winter

well, it's been winter. Therefore I have been holed up in my house in my annual winter funk/hibernation. Not too much exciting has been going on. At least not really anything blog-worthy.
I don't suppose you want to see pictures of me painting the basement, or me curled up in the recliner with my Kindle Fire...cuz that's where I spent the majority of my winter:) (and it was awesome)
We did manage to do a few things...not much, I literally had about 5 pictures on my camera from January thru March

The boys played a season of basketball. I didn't get a picture of Hadley but here is Devin with 2 of his good friends after their last game.


Lexi went on a field trip to the fire station.




I suppose the highlight of winter was going with my friend, Terah, to a dinner/meet n' greet with our favorite author. (Marcia Lynn McClure...check her out) (probably only if you're a girl tho) (and your into clean romance type of books) (really, she is awesome!)


Her hubby, Kevin, sat and signed our books and talked with us too. Anyone who is an MLM fan knows who Kevin is!:)





Me and Terah with MLM(center) Such a fun night!

Well, now that I have unloaded my 4 pics...time to go spend time with my Kindle:)

Concert fun with Hadley.

Last week, I won tickets to see Hot Chelle Rae in concert here in SLC. Hadley loves them, and since I used him to win the tickets...I took him to the concert tonight. (yes, tonight! I am determined to stay caught up on blogging...go me!)


Waiting for the concert to start.

The opening act was a band from Austin, TX called Electric Touch. They were actually pretty good.

They set up a table about 10ft from us and talked with, took pics with and signed autographs for fans for a good 45 minutes after their set. As one of the guitar players walked by, Hadley mustered all his courage and tapped him on the arm and told him 'good job'. The guy actually stopped and talked to Hadley for a few minutes. He ended up giving him a guitar pick and the whole band signed a cd for Hadley...for an 11yr old who has been BEGGING me for guitar lessons, this was pretty cool!

I think they have won a fan for life in Hadley by being so great with him tonight!

This is Hadley with Christopher, the guitar player he talked to.

Hadley with the whole band.

The main act, Hot Chelle Rae.

Hadley singing along with Tonight Tonight.

The lead singer singing with the girls who won the grand prize drawing from the radio station...we had our fingers crossed we would win but it didn't happen.

We had SO much fun! The look on Hadley's face when Hot Chelle Rae came out and started singing his favorite song...absolutely priceless!! I had been on the fence about taking him since it was a school night, but watching him the whole night(he never stopped smiling), I am so glad I did!

Hadley showing off his guitar pick and autographed cd.

Devin's big day

Well, the day finally came. Devin was baptized this morning...I know, I'm blogging about something the DAY it happened! I am on a roll!

This is Devin's group of friends from our neighborhood. I love these kids! I can't wait to have a similar picture in 11yrs with all of them about to go on missions!:) (actually, I can wait...stop growing up already kids!!)
LtoR: Tyler, Devin, Nate, Nate & Brigham

It was a great day. A big thanks to all the family and friends that came to support Devin in his big day, it means a lot to us.

Devin's photo shoot.

Devin will be getting baptized this year so we went and got his pictures done in his suit. I have said it before and I will say it again...FotoFly, the best place ever to get pics done. Seriously, if you live in Utah, don't go anywhere else. The experience there is second to none!! (heck, even if you live out of utah...drive here for pics!):)

Devin thought he was waaay too cool to be getting his pictures done but our awesome photographer soon had him doing all kinds of cool poses and jumping pics and having a blast!

We ended up with almost 100 pics...don't worry, I didn't post 100 pictures!:) These are just some of my favorites.





This top one was my absolute favorite and we used it for his invitations.

That is one good lookin kid if you ask me!!:)

This last one was one of the cool jumping ones, Devin liked this one best cuz he says it looks like something out of Thriller:)

Birthday Party

The boys birthday is tomorrow (the 22nd) and we did a birthday party for them last night. Orignally we weren't going to do one this year, since I have to plan a baptism/luncheon I told them it was just going to be a family party year. Well, a week ago I changed my mind and we did a last minute pool party for them. I told them they had to have a combined party this year, that was the only way they could have one at all and they agreed.
We did present opening in shifts & the pool was big enough that they each had their own space with their friends and hardly realized they had a joint party:)


It was inexspensive and I didn't really have to do anything...my kind of party!

Can you believe it...I actually blogged about something the day after it happened! Look at me being all caught up!!:)

Arrow of Light

At pack meeting last month, Hadley earned his Arrow of Light. For those not familiar with cubscouts, it is the highest award they can earn. They get it right before they leave cubscouts, it is comparative to the Eagle award for Boyscouts. So, good job Hadley for finishing all his requirements and getting the award...and thanx to awesome scout leaders that made it happen!!



There is a family in our neighborhood that is Native American...I can't remember which tribe they are from. They belong to a dance group that does performances etc...they have even performed for the Pope!
They came and did a whole Native American ceremony for the boys that earned the award that night. It was really cool and the kids loved it.

He even made real arrows for each of the boys...yeah, I know, REAL arrows given to 10yr olds?!!:)






They did some dances for us and then taught one to the boys.

Hadley whizzing by me during the dance.

I wish this one hadn't turned out so fuzzy, this is Hadley with one of his scout leaders, Zach. He was so good with the boys and really made scouts fun. Hadley loved him!

Hadley now moves up to the transitional, 11yr old scouts. Then when he turns 12 he will join boyscouts. Devin turns 8 tomorrow and will now start cubscouts so we get to start all over with that group.

Wedding

Peter had the week after Christmas off, we were planning on starting a tradition of going to Lake Tahoe every year but we ended up sticking around because his brother got remarried and decided to do it the 27th.

Chris & Shar coming out of the Mt. Timpanogos Temple. Shar is fantastic, we love her and are so happy for the two of them!

With his son, Luke.

The Olson clan.

I gave my camera to someone when they started doing pics of just the Olson's and they took this pic of 2 of my nieces, Chris's daughters. Kat and Ali. Cute girls!

Peter's parents, sister and Chris & Shar.

After the luncheon...on to the reception.

This pic ended up blurry but you can't leave out a pic of the cake cutting!

Then on to grandma's to do Christmas gifts.

It was a great day, I love when we all get a chance to hang out and have fun with Peter's family, much better than Tahoe ...but we will still try next year:)