Bike Ride, Parade and Good Food

Today was a fun and busy day. Our community was having their annual parade and I wanted to go. I thought the kids would enjoy it. I had a somewhat crazy idea to ride our bikes to the parade. Everyone else thought it would be great so our family and our neighbors all loaded up the bikes and rode about 4.5 miles to the parade. It was a beautiful day and we all had a great time.

Next we were off to Chipotle for the Cardinal pre-game celebration. They gave everyone wearing Cardinal red a free Burrito, Burrito bowl, salad, or Tacos. Again some what of a crazy idea to take my 5 children to wait it a long line but I love Chipotle and figured why not. We waited about 1 hr and 45 min. The kids did great and loved it. Our neighbors had never been before so hopefully they are now fans of their yummy food. It was a fun and busy day but I guess what else is Saturday for.

Ponytails

A few nights ago John was helping Jenna get ready for bed and did a ponytail by himself. The funny part was that Jenna told him he did better than me and he should start doing her hair all of the time.

Briauna is 18 months

A Brand New Year

The church had a production, I think on New Years Eve for the youth of the church and they now have a website called A Brand New Year. It is quite amazing. John showed it to me and I had never heard about it. It has downloads, the performance and so many more thing on it. We watched the performance and I am excited to show it to Garrett since he will be in Young Men in March. If you have youth they should see it. I enjoyed it a lot. It is neat to see how many good kids are out their that love the lord and want other to hear and feel his message. The website it http://www.abrandnewyear.lds.org/ You should check it out.

The Blanket

Up until Briauna we have never had a kid that was real attached to a stuffed animal or blanket. Briauna love this one particular blanket. She will do fine with another one but if this one is around she wants it. It is so funny to me to see her love something so much. The crazy thing is it was mine when I was a baby and it looked good until she got a hold of it. I don't think it will last past her. Fabric can only handle being washed and drug around for so long. Good thing she is the youngest.

Speech Graduate

I got a call this morning from Caleb's speech teacher that he passed him speech assessment and no longer need speech. Caleb has been in speech for 4 1/2 yrs and has really enjoyed. His therapist Ms. Thomas is wonderful and we are so grateful for all that she has done for Caleb. Congrats Caleb!!

Suckers

John and I are suckers for charity cases. We got our first dog Max because some kids were throwing rocks at him when he was a puppy so we took him. We had him for 10 yrs. Maggie our next dog was a stray and was going to be taken to the pound so we took her. They were great friends. Well last Sunday we found a little dog in our neighborhood that some kids were trying to sling shot rocks at and felt bad. We brought her home just until we found her owner. She has no tags and we have not seen signs yet. So Maggie now has a friend unless we find a sign looking for her. She is a good dog, doesn't shed and the kids love her. The kids call her Jasmine but I can't stop calling her the Little dog.