Carson turns 8

I guess this is better late than never. Carsons Birthday was March 22. He turned 8 and is now a big boy. We had so much fun with Maycee's birthday party and I guess I thought I could pull off a boy party too, but it turns out that boys are lots different than girls and I haven't really figured them out yet. We went to Leo's and I think they had fun, video games and a playland how could that go wrong? I did learn that 1 1/2 hours was not quite long enough, if I do that again I will have it longer, none of the kids were ready to leave.

We also had a party with the fam...he got lots of fun presents. He got a Nintendo DSI from us, he has waited since Christmas to get it. We made a deal with him that if he could stay out of trouble with his teacher at school from Christmas till his B-Day he could have one and he managed to do it. Good Job Carson!

And it is always cute to watch the little pyro-maniac blow his candles out...after he has to light them himself. He is a fun little kid and although we complain sometimes about his "activeness" we really wouldn't want him any other way. I really LOVE that little guy, so Happy late BDay buddy, we love ya!!

Class of 2010

Oh my gosh is it really this time, have we made it through? Saturday April 10,2010 this little guy graduated from BYU Idaho. He now has a degree!!! What a great feeling.

Marching across the stage to recieve his "diploma cover" as the guy doing the announcing said. They will get their actual diplomas later in the mail. Really though it is the cover that we were after!

Here is Jeff and his dad, thanks for coming, it meant a lot!! and a huge thanks to his mom and dad for all the many hours they have helped us with our kids while we were trying to juggle my full time job, his part time job and his full time school schedule. **We made it**

This is our neighbor/2nd mom to us both, Claudia. They have been our neighbors for 6 years now and we love her right to death. Her husband John, our 2nd father passed away in February. Jeff and John were very close and it has been hard not to have him around, but as Claudia tearfully reminds us, he was there in spirit and he would have been very proud of his Jeff's accomplishment!!

Here is me, his very proud wife. It has been hard as heck and I don't think anything in our life is the way we ever planned, but it is awesome to see the young man reach his goals.

The graduation was very nice, it only lasted about an hour but the kids while proud, were very restless, they wanted to run up and down the stairs like toddlers when we were finished. Yikes!!

And the proud family all together. Good job Jeffrey! Now lets go find a job!!

Yeah Spring!

It's funny how we wait all year to get a "snow day" out of school...today is April 6, 2010 and we have officially entered into spring, today, the kids are not in school due to the snow.???!#*@*##! Work with me spring time! Work with me.