We Finally WON a game!!!

Jadon 's basketball team has only won one game this season. When they lose, they lose big! The scores have always been about 24-4, if we're lucky. At the last game, the scorekeepers cleared the scoreboard when the score was 24-0 so our team wouldn't feel so bad. Well, our team was so pumped up to win today. They started out the game behind so we thought it was going to be the same old game. But they quickly made some baskets and Jadon made the basket that put our team into the lead! That was awesome. It was his first basket of the season. After that, they just continued to play really well and won the game 24-17. It was so awesome!

sad snow story

So we built the littlest sledding hill ever in our front yard and Jadon has spent a lot of time outside every day this week. Yesterday he stayed out all by himself after Jaxon and Kierra came in. I kept watching him out the window to see what he was doing all by himself. He had decided to dig a hole through the little sledding hill, like a cave. I watched him digging it with a little shovel. Then all of a sudden he got his sled and took a running leap on to the sled and went down the tiny hill on his stomach. As soon as I saw him grab the sled I knew his little cave would cave. I thought that he knew that too. Well, as soon as he gets up off the sled and looks back his eyes went so wide and his mouth dropped. He had no idea that his weight wouldn't cave in a teeny tiny hill with a cave dug through it. He just sat in the snow and cried. I felt horrible. If I was a better mom, I would have went right out there and help him rebuild it but I was in the middle of a cleaning project and wanted to finish it. Anyway, after a minute he got up and grabbed the shovel and started shoveling snow off the grass and began to rebuild the hill. The entire time he was mumbleing something and looked pretty upset. What I couldn't believe is that after he got the hill rebuilt and the cave dug again, he went down on the sled and was just as upset when it caved in again. He finally built it again for the 3rd time and dug a nice cave and then came inside. I told him that I had seen what had happened and felt to bad for him. All is said is "Mom, you're so weird!" I guess he was over the devastation of the cave in.

Oh, how we love to be off track!

My kids officially went off track today. Luckily, it dumped a ton of snow yesterday which gave them something to do today. We shoveled all our snow off the driveway into the biggest hill we could make and the kids have had a great time going down it on their sleds. Kyson absolutely loves having the kids home to play with him! Jake thought he would love it, but that means he has to share the WII now. Jaxon is already grounded from the WII because he didn't want to do his offtrack homework before playing the WII. That is why you don't see him in this picture. (He is inside sulking) The winter off track time is very hard because the kids can't go outside and get their energy out. This one is a long one too--3 weeks. We're planning on going sledding and swimming and spending a few days at the cabin so it shouldn't be that bad. Maybe I'll get lucky and get to spend a few days on my own---at jury duty!

Little Mother

Kierra is such a good little mother. She is always so good to her little brothers. She will always play games, color with them and read them books. Tonight she was reading a book for her book report. She could have read it to herself but she found all her little brothers and asked them if they wanted to listen. It was so cute because they were all very interested in the book. She is going to make a fabulous mother someday!

Bonding with Daddy!

For Christmas, the kids gave their Dad some Batman, Superman, and The Justice League DVD's. We had some problems with the first ones we ordered and had to re-order them. The new ones came today and Dale was so excited. After dinner he and the kids watched two episodes before going to bed. It was so cute to watch them all enjoying something their Dad loves so much.

Oh the looks we got!

After spending most of the day really deep cleaning my kitchen today, I wasn't about to let my family eat dinner at home. So we decided to go to Burger King for dinner. YUM! About 1/2 hour before we left, Doyle called and asked us to watch his kids because he needed to take Kris to the hospital. I was already too excited about eating at BK to not go, so we took 9 kids out to dinner. It was so funny as they all piled out of 2 vehicles and marched right to the play place. Dale and I came in last and every eye in the place was on us, some mouthes dropped. We got them situated in the play place and then Dale and I went to order. The guy working there said "I gotta ask, how many kids do you have?" I felt like saying "nine, don't I look awesome?" but I didn't. I told him we had 5 and the rest were cousins. Then the lady that was eating with her 3 kids in the play place told me we had a really cute family. I told her "Thanks but they aren't all mine" She couldn't believe it because she thought they looked so much alike. The kids were actually really good. The play place sounded like a school cafeteria but oh well. The funniest thing was the lady that thought we had a cute family lost one of her kids when she was trying to leave. Fun times!

New Primary Classes

You gotta love the first Sunday of the new year when your kids get their new Primary teachers. Our ward doesn't do the breakfast thing the day before so our kids get to find out who their new teachers are on the Sunday that they go to their new class. It's kind of a madhouse in the cultural hall after Sacrament meeting as the Primary presidency says the teachers name and then reads the list of the kids in that class. Jaxon was excited that he gets to go to Senior primary now. I saw him in the hall in between class and sharing time and he had a huge smile on his face when he showed me his new Book of Mormon that his teacher gave him. It was just the cheap blue ones that the missionaries give out but to him it was the coolest thing ever. To top that off he got a new red pencil and his teacher said he could underline things in his Book of Mormon with it. He couldn't believe that someone was giving him permission to write in a book. I went to class with a smile on my face because of his excitement. After church he was even more excited. He came running up to me in the hall and said "Mom, can you please save up all your money so that you can get my name in GOLD on my new Book of Mormon?" Then he opened his scriptures and showed me the part in ROMONI that he got to underline. What a great way to start the new year!