Daddy Daughter Dance 2009

The Daddy Daughter Dance-
This year's theme was "Sock Hop" thank goodness for the old Halloween costumes we had. The girls had so much fun with their dad.

50's sock hop

Brady wanted to go as Danny- from Grease- but he came straight from a meeting at work, so he is wearing his usual attire.

Cuties

Good friends Emily P. and Emily B.
(They are in the same class, it gets very confusing).

Emily, Kameron (friend & neighbor) Becca

Carlee (in Becca's class), Becca, Emily

Darling!

Let's go to the movies!

My girls love Hannah Montana (ugh, not really my favorite). Here we are at the opening of her new movie. Our Neighbor Kim and her daughter Avery met us there to watch the show. We had a great time.

Avery & Emily

Becca, Avery, Emily and Me

Kim, Becca, Avery and Emily.

Nephews

My Brother, Phil and his wife Nina went back east to visit Nina's family. I had the opportunity to watch 2 of their kids. Cameron and Remington were a joy to have. We had so much fun. Here are some pics during their visit-

Aaron & Cameron eating cookies that we made and coloring.

Having a picnic between the Saturday session of conference.

Remington is gorgeous!

Aaron and Cameron made a mud pit and Remington couldn't help but be attracted to it.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable. ~Plato

Have you heard of the new Ziploc brand vacuum storage system? Well basically it has a small pump that removes all the air from a storage bag to keep frozen food fresher in the freezer. Here is a picture of what it does and what it looks like.

A stake without the vacuum seal/and the stake with the vacuum seal.

It comes with a small air removal pump and is kind of cool when you buy foods in bulk. YOU GET THE POINT....RIGHT?

It is cool until your son gets a hold of it and does this......


Look closely at his forehead-

I had to take these when he was asleep.

Now I know you are saying- Sherri it really doesn't look that bad! Well, this is a few days later and the hickey is fading away. Try explaining this one to the school teacher!

As soon as this healed, Aaron thought it would be fun to open my big upright deep freezer and stick his tongue on the medal. When he couldn't get his tongue loose, he yanked if off! His tongue was bleeding.

Boys will be boys!

Spring Break-New Carpet

After we got home from camping, we sent the kids to G&G Bingham's house in Pima for the remainder of Spring Break (thank you Kip & Susan). We had 2 days until the new carpet would be installed, and a lot of work to do. The carpet I picked-out was dark and so were my living room walls. I wanted the walls lighter, to coordinate with the dark carpet, so we had to paint the living room.


Here we are priming the walls-

It was so nice to paint without children in the way.

Hard at work, we also painted the hallway and bathroom shown to the right of this picture.

When we moved into this house (almost 9 years ago) my girl's room had no carpet, only tile. We removed the almost impossible tile (a year ago- spring break 2008) and replaced it with a large area rug until now. We patched the concrete and the room is now ready for new carpet. YEAH!
Here is the girls room after the carpet has been installed. We also moved the girls into two twin beds instead of sharing a queen size bed. They are glad to have their own space and new carpet.

My girls were so excited, they put their whole room back together.

Putting everthing back in the house was a chore, but fun to have new carpet.

Aaron's room is still a work in progress.

Here is the livingroom notice the lighter walls! That is Brady and our Hometeacher putting the entertainment center back together. (Thanks Gavin)
We added a new light over the doorway and a new cieling fan (not pictured).

Lastly we changed the entryway. Brady's brother put this in. Thanks for the tile work Nick.

We love the new carpet and cant wait for all of you to see it. Boy am I glad that Spring Break is over.

Spring Break-Camping

For Spring Break this year we went camping overnight with my Brother, Calvin and his family. We took canoes to go fishing but sad to say that when we got there the lake was all locked up. I took a lot of pictures of our camp out to share how much fun we had.

Emily and Daniel, look at their smiles.

Kids in the canoe as the parents were loading the truck

Everyone is excited!

Becca and Kyle are both 9, soon to be 10. They are great friends!

Here are our trusty scouts building the fire.

Becca with her home-made hat

Aaron, Carter and Daniel

Emily with a snowball, yes there was snow (in the shade). When the sun went down it got cold.

Brady and cousin Kyle (but to each other their names are Alice and Betty)

Calvin, Sanya, Carter and Daniel

Bed time in the BIG tent. Kyle, Daniel, Carter

Aaron, Becca, Emily

We LOVE cousin Carter, he is a cutie!
(Checkout his Elmo PJ's Grandma Fenn gave him for Christmas)

Sanya and I took the kids on a hike after breakfast. Yes, that is snow behind us.

Aaron with cousin Daniel on the way home with a bag full of trail mix. Kyle, thanks for packing the trail mix for us.

Emily's Tooth

Emily with a loose tooth.



We love EMILY!