A Cub Scouter...

Look at this boy...He is just growing up and starting new adventures in his life. He is now offically in the Wolf Den in Cub Scouts. He has been coming along since I was the Den leader of this group, but I was since released and placed into a new calling when he started scouts. We were both a little sad, but he is liking his new leaders. In this picture he is being welcomed into the scouting program and picking out a cheer to do at pack meeting.


Here he is being his silly self waiting for all of us to get into the car before church.

What a handsome boy!

Finished kitchen pics

We finished the kitchen makeover last week. It was quite the project for us. We had to finish it in sections due to our time restraints. It was really hard to see a messy kitchen for the last month, but it was well worth the wait. I decided to paint the bead board a dark red with a black glaze over the top to match it to the new island look. I love how it turned out! We are still thinking about adding some drop down pendant lights above the island. We are now done with kitchen for now and moving on to other things and will come back to the lighting decision later.

Easter Excitement

Our neighborhood puts on a annual Egg hunt for all to attend. Each family donates to the hunt and the extravaganza is located in about 3 yards combined, separated in age groups. The kids loved being there with their friends. We are so blessed to live in such a great area that does these kinds of fun things.

We had a wonderful time celebrating the Easter Holiday. We had a yummy ham dinner with Tracy and Craig's Family. We are truly grateful to have some of our family close by to celebrate this special holiday.

Carter's Baptism

This is Carter's signature move. He is such a character!


Carter celebrated is birthday and then the next weekend was his baptism. He loved all the extra attention for two weeks celebrating both big days.

Carter chose the program schedule and it included:
Sam: Opening Prayer
Trey: Talk on Baptism
Annie sang while Gail played the piano
Tom: Talk on Holy Ghost
Confirmed by: Dad (Matt)
Closing prayer: Ashlynn
We then had tacos and brownies at our house for family and friends. It was a great day!

Diving for Eggs

The kids took part in our local swimming pool's Egg dive. Carter was there for a friend's birthday party and Ashlynn joined in on the fun too. The kids had a great time finding eggs in the water.

Something new...

Ashlynn wanted to try out something new...Gymnastics. We are going to trial this for the summer while she is off from dancing. She is still dancing and preparing for their end of the year concert this June.

She is really enjoying the new things she is learning from gymnastics. She had tumbling while she was in preschool last year and she couldn't stop talking about how much she missed the tumbling part of it. So, we will give it a try. They really work these girls to a sweat and she is worn out after the hour. I guess it is good exercise. I get tired just watching her.

Kitchen makover - Round one

We have been busy with our kitchen. We have done all the work except for the install of the granite countertops. We pulled out the old countertops, built the island extension, added an electrical outlet, put up bead board around the island and painted the bead board with a stressed look for texture. We also put in an under mount sink with a new faucet. I love the new look!

We are now in the final stages of finishing the back splash, more painting and adding new light fixtures. I will post the final pictures soon.