November

Just a quick note for November since now December is almost over.......

One of my good friends from High school had a birthday so we all went down to Salt Lake for dinner and a comedy show. It was a lot of fun to see some of the girls that I haven't seen in a long time and catch up. Happy Birthday Amber thanks for the Memories!

Tis the season for school programs and Mik had his this month. He was not as excited as the girls about it... the girls still are seeing the songs they learned just from watching it.

Here is a rare picture Scott home in the morning... This is all my monkeys at the bottom of the stairs for a little cuddle time!

On Thanksgiving we were invited to the jazz game with my sister and her husband Matt they were given some box seat tickets and since it was a late game we decided to drive up to Salt lake and go it was a lot of fun to Hang out with them, Thanks Amy and Matt, And thanks mom for watching the rugrats!

Ashley ( good friends daughter)

Scott

Mik, Makenna & Brienna

The Master

On Thanksgiving morning Scott always goes shooting with his Best Friend Morgan and Morgans Family they always have so much fun, we love there family and Scott is like a Brother to the Manning Family.

Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving!

It's great to be 8!

Mik's 8

I know my little boy is so old, I still can't believe it!

His birthday was on a Wednesday so he had school and so did Scott. We wanted to take him to lunch for his Birthday "Dinner" since Scott would be at school but Mik wanted to go to Texas Roadhouse( Just like his dad, a steak lover), which doesn't open until 4pm, so we went at 4. I had my mom come watch the girls because they were sick and we went early so Scott Could go. Mik just loves this place what little boy wouldn't its all rustic, and you get to eat peanuts and throw them on the floor. I just can't bring myself to do that so I keep them until I have a bucket.Since Mik was a birthday boy they sang to him as he sat on the saddle, at this point this is when he started not to feel good didn't eat his ribs, which he loves and barley touched his ice cream i knew he needed to go home.

Later that night he got worse and was coughing so hard he was throwing up and having a hard time breathing and he was just a crying, Scott immediately took him to the ER all was fine after a breathing treatment and some medicine like I stated in the last post.

Oh I forgot the best part of all, during the last month we kept asking Mik what he wanted for his Birthday, he didn't really know but hen his friend got a cool Nerf gun for his birthday, some Nerf machine gun or something. So one day we were at Sam's club and they had it so we looked at it and then later we were browsing through the books and there lies a BYU Football book, really cool Mik stayed and looked at it for about 20 minutes or so and decided he would rather have that then the Nerf gun( Only Mik,right)Well so that is what he got for his birthday and still loves the book like crazy and has to show it to everyone.

Birthday Party!

That week on Friday Mik had a Football Birthday party with all his friends. That's the way to go for a party. man with all of our kids birthdays being in seasons of cold weather we usually can't get away with such simple plans but I figured they cold dress warm if it snowed. But no such thing it was a beautiful day. So we had a punt, pass & kick contest and they played a game of football it was so much fun and then we followed up with pizza and Hot chocolate and doughnuts. It was a lot of fun!

Baptism

On Saturday November 7th Mik was able to be baptized by his dad,it was such a special day for us. It was very small just family and our good friends the Manning's who we consider family Scott and Morgan have been best friends since they were almost in diapers and a few members of the bishopric. My sister and her daughter Abby( she is also 8) flew in from Arizona, and hung out for the weekend. Thank you Jenn I know it meant a lot to Mik as well as me. We are so proud of our little boy and we love him so much.

Football

Also for Mik's birthday he got tickets to the BYU Football game against Air force. This is something Scott likes to do every year with Mik, and they both really enjoy doing it together. But then again it is football and it is BYU so you all knew that.

October

Well we stayed busy in October... Being sick, Mik's 8th birthday, Halloween party's and more.

Since I haven't been that good at updating I will try and make this easy!

Football

Well Mik has finished his football season. It was a lot of fun but also a lot more time consuming then you would think for a second grader but he enjoys it so much and has such an amazing talent for football and really any sport he just has a love for sports. Mik's coaches set up a game with a team from another league at the end of the season for some fun.... we had gone the whole season without having to play in the rain or mud but what else would happen it poured the boys loved every minute of the game getting all muddy and being aloud to jump in mud puddles. It was not fun to clean up in fact his shirt he had on underneath was so bad it got thrown away! What a great way to end the season!

What a mess!

Those socks were white!

NEXT....

The piggy flu....

yes the swine flu, H1N1 what ever you wish to call it hit our home along with strep & bronchitis all in one week, and that week just happened to be the week of Mik's Birthday poor kid after a fun dinner at his favorite steak house with mom and dad, he woke up coughing so bad he was throwing up so we took him to the ER, they gave him a breathing treatment and some liquid lortab and he came home feeling pretty good, and was ready for school the next morning. Doctor said he was ok to go since it is not contagious, this kid loves school!

As for the swine flu it wasn't so bad just fevers in our house with the girls no vomit which always makes it nice. Kinzie tested positive for it along with strep and Halli got sick a few days later and the Doctor said she more than likely had it to but never tested her. When the ER called to tell us Kinzie had tested positive she said don't tell anyone they will freak out it really isn't a big deal, I had to laugh. Although we didn't have a bad case a lot of our friends and neighbors have had it pretty bad, Mik's buddy Baylor has missed over a week of school and had a lot more symptoms then the girls his poor family hasn't left the house for awhile and they all got it. Yuck!! Me and Scott have been lucky ( knock on wood) We have not been sick at all!

So yes my little Mik is 8 Years old I can't believe 8 years has passed me by, it is so sad! I will post all about him turning 8, his party and his baptism that is this Saturday later.

Halloween

This Halloween we had a football player and 2 little cheerleaders to cheer him on. The girls looked so cute I let them wear their costumes everywhere, they even wore it the Sunday after to my moms house... so cute I wish they could wear it everyday. As for Mik he is not really in to Halloween and would be a football player every year. I guess that makes it easy for me!

Carving pumpkins On Halloween!

It was the only time Scott was home so the kids wanted to Waite so he would be there! It made things a bit rushed since Scott didn't get home till 2 in the afternoon from school.
But we got R' done, as Scott would say!

Here is the finished product, it was so weird they all drew their own faces on the pumpkin with no help! Sad I am not needed anymore!

Here is our ginormous pumpkin we grew this year!

Waiting around to go Trick- Or- Treating

Still waiting, can we go yet mom?

Exhausted and enjoying the loot!

YUMMMMY!

Mik's Reflections Project

Of course it has to do with Football, what else would this kid come up with. Well this reflections project is actually a competition in the school and his teacher made it mandatory that they all participate. You have to pick a category, Art, Photography, Fine art, or music. You have to present one of those topics, Mik chose photography. Then you have to pick something to go along with the theme... This years theme is, Beauty is.... and then you decide. This is what Mik chose... Beauty is football!! I know right so then he has to write why..

this is what he wrote...

Beauty is football. Football is one of Americas favorite pass times.

A hard hit a long pass Beautiful!

Well lets hope he wins we all know how competitive he is!

Oh yeah, he had to take the picture so I sent him in the back yard for a while with our little point and shoot and this is the one he decided on using ( no photoshop). Pretty good don't you think?

And he had to name the project he said Old Glory I wasn't going to let him because I didn't know if someone would be offended since that is what we call the American Flag but Scott thought I was over reacting So the name stuck!

OLD GLORY