Track 2016

This was Hunter's first year doing track.  He wasn't super adventurous...... he only did the mile.  He was so self conscious of how short his is so he felt like he wouldn't be good at anything else.

I am super proud of him for going ahead and doing track.  He isn't the fastest but he always beat like 6-8 people.  All who were taller than him so it did help him realize it's not all about height.  

 The best part was that the mile is the first track event so we didn't have to sit out in the heat for hours and hours.  

He loved seeing his cousins at track meets. Camry and Hunter are too funny together.  I told Tif we got to get a picture like this again when Cambry is a senior and Hunter is a Junior.  I bet it look s a lot different!

That's my stud!  He rocked the cool socks every meet.  He did have a great time traveling on the bus to all the meets.  They even got to go to Deming, New Mexico.  I was extra proud of Hunter because one of the coaches was his least favorite teacher.   Like the kind of teacher you go complain about to the principal.  Hunter was a trooper and never had any problems with Mr. Carroll.  

 Hunter told me one day after a meet, "Mom I might not be the fastest runner but I am one of the best cheerleaders.  I cheer for everyone!"

I look forward to many more years of watching Hunter do track.  I bet he gets more confident as the years go by and as his statue grows.

Poor Baby

You know as a mom when your two year old needs a bandaid on their ear,

 it isn't a good sign.

Took Ella in and she has an ear infection.  Poor thing has been pretty miserable for several days.  

Love My Mr. Grant

Grant stayed home for school today. He was so sad this morning. Kept telling me his "throat hurt".  I told him he could stay home then. He has been totally fine. No signs of being sick. I think he just missed me being gone for 5 days on my girls trip to California. 

I have enjoyed having him home today and so has Ella!!

Grant told me, "Mom I am so excited for summer!" 

I replied, "Oh I am too!"

Grant quickly said, "yeah cause we won't have church. Wait do we have summer church?"

Oh my gosh I about died. 

Yes Grant we have "summer church."  He even asked, "wait we don't get a vacation from church?"

Nope it wouldn't be a good idea if we did. 

Oh how I love Grant!!! 

Thoughts for the Day

I love this quote!  It's so true. I often feel this way with Justin's depression. It consumes so much of my energy to make up for the lack of his that I can often find myself drowning before I ever realize it. It is so very important to take care of ones self. If you don't take care of yourself first you will at some point find yourself too burnt out to take care of everyone else. 

I am grateful to be able to find some time and ways to be my our anchor. And thankful to have the love and strength of my Savior, Jesus Christ, who is my true anchor!  

Go Fish

Grant was very excited about being in his first school musical.

It was called "Go Fish."

Grant was the fiercest, most cutest shark we've ever seen.  Aubrey was so happy Grant was a shark because it is her favorite animal!  The sharks did a cool rap which was a hit!

Grant a.k.a shark

Carsyn a.k.a. needle fish

Ella insisted on being in the picture.  

I love her expression!

Grant has loved music class this year.  Mrs. Rubalcava is phenomenal!  She teaches the kids so much and does it in such a fun and loving way!

Grant and his best buddy Rigdon Claridge

Such cute sharks!

Grant did such a good job on his speaking part!  Sure love him!

Good Friends

Hunter and Brody Brown are so fun together.

  Hunter was excited that Brody needed a place to stay while his parents went to their older kids track meet out of town.  These two LOVE card tricks!  They will spend hours watching youtube videos learning new tricks.  We took them, and the other kids to an Illusionist show at the Center for the Arts on Friday night.  It was a good show!

They enjoyed a little pool time!

Then it was off to do baptisms at the temple with Grammy and Grampy Cluff.  This was Brody's first time going to the temple and he was pretty excited!  Sure glad Hunter has such good friends!

Dance Convention/Girls Weekend

We were all excited that Gloria was going to join us on this girls trip.  

She was a hoot!

I love this sister-in-law of mine!  She makes me happy every time I see her!  She has been through some really tough times over the past year and she more than deserves a couple of days away.

She made us laugh the whole trip, she tries on clothes right where she's at.  She will put on an indian fray jacket and run up and down the store isle acting like an indian.  I did pay her $10 to do it.  But she totally would have done it for free!

I might have peed my pants when she did it!   An employee saw her and told us to just enjoy ourselves!

We enjoyed a delicious dinner at The Melting Pot.  Can't beat chocolate fondue!

Some of our favorite downtown eats include, Hanny's

Their coleslaw is devine!  Canal's were too bad either.

See this is what I had to put up with all weekend!

Then I had to tell Gloria okay  now take a "Becky Appropriate" picture!

Thank you for obliging Gloria!

Hanny's was right by our hotel.

The real reason for the trip was a dance convention/ competition for Kiersten.

The competition was Saturday night.  Her group did amazing!  In fact all the groups performed great.

I love watching Kiersten perform on stage!  She was made for it!

Kiersten sure loved having Aubrey with us this weekend.  These two have so much fun together and Kiersten helped fight Gloria off Aubrey.  LOL......fun times....

A girls weekend was just what I needed!  Refreshing to get away!

True story, Gloria pinned Aubrey down and gave her a hickey. 

Aubrey was anything but please.  Kiersten and I were just in shock!

Love our Safford Dance Academy family!

Breakfast at the Breakfast Club was yummy!

We will be going there again when we are stay in downtown Phoenix again.

Have I mentioned how much I love this crazy lady?  I dared her to sing to the waitress anytime she needed to speak to her.  $10 was included but she would have done it for free.  I am pretty sure there isn't anything Gloria wouldn't do.

Kiersten had to work her butt off at dance classes, while the rest of us kicked it at the pool!

It was a relaxing weekend for us three.  Kiersten had a wonderful, but exhausting weekend.

Kiersten recieved a scholarship for a photo shoot at nationals.  Too bad we will be in Texas that week.  Kenzie Abalos also received the same scholarship.

It was great fro Kiersten to be recognized though.

I love my dancing girl and how hard she works.  She puts her heart and soul into everything she does!