Dallin's Baptism Day!

 Our little boy was Batptised a Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

this weekend.  We are so proud of him and the choices he makes each day to be good and strong and to choose the right.  It was a great day!

 February 26, 2011

Dallin - age 8

 Dallin and Grandpa Herb'

 Dallin and Grandpa Alldredge

 Dallin and hid proud Dad

 Dallin is very special to all these people.  We thank them all for traveling far in stormy weather to share his special day with him.

 Pictures of the party afterward.  I love these random pictures.  I love that my house is full of the people that we love enjoying each others company and that there is plenty of food!

 Yes...that is a red velvet cake from Costco...it was yummy!

The buffet table...LOL!  We were so happy that Great Grandma Alldredge could be there to share this special day.  She is a great lady and we love her.  Thanks to all for coming!

Baptism Day!!

A Weekend Away...

We went to Dustin's Mom and Dad's for the weekend.  It was good to get away and take a rest from life and the busy schedule we usually find on the weekends.  We had tons of fun!

 The Grandkids number 8 with one on the way!

 We had a fun time playing games with each other...I think the big kids were even more into it than the little ones LOL!

 This is my favorite picture of the weekend!  Maddison was ecstatic that she finally got a match and won a prize!  The look on her face is priceless! 

Cousins...so sweet.

All my Love!

 

 He loves me!  Valentines day this year was a blur.  With three school parties, playground duty and work all on the same day I was lucky to just home home to change my clothes between stints and get on our way again with Zeek in tow.  Sometime between the playground and picking up one kid or another from school I popped in to throw in a load of laundry and grab a drink for Zeek and look what I found on the counter in the midst of all the chaos that I had left from the breakfast dishes and trying to get the kids out the door with the right number of signed valentines with treats attached...is this not the cutest thing ever?!?  I feel loved.  Dusty knows I hate roses so this was perfect for me.  I love daisies and I love pop and I love creative cute crafty things.  It was perfect.  I'll admit the bad of candy (which I ended up hiding in my nightstand drawer and eating myself LOL!) and the card I gave him didn't hold a candle to the sweet thoughtfulness of his declaration of love.  What a sweet guy!  He loves me...and I love him too! : P

Mission{s} Accomplished!

 For months now I have been wanted to sit down and make some new curtains for the kitchen to brighten it up and make it a little more formal.  I know...it's going out on a limb for me because I will always be a "country girl" but after watching for the perfect fabric every shift at JoAnn's for the past six months I think I found a happy medium!  T his is how it turned out.  I love it! 

This post is really just for me.  This picture may look like a big pile of mess to the un-suspecting reader, but to me it's a job well done and a reminder that if I put my mind to it I can get all the laundry folded in one day!!!  LOL!  Now I just have to put it all away!  Seriously I would rather to dishes and clean toilets for the rest of my days than fold laundry.  I have decided I hate it all together and I need to emply a magic laundry fairy to help me keep one step ahead of four little boys and one husband that if they had thier wish would live outside in the dirt forever!  LOL!  At least it's done for now right?

Our First Pack Meeting!

Yep that's right!  Dallin is now a full fledged Cub Scout!  He went to his first pack meeting last night and loved every second of it!  He loved putting on his uniform, he loved playing the game and eating the cookies!  He said it was great!  I am cringing because I know I am destined for "den leader" with four boys living in my house...LOL!  Oh well, it could be worse right?  I think he looks so cute in his new scout uniform!

The Real Deal...

 Well...this is the real deal.  The "us" you don't normally see on the blog or in church or even at the Home Depot on a Saturday afternoon!  Silly kids!  I procrastinated taking a picture of the kiddos in their Christmas P.J's that I made them for Christmas eve...pretty darn cute if I do say so myself and this even happened without measuring any of them!  I am getting better I must say.  I just thought this picture was hilarious!  It says it all about my sweet boys...Dallin - we always have to shoot an extra picture because he can't seem to keep his eyes open (he gets that from his dad), Alex - didn't want to put his new pajamas on for the picture "I'll just hide in the back mom and no one will ever know!"  Derrick - Funny face, nostrils flarin' and I-pod in hand.  (He thinks he's so cool with those big earphones on his head all the time.  His ears are too tiny for the earplug ones that came with it so we had to dig in the dinosaur electrical box and find something that would work! LOL!), Zeke - Just happy to be here!

Side note:  Zeke's latest funny words are : "Day-err!" (Derrick), "Adec" (Alex...took us a while to figure that one out!)

Derrick wanted a picture of himself with "all my friends!"  he said so this is it!  He loves to pile into his bed with all the stuffed animals and toys he can find.  He is a hoarder.  Sadly he gets this from me.  Lol!  Funny things Derrick has said lately:

At Dinner:
Derrick: "Dad are you an A-gle?"
Dad: "A what???"
Derrick: "An A-gle!  Like on your shirt?"
*Dustin had a picture of an eagle on his shirt!
Dad: "Yep!  I am an Eagle!  ...and mom was a Miner...A-gles are better!"

That started something!  haha!

In the Car:

Mom! My 'thinger' hurts!  (finger!)  LOL!

...and the Rains came tumblin' down!!!

St. George got a years worth of water this week!  It has been raining and raining and raining!  I can't believe I am saying this because I usually love it when it finally clouds over here and starts pouring.  It's such a relief because we don't see many cloud around here, but I am truly ready for the sun to shine!  Nevertheless I am grateful that our rivers and lakes are filling up!  It has been a blessing and we needed it badly! 

This was the view to the east of our house.  We had a great panaramic view of the overlowing river and it's condition.  It was kind of spooky seeing the stories on the news right accross the street! LOL!  It got a little scary there for few days, but we didn't float away.  Thank heaven the dam held and the work they did on the riverbeds the last time this happened four years ago didn't wash away!

 This is the view to the west of our house!  BIG RIVER...sad golf coarse!

The storm finally passed us over and headed off to the east of the country to torment those poor souls, but it did leave us with a surprise Monday morning...SNOW!  I miss the snow.  I don't miss the cold though and I am thankful I didn't have to be back out on the playground until Tuesday!  Whew! I must be livin' right!!  LOL!

All I want for Chrithmas!

Well it FINALLY happened!  The day after Christmas Dallin lost his first tooth!  At age 8!  He was so excited!  All he has been talking about for months is loosing a tooth!  He was very brave and didn't even squeek while we wiggiled it the rest of the way out with the tweezers...now he's talking about just pulling the others!  Grose! 

Christmas 2010

There is nothing like a kids face on Christmas morning!  We had a great time!

 

Alex got the iPod he has been asking for for months...I don't think he could believe he really got it!  He was stunned!  LOL!

 

Thanks Gramma Herb' for the cool Night Furry!  It was a hit!

 Dallin got an ipod too!  He was soooo excited!

 Derrick just knew there had to be an ipod in there for him too somewhere!  He was on a mission once he saw Dallin and Alex with theirs.  He was over the moon to get the same as his older brothers!

 Zeke was pleased as punch with his race track.  He love to drive cars all over the house and pretend that anything with a bump or a hill is a race track.  Maybe this will help keep the track marks off my walls!

I love that Zeke is still small enought to be exctied over the fun little kid stuff! So happy!