Rachel's Cake Auction

Rachel and her friend Chloe made a cake for the school fair auction. They decided to make a Wii remote. It turned out really cute. Daddy was a bit of a perfectionist with the first layer of white frosting, it took him forever. Then the girls decorated it, they did a great job.

Our Crazy Life!!

It's been awhile since I last posted, things are going a mile a minute at our house.

Things are progressing with the new house. The foundations were started. The kids love to go see the new house. Austin keeps asking me if he is standing in his room, he doesn't quite understand that we are working on the basement and his room is upstairs. Of course the dirt piles are the kids favorite.

Spring Break!!

Last week was spring break for the kids, and since we were the only family in the whole wide world that didn't take a vacation, we decided to have some fun of our own. We did many family activities:

* Monday we went to Jump On It, they have wall to wall trampolines, some on the walls. They also have a few blow up slides. Rachel went to my sisters house because she had been sick all day. Kyle was the only one that was a little apprehensive on the tramps, but he made up for it on the slides. Kelsie and Brinlee wanted to see how high they could get their jumps. Austin and Katelyn were doing flips and playing basketball. We had a great time.







* Tuesday we were supposed to go bowling, but they had leagues come in and we didn't want to fight the crowd. So Jason took Austin and Katelyn to Walmart to pick out a new movie for us to have Family Movie Night. They picked out Alvin and the Chipmunks, we were all singing along. How can you not love the Chipmunks!!

* Wednesday morning we went to the Indoor Pool in Lehi. They have a great kids pool that is huge and not very deep. One area has a great water slide and a climbing toy with water coming out everywhere, and another area has a smaller slide for the little kids. We went with all the cousins and had a great time. Kyle was nervous about going under the water at first, but Aunt Lara got him playing fishy and he was crawling around and blowing bubbles in no time. Kelsie took Austin and Katelyn down on the big, big slide it started in the building went outside and back inside the building. Rachel went on the slide the very most, Brinlee was really nervous and at first refused to go down, we finally talked her into it (OK I bribed her)and then she wouldn't stop. We went to Aunt Angi's house for pizza after and to get warm, the high for that day was 30 something. Good thing the pool was inside.





* Wednesday they started digging our house. I stopped and talked with Devon the excavator and froze my fanny off. It probably didn't help that I had a wet swimming suit on underneath my clothes. So I didn't stay for long, just approved where they had placed the house and left the camera for Jason to take pictures.



* Kelsie & Rachel both got cute new hair cuts and their hair colored. Kelsie cut several inches off and highlights, while Rachel just got a trim and went a little more blonde.



* Wednesday night we went bowling as a family. Grandma and Grandpa Washington, Todd, and the Hall's came with us. Bryan and Lara couldn't come so we picked up Sara to come with us. We had dinner at the bowling alley and had a great time bowling. The twins and Kyle were so cute!! Austin was such a good helper and would carry the ball for Kyle and get it ready for him. Katelyn was a social butterfly but she loved taking her turn. Kelsie actually learned how to hold the ball for the first time (she didn't worry about her nails), and did a great job. Rachel has always been a great bowler and she was a great helper to everyone as well. Jason didn't like the fact that I beat him on the first game, but he did better the second time.






* Thursday we went out to dinner at a new Italian restaurant LaVigna and went to see Nim's Island. The food was great, there was so much of it. We enjoyed the movie quite a bit, I loved Jodi Foster in it. She did a great job playing a neurotic writer who was afraid of everything. My favorite part of the evening was the trip to the ice cream/cookie store after the movie, yummm!

* Friday and Saturday I had to work at the Scrapbook Expo, it was great fun. Although I didn't sit much, especially on Friday. The store sold a ton of kits and I got some much needed (hmmm yeah) shopping done. Kelsie did a great job babysitting on Friday and she was way excited to get paid.



Overall we had a great Spring Break even though it was cold outside. We managed to have a good time even staying home.

Big News!!

We put earnest money down on a lot in July of last year. After nine months of delay after delay with the plans, the bank and the developer we didn't know if it would ever come about. But on Thursday afternoon Jason and I signed the papers for the construction loan. We are so excited to be building our dream house!! We will be digging on Tuesday so yesterday we started laying out the house to get ready. Everyone got to pound a stake, and help with the process.

Dance Pictures!

Here is a link to the professional pictures taken at Spotlight Dance Cup, they got some awesome pictures of the girls.

http://propix.propixonline.com/index.php?act=events&base=\Dance\2008\Spotlight\Salt%20Lake%20City\

They dance with Jazz N Place

The girls are in the following dances:

074 - I can Cook Too (Rachel's Duo)

099 - Strongest Suit (Kelsie's Solo)

140 - Show Off (Brinlee's Solo)

323 - Living Room (Kelsie & Rachel Team Dance)

330 - Party (Kelsie & Rachel Team Dance)

352 - Peter Pan (Rachel plays Micheal and an Indian and Kelsie is an Indian)

There a lot of pictures, but they have some way cute ones. My favorite is one of Rachel at the first of Peter Pan when she is Micheal. So Cute!!!

Here are a few pictures from Brinlee's team dance - Bugle Boy

Happy Birthday Lexie!

I wanted to say Happy Birthday to my niece Lexie!! She turned 4 today. She makes me laugh everytime I'm with her. She is fiesty and knows what she wants. We love her a lot! She had Uncle B bring his horse storm to her birthday party, all those who rode had a blast. Brinlee and Kelsie didn't want a ride, but had fun anyway.

Last Weekends, Dance Competition!

Luckily that was the last one. The girls did excellent, and they had some tough competition. They all got Queen in their solo/duos, and they got first in all the team dances that they do. You can't get any better than that. They also got a specialty award for the most entertaining dance for their production number Peter Pan (Brinlee isn't in this one).





One of the reasons I enjoy having my girls dance is the fun girl weekends we get to go on. I think it has brought us closer. Sometimes it may bug them that I am so involved, but most of the time they let me know that they appreciate me being there for them. I have grown closer to several girls on the teams as well, and I have really enjoyed that.

Last weekend we stayed at the Radisson hotel downtown SLC. I was checking in and turned around and the girls had all used the chairs (one of the props) we had and made themselves comfortable in the lobby.



We had some spare time in between dances and headed to the Gateway Mall in SLC. We had a blast with the girls and they had a blast doing what girls do best, shopping!!

Where did spring go?

We had such nice weather for several weeks. The kids were going outside without jackets on. The kids started getting capris and bermuda shorts out. Now I should no better, I do live in Utah, but I had such high hopes. And then last sunday we woke up to a snow storm, we got about 4" of snow.



(check out Austin's socks, he is such a boy!)

And then we had a whole week of cold weather. The kids had to get their coats out again. This morning we woke up to another storm. Right now it is just hail, but we are expecting snow today. YUCK!!!! I want spring back.