Don't Be Alarmed....

This is just what Homecoming week looks like around our place.  Just an Octopus finishing his homework before school.

It's gonna be a great week of dressing up, activities every night, hall way decorating, parade, pep assembly and of course, the homecoming football game on Friday against the Thatcher Eagles!  Woot Woot!  With Kiersten being involved with student counsel I kind of feel like I am back in high school.  It sure takes a parent behind these super involved kids to get everything done.

"Leave Me Alone Please!"

This little two year old is killing me!

She got in the sassy attitude line twice up in heaven, I am just sure of it.

Ella's new thing when she gets frustrated or mad, is to say, "You leave me alone please!" And then she runs away.  It is sightly funny but still annoying at the same time.  

On the bright side of it, she is being polite and saying "please!"

And yes that would be Ella in her "fabrite" outfit.  We did just have to hide this outfit because she was getting it out of her dirty clothes hamper and having a huge melt down if she wasn't allowed to wear it.  Not a big deal, just wash it and let her wear it right.  Well it's a big deal when your mother has bought lots of cute clothes and she REALLY wants you to wear them.  LOL!

#thestruggleisrealpeople

She is Her OWN PERSON!!!

Where did this little lady come from?!?

Ella Jane is such a character!  Her favorite thing to do is pretend to be a puppy or a kitty!  She has a style all of her own!  She has such funny expressions.  She is strong willed but funny at the same time!  We sure are glad she made it to our family!  We had about given up and our lives would not be the same without her!

Love You Miss Ella Jane!

One Last Trip....

To the Lake...

Ella was dancing with joy at getting to go to the lake one more time before it gets too cold to jet ski.  I am afraid we have another dancer in our family!  If there is music playing, Ella is dancing!

Since the Saturday soccer games got canceled due to the rain we got this past week, we decided to take the day and spend it at Roosevelt Lake.  It was a last minute thing and Hunter had already made plans to go watch the volleyball players in their all day tournament.  Him and Brody had made every girl their own poster board.  But still missing the lake for a volleyball tournament?!?  Must be so pretty girls in the junior high.....hehehehe!

Since we had the space in the Denali we let Logan and Grant invite a friend.  They chose Ryker and Carsyn Shupe.

These two boys are more like brothers!

The kids found little turtles, which was cool!

We had a fun day!  Minus Logan, Ryker and I getting stranded when one of the jet ski's broke down.  The lake was not very busy so it took about an hour and a half for someone to finally find us.  Other then that it was Great!

Kiersten learned to knee board!  All the kids loved the knee board, even if the boys just used it more like a boogie board and stayed on their stomachs, they still loved it!  It was fun to see their excitement!

Carsyn and Grant made a little mud house with little roads around it.  Everyone had a wonderful time!  A day at the lake is a good day!

Another Teenager

Where or where has the time gone?  It sure is slipping away from me and I don't like it.

Hunter's friend threw him a little surprise birthday party.  So thoughtful of them.  A group of like 6 girls and 4 boys.  They played games and had snacks.  Hunter was really excited that they did that for him.  He has some really good friends which makes this momma happy !

Happy Birthday Hunter!

These Are the Days.....

I am gonna miss!

Grant got ready for school and had his bed all nicely decorated with his favorite stuffed animals.  He asked me, "Mom can you come take a picture?"

So I did!

I am going to miss it when he no longer wants to cuddle with stuffed animals.  I am going to miss when he no longer gives me hugs throughout the day.  I sure love Mr. Grant! He is funny, sweet, wise, loving, handsome and always makes me feel good!

I don't know that I will miss the tiny finger prints left on the windows, like people talk about, but this I will miss!

Over The Top

I have no idea how I got kids that always have to do things over the top?!? 

I also don't know why a teacher would give kids an assignment and tell them "if they do everything the teacher has described for an assignment, they will receive a C, so in order to receive anything higher than that the student needs to be creative."  Oh yeah and this isn't a art class, this is for social studies!

Hunter is always up from Mrs. Kempton's challenges.  The assignment was to redesign the flag adding 3-5 new stars.  There were some specific instructions like the 13 stripes could not be changed, the colors could not be changed, etc.  The assignment itself said to color it on a large paper.  Oh no, Hunter decides to get his A, he is going to sew his flag out of fabric.

Hunter cut out stars for days and then went to Grandma Boswell's house and she helped him sew it.  But he did a lot of the sewing himself.  Hunter was pretty excited to receive the highest score anymore has ever been given on this assignment.

Over the top really paid off!