Tulsa Trip 2014

My mom and dad took my ENTIRE family to Tulsa for Spring Break this year and we had

AN AMAZING TIME!!!

 

All  22 of us headed to Oklahoma on the first Sunday of spring break after church.  We stayed till the following Wednesday.  The first day went to a kids exploration type place.  There was  a huge play structure and slide made out of packing tape, boxes to build with, a table of nails to lay one and much more.  After that we went to a kids dreamland.  It was called Incrediceble Pizza, I think.  It was a lunch buffet of.  Pizza, chicken nuggets, spaggetti, nachos and tacos along with a dessert bar of cookies and ice cream.  (Ok, Ok, I loved that part too - they even had white gravy for the chicken)

 

The next day we went across the street to a YMCA type place that our hotel had a deal with so it was free and they had an amazing pool for us all to swim in.  It was zero entry, had a basketball goal and some fountains.  We were going to have a picnic after that, but it was WAY to windy. 

 

Marks Birthday fell over our trip so that night the boys went to the Casino and the girls stayed back and, since when we arrived the hotel didn't have a room ready for us they comped us a movie in the room, we had all the kids have a movie night with popcorn and they watched FROZEN.  It is a very cute movie.  Mark got a wonderful present to as he came home from the Casino with an extra $800 in his pocket.  Our forever house fund says "Thank you"  :)

 

Anyway here are some pics and a few videos from our trip.

 

Ryland and Mommy enjoying the hotel pool

Blake and Jaren resting

Landrie Lynn having fun

Daddy and Jaren playing a game of chase

Mima Cheryl and Ryland playing with the fountains

Landrie Making sure that Amy, Nikki, and Mima know exactly how cute she it

I am soooooo in trouble with this one - Where she even got this I have no idea

Ryland LOVES LOVES LOVES the water

Papa Mike and Mariah

Amy and Hunter

Nikki and Elizabeth

Mima Cheryl and Papa Mike with baby Jude

Mommy and Ryland

I think Elizabeth is showing Papa Mike how to work out, but I'm not sure and neither is Rhonda

I love zero entry for this age I didn't have a kid hanging on me.

The good life

Landrie laying on a bed of nails

Jaren on a bed of nails

Me and Amy

Papa Mike helping Landrie build

Daddy and Jaren's creation that he bowled down.

Landrie coming down the tape slide

Mima Cheryl and Jaren playing go fish

Hanging out in the room playing Heads Up

Michael and Ryland

 

Jaren John coming down the slide

 

We may be in trouble with these three girls all together :)

 

Jaren was SOOOOOOO excited to drive these cars - which he couldn't actually drive because of height restrictions which I think led to his bland face in the video, but he did enjoy it.

 

 

Johnny Jump

Ryland loves his Johnny Jump.  We used it at home once and then we have kept it at Mima and Papas as they had a MUCH better place to hang it.  He really loves it though I wish I could see him in it more often.

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Jaren John McFadden

 

 

What is a mom to do when she realizes that her four year old is going to surpass her mathematical skills in approximately two years?

 

 

Last night getting PJ's on for bed.  Jaren tells Mark and I that 6 plus 6 is 12.  We hear this often as there is a chunk chart hanging in there with a monthly picture of Landrie 6 on the top row and 6 on the bottom row.  However tonight Jaren continues on as fast as he was just having a conversation no pausing to do figures.  Also 7 plus 7 is fourteen, and 8 plus 8 is sixteen. 

 

 

Mark and I just look at each other and smile as Jaren has always surprised us with his skills, but he follows it with You know why I know that.  It is easy cause it is just two more than the last one. 

 

 

Insert my jaw dropping here as this is a mathematical skill that Jaren really at his age should not grasp.  Oh how a person can question their decision to send their child to two years of Kindergarten.

 

 



Rylands first food

A bit out of order, but in early Jan. Ryland got his first taste of cereal.  He thought it was ok, not overly excited, but didn't hate it.  He does now LOVE to eat however and did develop a love for the rice cereal as well.

 

 

Ryland is 6 months old

We had Rylands 6 month pics done before spring break and we had some new pics of the kids too. 

 

My first reaction to the pic of the three kids was one I will never forget. 

 

I opened up the file from Amy and went --  Oh holy crap - I have THREE kids.  I am SOOO very blessed for it was less than 5 years ago right now that Mark and I were praying that God Bless us through the process of adoption and look at where we are now.  As Father said in Sundays serman (and of course the well known country song)

 

THANK GOD FOR UNANSWERED PRAYERS!!!

 

For this is not what my family would look like had God answered my MANY prayers and I would want NOTHING to change.  (Hindsight is 20/20 right)

 

Anyway enjoy the pics and Rylands tongue as you will see it in EVERY picture.

 

 

Pirate and Princesses

Mark e-mailed me one day at work and said Hey I saw the perfect thing what do you think - Disney's Pirates and Princess show is coming to town.

 

Well..... we live and breath Jake and the Neverland Pirates and Sophia the First in this house so I could think of nothing more perfect.  It was a Friday night show.  We doned our perfect costumes left Ryland with Mima Cheryl and headed out for a GREAT night.  Jaren and Landrie had an amazing time and it was so much fun as parents to watch them enjoy the show and be so amazed. 

 

The tiara didn't last long, but we started with it on.

our seat were really high as we heard about the show late, but the seats were great as we were the front row of our section so the kids could stand and jump and not bother anyone and not have anything in their way.

 

It was such a great evening!!!

Feb. 2014 misc. videos