HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!

Wow has it really been 10 years already!  This is my favorite wedding picture, one of those candid moments. I am very lucky to be married to my best friend and such a wonderful man.  

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY sweetheart!

General Conference Activity Book

I came across this cute activity book for conference and thought I would pass it along.

http://coloroftheskyinmyworld.blogspot.com/2008/09/october-general-conference-packet.html

Well like I said when I started this I am not the die-hard blogger so I defiantly made up for lost time. Here are some highlights from September.

Kallie started soccer! She is thrilled to be the main goalie and does really good. She is always so upbeat and could care less if she is in or out of the game. Lance loves soccer, so the girls have been told since they were little that they would play soccer some day. Now that it is a reality she is just tickled to be involved and such a great sport. We just had our first quarter conferences with her teacher and she doing great but still has a tendency to talk and socialize in class. I don’t think that will ever change.An update on our little Brindley all her genetic testing is done for good. All tests have come back normal so we are not going to explore that any further. YEA!! She is still loving her Occupational Therapy and does such cool stuff. Her sisters are jealous she gets to play with things like monster goo (cool putty that goes from a solid clay to almost a water consistency) and making fun necklaces. She will soon start Vision Therapy to help with her tracking issues and we are looking into bifocals. This is a picture of a necklace she made me last week. She had to look for all the red beads in a big bowl of hundreds, and then get them onto the string.  That night she had a headache and kept saying her hands were sore, yet she does it with a smile and has a great attitude.  She is doing so so good in Kindergarten! Her teacher reports that she is meeting or exceeding in every subject. She has a new BFF named Abby and has found a love for PE.

Looking back at our month I laugh because you would think we have a house full of boys. One night Lance took the girls on a bug walk. Now it is a daily request, they thought it was so fun. Everywhere we go now they get excited to see crickets and ask if they can pick them up. Then what do we do for our Fall break you ask, Lance takes us to Tuscon to a reptile show. Anyone that has known us since we were first married knows that Lance used to breed snakes and leopard geckos. For me it is nice to be on the other side of these shows and I fully support visiting them and not being so hands on. Their favorite thing about the trip was a petting zoo they had with a tortoise and some alligator/crocodile (that’s how much I know) and a blue tongue monitor (I think that is what it was).  All three of them were the size of Brindley and could have easily eaten Brylin. 

Another fun tidbit, you will notice everyone is dressed in red, this was completely intentional.  If any of you have ever attended a reptile show you would notice that 90% of the people are wearing black or some sort of dark color.  Knowing this valuable information I dressed everyone (including Daddy) in red to be able to spot them easily amongst the crowd.  Just as I had anticipated you could spot them from across the room, they stuck out brilliantly.  Until next time!

CONGRATULATIONS Lance!

Well he did it!  Finally after a year and a half Lance now has his MBA!  We never thought the time would actually come that he wouldn't have class or homework to do as it was almost every day of the week, but finally he is finished FOREVER! (that is if I have it my way) The girls were so excited and made this poster for him and we decorated his car.  Small and simple, but he was excited and so were the girls. Congratulations sweetheart YOU DID IT!

Ever have one of those friends that just goes overboard?  Well that’s my friend Katie.  You sneeze and she is on your doorstep with dinner, or having a bad day and she pulls up with a surprise.  

Well I did a favor for her and made her PROMISE not to do anything in return after all that’s what friends are for, and this shows up at my door today.  Thank you Katie but your in BIG trouble! 

All Ready!

This morning I woke up to this subtle, "pssst, Mommy I'm all ready for school."  So I wake up to find my 3 year old had dressed herself and gotten ready for preschool.  Acknowledging her great job I comment on her cute dress, shoes (awkwardly on the wrong feet), and her two very bright headbands, oh and of course her necklace.  She informed me she was making her own breakfast of fruit snacks and blue juice (blue gatorade) but if I wanted to get her some cereal or something that would be ok too.  Being supportive she did go to preschool today just as she is in the picture.  She so proudly marched up to the door with a final "thank you your majesty" and a curtsey.   Such precious moments in time!  

For you Stacy!

Ok Stacy here you go...the family picture :-)