Our Family

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Wolf Blood

Our family is loving scouts right now! Bruce is the Scout Master and I am a Den Leader working with our 2 sons Dallin and Logan, who are a Boy Scout and Cub Scout.

Logan LOVES scouts and is dressed in full uniform usually 30 minutes before we have to leave. He begs us to work on scouts and has been talking about getting his Wolf award for MONTHS!

After completing all the requirements... he finally got to drink the long awaited Wolf Blood to earn his badge:

And... who can forget Mr. "Scout Fitness Man" below.... ha ha

My Favorite Cub Scout.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Campaigning

5th grade Emma is running for Student Body President

Her chances of winning are slim.

There are 8 kids running for president...

SEVEN girls and ONE boy!

I am thinking the 1 boy has a really good chance of winning.

Emma was in need of a very good, very catchy slogan.

Campaign Headquarters:

(making poster)

The slogan we came up with was:

"Its SO FLUFFY!!!"

(quote from "Despicable Me")

ha ha, well, its unique at least, as far as slogans go.

(you gotta click above pic to see enlarged)

She was SO excited about her poster. We used a turquoise boa for the letters in her name, I glued that on... but Emma cut out all the letters we glued on, then I wrote the letters below and she traced them with the puffy paint. It was a joint venture, not all me. When I took her to the school to hang up her poster every kid that saw it immediately said all excited, just like the movie:

"It's SO FLUFFY!!"

It was catchy just like we wanted.

And her speech is even more awesome. She is going to say "Fluffy" a dozen times. We thought it was a funny slogan, but didn't know how to tie it in with meaning. We were brainstorming as a family... then Ashlin said you should use the letters in FLUFFY like an acronym. PERFECT.

F- Fun

L- Leader

U- Understanding

F- Friendly

F- Full of enthusiasm

Y- WHY wouldn't you vote for her?

Emma's brother Logan told his whole class to vote for her. Isn't Emma lucky to have such a big family, we make up quite the campaign committee.

The littlest Committee member is the cutest:

Peek-A-Boo

And don't worry... on the way home from helping Emma hang up her poster at school, Sophie, Lily (in her pajamas still) and I stopped and voted for our Local Gilbert Town Council Members!

Good Luck Emma!!

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Bishop

A few weekends ago I brought my friend Rachelle and went to the "Womens Retreat" to a cabin in Prescott, AZ with 20+ ladies from our ward. The car ride with 5 of us lady friends was so fun... HOWEVER... Within 5 minutes of getting to the cabin Bishop Haws comes up to me and says, "Can I have your car keys, your car has a flat tire"

NOTE: Even though it was an ALL womens retreat, in the church you always have a few men there, constantly staying out of our way, but ever present in form of personal bodyguards in case needed.

I love the church.

Bishop was so wonderful, he didn't even ask, just got right to work jacking my car up and changing tires for me. A few ladies were like, "Oh no, I am so sorry, are you stressed out?" I laughed and was like, "it is really not that stressful sitting in a chair watching Bishop change my tire and taking pictures of him"... ha ha.

Wouldn't you know I only got 4 pictures of the whole retreat, all of the Bishop changing my car tires, before my camara batteries died.

None of our lady fun on film.

But really, he is so wonderful, I am so thankful for the presence of leaders in my life who constantly urge and inspire us to reach higher and become better. (Funny the things people say that stick with you... years ago he said to us that when we are in the car with our children sometimes we need to just turn the radio off and talk to each other... I still remember that and often think of him saying that, then I turn my radio off and talk with my children. That is just one of many examples...)

Monday, May 9, 2011

My Day

Mothers Day with homemade gifts from lots of kids is just wonderful.

(This year Bruce bought me a corsage to wear to church)

I loved the picture Lily made of me riding a pony wearing a cowboy hat, and I loved the "worksheet" Logan filled out about me where he listed my favorite thing to do was snuggle with him, Emma's card was so sweet (and she didn't beg me to have another baby like she did in last years card)... But this year Dallin's card got the prize....

I seriously laughed for like 5 minutes when I read the card Dallin made.

Front:

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Inside:

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Back:

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ha ha ha

Happy Mothers Day to me!

Spring Formal

Ashlin went to Spring Formal on saturday.

Ashlin and her girlfriends made t-shirts for the day date with their dates name on the back. This shirt cracks me up because Ashlin's dates name was "Dallin" just like her brother.... ha ha, so if you see her wearing this... it is referring to her date, not her brother.

Getting Ready for the big night:

This cracked me up below, I had to get a picture of how Bruce and Dallin sat waiting for Ashlin's date to arrive.

Ashlin's 5 year old sister Lily honestly showed Ashlin multiple times how to walk down our stairs like a princess.

He came to the door by himself,

though they went in a group with like 5 couples.

They both looked so lovely.

Talent

Last week Emma and Logan had their first piano recital with Sister Borden.

Oh we love our piano teacher, she is fabulous.

Logan just started piano a few months ago and LOVES it. He is so incredibly disciplined and remembers to practice all on his own. He played in the school talent show this week as well. It was so cute that he wanted to, considering he just started playing piano.

I have to document here that Miss Emma and I decided on the way home from this below recital what she should do when she grows up: Music. I was surprised how Emma commanded that piano with her confidence, dynamics, crescendos and foot pedal. I told her as we drove home that she should major in music. I told her she has a darling voice, loves music, has a gift for it, is so good with people and would really be a great music teacher. The next morning she happen to have to write future goals for a school assignment and I noticed she wrote, "Music Teacher". If that happens, it was decided this night.

(Logan was so excited for the Recital...

all on his own he went and put on his suit)

I didn't even take a picture of her and Logan playing piano at their school talent show this last week. Emma played "Don't Stop Believing" (the Journey song). She did so good, I wished I would have recorded it.

The day of their recital Dallin came out with his guitar and played for me on the guitar Taylor Swifts, "You belong with me". I didn't even know he could. I made Emma come over and sing it with him. They sounded so good together. That night I made Ashlin and Bruce come and listen to them sing, Bruce didn't want to come over but I made him, promising him it was so cute.

It started off so good playing the guitar and singing together... until...

...Emma accidentally sang the chorus twice... then they started screaming at each other and Emma stomped away mad without finishing the song. Then I looked at Bruce and said, "See, wasn't that cute." ha ha.

Then Dallin was stuck with Logan to play with, who didn't know the song. He shouldn't have yelled at Emma.