Quincy's 10th Birthday!

Quincy and Grandpa Tom have Birthday's 4 days apart, so some years they get to celebrate together.  Grandpa offered to have steak for the Birthday dinner if they shared, and she thought that was a great idea!  We had it at their house.  We found these fun giant balloons at the dollar store and brought them for all of the kids.  It was definitely a hit, especially with Bailey and Bridger!  

Quincy got some new summer clothes, which she loved!  She also got an awesome waterproof camera!  She was super excited about that one!

Happy Birthday Quincy.  We love having you in our family!

Kite Flying!

Perry has some pretty awesome kite flying weather!  Quincy and Brinley found some kites at Wal-Mart and wanted to give it a try.  They had great luck!  The weather was perfect and they got them up.  Brinley's kite worked a lot better than Quincy's for some reason.  As you can see, we had a few run in's with the tree!  Perfect spring day!!

Em's Track Season

Emilee decided to try track this year.  She had a lot of her Volleyball friends that were willing to do it with her.  They thought it was better than just coming home every day after school!  She tried the hurdles and javelin.  She found out that track is a lot more work than she thought, but she stuck with it the whole season and gave it her best.  She improved in her events as the season progressed.  I think I even heard her say she is going to try it again next year!!

Way to go Em, we are proud of you for trying something new and working hard at it!! 

Easter!

This year for Easter we got a great idea...and then it turned out to not be such a great idea.  We decided to get the kids a pool to set up out back.  Sounded like a great idea!!  I finally had children old enough that I would not be worried about one of them falling in and drowning!  Needless to say...they loved it!  It sat in our garage until spring when we started thinking about setting it up.  Then the not so good part came forth.  We didn't realize what it takes to maintain a pool that you are going to leave up for the entire summer.  Chemicals, shock treatments, filters...sounded like a foreign language to me!  I called several people and spent a day online trying to make heads or tails of it.  In the end, we decided it was too much work.  I know, we are bad parents!  So...I bribed Quincy and Brinley into getting a smaller pool with the money from the return and I bought Kade a season pass to Toads!  I think Em came up short on that one!!

They got beach towels as well...so it wasn't a total loss!  And besides...the real reason we celebrate Easter is to remember the Savior and think about the amazing fact that He was resurrected and that we can be also.  Chris and I had to be the speakers in Sacrament Meeting on Easter Sunday.  Although it was very scary I think we both felt grateful for the opportunity.  We both learned so much and really had our testimonies of the Resurrection of the Savior strengthened. It was a good day!

Emilee's Shoe Business!

Em had herself a little shoe painting business there for a little while.  It all started when Kylee came home from school for a few days.  While she was here she showed me a picture on her computer of some painted shoes that she was dying to have...for $80.00!!  Thanks goodness she wasn't dumb enough to order them!  When I saw the picture I said to her, "You know your sister could paint shoes just like that, right?"  Her eyes got big and she said, "you are right!".  Man, that was all it took.  Her wheels were spinning and by the time Emilee got home from school that afternoon Kylee met her at the door and unfolded her grand plan.  They were in the car within 10 minutes on their way to Wal-Mart to buy paint and shoes.  Kylee bought the supplies and even slipped $10.00 under Em's pillow before she left to go back to school as her pay!!  The "Lion King" shoes were her first pair! 

Then she painted herself the "Aladdin" shoes and wore them to school.  She had tons of friends that knew they needed a pair of these cool shoes as well.  She started taking orders and we started calling around to all of the surrounding Wal-Mart's to see what size shoes they still had in stock.  These particular shoes were a seasonal item so we had to buy them up while we could.  We sent Chris to several Wal-Mart's in Ogden and we made a trip to Logan! 

Kade tried to get in on the action by putting them on "Etsy" for her.  We hoped they would sell there, but that didn't turn out to be successfull.  Em was quite OK with that because she had a line up of friends from school waiting for their shoes.  She charged $20.00 for the shoes and sold several pairs.  I was thrilled because she was making a little money and most importantly...developing her great talent! 

 She let her friends pick what design they wanted.  She painted Toy Story, Peter Pan, Finding Nemo, The Beatles, Up and a few more!  She was one busy girl for awhile!  I think her talent is pretty amazing!  Hopefully she will continue to develop it!

Fingernails!

Emilee is such an artist!  We love that she has so much talent.  Her sister Kylee loves it too.  She always has great ideas as to how Em can use her talent on her!  These are "Lion King" fingernails...on Kylee!  Em is great at painting all different designs on fingernails.  If I lose her, I can almost always find her in the basement in front of a good show painting either her own or someone else's fingernails!