Friday, July 27, 2018

may 2017

Ella is an inside cat, but sometimes she wishes that she was an outside cat. She loves to look out the windows especially when the windows are open. She also likes to look out our screen door when it's open.

My cute cub scouts. This was Dallen's first den meeting. A wolf and a webelo. 
The boys got asked to perform a flag ceremony for a meeting. 
Hannah is so brave and full of ambition. She decided that she wanted to apply to be a student officer for her 7th grade year. They had to put together a portfolio and then attend an interview with an advisor and some of the current student body officers. She did so well, and is an inspiration to me.


Dallen on our way to take his pictures for his baptism. I let him sit in the front seat with his booster seat. He forgot that daddy was coming with us, and he ended up sitting in the back. Dallen thought it was so funny! You are the star today Dallen!

I seriously love where we live in East Layton. I love being close to the mountains and the green that surrounds us. When we were preparing to move back to Utah from Albuquerque six years ago, it was really stressful trying to figure out where we should live. I drove all around davis county trying to find the right area. When we came into the east Layton area, I just had a feeling that this was it. My instinct was right and we are so happy we landed where we did!

Most Sunday evenings we have family home evening. It is something that the kids enjoy, which I love. It was my turn to pick the activity, and I picked to take a nap. Everyone had a 5 min nap. The kids loved it!

We finally got around to painting Bethany's room. She had an ugly brown color on her walls. We painted one wall purple and had fun with it on the way. We teased her that we were going to leave it this way. 
When we were in Florida in December, the primary needed a picture of Bryleigh for a christmas ornament they made for them. So I took a quick picture of her outside of our condo. Not sure why it popped up in May, but she's so cute. 
Rylan got an award at school for being a good student. He got to have lunch with the principle and have his picture in the front of the school display case.
He also had a fun project where he made a Indian dwelling. It was a little stressful getting to together, but he was happy with how it turned out. 

We got to baby sit scout. The pets know how to keep their space when they want it.
Ky didn't think that May was eventful enough, so he added to it. He bumped into a car, but did some damage to his car and the car he hit. It ended up totaling his car, mostly because it isn't worth much. So he ended up getting a new car, which it was time. This happened the week of Dallen's baptism. 
It was a crazy month, and was happy when it was over! And we all survived!

bee's game with grandpa

We were so excited to have Grandpa come visit us. He came during the last week of school, because Dallen got baptized the Saturday after school got out. We had so much fun with him!

We went to a bee's game with him. It was fun because the bee's were playing the tacoma rainers. The three kids that played league softball/baseball got free tickets to a bee's game. That's why they are sporting their jersey's. Their teams were sponsored by the bees. 

The kids tried to get some signature's of the players. I think they only got one though. 


We had a great time!

family practice

We had four kids play softball/baseball this season. It was Hannah's and Dallen's first time playing. We like to be able to teach them and work with them, so they are more comfortable during the games. We go to the park and have our own family practice. The kids really enjoy it. When the little two get tired of it, they go play on the park while everyone else finishes.

Bryleigh was our designated runner!


We also went to the batting cages a couple times to let them practice hitting.
Sometimes it's hard to teach Dallen, because he is left handed. So everything is backwards. 


I love that our kids enjoy playing sports and trying new things!

bryleigh's 6th birthday party



Bryleigh had such a fun 6th birthday party. The theme was cupcakes. She invited seriously all of her friends, and that is a lot! She had a hard time picking a theme, because she wanted the boys to be happy with it too. A pinata was on the top of the list of what she wanted at her party. 
We also played pin the cherry on the cupcake. Because she invited so many friends, we had her party at the park by our house.




We had cupcakes of course! They got to decorate their own cupcakes. They had fun with it.



Present time was super excited for her. She loved it! The friends had a lot of fun too watching her and they kept inching closer and closer to her.





She got some fun presents from her friends. She had so much fun and was so happy so many of her friends could come. Bryleigh loves to be around people!