awards,birthday and anniversary all in a bundle!!

This is going to be a long post because.....

So much has happened this past couple of weeks I haven't had time to do anything but go, go, go!! I haven't had time to blog some important events that have happened lately!! First, Braxton received an invitation to attend the Honors Program at the middle school. This is for students that have earned the "Principals Award" which means they maintained a GPA of 3.7 or above for the school year, as well as having to be a member of the Silver Panther Club (for good citizenship) at least 3 out of 4 quarters. Another special priviledge they got before the rest of the school was that they received their yearbooks before the rest of the school! This year Braxton has done outstanding in school. He has received so many different certificates. He was in the Silver Panther, Honor Society Award (which is a G.P.A. of 4.0)  (he got an A- his last quarter so he didnt receive it for quarter 4, he was bummed!) and the Straight A Club *all 3 of these were for 3 out of the 4 quarters!!* He also was in the 100% club, High Standard Science, Most Outstanding 6th Grade Drama Student, Outstanding 6th Grade Language Arts Student, Certificate of Excellence in Keyboarding and he was The Student of The Month in February!! He is such a super kid and is ALWAYS doing his very best in all he does! We are so proud of him and how he makes such an effort to continue to do his best!! ok, off my soapbox! :)

Porter passed off his addition and subtraction before leaving the 2nd Grade. he was almost done passing off his multiplication too!! He really did well this year, and improved so much in every area! He is so ready to be a 3rd Grader!!!

He also played minors this year in baseball....and I didn't get one picture! I know awful....but I forgot my dang camera everytime! He did alright moving up to the minors, but he struggled with hitting...next year he will be even better! :)

Brynlee's birthday was on the 27th. I am so late at getting it up here, but with Porter's baseball games, thats about all we had time for!! We celebrated by taking her and a couple little friends to McDonalds. They had such a good time playing! she got some fun gifts and was happy as ever! I can't believe my baby is 4!! It makes me sad and happy all in one! :) if that makes sense!! sad she is not a tiny precious baby anymore, but happy that she is old enough to go and do things with me and is a big girl about it! it is so much fun being able to spend time with my little girl!

                                       Laykin, Brylee, Gracie, Brynlee, Stockton, & Saylor

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy Girls!!
 
 
 

                                             eatin lunch!                                               happy as ever with presents!

 

 

she was so excited she got a Leapser! she had originally wanted a DS but I just couldnt buy one just yet! I figured she needed to be a little older. :) she got lots of fun stuff and was so excited she was finally 4!!

Josh and I also celebrated our 12 year anniversary together on the 30th!! I still can't believe we have been together for 15 years and married for 12!! so now I can officially say we have been together HALF of our lives! haha!! I am so happy to be married to him, he makes me happy! I hear people all the time say they struggle through certain years of marriage, and I can honestly say that we have never been through that! I mean we have had our ups and downs, but nothing big! I am so glad I chose to spend the rest of my life with him! I will have him forever!! I cant wait to see what the years to come will have in store for us!! I love you babe!!

GOING PRIVATE???

I always said I hated when people went private because you can never just click on their blog and see whats going on, but after receiving NUMEROUS wierd comments in different languages, I just think that for my kids' safety, I am really thinking about going private! I won't do this for a couple weeks, but if you want to be able to view my blog, leave me a comment! thanks a bunch!!

getting caught up....

I found some more pics of Easter. We are coloring our Easter Eggs and we had so much fun!!

UPDATE....

so I am way behind on the bloggin stuff! so much has happened since the last post. so here is a picture recap of what has happened!

In April I went up to Kort and Gingers house (my bro n sis in law) and watched their two kids from Friday afternoon till Sunday night. we had a great time playing and enjoying the awesome weather we had! the kids were able to wake up and go out and play outside pretty much all day long. we ate GREAT food while there! I didn't get a whole lot of pics just cause we were so busy!

Braxton and Eli hanging out till bedtime

Brynlee and Scarlet in their matching jammies that Ging bought for them!

Here's Easter...we had a good weekend but it sure was COLD! here are the kiddos with their basket of goodies!

my mom had an Easter egg hunt for the grandkids. this is right before they were sent off on it!

Brynlee had her year end dance recital and she did AWESOME!!! she sure loves to shake her booty!!! I was so proud of her for getting up there and struttin her stuff!

Brynlee and her best friends Allie and Gracie right before they were to perform!

I still have a lot to catch up on, including more easter photos, but this will have to do for now!! :)

Quick Funny

I know I haven't posted in a really long time, but I will get back to it soon. But for now, this is it! Last night Brynlee was laying down by her daddy watching some basketball and she was asking who was playing and what each color of the teams were and all sorts of questions. well the Denver Nuggets were playing and they happened to loose, and Bryn replied with, "well looks like the Chicken Nuggets lost!" hahah! gotta love her!

New Hair...

I did it.....I cut her gorgeous hair OFF!! I can't believe I did, but it happened! I was just so sick and tired of it ALWAYS getting into her food, face, major static issues, trying to comb out globs of who know what, and well.....you get the picture! I do miss her long locks, but it sure was easy this morning not having to fight her on how to do her hair! She wasn't too sure about it at first. It actually took her till this morning to like it! good thing!!

BEFORE:

 (this is actually clear back from Halloween, I forgot to snap a pic before her locks got cut off! so it was actually longer than this)

AFTER:

Brynlee gave her very FIRST talk a couple Sunday's ago in Primary! she did such a SUPER job!! I am so proud of her for getting up there. she started off a little shy, but soon found out it was fun to talk in the microphone!! :) she talked about her family and why she loves each on of them!! GREAT JOB Brynlee! we are so proud of you!!

I put her hair in sponge curlers to see how her hair would turn out! when I got done she went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror and this is the face she pulled and put her hands out and said, "What the crap?" LOL! it was funny! she is always saying things that make us laugh!Josh was trying out his new backpack and it is big enough to fit Brynlee in! she thought is was so much fun being packed around! she would get down in it so we couldnt see her at all and then she would pop up and say  peek-a-boo!!

Saturday we went to Porter's wrestles. The power was out until about 10:00. so we sat in the dark for quite some time waiting! what a day!! (glad its over) anyways, Porter did a great job! He didnt do as good this year as he did last but its the experience that counts!! he got pinned his first round and his second he lost by points. his third match he pinned the kid FAST! he took third place so he got a metal! he was pretty darn happy! we are so proud of him, he did a great job!!

Then we came home from the wrestles and the kids wanted to play in the snow we received overnight! we built forts and had snowball fights, white washing, snowman building and had lots of fun!

major catch up!

So it has been a couple weeks since I have posted anything and there has been some things that I haven't posted about. First off, my father-in-law got remarried  this past Friday to a gal named Kathleen. Congrats to them and wish them the best of luck! glad to have Kathleen in the family!!. Then Josh and I went up to Salt Lake with Josey and Jenn for a little getaway without the kids! (thanks to my sister who is always so willing to watch my kids, she is AWESOME!!) we went to the hunting expo(boring, but oh well :) ) then we met up with my brother and sister in law  (Kort and Ginger) and ate at Market Street Grill! oh so flipping good! I had delicious salad, the guys tried oysters, we had spinach dip, then I tried the steerhead(which actually tastes better than salmon) with brussel sprout. to top off the night I endulged and had the BEST dessert EVER!!! the raspberry almond torte! OH.MY.GOSH!! so good! I want one now just thinking about it :) we stayed at the Marriott on University Park(which by the way, I lOVE that hotel) got up the next morning and went to Einstein Bagels for a little breakfast and headed off to Cabelas to let the guys be in their "heaven" then headed on to Target for a little shopping and lunch at Olive Garden. we had a GREAT time. its always nice to get away even for one night!

Today I decided to take the kids to lunch and then bowling. my sister came with her kids. we had a BLAST bowling! we are such goof offs!

Brynlee and Scarlet at the wedding!

the bride and groom

the whole family! (not very easy getting everyone to look at the camera at the same time! )

here we are bowling!!