"Good Times, Good Times..." A Month In Review

Good Grief! It's tough to get on here and post as often as I would like to! I talked to a friend the other day who has an absolutely darling blog (the illustrious Molly Reynolds, click here) and she gave me two great gems of blogging advice: 1) YOU own the blog; the blog doesn't own you, and 2) Find your groove. Loved those two thoughts. Well, I certainly haven't found my groove yet (or in my case, my 'jive', I guess...), but I'm enjoying the opportunity to preserve memories. My children look forward to each post tremendously, and really, that's the point. Anyway, until I achieve a more predictable blog post routine, I wanted to document some of our great moments of the last 3 or 4 weeks.

Josh's first Blue and Gold Banquet!
They asked all of the Scouts to make and decorate a birthday cake, to be "wacky judged" and eaten for dessert. Joshua displayed his latest Indiana Jones lego masterpieces. He worked on them for hours to get every detail right. Unfortunately, about 20 minutes after this picture was taken, some over-active fellow scouts decided that they wanted to "rebuild " his cake... and dissassembled his vehicles and smashed the pieces into the cake! It was unbelievable. Josh cried all the way home, and for about an hour after. You know, I didn't know when they said that Scouting would make your sons stronger that this might be the way it would occur... to teach them how to handle their thoughtless peers? Well, we all better get ready to toughen up a bit, because next pack meeting is the infamous pinewood derby! Oh, I can't wait...
Here is Josh playing the "eat-a-saltine-cracker-and-try-to-whistle" game... Don't you just want to kiss those little scout lips!!




LION KING at Grady Gammage auditorium!!!
We bought group tickets about a year ago... and here we all are! The show was AWESOME!!!

Here's my Broadway Babies after the show! We had a ball...


We took a trip to Las Vegas for my cousin Alex Green's missionary homecoming. As always, it was a wonderful opportunity to connect with some of most fun, uplifting, classy people that I know! (Of, course, they're my family, so I might be a little biased...) But in reality, we feel so lucky and blessed to have extended family that set such fine examples of testimony and dedication to the gospel for our children to follow. It is inspiring to see, and it makes you want to keep such a legacy of faith going with your generation... Love you, cuz's!

This is my dad in his "element". Playing his old classic sing-alongs on the guitar while his family harmonizes...I think he's singing here one of our family favorites: "Nothing's Quite As Pretty As ______(fill in child's name) In The Morning" Of course as kids we would all scream for him to put our names in... and he would make a special verse for each one of us. I love you, Dad!


Whenever Kate can make eye contact with someone lately, whether friend or stranger, she asks for food (signs of course)! Here is proof that I really do feed her! Just look at those Jersey Cow eyes... I'll have to post another fairy tale sometime to tell the tale of how they came about!



Forts are a frequent occurrence at our house, but I rarely get a shot of them in use. This one is definitely not their best work, but they were having so much fun under it, and I was especially impressed that Kate was staying in one spot for more than 30 seconds! What a bunch of cuties...



'LONDON'S RUN'NERS!!! As many of you know, Queen Creek has an annual cancer benefit run in honor of a girl named London... it's a wonderful event. This year Kate, Izzy and I opted out, but Scott and the kids did the 2 mile fun run. Next year it's the half marathon for sure! Hee, hee! We lingered afterwards and enjoyed the festivities, complete with... face painting! Kate acted like she was being branded when she got hers... what a drama queen!


...face painting! Kate acted like she was being branded when she got hers... what a drama queen!




And last but not least...
Our stake has a garden... and our ward has a section of it! At the beginning of January we went as a family and helped cultivate (I think that's the soft term for 'yanking nasty weeds'), and last week for F.H.E. we were able to help harvest it! It was a mudbog that evening, but here are the fruits of our (and many other wonderful saints') labors. Yes, I get excited about pictures of fresh, homegrown (and FREE!) produce! And Kate shared my enthusiasm in helping me bag it up... YUMMM!!!!



Well, that's a recap for now... maybe next month I'll actually blog as the events happen! Baby steps, Deb, baby steps...