Dancing Dave

On Saturday we had a sort of impromptu dance party. We had our friends come over from across the street as well as our neighbor Dave and his wife. We had a BBQ. Set up the TV and Wii in the garage and danced the night away. We had so much fun dancing and laughing. Check out Dave's dance moves he really got into it. LOL

BASKETBALL

Tanner has had a fun time playing basketball this year. He is on a team with a couple of kids from our ward. He has really learned a lot his year. He is really quick and has gotten a lot of steals and rebounds and has become excellent at guarding his opponent. Today was his last game for the season and his team pulled off a final win. Basketball is really my sport I love watching it-it makes me miss the good old days of me being the one out there on the court playing.
We missed the actual team pictures because they were the week of Tanner's basketball tournament so I guess this is as good as it gets. From left to right.....

Jake, Cameron, Nolan, Tanner, Kaleb, Chris, and Collin

Toothless

She now is missing 4 teeth. We just call her toothless. On Thursday she lost one tooth. Then yesterday she came home with and envelope from school. It was decorated and sealed it read "Chloe lost a tooth at school today", yep it had another one of her woofers in it. I told her that if she keeps loosing teeth she's going to have to live on applesauce for awhile. She said that's okay I like applesauce. LOL

Birthday and Superbowl Parties

Last weekend we had a fun time with parties. First we celebrated my Birthday on Saturday and then the Superbowl on Sunday. Grandma graciously hosted both. We had a great time.

On Saturday the whole fam came over and we had yummy Navajo Tacos. I got Let's Dance 2 for my Birthday so of course we had a dance of. It was lots of fun and just a little bit competitive when Sandi and I had hold of the remotes. It was a super fun night! Thanks everyone for coming.

Sunday was the superbowl. It was actually a lot more low key the the Birthday Party. We did have good company though and yummy snacks. Oh yeah and least I forget the nerf gun war close to half-time. (I wonder what the neighbors thought?) After all I had to test out the new nerf gun I got for my Birthday :)

Baseball

Tanner has been playing baseball with a tournament league for the last little while. This weekend he was able to go to his first tournament with them. They played baseball all day for two days. Tanner was so excited to go! He was a little nervous especially on his hitting so he struck out a few times but he did get a pretty good hit on Saturday. Saturday afternoon he made an awesome play in the outfield. There were two outs and the bases were loaded and the guy hit a pop fly to right field, Tanner caught it, securing the third out and stopping a few runs from coming in. What a play! To bad I was in the bathroom with Chloe and missed the whole thing. At least Landon was out there, although he didn't see it either because he was sitting in a spot right behind the dugout and all he saw was the ball go up headed Tanner's way he didn't know he had caught it until he heard all the cheering.

Tanner is having lots of fun and learning lots with this team so as long as he is happy we will let him play-which of course couldn't make his father happier or prouder.

Fruit Leather

For Christmas Landon's parents gave us a wonderful food dryer. We were so excited about it and it has been running constantly since we got it. We have made beef jerky, dried apples, and our very favorite thing has been the fruit leather. I have to make it at least once or twice a week since it gets devoured so quickly.

It is super simple if you want to make some. Just get a couple of cans or bottles of fruit, drain the juice off of them, and then blend them up. If you want to you can add a little bit of Karo Syrup at this point but you don't need to. If you do blend again. Make sure your fruit leather sheets have been greased with vegetable or olive oil and then pour on the fruit and spread it out evenly. 6-10 hours later you have a super yummy and very nutritious snack. My kids LOVE it! I usually cut each sheet into 4-6 pieces and roll them up just like a fruit roll up. We have made apricot, peach, and pear and even mixed a few of them. The kids keep saying they can't wait until summer so we can have strawberry.

JUST DANCE 2

We went to our neighbors tonight for a little get together. We had a great time shaking our booties and the food wasn't to bad either. Thanks guys for inviting us we will definately have to do it again. In the meantime I'll be practicing my moves so I can have a better chance of beating Kaston. HAHA (FYI Kaston is their 2 year old and he has some serious moves he plays this game everyday)

Ellison Family be ready we are bringing this game when we come for Dawson's baptism and the laughs will definately rival that of new years.