Life of Fry

I took Chloe out on her date night this month. I suggested all kinds of different things we could go do but all she cared about was "pink ice cweam". She then added mini chocolate chips, gummy bears, gummy worms and sprinkles.

Then she ate every.single.drop!!

This is how Gavin RSVP'ed!!

I spy with my little eye, TWO HEADS IN ONE BED!!

Mason is suddenly all over the place. He is not sleeping very well and wakes up in the middle of the night, sometimes multiple times a night. Cody and I wake up to him running all over the house and put him back in bed, but sometimes he's quiet about it and we don't know he's up until he is waking Gavin and Chloe up. I quit napping him in hopes that it would help, but it really hasn't. Gavin's teacher even noticed that Gavin wasn't getting enough sleep so Mason now has a bed in the toy room with a baby gate in the hall so he can get to the bathroom if he needs to, but he can't wake the other two up. I'm open for suggestions if anyone has one or two.

 This picture shows so much!

-Gavin still has the wristband on from a party that he went to earlier that day (the one he RSVP'ed too) that he didn't want me to cut off

-His holy pants that were obviously already fixed once, or more, that need fixed again because he is all boy and that's what boys do, they put holes in EVERY pair of pants they own

-His concentration he has when he is building with his legos. I bought these for him two Chirstmas's ago and he barely touched them, but all of the sudden they are one of his favorite toys. I love to see what he comes up with.

-Legos all over his bedroom floor. He has Lego Fever now

Everyone has caught Lego Fever at my house

His space ship

He wanted me to get the front view too

(and the back and other side view)

Gavin watched Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 on Super Bowl weekend and it inspired part of this drawing. Those are meatballs next to the smoke flying out of the volcano. On the left of the volcano is a tornado with a house and more meatballs in it as well as another house about to be either sucked up into the tornado or taken over by hot lava. 

P.S. Did you notice how much tape he used on the right side to tape it to his door? I think his plan was to do that all the way around but I convinced him that he had plenty and I was pretty sure it wasn't going anywhere

I found Chloe sleeping sideways on her bed and it looks like her hippo rubbed her back until she fell asleep! I can't get over how big she looks in this picture. My baby isn't a baby anymore!

I bet you can't tell that we watched the movie Planes at our house. I found this on the back of one of Gavin's school papers. He gets done before everyone else and draws all kinds of creations on the back of his work.

Last week I had Chloe lay on the paper and was tracing her. This week she is laying her baby on the paper and tracing her baby. She is my little mini me copy cat! (unless she swears, I do not claim that, it is all her daddy! Seriously, I'm not kidding)

The kids love this huge paper and ask me to get it out every time they come over. (It's a roll end from the local newspaper) Bailee will say to me, "Tewi, color paper" It's so cute.

I love this picture of these two

Then after they get bored with it this happens. I was going to stop them, but they were laughing, squealing and having a great time and just couldn't do it.

Mason and Chloe were "hiding"

Gavin is always taking his Beyblades apart and washing them so I had to document it but please pay no attention to the messy counter and the gross hard water stains around my faucet (unless you know how to get it off, then please tell me!)

I introduced Brigham and Bailee to Aunt Teri's snack tray, they LOVED it and luckily even with all four kids no one fought over anything : )

Snow with a side of Karma

We FINALLY got a decent amount of snow and it happened to be Friday night and Saturday morning so we loaded up the four wheeler and headed to my parents to do some sledding.

Back row: Mom, Gavin, Me and Cody

Front Row: Chloe, Megan, Madisen and Mason

All loaded up and ready to go!

Gavin, Mason (with toy goggles) and Chloe

Gavin, Megan and Grandma

Teri, Madisen and Gavin

My view!

Mason, Madisen, Gavin and Cody on the four  wheeler

We got stuck in my dad's pasture!

It's tradition every year that Cody pulls my mom on the sled. I think it's his secret way of getting back at her for all the teasing she does to him the rest of the year.

I have an AWESOME video of my mom falling off and promise to upload it on here soon!

With a side of Karma:

Cody was pulling Gavin around on the sled after he had just dumped my mom off the sled multiple times. Cody hit a dike with the four wheeler and it threw him forward and when it did his thumb pressed on the gas which then threw him backwards and off the four wheeler. It was as if the four wheeler was saying "that's what you get for dumping Jolene!" Lol, Karma!!

"Chopped" Super Bowl Edition

During half time we had our very own version of "Chopped". If your not familiar with it you can check it out here. Basically they had 30 minutes to cook and present something to the judges and they had to use all the secret ingredients and everything else in the kitchen was fair game.

The girls went the day before to get the secret ingredients which were pretzel rolls, horseradish root, Italian chicken sausages and star fruit. The guy at Fred Meyer had to ask us what the horseradish root was because he didn't even know and didn't know how to ring it up.

The Teams:

1- Jason and Justin

2- Cody, Keith and Aidyn

3- Connelly and Eric

The Judges:

Me (wife of Cody)

Sadie (wife of Justin)

Kaylee (wife of Jason)

Savannah (wife of Eric)

Cadee (cousin)

Alex (niece)

Madilyn (niece)

We were just going to have the four of us, but decided we better get more judges than just the wives to make it fair.

Cody checking out the secret ingredients

Keith, Cody and Eric

It was tight quarters at times and it got pretty warm in the kitchen but it all worked out

Cody, Keith, Justin, Eric (in front of Justin), Connelly, Jason and Aidyn

The Food

(these were taken with a phone by a non-professional aka me!)

Justin and Jason

They used the starfruit and blueberries to make a yummy smoothie. They gutted the sausages, with a knife that Jason pulled out of his pocket (gross!!men!) and made a slider with a horseradish sauce for dipping. 

They won ORIGINALITY for their use of the starfruit

Cody, Keith and Aidyn

They also turned their sausages into a slider, but added swiss cheese, bacon and made a chutney with the starfruit to go on top. They grated the horseradish and added just enough to the sausage to give it the perfect kick.

They won BEST TASTE and BEST PRESENTATION

Connelly and Eric

~The Bachelor's~

(Eric is technically married now, but just barely)

They cut their roll in half and toasted it. The sausage and starfruit was cut up and sauteed together with the horseradish

The over all champions were Cody, Keith and Aidyn (he's only 12 but wanted to join the men so we let him). 

They won $1,000,000 each!!

(if only that was real!)

At my nephews baptism the day before Cody, Eric and Connelly all bet (yes they were betting!! To make it worse it was at the church!) my brother-in-law Torrey that the Broncos were going to beat th Seahawks so the deal was that the loser owed the winner a dollar for every point difference. Cody was sure the Broncos were going to win and that it was only going to be a 3 point spread so it was OK to bet because it was only $3. 
I had no idea this conversation had even taken place until it was mentioned while we were watching the game. By the end of the game Connelly, Eric and  Cody (and I since we share our account) were $35 poorer and my brother-in-law was $105 richer. I told Cody he had 35 loads of dishes to wash to earn that money back, that could've been a date night!

Life of Fry

We came home one night and found this on our front porch ghetto pallet. Even though I was still feeling pretty crappy from my surgery it still made me laugh. Cody's very own toilet right out front. It took us a few weeks to actually figure out who did it, but we know now. Beware Crofts, Beware!! ;)

Middle of the day and Chloe is still in her pajamas and wearing my hat to cover up her neglected hair.

My nephew Chase

My sister and her kids came over to visit and after I got done feeding them lunch I literally sat in the chair the rest of the time snuggling this kid, but do you blame me?

This is how Chloe was watching a movie

Upside down with her butt in the air

Since I've been out of commission the kids have been having tickle wars with themselves

Both of the boys gang up on their little sister, but she's pretty tough and can take it

They were playing "Train". Gavin was the conductor and he gave Mason and Chloe rides to wherever they wanted to go. He stuffed the sword between the cushions and pretended it was the lever to make the "train" go forward, backwards and stop. I love to watch kids play and use their imaginations.

My cute conductor. I love him in that hat and I'm going to be so sad when he grows out of it.

We ran into the Hulk and Thor when we were at Target the other day