an "a" yeah!

While making Brennen head to the "ditch"(panguitch) for memorial day he informed me that he had a science essay & project due when he got back to school. He wrote the essay and after getting home @ 9:30 monday night this is what I threw together. I know. I'ts pretty good, so good that he got an A and the teacher kept it. (check out the baby spotted owls in the tree) My first A in a Biology Honors class. Go Me!!! (got to give granny credit for harvesting the bark) Go Granny!!! And of course Brennen for writing the essay. Go Brennen!!! (even if he didn't use my great line about the spotted owls failure to adapt has lead to it being on the endangered list. Or Mike's that it is just good at hiding.)

in like a lion....out like a lamb?

We have had a lot going on so I'm going to quickly recap the spring...

Dillon played football. He was the best ball hiker ever!!!

Caden played Little League. His team is headed to the TOC (tournament of champions) keep you posted on how it goes.

Dustin is still swimming. Got his first cell phone today!!!

Brennen gets in Nintendo Power again!!!!

Jake meets Lance Armstrong, Wolfgang Puck and listens to an inpromptu Stevie Wonder show all in less than 4 days.


...and me, well I'm what keeps this show rolling!!! (I am anxiously awaiting my new blackberry pearl (red) that should be arriving in 2-4 business days)

bitten

Went to bed late only to be woken up in the night by dillon. Seems he has been bitten by a tummy virus. As I was heading up to survey the damages phase "2" hit, yep didn't make it to the toilet. So I got to shampoo carpets and now I'm going to have a nap.
Caden is heading on a field trip to the Grand Canyon in the morning hope he hasn't been bitten.

my luchadors

Hope all you mom's had a happy mother's day.

Jake was making his way home from Mexico and got in town at about 6:30ish sunday night so my boys had to take control. Dillon was so excited he woke me up before 7:00 to say happy mother's day. I told him "how about you let mom sleep in on mother's day." He agreed and 30 min later he and Caden came back with a whole lot of homemade cards (one was from Caden the rest Dillons, the plain white piece of paper pops up m-o-m)



They made their own breakfast and got ready for church on their own. It wasn't till we pulled up in the church parking lot that I noticed Caden had forgot to comb his hair.


After church they made lunch (spaghetti) and Dustin decided to make some homemade peanut butter cookies. It was prettty funny as he was hunting down the granulated sugar (had no idea what it was) and the brown sugar (he was confused because the package said cane sugar) but he did it and they were delish!!!


When Jake finally did make it home he brought presents....
can I just say Nacho Libre!!!


This is what we call Sunday Night Smackdown!!!!

i'm back

I'm back! We had a great time at Women's Conference. This was the second year with the sisters and the first with mom. We had so much fun.

Every year Shadow Mt. puts on a concert thurs night. Last year we skipped out on the service project. (because I wasn't feeling well, that's legit right?) Well this year we SERVED and yes we were mainly doing it for the good seats at the concert but got much more out of it. We quilted until our fingers were numb (not really). Then got to sit smack dab in the middle about 14 rows up. Yeah!!!!

This was our favorite group Eclipse. They totally rocked and we gave them a cell phone.

We also got to see Jenny Jordan Frogley, Micheal McLean, Kenneth Cope and Hillary Weeks (she's hillarious).

We stayed in the dorms and mom walked into our dorm and made me take a picture of the shoes I brought. (Yes we were only there for 2 days but... you never know) The yellow ones I bought in the BYU bookstore. Best shopping ever!!! They do squeak a little but not as bad as Nan's red ones. (however Nan's are really cute)

Loved the classes and we thought that the concert was totally worth the price of the whole conference until the final day.

I've met President Monson at one of my dad's mission conferences and always knew that he was a great man. However, I was not prepared for when he walked into the MC. I was in there with 17 thousand other women and when he walked in it fell silent and tears came to my eyes as the spirit testified that he is the living prophet.

It was awesome!

CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT YEAR!!!!

i'm off

I'm headed to Women's Conference tomorrow. Hope the boys survive without me :) Jake's mom is headed to help out for a couple of days so I'm sure they will be fine. If anyone happens to see Brennen making the long trek home from school with his 50 lb. backpack feel free to offer him a ride. I'll post our adventures when I get home!
I'll miss Jake's birthday on Sat :( but to get me back he'll be in Mexico fishing on mother's day. (It helps with the guilt)

a little "M.I.T."

Yesterday after I picked Brennen up from school we grabbed a late lunch and he told me this story. I'm so proud of him...
He said that in one of his classes they were divided up into groups and he was in a group with two of his friends. One of the boys says, "pretty funny we are sitting here a Jew, a Christian and a Mormon." So Brennen responded with, "That is pretty funny since Mormons are Christian." The boy (who is "the" Christian) said, "No your not." Brennen said "Yes I am". I'm sure this went back and forth a few times and then Brennen said, "Well what is a Christian then?" The boys response was, "Someone who believes Jesus lived and died for our sins so we could be saved." Brennen said "I believe that." The boy said "Well you have to believe in the bible." Brennen said, "We believe in the Bible." His response was, "No, not your bible the real bible." Brennen's like, "It's the same bible." Then the boy pulled a fast one and said, "You can't believe in the Book of Mormon." Brennen said that they finally agreed to agree to disagree. (I'm sure the Jewish boy was relieved)
Then later he was sitting with his friends at lunch and the boy walked by and jokingly said "Your wrong." And Brennen's like, "No your wrong." So his table was like what was that about. Brennen explained that the kid didn't think Mormons were Christians. His table that consisted of 3 or 4 Christians 2 Mormons and 1 Atheist got into the same little discussion. It ended with his good friend who is Christian saying, "One good thing about the Mormons is that they have to pay their tithing." Brennen's like "We don't have to pay our tithing. The bishop just calls us in at the end of the year and chews us out if we don't." (he's trying to keep the conversation light) Then the kid says, "And they are highly organized." Brennen responded with "Maybe a little too organized I'm teacher quorum president over myself because I'm the only teacher."

I was so proud of my little Brennen sticking up for himself like that. I told him that this is all part of his M.I.T. (missionary in training) I also pull that one out when we are having something for dinner that nobody likes. I also think it pretty cool that he is friends with "Christian", Jew, Atheist, whoever, something I missed out on by growing up in Utah, (not that that's bad, I'm not bashing Utah and I'm sure Utah is a little different now.) But.....
Go Brennen!