Chloe's Newest Trick

She has gone from a standing back handspring to a full out running back handspring her coach says in a few more weeks she will remove the hand spot as well. Right now she is mainly doing it until she is sure Chloe will stay consistent.

Hmmm... I wonder

A few days ago I was out running a few errands and I came home to find these hanging on the wall. Hmmm...I wonder what they could be-lol. I only have 2 more days before I can unwrap them and see exactly what is hiding underneath.

Our Week

It has been a pretty busy week as I am just getting to posting the weeks happenings. Here is what has been going on...

The kids have been super busy with school, scouts, and their athletic events. Chloe wasn't feeling well for a lot of last week and we just couldn't figure out why-no fever, sore throat, etc.. Well yesterday we finally figured it out. She said her tooth was hurting and when we looked in her mouth noticed it had a big hole in it and a big puss pocket on her gums. Which means it is abscessed. We think a little piece must have broken off her tooth somehow causing this, because she was just at the dentist for a checkup less than a month ago and her teeth were great. The dentist called her in an antibiotic to get her through the weekend and she has to go in tomorrow probably to get it pulled.

I have started back to school for the semester and so far I love one class and hate the other. The one I am struggling with is my writing class-I hate writing papers! I really procrastinate in that class and it's even worse since it is only once a week. I am usually up late the night before or even worse up early the morning before trying to come up with a paper. Ugh. I also have had a problem with gout-yep only 30 (in a few days) and having this problem. Though it seems to be doing better. I was pretty sick a few weeks ago with my migraine problems and the stomach flu the doctors gave me some medicine and we think that is what caused the gout flare up. At least I can walk now without limping.

Beckett has become a member of the family. He is such a good dog. We decided that his middle name should be Chewbacca or Chewie after the Wookie in the Star Wars movies because he makes a growling noise that sounds exactly like Chewbacca. It's pretty funny. Sorry if your not a star wars fan you won't know what I'm talking about here. We have also put him in obedience school. He is doing great and he has only had one class so far. Look how well he is sitting for this picture :)

Oh yeah and here is what happened to my car in the parking lot a PetSmart during Beckett's first class. Some guy ran into it. Luckily he came in the store and found me and is going to pay to fix it.

Well that's our week in a nutshell. Hopefully I'll do better this week posting more often but no promises there.

New Floor

Here is a pict of the new floor. We still need to do some touch up painting around the baseboards and buy a rug. We are super happy with the results though. It looks great and just feels so much cleaner to us. It is easy to clean as well. We think we will be happy with the change.

Let the Work Begin...

This year we have tons of household projects that we are going to work on doing. Everything ranging to replacing a few doorknobs that just aren't working right to major changes like the flooring.

We started everything off a few weeks ago with Tanner's room. We re-arranged it and made a few changes like a Lego building station with nifty storage units for his Lego's and a super cool baseball supply shelf that Landon invented. We also got his new Ipod docking station that he got for Christmas all rigged up.

Landon has also already fixed our washer which had been leaking for several weeks.

This weekend we started or I should say Landon did, with the help of Dave and Brandon our neighbors the task of putting wood floors in the front room and hallway. Dave also fixed the door to the washer and dryer that Landon broke during Christmas-lol. Chloe was super happy to help with this project and she has really been helping not just hindering. She worked so hard that late Friday night I went looking for her and found her fast asleep on her bedroom floor. What a trooper. I can't actually say that Tanner has been to happy about all of these projects he really hates things to change, in fact he has been a little bit upset, though I think he has really grown to like some of the changes in his room, so hopefully he'll like the new floors eventually too.Look at the dirt on her face in this picture after a hard days labor.

I'll post some more picts when the whole project is finished.

At the top of the list when this is through is to replace the dishwasher which hasn't worked for several months, and repair the oven which hasn't been working for a few weeks. I don't see any weekends of R & R for quite a while, but it will be worth it when we get it all done:)

Lego Robotics

Awhile back Tanner joined a Lego robotics team. They would get together every week and work on programing/building the robots and also learn some computer and science stuff. They were getting ready for the 2nd annual Lego Robotics Competition.

Over the weekend the competition was held here in St. George. There were 7 teams competing. The theme was food factor. Each team had to do a project and some research as long as well as some other things. They also competed in 3 two and a half minute tasks with their robots. The tasks included things like getting fish back to base, harvesting corn, getting groceries, getting rid of bacteria, getting a pizza and ice cream to base. Each task was built out of Lego's and they had to use the robots to complete them. It was pretty interesting to watch. Tanner's friend Rohun also competed on a different team and his team took 1st in this part of the competition. Tanner's took third.

At the end there were six awards given out in the following areas: Champions Award, Project Award, Core Values Award, Robot Design Award, Robot Performance Award, and Judges Award. Tanner's team won the Project Award. The theme for the project was to think up a new and innovative way to keep food from spoiling or monitor it so you know if it had spoiled. Tanner's team thought up the idea of milk jugs that change color depending on the temperature. Kind of like those cups that change color depending on if there is hot or cold liquid in them.

We thought it was pretty fun and a good learning experience. Tanner is hoping to be able to do it again next year.

New Years Fun!!!

We had a great time over the new years weekend. We spent it in Flowell with Landon's family. The kids had a blast and what kid wouldn't with 14 playmates to run around freely with. Here is a picture of the whole gang-what a good looking bunch.

Chloe loves being with her cousins, but she especially loves playing mother to the baby cousins. She always wanted to be holding one of the babies.

We were all excited to be able to see baby Taylee, she was only about 2 weeks old. So so cute!

Tanner is the oldest of the boys and all of the little boys absolutely love him. They follow him around like he is the pied piper. Even the girls do a lot of the time. He is so good to play with them all. The boys especially love chasing and wrestling him. It can get pretty loud and wild at times.

On Saturday night we all loaded up and went over to Delta for a little bowling. It has been a long time since we actually bowled that wasn't on the Wii. It was fun though, even though we all kind of got our butts kicked. Except for Chloe I think she might have won the kids division. (Tanner was playing with the adults)Here are all the little sweethearts.
The Wild Bunch...

We had so much fun and can't wait for everyone to get together again.