Arrow of Light

Zachary will be turning 11 next month and has finished his Webelos and tonight he got his Arrow of Light. We are so proud of him for all the hard work he has done.

We are also very grateful to Zac's Webelos leaders, the Christiansens who did a fabulous job and are really the ones who helped Zac achieve this award. Thank you, Dan and Corein!

My handsome scouts!

Pillars of Freedom

Tonight at the school they had Veteran's night to show all the projects that the 8th graders have been working on. They did something relating to veterans in just about every subject from writing a tribute to put on the "pillars of freedom", to doing a science project on artificial limbs, to doing a math project showing percentages of veterans from different wars, etc. It was a very neat presentation. Charity chose my Grandpa Stander to write about and this is my mom standing next to his "pillar" tribute.

Flying Rockets with Daddy!

What a beautiful day to be outside. Daddy took the kids to the park to launch rockets this morning. (I was making pies with Kenny & Robyn) They each got a turn to launch a rocket.

Retrieving the rockets was quite an adventure some times.


Matthew with the rocket (I think it was a space shuttle?) he got to launch.

Emily and Cinder watching.

Birthday Time

It's birthday time at our house. We celebrated my birthday on the 4th by setting up for a Relief Society dinner and then Steve took the kids and I to dinner (sorry, no pictures). And then today was Charity's 14th birthday. I really cannot believe my little girl is already 14!!!! Where did the time go?!? She had some friends spend the night to help celebrate.

Grandma bought Thumper pj's at Disneyland for Charity.

Showing off her new pajamas --over her clothes!
Charity has a thing for pajamas, especially pj pants. She owns about 25 pair and that is still what she asks for!

Showing off her new clothes and her CELL PHONE. Yes, we finally gave in and let her have a cell phone. She was SO excited.

Opening presents

Jessica, Rachel, Charity, Jacky, Hannah
BFF's

Getting a little crazy with the cake and ice cream!

Silly Girls

I love that my girls are good friends. Don't get me wrong, they are still sisters and fight like cats, but they are best of friends. Quite often they can be found doing goofy photo shoots or making silly videos together. They are a riot and giggle like. . .well, like little girls. This is from their latest shoot.