Afton is 6!

Happy Birthday to my little Afton. Although I can't really say little anymore. She is 6 years old today and I'm still trying to cope with it. I can't believe that she's already six. It's so crazy! Anyway, she has been very excited for her birthday. She's been talking about it for the last few months and now the day is finally here and she's so excited. We just love our little girl so much and we're so blessed to have her in our lives and a part of our family. She is always so loving and takes great care of her little brothers. She loves helping me around the house and I love that she loves to do that. It's so nice to have some help. And she does a great job! She's even been asking me to make a chore chart! I guess I better get on that when it's being requested. Afton still loves school and can't wait to go everyday. She enjoys learning and playing with her friends. She also loves to sing, play barbies, watch movies, color and draw people pictures and she loves to make little books for her friends and family. Afton has also enjoyed learning to read. She loves to learn new words and practice reading. We've been reading the scriptures each night as a family and she can't wait because she gets to read her own verse with the help of mom and dad. I love that she is so eager to learn. She also loves to talk and if you let her, she'll talk your ear off. We just love our beautiful girl so much! HaPPy biRtHdAy AFTON! We love you!!

St. Patty's day

Well our St. Patrick's day wasn't too exciting this year. The kids got some fun stuff from their grandparents. They all got some fun green shirts from my mom and from my mother-in-law. Afton and Dax were all about the pinching this year. They thought it was the greatest thing and wanted to pinch everyone even if you were wearing green. And that person happened to be me. Later that night they found a special note from a pretty sneaky lepruchan. He drew them a map to a hidden pot of gold. They had lots of fun finding the little shamrocks to lead them on their way. And they couldn't believe that he actually left them a present. It was all very exciting and they're still talking about the sneaky lepruchan and how he got into our house.

Ice Cream

Yay for $1 scoop night at Baskin Robin's. We loaded up in the car and headed to BR's for some yummy ice cream. Have I ever mentioned how much I love ice cream and that my kids have that same obsession? Jason, on the other hand, not that big of a fan. Glad that my kids take after their momma.

the shoe thief

Logan loves shoes and I found him today walking around the house with one of Daxon's shoes on and one of Afton's shoes on. It was pretty funny. He'll wear those shoes for like a half an hour just walking around the house and playing. He also likes to put on Jason's shoes and my shoes. Any shoe he can get to he'll put it on.

the garden

This year I really wanted to plant a garden, so on Saturday we spent the day doing lots of yard work getting ready to plant the garden. There is a planter on our patio that use to have flowers and plants in it, but over the years they've died and been ripped out, so we decided to use this area for the garden. Jason and I spent all day weeding that dang planter. There were so many weeds it was crazy! Now it looks beautiful and garden worthy. Jason's going to bring home some awesome fertilizer to make the soil even better. Let's just hope I can take better care of the food then the flowers. I have all the seeds to get started so I just need to get them planted and pray that they start growing. I went to this awesome seed store with some ladies in my ward. They had all kinds of seeds and I guess they're all really fresh and great to start your garden with. I'm really hoping that everything will go well. I'll just have to wait and see. But I'm very excited to have a garden!

before picture of the weedy mess

during

after. It looks so much better

I think it'll be a great little spot for my first garden.

The kids had a great time playing outside all day and riding on their jeep. Of course they had a hard time sharing it.

I love this picture because Dax wouldn't move and Logan was getting mad at him. You can see his arm swinging back ready to hit Dax and he sure did.

An adventure

On Friday, we went to the Temple with our friends Jason and Nichole. We rode up with them and after doing a session we went out for dinner. I guess they both really love sushi and wanted to find a sushi place for dinner. Jason and I were up for the adventure. Jason has had sushi before, but I've never really tried it. I think I ate a little piece in Hawaii, but that was it. So I was a little nervous and not sure how it would go. I definitely need to work on my chopstick skills. I was getting so frustrated because I really wanted to eat with them. I ended up using my hands and then a fork. As for the sushi, it was actually pretty good. We tried halibut, salmon, tuna, red snapper, shrimp and some sushi rolls. I was a big fan of the sushi rolls. It turned out to be a pretty good adventure. I don't think I'm going to rush out tonight to get more sushi, but I'll definitely try it again. In the meantime, I need to work on mastering the chopsticks.

the plateful of sushi

Jazz hats

Afton really wanted to take a picture of the boys in their Jazz hats. She actually did a pretty good job, although I did some cropping to help her out. Dax and Logan also have on Jazz buttons that Dax got for his birthday.

Norma

She's in our ward and I use to visit teach her a couple of years ago. Ever since we've become good friends and she just loves our family. Every time we go into the chapel for sacrament meeting the kids run over to her and give her a hug. They just think she's the greatest. I think she's 86 years old and as you can tell from the picture she's not doing so well. She uses a walker, she gets tired very easily and her hearing isn't that great. She usually only stays for sacrament meeting because she's too tired and weak to stay for all of church. So our family tries to go visit her when we can. We stopped by her house last Monday for family home evening. She's the sweetest lady and is always telling us how beautiful our family is. She loves little children and loves giving my kids hugs. She really wanted to hold Logan but he wasn't too sure of her. Maybe next time.

playing the wii

Last Sunday, Jason and the kids were playing the wii. They were doing some boxing and bowling. Dax was so funny to watch. He was really getting into it and was set on winning the boxing match. It's a great way to get all of that hyper energy out of his little body.


He was jumping up and down, making silly sound effects and calling the opponent some crazy names. I think one of the names was "Frankenstein". I'm still trying to figure out where he came up with that one.

Jason and his mad skills at boxing.

Afton posing for the camera. That girl loves to have her picture taken.

Just some cute pictures of Afton and Logan. She is such a great big sister and really takes good care of him. And she's such a great help around the house too.

Guess Who

I thought it would be fun to have you guess who's in this picture. So give it a try. Who do you think it is?