Happy 10th Birthday Dillon!

10 years ago today I became a mom!

Happy Birthday Dillon Archibald!

You are a great son and I love to watch you grow and learn!  You are amazing!

I hope this next year is a happy one for you!

Love,

Mom

Back to School 2014

The kids started back to school today!

They are going to a new school that requires uniforms.  They were excited to go!

Here is a picture of them!

Dillon is in third grade
Jennilyn is in 2nd grade
Ruth and Irene are in all day Kindergarten.

1st Conference Trip!

This last weekend was General Conference for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  In order to go in they have asked for the children to be 8 yrs old, so I had wanted to take Dillon.  When I asked about tickets I was told our stake had only gotten 90 tickets and our ward got 2 of those tickets.  Our kind Bishop gave those 2 tickets to me.

We decided to let Dan and Dillon go to the Sunday Morning Session of Conference.  And the Girls and I went to Temple Square.  We were told that we could watch it in the theater in the North Visitor's center.

The kids did great!

Here are some pictures of our fun time!

Wild Hair Day!

This last week was sprite week at school.  Monday was St. Patrick's Day so it was wear green day.

Tuesday was Wild Hair Day. . .  Here are our the kids wild hair!

Halloween 2013

Two weeks ago a friend called and asked if she could take the kids to the pumpkin patch and carve pumpkins with them.  I said sure.  The kids had a lot of fun, of course they love spending time with Crystal and her nieces and nephews.

On Oct 29th (Our Anniversary) we had the ward trunk or treat, sorry pictures did not turn out.  The kids had fun dressing up and going and playing games, riding horses, and getting candy.  It was cold and I had not had the kids dress warmer as I wasn't thinking.

Halloween night I had them dress warmer.  It was not as cold as it had been two days before and we did two whole streets in our neighborhood and everyone told us we had to go to the Bishop's house so we loaded the kids up and drove over to the Bishops and hit a few homes around his that don't get many visitors.  We were back in just over an hour which is alright as it was a school night.  They each got to eat two pieces of candy and they were all asleep by 8:30.  I had turned out the lights at 8:15 when we had not had trick or treaters for about 10 min and I only had a few pieces of candy left to hand out.

It was a good night over all.  My girls loved being princesses and Dillon loved being a pirate.
I hope you all had a safe and fun Halloween!

(not the greatest picture)

All in a Days work

This weekend Dan dug a hole.

All the kids helped at some point (sorry no pictures of Dillon helping)

This is what he put up. A hand rail.  It still needs some paint.  I like the post covers.  They are solar power little lights.

Technically we don't need a hand rail for the number of stairs that we have, but we have noticed some people were having issues going up without some help. so we decided to match some of our neighbors and put in a hand rail.  I am loving it!