Sunday, April 3, 2011
Swimming
Our ward had a swimming activity again this year. One great thing about living in Idaho is the natural hot springs that seem to be all over. There is one only about 45 minutes from our house and they use it to heat a huge swimming pool. The water is just as warm as a bath tub! They actually have to cool the hot spring water so the swimming pool isn't too hot! Warm swimming pool water = my kind of swimming. One of the sisters in our ward took pictures while we were all in the pool, so we got tons of great pictures!
Friday, April 1, 2011
Arrrrhhh! It's a party, matey!
Max turned 5! I can't believe he turned 5! He's never had a friend birthday before, so we wanted to make sure he got one this year. We found a cute idea for a pirate party and Max loves pirates!
The Invitations:
The Decorations:
The Birthday Boy:
The Cake:
The Friends:
The Activites:
The Presents:
Blowing Out The Candles:
Happy Birthday, Max! We love you!!!
The Invitations:
The Decorations:
The Birthday Boy:
The Cake:
The Friends:
The Activites:
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| Dress yourself up as a pirate |
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| Pin the Flag on the Map |
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| Playing Pirate, Pirate, Captain (duck,duck, goose) |
The Presents:
Blowing Out The Candles:
Happy Birthday, Max! We love you!!!
Up to date
I've been so busy....I don't know how I got so far behind. Then, when I did have a little bit of time, it felt like I couldn't blog about anything current because I had so many old posts not updated. Sigh! The truth is....our wedding invitation company has really picked up lately. It's good! It's really helping us with our debt plan. Weddings are such a seasonal thing that I have to be grateful for the orders when we have them! But, all the time on the computer designing wedding invitations sure makes me want to get right off when I'm done. So, our poor blog is what suffers!
Well...hopefully catching up will help me stay caught up!
Valentine's Day!
We had a lovely V-day this year! I think the kids were equally as excited as for Christmas. I love how everthing is so magical to kids!
Dave really spoiled them this year with Pillow-Pets. I'm relieved - I've heard about pillow pets on nearly a daily basis for over a year! Even though she has one, Bria still points out all the different varieties every time we go to Walmart! Sigh!
The kids and I also surprised Dave with a little love note after school:
(please ignore the fact that Max is still in his PJs at 4:00. Obviously that never happens around here..... I apparently made him get dressed before his dad got home and gave them the pillow pets.)
We finished the day with a lovely heart shaped pizza!
It was perfect!!
A Busy Week:
The end of February brought about an incredibly busy week! Dave (or rather Pix & Flix) was hired to shoot a video and run live feed for the IASC conference. It's for all the high school student counsels in the state and is sort of like three days of constructive partying. They have music, dancing, motivational speakers and more music and dancing. Dave's been going for the last 4 or 5 years to do this job. He always take one of his guys with him to help, but this year he took me! It was so fun and nice to get out of the house for a while! I wish I had pictures, but we were so busy with the video, we didn't have time for pictures.
My favorite part was the motivational speaker. They brought in Dr Taylor Hartman. He's the guy that created the Color Code. Most people know it as the Color Code, but the book is actually titled The People Code. I had heard of it before, but it was completely different coming from the creator. I thoroughly enjoyed it and went and bought the book right away. It's a really good read and I highly recommend it!
We were gone to the conference Thursday through Saturday. On Saturday, Dave also had a bridal fair. So, we had his guys fill in during the morning and we came as quickly as possible to trade places. I really should say Dave got there as quickly as possible. I pretty much dropped him off and headed up to pick our kids up.
Well, Dave got home really late Saturday and hurriedly got un-packed and re-packed for his work trip on Sunday. His school district invited 5 people to go to a Positive Behavioral Support conference. We feel really honored that he was invited and definitely a lot more secure with his job. With all of the budget cuts, it's scary being at the bottom of the totem pole!
Here's one of the only pictures Dave took while on his trip:
Isn't he amazing at photography! I guess he's already so busy with videography, though.
Anyway...he got home late Wednesday night. I mean late, like midnight. He went to work on Thursday and Friday. Friday, the kids and I picked him up from school for yet another small getaway. His cousin got married in the Manti temple and hired Dave to do the video. For this type of thing, normally Dave would go it alone, but since it was family, we all went.
I love this picture! We had a really hard time getting Logan to stay for the picture. I think we tried at least 20 times. I love how Max is putting his hand on his forehead in frustration!
Well, that wraps up our busy week in February! It was fun, but we were sure glad when it was over....especially Dave. I do have to say, I love it when work is also fun and allows us to got on mini-trips. Especially after such a long winter!
Other goings on:
Logan turned 18 months old! He has been such a handful! I really love this little stinker!
Max is in love with all things Star Wars. He was so exited about finding the lost Star Wars Wii game yesterday, he began chanting "Star Was! Star Was!" He was too excited to remember to pronounce his Rs. He's such a cutie! He is getting into full Kindergarten mode. We registered him for kindergarten a couple of weeks ago. I can't believe he's already old enough! Where did the time go!
Bria is coming along nicely in school. She is learning to read better and better every day. She also love to listen to me read to her. She is such a wiggler, but when a book comes out, she listens on the edge of her seat. We've been reading American Girl books and most recently Anne of Green Gables. That one surprises me the most. The language is so advanced for a seven-year-old. But, she loves every minute of it! She is also quite the player. When I say player, I mean as much as a girl her age can be. I suspect she spends hours crawling around the playground at school. I washed her pants and realized that she only had 2 good pairs left! He shoes are also quickly wearing out and she's outgrown half of her school shirts. I can't believe how big she's getting!
Well...hopefully catching up will help me stay caught up!
Valentine's Day!
We had a lovely V-day this year! I think the kids were equally as excited as for Christmas. I love how everthing is so magical to kids!
Dave really spoiled them this year with Pillow-Pets. I'm relieved - I've heard about pillow pets on nearly a daily basis for over a year! Even though she has one, Bria still points out all the different varieties every time we go to Walmart! Sigh!
The kids and I also surprised Dave with a little love note after school:
We finished the day with a lovely heart shaped pizza!
It was perfect!!
A Busy Week:
The end of February brought about an incredibly busy week! Dave (or rather Pix & Flix) was hired to shoot a video and run live feed for the IASC conference. It's for all the high school student counsels in the state and is sort of like three days of constructive partying. They have music, dancing, motivational speakers and more music and dancing. Dave's been going for the last 4 or 5 years to do this job. He always take one of his guys with him to help, but this year he took me! It was so fun and nice to get out of the house for a while! I wish I had pictures, but we were so busy with the video, we didn't have time for pictures.
My favorite part was the motivational speaker. They brought in Dr Taylor Hartman. He's the guy that created the Color Code. Most people know it as the Color Code, but the book is actually titled The People Code. I had heard of it before, but it was completely different coming from the creator. I thoroughly enjoyed it and went and bought the book right away. It's a really good read and I highly recommend it!
We were gone to the conference Thursday through Saturday. On Saturday, Dave also had a bridal fair. So, we had his guys fill in during the morning and we came as quickly as possible to trade places. I really should say Dave got there as quickly as possible. I pretty much dropped him off and headed up to pick our kids up.
Well, Dave got home really late Saturday and hurriedly got un-packed and re-packed for his work trip on Sunday. His school district invited 5 people to go to a Positive Behavioral Support conference. We feel really honored that he was invited and definitely a lot more secure with his job. With all of the budget cuts, it's scary being at the bottom of the totem pole!
Here's one of the only pictures Dave took while on his trip:
Isn't he amazing at photography! I guess he's already so busy with videography, though.
Anyway...he got home late Wednesday night. I mean late, like midnight. He went to work on Thursday and Friday. Friday, the kids and I picked him up from school for yet another small getaway. His cousin got married in the Manti temple and hired Dave to do the video. For this type of thing, normally Dave would go it alone, but since it was family, we all went.
I love this picture! We had a really hard time getting Logan to stay for the picture. I think we tried at least 20 times. I love how Max is putting his hand on his forehead in frustration!
Well, that wraps up our busy week in February! It was fun, but we were sure glad when it was over....especially Dave. I do have to say, I love it when work is also fun and allows us to got on mini-trips. Especially after such a long winter!
Other goings on:
Logan turned 18 months old! He has been such a handful! I really love this little stinker!
Max is in love with all things Star Wars. He was so exited about finding the lost Star Wars Wii game yesterday, he began chanting "Star Was! Star Was!" He was too excited to remember to pronounce his Rs. He's such a cutie! He is getting into full Kindergarten mode. We registered him for kindergarten a couple of weeks ago. I can't believe he's already old enough! Where did the time go!
Bria is coming along nicely in school. She is learning to read better and better every day. She also love to listen to me read to her. She is such a wiggler, but when a book comes out, she listens on the edge of her seat. We've been reading American Girl books and most recently Anne of Green Gables. That one surprises me the most. The language is so advanced for a seven-year-old. But, she loves every minute of it! She is also quite the player. When I say player, I mean as much as a girl her age can be. I suspect she spends hours crawling around the playground at school. I washed her pants and realized that she only had 2 good pairs left! He shoes are also quickly wearing out and she's outgrown half of her school shirts. I can't believe how big she's getting!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Happy St. Patty's Day!
I have been in blogging time-out for 34 long days. It's been torture!!! TORTURE!!! Okay, so maybe it was more of a self-induced time out. Oh........Oh....I know....a life-is-so-busy-that-I-don't-have-time-to-blog-very-much time out. Yeah...let's call it that. I have a very large and lengthy update post in the works. I want to say I'll get it done tomorrow....that's what I want to say anyway.
Anywho...just wanted to say "Happy Saint Patrick's Day Everyone!!!" From our house to yours (since we missed getting Christmas cards out). (Same thing, right?)
Bria came home from school with tales of leprechauns ransacking their school and leaving behind treats. Apparently leprechauns are quite naughty and make a rather large mess of things - then validate their bad behavior by leaving behind treats. After getting home, Bria wondered where the leprechauns had left the treats at our house. (I guess I somehow missed the memo. I don't remember leprechauns making messes and leaving treats when I was a little girl.) I was about to ask her why she thought the leprechauns had even been here when I looked around and realized what had given her the idea. So, we all did a little tidying up and went about our treatless day. I really don't think I want leprechauns visiting our house and adding to the mess. Do they make "Keep Out" signs for the little rascals? I might need to be more prepared next year.
For dinner, we had some really yummy green cauliflower that we got from Bountiful Baskets last week. It tasted just like regular cauliflower only green! In this house, that's enough.
Sorry for the blurry picture!
Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone!
Anywho...just wanted to say "Happy Saint Patrick's Day Everyone!!!" From our house to yours (since we missed getting Christmas cards out). (Same thing, right?)
Bria came home from school with tales of leprechauns ransacking their school and leaving behind treats. Apparently leprechauns are quite naughty and make a rather large mess of things - then validate their bad behavior by leaving behind treats. After getting home, Bria wondered where the leprechauns had left the treats at our house. (I guess I somehow missed the memo. I don't remember leprechauns making messes and leaving treats when I was a little girl.) I was about to ask her why she thought the leprechauns had even been here when I looked around and realized what had given her the idea. So, we all did a little tidying up and went about our treatless day. I really don't think I want leprechauns visiting our house and adding to the mess. Do they make "Keep Out" signs for the little rascals? I might need to be more prepared next year.
For dinner, we had some really yummy green cauliflower that we got from Bountiful Baskets last week. It tasted just like regular cauliflower only green! In this house, that's enough.
Sorry for the blurry picture!
Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone!
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