Saunders Family: May 2011

Saturday, May 28, 2011

A Moment of Silence, please...

Yes, a moment of silence please, because I am in mourning...this wonderful, feisty, beautiful little girl decided that she wanted to give herself a haircut..

Which resulted in this...

Sigh. Tears. Sadness. Especially when I had her go look in the mirror. She was so proud of herself, until she saw what she had actually done. Oh well, it taught her a good lesson and she won't be cutting her hair herself again (I hope). So off we went to get it fixed...

By now we had talked about how short her hair was going to be and she was quite excited. See, Isabelle LOVES America's Next Top Model, and has wanted a short cut like Tyra gives the girls with "special" faces. So, she was going to get a Top Model cut. Well, let me tell you, I had to fight for that one. The stylist was talking about page boy and bowl cuts. I don't think so! Finally got him to see things my way and the clipping began.

Still not quite right, but the stylist was awful, I'll take her somewhere else to get it fixed again in a couple weeks when it starts to grow out.

It will grow, right?

Bear Saunders

This is Bear. We had an adventure in owning a puppy last week. One of Belle's classmates found him in the gutter on their street, but their family already owned a dog and it didn't take kindly to sharing its space. So we decided to adopt him as I have been wanting a dog for awhile, but didn't want to shell out the mega bucks to buy one. I also didn't want a shedder, which pretty much ruled out every pound dog. So here was a free poodle mix (either a malti-poo or cock-a-poo) that needed a home! It was a perfect match, or so we thought. We brought him home and he quickly proved to be a good, smart puppy. Really just a baby, we estimate that he is probably 3-6 months old. He slept all night with no accidents and was just the most loveable, quiet little guy. Unfortunately, his size worked against him. He is so small he could easily fit through the bars in the backyard fences and because of how we are up against the hills, there are large birds of prey that hunt around here and he would make a tasty snack for them, so we were unable to leave him outside at all. Then you add in a crawling baby who he thought was another puppy to play with and as wonderful as he was, we just were not the right home for him. Luckily, Grandma and Grandpa Saunders could provide him with an awesome home! So we still get to see him and have visitation rights and he is much happier in a home where he can go outside whenever he wants.

Open House for Caleb

Caleb standing at his classroom door.

Showing us his desk.

The calendar and weather chart.

His teacher gave them a checklist so they could make sure they showed us everything we needed to see. :)

Showing his Patriot Pride award chart.

His "All About Me" book.

They are currently studying insects and have an ant farm they observe.

At the end he got to show off his measuring and math skills and they made pudding cups with instant chocolate pudding, oreos, and gummy worms.

HOA Party! 2011

Our community puts on a big start of summer party every year. So fun! The In N Out truck comes and we get as much food as we want, and free cotton candy, free popcorn, and free snow cones! After hearing about it all year we were so excited to get to go this year! (We werein escrow when it was held last year, so we just missed it.) Unfortunately, it was a little chilly so we didn't really play in the water, but we still had a great time.

Caleb with some popcorn.

Rory hung out in her stroller.

This little girl is addicted to swinging. She loves that she can get herself super high!

Rory LOVED her snowcone. :)

More Mom!

Yummy!

Mmmm... She was a nice sticky mess afterwards, but so happy.

Caleb at not one, but TWO hamburgers! (Well, one was a cheeseburger and they were both completely plain but still, this boy normally does NOT eat hamburgers.)

Isabelle had a grilled cheese with just tomatoes on it.

Yummy cotton candy! It was bigger then her head. :)

At the end a clown came and made balloon animals for the kids. Isabelle got a mermaid and Caleb a sword. We had a great time and can't wait for next year!