Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Primary Cookies!

I have been the Primary Chorister since January of this year and absolutely love it! To get the kids to learn the songs a little better, I gave them a CD with all the songs on it and told them to listen to them every week. For every time that they listened to the CD, they would get to put a bean in their "music jar" every Sunday. I told them when they filled up their jars, they would get a surprise! They finally filled their jars right before their primary program, so I ordered a cookie cutter shaped as a music note and made 100 sugar cookies!! I had flour, frosting and chocolate sprinkles from one side of my kitchen to the other! It was so worth it to see these smiling faces!!

Junior Primary


Senior Primary
I love these kids so much and am so proud of the AWESOME job they did at this years Primary Program! Always remember: You are all Children of God - Keep singing!

Halloween 2008

Halloween was really fun this year!

Kayden as the SPECIAL White Power Ranger

Kyler as a basketball!
Krysh as a scarecrow


Karley did go to a theme party where I made her a toga, but she did not want to actually trick or treat this year. She is so grown up now ya know!

The whole gang at the trunk-or-treat at the church. If you can't tell, Huntyr is a baseball, Sienna is a Bumblebee, Denica is a Fairy, Dauge is a Dalmation and Brynlei is a Princess!

Karley and Kyler's BIRTHDAYS!!!

Since I have not had high speed internet for a while, I have missed blogging about some VERY IMPORTANT events in our lives! So, I am now back-tracking a little to get caught up!

Karley and Kylers birthdays were September 6th and 14th - right during our move to the new house, so, we celebrated a little late.

THE CAKES - Karley started volleyball this year and had a blast, so I decided to make her cake a volleyball. I then thought I would just make it a sports theme because Ky Ky loves football. I got a little carried away with the 4 cakes, but they turned out so cute!!

Karley Dawn is now a TEENAGER!!


Kyler Bruce is 3!
I LOVE this picture!

Mom and the B-day kids!
I love you two and hope you had a good late birthday!



Tuesday, November 18, 2008

New House!

So this is our new house. For those of you Weiserites that follow my blog, you may recognize this house as the Woods house. Norm and Joan Woods lived here with their family of 7 or 8 kids, I can't remember - does anyone know? I can remember beautiful Wendy, Lori- because she taught me piano lessons in this house, there was another daughter but I can't think of her name,Ryan went to school with my sister Stacy, and I can remember a Kent. Norm used to be the Bishop of 1st ward in Weiser when I was growing up. Anyway, we like it and are adjusting nicely now that we are getting settled in.

Front of house




Side view

Back of house - The kids love the tire swing we put up!

We were very blessed that this house was available and we know that the Lord was looking out for our little family in our time of need! I am so thankful for the gospel and the knowledge I have that it is true! We are truly blessed!




Tuesday, November 4, 2008

UPDATE

OK, so I have had a couple of comments left on my last blog by my beautiful cousins, and I feel the need to update everyone on my little situation. We have moved, which is a story all it's own, and one that I will tell at a later date. But for now I will let you know why it has taken me so bleepin' long to update my beloved blog.
We already lived in the middle of nowhere in little Weiser, ID - but we now REALLY live in nowhere land! We actually only moved a few miles from our old home, but it is way out in the boonies! We cannot get DSL, which was the high speed internet that we had at our old house, just a few piddly miles away! When we called to have them change our connection, they informed us that we were not in the service area at this time and that it could be anywhere from 4 months to a YEAR before they get their butts in gear and get DSL to our new home! Talk about bummer! Since the move we have had DIAL UP!!! Can you believe that nonsense - I can no longer be on my laptop and on the phone at the same time - that is ridiculous!!! Downloading pictures?- FORGET ABOUT IT!! I feel like I have reverted back to my early teenage years in Junior High where I was the awkward brace face with the bad home perm who pegged her pants and wore socks with Birkenstocks!! I am so out of the loop because it takes so long to get onto anyone's blog to see what is going on! I am no longer the confident girl with the straight teeth and hair who would never again wear such tight pants or socks with any kind of sandal whatsoever!! I am at this very moment, using my parents computer to type this blog update - can anyone say LOSER?!
So, to my beautiful cousins with their snippy comments - BACK OFF!! Your giving me a complex already! I am stockpiling pictures and stories to tell once I get back to the real world of high speed and wireless internet where I can lounge on the couch and blog to my hearts content! Ahh blogging, how I miss you! And, I miss all of you too! I had to come to Mom and Dad's to get my "blog fix" and see what you are all up to! Lindsay has been VERY BUSY and has a beautiful baby girl - Brynlee Louise - check out her blog!! I will be back soon! Love you all!!
Summer