place to deposit the diaper and took off for the gym. Right when she got to the door a song had ended and everyone clapped. Sal thought it was for her and she stopped and got this big smile on her face. I didn't see it but Brad laughed for a long time about it.

Then she liked to dance to the songs. Boy does she have some moves. The video camera that I always take with me to programs was sitting home on the counter. But it was hard not to watch her.

She did try to join the kindergartners a few times and we would run up and grab her. I don't know if everyone else thought she was as cute as we did that day.

Way to go Jake! I know you can't wait for 1st grade. But I can. Sal and I will miss you.

All good things must come to an end..

Paige and Mrs. Anderson

Emily and Mrs. Brough

Jake and Ms. Liddell

We had a great year at SHE. The kids loved their teachers. They learned a lot. We all became better friends with Mrs. Leu, the school librarian. I co-chaired the book fairs with Michelle Schick. Somehow Sarah was sick during every book fair. We made it through the year and are ready for summer.

The Mets

Jake is our first and only baseball player. He was so excited to be on Kache's team. Brian, Kache's dad, is the coach. And Cole, Kache's brother, is helping. It is a little different than soccer. OK-a lot different.:)

Summer Buzz

Before:

After: Enjoying Strawberries Romanoff (recipe to follow)

Strawberries Romanoff:
Wash and dry strawberries. It is important they are dry. Hold by the stem and roll in sour cream and then in brown sugar. Eat immediately. Jake is using a corn on the cob holder to hold his berry.

Sweet Hour of Prayer

I guess this really should fall under the "Jakeism" category....Jake says the sweetest prayers at night. A few months ago the would say "thankful we can do our jobs on Saturday". Lately it is "Thankful we can listen to Heavenly Fathers plan and example".
Emily used to say the sweetest prayers. She still is always asking that we have a fun time. Usually twice in her prayer. I am not sure what kind of things she plans on doing after her prayer to have fun because she is in bed ready to go to sleep when the prayer is said.
Tonight I am Thankful for sweet prayers and blogging so I have a way to remember what is going on in our life.