CHEER MASTER!

Daddy is the cheer master for our Pack 299. This is something that he volunteered for to help liven up the Pack Meetings. It has been so much fun and had everyone cracking up. Good job Love! Let's give him a ROUND of applause!

Piper and Friends

Piper with four of her best friends from first grade. They were at a birthday party for one of them and all had a complete BALL. I'm so glad she has neat friends.

Briggs' Lesson

Briggs taught a lesson at Family Night about The Plan of Salvation. He was able to put together the plan while Daddy talked about it. This is one of Daddy's favorite things to teach our kids about. They know it well. Yesterday was Ward Conference and in Young Women's the Stake YW President asked the girls if anyone could recite the Plan or Salvation in 30 seconds. Quincey raised her hand and rattled it off perfectly. Daddy was in the room and felt SO proud that his girl knew it. Thanks for that lesson Briggs.

Elephants!

Pipers big LEAP project this year for school was a research paper on elephants. It was so much fun to learn about them and have Piper get excited about them. She painted this elephant to add to her presentation. She really did a great job.

Bostons Lesson

Boston taught a lesson at Family Home Evening and I thought he did a great job. He talked about how Jesus saved us from spiritual and physical death. He made a train track and had the tracks broken in two places representing the two deaths spiritual and physical. Then he explained how Jesus helped to build bridges to allow us to overcome both. It was great.

My Girls

I went upstairs and found my girls in Piper's room doing hair together. Quincey is a dream big sister. She does Piper's hair, paints her nails and lets Piper come to her parties at our house. Piper is just running around as if she is one of the big girls. It is sweet. I know that Piper will remember it and appreciate it forever. I feel blessed to have these two girls in my life.

Bumper Crop!

This year our peach trees had their first bumper crop since planted two years ago. It was fun to have so many peaches that we could freeze them, make desserts with them and just plan pig out on them. Fruit trees are the best.

Perfect End To A Perfect Day

We took the kids to Cici's to eat pizza You can't go wrong there. That was a fun Memorial Day with the family.

Memorial Day Skating!!!! (dang fun)

After visiting the cemetery, we took the family to the local skating rink. With the new trainers that they have for kids, I knew that it would be super fun for all and Briggs and Sarger could learn to skate all by themselves. It proved right! Briggs skated non stop and loved it. By the time we were about to leave, he was skating by himself around the rink. (slowly) Sarger also learned to skate by himself. It is so fun to see your kids learn new things. It is fun to have your kids grow up and get to do things as a family without a little baby to take care of. I love this time of life. The kids are already asking about going again.

Memorial Day

We started off our Memorial Day by visiting the Flower Mound Cemetery. It is a neat little cemetery with lots of interesting and old graves. One I remember that I would prefer to NOT to have as my epitaph was, "Mother, she did what she could". I am thinking more along the lines of," Mother, she was amazing and will be dearly missed." or something about being the "best Mom in the world" wouldn't be bad either. Anyway, the only person that we know who is buried in that cemetery is Hunter Berry. He was in Briggs class at school and lived on our block. He died at age 10 while on vacation with his family in Mexico. He slipped and drowned in the hot tub. His grave is such a sweet grave. he has a poem that he wrote about all that he was thankful for and all the things he loved. He was sweet to Briggs and that is enough to make us love him. I am glad we were able to visit his grave this Memorial Day.

My Scouts

For Pack Meeting this month we had a talent show. Every boy shared a talent with us and it was an amazing night. I was so proud of each of the boys. It was a great evening. Connor Jones did impressions. He has a super cute personality and is VERY enthusiastic. He even did and impression of SISTER BARRON! It was so cute. He made me feel special. Boston rode his unicycle and I video taped it but did not get any snap shots of him. He did great riding in circles in a small room. He's so cool, as well as all of my scouts. I love them.

"The Lioness at the Gate"

During Women's Conference our General Relief Society President, Julie Beck, talked about mothers and how they are like a lioness at the gate of their home. Keeping out evil from our homes and protecting our families. It was a neat and inspiring talk. When I got home I thought it would be fun to do a painting called "Lioness at the Gate." I was hoping to capture the intensity of a mother's love for her family and for the the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This is how it turned out. I gave it to Bethany as a gift because she was there with me and I thought she would like it.

Daddy is Always Good For a Laugh

One thing I love about Daddy is that he does things because he knows that the girls will like it. He never "dissed" Little House one time, most guys would. He is happy to do things with us because he knows that we like it. He also lets us put a bonnet on him so that we could laugh our guts out and have a good time. Thanks Love, you are so much fun to be with. (By the way, the picture of him and Quincey is their rendition of Charles and Laura Ingalls.) =)

Little House on the Prairie

We couldn't pass up the opportunity to go to downtown Dallas and see the musical, "Little House on the Prairie". I love that show! The actress that played Laura on the show, Melissa Gilbert, played Ma in the play. It was a super fun night with Quincey. We went out to Sweet Tomatoes for dinner and then when we parked for the play, Daddy came around to get our doors and we slipped on our bonnets to surprise him. It was so funny. We sported our bonnets and felt cool. (I know everyone there was jealous.) ;D

Piper's Project

The first grade had to do a diagram of what they want to be when they grow up. Piper wants to be an artist and this is how her diagram turned out. I think it turned out great.

My Scripture Case

I couldn't find a scripture case that I liked at the bookstore, so I attempted to make one by looking at another one. This is how it turned out. I like it.

Mother's Day Treats

Daddy got me a corsage for church. It was so pretty, it had five yellow roses, one for each of our kids. He also got me a bouquet of spring flowers, a new set of scriptures, and a BYU hoodie (He told me to pick out the scriptures and hoodie when I was at BYU). I am excited about my new scriptures! =)