The McIntire's

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Birthday, Thanksgiving, Photos, and Raaawwrrrr

This past week I "celebrated" my 36th birthday. 36!!! I can't believe that I am 36 years old. Just 4 more years before I am 40. I think because of that reason-I had a difficult time with this birthday. The kids were cute-they wanted to make sure they gave me my hugs and kisses, my birthday spanking, and Tristan even thought I should make myself a cake so I could blow out the candles. Devin gave me one of the best gifts I've ever received....a Kitchen Aid mixer. YEAH!!!! I am so excited to finally have a mixer that works. I've had several hand mixers, but unfortunately have burned the motors up. I just can't get over how much I LOVE my mixer. Thank you so much DEVIN!

For Thanksgiving the kids and I went up to Angela and Jeff's house for dinner. We enjoyed a delicious dinner and loved being able to sit back and relax. Devin came up after work: and I ate some more. YUMMY! Thanks guys-for having such a great Thanksgiving dinner!

I tried to take pictures of Tristan and Cortlynn this week and I can't believe how old they look. My little babies are growing up. :-(

A few weeks ago I took Kyra in for her 1 year photo. WOW-I can't believe she will be 1 in a few weeks. Anywhooo- She wasn't very cooperative this time. Most of the photos she was sitting on my lap. Thank goodness the photographer was able to crop me out. The following are just a few of the pictures-I am pretty happy with them. She is just so photogenic.

Several people made comments on Cortlynn's Halloween costume and the resemblance between her and me-so I looked thru my old photo albums and found one of me in the same costume. It's amazing how camera's have improved over the last 17 years---the photo quality has definitely improved.

1994

2011

Sunday, November 20, 2011

11-20-2006

I can't believe my little boy is 5 years old. Time sure flies by quickly. I remember the day he was born just like it was yesterday---November 20, 2006 was one of the happiest days of my life. Tristan is a special little boy who is full of laughs and love. He is constantly moving, playing, and being silly. His dad, sisters, and I love him so very much and wish him a very happy birthday!

Since my parents were going to be at our house after dropping my sisters off at the MTC--I decided to have a birthday party with the grandparents on Wednesday. Tristan chose to have hot dogs and macaroni and cheese for dinner. We opened gifts and ate his 1st birthday cake.

On Saturday we had a "boy" birthday party and he invited a few friends and his favorite boy cousin Brayden to come over and play. They played hard, opened gifts, and we ate birthday cake #2. He had a great time and enjoyed playing with his friends.

Cake #1

Cake #2

I was so happy that the little boys and Daniel knew what the cake was supposed to be (Batman and the Green Lantern)

Just a few photos of Tristan during the years.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Halloween 2011

This has been a crazy week at the McIntire home. Kyra has been fighting an ear infection, fever, and a variety of rashes and now some nasty hives. Poor little girl. She is such a trooper and will still have that big smile on her face even when she has a 104plus temperature.

With Halloween being this week we had several activities the kids participated in. On Saturday we had our Ward's trunk or Treat. It was a little cold and I didn't plan on as many kids tat showed up so we ran out of candy after 20 minutes. oops. I even dressed up for this one. We carved pumpkins that night as well. I even stuck my hand in the pumpkin and cleaned it out. I hate this and having nasty, slimy stuff on my hands makes me sick-but I did it. (there is a photo to prove I did it) The kids and I made sugar cookies on Halloween and they had so much fun and can't believe how good they are. The kids got all dressed up and I was an idiot and took them to the mall for some trick or treating.....STUPID! This will be the last time I do this. You can't pay me enough in money and/or candy to stand in line for 30plus minutes to get one jolly rancher from 20 different stores. It was awful and I can't believe some of the costumes little girls and teens were wearing. It was like I was on the "rd light" district.(If you know what I mean) I would never let Cortlynn wear some of that stuff.

We came back home, ate dinner, and went around the neighborhood. Kyra and I didn't last very long since she wasn't feeling the best and the hives were pretty miserable. We came back home and handed out candy. Funny story about the candy this year. Devin had a huge container of jaw-breakers that I decided to hand out rather than candy bars. So we handed out a handful to each kid----I asked Devin how old they were and he chuckled....He was given the container from Dan at the A+A Market probably 16+years ago. ;-0 Hopefully back than the dyes they used were safe.

This was completely full of 16+yr old jawbreakers ;-)

Devin, Cortlynn, and Tristan walked everywhere and came home with two huge bags full of goodies---some of which were big sized candy bars (who does this??). They were so worn out that both were snoring in their beds when I went and checked on them later that night.

Kyra looking cute with her hives everywhere. They aren't that dark in these photos b/c I had just given her a baking soda bath.

I've started babysitting 3 children on Mondays. They belong to a long0time family friend and they are so cute. This is Kloe-the 6 month old little girl. Cortlynn only has a little jealousy going on. The two little boys (4 and 2) wouldn't sit still long enough for a photo.