Drew, the basketball star

This was Drew's first year of basketball. This year they started something new in our city. In the past they are able to start basketball when they are in third grade. This year they started Iddy Biddy League. This is were K-2nd get to play. It was great. For the few "games", they had four stations and had the kids learning different things about basketball. For the last 1/2 of the season they did drills the 1st half hour and a game the second half. It is a great way to get the kids to learn how to play the game.

Drew is always a ham when it comes to the camera.

This is one of Drew's best friends, Kess. They are good buddies.

Again, Drew the Ham. I love that boy.

Drew playing one of his games.

One of Drew's favorite things to do was jump up and touch the rim. They attached some backboard thing onto the hoop, so the kids hoop was shorter. Drew loved it because he could touch the rim.

The thing I love the most about city league is that every child gets a trophy. Drew was so excited and proud.

Sing A Song

This is Jared's amazing choir group. They have over 100 kids, 3rd-5th grade. They practice twice a week before school. They(the choir and their teachers) were asked to teach a workshop on how to have a successful Elem. Choir. They were chosen over all the schools. They worked very hard. Over Christmas break, their choir teachers gave them a CD with about ten songs and asked to memorize two on their break. When they came back they had choir three mornings a week and learned the rest of the song with dance moves. They learned them all by Feb. 5th for the workshop. They did an amazing job.

Jared and one of the funny faces he pulls when he sings, I think his nose gets itchy.

Jared has loved being in choir. This is his second year and he is excited for next year.

He is such a good, fun loving, kind kid.

Primary PJ Pancake Party

We had a great PJ party with our primary. It was for the kids to get to know their teachers. We had a great turnout. Everyone(including our bishop as seen above cooking) wore their PJs and had breakfast. The bishopric came and cooked for us. They are the best. The kids had fun.

Caleb and his friend Kolter. Even though Caleb is not in primary yet, he gets to come to the activities. He wants to be in primary so bad, he cries when we take him to nursery. The only thing that keeps him going is the fishy crackers.

Here is most of our kids waiting for breakfast. In the back is Jared's class. It is the only picture I got of them because they didn't want to sit still.

Drew with some of his class. His class and the class above him were small so we combined them to make a class of 5 kids. Drew is the only boy in his class. I tell him he will LOVE his class in when he is older. Good thing two of his best friends are in that class.

Now he is Three!

Good thing Caleb is young and doesn't have much concept of days, because we were only able to have cake on his birthday and that is because Grandma Rachel made it for him. That was a crazy busy week for us. On Sunday, Darrin and I headed down to Las Vegas for a trade show for our business. We were there Sunday, Monday and part of Tuesday(Caleb's Birthday). Tuesday afternoon we headed back to St. George to spend sometime with Caleb and for the Blue and Gold banquet(I am over scouts in our ward.) Wednesday morning we headed back to Vegas. We bought a bunch of sports equipment from the vendors. We had four guys in our ward help us. We got home about 11pm after a non stop day. Thursday was my birthday, but no time to celebrate because Darrin had to work all day and Jared had a basketball game. So Friday we had a joint birthday for me and Caleb.

Grandma Rachel made this cake which we sang to him after the blue and gold banquet.

He LOVED us singing,

and him blowing out the candles.

He loved it so much he made us do it,

THREE times.

We waited to give him his gifts and little family party on Friday.

So happy to open his gifts.
Caleb's Handy Mandy Motorcycle. It was what he wanted for Christmas, but Santa didn't want to spend 35 dollars on a small motorcycle toy. Lucky for his Mom she found it for half off after Christmas.

Grandma Rachel got the boys glasses for Caleb's birthday. So cute.

The thing that he seemed most happy about was the crayons he got from his Grandma Rachel. He kept hugging them and saying I love them, I love them.

Little Boy For Sale!

Little Boy for Sale!

He likes to build things,

He likes to play games, will only take out one at a time(and not put them back, only took me one hour to do that.)

And LOVES to help in the kitchen. Good thing he is so cute and tells me twenty times a day he loves me. Guess I will keep him.