Happy Mothers Day

Happy late mothers day to all the beautiful momma's out there. Here are some photo's and a story from our fun day at my house. My mom, my Aunt Joyce and sister Tammy came over for dinner (my brothers wife was sick so they couldn't come and Jenny is across the U.S. so she wasn't here either) and of course, like always we had lots of fun. Tammy had made this beautiful german chocolate cake that we were all so excited to eat. My mom had a piece on her plate and was joyfully walking to have a seat to eat up, only she made a big mistake and walked by Tammy, who saw the happy look in my moms eye and grabbed the plate and pushed it up tight to her face. She was a frosting mamma!

I grabbed my camera because it was so funny, I wanted to remember that moment forever! Well as they were posing for a photo for me, frosting on face, cake in hand, Tammy SMACKED the plate of cake again creating a bomb-like effect sending the cake all over my kitchen. Please note the look on each of their blurred faces...My poor mom is just preparing for the worst and Tammy must be looking for the cake in the air, it seems to already be out of the picture frame. Anyway, I love my family, they are always good for an irreverent laugh!

Baptism

Isn't he cute? I can't believe that he is already old enough to get baptised. We did ponder the thought of having him wait till he was like 18 or so just to be on the safe side. Ha ha! No really, we are so proud of him. He made a grown up good choice and he has been so good.

Here is the funny part. The night before the baptism we were filling out the paper that says a little bit about the child being baptised, a member of the Primary Presidency reads it in front of everyone, it asks questions like "how many brothers and sisters does he have" and "what are some hobbies he likes" and "who is baptising the kid-o" and then "what makes that person special to you"....

Well I was asking Carson all these questions and I would write down what he said. I asked him who would baptise him and he said "daddy". I asked him what made daddy special? He thought for a minute and then said "uh, he has big nipples". We laughed and laughed. A couple minutes later Jeff said "Hey you didn't actually writed that down did ya?" Can you imagine.

On the more serious side though. I love this little kid and I am so glad that he took this step in his life. He is a good boy and I am excited to watch him grow!!

A True Friend

The other day the neighbor kids were over playing with Lincoln and Carson and they all went in the backyard to play soccer. Well, when they do that and Mack is outside too he of course likes to "play" with them. They all must have gotten tired of Mack getting in the way so they put him in his kennel. It was so cute because we looked out the back door and we saw Lincoln in the kennel with the dog. He felt sorry for Mack and so he just opened the door and hopped inside with him so he wouldn't be lonely.

EARTHQUAKE!

Today we went to Fiesta Ole' for lunch with our little family. We were sitting there eating our yummy food when Maycee turned to me and said "So, if there is an earthquake what is our plan? Like... should we hide under this table or what?" I looked around and said "I dunno, I think we should go under the door frame." And then she told me that we should just sliiiide under the table so stuff won't hit us" and she slithered down under the table like a little snake. I guess that must be what they are talking about in school right now. It was very funny to me.

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.