When will the little green men come?

At the castle we have a visit from little green men every St. Patrick's Day.This St. Patrick's day started off with no visit. When the work day wrapped up I spoke to D and could tell she was very down in the dumps. After a few more probing questions the tears let loose. "The Leprecahuns haven't come, the day is over and we aren't going to be leaving the house, they missed us this year. At preschool we searched for Leprechauns and they were fake! I want the real Leprechsauns to come." Needless to say Burke and the girls went for a walk to pass the time until I made it home. I was a few minutes behind the rest of the family getting home and surprise, surprise the REAL Leprechauns had visited us. Both the girls were running around the house searching for the sneaky little men, but they were happily searching!

The Andventures of Me

One cute thing I have seen out of Mckall lately is when you ask her what her name is she simply replies "Me". I think this is really what she thinks her name is. Her world had shifted to her as the priority (which it should be) as she does a lot of mine, me, and MINE with everything she owns. I would have expected this out of a first child but she is definately letting everyone know the ownership of each item in our house.

Still Catching up - November

As time accelerated towards the holidays princess #1 got excited and princess #2 I think is just hoping that she won't have to sit on Santa's lap again this year. We celebrated Thanksgiving with Burke's family. Time well spent with family and this year it was also Danny's birthday. The day after Thanksgiving was the traditional 4:00 am shopping outing. However this year was missing something. Burke after being laid off and taking his new job as a stay at home Dad reentered the workforce with the guys in brown. His new job (with UPs) is to transition his old customers to brown. Needless to say that poor Burke had to work the day after Thanksgiving assisting drivers, yes to those of you wondering that means he was dressed in full uniform. Depending upon the dollar amount offered by everyone I may be tempted to post a picture or two of Burke in his attractive brown uniform. I also moddled the very attractive garb and probably had more fun than my poor husband. At the end of the month two happy princesses anxiously awaiting snow and Santa.

Catching Up

Well in case you thought I forgot how to type I am making an attempt to catch everyone up on life at the kingdom. In October we had lots of fun. Starting with a visit from Jeremy, Heather and Kylee. It was nice to visit with them. For the princesses it was especially nice to have another princess in the house, after four days of little girls playing there was not one fight, argument or pouting lip (this was something the parents especially enjoyed). We are also looking forward to a new baby for Kylee to play with soon to debut in early January 2009.

The girls also had there fair share of pain inflicted this month. Mckall had a cardiology appointment and we are happy to report that everything continues to do well for her little ticker. Danika also had a large double mole removed that she has had since birth. Everything went fine with the removal and the biopsy was also fine. That was two major checks off of the to do list.

Saving the best for last, was Halloween. This year Danika was Hannah Montana (of course) and Mckall was what Danika was when she was two, a dog. Burke and I even dressed up as Rock of Love season 1, which if you don't know what I am talking about this is a good trashy tv show if you are looking to add to your library. Anyway he was Brett Michaels (the lead singer from Poison) and I was the season one winner, Jess (his girlfriend). As usual a holiday such as this is not celebrated on one day but spread out over the course of a week. The celebration train started with a carnaval at the elementary school Danika will attend. This is a double bonus to go to shcool and have a party. Then we celebrated again with a costume party with friends at Kate and Graces' house. Finally by the actual day of Halloween we kept up our tradition of dinner and trick or treating at Julie's house. This year Danika made both cirles of Julie's subdivision while Mckall only had the energy for one.

This Royal Family Continues to Roll with the Punches

As many of you know we have had to begin to explain things to our kids at an age you never hope to have to start. The term for today was layoff. That's right DHL did their layoff and the Salt Lake team including Burke was effected. So Burke is making the transition to stay at home Dad, fortunate for us he will continue earning salary and bonus for a time to come. So with this large change comes laughter that kids bring. After explaining to not only Danika, but Mary, Willow, Pepper and Copper the difference between fired and layoff we received a call. From Mary letting Burke know that they are hiring a janitor at her school and he can get a job there. Kids are sweet and helpful (as Mary was 100% serious, she thought it would be great to have Burke at school) for now though he will adapt to the stay at home dad.