"Flakeshonor"

We met Ashley's friend today. We REALLY like him - mostly I think because he laughed at our jokes. We let him read Justin's "Flake Family Dictionary" and he still seemed to like Ashley so I guess he doesn't scare easily. We showed him how to use the term "Flakeshonor." I wouldn't be surprised it he starts using it in his every day vocabulary. (P.S. My hair is finally back to its natural color!! It was some SERIOUS work though!)

Ashley and Ben didn't know Austin was behind them on the couch. He's pretty easy to miss.

(Just for the record, Luke's not picking his nose.) I remember pretty clearly how Ben told us that he thought Jensen and Luke were so much cuter than Grace.

I think Ben adopted Ashley's favorite for his own favorite

Who wouldn't when he's got a mugg like this?

I'm pretty sure they're so happy because of the delicious dessert we made: homemade blueberry ice cream and fresh-out-of-the-oven apple crisp (made by Austin - so good!)

Jensen pretends to be clueless to the fact that he is Ashley's favorite.

Pojos Mojo

We went to Pojos family fun yesterday with Joel and Melanie's (my oldest brother and his wife) family. It was really fun. Luke rode on all of the types of rides you pass walking into WalMart, the ones that your kid begs to go on but you rarely let them. Yeah, those were definitely his favorites - his little dreams were fulfilled. Joel's boys were more interested in any game that would get them "100 tickets" which they eventually cashed in for junkie prizes - which they loved! Pretty fun time.

Austin couldn't wait for his favorite ride...bumper cars!

Jensen was like, "What is going on? This place has so many lights and toys...it is AWESOME!!!!"

This circus-desert donkey was a little confusing to me, I'm sure it had some issue with multiple personalities.

Pretty sure Preston beat Joel at air hockey each time they played. I told Joel he should play Austin, but I think he was too intimidated by Austin's skills.

As the famous Kramer says, "Giddy up!"

What is not pictured here are the three little kids on the outside of the bumper car gate, crying that they're too little to go on the cars.

This was Joel and Austin's favorite ride. They would get going really fast and ram into one of Joel's little boys, shooting them across the track - bullies!

This is how we made it up to those three little kids that were crying because the didn't get to go on the bumper cars.

The other day, Luke had completely destroyed the house with his toys everywhere. I told him if he cleaned up all the toys, I would give him a cookie. Twenty minutes later he walked into the kitchen, sighed and said "all done." He had cleaned up every toy and put it in the right box and everything. He had even put away some shoes that were out. The only thing that he wasn't quite sure where they went were Jensen's toys, so Luke just put all of them op top of Jensen while he was asleep in the swing!

I don't think Luke had this much fun in the exersaucer when it was his only toy.

The Special Olympics

Plan B was bowling but we were so glad we went to the Special Olympics first. It was completely free, and the floor hockey (which is what we wanted to see) was literally a 4 minute drive from our home. Without a doubt the coolest thing about the Olympics was seeing people from all over the world. When we first got there Luke and I were standing shoulder to shoulder with the floor hockey team from Malaysia. The teams we saw there were Afghanistan, Kuwait, Jordan, Costa Rica, Japan, The Isle of Man, Malaysia, Austria, Hungary, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Argentina, Uruguay, USA, South Africa, Gibraltar, Honduras, Australia, and Jamaica, and we were only there for one hour. You can definitely see why the Olympic spirit is so infectious. There was so much energy in the arena. There were some crazy Austrian fans (they came from Austria for the Special Olympics) behind us that were screaming and banging things. It was a fun wild time.

South Africa getting ready

the Kuaiti guys getting pumped up and ready to play South Africa

Costa Rica (white with blue trim) vs. Austria (red with white trim ) Austria won 3-2 on a last second goal. It was a really exciting game.

Luke and I tried to get a little closer to the action. There was definitely a lot of excitement in the building.

Jensen somberly ponders the lost opportunities of the 2008 BYU football season

Of course we had to get Luke all dolled up to go to the Special Olympics

Every morning could turn into a fashion shoot when you've got the style that these two do!

Jensen got tired just watching the Olympics

Gimme a piece of that!

I cant help myself with these cute, fat pictures of Jensen! He'll probably hate them when he's older, but when I show them to him now...he seems unaffected.

For FHE on Monday, we made Valentines. It was really fun until Austin let Luke hold the permanent marker by myself.

The 3 Amigos

Go Cougs! This is the finished product - Austin's ice cream birthday cake which is surprisingly not hard to make. Austin decorated this while it was in the freezer, he has some serious skills.

Before the frosting...we bought the vanilla ice cream and made the chocolate! Really fun! We still have one piece for whoever gets here first!

Did I mention the chocolate syrup and oreos we had in the middle?

We had a lot of fun decorating valentines. Jensen mostly watched and...drooled until Luke started dancing and running around and stuff to make him laugh.

Aunt Shawna's Visit

Shawna and her favorite nephews.

We had so much fun when we drove up to Cascade to go out on a horse-drawn sleigh to have 200 elk eat hay from around and under us. It was SO FUN! It was really cold so Jensen was covered with blankets (including his little face) most of the time. He's actually in this picture with me - under the blankets!

The elk really liked our jokes! Yak it up buddy!

Shawna and her favorite elk sharing a meal

Austin made great friends with his elk, which basically pushed him off his seat and bit at his bum while trying to eat the hay from underneath him

One of the few shots where you can see Jensen's cold face!

Shawna, did Grammy Williamson make that awesome hat for you?

Back for seconds at Austin's expense...!

Austin somehow forgot his hat - so he had to improvise. We had a Boise Hawks hat in the car and then he used my scarf to cover his ears - it was really cold so try not to judge him!

I think Shawna and Jensen look a little alike in this pic

Luke had a lot of fun with his Aunt Shawna

Jensen and his cousin, Savannah, who is one month younger. Yeah, he's a big kid.