Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays!

Once again I am making this a bi-weekly update. It just seems so quick, those 2 weeks! This past week we went out to dinner with some of our friends, Brian and Kendra, as well as Brian's sister, Amanda and her family. Over the past year I have gotten to know Amanda better and I really like her. She is simple, which I love, and we always have something to talk about, which is essential for me:) G also loves her little girl Kaydee. We went to Salina to Daimarus and had sushi and hibachi. On the way home we were in a tornado watch! Luke of course wanted to hurry and get home so we wouldn't get hail damage on the new van we recently got! So lets race the tornado...we won too!
A couple of evenings later we went back to the same place to celebrate Austin's birthday. I love sushi and glad that Luke finally gave it a try and now loves it too. G is crazy over edamame, so she always noshes on that when we go. Ace on the other hand is still going through a weird phase where he doesn't like much else besides bars and fruit. Frustrating when G is a lover of all foods, except green pepper. So we try new things with him and try to not let it get to us when he throws a massive fit over it. When I say "massive" I am being literal.
 Speaking of little Ace K, he has taken a few beatings this past week. Not really but he looks like it! He was running with a plastic popcorn container at Nana and Papa's and fell on the squared, scalloped corner and cut his nose and around his eye. Then the next day I couldn't find him anywhere and I opened the bathroom door and needless to say, I found him and left him with a bruise on his cheek since he was standing right behind the door. Poor little man.
    G has been her same ol' crazy self with off the wall comments coming left and right. She woke up from her nap one day and I asked her how the nap was and she replied "It was good, but I didn't even close my eyes Mom!" She looked kind of worried about it too! I laughed and said "How did you sleep and not close your eyes? I saw you sleeping." She just shrugged it off, but was completely serious about it!         Then one day as her and Ace were playing she came into the bedroom and said to me, "Here is my assistant." I said "Ace? He is your brother." She told me,"No he is my assistant and he is NOT listening to me!" Wow little diva on our hands. Now she knows how I feel when she doesn't listen to me:)
   Another exciting thing for us, as I mentioned earlier we got a new to us van. We got another Honda Odyssey. This one is 5 years newer, silver and has a DVD player. G loves that about it! We also sold the other just today, phew!

What happens when she gets my phone

Pt 2

Pt 3....I do love that freckle on her nose♥

Ace's battle wounds

Another shot...he loves to pretend he is brushing his teeth and spitting out the toothpaste:)

Flip Flop kind of day! Love those little toes:) (Not my ugly bunion foot!)

Olive hands! I told her I used to do this when I was little so she wanted to do it, naturally, and take a picture:)