Sawyer's Medal's and Trophy

Here are a few pics of me and mom bored out of our minds at the competition and awards show for Soy's gymnastics. In one mom is just about asleep and in another I am fighting a big yawn. Remember by award time it was around 10:30 - 10:45 p.m. I usually go to bed by 10:00 at the latest. I have to add how much I love my mom not working anymore. I make her come with me sooo many places now. I really dont give her much of a choice either. But it sure makes things like competions alot more fun. We drug her to this gymnastics comp. Poor lady. Let me rephrase that...she wanted to come but she also wanted to drive her own car. We talked her into coming down with us. Poor girl, dad wouldnt come and get her and she was forced to eat hot dogs and a baked potato with us. My butt was so sore after sitting on those bleachers for what felt like 3 yrs. It was way fun to have mom there with me and keep me entertained. Next time though I will let her drive herself if she wants. And besides Jaren and I, I think she is definatly Sawyers biggest fan! Thanks Mom!

More Gymnastics

Here are some additional photos of gymnastics. Hope you enjoy them.

Soy's 1st gymnastics competition

On Feb. 12th Sawyer had his first gymnastic competition. It was at the Shelly High School in Shelly. Grandma Sheila came with us. I think Sawyer was a bit nervous. He is considered pre-team so he didn't have the warm up outfit. Other than that he was on the team. There were 8-9 boys in his division. They did the pommel (sp???) horse and mushroom, floor, bars, rings and 2 others I don't know the names of. One is when they run and jump off the little springy thing and the other is the 2 bars around a foot apart. He did so awesome!!! It was so neat to watch him. His best event was the rings. To watch him hang there was crazy. He just doesn't have enough meat on his bones so I was really shocked at how he could hold himself up. He took
6th place in one event and then 2nd and 3rd in everything else. He also got 3rd overall and his whole team took 2nd over all. The only bad this is it took forever!!! I never thought it was going to end! It started at 5:30 and after almost 2 hours they had only done 2 events and had 4 more to go! We got home around 12:30 a.m. It was worth it though to watch him do so well. He was great. There is another competition this coming weekend (March 13th) in Rexburg at the Gymnastics Center. I will post what time if anyone wants to come. He would love it!

My New Car!!! (I wish)

Okay so this one is a little out of order but humor me please!!! Yesterday after scouts I had to take Brecon (one of my scouts) to St. Anthony to the high school. I cant go to St. Anthony without driving past my dream car. Since we were just coming from scouts and I had my camera I thought to myself go take a picture of me and my car. So I did. Well Sawyer did. He has to think that his mom is so silly but he joined into the fun as well. Love this car I do! I don't even consider myself a sports car type person but there is something about this car that makes my mouth water. It is so impractical but does everything need to be practical. I keep trying to sell the idea of a "date car" but its not really working for me. Man the interior is even black and it has a 6 speed manual transmission. Its a super sport which translates into it will go really really fast. These are right around $40,000 can you believe that! (I am only putting that in here so when I have made my blog into a cool book (you know what Im talking about Kate) and I am 80 yrs old I will remember how cheap things used to be and drive my kids and grandkids nuts with my...when I was a kid stories) While we were out taking these pictures my sweet Sawyer says "I kept telling Dad that we should get you this car for Valentines Day and he just said Maybe next year" Ya right! Really I would feel so guilty if I ever got this car but a girl has to have a dream doesn't she??? It is parked next to a silver one and Keller as we pulled up said "Why would you want a black one?" "It would always be dirty I would rather have a silver one that way I wouldn't have to clean it as much" Spoken like a true 6 yrs. old boy who hates to clean! I love the picture of Sawyer all lounged on the silver one. Silly pictures but its was fun to take them and it made us both smile. Imaginations and daydreaming make life a bit more fun sometimes don't ya think?

Harry Potter II

So Keller has kind of gone off trains just a bit to be obsessed with Harry Potter. I'm not sure what started this but he is obsessed. To do the simplest tasks he has to have his wand. Whether it is turning a light on, opening a door or heaven forbid one of his brothers upsets him...he uses the wand to cast some type of spell. Every thing is about Harry Potter. So many questions. Its a good thing that I like the books and movies and have read them enough times to try to answer his questions. Well if you remember, Sawyer was Harry Potter for Halloween. Keller kept bugging his brother about using his wand, glasses and robe. He really was being a big pain. So I told Keller if he earned enough marbles (.25 for each marble and they get at least one marble per job) he could buy his own. He was really excited about getting his own stuff he just was not as excited about doing the work to get it. Trying to get Keller to do things is a full time job. He can push the most patient person to crave alcoholic beverages. Homework for instance takes at least an hour (remember he is in Kindergarten how much homework can they really have?) and that is once you have him seated at the table. Oh sakes how I hate homework time. I think he is difficult on purpose. He can think of any excuse not to do something that might require a little effort. So the Harry Potter stuff really was a life saver even if it only lasted a couple of weeks. (the bribe not the costume) So here are some picture of Harry and his best friend Juan Weasley (his name in the books is Ron but when your three it comes out Juan) Dylan is into anything and everything as long as his brothers think it is cool. So now where ever we go we don't have to worry about Dementors, death eaters or Lord Voldemort because we have the brave Harry Potter to protect us. For the record, I sure do love that little boy! One second your want to choke him and the next he says something so random that you are crying from laughter or pure happiness just to be around him. I will really miss these good ol days with my little boys. I appreciate everyday that I get to participate in there adventures.

Super Scouter Strikes Again!

Here is ol Soy getting his yellow beads for Cub Scouting. Such a good boy. We have been doing all sorts of fun stuff in scouts. We went to the courthouse and got a big tour. We just had our Blue & Gold Banquet (I will post a few pics a little later on that) And Sawyer just turned 9 so he is now a Bear Cub Scout. We are going to the hanger to see 5 different airplanes and his dad is going to talk to the boys about flying and teach them how to make a paper airplane. Jaren know really has a great paper airplane pattern and the plane flies really well. I will let you know how it goes. Also Sawyer just had a piano recital. It was at the Assisted Living Center in St. Anthony. His teacher is Linda Meservy. She is great. Keller is going to start next fall. I wonder how that will go??? Anyway Soy did an awesome job. We were so proud of him. Thanks for looking and talk to you soon!

The last of Disneyland (I think)

Here are a few more photos of Disney. I believe these were taken on our last day. We had to show Dylan the bugs life 3-d show. He didn't really get the whole 3-D thing unless we were on The Toy Story ride. You know the one where you shoot things. The kid is obsessed with artillery. Speaking of that way fun ride....I always shoot a much much higher score than my sweet husband. He just didn't understand how. It couldn't be because Sawyer and Keller love the Mullholand Madness roller coaster and Dylan was too small to ride it and threw a fit if I tried to ride. So we would go on the Toy Story ride. And since there were no lines we just kept playing. Anyway I thought the boys looked too cute as bugs not to take some photos. Dylan did look just as cute but for some reason you take a camera out around him and he gets mad and refuses to cooperate lately. Not all the time but alot of the time. The last couple pics are of the Grizzly Falls ride. I really like this ride and so did Jaren and Sawyer. Jar and Soy went knowing they would get really really wet and since it was raining and we were soaked already why not right? So here they are thanks for looking!