Miss Stewarts Wedding

Quincy's first grade teacher got married last Friday! Chris and I chaperoned three 6 year olds to the wedding reception. This was absolute entertainment!! It was the cutest thing I have seen in a long time. The night began with these three girls having quite the discussion all the way there about possibly catching the bouquet and whether they thought Miss Stewart and Dan would kiss at the wedding or when they got back home that night! When we got there Quincy was pleasantly surprised to see her very own artwork framed and on the book table. That is the picture she drew of Miss Stewart and her new husband!!

These are the bride hopefulls with their favorite teacher!!
We had planned to stay only a few minutes, but that was not what these girls had in mind. We were there for over an hour! They ate so many refreshments I was surprised there were any left for the rest of the guests!

This was the highlight of the night. After the line ended, the bride and groom danced. The girls decided they should join in, so they held hands and danced around in a circle amongst the bride and groom and their parents. Needless to say, it was cute, but a little embarrassing. I couldn't stand it any longer, and after a few minutes I made them sit back down!

You would have thought it was their own weddings! The only disappointment was that they didn't get to stay and watch Miss Stewart open all of those presents!!

Kade's 10th Birthday!

Kade's Birthday was on February 1st. We always celebrate with the Hadley family on the Sunday closest to the birthday. He will still get to celebrate with the Southwicks later this month when we have a combined February Birthday party! This year Kade wanted either a wii game or a "big" soccer goal for our back yard. Chris and I are both big succers for anything that will encourage our kids to be outside doing something constructive rather than getting more thumb exercise! So even though the price was a little higher, we went for the soccer goal.

Kade has a great Dad. He got online and researched, went to Soccer connection in Ogden and talked to the people there, and then went to Home Depot to talk to some more people. He came up with a great plan to order a net and have him and Kade build the goal together out of PVC when the weather gets a little better. We bought the net and that was what he opened for his Birthday. We started out looking at medium sized goals...but you know how a Man's project gets bigger and bigger...Kade ended up with a soccer goal that will be 20 feet wide by 7 feet tall. That's a big goal. Add that to the full sized volleyball net, tetherball pole, basketball hoop, swingset, fire pit, and sandpile and we should have quite a yard full! Kade didn't know which of the two he would get, so he was pretty anxious to get the present open and see! He said that he had hoped it would be the soccer goal.

Chris got out the tape measure and showed him how big it will be.

These are some of the things that Kade enjoys at the age of 10!!

* Playing Soccer - Indoor and Outdoor

*Playing wii with his friends

*Watching sports with his Dad

* Eating chicken noodle soup, pizza braid, and chocolate chip bundt cake

* Building igoos in the back yard with the neighbor boys

* Playing "moshi monsters" and "roller coaster tycoon" on the computer

* Wearing his new Heely's to Wal-mart (1st time in his life he begs to go shopping with me)

* Math - he dazzles his 4th grade teacher with his math skills!

* Still loves to tease all of those sisters!

Backyard visitors!

As Quincy was eating breakfast at the bar this morning, she all of a sudden said, "Mom, I just saw two deer go through the back yard!" We sometimes do see deer, so Chris and I ran to the window to take a look. Sure enough, these two deer were hanging out in our neighbors back yard. Chris had to capture a picture. Quincy and Brinley thought it was pretty cool!

Meet Skippy!!!

Ever feel like you're being watched??? This is our little kitty Skippy! Yes, we have a kitty and I even buy him cat food and feed him! Miracles never cease! We inherited this little kitty last summer when my two animal loving neighbors caught him, brought him to our house in a cage, with food and asked (in front of my kids) if we would like to keep him! I am assuming he is a he...I have no idea!! What was I supposed to say? I really never thought he would stick around. He was deathly aftaid of people. Our kids have worked for months slowly slipping out the back door trying not to scare him away. At random times last summer I would see either my own kids or neighbor kids laying dead on the lawn as motionless as possible trying to get the kitty to come near! It was pretty funny to see them all try their different tactics to get the kitty to come to them. He has finally warmed up and will let the kids pet him and even some days pick him up.

He is the funniest little kitty. Above is a picture of our french doors in the back of our house. He sits there like that for hours!! He loves to just watch. I am sure we ARE the most intertaining house in the neighborhood, but really, hours!!! His head will follow the kids' every movement! We leave the blinds up so as to not block his entertaimnent. He also loves to climb up on our gas grill and sit and look through the window. We really must not be as boring as we think we are!

The kids can't wait until the snow melts so they can really get out there and play with him! They can no longer say I am the meanest Mom in the whole wide world because they are the ONLY kids without a pet! I have redeemed myself!