Double the toothy fun...

Wed morning Alexis woke up bright and early (I mean EARLY) to come into our room to tell us that her tooth was finally loose enough to be pulled. After much begging and pleading she got her Dad out of bed and he headed to get "the pliers" and pulled the tooth right out.

Wed evening after Mr. Ethan had been in bed for about 5 minutes he comes running out of his room holding his mouth and cheering. Not to be outdone by his sister - he had pulled one of his loose teeth out in bed! After searching through his covers the tooth was recovered and placed in the tooth pocket under his pillow.

Here are the two kiddos with their gaps...

We sure saved the tooth fairy a trip!!

Thursday afternoon Ethan had his 1st grade musical program, a rousing rendition of The Three Little Pigs. This was a fabulous concert that lasted all of 12 minutes! I must say that I felt really bad for the mom that got there for the last 3 minutes and began to cry at the end because she had missed it all. Good reminder for me to try to be more timely (I probably would have been late but I had Mr. Timely (aka Thane) who got us there with PLENTY of time to spare!!!

Anywho...here are some pics of E in action during his chorus performance...

Let's see...what else exciting has happened?! Brylee had her first ice cream cone this week (can you say STICKY!!) and she is walking all over the place (sniff, sniff.) Alexis was moved up in her gymanstics class and LOVES it. Ethan's doing great in karate and is looking forward to another tournament. And that is all the Beckstead happenings!!

Randomness!

So it was a fairly busy week around the Beckstead household so I thought I would sum up a few of the highlights...

VISITORS! We were lucky enough to have visitors from AZ and OH this week. How lucky are my kids that they have friends all over the country?

First, kids got to have some fun with the Bushman fam! Oh how we miss the Bushman's! There were light saber battles, sleepovers, food and fun!

E and Marcus...

Alexis and Madelyn...

Good times at Carl's Jr...

Then the Bertasso fam was in Boise. Didn't get near enough time with them but so nice to see a friendly face from Ohio!!

Alexis and Katelyn (Jacob and Ethan were too busy playing Wii and dueling light sabers to pose for a pic!!)

E had a karate tournament this weekend and took 1ST PLACE in sparring!! He had to spar 7 kids to get his 1st place medal!! All I can say is that he ROCKED IT. He's a lean, mean, sparring machine!!

Poor Brylee gets toted around to all these events but is such a good sport about it! Most of her toys are in boxes (GRRRR the boxes!) so this is what she resorted to playing with....can you tell her Daddy works for Powerbar?

And finally....I have some random thoughts that have been buzzing about in my head all week. I HATE pictures of me so I thought this was a much better way of participating in my own blog!! :) In no particular order...


* I'm really glad that Ethan likes karate but I think the adults that do it are freakin' hilarious. It's hard to contain your laughter at a tournament when the participants are SOOOO serious!

* I wish Coke didn't taste so darn good

* Sometimes I really wish my kids would have come with an on/off switch, or at least a mute button.

* I am still using my electric blanket and we are almost 1/2 way through April, meanwhile Ohio is having record high temps!!

* I'm glad my husband temporarily listed his motorcylcle on craigslist, rather than listing me.

* If I don't get the house we have an offer on, you will hear me SCREAM!!

* I hate boxes.

* I kinda hope a woman runs up out of the blue and whacks Tiger on the head with a golf club.

* I'm nervous St. Luke's is going to call and offer me my old job back.

* I ran 30 miles this week and I HATED ever step.

* Vegas on May 5th!!! It can't come soon enough!

* Why is it that Dumb and Dumber still makes me laugh so hard?

* I am so blessed to have 3 healthy kids with a wonderful hubby.

And that is all the RANDOMNESS from the Beckstead household!

Pebbles

The day we have been waiting for has arrived! Brylee finally has enough hair for a Pebbles pigtail....hurray!! Her big sister didn't have enough hair for this when she was TWO!! Such a cutie, think we are going to keep her!!

Happy Easter!

Big kids coloring Easter eggs....E's good friend Jordan was here and joined in as well!

My girls and I...

Yummy....more fun to play with than color!

Easter Morn....



Kids and I had a TON of fun making these cupcakes for our Easter dinner with the Henze fam! They were a little "busy" looking, but so fun to make!



I thoroughly enjoyed that Conference was on Easter this year! We hung out in our pj's and listened to all the wonderful messages delivered. Several times Alexis said "that was a good talk!" It made me happy that she was listening and taking an interest in what they were saying. Ethan....will get there :) Just happy he was in the same room!! I love Easter!