More cub scouts...

This past Friday was pack meeting. Bud continues to LOVE cub scouts, which is great. This pack meeting was "Night at the Museum" themed with an emphasis on Amelia Earhart. They made paper airplanes and got their award flown to them in paper airplanes. For refreshments we had sugar cookies that they painted. The kids had a great time.




In other family goings on- this is how you'll find N8 and the kids before bed most nights!

They love Mario Kart!

I've been doing a little more crafting. Most recently I made these:

I've been posting them over on my craft blog: ldscraftproject.com come check it out!

Mormon.org

I am LDS, I belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I'm sure all of you that read this blog already knew that and I assume that 99.99% of you are LDS yourselves!
So if you are LDS have you created your Mormon.org profile yet? If not, go get to it! It's quick, easy and the most painful part is just trying to figure out what to write about yourself!
All you have to do is:

• Click "create a profile" up at the top of the page
• Login (you login with your lds.org account)
• Start filling in the blanks!
• Wait for it to get approved
• You're good to go!

It took about a week or so for mine to get approved, so be patient! You can check mine out here:

Sunday afternoons are back!

I missed having Sunday afternoons! Now that we're back to having 9am church we have all this time. Sometimes that's not a good thing-crazy out of control children! But yesterday Emma and I worked on and finished a Valentine's day craft! It was nice. I hadn't crafted for a while. Now I'm back in the mood and ready for more!
Here's what we made:

So it means I finally posted back on my craft blog: ldscraftproject.com! I hope that more post will be coming shortly!

Time...

Even though this hasn't been a flex weekend it has been (so far) one of the more pleasant and calmer weekends we've had in a LONG time! It seem to be rare that we have TIME! There are always meetings, activities, etc, etc. It's been super nice. Now we do still have Sunday and Monday ( :) for getting MLK off work and school!) but so far so good.
Last night we had two families over and we had pizza, visited and played games. We didn't play our typical Settlers or even Ticket to Ride. The kids played some Wii (they love Wii Sports Resort) and the big hit for the kids was Plants VS Zombies! At one point a different child was playing on each of our 3 computers!

Then some of the big kids played some Mario Kart :)

We have really had fun with the Wii! We hadn't had people over for quite a while and it was nice to sit and visiting, laugh and enjoy the evening.
The added bonus was that Henry actually slept pretty decent last night as well! That meant a nice evening followed by a nice night!
Today was a beautiful day and N8 decided we all needed to go for a little hike. This was Henry's first hike.

He really enjoyed it!
We passed a track that looked interesting. Probably a dog, but it was fun to tell the kids it might be a cougar!

Here they are at the top of the Mountain, I mean hill!

We were on the hunt for a geocache and Emma was the winner, she found the box!


Taking a rest on some rocks:

We came home a washed the van inside and out and tonight we watched Despicable Me (cute movie!). I can only hope that tomorrow and Monday will be as pleasant!

Food!

We've been having many sleepless nights at our house. Henry has been up about every 2 hours since we got home from our trip. In our hopes to get him to sleep more at night we decided to try some solid food. His first go at it he wasn't so sure!

But he is now a fan and so it Emma! She has decided she is the official Henry feeder.


Unfortunately it hasn't helped him sleep better. We may have a partial answer for that problem now-one sharp little point of a tooth poking through his bottom gum-a tooth!

Snow Day!

Last night when we got home from our trip it was snowing!

Not just little flurries, but a decent amount of snow. Before we even unloaded the van, N8 started on a snowman! Here he is in the process with the kids:




Unfortunately some unruly neighborhood teens kicked him over about 10 minutes later!!
Then this morning at 5:30am I got a call from the school district letting us know that school was canceled. N8 quickly looked outside and found it had snowed more!! He decided to take a snow day himself and he and the kids got to work checking out and playing in the snow.
This is in our backyard:



Here's the front:

The snowball fight in action!


N8 rebuilt the snowman:

Can you tell he LOVES the snow:


Tomorrow will be back school!

New Years 2011

2011 started out with a bang! We headed off to Phoenix to stay with my parents and started things out by going to dinner for my parents 47th wedding anniversary!

The next day a group headed off for a hike. It was Camelback mountain, which is in the middle of Phoenix.

On Wednesday it started out with a bit of rain and ended with even more rain! But in the middle of it all we headed over to my Aunt Julie's house. She, my Uncle Andy and cousin Courtney were gracious enough to allow us to come to their house and ride some of their horses! The kids loved it and didn't even care that it was cold and rainy.



On Thursday we went over to my brother's side of town and took the kids ice skating. Bud got the most improved award and everyone had a great time!

After ice skating we went to Joe's Farm Grill which has been featured on Diners Drive ins and Dives from Food Network. They had the best onion rings that both N8 and I had ever had!!

For New Years we headed up to my sisters house in Payson,AZ. Snow isn't totally unusual for them, but for a good amount to stay is. We lucked out and got 2 good days of sledding, playing and snowman making!



It was nice to have extra hands to hold Henry:

We came home last night to snow! Crazy, but true. This morning at 5:30am the phone rang. It was the school district letting us know school was canceled due to hazardous driving conditions. N8 decided to take a snow day himself! Now, this afternoon, the sun is shining and the snow is melting. The Christmas decorations are all still up, I'm mid-laundry and the house is a wreck! We had a great Christmas and a happy New Year. Now it time to get to work on 2011. Tonight for FHE we'll probably make our annual goals for the year. Let's see what we can accomplish!