Scout Pictures

I found these pictures from the scout celebration a few months ago. They were on our bulletin board at the Church. This picture is before they began their walk from the Center Street Chapel to the Stake Center.

 

The Play Equipment

The old swing set/slide thing we have moved from 3 different houses was finally done in. We decided to take it apart before someone got hurt. So on Saturday we all worked on it.

After:

 I cried but Bryan was happy that we have room to put up a basketball hoop. 

He's Done!

Ethan has been working on memorizing the Articles of Faith for his Faith in God.  He still has some other goals to finish but he really just wanted to get through the Articles of Faith (plus, Courtney has been working on them too and she was gaining on him and he couldn't let his little sister beat him!).

Every day after school we work on one of the Articles. Today he finished the 13th! And it was a really easy one for him. He was shocked when he recited it correctly.

Here is his happy dance:

 

He's hilarious!!

Pizazz Video

I realized that I had the video of Courtney's dance on my phone. So here it is:

http://youtu.be/3-s7QRWemm8

Pizazz at Snow Canyon High School

Pizazz was invited to dance during the halftime of a Snow Canyon Warrior Boys Basketball game.  It's great when they are at Snow Canyon because then all our neighbors/friends get to see Courtney dance.  She loves it!

I need to get the video linked to our blog but in the meantime, you can see how she looked.  She loves dancing and has a lot of fun doing it.

 She has a toe-touch solo at the end and I wasn't quite ready to take a picture so I got a weird looking photo.  But she does a really great job.

 Organized chaos at the end of the dance.

My Birthday

I think there are photos on Bryan's phone that I need to download because I think he took pictures but I'm not sure.

Ethan brought me flowers on Saturday when they got home from snowboarding.  He is a great kid.  Then on Sunday morning, I had early morning meetings so I didn't get breakfast in bed but that was okay.  When we got home from Church they made me crepes for lunch, which would have been what I wanted for breakfast.

We invited Mom and Dad, and Don and Kathy over for dinner and Bryan cooked a great meal.  We had chicken cordon bleu, wild rice, vegetable (I can't remember what it was now) and then we had Boston Creme Pie for dessert.  It was really yummy. 

I received a lot of fun gifts and THANK YOU for all the birthday wishes.

Snowboarding!!

On January 11th, Ethan and Bryan had the opportunity to go snowboarding with the Scouts at Brian Head.  It was the Klondike but since Ethan is an 11-year old scout, he was only invited up for the second day and only if he brought his dad with him.  They were more than happy to go.

I don't have pictures because they are on Bryan's phone and I haven't downloaded them again.  But they had a great time and Ethan was a natural.  They drove up to Brian Head and got there in time for the flag ceremony.  They then went and got their gear.  Bryan decided to try snowboarding with Ethan so they were both geared up for snowboarding.  It was a beautiful day!

They took a snowboarding lesson, which meant that they were able to miss most of the huge lines at the ski lift.  Then they were on their own.  Bryan had a harder time than Ethan because he was used to skiing but Ethan was off and running.  Bryan said there were some times when Ethan was going too fast for comfort, but he was in control.

They were pretty sore the next day but they want to go again!!