After eight months of scouting Braden earned his Arrow of Light award which is the highest honor you can earn in the Cub Scout program. The Pack meeting below is the award ceremony which takes these Cub Scouts and bridges them over to the Boy Scout program. We are all very proud of Braden and know that he will be successful in earning his Eagle award like his dad.
This other scout with Braden in also named Brayden and earned his this award too.
Yep, another year is in the history books for my stud Stevey! He just wanted to keep this years birthday celebration to a minimum, you know just kind of get through the day below the zone, under the radar, incognito, you get the drift.
"OK, birthday boy, what ever you wish."
Sweet but not too subtle, just right for my man and needless to say, he received many birthday wishes from the neighbors. As far as a gift goes, at the gym we frequent regularly they ran a very special offer of a ONE HOUR massage for only $30...he has aleady used it (because I set the appointment for him)and he LOVED it....happy birthday Stevey.
Now this is how we like to spend our days...Playing at the "club house" with all of the neighborhood kids for HOURS and HOURS. We have all been cooped up too long with long cold weather here in IF. "HELLO SPRING!"
This was my first political rally, ever, but I just couldn't sit this one out. Since our Novembers Presidential election I have been filled with a passion for politics and our country, liberty and freedom that I see is quickly slipping away. ANYWAY (that's a whole other post) I went to this TEA PARTY rally tonight and it was GREAT! It was very respectful, sincere, and VERY well received. There were hundreds of people there from all walks of life, the majority being clean, outstanding, and decent citizens who share the same views and love of county as I do.
I am happy that I went and very proud of my kids who went too and LOVED it!
Yep...I am thinking the same thing. How can any one person, little-lone a three year old little girl, have NATURAL curls like this. I mean she must have been pretty dang valiant in the pre existent to come here with this wonderful gift. Well, up until a week ago these golden locks acted more as a curse than a blessing, but then I figured it all out...the answer just came to me and I knew what to do....
Spring break came and went and during those long days stuck inside due to the ridiculously cold and wet weather, the girls decided to hone their culinary skills. They chose to make the delicious Passion Cake (carrot cake), and french bread. They did this all on their own with just a half dozen cell phone calls to me for guidance (the two little girls and I were at the gym for our weekly three hour child care shift which I do to get the childcare free at the gym while I work out). 
By the end of the week we needed some serious fun so we started in with the relays (there is nothing quite a relay session to get the heart pounding and the blood pumping).
As Stevey and the older four kids where walking out the door to carpool with three other dads and their kids to go this Monster Truck event, my beloved husband slowly backed up out of the doorway and shut the front door. I asked him what was going on and he humbly tells me that he was waiting for the bishop to drive by on his way to the Priesthood Session of Conference at the Stake Center. I guess Stevey didn't want to concern the bishop with his lack of attendance...that or just hiding from his own guilt.
Regardless, they had a great time and I am happy that they FINALLY went to one....they have been trying to go for years.
Dalton and Zoie
Shay, Braden and a friend Colton
The fire-breathing, car-eating, masked dinosaur.
"Falls Brand" meat company showed their gratitude for bringing the nut in the wieners mishap to their attention by overnighting us a nice selection of their other meat products available for sale....the sausage and old fashioned hot dogs were good (if you like that kind of thing). 
So if the hotdog thing wasn't weird enough I was at Toys R Us the other day and decided to buy Sunny the toy pictured on the box below. What I got the was the toy displayed on the right....do you see a problem here? I called Fisher Price about it because on the box there is a disclaimer stating that there may be slight differences on the toys verse what is pictured on the box....and THIS difference is anything but slight. After some discussion we discovered that the toy was packaged in the wrong box and they are now sending me correct toy for FREE...I returned the one I purchased and discovered that mine was the only one packaged wrong. Another win-win situation.
For dinner on Friday night I was putting some beef wieners on the BBQ and was surprised to find a nice greasy nut tucked in the middle of them nice and snug....I didn't have to pay anything extra for it either.
I called and emailed the company about it this morning and sent them over these pictures and they were quick to call me back in total disbelief. They are going to call me again on Monday to get more information about the packaging so they can try and figure this whole thing out. I think this is just so weird. And secretly I hope they offer a good samaritan award!
Enjoy!
This was our third birthday for the month and it was a lot of fun. Clover had some friends over for small party full of cake, ice cream, presents, balloons, and tears.
We love you Clover.
