The kids decorating cookies at Nana Trish's and Grandpa Scott's house:
Grandpa Scott turned 60 on February 18th, so we surprised him with a big banner. The kids painted their hands and stamped them all over the poster (messy fun!!)
Love you Grandpa!
Showing my love with some heart pancakes for the kids.
There are candid moments when Josh is the spitting image of his father. Like the other day when I came downstairs after giving the girls a bath to find that Josh, out of all shows on the television that evening, chose to watch Jeopardy.
Josh has had another fun month of basketball. He has a great shot, great ball handling
skills and has improved a lot with controlled defense. So now we are working at getting rebounds. I tried a little incentive. In last week’s game, I offered 25 cents for
every rebound Josh grabbed. After 4 quarters , he had a mere 50 cents. Hopefully
he can jump into the action next game.
Once this boy figures out rebounds, he’ll be the complete package! I can’t wait for a few years down the line
when Josh can play against his dad. It
will be kinda fun to see Cameron humbled.
Ha ha
Daxton
Dax made an amazing discovery the other day. He found that his hair gets extra “poofy”
when he runs a comb through it. Yes
folks, my 6 year old has discovered the afro.
He was hell bent on wearing this do to school.
“Mom, please let me wear it poofy.”
After 3 days I gave my consent and after combing through his
hair numerous times, he was pleased and headed out the door to kindergarten.
Daxton quote of the month:
“Mom, I’m not a detective,
I’m a daredevil. A daredevil on
my bike. I come riding into the garage
like this: errrrrrrrr (tire screeching sound effect). And I slide in.”
Ella
Not quite sure what to say about this photo. Umm, wish me luck?
Ella wants a baby chick. After passing Cal Ranch the other day, I noticed their sign read,“Spring Chicks have arrived.” So I thought it might be fun to take the girls to see the chicks and quickly turned into the parking lot. Now Ella is convinced that we need baby chicks.
“Mom, it’s okay. They can just sleep in my room and I will feed them. Don’t worry, they won’t make too much noise.”
I told her, maybe once we move we can have some chicks. I do have to admit, they’re pretty cute. And the eggs are an added bonus, right?
Ella drew this picture of a "bunny" family. The mom bunny is even holding a baby bunny.
Ella quote of the month:
“Mom, you don’t have pretty good ears ‘cause you don’t hear
us so well.”
(after Dax repeatedly asked if he could play a game on my
phone. It’s called “selective hearing.”)
Amelie
Amelie in her new coat and hat from Nana.
2 Years old, in her new Birthday Outfit!
Blowing out the candles on her Angle Food Cake. She loves Strawberries!
Nana, Grandpa, and Lisa joined the party.
Happy Girl!
I love this picture. She needed her glasses to go outside.
Our baby turned 2 this month. Pretty wild.
She is talking up a storm. My favorite is when she sings us a song or two. Her little voice is so sweet and angelic, it's wonderful. Her favorites are "Jingle Bells" and "Popcorn Popping." We try to sing songs together when I'm changing her into her clothes, during bath time, and before she lies down at night. It's a hoot.
Amelie also upgraded to a "big girl bed" this month. Only 2 nights of climbing out of bed, and she seems to have it down (knock on wood). Her favorite: jumping up and down, falling on her bum then quickly sprining off the bed and landing on her feet.
Cameron
I thought this was a picture of Cam rescuining the baby off the basketball court, but upon closer inspection, I think it's Cam's dad, Glen holding the baby. Sheesh Glen, I've mistaken you for your 30 year old son. That means you've still got it!
Cam closed on our home loan last Thursday. So it's official, we now own a piece of dirt with some weeds on it. Exciting, nerve racking, bittersweet, and wonderful all at the same time. We just need to get the okay from the HOA, then get our city permits, and we hope to begin digging around the beginning of April. Pretty sure it makes both our tummies turn just thinking about it.
Cam climbed Mt. Nebo this past month, this is a shot of the summit.
Cam is heading up for a snowmobiling/yert trip with Jeff and some friends next month. We finally have enough snow to do it, so I hope he has a great time!
Cindy
Aside from cleaning our current home in Kaysville and showing it to multiple people during the week, my time is also spent in prepping things for the midway home. Like so:
You see, after our first submission to the HOA, they said we need to have all 4 surfaces of the home covered in the same material, so I needed to go back through and add stone in places, as well as break up the open surfaces to add variety (like batton board, shake shingles, etc.) I'm not going to lie, it's fun to do, but also a bit stressful. I imagine 9 months from now my body won't be twisted like a pretzel from all the muscle tension/knots that I seem to put myself in. It has been such a process already, with so many decisions and steps, and we haven't even started buliding yet! ha ha. But I have high hopes that all will go well and that our decision to build will not end our marriage (cross your fingers!)
