Happy 7th Birthday Emmitt!

There is a first time for everything! And I'm not talking eating cereal out of a bowl without using a spoon. I'm talking about a little brother picking the exact same birthday party theme as his big brother. That has never happened. And I'm not so sure it'll happen again. But hey, I'm not complaining. It was very easy, I had all the decor ready to go and the ideas for the cupcakes already planned. Oooh, and I'll get to scrapbook both boys' pages with similar layouts and paper. Mom win!

The morning of Emmitt's birthday he was served Cocoa Puffs as his Kibble in a dog dish. He pounded it.

It's crazy every year how much he really changes, but this year there is a big difference. More and more boy looking and less baby face.

We celebrated with family at our house on President's Day. The boys had back to back hockey games over the weekend in two different countries. We just couldn't hold his birthday on the 13th...Friday the 13th nonetheless.

Guests were served "Toilet Water" to wash down their pupcakes.

Bone Appetit everyone! Enjoy a dog biscuit on your pupcake.

Don't forget to Fetch your utensil and wipe your paws! Oh and be sure to enjoy some puppy chow along the way!

Auntie Tammy loves the puppy chow and these goofballs. Pretty sure Uncle Scott taught Parker the "hide your finger up your nose" trick. 

Here we go...really turning seven when you blow out all the candles and the family has sung, "Emmitt has a birthday, Emmitt has a birthday, one year older than he was before." 

Happy seventh birthday Emmitt.  

Sledding birthday in Ranier, MN

Oh Emmitt I knew this year you were going to beg for a "kid party." You are turning seven and because your brother had a friend party when he was seven you were never going to let me forget that it was your turn.

Now I will remind everyone that I don't do kid parties well. I do family/adult parties pretty well if I do say so myself. Not kid parties. Parker cried through most of his Mario Kart party. Everyone was touching his stuff and not sharing and he sat on the stairs and cried. He just didn't know how to handle it. That was the one and only time we had a kid party in our house. So when Emmitt reminded me that he wanted a kid party I started to think outside the box. Mid February is full of freezing temps and lots of snow so we went for a sledding party. We had been dodging late starts and no school days this winter and it's been down right cold. We managed to sneak in a day full of sun and fun on the Ranier sledding hill.

Parker testing out his snowboarding skills.

Kane

Connor

Brooks

Madalyn

Chelsea

Taylor

Bre

Madalyn and Bre

Abbie

Connor, Andrew, Pablo and Emmitt--the Fearless Foursome

The Class of 2026

  The did manage to eat THIRTY hot dogs. And I figured out fairly quickly that almost all seven year olds really like marshmallows but not S'mores. I had a lot of left over graham crackers and chocolate. 

Super thankful that this guy right here can build an amazing fire (even if we did need to use the provided blow torch). He helped me stick massive amounts of hot dogs on roasting sticks, keep the fire stoked, wipe noses, help put mittens on, squirt ketchup and he even made me my own hot dog. 

Abbie

Taylor

Bre

Brooks

Connor

Kyan

Pablo

Andrew

Madalyn, Brennen, Chelsea

Pablo

Connor, Madalyn, Andrew, Emmitt

Morgan

Emmitt

Morgan & Emmitt

The big brothers came and had a blast riding dual over the huge jump. Lots of giggles while they tried to find out just how high they could fly.

A Day in the Life of a Naughty Doodle

I couldn't make this up if I tried. I spent the better part of my weekend digging through frozen dog crap to recover $250 in cash that WASN'T mine! Thank God for copious amounts of coconut oil and rubber gloves. And thank you of course to the Hockey parents who are understanding enough to rewrite me checks. I hope the folks at Bremer are ready for me.

 And yeah, a few people had to re-write me checks. Funny thing is she didn't eat any of the checks, she just ripped a few up and left them. But she did eat the baggie AND the list of who paid!!

Getting down and dirty and tromping through the snow in the backyard to find the treasure!

Now that is what you call "cold hard cash!"

Here I went into Bremer with my hockey mom gloves on, doggy bag, crapped on cash and Thieves hand sanitizer! Got almost all of the money deposited. Unfortunately you need the face on the bill and Bella ate the face of a $20 and too much on a $50. Never did find the other part of the $50. So I will just be making a donation to I Falls Rec Hockey!

Young Living NEW 5-Day Nutritive Cleanse. Day FIVE is complete!! I did it!!

I DID IT! This is the evening of day FIVE of the the NEW 5-Day Nutritive Cleanse by Young Living. I MADE IT! I was successful and managed to tackle FIVE days of just shakes, ningxia red and digest & cleanse, without the optional snacks!

Like always, I weighed in this morning and am down another pound, for a total of 6.5 pounds in four days. I'm excited to weigh in tomorrow and see what five full days of cleansing did! I'll post a recap video diary this week and let you know how it went introducing foods back into my system.

I completed five days of the three "meals" of Digest + Cleanse (at least 30-60 minutes before the shake) and a big glass of water, Balance Complete Shake and 1-2 oz of Ningxia Red. I drank the recommended water in between meals but chose not to do the snacks.

Today I noticed I was "hangry." I was crabby and wasn't sure if it was from being home all day or making more than just supper for my family. But I will totally make sure this is a Monday-Friday thing next time. I feel like being home let my mind think about food more than when I am at work.

And of course it took five full days for "things to move." But YEAH, finally!

Stay tuned for recap video! I CAN'T WAIT to see how I do this next week while travelling five days for work.

For all of the cleanse videos, visit: 

Day FIVE: http://becknbear.blogspot.com/2015/01/young-living-new-5-day-nutritive_10.html

Day FOUR: http://becknbear.blogspot.com/2015/01/young-living-new-5-day-nutritive_9.html

Day THREE: http://becknbear.blogspot.com/2015/01/young-living-new-5-day-nutritive_8.html

Day TWO: http://becknbear.blogspot.com/2015/01/young-living-new-5-day-nutritive_7.html

Day ONE Evening: http://becknbear.blogspot.com/2015/01/young-living-new-5-day-nutritive_6.html

Day ONE Morning: http://becknbear.blogspot.com/2015/01/young-living-new-5-day-nutritive.html