Chance's Big 12...

Chance turned 12 on Saturday the 2nd of May... so I decided to let him have a "boy/girl" party... We had he party on Friday night. Everyone showed up at 5:30 pm and the girls had to leave at 10:30. The boys spent the night and I took them home at 10:30 the next day. We had a lot of fun and the kids were all well behaved. They played outside for the first part of the party and then watched a movie... then Justin and I gave Chance his "present" he got Guitar Hero World Tour.... you should have heard the cheers! The kids played guitar hero till it was time to go to bed for us older folks... So after the girls left we let the boys play till 11:00! They watched another movie and went to bed. They were up at 7:00 am and just watched TV... then at 8:00 they started playing Guitar Hero World Tour till it was time to eat Breakfast... yes I made them pancakes and sausage for breakfast... After I took them home Chance and I played guitar hero till it was time to clean up. We had great day!

Peyton Even got involved in the playing of Guitar Hero.....
Everyone Say HI!!!!

Chance showes his stuff on the drums!
Chance Sings his song....
Jordan and Patrick show how it is done!

Easter 2009

Easter this year was Awesome. To start the weekend off with we took the kids to an Easter Egg hunt in Bountiful. Let me start by saying that I have never been to an Easter Egg hunt other than family ones.... so to my surprise there were Hundreds of people there. I have never seen so many kids and adults in my life. There Were Easter Eggs everywhere... and in less than 3 min all the eggs were picked up and there was nothing left. As soon as the whistle blew the kids were off.. it looked like a large vacuum just picking up the eggs on the ground. Then came the Adult 18+ group... OMH!!! People the are just Eggs... There were adults tripping over each other and pushing and shoving.... Wow but the prizes were great... we didn't get any but it was still a lot of fun. The Easter Bunny was there however none of my children would get close enough to take their pictures. I tried and tried to talk them into going but they were all either too afraid or "too old". We did have a great time and plan on attending next year... Next time we wil bring foot ball pad and and helmet. Jk... it was a lot of fun. Afterwards we went to lunch with our friends and neighbor's the Blacks. My children spend a lot of time with thier children and vice versa. After lunch we took Jordon and MaKayla to Toys R Us with us and then spend the evening with them as well. We are so glad they moved into the Cul-de-Sac.

Later that night we colored 18 eggs and the kids just loved this. We had MaKayla and Jordon with us too and they had just as much fun as Chance, Kelcee, and Peyton. Actually the Big kid Justin had more fun than all of them put together. He was quite stingy with the Eggs... He wanted to color the eggs... I explianed that he needed to Share.... He finaly gave in and let the other kids have some fun. We had a great time. After the eggs were colored we got together and talked about what Easter really ment... We went over the Easter Story and why we celebrate Easter. Chance and Kelcee enjoyed it but Peyton well she was more interested in the book I was reading from.

Sunday morning... Chance and Kelcee woke up at 7:30 and came in and woke up Justin and I. Then they went in an woke up Peyton. At that point Peyton was still sleepy but when they told her that the Easter Bunny had been there...she perked right up. She was excited to find the Scooter that he left and Chance was excited about his game and Kelcee was excited about her game too. Then they started to hunt Eggs... now the Easter Bunny left us with 106 eggs to find and it was the last 3 that we couldn't find. Much to our suprise the last eggs were found in Peyton's kitchen in the refrigerator and in the microwave.... Chance was the one to find the last 3. Go Chance! After Church we went to Grandma Smith's house for dinner and for an Easter Egg hunt. It was a lot of fun. We had a great time, all the family was there and it was just nice to have the family together and to enjoy each other's company. The kids each got a special egg with thier names on it and in it was a coupon for a special gift... however in exchange for the gift the kids had to tell grandma what Easter and the Attonment of Christ ment to each of them. I thought that was a pretty amazing idea to keep the kids remembering what Easter really means. We really had a great Day and Weekend.


this is the Final product from the coloring of the Eggs...


Kelcee's Loot


Chance's Loot....

Peyton's Loot and she didn't want to get off the scooter either....
Peyton was trying to help Uncle Rob and Maddy....

Kyla's First Easter

Smith Grandkids...

Peyton's New Dress

So I was out shopping the other day and found this really cute dress and it came with a smaller one for a doll or a "bunny rabbit" So for church she wore her dress and had to take the rabbit with us too...They were so cute I had to take a picture of them... This is one of my favorite pictures of Peyton!!! She loves to say "Cheese" when you take her picture!

Braids Braids Braids

So while I was in Bear Lake I decided to braid my Sister in law's hair into small braids... well while I was doing this Kelcee decided that she wanted to have the same thing done to her hair. Well I hadn't brought enough elastics to do both heads of hair so my mom and I had to run to Montpelier and get some new elastics. I started on Jaci's hair just after Breakfast and about 1 hour 1/2 later I put the last elastic on. After Kelcee had helped with the chores and the men had gone to Preisthood meeting I started on her hair. Kelcee's hair only took 45 min since her hair is a little thinner and not as long as Jaci's. After Priesthood meeting Dallas and Jaci came over and we all played card games and had a great time. I had to get a picture of my two "work of arts" together. Kelcee just took her hair out of the braids tonight (Wednesday) and now she looks like she crimped her hair with a really small crimper. She loved having her braids in and wasn't really happy about taking them out. I am sure that Jaci took her's out on Sunday as she had to teach a bunch of 7th graders on Monday in school. It was a lot fo fun but my hands started to cramp up after about the first 10 braids. At least they look cute right??? It was a lot of work!

Feeding the Baby Calf

This last weekend we made the trip to Bear Lake for Conference Weekend. When I had called my dad and mom to tell them we were coming my dad got really excited because he couldn't wait to share his new responsibility with the kids. They had a calf born and then a few weeks later her mommy got sick and they had to "put her down". So this left this new baby calf motherless so my mom and dad "adopted her" and have to feed her a bottle of milk 2 times a day. They have named the baby calf Annabell. She knows when it is feeding time by the sound of a Whistle... that is right when they blow a whistle she comes running up to the fence cuz she knows it is time for a warm bottle of milk. So Saturday morning came and Grandpa got the 3 kids (Chance, Kelcee, and Peyton) up and dressed to go out side. (mind you there was about an inch of snow on the ground that had fallen in the middle of the night). Anyway, Grandpa made the bottle and then took the kids outside.. of couse I followed with my camera and was still in my jammies.... The other kids were in thier coats and boots and were ready for winter weather. As we walked out on the back porch Chance blew the whistle once and here she came running.... it was so cute. She knew exactly what to do and the kids Loved it. As I said before we had to feed her 2 times a day, once in the morning and once at night. All 3 times we got to feed her the kids would take turns holding the bottle. Kelcee had to have a little help as Annabell kept hitting the bottle and pushing it out of her hands so Chance helped hold it for her. Peyton didn't really want anything to do with her because she is scared of cows... she likes to look a them but then that is it... if they start getting within 5 feet of her she freaks out. Peyton just stayed with her Grandpa cuz she knew he would keep her safe. All my kids love to go to Bear Lake and spend time with Grandma and Grandpa. There is always a new adventure around the corner. Chance, Kelcee and Peyton all helped feed the cows that evening... Petyon of course wouldn't leave her daddy's arms cuz the cows were too close. She is the same way with Horses... Of couse Kelcee is not as much. She walks right up to any size of horse and shows no fear. She loves the animals and love to be apart of the farm. Chance well he loves the tractors that feed the cows and the trucks that haul the horses around... that is what he likes on the farm. I like going up there because it is away from all the stress of the city... even though it snowed the whole time we were there by afternoon the snow was all melted and the grass was showing through... then it would start snowing again and we would have a fresh blanket of snow for the morning feeding. It was a great time and a new experaince for the kids that they will never forget.

The 4 tag....

1. Go to where you store your digital photos & open the 4th folder. 2. Post the 4th picture in that folder. 3. Explain the picture 4. Tag 4 people

We had gone out to one of our favorite Chinese restaurants and at the end of the meal they bring you a plate full of orange slices. Peyton was just over a year old and picked up one of the orange slices and started eating it. Her faces were so funny I had to take a picture of them.

Tag: 1. Erin
2. D'Neil
3. Aimee
4. Mindy

I'm a Slacker!!

I know i know it has been a while since I last blogged... I'm sorry what with all the facebooking I've been doing I forgot about this and have neglected it. So I figured I would take time out of my busy facebook and get this updated. I will do better ( I know I said that last time but this time I'll do better. So let's see since I last blogged what has happened... Oh I know, we decided we were going to purchase a swing set for the kids. Well what we didn't realize was that it came in 2 boxes and it mentions that the swing set takes 2 men 10 hours to put it together... well to be more specific it told 1 Justin 5 nights to put it together along with a few choice words. I tired to help and so did Peyton... she even went as far as putting misc bolts in boards they shouldn't be going in. It was rather cute... she was so excited when we pulled out the slide... she even tried to slide down it. Justin worked on it till he couldn't stand to get bitten by the mosquitos any more. He started on Sunday afternoon and finished up on Friday evening. I ended up leaving him in the back yard to put the finishing touches on the set. That and he got tired of me telling him that he was "doing it wrong". So I left and went to visit the neighbor down the street. When I returned the Swing Set was COMPLETED!!! Yeah! So Satureday morning came and thankfully the weather cooperated. Petyon loved it so much that she took her "toy food" out and played in the playhouse with it. The other two kids played on the swings. Then the weather didn't cooperate so much... it started to get cold and then started to snow again so we had to go in. Since we got it up we havn't had a chance to enjoy it due to the snow and the odd winter like weather we have been having. Someday we will get the chance to use it. We are going to start working on the back yard to fix it up so we can have some more fun in the back yard.

Work has picked up so things are a little less stressful there. We got our contract extended for one more year, so now we just need to start making money. We are staying busy bidding work and just waiting for the word as to whether or not we got the job. We are staying busy and that is the main important thing. Justin is staying some what busy at work. That is always a good thing to. He has recently been talking about going back to school so that would be a great thing. He just needs to figure out what he wants to go to school for. He has been talking about going to the police accademy.... I tell him all the time I think he would look HOT In a uniform! I would love to see him go and become a cop. I think he would do a great job and would really like what he does.

Chance has since moved up to the Advance class at Karate and just tested for his second level green belt. Which means he is that much closer to receiveing his next belt. He is starting to learn how to use weapons now.. and we have to get him some "sparing gear" so he can start to learn combat. He still loves it and is enjoying every minute of it. On April 18th he has an interschool Karate Championship tournament. He is very excited about it and wants to sign up for each of the competitions. We will seee how he does. It isn't a usual Karate tournament. They do other things like obstacle courses and tug a wars. It is very entertaining. I'm excited to go and see how it all works. Chance wasn't able to participate last year because he was in soccer too. So this year should be a lot of fun.

Kelcee continues to learn gymnastics and is loving it. She has been trying to learn how to do a back hand spring. I showed her the other day that I could do one on the trampoline and now she wants me to teach her how to do it. We started working on it that night but then Peyton decided that she had to be involved too. So I tried to teach her how to do a back hand spring too to but that didnt' work at all Peyton was all over the place. Kelcee loves to go to her classes she is doing great in school. We miss her when she isn't with us but that is a sacrafice we have to deal with.

Since I last blogged our family had the opportiunity to go to the open house of the Draper Temple. It was an amazing experience. We had a great time and needless to say I cried the entire time. As we entered the temple all I could think about was the day that Justin and I get to take our kids and enter the temple and change into our white clothes and be sealed for Eternity! As we sat in the sealing room it hit me so hard. I had Kelcee and Chance sitting on one side of me and Justin and Peyton on the other side of me and all I could think about was this is where we need to be. I love my family so much and I want more than anything to have them with me in the hear after. It was such an amazing experiance I can only imagine what it will be like when we get to go for the real thing. It will happen and when it does I want all my loved ones to join with us.

Well until next time... Love you all! - Jerri Lynn