St. Baldrick's Day!

For the third year now Jared has raised money for Pediatric Cancer by doing St. Baldricks Day. (Michael did it the other two years... didn't do it this year, and now is excited again to do it next year.) Jared went door to door and collected money as well as getting it from other friends and family. He raised over $400.00 all by himself. 100% of the proceeds goes to the cause. All of the other participants are volunteers. (Shavers, etc)

He was so excited and kept counting down the days until it arrived.

I left work, came and grabbed the kids, and off we headed to the big event.

He got all signed in and received his badge.



Pausing a moment to take a picture with the Reno Aces Mascot...


Watching the other Shavees.....



Watching the little Irish dancers... after all, it WAS St Patrick's Day.


It's Jared's turn now....


I found it fitting that his "Shaver" was another red-head.




Great job Jared!!!!!!!


So proud!

Celebrating Jessica's Birthday

Jessica's birthday was last week, but she was out of town visiting friends. So with work and other schedules, we celebrated it a few days later at my mom's. After a wonderful dinner, it was time for presents and cake!


I got her flowers and made the cake and cake pops.


Present time!







Goofy boys!


I don't even know...


See, I was there too. :-)



I love this face!


Now off to eat some cake!!!!
Happy Birthday Jessica!!!!

A Little Longer...

Ooops! This one is a little longer than the others. I forgot to post on here last week for my Project 366. So I'm adding a few more than I normally would have. A lot has happened in the past week and a half, including a new addition to our family!


Michael and Papa one afternoon on a ride on the quad behind our house.



Little Duncan enjoying his "Dream Bone" while I take a bath and read my book.


Cai Lynn and I visited the kitty we wanted to adopt. My mom had found her a few days earlier, so I went to go meet her after work one day and filled out all of the adoption paperwork. Later that night after a meeting, Cai Lynn and I went to go see her again. YEARS ago I had another little cat that looked JUST like her and even acted like her.


Our baby hedgehogs are one week old here! Aren't they adorable!?


We got her! She's ours!It's definitely going to take a bit to adjust to her new home.... currently she HATES the dogs and Duchess and Duchess hates her. :-/ But the humans in the house love her to pieces. There will never be another Annie, but this little "Annie" sure comes close!


What's a stop at the store without a quick read in the book section?



Annie is making herself comfortable. (Incidentally this is Ruby's spot!) She is now used to the dogs and even plays with Duncan's tail. Duchess is going to take awhile to get used to being chased around the house by Annie... THAT may take a bit longer. :-/


I just LOVE being able to run and do a session after work at the temple. I LOVE living less than 5 minutes away!


Cai Lynn had a "Thinking Day" at Girl Scouts. This year's theme was "Nature".


I love my walks in the evening after work. They will be even better once it's light longer in the evenings.


Well, there's a little snapshot of the last week and a half. :-)

Pinewood Derby

This was Jared's last year at the Pinewood Derby. He is now a Weeblo and will be heading off to Boy scouts in July! WEIRD! Boy does time fly! Jared designed his car himself with help of our neighbor helped cut it out and then did the design on the top by himself. Wow he's growing up!



He just finished adding his weights and getting his "official weight".


Greasing his wheels. :-)


A little "Move it Twister" before getting started...


A few of the cars. Once they've been "officially weighed in" and signed in, they can't be touched.


Getting the board all the up.


Some of the "big kids".


Heat one...


Our little neighbor boy came along too.


Goof ball!



I think Blake was very excited! He has won every heat.... we'll see if he can beat the other undefeated one!


All the boys! Great job guys!!!!!!!


Showing his award.... "Most creative"


The "big kids" :-)

Week 4

I have begun to really enjoy thinking of what to post each day. The different events of the day, challenges, memories, which one to choose, etc. It's also fun to see which pictures strike a chord with each individual.


So here we go...


Last Monday we finally got some much needed snow! It was a small amount, But while running errands I snapped a pic. (I know it's SUPER close up, but I couldn't figure out how to make it smaller... so there it is. LOL)



Since they got the keyboard, they have been practicing and challenging each other daily. They all love it thank goodness. :-) Here's Cai Lynn practicing before going to "Activity Days" at church.



Doing my weekly "Ruby grooming session". :-) She's so patient, and sweet. She's used to it by now.


The boys playing chess... on a Thursday evening.



Friday night was the Pinewood Derby. (More pictures to follow on that.)


Saturday was a long day of work, Michael at church basketball, picking Jared up from his friends, Cai Lynn working on her primary talk and lots of etc. There is nothing like a good book in the bath to end the week.


As usual we stopped to talk to everybody after church. Cai Lynn and I were a bit later than the boys and when we got into the car we caught Jared in her booster seat. HMMMMMMM


Have a great week everybody!