Comic relief of the house...

Katelyn does and says some of the funniest things. I really should be better about writing these things down so I can remember them!

For one, a few weeks ago we went to dinner with my side of the family to Lonestar for some good and juicy steak! Katelyn, being the cheese that she is, decided on macaroni and cheese and made sure the waiter knew that is what she wanted. Well, a couple weeks later, we had a late night doing things around town and we needed somewhere to grab a bite to eat. Katelyn, yet again, wanted to go somewhere with mac and cheese, so we decided to just swing by Dee's since they have it on their kids menu. While we're sitting there waiting for our food to come out, Katelyn turns to me and says "Mommy, I want to go to 'Lonestar' to get macaroni and cheese!" First of all it was funny that she even remembered the name of the restaurant that we went to a couple weeks ago. Second of all, for whatever reason, she put 'Lonestar' in air quote. Kid you not! I can't ever recall using air quotes around Katelyn, so I have NO IDEA where she picked it up from, not to mention why she thought it was an appropriate time to use them! AWESOME...



Also a couple of weeks ago, we went to a friend's reception. The reception hall had a big dance floor just BEGGING Katelyn to go out and dance on it. She kept saying that she just HAD to go and dance on the floor, especially with the piano music playing just off the floor. After a couple spins, she ends up dragging Nate onto the floor to dance with her. She then starts to fling herself backwards, to which I ask her "What on earth are you doing?" She's like "Duh, Mommy! I'm DIPPING myself!" HAHAHA! I'm sure she's picked up the dipping with dancing from all her favorite princess movies and what not, and being the little princess that she is, has to do it too! I fortunately was able to snap a shot of her fantastic dance moves!



Seriously, the kid just cracks me up...

It can't be! She's 4!!!

I can hardly believe it! My sweet little Katelyn turned 4 today! There's got to be something wrong with the world, I can't have a 4 year old! I'm not old enough to have one of those running around the house! She's supposed to be my tiny little baby! Oh goodnes, where does the time go?

We had quite the birthday weekend for Katelyn planned out. My mom, gramma, and sister Sami took Katelyn to the Discovery Gateway children's museum, Build-A-Bear, and out for lunch all day Saturday. Katelyn chose to build a monkey named Jasper and clothed him in a U of U t-shirt and hat. They all thought it would be funny to dress the monkey in BYU attire, just to see how Nate would react haha ;).

We then had Katelyn's birthday party Saturday evening. We were hoping to have it outdoors in our yard, but rain and wind prevented us from doing so, BUMMER! At the last minute we moved the party to Nate's parent's place, so there would be room for everyone. We had a Lilo and Stitch birthday party, per request of the birthday girl. Everyone dressed in their island gear and we had a great BBQ! I'll tell you what, though! It took quite the effort and the hunt around town to find a store that had a Lilo and Stitch birthday cake! Finally we found one at Albertson's and it was the last one they had! It's a good thing we love that kid...

Today was Katelyn's actual birthday, but she had a bit of a hard time understanding the difference between her birthday party and her "birthday". It was quite hilarious. All day we'd say "Today's your birthday!" and she'd say "But I already had my birthday!" Silly girl! She got to watch a couple of the movies she got for her birthday. We ended up going to dinner tonight to celebrate her birthday. We went with my dad, Melissa, Nate, and the kids. We asked Katelyn what she wanted for dinner and she requested macaroni and cheese and Jello. There's only one place in town that has both of those, Chuck-A-Rama (aka Up Chuck haha)! She was happy as a clam to have those things for dinner.

It really was a great weekend and I'm glad Katelyn had such a wonderful and memorable birthday! :D

Here are a few pics from her party...


Katelyn the hula girl with her monkey, Jasper


Gramma, Katelyn, me, and Mom


Aloha, baby!


Opening presents


Katelyn as herself ;)


Time for cake!


Taking a whack at the surfer dude pinata


Candy scramble!

Jazzercise and the 80s are back yet again...

Ohhhhhhhh yeeeeeaaaaahhhh...this one was ALL Katelyn!

A picture is worth a thousand words! HAHA!