Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Fabulous Five!

5 cents

famous 5
(love the hair)

powerful, yet lovely

cute book

5 points

5 pockets

world-famous-five

one of my childhood FAVORITE books!

5 sunflowers, Van Gough style

oh so sweet


Classic

another classic

speed limits

high fives

even better high fives


soon

it's the top rating, right?

The favorite birthday

best movie to see

most of us have five on each hand

different

yes, it is

a nice amount to have handy
(20's better, but I'm not going that far)

We're excited to say...We'll have FABULOUS FIVE in the summer of 2009!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

This girl...

I love how helpful and happy she is in our home.
I love her creativity and imagination.
I love her willingness to share her talents.(I wish she'd give me some)...
I love her love of family.
I love her love for all things crafty.
I love that she is independent and is confident to be herself.
I love her good example to her family and her friends.
I love that she wants to be my helper these days.



Emily is lucky and gets to share her birthday with her Great Grandpa Kennan (Papa). This year, she turned 9 and he turned 87!


Happy Birthday to two of my favorite people!

Monday, December 22, 2008

A first

This is a sampling of Jaydon and Joel's first violin recital. Emily's an old hand at this...she's done it several times...but had a few jitters with Grandma and Grandpa S. in the audience. (and cousin Lauren). Enjoy!
(the first one is Joel, second is Jaydon):


(We're working on Emily's...it's a longer video...)

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

where has December gone???






Here are a few things we've done already this December. Where the time is going, I have no idea!!! But we must be filling the hours with some fun stuff, 'cuz we have a few pictures to show...

We celebrated Ryan's birthday with a few friends. It's all about blowing out candles and eating cake, right? Well, there was plenty of that! A super-chocolaty-death-by-chocolate-made-to-order birthday cake was enjoyed by all.


We then went to our Ward Christmas Party. We ate LOADS of turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole and all the fixin's! (not to mention the 20 rolls devoured by my 4 kids alone). Complete with homemade pies and candy-cane ice cream. Oh yum!

The entertainment for the evening was supposed to be Karaoke for the adults...but as you can see, it was sort of taken over by the youngsters in
attendance. Don't get me wrong, there were a few great adult performances, but for the most part I think Emily had a mic. in her hand 80% of the night! That girl loves to belt it out!!







On Saturday, we had a little craft project. The kids made a candy Christmas Tree to take to a sweet, sweet Sister in a local Convelcent home . The kids were a little nervous, though we've been there several times before. But they joined in singing loud and clear and gave Pam her beloved Christmas Tree! (I would post pictures, but it was too dark in her room).


No wonder I don't blog too often...as I write, the kids are seeing how much mud they can get on their feet...in the back yard. Meanwhile, Ezra probably needs some MORE dry underwear... Until next time...we'll keep doing fun stuff and posting when we can!