School Carnival

The kids love this school event every year.  This year the principal got voted on to kiss a pig. 

Back 2 School 2011

These 2 studs went back to school. 

Stockton excitedly started Kindergarten at the big school in Ms. Jones' afternoon class.  Ethan moved on to the Third Grade in Mrs. Knighton's class.

Cub Scout Fun!

So yeah, I've been behind on my blogging.  Well, I am more behind on my family scrapbook.  I guess you could call it a new years resolution of sorts but I have decided I will not blog until the memories are digi-scrapped!  Keeping things in chronological order somewhat...

Ethan enjoyed his first raingutter regatta with cub scouts.  It was quite a fun night.  The boys got supplies to design and construct their own boats.  And then had fun racing them using their own wind power. 

Back to School

Ethan is so excited to start 3rd grade.  Even though he isn't looking forward to homework, he is happy to have Mrs. Knighton for his teacher.  At back to school night, he found out he gets to sit by 2 of his neighbors, Tanner Jensen and Oakley Rasmussen. 

We hope this is his best year in school yet!

Dutch Oven Cook-Off

Ethan got to participate in the Dutch Oven Cook-off this year with the Boy Scouts.  I let him decide what he wanted to make and he chose - PIZZA!  We got some tips and help from Grandpa and it turned out great!

Judges awarded certificates for the best dish overall, for the best Boy Scout dish and for the best Cub Scout dish.  Ethan won the top Cub Scout dish!  They did a drawing after all the certificates were handed out and Ethan came home with a griddle for the grill.  Way to go Ethan!!

Finally, he got his Bobcat award.  Ethan chose the Watermellon Cheer.

Proud Mom with her Bobcat!

REAL CV at the Kohl's Cup

Coach Jeremy, Ethan, Fletcher, Jace, Strat, Jackson  (not pictured - Miles)

The team did great and took 2nd place in their division.  It was a fun tournament and Ethan had a great time.  Leo the Lion was at the tournament and the team got a picture taken with him.  It is featured on Leo's facebook page.  Check it out here.

C*T*R

We were so pleased with Ethan and his decision to follow Jesus and be baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  It was a special day!

Ethan wanted a suit REALLY bad.  We took pictures of him in his new suit for his Baptism invite.

We have one good looking 8 year old!

Our new Cub

 Ethan has been waiting to join Cub Scouts for a long time.  Here he is officially inducted into the pack.

He is eagerly working on receiving his Bobcat.

 

a busy Birthday.

Ethan turned 8 on a very busy Saturday.  Soccer games, a baby shower, a wedding reception complete with a trip to Salt Lake.  Presents were opened first thing and Ethan was excited to get a new Plasma Car, Lego's and clothes.  The rest of the day was a big rush getting from event to event. 

The bad mom award goes to me since I didn't do a cake for Ethan.  He did have a piece of cake from his favorite place in SLC - the Lion House since that is where the wedding reception was.  We stuck a toothpick in it and wished him a Happy Birthday. 

Since the plan to do something way fun fell through, we decided to take the time in SLC to go to the Church History museum and see the new children's exhibit.  The last 3 times we have been down, it had been under construction.  We got to the museum just as they locked the doors!  Walking back to the car, I saw a gate opened at temple square leading to the temple grounds.  I wanted my kids to "touch" the temple so I let them get their pictures taken.  Ryan had taken Peyton ahead of us so she missed out.  The boys ended up being too silly to get any good pictures but I hope the remember being able to touch the temple and hopefully it touched them as well. 

The gardens at Temple Square were beautiful!  Since it was still trying to be Winter in Cache Valley, it was a delight to see all the flowers in bloom. 

Cute Pey, with her headphones on the way home. 

Cleaning the SINK

It has been a {DREAM} of Ethan's to clean the sink at Angie's.  He knew that he got to pick the restaurant for his birthday and has looked forward to it all year!  Stockton was not as excited.  He thought that we were literally going to go into the restaurant kitchen and clean the sink.  Silly us we had dinner, making the boys clean their plates before we ordered the HUGE dessert.  We got 3 choices of toppings.  The boys all chose Reese's and Oreos.  I picked the strawberries.  It did taste really yummy for the first, maybe 10 bites.  After that it was disgusting.

Ethan thought he could eat it all himself...

Digging in!

I decided to save 1/2 my dinner to be of better help with the dessert.  A nice elderly couple took our picture.  They thought it was so "cute".  I am sure they were ready for us to leave after the kids started laying on the floor because their tummies were SO full. 

Peyton ended up having an accident and Ryan had to take her home.  Luckily we had 2 vehicles at the restaurant so me and the boys stayed trying to finish the large task. 

We got so close to the end.  It took us so long to eat it that the ice cream had melted and it was just a soupy candy filled mess.  The bananas are very filling and I ended up removing them to help Ethan out a little. 

He was so determined to finish so he could get a bumper sticker.  Stockton kept calling it a "go-cart" sticker.  (I think he was getting it confused with bumper cars)  We were getting extremely sick of it at this point.  Stockton was no help and begun laying everywhere he felt comfortable.  Ethan took a few trips to the bathroom and the college kids next to us finished their sink and were rewarded a bumper sticker. 

Stockton kept cheering Ethan on reminding him that "Daddy really wants the "go-cart" sticker.". (I think Ryan could have cared less - they boys just like to make Daddy proud.)

Enough was enough and I wasn't about to ruin my diet anymore.  I kept trying to calculate the amount of calories I had just consumed and it was making me sick on top of the stomach full of ice cream.

Luckily, when I went to settle the bill, I was helped by one of the managers.  Even though they generally only give out bumper stickers to true completers of cleaning the sink, he presented me with our own bumper sticker after I pleaded Ethan's case... he tried REALLY hard, it was his birthday, etc...

On the way home I was dying laughing...  Stockton, upon seeing Ethan with the bumper sticker, jumped up and down and cheered, "Yeah! We got it!".  Ethan then proclaimed that he was now going to be a "vegetarian" and NEVER eat ice cream again!