June Celebrations

Matt is pretty lucky..His Birthday and Father's day are in the same month.

Since, Matt's new diet involves no eggs we got creative with his cake.  We made it out all of his favorite treats.

 Father's day we put a tool box together with all of his favorite things: Coconut water, gum, socks, chap stick, cooling items for his head, water mister with a fan and water bottle with straw and a back scratcher.

Champion Dad with a mini gum dispenser trophy.

Last Days of School

School is out!

 The school year just went by so fast.  Carter & Ashlynn had a great year! This was Carter's last year at the elementary school and he is excited to join his friends at the Jr high.  Ashlynn finally has the school to herself.

 Lincoln Olympics! 

I love that our school supports exercise and has kept this tradition since Salt Lake City hosted the Olympics.  Matt even joined in on the fun with helping with the shot put event. 

The elementary graduate.

Carter received lots of awards:  Almost perfect attendance (only 1 tardy), 3rd place in the Decathlon, 3rd place in the mile, Sportsman award, Geek squad (the tech club), Well rounded student, Student council and a few more I can't remember...

 I am so glad that Carter was surrounded by people at the school that supported him and made him want to be there everyday and do better.  Carter had a very positive experience at Lincoln and he can't wait for his new adventure...Jr. High. He is mostly excited about the sports programs.  If you know Carter Basketball & Baseball are his passions.

Double Digit girl

This cute freckled girl turned 10!

What a joy she is to our little family!  Her and Matt are our comedians of the house and always bring laughter.  

Ashlynn planned out her own pioneer party.  We played pioneer games, made mini loafs of bread, dutch oven sloppy joes and a dutch oven cake.  We then made rag dolls out of pieces of fabric.  They turned out so cute. 

 Dutch oven chocolate chip cake

Dutch oven sloppy Joes..yum!

What a fun day to celebrate!

Baseball season has begun..

Here we are again..our favorite time of year..baseball season!

 Matt is coaching with his friend Dustin and we have a really good team this year.

Carter is back on the pitching mound with a stronger arm this year. Its early in the season and he is fastest, most accurate pitcher we have seen so far.  He has had some great innings striking out 3 batters to end the innings quick.  Love this time of year!

Pet Bunny

 If you haven't heard we have added another small animal to our house.  How is it that I am not a pet person and suddenly we have 2 birds, a hamster and now this little cute thing.  I do have to admit its cute, doesn't make any noise and can stay outside. I just feel guilt that the kids want dogs and cats and I am too miserable around them due to allergies, so this is my compromise. 

 Carter bought her at Baby Animals days with his birthday money. And named it 'Stephen Furry' after his favorite basketball player Stephen Curry.

 Matt has went a little overboard with the sweater.

 She loves Carter's soft grey blanket, she will get nice and comfy on it.

Ashlynn likes to walk with it on it's leash..who knew they had bunny leashes.

 She also has a play pen to keep her from wandering off.

Matt also built this bunny hutch for her to sleep in outside.  He did amazing job!

And she loves lettuce so Carter brought home a side of lettuce for the bunny from kneaders.

Mother's Day 2015

 Happy Mother's Day to all the women! I feel very fortunate to be surrounded by good examples of motherhood.  We are all different in our own way whether we have children or not, whether we are a working mom or stay at home mom.  Most of us just want to feel that we are doing the right things for our family. I feel very blessed to have these two kids and I learn from them every day.  We are all here on earth to obtain the same goal to be happy, do what is right and that will eventually lead us back to where we came from in heaven with Heavenly Father.  So, glad that we can be here on this earth to enjoy life together.

Enjoying Sweet Tooth Fairy cupcakes.  

Thanks Matt for providing my favorite treat even though he couldn't eat them. (He is on a very strict no egg and oils diet)  

I have been doing lots of substituting with bananas so he can enjoy baked goods so that he doesn't get so sick after eating.  I wish we would of figured this out sooner.

A Deacon in the house

Carter has turned 12 and that means his is officially in the Young Men's program in our ward.  He has been looking forward to this for a while since most of his friends have moved up since they are a year older than him.  I have already seen the increased confidence in him.  He enjoys passing the sacrament and the extra activities they do.  After only a month he was asked to give a talk in Sacrament meeting.  He was hesitate as first, but he did like a champ.  He had his talk typed out with a personal story about charity and few scriptures.  He was calm, spoke clearly and he did great.  There were some visitors sitting in front of us that told him that they enjoyed his talk and that he did very well for his first talk.  How did they know it was his first..well..Carter started out his talk telling everyone that it was his first one ever in front of this many people.  He got a few laughs with that comment.  Love this kid!