It's official!

Travis is now officially an Eagle Scout! Travis had his Board of Review last night and he passed! YEAH!! I am so proud of him! They said he will get all of his paper work in about 6 weeks, so after that we will be having his Court of Honor. Way to go, Travis!

April Highlights

April was a pretty busy month. Most of our month consisted of baseball, and surprisingly I don't have any pictures to show from it. We started the month off by celebrating Easter. Jared and Courtney had a great time finding the eggs that were hidden. Every year that activity gets shorter and shorter. Jared with his basketful of candy

Courtney already enjoying the delicious candy

My sister was blessed to be able to adopt this precious baby boy. She came down with her family so we could enjoy cuddling with him. It was nice to meet my newest nephew, Jacob.

Randy celebrating his birthday

Randy with the book that Jared made for him

Moving on to Ashley's birthday. She had Youth Conference that night and the next day, so we celebrated it on the following Sunday

Ashley with her gifts

Courtney was awarded with the Good Citizen Award for the month of April

Travis finlly got his braces on the 28th. He was pretty excited!

Travis with his orthodontist

Ashley got a spacer put it. She will wear it for a few months and the get her braces.

March Update

After looking at our calendar, we had a rare open weekend March 13th. We decided to wake up early and drive down to Disneyland for the day. The kids have been asking when we would get to use our free "Give A Day - Get A Day tickets. They were so EXCITED when we told them we were actually going. We had a good time being together. Ashley and Travis were pretty good sports doing alot of what Courtney and Jared wanted to do. A few times Randy took Travis on some of the fun rides for a 13 year year while the rest of us did Dumbo and other rides more enjoyable for the younger kids. All in all it was a fun day to be together.

Courtney, Jared and Randy riding the tram to get to Disneyland

Travis and Ashley

Courtney and Jared

Enjoying the Teacups

As we were leaving Disneyland after a long, fun day

On March 27th was the Opening Ceremonies for baseball. Jared is on the Rock Hounds and Travis is on the Beavers. Travis' coach opted to practice instead of going to the ceremonies so we only have pictures of Jared's team. Another couple of busy months with games between the two boys. Alot of their games overlap this year. Should make for an exciting season.

Jared is in the front middle behind the "n"

Jared just passing the panda bear

Highlights of February

O.K. I know that I am WAY behind in my blogging but I thought I better catch up on February and March because Ashley is all over me to blog her birthday. I just can't skip over the two months and blog April so first here is February in a nutshell.

We made a quick trip up to Utah for our nieces' wedding on February 12th. There was still some snow on the ground, which the kids loved, but the weather was great for traveling. Casey and Nick were sealed in the Bountiful Temple. It was such a great sealing. We were very happy we were able to go. They make such a cute couple.

Nick and Casey coming out of the temple

Casey with all the girl cousins

Casey with the boy cousins

After the wedding reception we drove up to stay with my dad. On February 13th, Jared got to celebrate his birthday with lots of family. We started off the day at Ihop for a birthday breakfast, thanks to my dad. One of my sisters' and her family were able to join us. It was great! Jared LOVED being the center of attention.

Jared with his "smiley face" pancake

Jared eating ice cream for breakfast. Big hit!

After breakfast we drove down to Randy's sisters' house. All of Randy's family was able to be there. We had birthday cake and opened presents. I think this will go down as one of Jared's favorite birthdays! Thanks Kim for once again playing hostess.

Jared with his birthday presents

Trying to catch up - January Summary

Ok, I know I have been a LAZY blogger this past year. Ashley reminds me of that weekly, if not daily. I told myself I would do better come January. I even got a small camera for Christmas to help me take more pictures so I would have something to blog. The camera isn't very good but I now realize that isn't the true problem. I am just lazy about getting on and posting something. So, sorry for the LONG post. I am going to do a quick catch up here and hopefully do better in February.

Travis won a free deli tray in a raffle when he participated in the Northern Exposure 10K run
Here he is with the yummy prize. He was kind enough to share it with us. Thanks Travis!

Here is Jared with his good friend, who for the last couple of years says he is going to marry. When we took this picture we thought it would be funny if they actually did get married, how cute would it be to have this picture there.

Travis started church basketball again. He has been looking forward to it for quite awhile. I hope they have a great season.

We participated in a "Disney Give a Day - Get a Day" service project. We went and help clean up at an elementary school. The kids did a great job and are excited to get to go to Disneyland.

Jared was the Good Citizen for the month of January. He was so excited, especially for the pizz lunch the next day. Good job, Jared. Keep up the GREAT work!

Finally to end up our month, we celebrated Courtney's 11th birthday. I am having a hard time thinking of her as 11. Maybe it's because then I realize how old I must be getting. Anyway, she had a great day! We love you so much Courtney!

The Tooth Fairy finally came

Jared has FINALLY lost his first tooth. His tooth has been loose for over two months but he was afraid for it to come out. He wanted the tooth fairy to come but he didn't want his tooth to bleed and what if a new tooth didn't grow in? But now that it has come out he is so excited and has to tell everyone. Congratulations Jared. What an exciting time.