March 2014

Regional Tournament!

Eden's dance group performed for a group of senior womenls luncheon.

End of the year trophy awards ceremony for the chess team.  These kids had to work really hard and pass off many requirements to earn their trophy.

There are no words to say how amazing our homeschool group is.  It is stellar and the women who are involved are so inspirational.  I feel so blessed and it even meets just down the street from where we live!  They have an annual mom's retreat so I was eager to go and soak up as much awesomeness from them that I could.  We went stayed at a huge beach house and had a nice relaxing time together.

We went to a ward St. Patrick's Day party and one of the activities was to make a leprechaun center piece with the materials at our table.  The kids were very proud of their work, so we took it home to see if we could catch one.

Instead of catching a leprechaun we caught Elfie!

Meeting new cousin Noah!  That's when I knew Logan wasn't my little baby anymore.

St. Patrick's Day parade with cousins.

Such a goof!

Things were getting a little too relaxed at home so we had a family meeting to brainstorm some rules.  We let everyone throw out ideas and some were definitely more silly than others.

On St. Patrick's Day the kids woke up to a note and some candy!

Peter even made green pancakes.

Lily's lip were hurting so she insisted that she put some band-aids on.

My sisters and I had our annual sisters weekend in Rockaway.  We dubbed it "Sisterpalooza".

I took the chance to get some crafting done while I was there.

Daddy sent me lots of pictures of the happenings at home.  The kids all got their zones clean:

Then they had some healthy green smoothie (Eden told me they had ice cream for breakfast too, ha!)

Then they went to feed the ducks:

When Mom's not around to say no!

Peter is a such a great dad. He keeps everyone happy and holds down the fort well. Thanks babe!

February 2014

In February, we were able to bless baby Logan in our new ward. All of our local family came which was 6 families.  We took over the front three rows in the chapel and with so many kids there, it was quite a lively meeting.  I wondered what all the people that barely knew us must have been thinking! Here are a few pictures from afterward.  

I came across this paper one day and we got a huge kick out of it.  I think I was pregnant with Dallin and we were passing time on a road trip dreaming about our future family.  We knew that we wanted at least 6 children as you can see with "option 1".   In reality it was 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009,  and 2011 but that was a pretty good guess.  I don't think we are going for "option 2", but number 7 was in 2013 so we are already behind, LOL! I think the bakers dozen option was if we were to match Peter's family.  I am so glad this paper somehow made it into a file because it was quite a treat to remember the daydreaming from way back. Glad it worked out! Too funny how much thought we put into this.

Mr. no nap can fall asleep at any moment in the early evening hours.

I spy with my little eye, a tiny little baby foot!

Baby Spider-man.

Another office find. This is baby Eden and Peter's cousin's baby with Peter's Grandma Hedman shortly before she passed away.  She looks so happy. It reminded me of how much she loved being a great grandma.  She always knew the count of them and all of their names.

We had 1 fun snow storm this year.  It lasted a couple of days which was just enough time to sled and build a snowman and have school cancelled.

I made dental appointments for everyone in February and some had returning appointments so I felt like February was the month of the Dentist!

Eden's valentines hair.

More dentist.  Carter's appointment was last and he was so excited when it was finally his turn!

On valentine's day Carter got some stickers and decorated me. It was so cute!

We had a fancy dinner together complete with sparking cider and stemware.

Heart chicken noodle soup tasted great after so much sugar all day. 

The kids got to participate in Larry D's tournament. It was HUGE and so well organized.

This is Peter's club.

My little champs!

Peter and I went to a western themed Sweethearts Ball with Larry and Michelle for our Valentine's date

We also had exchanged valentines at our family dinner at Grandma's house.

We played a bunch of silly games too.

Dallin had fun with the dominoes at grandmas house to.  He made sure I took a picture.  The biggest one is a temple.

Luke was trying to go play one day and thought he was just fine (in february) since he had boots on.

Carter wasn't as excited when he ended up going back for a filling. 

They had a mother son dance at the school and was was so lucky to have 3 dates! Tanner was really into the dancing and even won a dance contest.  Dallin was really into the musical chairs game and won that.  Carter was really into the balloons and had quite a collection by the time we went home.

My sister turned 30 so we went for mani/pedis to celebrate. Shellac is awesome! This lasted more than 3 weeks.

I was trying to get a picture of this scowl that Luke makes. This doesn't quite get it, but I at least want to document that he has a great scowl.

Luke has an aversion to clothes.  We had been duct taping his diaper on to keep that on as well.  I found that I could get it in white so at least it doesn't look quite so silly.  So here he is again passed out with his duct taped diaper.  He is sooooooo 2!