Preschool science fair

Isaac's preschool had it's science fair this week. We couldn't think of anything until the morning of. Isaac said he wanted to take his frogs to school sooo Viola. He than changed his mind and wanted to take his super heroes for his science fair:)

Isaac and his super heroes and super villain

I found Isaac like this, when I went to wake him up. It so typical Isaac. He loves his super heroes and super villains. He also stays up til all hours of the night playing with them and reading books.

school carnival

Here are a few pictures of the kids at Makayla's school carnival. Jeremy and I both worked a shift at Makayla's class booth (the tattoo parlor) We all had a lot of fun.

Kennewick Here I Come

So, family I bought my tickets today. I'm coming home for the wedding. I'm bring Makayla because I really want her to see Jillian get married in the temple. I think little girls need to see how beautiful temple weddings can be and hopefully understand how important they are. I'm also taking Jackson, because he can fly for free (sitting on my lap) Now I have to break it to Isaac that he's not coming. Hopefully we can sell it as a "fun boys only weekend."

From Hurricanes to Tornadoes

When moving from Houston, I was very glad to be leaving behind hurricane season and all of it's destructive paths. Now we are in safe McKinney, where hurricanes will no longer threaten to destroy our home and expose my lack of emergency preparedness. Wrong. Tornadoes now threaten to expose my lack of emergency preparedness (which I'm now avidly working on.) This last two weeks we have hidden our family in our tornado safe bunker (I mean master closet) to be safe from looming weather. This last week we were woke up at 4am to the tornado sirens, wind, and rain. Makayla is so scared of storms she shakes violently and totally freaks. I feel so bad for my sweet girl.

Not much really happened. Part of our roof ripped off. Our insurance guy is coming out to look at it today. We're hoping he thinks we need a new roof:) Our stake president's yard has 10 of his 15 beautiful trees destoryed. So the strom did leave many with messes to clean up.

ShOuT oUt TO gRaNdMa ScHuLtZ

Jeremy and I would like to give a big thanks to Grandma Schultz for the Isaac's Christmas gift, the DVD "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."

He has now learned the word "damn" and told Mom to get him a "damn drink of water" and informed his friend that "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" has the word "damn" in it and informed his friend that we don't use that word.

We will now be throwing away the DVD and I hope grandma understands that we still love her and will still accept her gift with open arms, whenever they come.

Haircut and color

Finally, my roots were getting so bad. I feel like such trailer trash when my hair is over due - which happens every time. I'm so bad at getting in often enough. It's so hard with little ones. I found someone who will come to my house and she's been doing hair for like 20 years so I'm in good hands. She's twice as much as Tara was but so worth it, to find someone who will come here and has so much experience.

Jeremy of course wishes my hair was longer and blonder. It's so hard to keep up with blonde blonde hair and it's nice to change up the do every once in a while.

SO UPSET

Jackson was moving the chairs around to try and reach the Easter candy. When I finally put the candy on the fridge, he realized he wouldn't be able to reach it, he was so upset.

Easter dress! I let her pick it out this year

EaStEr At OuR hOuSe

We had a lot of fun this year for Easter. Nothing really big or complicated. Saturday, we went to the city hunt and the ward Easter egg hunt. Jackson I don't think could have cared less about trying to get an egg. He ran pass them all, but still had a good time. He must not have know there was candy in them.

The Easter bunny brought Isaac Ben 10 super heroes. He is so into super heroes (any kind) as all as the action figure stands up. He likes to gather all the super heroes and super villains in the whole house and set them up. He'll play with them for hours. It's real cute.

Makayla got a webkin. She loves Webkinz. She's pretty good about feeding them and putting them to bed.

Happy Easter Everyone.

Just a short post

The kids got into our Halloween Box and now Makayla has the sister she's always wanted
Girls watch out this little DEVILS smile can really melt a girls heart
She is always trying to trick us and make us laugh


I think, I need a journal so I don't feel the need to bore everyone with the intimate details of my life. But here it goes.

It's spring break so I'm trying my best to keep the kids out and about and busy. We've gone camping, to the park with friends, to the jump house, to "Horton Hears a Who", and now Jeremy is going out of town for two nights, so I might have to bring out all the stops to keep them busy and me sane. My house is really taking a beating. I don't know how I'm going to keep up with the cooking and cleaning during the summer. The kids are everywhere and into everything and it looks like a tornado hit McKinney.


I love my new pot rack Jeremy installed and I love my new pots they are gorgeous and they cook so good or maybe it's my cooking that's so great:)

Jackson is 25 months old and today got weighed in at 22lbs 5oz. One of his friends is 24 months and 32 pounds!!!! but I think the doctor has stopped worrying for now and I am through with doctor appointment for him.

I can't believe Easter is almost here. I'm not even ready. It kind of snuck up on me. I just got Makayla an Easter dress tonight:) I let her come and help pick it out. It was a lot of fun. It's so hard to find dresses with sleeves though.

Makayla and I are really into reading at night together. I've been reading Junie B. Jones books, Matilda, and Freckle Juice etc. It is so much fun. I told Jeremy he'd have to forgive me for staying in her room a little later at night because I love it so much. We've been going to the library and it brings back all these memories of Beverly Clearly, Choose your own adventures, Sweet Valley High Twins, and Box Car Children. I have a lot of fond memories of my mom reading to us at night from "Box Car Children" and "Indian in the Cupboard." Isaac is so upset that Makayla gets to check out chapter books and he doesn't. I know there's no way he'd make it through one page with no pictures. Maybe I'll let him check out a big boy chapter book next library trip.

Makayla is going to try out for the school talent show. She informed us last week that try outs are coming up and she wants to tell jokes. Which I think is so cute and so we're going to try and help her get ready for that.

PLEASE SHARE YOUR FAVORITE (AGE APPROPRIATE) KNOCK KNOCK JOKE MAYBE SHE COULD USE THEM IN HER ACT!!!!!!

Camping!!!!

We went camping Friday night. We were going to go with some friend next weekend but Jeremy is going with the scouts. So, we went camping at Erwin park (15 minutes from home) for one night and had a wonderful time. Now that we've bought all the camping stuff and there's a place so close, I'm hoping we go a lot more often. The kids were a little nervous at first but really had a good time. The weather was almost perfect. Except for that morning it was a little cold and very windy so we left a little early and made it home by noon on Saturday. I think roasting marshmellow was the favorite of course.

Some Recent Happenings

I finally hung the pot rack that Chauntel got a few months ago. She found the pots on a close-out sale and it was game-time to put up the rack. I finally found the freakin' studs with the stud finder and we hooked it up. Our house is coming together one small project at a time. If you click on the picture, so can see it a little better

The picture of Jackson is of his first trip to the time out chair. It was pretty funny. He was fussin' in the kitchen and since that is not acceptable, BOOM! His first trip to timeout was initiated. Since he's seen his older brother in that chair almost on daily basis for the last year, I think he thought it was pretty neat that he got to do it too. I think he felt some sort of rite of passage that he was officially a big boy now because as soon as he landed in the chair, he looked up at me and grinned. I told him that it was timeout time, and he thoroughly enjoyed it. So much so, that I had to get a picture.

Pudding is a new favorite of the Logsdons and, as is apparent with Isaac, will probably be for a long time.

This is a picture of Chauntel at Isaac's soccer game last week. She's usually the one taking all of the pictures, so there's not enough of her on the blog.

I love this picture of Makayla. It's usually in pictures that I see how much she is growing up.

Here's a link to a video of Jackson on youtube. Isaac is the one you hear in the background yelling "I'm doooone". He was on the pot and was letting the world know that he's done and someone needs to wipe him. At least now he's telling us he's done. For the longest he couldn't figure out how those skid marks kept getting in his underwear. We started saying that the skid mark monster crawled up his pants and bit him when he wasn't looking.

Jeremy has been TAGGED

Momma Schultz and Amy have tagged me. I can only guess that many more have wished to, but just haven't had the courage. Here goes.

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names and then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and that they should read your blog.

10 Years ago...

I was on my mission in the California Roseville Mission. More specifically, I was serving in the Roseville 4th Ward. The Bishop was Bishop Stuart - he served his mission in Japan. I just talked to him a few months ago. My companion was still my trainer, Elder Felkins.

5 things on my list to do today....

1. Go to work
2. Make the pleasant "late calls" today to everybody that owes me money. That always goes over well every month. I find joy in hearing the reasons anymore as to why people don't feel the need to pay me.
3. Go to the gym in the hopes of becoming really buff so that I can become a contestant on American Gladiator.
4. Make pizza pockets tonight
5. Make out with my wife. I don't know if that is on her agenda tonight or not, but it is gonna happen.

Snacks I enjoy.....
My favorite dessert is hot brownie with ice cream and chocolate sauce. I've inherited from my Dad a love of chips. Any kind.

What I would do if I were suddenly a millionaire.....

I would, as most would say, get alot of land. I loved going to the Guffey's farm growing up and hunting and working on it. Every kid should have that experience growing up. I would also get a Sting Ray corvette and grow a mullet. When you have a million dollars, you can get an old corvette, grow a mullet, and the chicks still dig it.

3 bad habits......

1. Not "empathetic" enough is what I'm told
2. Too lazy at times to save the world
3. Need to listen more to my wife

5 places I have lived.....

1. Louisvill,KY
2. California
3. Rexburg, ID
4. San Antonio, Tx
5. Mckinney, TX

5 jobs I have had......

1. Hod carrier for Bricklayers
2. Movie Theater
3. Male Dancer j/k - UPS
4. Sold Cinnamon Rolls in Downtown Rexburg from door to door, business to business. I wore an apron and everything. The people thought I made them myself and was always asking me about ingredients. I would just say yes when they asked if I used whatever. I would just show up at this bakery and they'd have a bunch ready for me and I'd go out and sell them. Pretty wild now that I look back on it.
5. Own 2 Pest Control Companies

5 things people don't know about me.......

1. I enjoy cleaning
2. I have hemrhoids
3. I eat a bowl of cereal every night while reading or watching TV
4. I always feel that there is something greater that I can become or can do
5. I don't know if there is anyone hotter to me than my wife. She was wearing this brown sweater the other day with her jeans, and I thought, "Seriously, Who is hotter than her." I then tackled her.

You are supposed to tag other people at this point. I tag Michael, Tito Ortiz, James Carter, Makayla, Uncle Rusty, and Grandma Logsdon.

SNOW IN MCKINNEY!!

It started snowing last night on our way to the library for FHE. It was really neat to watch the kids see the snow again. We haven't seen snow since it snowed on Christmas Eve in Houston a few years ago. We woke up this morning to about 3 inches on the ground. We got a call at 5:45 am saying that all Mckinney schools were going to be 2 hours late today, so we all just played in the snow this morning and Mom made us all hot chocolate when we were through.

Shout Outs

So this is a quick post to say thank you to everyone who has sent box tops: Melissa, Amy, Angela, etc. And a big thank you to everyone who sent post cards.

Having Fun with Aunt Amo and Uncle Dusty!!

Aunt Amy came to visit for the week and Dusty came for a few days. We had a lot of fun. Dusty has written a book on snakes and was here speaking at a convention. Go Dusty!!

Thank you for coming to see us.

Swim lessons

Makayla's passed swim level two and would be moving up to level three, but her mom forgot to sign her up. So there was only one spot available in level 2. I got her signed up for level three in April. She is doing so good. Her back stroke is awesome and her front crawel is great. She just needs to work on breathing correctly. I love watching her swim because she loves it so much.

First Soccer Game!!!!

Isaac had his first game on Saturday. It was so much fun to watch. He scored three goals. His first, was the first of the game and it was in the wrong goal:) And I didn't even get it on tape:( His second goal was so cute, he did a double fist pump with big "Yeeess." It too was a Kodak moment not caught on film. I will try better next time. The problem is that while I was taping the baby ran out on the field with a ball (a few times) So I had to pay more attention and wasn't able to tape everything.

Isaac was so cute, he kept giving his teammates hi-fives. I loved it.

Valentine's Day Parties

These are some pictures of the kids at their school Valentine's Day parties. Jeremy and I were both able to go to Isaac's party. After we got home and were looking at all of his Valentine's he looks at me and asks, "they all love me?" It was so cute.

Makayla's party had no moms helping out so I took Jackson and Isaac to try and get things set up. When I got there the sub had everything together and ready, so I just stuck around for the party to start. It was a disaster. No one's parents came and there was a sub. So my kids were the center of attention and it was complete chaos. I had to leave because the sub was getting too stressed out. If the teacher had been there and other parents it wouldn't have been a big deal. So we went on the playground and waited for school to get out. All the other classes I walked by had like 5 or 6 parents there. Oh well it was an adventure.