Book of Mormon Challenge!

See that open "Book of Mormon" on the counter top? Makes me so happy!  I saw this a lot during this time.  As a family we had a "Book of Mormon Challenge". Our goal was for everyone to read the Book of Mormon from start to finish before we left on our trip to Hawaii in May.  There might have been a little monetary reward.  Ok, we paid them each $50.00 if they reached the goal.  It made for some great spending money in Hawaii.  Brinley was worried that she couldn't do it...but she did!!  I was so proud of her.  Most of us accomplished the goal.  A few of us are still working on it!!  I think we should make this a yearly goal.  I loved it!

Memorial Day

This year on Memorial day we actually visited several cemeteries and saw where many of our family members are buried.  On Sunday we went to the North Ogden Cemetery with Grandpa Tom and Grandma Barb to visit the sites of Great Grandma and Grandpa Snooks, Grandpa and Grandma Hadley and Grandpa Wyatt.  The next day, which was actually Memorial Day, Dad had off work!  We decided to drive up to Liberty to the cemetery where Great Grandpa and Grandma Southwick are buried.  It was a beautiful day and we loved the drive.  On the way home from Liberty we stopped and got some pizza and found a park where we could stop and have a picnic.  It was a good day!! 

Purple and White Dance for Emilee!

Emilee got asked to the "Purple & White" Dance by Lawson Forsberg.  He is a CUTE boy in our ward.  We shopped for the perfect dress and Kylee and Emilee spent the whole day making sure Em looked like a beauty queen.  These 2 girls are best friends...and I am so grateful.  They do most everything together and they help each other with whatever the other needs.  Kylee did Emilee's hair while Em did her nails.  The result was stunning.  She looked beautiful!

When Lawson came to pick her up we had a wee bit of trouble with his boutonniere.  Both Kylee and I tried to pin it on him after Em didn't have much luck.  I thought he was going to die of embarrassment before we got them out of the door!  Good thing he knows us all well.  They were a cute couple and had a great time at the dance.

Quincy's bird!

Quincy got chosen to go to the Brigham City Bird Refuge and transpose a picture that she drew of a bird onto a large piece of paper that will hang on the streets of down town Brigham City! She's a good little artist!  I don't know where our children get this talent from, but I think she is our 4th child to get chosen to do this!!  Excited to drive down main street in Brigham and see her artwork hanging up!

Chris & Kade build us a table!

These are my awesome boys building us a new family kitchen table.  This was a new type of a project that they haden't tried before. They kreg jigged all of the top boards together to make a table top and then connected the legs and skirting. They did awesome and it turned out beautiful.  It now sits in our house and we love and use it daily!!  Good job boys!! 

Movie Nights!

A year after getting our projector and screen, we finally got a soundbar to go with it...so we are now ready for Movie Night OUTSIDE!!  

The kids have been pretty excited to try this out.  We just have to make sure there is no chance of rain.  We got all set up on night (which is quite a process) and then just as we got the movie started it began to rain.  We had to clean up and postpone our movie.

Fun times!!

Quincy's 11th Birthday!

I don't know why I can't find pictures of Quincy Lou's Birthday, but they seem to be missing!  What I do know is that we celebrated and she turned a whole year older!  How is she already 11?  One more year and she will be in Young Women's!!

We had a family dinner to celebrate and Quincy got new clothes and money for her birthday.  Quincy is such a sweet girl.  She is an awesome big sister to Brinley and such a fun little sister to Kade, Em and Kylee.  Quincy is funny!!  Her cute sense of humor is popping out and we all laugh at the funny things she comes up with.  She is becoming a wonderful piano player, even though her dream in life is to quit piano!  She is also becoming quite the little actress.  She has been in a couple plays and absolutely loves to perform on stage.  She isn't scared a bit!

We are so grateful that 11 years ago she came into our family.  

Happy Happy Birthday Quincy!

We love you!

Easter!

Easter party with cousins at our house this year!  We colored eggs outside and had an Easter egg hunt.  Looks like the Easter Bunny left some cool flip flops again this year!

We are lucky to have cousins that live close enough to party with often. :)