Middle of March Update

Many a sunrise has came and went since I last blogged.




Here's a little of what we've been up to...

Basketball
Jameson played on the Twin Rivers league and really had a great time

Connor is now one of the taller boys on his team

Snow

yes- that is up to the top of our grill

and more snow


puzzles





a puppy who has lived on the top step most of the winter b/c it was too cold for him to be in the garage


Connor's 12th birthday


(It's pretty cool to see both of my boys passing the sacrament each week.)

A fun date night to the play Little House on the Prairie where Melissa Gilbert played Ma. Bad picture taken from a moving vehicle while it was raining


Jr. High 80's dance


Valentine's Day
chairing Genna's class party at school

stack the sweethearts game

dinner at the Outback and then to the Stake dance with my sweetie

Our family dinner~
The table was set despite all of our cloth napkins and tableclothes being in storage


Fondue after our family dinner

I sure love these kids!!

Card Genna made

Connor's note

Jameson's made these



Put an offer in on this house- sniff, sniff, they wouldn't accept it with the contigency of selling our house


February Decorations

Couponing~

my system

after a shopping trip where I spent about $14


getting a stockpile

We watched Troy's sisters kids a few times and had a ball with Seth- he is such a cutie!

Currently reading: The Mitford series and the Percy Jackson series- on the last book of each of them


March "decorations" I think I am going to paint this table black

I can't tell you how happy these 2 little flowers made me when I discovered them today


that and some blue skies are doing wonders after a long gray winter


Thanks for reading this whole post- and sorry about the lack of big pictures

Birthday Girl

Just a quick post to document Genna's birthday. It is so crazy to think that she is already 6 years old.

Turkey treats that she helped me make to take to school Friday for her birthday snack. She had a ball making patterns with the fruit loops. Our version didn't quite turn out as cute as the original, but that's ok. You'll notice we went for the beakless look. Candy corn is difficult to find 3 weeks after Halloween in this town.

Here she is sporting her fun new slippers from her Aunt Linda. She wanted to do the funny pose and made me take a bunch of pictures of her. Thanks again, Linda for the sweet present!

Friday after school, her friend Halle came over to spend the night.

We opened presents

and then headed up to Lincoln. We ate dinner at Culvers and then went to High School Musical 3.


Today on her actual birthday we had a lot going on- practice for the Sacrament Meeting Program, a scout service project, and shopping for a new freezer. We did squeeze in time to open a few more presents and a ride on the carousel at the mall.

I just had to look through some old pictures to see how much she has grown and changed over the years. She is such a joy to our family! We love you Genna Girl!

Lost Teeth

Genna has had some loose teeth for a while now. A few weeks back at Cheer Camp- I noticed her top front tooth was suddenly all crooked. Despite wiggling it every day, that darn thing, didn't seem to want to go anywhere. We joked that it was ok, because then maybe she could wait and ask Santa for her two front teeth for Christmas.



After school Thursday when I was picking Genna up, she ran and jumped up into my arms so I could twirl her around. On the way down she must have bumped her mouth. She quickly realized her tooth was out.

We searched the grass all over, but we couldn't find it. She was really worried that the tooth fairy wouldn't be able to come. She was relieved when I suggested we write a letter to the tooth fairy and explain what happened.

She is constantly writing these days- she loves to copy things. Troy got a note from her the other day saying "You've Been Halloweenied- passiton!" Wonder where she got that idea?


Later that afternoon, I got together with my good friends, Cheryl and Tami. Tami's birthday was in September, but we hadn't had a chance to celebrate yet. So, we went out for dinner. Genna just cried and cried because she wanted to come along and show Cheryl her missing tooth.

Well, funny thing was that the next night, after Connor's hike, the boys had a football contest going on at the high school and Cheryl and I sat by each other. Genna was thrilled to finally be able to share her exciting news with Cheryl. We hadn't been there very long when out of the blue, she lost another tooth.


Tonight when I was putting her to bed, I noticed that her top tooth has already broken the surface. I told her, she wouldn't have a hole there for very long. She asked if it would grow in before we got to see Lorilee. I told her it probably would and so Lor, here you go- she really wants you to see her with her two teeth missing!


The past two nights were late ones, and the tooth was left in the car until today. So, I'd better go call that tooth fairy and make sure she doesn't forget about our house tonight!


Oh, yeah, one more tooth related thing. Troy broke a tooth tonight eating some of his sister's koolaid popcorn. So I guess he's off to the dentist tomorrow. Poor guy!