GO Flames GO!!

Well, the play offs are here and we are a VERY dedicated Flames family. Kent has season tickets so he gets to go to most of the games when he can. Friends and family get to go as well sometimes. Cole and Tyson love going to the games with there Dad!

The Flames are playing round 5 against the Chicago Blackhawks in Chicago on Saturday, April 25th. So they will play round 6 in Calgary on Monday, April 27th.

I have gone once...a few years ago and swore I would never go again as Kent was so embarrasing LOL. Our seats were right in front of the glass. At one point during the game there was a fight on the ice and they slammed up against the glass right in front of us and scared me to death as it was so loud and unexpected. Out of nowhere Kent jumped out of his seat and slammed himself up against the glass right where they were fighting LOL...I was HORRIFIED! I didn't have a clue what he was doing and the players even looked over there shoulder at him cause he was so loud. He told me, "that is what you do when that happens." I told him that is fine as long as I am not with him when he does it ha ha. That being said, I am hoping to be able to go to the 6th game in Calgary as I think it will be fun!

Cole went to the game Monday night with Kent. Coles favorite Flames player is of course the goalie Mikka Kiprusoff.

Cole at the Flames game and outside the dome. Look at all that red...it's AWESOME!

Mikka Kiprusoff- Calgary Flames goalie

Tyson went to the game Wednesday night with Kent. He had his face and hair all red. There were a couple of the Flames hockey wives sitting right in front of Kent and Ty at the game. They kept turning around and talking with Tyson...he thought that was great! They also met up with Kent's brother Mike as he was at the game as well.

How fun does this look eh?! Gee can you tell how happy he is to be there LOL If you look closely at the middle right picture you can see the GIANT Calgary Flames flag being passed along the crowd in the stands.

Tyson' favorite Flames player is Jarome Iginla.

GO FLAMES GO!!!

Easter break fun...

We had company come Easter Sunday after church. Brian Boyd and his 4 kids came to our house to visit. It was Brian's birthday so I made a no bake cheese cake for him and we sang to him and had a good visit. We had invited Tyler (11 almost 12 years old) and Sydney (9 years old) to stay until Thursday and hang out with Cole and Tyson. They have all known each other since they were babies and they are good friends.

Cole & Tyler over the years...how cute are they?! LOL

Tyson and Sydney over the years...ha ha they were Mary and Joseph at there Preschool in the bottom right picture and had a black baby Jesus...so cute!

MONDAY- the kids played in the morning at our house until it was time to go to the wave pool in Calgary around 1pm. We met up with Niki and her family and Gary and his family came as well. The kids had a good time. I tried to find them to take a picture but they were nowhere to be found. I thought Bryn would like the pool as she really likes having baths...I was WRONG!

Brynely didn't like being in the water AT ALL! But she sure looked so dang CUTE in her bathing suit =) Sydney was always such a good helper with Brynley. Sydney enjoyed holding Bryn and helping in whatever way she could. I enjoyed the help =)

TUESDAY-the weather wasn't the greatest so we stayed at home and the kids were stuck inside all day. They did pretty well considering.

Sydney found my box of hair flower making things and decided she would like to make herself some hair flowers and what not. She did this for hours and hours and had a lot of fun. She made herself 5 hair flowers, 5 decoration flowers and 5 book marks with ribbon and flowers on them. Sydney found all of my ribbon as well so she cut herself some ribbon to make bows in her hair and she cut some that were long enough to tie like a belt. She is a creative little thing! I am glad she had fun as I was worried she would get bored with all these boys.


Sydney also spent a good hour in Bryn's room on Tuesday going threw every drawer, box, shelf and everything hanging in Bryn's closet. Sydney was LOVING all of Bryn's "things" and said how fun it all was. Sydney took it upon herself to organize things the way she thought they should be organized LOL...she is hilarious!


Every morning Sydney would go in and decide what Brynley would wear for that day and lay it all out for me to put her in. Sydney said she wished she had a little sister like Bryn...so I told her since Brynley doesn't have a sister either (and never will) they can claim each other as sisters...Sydney thought that was great idea!


I know that IF EVER I should need an honest answer about anything Sydney is the one to ask...as she is willing to tell you her opinion on something even when you aren't asking LOL. She is a girlie girl and it was fun having her around. She was like my little shadow and we had fun together. I had my sister in law make her 2 bracelets for Sydney's Birthday that is coming up and then when we were out Syndey was trying on all these sunglasses and I had to buy her a pair as she looked so cute in them.


WEDNESDAY- We met up with my sister in laws and their kids in Calgary and went to the movie Monsters vs. Aliens. Before it started we went to the dollar store and they got some treats to bring into the movie and then they each picked out a "toy" that they wanted. The boys picked out cap guns and caps and Sydney got a new little bag. They were all hilarious as they were acting like they had hit the jack pot...I LOVE dollar stores! The movie was good and had us all laughing. Once we got home the kids all went outside and played some type of war game with their new guns. They had a blast with those things...everyone was happy and that is all that matters.

THURSDAY- We just hung out at home and they had fun playing games, jumping on the trampoline and playing outside. They went home Thursday evening. I have to say that they all did really good together considering they were ALL together for 4 days straight.

This is some of the things the kids did while they were here.

All in all they had a great time with the Boyd kids being here. They are good kids! It is too bad they live an hour away. Wish they could see each other more often than every few months...but that is OK as some is better than none.

Cole and Brynley...

This was a rare moment, Cole playing with "Little Miss". He grabbed Tyson's hat and put it on her head. She thought this was a great game as you can see by the HUGE smile on her face.

Easter fun...

We are having Osenbach Family with drawl this year for Easter since we aren't down in Utah with them like we usually are this time of year. For the past 4 years we have gone down to my sisters home and celebrated Easter with them and their 5 kids. This year we didn't as we are planning on being there in the Summer.

We do our Easter baskets and fun Easter stuff with our kids on Saturday instead of Sunday. I was raised that Sunday wasn't about the "fun" part of Easter...it is reserved for what Easter is really about. So we are carrying on with that tradition in our family.

The kids came up Saturday morning and found their Easter baskets and had fun looking at what was there. I try not to give them that much candy as they so don't need it. So I fill it with new hats, new ties for Easter Sunday, a shirt, books and pens to draw in at church, reading books and a couple of other fun things...plus a chocolate bunny and a couple little candies. Bryn got new soothers and hair things =)

The kids checking out there baskets

Once they were done we got ready for the day and met up with Jeff and his family in Olds and had breakfast all together at Smitty's. It was so yummy as they had this wonderful breakfast buffet...all you can eat! Afterwards we headed up to Sheri's for the day to have Easter dinner with Sheri and her family, Niki and her family, Jeff and his family and us. Mike and his family weren't able to make it up. And Kent's parents are on a mission in Malaysia. So we missed all of them being there.

It was fun as all the Mom's filled all the plastic eggs with candy and then we went outside and hid them all over Sheri's yard. Sheri lives on an acreage so there is TONS of places we could hide them. We didn't do it too hard, but the kids had fun!

The Easter egg hunt

Once the kids were done the egg hunt we went inside and sat the kids down to talk about the true meaning of Easter. Niki brought out these eggs that had the "true" meaning of what Easter is really about in each egg. Each one was numbered and came with a scripture inside and a little prop to go along with each scripture describing what Christ went through during his Resurrection.

It was neat to have each of the older boys read a scripture and answer the questions. I am so glad Niki brought this out to talk to the kids about it...thanks Niki!

Once they were done we got supper ready and ate. It was YUMMY! Lot's of good food. It was fun for us all to be together and the kids all had a great time.

We also brought these foam place mat type of things and fun shapes and characters that were foam as well that were peel and stick. So the kids had fun doing this craft and making themselves each a place mat. It seemed like the day went by way too fast. We played some games and visited and then it was time to go home.

The kids making there place mats

Easter Sunday

Cole, Bryn and Tyson in there new Sunday clothes.