The Valentines Box

Ok, honestly this post is for Angela. She had the awkward pleasure of talking with me on the phone while I was at Michael's Craft Store. We got the dreaded flier that kids get to make their Valentines boxes at home.....what?! So I have the wishful thinking that I am going to walk into the craft store, and they are going to have "basically made" boxes. NO! I was so wrong! I wandered aimlessly and frustrated through the store, getting hostile towards poor Ang. I bought a bunch of random stuff finally, I was not happy with anything that I got. Well I have to say....BOO YAH, I rocked this box! So here it is, I'm not going to lie that I am pretty impressed with myself (and Ava's help).

Dancing Fool

         Almost one year after Ava's dance solo, I get a random email that this is my last chance to purchase action pics that were taken at the competition. Not the greatest ever pictures, but they were only $4 for a 5x7, and I did not yet have my new amazing camera yet. So I thought, why not?

         This year Ava signed up for a cheer babes class and tumbling. The cheer class was small from the get go, but after only three months, Ava is the last "man" standing. Everyone has dropped the class, and her teacher is sweet enough to continue teaching Ava solo lessons for the same price. So here we are getting ready for our next solo. It still amazes me that this little gal is willing to get up there all by herself and shake her thing in front of so many people!She will be performing on Friday, April 29th at Roy High School. I will not have a time until about one or two weeks before, but anyone is welcome to come. For those of you who can't, I will be posting my own fab pics and a video.

What we've been up to...

Ok, we all know that I've been back on line for a while, and yet I continue to slack. So here is a random post of some of the things that we have been doing for the last little bit. We went over to the school to play in the snow. The first obsession was to clear all the snow off of the ice under the playground.

The "best method" was to lick a small amount of snow, melt it in your mouth, spit it out, and then rub the spit into the snow on the ground. Needless to say that got tiring and they were running out of spit. So we moved on to bigger and better things. There is a small hill on one side of the field that was great butt sledding.

Yes Ashlyn is bawling. She spent the entire time crying because she was scared and the other girls wouldn't go down with her. When I gave them the "5 more times each" warning, she continued to cry. The best part was, that she was going so slow, that she had to use her feet to scoot forward! On her very last slide down she realized it was fun and then cried because it was time to leave. Sometimes you can't win!

On another day.....

They dressed in anything black that I owned, we made cup phones, and the played "Charlies Angels".

Can you hear me now.....

And we had a sleepover with Ava's friend Kambria. I bribed them to go to sleep by telling them I would take them swimming tomorrow...Well, I had to deliver. We picked up Kambria's little sister Averi and headed to Clearfield Aquatic.

And now I must go and and get the girls ready to go to horse riding lessons with our very own Denise!

School Pics

Not much new happening. Brian is building a pantry in the kitchen, Hurray!!!! This was supposed to be a smiple project, which unfortunately for him has become a small nightmare. You would think that at this point we would come to expect this. Who ever did the last remodeling on the house was very.......creative!

Halloween Pics

Not much to say other than the kids were totally out of control. We did trunker treat, my work, and Jen's neighborhood. Ava was done before the end of Jens block, Grace and Ash could have gone all night (provided that someone else carried their bags as they became as heavy as they were).

Thanks to Jen and Denise for helping to entertain!

Introducing....

Scarlet O'hara

The vampire

and the Hippo

The Buns

Not much to say about the bunnies, except that I won't post any names since their names change every time that the girls play with them. Just a couple of pics and videos. Do not allow the "innocent" looking still shots fool you, viewer discretion is advised if you have a weak stomach to "animal cruelty"......



As Karl Malone would say, "Connie do be interested in the bunnies, she really do" .

Birthday fun and All thanks to Katie!

So the saga begins....
Katie has inspired us to ride our bikes! After watching her video...and the fact that I ran over one of the training wheels of Ava's bike when I was backing our of the garage...we decided that we were ready to try.

We went one Sunday after we got Ava from Eric, she was very nervous and Brian and I were both wearing flip flops which are less than ideal to run behind holding onto a bike! So we went the following Sunday and she did short bouts, but unfortunately no camera.

So, I promised her we would go after school the next day, her birthday, but being the great mom that I am..I had scheduled her a dentist appointment. After the dentist we took her to Olive Garden for her birthday dinner where she thoroughly enjoyed her spaghetti.

First I was feeling like our waiter was a loser and as much I kept telling him and then hinting to him that we needed to have people sing to her, I thought that he was never going to do it. But, he totally pulled through and not only did they sing, but he made her a wiener dog balloon! He got a good tip.

After dinner we went to a church parking lot and finally took video of riding our bike! Luckily it was only raining a little, not that the rain was going to stop her from getting her film debut anyways. And with the rain there was a huge rainbow that Ava thought was pretty cool.


The saga continues...
So naturally you can't have one bike and three kids. So we went to good old Wal Mart and got two new bikes. Here are two of the three proud owners and their bikes (because Ash could not hold still for a pic).

We went back to the parking lot and we learned how to ride! Here are the new bike riders! Thanks for paving the way Katie!