Drysdale Crew

Kaylee's Party Invite

2011-07-12T01:40:00.003-05:00

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It's that time again!! Last year was a blast with the Pink Pirate party... we had a treasure hunt... water balloon and sword fight... I even made a pirate cake.. So this year I was trumped and didn't know what to do so we are going to LUAU!!! It should be fun.. I'll post some pic's soon.

I am de-stressing my life in a way... things are just going to slow down.. Yeah!!! That means maybe I can get a hang of this blogging stuff.. I guess we will see :)

My Handsome Boys!!!

2011-06-02T12:30:00.000-05:00

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2010-07-15T13:22:00.002-05:00

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Bath time

2010-03-17T12:36:00.000-05:00

So our tub was broke a couple of months ago so one night I just threw the boys in the sink. They are way too big, but it got the job done.

Painting

2010-03-17T11:34:00.000-05:00

I love Lend and Learn, me and the boys go every week twice a week. Most of the time like... 98% of the time we go my boys play with puzzles the whole 2 hours, it's amazing. Everyone comments on how good they are... I just smirk and say if you only knew. This day however some other kids had paint out and it was the first time my boys ever painted, they had sooo much fun! And I didn't even have to do clean up... nice!

Our Snowman!

2010-03-17T11:31:00.000-05:00

I was so excited that we finally got some good packing snow. We hadn't been able to build a snowman because we never had the right kind of snow so me and the kids had fun this day!!! Kaylee was out of school for the day because of all the snow so we just played outside in it til the boys were done.

Pumpkin carving

2010-03-17T11:27:00.000-05:00

I never got a chance to post this, but this was our pumpkin the kids and I carved for Halloween.

Goober kids

2010-03-17T11:23:00.000-05:00

Maverick and Kaylee

Matthew and Maverick actually did this first but I got on to them and didn't get a picture. Later when Matthew was asleep Kaylee and Maverick snuck in the bathroom to do it again... crazy kids. They thought they were too funny!

Sleepy boys

2010-03-17T11:16:00.000-05:00

Matthew fell asleep on his chair after dinner and I found Maverick like this on our big basked both completely conked out... too cute!

Leprachaun mischief

2010-03-17T09:08:00.000-05:00

Happy St. Patricks Day everyone! This morning we woke up and what do you know??? Our milk was green and the eggs were green. Larry the leprachaun somehow got into our house and caused some mischief, the kids were amazed and Kaylee left a note for that leprachaun to STAY OUT OF OUR HOUSE!

Boot camp for three year olds anyone?

2009-11-16T12:17:00.000-06:00

Anyone know of a boot camp for three year olds? My boys have been driving me crazy so my mom took them and Kaylee this weekend and I finally finished the boys room. I also had to clean it up because they completely destroyed it. Well... today they woke up at 5:00 and would not go back to sleep so of course I couldn't either. After I took Kaylee to school I put a movie in for them and read a magazine for a little bit, but they were way into the movie so I layed down and fell asleep for maybe 10 minutes. I woke up to them under my kitchen table with a bunch of medicine out from our cabinet. They pulled down the oven stepped on it, climbed on top of the stove and had to get on their tiptoes in order to even get anything out of our medicine cabinet. They ate all of the kids tums and a whole package of gum they had to sneak out of my purse. I called poison control and they said they would be fine.. Then they were sneaking candy when I was on the phone with poison control so I had enough. I put them in their room and locked the door so they could play in there for a bit. They were playing great, no fighting and someone bumped their head so I opened the door and what did I find...... Well Maverick took off his pull-up and rubbed poop everywhere stuffed animals, toy box, pillows you name it. They also tore down all the little stickers I put up this weekend on their wall, I was sooo mad! I worked hard on their room to make it look good and they ruined it all, I saved some of the stickers but the majority had to be tossed.

So lesson learned.... be grateful all of you who do not have twins!!

Last night!

2009-11-12T10:38:00.000-06:00

My calling right now is being a member of the activities committee and last night we had a meeting at the church. On our way after a little bit of shopping.... Kaylee decided to put a piece of plastic on her finger. It was a long orange tube that came off of a toy gun. Well, it got stuck and of course she was dramatic about it. When we got to the church first thing Matthew smashed his finger so now I had two wailing children. I left the boys in the gym with a friend and then took Kaylee to the bathroom and put soap on her finger yet it still wouldn't come off. I pulled and twisted, it did not budge.
Freaking out I went back into the gym and ask the girls there what I should do.. Fortunately there was a doctor there and he just pulled it right off, I guess he had the magic touch. Her finger was blue and purple and swolen, poor thing. Then I had to run out to my car and get band aids for Kaylee and Matthew. It was insane!

2009-11-02T11:31:00.001-06:00

So this is what it takes to finally get a good picutre of my boys... lots of wiggling and moving in between and running away.

Maverick has the gray and red tie and Matthew has the blue tie...

The many faces of Tess and Care

2009-11-02T11:21:00.004-06:00

Ok so my family... mom, dad and tess took me to see the Broadway show of Mary Poppins at the Fox theater. I had alot of fun... it was great! I loved the show they did some things differently then in the movie but I think all the performers did a great job. I loved it. On the way though me and Tess were bored so here is what we did.... Take a million different silly pictures... yeah it was fun.

Also across the from the Fox there was this giant Buddha Bunny, so I had to get a picture of everyone in it. It was kind of weird, but cool I guess. Then there are a couple of pictures of the inside of the Fox. I have been there before but it was still awesome.

Kaylee's first day of school

2009-11-02T11:13:00.002-06:00

So here is Kaylee's first day and I have a couple pics of her second day of Kindergarten. I can't believe it! Then I also put some on there of her beautiful hair... man i was so sad. I had the nerve to think right before school started wow I made it five years without Kaylee cutting her hair that's great.... so what did she do that week? She cut her hair and the boys hair. I had to buzz the boys hair off and hers I thought I could get away with and layer it cause she just took a chunk off the side, but it was too far back so I had to cut it off!! I was soo mad because her hair grows so slowly and I have been growing it since she was born. All we have done for five years is get it trimmed and that is all the longer it got. I had to chop off like 3 or 4 inches off the back. I was sad but she still looks cute. I like her hair longer though so I guess we will start the long process over again.

Some misc pics

2009-11-02T10:47:00.005-06:00

These are just some misc pics I had. The first one is our new dog Bentley, for those of you who don't know two months ago our dog Cooper was killed by a car. So now we have Bentley, he won't ever be able to replace Cooper but we have grown to love him and it has helped Ryan get over losing Coop.

Then I have some pictures of my kiddos getting a ride behind Pap-Daddy's lawn mower. This is always requested now when we go up to my parents house. They love it!

Then I have some pictures from our pummelo experience. I wanted to try it since I never had. It looks like a huge grapefruit and its pink inside like a grapefruit, but it tastes between a mix of an orange and a grapefruit. It was pretty good and my boys ate some of it. The skin on it was soo thick I couldn't believe it. I don't know if I would by it again, if I do next time I will slice it in half and put sugar on it and eat it like a grapefruit.

Then Ryan and I got to go fishing cause Nana watched the kids for us and it was fun because we finally got to do something together without kids! We caught a decent amount of fish and I caught a fairly nice bass. It was fun thanks again Nana!

Finally we had our first hospital trip with the boys. Matthew some how hit his head just right on the corner of our wall and busted his head open. I knew right away he would need a staple. So I had to take Matthew and Maverick to the hospital while my neighbor watched Kaylee and Beily. It was truly the worst experience of my life!!! I got there right around lunch time so my boys were starving but i knew I couldn't give them anything just in case like they said and of course I couldn't give Maverick something and not give Matthew anything so both were starving. When I got there they said I was next. I think it took two hours from then for me to actually get in... didn't know next meant you had to wait two hours. It was awful by then we were tired and hungry and bored. They were all over the place being crazy. Then I saw that a helicopter was coming in so I rushed outside and they got to watch the helicopter land and then 15 minutes later they got to see it fly off again. Then we went back inside and 10 minutes later we were called in. We didn't get a room though, we had to sit in the hallway on a bed next to a lady who I knew didn't feel good and I felt so bad because there was no way I would be able to keep them quiet and they were yelling and being boys you know. Finally someone came and cleaned off his head then left then we had to wait another 30 minutes for them to come back and say yep he needs a staple then they had to numb it and finally they got the staple in after like 4 hours. The nurse was way cool, she came back and said man they still aren't here and went to find them for me then after she told me how perturbed she was because she knew what I was going through, so at least someone understood.

So he had it in for about a week and then they took it out... pour baby it hurt coming out cause it was stuck and she had to pull several times.

There is also a picture of Tessa and Annie they were in a charlie brown play. Tessa was snoopy and Annie was the little red headed girl.

Our bath tub was broken for awhile so I was letting the kids take a shower in my room, but this time I was lazy so the boys took baths in my kitchen sink. It was funny cause they are so big, they liked it though.

And finally the boys got into Kaylee's play clothes and dressed up so I of course had to take a picture. Matthew is in the green dress and Maverick is in the blue one. Too funny!

Summer fun

2009-11-02T10:00:00.003-06:00

Here are a few pictures from this summer. We were down at the lake pretty much all summer. It was great fun for the kids. I made some friends and had four free pools we could go to. We had one at our condo, it was pretty small but the kids loved it. We went almost everyday that we were there. Then I found out Lyndsie Z. lived down there and she had two pools I could use one at her condo and another right next to her condo that she had the code for. Then her man had a pool at his huge house by the golf course that was fun to go to as well. My favorite was the one you see in the slide it was just for kids. They had a section that the deepest part was maybe 2 feet and it had sprinklers that sprayed water in the air then it had a pole with three buckets that would fill up with water and then dump out in different orders in which kids loved to stand underneath to get soaked. The pool part was round with a platform in the center. The water was pushed to go around and around so you could put the kids in a tube and they would float around the whole thing. Plus it was only three feet deep the whole way around and there was a playground right next to it. We went there often because the kids loved it. Kaylee could swim while the boys went to play on the playground and I could lounge out on a chair and get tan while not having to move because I could see all of them since they were close together.

Kaylee became a regular fish she just started swimming all by herself and she became really good at it. I was impressed with how quickly she picked it up. The boys were petrified of the water at first. Seriously they clung on to me for dear life. Slowly though I would get them to go further away from me until all of a sudden Maverick was not scared at all. He loved the water. I would double the boys up they would have a life jacket and a tube around them. The method worked because when they had only the life jacket they would wobble around or their face would be too close to the water and they couldn't move very well. In just the tube they could fall out so by doubling it made it perfect for them... it did work really well. Maverick jumped in several times before I got his life jacket after that and i had to jump in and save him. He was not afraid anymore. Matthew however took it nice and slow he liked to stay on the steps if it was three feet deep but if we were at the kid pool he would play where the sprinklers were. He wasn't a big fan of floating by himself with his life jacket I had to be with him. He still had fun though.

My boys one day though were playing in the shallow part at the kid pool and they ran over to some ladies and spit water on them and thought it was funny and kept trying to do it. I didn't realize it at first then I felt so bad, it was pretty funny though. Kaylee fell in love with her goggles and we couldn't go anywhere without them she is posing in one picture with her green ones and looks completely goofy I love it though!

Then I also have pictures from the fourth of July, Ryan had to work but we had a red, white and blue breakfast. I made pancakes and put whip cream on top with fresh blueberries and strawberries on top. It was really good! Then Ryan had to work so it was just me and the kiddos. Our condo was having a party at the pool so we went down there and they had a limbo contest for the kids. Kaylee was the winner!! Go Kaylee, she was so cute doing it. She got to pick out a prize and she picked a squishy frog. I was a proud mom... then we just swam for a while and later we went to hang out with ryan then I took the kids back to the condo and put them to bed. We didn't really watch any fireworks that night we saw some from our balcony at the condo over the lake which was really pretty but I had taken the kids to a firework show by our house in Columbia that was awesome. I didn't know how much it cost and i couldn't find exactly where it was going to be at so when I finally drove up the lady said it was $10 but I didn't have the money and I was going to have to go get some, but she said, well you are the last one so here you can have this VIP pass and go in. Awesome! We had great seats and the fireworks went along to all different kinds of music, it was the best fireworks show I have ever seen.

2009-11-02T09:34:00.002-06:00

So since this summer I didn't post anything I have a bunch of updates. This one is when I took Rob to the KC airport when he was going back to get Debbie, Terra and Michelle. Tessa went with me and the kids and we dropped Rob off then we went to the zoo. It was sooo soo hot that day but we went anyway. I think Tessa was about to die though. I had never been to the KC zoo and I did not realize how HUGE it was. We only got to see the Africa section cause that is all the time that we had also if we had more time I wouldn't have gone because it was so stinkin hot. The kids had a blast especially with the lions. They were right by the glass seriously like two inches away from us. I'm sure the glass was thicker then that but it was crazy.

After the zoo we went downtown KC to these huge sprinklers so we were able to cool off... I was smart to remember to bring swimsuits :) so we all got soaking wet and it felt good! It was awesome... they would spray up in different heights at different times and then they would go up extemely high for a few minutes then go back down for awhile and gradually get bigger again. Then I think on the hour every hour everyone would have to step away and there would be a fountain show. It was so cool almost better then fireworks. Music would start to play and the fountains sprayed in sync with the music going high to really high to low with the tempo. I loved it!! After that we changed in the car and drove the long trip home. It was a fun trip and I am glad that I got to take the kids because they had a lot of fun and thanks again Tessa for your help love you!

Bear faces

2009-10-09T11:38:00.002-05:00

Two days ago Kaylee kept asking Ryan for ice cream and he kept saying no, not right now. Well the last time she asked and was told no, she got really grumpy and left for her room, but I had told her I would get her some after lunch.
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The next thing I knew she was back in the room and said, "here dad, this is for you." Not really looking at it he said oh thanks, that looks great. It was a bear puzzle and she had a girl bear and a boy bear on it. She said well dad I just gave you these bears cause they have mad faces and cause you won't give me ice cream. (I was laughing to myself at this point cause she was really funny about it)Ryan said oh, great! Then Kaylee left the room and came back with a bear puzzle for me and they were a happy face girl and boy bear. She said these are for you mom cause you said I could have some after lunch. Guess I was the favorite at that moment. :)

Dinosaur book

2009-10-09T11:22:00.002-05:00

We have several Dinosaur books that my boys love and I read them with all the kids.. Well one of them is called, "How do Dinosaurs clean their rooms?" One of the lines in the book says he picks up his toys, and he puts them in rows.

Well the other day I told Kaylee I would help her clean up her room only if she actually was helping. So we are working and her job was to put the toys in her Dora buckets while I was putting away clothes. Well I looked down and she was "playing" with marbles and putting them in something. I said, Kaylee quit playing you need to help pick up. She said, mom, I'm not playing I'm putting these in order. It's good to put things in order you know. That's what the Dinosaur book says... What do you say to that??? It looked like she was playing to me, but at least she was putting them in rows..

Kay's 5th Birthday

2009-09-29T21:19:00.003-05:00

California

2009-09-29T18:23:00.002-05:00

So the other day when we were driving up to Nana's house Kaylee says:

Mom, I want to go to California

Me: (Wondering how she even knows what California is) I said oh really how come?

Kay: Because its just really cool there

Me: So why do you think it's really cool there?

Kay: Oh, because I just think I would like it

Me: Well, why would you like it?

Kay: Because they have a hotel there... (You know the song Hotel California :))

She loves hotels and she must have heard that song recently so... there you go it was pretty funny!

That's yucky!

2009-07-20T13:10:00.003-05:00

This is pretty funny. Tessa (my little sis for those who don't know) has been hanging out with me a little bit this year. Well one of the first times she came down the boys hadn't seen her for a little while. Tessa was helping me out and reached out for Maverick to help carry him for me or something. Maverick yelled NO! Then looked at me and pointed at Tessa and said That's yucky mom, that's gross! It was really funny.

Kaylee moments

2009-07-20T12:46:00.002-05:00

So anyone who knows my daughter, knows that she is hilarious! So I have a couple of fun sayings by her... I should start a blog for Kay moments. That kid cracks me up!

The other day she came up to me and asks... mom, why is God dead? I explained to her that he wasn't and that he lives in heaven and she said, well... why doesnt he speak to us? I explained that he does through the scriptures, prophet and when we pray. She said well how come I don't hear him when I pray? I said well he speaks to you through the holy ghost when you pray. She then said matter of factly... Well mom, I just prayed for forgiveness at the condo because I hit Tessa and I didn't hear the spirit. LOL! What do you day to that?

Then just a minute ago I knew she wanted to ask me something and she came up and said mom, would you mind if you don't say no? Then proceeded to ask me her question... Kids! I tell you what.

Wow! In need of a big update!!!

2009-07-13T20:13:00.002-05:00

So its been a few months.... I have been busy with school, kids, daycare and my husband started a business... I say I have some good excuses why I am so behind. Well Ryan and Brandon (his partner) opened up their business in May! Finally it seems like it was taking forever but it is up and running and we have been getting good business. I am finally getting a brake til late August from school I am really excited about that even though I had to finish with two B's :( but they were good grades considering everything that has gone on in my life lately.

For those of you who don't know a little boy that I watched named Aiden who was 9 months old died in May in his sleep at my house. I had to do CPR and everything, it was the worse experience of my life! I couldn't even sleep in my room for a while because that is where I had him. I had laid him down for a nap and was packing Kaylees clothes in her room which is directly above my bedroom, I heard some banging around downstairs and realized Kaylee and Beily were in my room so I ran downstairs a little upset because I knew they were going to wake him up. I shoed them out of my room and went to check on Aiden and he was completely blue. I did CPR until some firemen showed up and they took over and then took him back to the ambulence. When he was gone the police told me that they had a pulse on him but they wouldn't tell me anything else. After having them kick me out of my house and having to talk to investigator while they took pictures of every room and took some items from my house they finally gave me the bad news. I was able to go to the hospital with his parents and say goodbye to him. I have never seen someone die or be dead in front of me and it was the strangest experience of my life, I just couldn't believe he was gone. One minute he was playing with me downstairs and the next he was just gone.

I am grateful for Sara and Andrew and their families and their love for me during this time. I loved Aiden and so did Kaylee and Ryan. He was a part of our family for a short time and in a way Kaylee's little brother. She actually told me that she was going to marry him someday. Kaylee has been confused about the whole ordeal and talks about him almost everyday. Today she said a sweet prayer in which she said Heavenly Father please take care of all the children but please take care of Aiden. She asked me if we could drive to heaven to see Aiden and said that she really misses him and wants to go see him. She was watching as I did CPR on Aiden and I remember her saying oh.. I sure hope Aiden is going to be all right. She loved taking care of him and help him eat and drink his bottle.

Through all of this I am grateful for the gospel and the knowledge that I have that Sara and Andrew will get to be with him again someday and hug him and hold him. What a great day that will be for them.

I have to thank everyone who has been with me through this and for helping me with my kids and giving me support as well. I love you all and I am grateful especially for Ryan and the support he gave me even when he was away from home. I had my friends Deena and Tanner show up right before the investigator told me Aiden was gone and shortly after my mom was there as well. I am glad I didn't have to receive that news while I was all alone. Thank you everyone... I love you.

My straight hair girl

2009-02-03T13:03:00.000-06:00

Kaylee asked me to straighten her hair so I did. She looks so different. She loves it straight because it is a lot longer then when it curls up.

Thanks Nana!

2009-02-03T12:55:00.000-06:00

I wanted to put some pictures up of the boys in their pj's Nana sent to them. They of course love them because there are dinosaurs on them. Thanks Nana!

My princess

2009-02-03T12:25:00.000-06:00

Kaylee likes it when someone takes a picture of her. So one day I let her put on a church outfit and took some pictures of her. She posed all by herself, I didn't tell her what to do she just did it. After smiling a saying cheese she said, "mom, we have to take some silly pictures!" So we took a couple of silly pictures as well which my collage only shows one. It was fun and she loved the attention. I love my little princess!

Kaylee then and now

2009-02-03T12:02:00.001-06:00

Kaylee wanted me to take a picture of her in her Christmas dress this year. As I was going to post it, I noticed her other pictures of when she was 18 months old. It is funny of the similar dresses and the same picture years apart of her playing on the piano. Man time flies and she isn't my little baby anymore.

Kay's big belly

2009-02-02T12:07:00.000-06:00

The other day Kay said mom.. look at my belly, I think it's just getting too big. Hmm... if I get a fat belly like pap daddy I'm going to kill that food or I mean I'm going to eat food and then crack it out of my belly. Crack, Crack, Crack it out of my belly! Cause I don't want a big belly like pap daddy.

It was really funny!

Mischievous then... Mischievous now!

2009-02-02T11:46:00.000-06:00

Some Christmas Pictures

2009-01-27T12:58:00.000-06:00

Yes I know I am way behind but here are some pictures from Chritsmas.

Mormon Mommy blogs

2009-01-19T23:13:00.001-06:00

So I found this blog... mormon mommy blogs and it is pretty cool. Lots of topics to read about by different moms. Well this month they are having a cool give away and all you have to do to enter is to go to their blog and post a comment. I put a link under my links list everyone should check it out and enter it but you have to do it this week or you will be too late. Check it out! It's pretty cool.

WHO YOU ARE

2009-01-19T14:56:00.000-06:00

I stole this off of someone else's blog, but I really liked it and I love Hilary Weeks so I thought I would post it too.

I know you wonder if you'll ever have a day
When the kids stay calm, the laundry's done, and the dishes are put away.
And sometimes you feel like your days are spent and gone
And the question running through your mind is what have I gotten done?
And when you finally have a moment to slow down
At the end of your day
I know Father would say

Believe in what you're doing
Believe in who you are
Hold tight to the truth that you're a daughter of God
Believe in who you're becoming
Believe in who you are

It may seem simple-all the little things you do
But the lives you touch matter so much
And there's no one else like you
And Father needs you to stand tall and faithful
To be all you can be
Oh, if you could see what He sees, you'd

Believe in what you're doing
Believe in who you are
Hold tight to the truth that you're a daughter of God
Believe in who you're becoming
Believe in who you are

When it's hard to believe in yourself
And you feel like you're beginning to doubt
Remember

He believes in what you're doing
He believes in who you are
Don't lose sight of the truth that you're a daughter of God
That he believes in who you're becoming
He believes in who you are

~Hilary Weeks~

Another funny Kay saying

2008-12-29T10:29:00.000-06:00

So the other day I made a grand lunch you know corn dogs, french fries and green beans. :) Kaylee likes mustard and I always forget but I put some on her plate and ketchup. When she came to the table she was so excited she said... Oh mustard!! My personal favorite, but mom I'm afraid that I don't like green beans anymore. Who is this kid? It made me laugh cause she sounded so grown up when she said it.

Name wars

2008-12-19T14:26:00.000-06:00

So Ryan and Kaylee have name wars almost everyday. It's really funny. Well the other day Ryan was calling Kay KG for Kaylee the Giant. She was getting so mad. Well later that evening I set her up to watch a movie from netflix on our computer. (Too fun great way to rent movies, I just let her check them out online and watch them instantly!) Anyway so after I set her movie up, she said

Kay "Mom please promise me you will tell dad I love him."
Me: "ok I will tell him"
Kay: "But mom please promise me you won't tell him that he's a skunk"
Me: "Ok I promise I won't tell him."
Kay: Wait, but mom please promise me you will tell him I love him, but don't tell him he's a toilet."
Me: "Ok I promise I won't tell him he's a toilet."
Kay: "But wait please, please promise me you will tell him I love him, but don't tell him he's a skunk or a toilet."
Me: "OK I promise"

What a crazy girl. I thought this conversation was really funny, if only you could have seen her face.

Hang man/Challenge

2008-12-16T15:36:00.001-06:00

Hello everyone, just been updating my blog today, since I have a little bit of time while kids are sleeping. So if you scroll down to the bottom of my blog you can play hangman. I know, but it's kind of fun.

I am getting into the Christmas spirit as you can tell I changed my background and added some Christmas music. So I am also going to put a little challenge out there to those who read my blog. I challenge everyone starting the day you read this to do something for someone everyday. This doesn't mean you have to buy something for someone. This is the time for giving and you can give in many ways. A simple smile to someone who doesn't expect it, a phone call, a letter...not an email a real letter with a postage stamp to someone. It can be anything small or big whatever is in your hearts desire :) Do this everyday til the end of the year and maybe you can make it a habit. I know by doing this you will bless someone as well as yourself. Involve your kids to, let them color something for someone and then take it to a friends house or do a secret santa, you know knock on someones door and run. The kids should get a kick out of that. If your kids are too young make cookies with them and let them dump the ingrediants, I know it gets messy but you will all have fun. Here is an idea take a whole day without doing "mommy things" and only do kid things, you will be surprised how much fun you will have and no don't stop to put a load of laundry in until your kids are asleep.

So that's it! That is my challenge. Yesterday I made cookies with my kids, of course my boys are too little to understand what to do yet, so I got a bowl of flour and gave all three of my kids measuring cups and let them dump it into another bowl, then I measured the correct amount into the a different bowl, they had fun and thought they were helping. There was flour everywhere on everyone, but not to bad to clean up.

Alright everyone good luck and let me know how you do!

It's Autumn time!

2008-12-16T15:32:00.000-06:00

It's Autumn time, it's Autumn time, the leaves are falling down!
We had a lot of fun this day. My kids, daycare kids and some neighbor kids all played in our yard raking leaves. They were getting bored so I made a little route down our hill on the side of our house. I raked all the leaves to the bottom of the hill, then I got all the little bikes and cars we had and everyone took turns rolling down the hill and smashing into the leaves. It was a lot of fun! I even did it. They did this for hours.

Our outdoor adventures!

2008-12-16T14:39:00.000-06:00

This summer we went hiking a lot with the kids. It was great fun! It's great the boys were able to walk to whole time instead of us carrying them. Matthew however is a slow poke because he likes to stop and pick up all the rocks along the way. He will seriously have 10 rocks in each hand and still try to pick up some more.

The boys never want to hold still for pictures as you can see, but we tried anyway. I can't wait til it gets warmer to hike again. Next year should be even more fun!

The trash can

2008-11-13T16:32:00.000-06:00

Maverick and Matthew snuck outside the other day and we had this trashcan filled with water and soap. Maverick climbed into it despite the fact that it was a little bit cold outside. Yeah... he had a blast. It was pretty funny.

2008-11-13T15:56:00.000-06:00

Another picture of just the kids at Halloween

Halloween

2008-11-13T15:45:00.000-06:00

Here is a picture from Halloween. Ryan was a cowboy, Maverick was a lion, Kaylee a peacock, Matthew a puppy and I was a witch. It was fun and I think they had a good time.

Maverick's fit.

2008-11-13T14:00:00.000-06:00

So I took the kids outside the other day to rake leaves and Maverick here is throwing a fit because he wanted the rake. We are big floppers these days. At least he had a soft landing!

Kaylee the photographer!

2008-11-13T13:56:00.000-06:00

So I just found these... Kaylee got a hold of the camera so I thought I would share some of her masterpieces. We have some lovely feet that are in fact Kaylees. A stuffed triceratops dinosaur. A beautiful picture of a sippy cup. Her newest and bestest friend Beily pronounced Bailey. Some pictures of Matthew and Maverick... and of course a half picture of Dora which is her pillowcase. Too funny!

Potty Time!

2008-11-13T13:47:00.000-06:00

So this is how my boys use the potty at our house! Yes I know we have accomplished so much. They love to drag the little potty into the bathtub every time they take a bath. So for now I am going to have to put it up until they are a little older. Yes I have no desire to try and potty train them right now. It seems kind of pointless unless they can talk a little bit.

2008-11-13T13:44:00.000-06:00

My little girly Matthew! Kaylee dressed him up in her shirt.. He looked too funny defiantly worth taking a picture of. He thought he was funny because when I looked at him, he just smiled and laughed.

2008-11-13T12:47:00.000-06:00

Hello all! So I finally have DSL thanks to my new wonderful friend Deena! Deena and her husband just moved out to midway and she told me she could DSL. Centurytel told me I couldn't have DSL without paying for the landline... well I guess now I can. Yeah!!! I can do alot of things now and faster!!! It is great. Especially for school, it used to take me 20 minutes to post a comment, now it takes less then five.

I just started a new semester in school... I think it will be 10 years before I actually graduate, but oh well right? I have been a bum as of late. I don't ever really feel like doing anything. My kids are the ones who suffer :( I need to get back on track with my life. I broke out in hives two days ago and I think they are starting to fade away. Stress? I don't know I guess I will blame it on stress. It looked gross though! Once our room downstairs is finished and I can actually get my house in order again I think I will calm down a little bit.

So for those of you who don't know... my little brother and his wife are going to have a baby! I am excited! My older sis ran away to Alaska.. poo on her! Now she can't go see Twilight with me..:( Yes I am pouting cause I miss her! And my best friend Ja nay-nay aka Jenny.. is still in Arizona and falling in love! Good for her it's about time! Just kidding Jen. Everyone has moved away and left us Drysdales alone in Missouri. That's ok though. Now I just need to get some money and go for a vacation.. hmm. I like the sound of that.

Anyway... Things are good, it's getting colder and colder though so I have to find some activities for my kids to do inside. I have been trapping my boys in their room/playroom because as soon as I let them out, they are climbing, dumping, and who knows what else they are gonna do. They are very active little boys. They loved Trick or Treating after they finally understood what you were suppose to do. At first they kept trying to go into the houses, then they thought they had to trade candy, but after watching their big sis, they were ready. We didn't stay out too long though besides they don't really need a sugar high. Nothing like adding sugar on top of crazy hyper... I have a picture I need to add of us in our costumes. The kids looked so cute.

Well that is it for now nothing really exciting has gone on around here just the day to day... so I will update again soon.

Getting ready for bed

2008-10-29T12:09:00.000-05:00

Ryan is playing with the kids before they have to go to bed. They were all laughing so hard. It was the best!

Kaylee's boyfriend!

2008-10-29T11:27:00.000-05:00

He is not really her boyfriend, but they had fun. This little boy is one of my good friends son. She needed me to watch him one week while she was on call in Columbia. His name is Aiden. They got along really well. I was watching them jump on the trampoline and they kept posing for me so I started taking some pictures. He is a really cute kid full of curly hair like Kaylee. He was a good kid I liked watching him. Kaylee was a fan as well as you can see.

Kaylee, the butterfly

2008-10-29T11:20:00.000-05:00

Kaylee got her face painted during the twilight festival. It was fun, but the lines were soooo long. She thought this was pretty cool, I think it was worth standing in line, just to see how excited she was.

Hello!

2008-10-29T10:37:00.000-05:00

Hello, It has been a long time since I have posted anything. I have a lot to update so I will be posting some older pics as well as some new ones. Things have been rough for me for the last few months, so I have slacked off a little. As some of you might know we are building our master bedroom downstairs and so it seems that ever since we started that our whole house became a disaster and I can't ever seem to keep anything clean. It should be done by next month I hope anyway then we can rearrange everything and get it back to normal.

The boys had their 2 year birthday I can't believe it!! They have gotten so big. They don't talk a whole lot yet but I can understand their language. They do have their own little language. Ah me is what is sounds like means they want a drink or food. They have other little sayings too. It is fun to watch them grow and learn. Maverick for the most part right now is my snuggler. He loves his mama. He can be very sweet to. When we go shopping he helps put things onto the conveyor belt or hands things to me. One day baby Aiden (3 month old I watch) was crying and Maverick saw his bottle and grabbed it and took it downstairs to where Aiden was at. (Maverick didn't know I was following him) He went down by Aiden and laid the bottle next to him and said there you go and patted his back. It was very cute and very sweet. Maverick can be a stinker too though. Matthew is my sneaky one. He is always getting into something. For the most part he is a Daddy's boy, but he has his moments when he only wants me. He is the best at blowing kisses to me at night. He seems to enjoy making Maverick mad. He likes to hit Maverick on the head with toys or take the toys that Maverick is playing with and run around laughing while Maverick is chasing him crying.... yeah he is a real stinker sometimes. He has gotten so bad that he will hit my daycare kids if I have them all in the playroom. So right now our playroom is just for my boys. Their favorite things right now are any kind of animals, but especially Dinosaurs. They love to make the animal noises and then they also love to play with their choo choos. I bought a cool set at a garage sale and they play with those every day. Matthew has to have at least two or three to sleep with every night.

Kaylee has been very good as well. She is a talker!! She would talk your ear off none stop all day long if you let her. As many of you know I lost one daycare kid which was Taylor who was Kaylee's best friend. She misses her lots and talks about her a lot. Kaylee was pretty lonely after she moved. She moved to South Carolina so there are no visits we can make to say hi again. I was lucky enough though because my neighbor called me one day and said that someone had moved into the neighborhood and needed her to watch their 4 year old daughter part time. She told them to ask me. So now I have a another 4 year old girl. Her name is Beily pronounced Bailey. Her birthday is in June so she is only a month older then Kaylee. They have become great friends.. They are both head strong so they fight more then Kaylee and Taylor fought, but it has been great. Kaylee is going to have a sleep over with her tonight actually. We also met some of our neighbors who both have 4 year old little girls. We went two weeks ago to one of their houses for a camp out and roasted marshmellows and hotdogs. I took the boys and they kept trying to climb into the fire. Kaylee stayed by herself with them in the tent all night. She did very goood and then she came home the next day. She had a blast. It has been great to get to know some more girls around here for her.

Onto me and Ryan.... I started school again and it has been hard keeping up, but I am doing ok so far. Ryan has been a big help. He helps with our kids and gets them to bed, he helps with the daycare kids when I need him to as well. He has been superdad for the last few months. Also for this week Ryan has stayed home with our kids and our daycare kids so that I could go out and hunt... Haha that is funny. I knew he really wanted to go, but he let me go anyway. I ended up seeing 14 deer the first morning and I should have shot this nice buck, but I got scared. I was pulled back on him but I don't think I could have hit him so I let it go, but I should have shot it at 30 yards, I just didn't think I would have got him. I did shoot a button buck though and then yesterday night I shot a doe, but I guess I must have put a poor shot on her. Ryan is going to try and track her today. I am going to go shoot my bow here in a few to see if my sight is off. Ryan called me this morning and said he shot a buck, but I haven't heard from him since so I hope he finds it.

Ryan and I had our five year anniversary. He planned a huge day which turned out really good. He bought me a new ring kind of an upgrade from my old one. I really like it. I will have to take a picture. Josie our lab had puppies. Yep 7 puppies, well she actually had 8 puppies but one was born dead. It was so tiny! I had to freeze it then throw it away, it was sad. We have given all the puppies away except two. One female and one male. The male is suppose to go to someone from Ryan's work, but he hasn't seen him yet so hopefully they still take him and yesterday I got a call from someone saying they might want the last pup. She was my favorite we nicknamed her Charlie. We were going to keep her, but decided not very smart right now. The kids enjoyed having the pups around. Kaylee was their adopted mother I swear. For a while she had a different puppy inside everynight sleeping with it. I didn't mind she took care of them really well. I think last night Ryan decided to get rid of Josie. She has been tearing things up lately and I don't know what her problem is. I don't know what we are going to do with her. Coop is still around but he has actually been pretty good. Josie has been more of a pain then Cooper lately.

Well that seems enough to update about right now.. next time I will have to write sooner.

I'm very sneaky sir!

2008-08-01T14:09:00.000-05:00

I took this picture last night... Maverick was refusing to stay in his bed it was an ongoing battle til 10:30 I think. One of the times he snuck out of his bed and went into my room. I heard him so I went to see what he was doing and when I went into my room, he was standing completely still in the corner with this bucket on his head. He didn't even look at me. So I pretended I didn't see him and I walked a little further into the room and then started to walk back out and he stood completely still the whole time. It was so funny... so I took a picture. I don't know why he just thought he could be invisible under a clear box. If you can't tell .. Maverick is my difficult child for the most part. Matthew is what my mom would say my angel baby. He still has his mischievious moments but he always goes to bed and doesn't climb out and he listens when I tell him to do something. He is really great! Maverick is great too he just needs a little more um.. lets say direction. Maverick is very smart though, he thinks about things and figures out how to do them whereas Matthew if he can't do it he will give up and move on.

For example the other day Maverick saw a drink on the counter and went up and tried to reach it on his tipi toes. He couldn't get it so he went and got the stool and put it where he thought he could get the drink and then climbed up and realized he still couldn't reach it. He then to a step back and looked where the drink was and went back and moved the stool and then took a step back again to make sure he lined it up right the he ran and climbed up and grabbed his drink.
Now if this had been Matthew he would have went and stood on his tipi toes and tried to grab it and then after when he realized he wouldn't be able to get it, he would either go on and do something else or throw a fit. So it is fun to watch them and see their differences and their similarities.

My two handsome boys

2008-08-01T13:48:00.000-05:00

Like I said the other day... Maverick keeps climbing into bed with Matthew. This night Matthew didn't mind sharing his bed and I was able to get a photo. They are so cute when they are sleeping! lol :)

Kaylee and the Kitty Cats

2008-08-01T13:28:00.000-05:00

We went to Sammi's house the other day (Sammi is one of my daycare kids) and we got to feed the goats. Kaylee loved giving them their bottles. Their neighbor had kittens too and somehow Kaylee managed to pick all of the up by herself. Yeah I turned around to see the massive amount of kittens in her arms. Poor kitties! The boys loved playing on the slide except the didn't want to go down, they wanted to climb up. Sammi was following. It was fun going over there and the kids had a blast.

It's been awhile!

2008-07-28T14:32:00.000-05:00

So it's been awhile since my last post... let's just say I haven't really felt like it.I have had a rough and busy month. This last weekend Ryan and I went to St. Louis and left the kids in Columbia with a babysitter. Well I actually freaked out about leaving Kaylee there too so I ended up letting her go to Grandma and Pap Daddy's house. I don't know what my problem was, but I am glad that I decided to have Kaylee go there anyway, I think she had a fun time being one on one with the grandparents and Aunt Tessa.

So Ryan and I went to six flags on Saturday, it was a lot of fun and very hot. We then went out to eat at Outback and went to see Narnia II Prince Caspian. I liked it, I think it followed the book pretty well. We stayed the night at John's house and then went back home to gather the kids. I was happy to see them cause I did actually miss them! lol...

Hmm.. what else is new? Matthew and Maverick are in big boy beds now. I decided to put them in big beds after Matthew bounced so high in the crib that he flipped out onto the floor and landed on his neck. That was a little scary! So I didn't want anyone to break their necks so onto big boy beds for them. It was hard the first night because of course they didn't want to stay in their beds but then the second night only Maverick (of course) got up several times. Now we are having issues because Maverick wants to climb in bed with Matthew and sleep and Matthew screams because he doesn't want Maverick to sleep with him. Yeah! joys of having twins.

Kaylee had a birthday party last Saturday.. OMG I can't believe she is four now. I feel old. No really she had a great birthday party, four of her friends came over. She is really into the disney princesses so she got the rest of the disney barbies you know Jasmine, Ariel, Snow white, Cinderella, Aurora and Bell.

Oh and I think I finally won the battle of "please let's get rid of Cooper!" We got home from our trip yesterday to find that Cooper had chewed through our AC unit's cord so it no longer can be plugged in and he chewed through our hose. He has already chewed so many things up this summer. I think I had to buy three new pairs of shoes because he chewed up the boys shoes and he also chewed up a pair of kaylees shoes. Let alone all the toys and balls he has destroyed. I think after yesterday when Coop chewed our AC cord up Ryan finally got the message or at least understood where I was coming from. He told me he was going to sell Cooper.. I didn't even have to say anything! I know Ryan will miss him, but he just doesn't have the time for Cooper, he needs to be trained and ran everyday, so it's probably better for Coop too.

I can't think of anything else new that has gone on... but I will soon post some new pictures to our blog. I have some cute ones!

Our trip

2008-06-12T12:03:00.000-05:00

So as some of you know we went to Utah on Friday. It was a short trip but it was fun to be without the kids for a weekend. They stayed with my mom and it sounds like they had fun and my parents were ready to send them back! :) My boys are good but they keep you on your toes! So if you are wondering why we went to Utah... one of Ryans friends from his mission whose name is Micah got married and Ryan was one of the groomsmen I guess you would say. The guys wore these bright lime green shirts and the girls wore puple shirts. Kind of different colors but they put them together well. We stayed with Ike one of his other mission buddies at his grandma's house. It was alot of fun. Ryan of course was living it up because it had been a long time since he had seen these guys. I was really happy they all had wives because I couldn't really jump into the conversations about Jamaica. We were the oldest couple out of the group and that was kind of weird! Only one other couple had kids and they only had one and he was three months old.
We came back on Sunday and did not get back to our house until 5:00 in the morning and then had to leave at 6:00 to go the the Lake to sign on the land we just bought for the business. Needless to say.. I am still catching up on sleep.

We got our family pictures taken at Sears.. here's how they turned out.

2008-06-12T11:26:00.000-05:00

Ryan's big fish!

2008-05-28T12:58:00.000-05:00

Here are some pictures of Ryans big fish he caught the other day. I think the smallest one was just over 5 pounds and the biggest two were 7 and 71/2 pounds. They were pretty big! I think he had a really good time.

Our beginning

2008-05-17T00:24:00.001-05:00

Bath Time

2008-05-08T23:08:00.000-05:00

I love bath time! As you can see my kiddos love bath time as well. The boys love water so I am glad that it's starting to warm up so we can go to the pool. They will have a real fun time this year.

Kaylee's first hunting trip

2008-05-08T14:45:00.001-05:00

Hello again!

I just had to post this picture. Kaylee went turkey hunting with Ryan about a week and a half ago. She looked so cute! She was extremely tired though. Ryan said that when he woke her up she was really excited. Then they got to the place they were going to hunt and he had to carry her all the way out there. When they sat down she informed him that she was really cold and wanted to go home. LOL! :)

Needless to say it wasn't a very good first trip out to the woods. The problem was she was super excited so didn't go to bed until around 1:00 am and got up at 4:30 or 5:00. Not the smartest thing to do with a three year old.

Next time she will have to get some more sleep. She is excited to go again though! Hopefully next time they have more luck.

Sleepy Kids

2008-05-08T13:32:00.000-05:00

It's always nice when they all conk out at the same time! My favorite thing to do sometimes is just go for a ride because this is what happens :) and then I get 10 minutes of peace and quite!

We were approved for our loan!

2008-05-08T13:25:00.000-05:00

Hello everyone!

If all of you don't know yet, we are starting Downhill Ruckus and we just found out that we were approved for the loan, so that means we will sign on the land tomorrow and finally be able to get started!

Yeah I am so excited! We changed plans a littlebit. We aren't going to open the main site this year. Instead we are going to open next March. This gives us time to make our site at the Lake look great. Yes, it's going to be at the Lake of the Ozarks.

So you may ask what are we going to do until March? Well we are going to be doing different events, like half-times at MIZZOU games and other things like that. This will help advertise our site for when it opens in March.

It should be great and we are really excited to get things going. Things are looking good for the business. I will keep everyone updated!