Award Ceremony

Today was Britton's award ceremony for karate, he was so excited. He was the first one to get his award for the evening. The pictures turned out dark and horrible, it's a good thing we recorded it as well. Any way here he is receiving his yellow belt.

If you had perfect attendance you also received a medal. (I have no idea why the next few pictures are sideways. I can not figure out how to rotate them, it's very annoying)

This is his certificate for moving up a degree.

This is his test scores, if you got all fives you got a patch, only one kid in his class got a patch. Britton came close. I'm so proud!

After they received their awards they had to bow to all of the parents. Britton is on the left.

When all of the awards were given they had a regular class for yellow belt. They got to spar for a while. They were partnered up with someone and started sparring freestyle. The rules were you couldn't go for the face or below the belt but you could kick their legs, if you hurt someone you had to do 30 push ups and if you made someone bleed you had to do 50 push ups.....nobody had to do push ups. Britton was teamed up with this boy (Britton is the shorter one).

After a couple of minutes the teacher stopped them and put this boy with someone else and teamed Britton up with the Assistant Teacher. I'm not sure why she made the change but I like to think it's because Britton was to tough.

Here's Britton and his new partner. He got some good kicks and punches in.

And here he is after class. What a cute boy!

We let Britton choose what he wanted for dinner as a little award from us.....of course he chose pizza.

Dermatologist Appointment for Shay

So I took Shay to the Dermatologist today because she has had a weird skin rash on both of her arms and a lot of cracking and bleeding on her ear. Turns out she has Hay Fever and it's causing this weirdness with her skin. Anyway she has to have a steroid cream 4 times a day for four weeks on top of the steroid cream we have to put Eucerin cream on her. When the four weeks is up if she isn't still having problems we have to learn to maintain her skin condition. Which means we have to figure out how often she will need the medication and she will most likely need it the rest of her life. YIPPEE!! Thanks Dad, I blame you.

These pictures are at the Doctor's office while waiting for him to come in. Shay did one of her famous poses and asked me to take a picture of her. I pretended to take a picture of her and that did not please her. She wanted a REAL picture. So here she is, looking as beautiful as always.

Happy Fathers Day

Fathers Day was kind of crazy this year. Both of the kids have been sick so we had to do our crafts last minute. Tyler got hand prints of the kids and my Dad got homemade picture frames. (picture frames will be filled with pictures at a later date....sorry Dad, time slipped away) These are pictures of the kids finishing their projects on Fathers Day.



And the finished product....

And the picture frames minus the pictures.


Happy Fathers Day Tyler. Thank you for being such an amazing Daddy! The kids look up to you in so many ways. Thank you for the constant I love you's and the I'm so proud of you's. Thank you for taking the time to play with the kids and teach them things. Thank you for every thing. We LOVE you!!!

Happy Fathers Day Dad. Thank you for every thing you do for us. You truly are our Hero, we don't know what we would do with out you.

Cute story

Tyler had to take a load of junk to the dump yesterday and Britton went with him. On their way home they were listening to the radio and a song came on. I don't know the name of the singer but if your an American Idol fan you might recognize the song. She's the girl that Simon Cowell claims to have found and the lyrics go something like I keep bleeding, I keep keep bleeding in love. Any way when Britton heard the song he looked at Tyler and with the most serious look on his face said "why doesn't she just get a band aid". It made Tyler laugh pretty hard and he had to call me right away. Since I use this blog as my journal I am going to try to write things down that the kids say. They are always making me laugh but I can never remember what they said so this post is the first of many......just bare with me.

Britton's Big Day!

Britton had quite the busy day yesterday. First of all he had to go in for Kindergarten testing, which isn't a big deal but he was nervous about it. He asked me what would happen if he answered something wrong. I told him it wasn't a big deal if he didn't know the answer to something and we had a discussion about how its ok to make mistakes as long as you try your best. After about a ten minute discussion he said to me with tears in his eyes "oh I didn't know, I thought I was supposed to be perfect". It nearly broke my heart, but he did it and of course he did very well on everything, his teacher asked him reading and math questions and a bunch of other stuff and his teacher is very impressed with how smart he is. He is not going to have any problems with first grade. When he was all done and we were walking to the car he said "so when do I have to take my test" I told him he was all done, that he just took his test with his teacher. His eyes lit up as he said "Are you sure? That's it? I'm done? That was sooooo easy". What a relief, now just one more test to go........

Britton had is first Karate test today. He is testing to go from white belt to yellow belt. He did a good job, I was impressed with his ability, he has come a long way since his first class. He passed!! They have an award ceremony next week, were he will get his yellow belt and a trophy and some kind of an award for having perfect attendance. We were not allowed to take pictures during the testing so I recorded it, but I will post pictures of the ceremony next week.

Britton, you couldn't have made us more proud. Good job Bud! We love you!!!

Weekend at the condo!

We (Mom, Dad, Britton, Shayna, Tyler and Me) went to the condo this weekend for a much needed vacation. I'm not sure how much fun I had between cold, wind and annoying bugs while fishing, but it was nice to get out of town anyway.

My Parents took the kids down Thursday night and we met up with them on Friday night after Tyler got off work. Here are some pictures of what the family did before Ty and I got their.

Getting ready for bed Thursday night.

Friday morning they went fishing....Shayna drove.

Fishing at Puffer Lake, it was very cold.


After fishing the rest of the day was spent playing at the condo until Tyler and I could get down there.

Saturday we decided to go down to the desert to warm up. It didn't work, I swear it was colder there then up in the Mountains. It was so windy, I hate the wind.....I was miserable. My Mom and I sat in the car while the kids and men ran around.

This is Shayna and Navy (my cousins daughter). Shay and Navy are the same age.

This is Britton and Kinsey (my cousin's other daughter). Kinsey and Britton are the same age. I'm sure he will catch up in height some day!

We were planning on having a fire and roasting hot dogs while we were out on the desert but it was to windy. We didn't want to start an uncontrollable fire so we headed over to my cousins house for a picnic.

While we were there the kids got to ride horses. Shayna's favorite thing to do. She was in Heaven! Kinsey is a very good rider, this is her horse Snip, she was nice enough to take the kids for a ride.

Britton and Kinsey

Shayna and Kinsey

Shayna decided she needed to ride the horse by herself. So here is Shayna and Snip. (Tyler is leading her)

In this picture Shayna is leaning back saying "see Mom, I am a horse trainer". That's what she wants to be when she grows up.

They even had a horse swing which Shay loved.....If only we had big trees.

This is Scott's tractor, Britton couldn't believe that the tire was so much bigger then he is. He wanted me to take a picture.

It was so nice to be able to sit in the back yard and roast hot dogs. We need to invest in one of these. I loved it.......Mostly because it kept me warm.

It was so cold and windy, My Mom and I were frozen. We were laughing pretty hard at the way we looked. We couldn't believe we had to dress like this in June.



On our way back up to the condo we ran into some wild life. We were trying to make this peacock mad so he would show his feathers but it didn't work. He is still pretty though.

My kids love to feed the Chipmunks, woodpeckers and bluejay's that hang around at the condo. I was able to get this cute picture of one of the little critters. Apparently before Tyler and I got up there one of the small birds ate out of Britton's hand. I probably would have had a heart attack if I saw it but he thought it was pretty cool.

Sunday before we left to come home, Britton insisted we take him fishing again so here are a couple random pictures to finish us off.

Uncle Josh comes to town.

Josh (Ty's brother) came to stay with us because he was in town for his work. My kids love it when Josh comes to stay. Josh let Britton wear his hat and bullet proof jacket. Britton thought that was the coolest thing so I had to get pictures.