The Garden

I was proved wrong on this one. Quincey and Daddy planted a garden this spring. I did not have a lot of faith that things would grow because there were so many leaves in the soil that were not decomposed. I have been proven wrong because we have gotten a lot of of this garden. Strawberries, green beans (tons), tomatoes, broccoli, peas, squash and soon corn. I'm amazed! Good job you guys!

Our MOVIE PREMIERE!!!

Our family made a movie called, 'The Trickster Strikes Again!". We invited our best friends over for a movie premiere. We had popcorn, soda's and candy and had so much fun watching the movie. It was even the first time to see it for some of the actors. It was a fun family activity and will be a treasure to keep about something our family did. You know what, it was a BLAST!

She Got That From Daddy.

Quincey just finished her 8th grade year. At the awards ceremony, she was awarded top 8th grade girl in MATH. We were so proud! I am very thankful that the kids seem to take after Daddy in this area. He spends hours teaching Quincey at night and I am SO thankful that he can because I have no clue how to do it. That is really neat accomplishment Quincey!!!!

The Raptors

Another season of flag football and come and gone. Daddy has always been the assistant coach for football in previous seasons, but the coach moved midseason, so Daddy got to finish out the season as head coach. It was a good experience for him and Boston. I would say that they had about at 50/50 season. Perfect to experience winning and loosing. I enjoyed watching it and was so proud of Boston and the Coach!

Talents Galore!

For Pack Meeting last month we had a talent show. Every boy in the pack did a talent and it was WONDERFUL! One boy did some comedy and did an impersonation of ME! It was really funny and GOOD too! Here are a few shots I got during the show. Boston rode his unicycle also, but I forgot to take a picture of it, I was so entertained! =) It was neat to see all of the talents that these boys have. Neat young men.

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.