1st Class

Tonight Chance received his 1st Class Rank in scouts. I am so proud of him and his accomplishments. Between Karate and scouts he is doing well in both of them. On the 17th of April he will compete in the inter-school karate championship. It will be exciting to watch him compete. Here are a couple of pictures from the Court of Honor tonight.

Receiving his award....

Pinning my pin on me.... how sweet is that ... I love this boy!

Kissing his mama.... I really am so proud of this boy!

Here we are learning about the rank of 1st class.... and what it means to the boys.

Primary Songs

After church yesterday we were on our way home (mind you we live 2 blocks from the church)... when Peyton breaks out into song. She starts singing "Follow the Prophet, Follow the Prophet... don't go astray" then tells me to help her. So I don't sing well but I love love love to sing Primary songs with Peyton. It amazes me how fast she learns the songs and is so enthusiastic about singing them. Which brings me to my next thought... as I was sitting in singing / sharing time in Primary I thought to myself how sad it is the the senior primary doesn't like to sing. I look around the room and there are only a handful of kids even singing... the oldest kids on occasion will sing a song here and there but for the most part it is the younger ones that sing. I love hearing Primary songs as it has always helped me feel the Spirit. It just makes me sad that the older the kids get the less they like to sing... it is as if they think they are too old to sing. I encourage all my kids in my class to participate but yet to no avail... they still would rather play with paper... pencils or anything other than sing. Makes me sad... :( Those that sing each and every week bring a smile to my face... (Thank you Cassidy Toone for all you do). Truly I do feel the My Saviors Love with each and every song. I only wish we could just once have everyone in the Primary sing as enthusiastic as Cassidy does....

Peyton continued her singing through out the night... it has been such a joy having her in Primary. She loves her teachers and now looks foward to going to Primary each and every week.... as for me, I love to go to Singing time and feel the Spirit there....

Painting the house

Here are some pictures of the new paint in the house. This is the picture of my new mirror on the wall in the dining room.

This is the wall by the front door....

This is the wall between the front room (sitting room) and the dining room. Yes it is black.

We are not quite finished... we are still working on painting all the picture frames from brown to black. It has been a work in progress but it has been fun.

Writers Block

I have a small case of writers (bloggers) block! Who would have thought? I have been doing so good lately on keeping this updated... today I was trying to think of what to blog about and honestly NOTHING came to mind... does that happen to any of you?

St. Patty's day!

St. Patty's day came and went and the leprechauns didn't leave me or my family anything. However we had an interesting night. Kelcee and her friend Makayla started playing makeup... Here is a couple of pictures from that night. Here is Kelcee before the Makeup.... doesn't she look all cute in her "green" Kiss Me Shirt...??

Here are the Three Amiga's!

Here is Kelcee's "Master Piece"

Not one of her finer faces... however still loveable...

My Darling sweet girl! She makes her mama proud!

Cutting off Daddy's Beard....

Justin decided he was going to grow a full beard... well it was all fun and games till Cheyenne told him that he looked like her weird gym teacher... and then Kelcee told him that he looked "scary", so he decided it was time for it to come off.... and yep you guessed it Kelcee was the one with the honors to shave it off...

Shaving daddy's Beard....

She was so precise...

such steady hands...

The finished product....

A Day with Peyton

Today I kept Peyton home cuz she spent the night coughing and I felt so bad for her and didn't want to make my babysitter deal with it either.... so I kept her home and we had a day together. We spent the morning watching non other than Hannah Montana.... oh yea 3 times we watch it. Peyton loves this show so much that she has it practically memorized. She can tell you what Travis says to Hannah and what Hannah says at the end of the show... it is quite funny to watch... plus she sing and dances along with the show. She even tries to mimic the moves that Hannah does at the end of the show. Way to cute.... So I had to make a quick trip to Kaysville to pick up my laptop and as we were leaving I got a phone call from a dear friend who was actually at my work looking for me... Erin you should have known I wasn't home I posted it on Facebook.... is what I told her. Guess she didn't check her Facebook before she left her house. Peyton and I joined her and Cambree for lunch. It was a divine lunch with some fabulous women. Cambree is Erin's 14 month old little girl... Peyton loved making Cambree laugh. We had a wonderful time and cannot wait to do it again before they go back to London... (that is where her husband is stationed). Her and Cambree have been here since he was deployed to Cypris... and will go back when he has completed his deployment in May. I will be sad when she goes back. After lunch we headed to Kaysville to pick up the laptop (glad to have it back).... then home again to have "quiet time" where we ended up watching yet again Hannah Montana..... um if you are keeping track that was the 4th time I had seen it.... and that wasn't the end of the show... we watched it one more time before she went to bed. I am so tired of that movie but still find myself watching it over and over and over again. We ended the night with a quick trip to Wal-Mart where we had to get her a green shirt so she wouldn't get pinched tomorrow (St. Patty's day)... She is finally sleeping and I hope she doesn't cough all night again. Nothing makes me sadder than when my babies are sick....