Fun Times!

This was one of those days I thought it would be a good idea and take 6 kids to the park. The kids always have fun with their friends.

Jared and Keat. They loved rollerblading around the park.

This is the first thing Drew always goes for at the park.

Caleb and Tanner. Caleb was riding it with a little girl and Tanner told the little girl she needed to get off because Caleb was his friend. I am glad I was there to tell him that is not how things go. After the park we went home and had ice cream sandwiches. In all it was a fun day.

Should Have Been A Cowboy!

A couple of months ago Drew had his 1st grade program. At our school they do a "Ho Down". The kid learn a line dance, the Virginia Reel, The Chicken dance and a couple other dances. So cute.

Drew doing the Virginia Reel. SO cute to see kids this age doing it.

Drew getting ready for his line dance.

Drew and his partner. So funny, he didn't like holding hands with a girl, which is weird because he mostly plays with girls since that is what is in our neighborhood.

Drew being Drew doing the Chicken Dance.

Drew in his class. He loves school.

Buttles on Ice

We haven't had an ice rink in St. George ever, until this year. A temporary rink was put up to see if it would be successful. It was and we can't wait till next year. Darrin was on the board of a group called "Kids on Ice". It helps get equipment for kids so they can play hockey. In Feb. they had a fundraiser at the ice rink. It was a raffle and skating from 9pm till 12am. My boys were so excited to go. They had never been ice skating and they got to stay up WAY late.(My boys are in bed at 7pm) We were a little worried because they haven't done this before, but we knew they would be OK since they both roller blade. We had no idea how fast they would pick it up. As soon as they hit the ice it look like they had been skating for years.

Drew in my old Hockey jersey. They skated non stop until 12:30 am. They loved it because everyone had to leave at midnight, so they got the rink to themselves while we cleaned up.

My cute Jared.

Jared in Darrin's old jersey.

Drew getting his skates on.

The boys watching the Zamboni clean the ice.

Jared skating.

Drew skating.

The boys standing by our sign. We were one of the sponsors of the rink so this was up all season. We can't wait for next season. They boys want to play hockey.

We had Grandma Rachel come down and spend two weeks with. Caleb LOVED it. They had picnics all the time and he followed her everywhere.

So every so often Caleb goes in stages were he gets into EVERYTHING. This was one of those days. I had just showered and came down to this.

I guess Caleb wanted a bath too, he just forgot to take of his PJs and get in the tub, not the sink.


This is when he got caught.

He knows he is cute and if he smiles and says, "I love you Mommy". It is hard to get mad. I guess there are worse things he could make messes with.

A great honor

While in Vegas we had an awards lunch. Our store won an award. We got an award for bringing our used sales up 50.7%. Fun to get an award. Lets us know we are doing something right.

Darrin being not so happy I made him take a picture.

This is the group in our region who won some awards. Way to go!

Blue and Gold

The Blue and Gold banquet came on the perfect day for us. It took place on our crazy busy week with us going back and forth to Vegas. I had to help out so we came back for it, and it was Caleb's birthday that day. Lucky for us the theme was Birthday Celebration, the BSA is 100 years old this year. We told Caleb it was his birthday party. He LOVED it. They sang Happy Birthday to him. He now tells everyone when we go to church that this is were his party was.

This is Caleb and his buddy Kolter. They are showing us how old they are. They are so cute together.

Jared telling jokes. Our cub master Loves finding jokes for the boys to tell.

We ate then played some games like pin the badge on the scout, musical chairs and a couple of others.

The boys had a blast.

DDrew didn't do so well with his badge. I love our troop. We have a small group of Cub Scouts, right now about eight boys. They are close and we have lots of fun.

Basketball Jared

yJared loves playing basketball. He has so much fun. He was a very dedicated, tired boy after each pratice. He would go to karate where his teacher works him hard, straight to basketball pratice were his coach would run them for 70 minutes. He loved every minute of it.

Jared had a team that had a bunch of small kids. They wouldn't take the ball away, and were very timid. We would lose every game by like at least 15 plus. I would go to the games a pray that we would only lose by 6 or 7. It was that way for the first five games.

Then on there sixth game, Grandma Rachel got to come watch. I told Jared that she was his good luck charm. They as a team won. It was amazing. They were playing great defense and going after EVERY ball. Jared now believes that Grandma Rachel is his good luck charm. She went to his two last games and they w0n them by 15 plus points. They even won a team by 22 points that won them by 25. What a great way to end a season.

Jard play good D.
This is the first game they won. I took a picture because I didn't know if it would happen again.

Jared watching the game.

This is Jared's team. He was one of the biggest on the team. His team had a bunch of boys that were small for their age.
So proud of his trophy and boy did they earn it.

What a cute, wet, and stinky boy. I love him.