Trains Rock

So my friend called me two weeks ago to tell me about the library story time train day. I politely declined thinking of all the other things I had planned that day and of how horribly slow the Heber Creeper moves. The day of the ride came along and she just happened to have an extra ticket, the sun was shinning, and Luke looked like he needed something to do besides be my sidekick at work.
So we rode the train!
And look at Luke's hand ....
It rocked!
Thanks Monica and Ali for a fun day.

Birthday Bash

Jada turned 8!
It seems that Birthday celebrations drag on forever around here.
We had a family dinner on Tuesday then a Late Night friend party on Saturday and to wrap it up a extended family party on Sunday. Whew.... and we still have the baptism stuff coming up!
Oh well, any excuss to party right??

Bringing in Spring

We have been busy!
Birthday Celebrations, book reports, piano festival, vacation time have all come and gone and I haven't been a very good blogger. I can blame it on my camera but all I need to do to fix that is get a new flash battery. (I've needed one for almost a year)
I've come to terms that I'm more of a enjoy it and make a mental image type person rather than document everything with photos. But.... the kids love the pictures so I will try to be better and maybe next week I'll get a new battery. Maybe.

Oh the Drama of Student Government

Mia had a major life disappointment today. She didn't make Student Council.
This is my girl to which all things academic come easy (cartwheels, walking without falling, standing, etc. those are things she is used to failing at) but until today anything to do with school she thought was a sure thing.
She broke the news with a happy face but when I asked who made it the tears started flowing as she listed some of her best friends. I must say even though she is disappointed she is very happy for her friends.
Lucky she is like her mother and a good dose of ice cream or chocolate can help ease the sting. We are off to have a Mommy/ Daughter bummer I didn't make it treat after dinner.

The Timeout Bench

Luke spends a lot of time on this bench rethinking some of his choices. This time I was pretty mad and left him there for a while. He decided to make the best of it, climb inside and take a little rest. He looked so cute, I forgave him for putting the entire roll of toilet paper in the toilet.

Ice Skating

My goal for the Christmas break was to do one fun thing each day.
Most days the fun thing was playing with friends or cousins but we did see " Alvin and the Chipmunks" (pure torture for me but the kids loved it) We also attempted ice skating in Midway. Luke mostly just rolled around on the ice, Mia did great and Jada caught on towards the end. Luke wandered off (of course) fell over a snow hill and cried the whole way home as his frozen hands thawed out. The plan was to go for hot cocoa but the wet frozen screaming boy put a stop to that, maybe next time....
who am I kidding one skating trip per year is good enough!

Titan -vs- Bambi

A while back our truck challenged some local wildllife.
The Truck took a beating but won.
Rest In Peace Bambi
(Grown up Bambi that thing was huge!)