Our little artists

All the kids were home one day and needed something to do, so I got a big piece of butcher paper, laid it out on the kitchen table, got all the markers and crayons, and let them go.  Normally, I am the natzi when it comes to making any kind of mess expecially when markers and children are concerned, but today I walked away and crossed my fingers.  The kids loved it! and really so did I.  I left the paper on for about a week and we all had fun playing tic-tac-toe, and scribbling while we ate.

Kason's Blessing

Kason was blessed on March 6th in the Green Valley 7th ward.  We are so thankful for all the family and friends who came to support us and share this special day with us.  Luckily, after a week of nasty cold weather, it turned out to be a beautiful sunny day to have a family dinner afterwards in our backyard.  Kason got to share the day and party with cousins Cianna and Autumn who's birthdays were also that same week. We are so blessed to have Kason as part of our family, and love him so much.  He has brought so much joy and happiness in just the short time he's been here, and it's hard to imagine not having him  to love and cuddle. 

Happy Valentines

Valentines day has always been one of my favorite 'holidays', as a kid, I loved making valentines boxes, sugar cookies with pink frosting, the heart suckers with the white outlines (you know what I'm talking about!), door ditching your friends with treats late at night (do people even do this anymore??), and giving/getting something special from somebody special! I will say, Valentines is even more fun with kids.  Braxton used his creative mind and made a cute alien/robot valentines box for school, we had a fun candlelight dinner, and got busted trying to door ditch treats to our neighbors and cousins.  The kids loved their valentines balloons and little gifts from mom and dad, and had to show us each and every valentine they got from their friends at school and daycare, while I scoped out the treat I would help myself to after they went to bed!!  Hope you all had a great valentines day too!!


Pretty awesome valentines box



Valentines pizza dinner by candlelight



Braxton, Tanner, and Camrie showing off  their valentines gifts

Catching up the last month!!

Braxton decided to participate in a youth bike race on Saturday Feb. 12th.  This was sponsored by the Rec Center and held out to the Bloomington Hills park.  The 1 mile race was broken into 2 different heats which consisted of 2 laps (1/2 mile per heat).  The loop had a bit of a hill to it and was a little harder than he thought it was going to be.  The first heat Braxton came in 4th, and the 2nd heat he came in 3rd.  Each participant got a nice medal and a t-shirt for finishing the race.  We figured he'd race his mile around the park and we'd be done in about an hour....we were there for 2.5 hours! I didn't take anything for Tanner and Camrie (or more importantly...myself!) to eat or drink thinking we wouldn't be there very long.  Luckily they had snacks and drinks for everyone there, so our breakfast of champions consisted of fruit snacks, cookies, and lemonade!!  They also raffled off some pretty great prizes and we won free pizza, ice cream cones, passes to SHAC, and also the Rec Center.  Braxton was so excited for the race and can't wait until the next one comes around.  Way to go Braxton we are so proud of you.

 

Showing off his medal and shirt



Ready for the 1st heat