Kaden's new haircut last week.

Kaden has been asking to play a lot of board games lately, and now that he's a little older it's getting funner to play with him. We have a few board games for kids, but it would be nice to get more for his age. We had fun playing Candyland, after I showed them how to play a few times they started a game by themselves and played together.

 

Then after dinner we had some fun with the kids in the hot tub.
 

 

1  pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz)  sugar cookie mix
3  tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
1  teaspoon orange extract
1  teaspoon vanilla
1  egg
5  drops yellow food color
2  drops red food color
1 1/2  cups white vanilla baking chips

Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, stir all ingredients except baking chips until soft dough forms. Stir in baking chips.

On ungreased cookie sheets, drop dough with 1 1/2 tablespoon-size cookie scoop or by rounded tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart.

Bake 9 to 10 minutes or just until dough is set (do not overbake). Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely

When I made these I used a homemade sugar cookie recipe and just added the orange flavor and baking chips because I had forgotten to get the "premade" mix. I didn't really think about how the homemade recipe would make more dough than if I had used a store mix, so there wasn't as much orange flavor. They were still yummy, but i'd like to try these again following the recipe exactly.

Our vacuum broke a couple weeks ago and I have been hating it. Why bother cleaning the rest of the house if you can't vacuum...that's pretty much the way I felt. ha ha ha. And not to mention our washer and drier are going out...more expenses that weren't really expected for a little while longer. We think we know what needs to be fixed on the washer though, so we ordered a part and are going to try to cheaper route, and hopefully save ourselves a lot of money. Our vacuum on the other hand was not fixable. So we went out today and bought a new one...I couldn't have been more thrilled.

And just a little opinion i have, with having used both bagged and bagless vacuums, I much prefer the bagged type. My bagged one lasted twice as long as the other and there wasn't a need to wash out the digusting filters and dirt cups....blah.
 

We also got our new hot tub cover delivered today. The difference in weight is HUGE. Our old one had so much water that seaped inside it was almost too heavy for me to lift. The new one is so light. We also got a cover lift which is really nice because it helps lift the top off and provides a place to keep it so it's not just laying on the ground when you're in the hot tub. And Jared got a little spa vacuum thing to clean all the dirt and stuff off the bottom of the tub. Ya...sometimes I feel like my husband pays more attention to this thing than me, ha ha.

And cute little Kairi.
 

I don't really know what this other stuff is, but has something to do with modding another xbox. Jared seemed pretty excited and even came home early as soon as I said it had come in the mail. Ha ha ha.