Kyson the builder

At our elementary, we have what is called a builder program. It relates to Character traits. Each month we focus on a character trait. Kids get builder cards when they do something that has to do with the character trait for the month. The kids in the school are building the name of the school with legos. Each grade is a color of lego. This month the character trait is Honesty and Kyson's teacher picked him to be a builder. Every month they have a builder assembly and the parents come but the kids don't know they are going to be a builder until the assembly. Kyson talks about the builder assembly every month and always wants to get it. The day before the assembly he told me that the builder assembly was going to be tomorrow. I acted like I didn't know what he was talking about. He was very disappointed and said "If you don't know about it, then I must not be getting the builder". We hid at the back of the auditorium so that he wouldn't see us when he came in with his class. I was so excited for him! When the principal called out his name, his whole class cheered for him. I love his class! They are such cute kids! Here he is walking up to get his award.

He's so proud! He's such a good kid. I love to volunteer in his class because I love to see him interact with his classmates. He is friends with everyone and everyone likes him.

I'm so proud of my little builder!

Tiger face

Last Sunday, in sacrament meeting, Katie asked Kierra to draw a tiger face on her face. Kierra pretended to do it with a pen. Katie wasn't pretending. She thought she had a tiger face on. Any time someone tried to kiss her she said "Don't kiss me. You'll ruin my tiger face!" In sharing time she raised her hand and told the chorister that her sister painted a real tiger face on her face. I knew she was going to be pretty disappointed when she got home and found out there was no tiger on her face. I was right. Right when we got home, she went running into the bathroom to see her face. She got sad immediatley. She thought that it came off. So, naturally, Kierra had to draw a tiger on her face. She was so happy and went around growling at everyone.

FHE

Tonight we didn't have anything in particular planned for our FHE but we ended up having a great time together. We decided to turn Jadon's homework assignment into a family activity. He had to make a spanish food for his spanish class. He chose churros. While he and I were making them, Dale put some legos together with Jake and Kyson. Kierra and Jaxon just hung out and watched. Katie played nearby with her little toys. After the churros were done, we all had a great time eating them. They were super yummy! While we were eating, we listened to music and danced. We didn't have lesson, like we should have, but we had some valuable family bonding time. It was great!

I love organized things!!!

I've been wanting to organize our cold storage for a long time. I finally got to do it today. I've been trying to build up our food storage and every time I buy something I just put it on the shelves and told myself I would organize it later.

I finally got all my cans in the right section with the right labels with them.

I organized all the jars and made labels for them. I also organized everything into categories like pastas, jams, fruits etc...

This is my favorite. I got some bins for all the puddings, jellos and cake mixes so they aren't just scattered all over the shelf. It was such a good feeling to look in the room and see everything so neat and tidy. Now I better not hear one of my kids say they can't find something when I send them down to get it!

Super mom's workout group

For the last couple of weeks I have been going to our church on Monday, Wednesday and Friday to exercise with the Super mom's workout group. Our friend, Amy, use to be a personal trainer for Gold's Gym and recently quit her job. She has missed training/torturing people so she has been nice enough to be our new trainer. It has been awesome! She is so great to spend so much time thinking of different work outs. I absolutely love going! Today was our biggest group. There were 24 people there. There was no school, so some of us brought our daughters. Here we are waiting to start a 25 station workout. We do 50 seconds of workout/10 seconds of rest.

It is such a great way to exercise! Each station has a different exercise. We alternate between cardio and strength training and go around the 25 stations twice. It kicked out butts!

Here's me and Kierra. She was jump roping so she came out kind of blury.

Here's our totally awesome trainer, Amy, and her daughter. I am so glad that she does this with us each week. Hopefully someday I will look like her!

My funny valentine's

Happy Valentine's Day. A couple of weeks ago I decided that I wanted to make a special Valentine's dinner for my family. I decided that I wanted to make homemade rolls but couldn't decide what to have with it. I wanted to have something that everyone loves. I finally decided to get KFC chicken for them because they all love it but we never have it. I made garlic mashed potatoes and jello with it (and of coarse, the rolls). My favorite part was decorating the table for Valentine's and giving everyone a cup of Valentine's candy. I locked them out of the house while I decorated the table. I let them in when dinner was ready and they were all very excited! They all told me thank you and that this was the best dinner ever. It was so much fun! I just hope they all know how much I love them. I am so lucky to have my family. They mean the world to me and everything I do is for them!

My little princesses

Kierra and Katie went to their cousin, Yoel's, birthday party today. It was a princess party. All the girls came in their princess dresses. They had a princess come to the party who painted the girl's faces. She was amazing! She painted their faces really quickly. All the girls looked so pretty.

Katie loved her butterfly face. She kept looking at herself in the mirror. Kierra let Katie pick out what picture she was going to have on her face. Katie wanted Kierra to have a butterfly, just like her!

The cousins had a such a great time together at the party. After the party they all went out to dinner and it was fun to see all the people look at their pretty faces.