cake for mck and easter preparations!

nothing beats an easter egg hunt at grammys!  this year the egg hunt was color coded . . . so everyone had a shot!  there was even a "mother bunny" egg . . . loaded with a dollar from uncle tim!  we celebrated mck's birthday a little early . . . and then the kids decorated eggs . . . with their shirts off! :)  love seeing the kids with their cousins! 

an easter bust

we got the kids ready early sat. morning for an egg drop at the airport.  it sounded so cool - thousands of eggs to be dropped out of a plane at the airport . . . i guess everyone in g'town and the surrounding towns thought it sounded cool too!  it was crowded, hot, and delayed.  we were separated into 4 different age catagories . . . yikes!  and waited more than an hour to rush the field only to find . . . NOTHING.  my four kiddos didn't find a single egg.  the crazy thing is, toting their empty buckets over to where we decided to have a picnic and wait out the crowd, not a single kid complained.  they were bummed, but really good sports.  uh.  what a disaster!  but it wasn't anythign a trip to the dollar store and an ice cream at mcdonald's couldn't fix!  think we'll stick to backyard egg huntss next year!

st. patty's day!

green milk and lucky charms for snack today . . . happy kiddos! :)  (b opted out of this pic. . . but did get the snack!  he is not into picture taking these days!)

ken's sleepover party!

ken invited three friends to see a movie (in their pjs) and spend the night!  they girls had a great time playing, hanging out, eating junk food, and just being silly girls!  it was a perfectly simple celebration!

kennedy turns NINE!!!!!

how is it possible?  ken turned nine this afternoon at 3:06 p.m.  i am still wondering where the time has gone.  she is so mature, smart, talented, and such a good big sis.  what lucky parents we are!
after a couple weeks of not sleeping in her room, we revealed the big "room makeover" this morning!  she was in heaven!  aqua blue with a touch of funky zebra!  looks like a teenagers room!  i don't think she wanted to leave!  she opened her birthday outfit and book, ate her birthday donut, and sadly, was off for school!  we celebrated in the evening with an amazing italian meal at a new fav place and then ice cream cake and gifts!  this year was extra special with a few new traditions . . . a birthday photo book . . . and balloons filled with money ($1 for each year!)!  not sure birthdays can get much better than that.  happy birthday sweet girl.  we love you!

girl scout campout 2012

this year's campout was great!  we even got to have hot dogs and s'mores over a real fire!  the weather was cool, the girls were happy, and the stations were awesome!  we even finished the campout with a jungle breakfast . . . where the girls had to hunt for their food in the "woods"! 

cookie thanks!

cookie sales for the bailey girls were a success! :)  we outsold our last year's total . . . and that was our goal!  thanks to all who supported our sweet little troop . . . gotta love these sweet girls!

ken's early birthday celebration!

we celebrated ken's birthday a little early with grammy, grampy, cakeballs and a shopping "spree" at justice!  ken was so thrilled to get to shop with grammy for a couple of adorable outfits from a store she loves  . . . but mommy doesn't take her to very often!  the cake balls were DELISH too!  what a great way to kick off her upcoming birthday! 

valentine's day 2012

the baileys love the holidays . . . and valentine's day is no exception!  the kids woke up to way too many goodies (after counting down for two weeks with goodies in the mailboxes!)  the biggest hit was their happy nappers! :)  sooooo fun to see all the smiles! :)  everyone was excited to cuddle up to the pet at bedtime! 

sweet friends

snapped this picture after a valentine cookie decorating playdate with kam's two bffs.  it doesn't get much sweeter than this!  love these girls.

100 days of school

mck is posing with her "100 days" project. it had to be a 3-d representation of 100 items. she did an animal cracker zoo! she had lots of fun grouping the animals together while i hot glued them . . . probably because she ate every broken one she came across! it turned out pretty cute!

surgery for b

here's little b.c. before his tongue surgery. posing in his new darth vader p.j.'s (gotta love the middle "bad guy" pose!)! he was a real trooper. he wasn't scared at all. he walked off in his little looney toon hospital gown and yellow skidder socks like he knew what he was doing. when he was done i could hear him coming around the corner talking about the cat in the hat! :) he wasn't fussy and just wanted the popsicle he was promised. he was a rock star. sadly, he bit his tongue really bad on the popsicle . . . so we're not sure if the extra long recovery was that or the incision healing. poor little guy wanted to eat fruit snacks and REAL food . . . and just couldn't. after about 5 days though he was back to his old silly self . . . downing fruit snacks! and now he can stick out his tongue and lick and ice cream cone . . . like every little boy should!
his sisters were sooooo darn sweet. each of them made something at school for him and ken and mck had "bought" stuff from their school treasure boxes to give to him to make him feel better. so sweet.

written by mck!

for her latest project mck wrote a book . . . after reading a non-fiction book about fire she had to create her own book about fire. she wrote a short story about freddie who went camping and needed to build a fire to stay warm. she wrote the story all on her own (with encouragement for ken!) and drew all the adorable pictures. the girl is a rock star when it comes to projects. she'll sit down, work for several hours and knock it out! the book is just adorable!

awards for ken!

at a mid-year award ceremony ken received three awards! perfect attendance, a honor roll, and the art award (only one given per class!). we are so proud of ken. attendance is easy . . . the girl would rather be at school than at home (how awesome!), and the grades are a pretty easy thing for her too. what was really cool was the art award. ken LOVES art and spends a lot of her spare time sketching in journals and random pieces of paper. she loves her art teacher and has learned so much. pretty cool.

kam is an author!

our little kam wrote a book! she has been working up to this at school for awhile now . . . coming home with several unfinished works of art. but this time she finally finished the book AND sat in the author chair AND read it to her class. she was so proud of herself! she came home and read it to us for story time last night! now her book is right next to her bed, "so i can read it every night!"

a day at the zoo

a day off from school meant a day at the zoo for my monkeys! we had such a nice day. really perfect weather, the kids were in great moods, and we had great friends with us too! it was wonderful to spend the day outside just enjoying the kiddos! ken and mck were very interested in reading the info at the zoo . . . kam (plugging her nose in many pics!) was very into the smells, and b.c. just thought everything was cool . . . but really loved the orangutans! i think everyone though the coolest (and grossest) thing we saw was an elephant peeing . . . it literally peed a bucket-load! it was really neat and i think we talked about it for days!

our zoo veterinarian!

yes. that is mck with a lion and a dr. kit . . . ready to head off to school for a day of pretending to be "dr. mckenzie bailey, head zoo veterinarian".

and yes, this is the same 6 year old who doesn't like any of the animals that we have . . . except for maybe the chickens because they leave her alone! couldn't believe that's what she picked for career day. (on a side note, i did get several comments that "i have to pick a REAL job. so i can't say i want to be a fairy . . . but that's what i really want to be." love that girl!)

our little start student

mck was the star of the week . . . her poster was complete with purple, glitter, and a big giant "m"! could it be any more "her"? she put words that describe her all around the "m" and couldn't wait to share it with her class! gotta love this girl!

yes, those are my kids in a dog cage!

ha. this was too funny not to capture on film! :) we got a new dog cage for brock and the kids thought it was soooo cool that they could all fit in it . . . along with graham. they literally played for 45 minuted in the cage.

new years eve 2012

wii dance, noisemakers, junk food, and fun drinks. a simple, fun new years eve at home. . . and this year all the girls made it until midnight . . . and then some! even little b.c. hung in there until 11:30. (of course we paid dearly for it the next day!) so much fun to just hang at home with the family.

here's to 2012 and a much better year for the bailey bunch!