It's a.............

BOY!!! BOY!!!

BOY!!!

BOY!!! BOY!!!

BOY!!!

BOY!!! BOY!!!

BOY!!!

Yes, we finally did it!

And your Guess is???

BOY or GIRL???

We hopefully find out

what we are having

on Wednesday!

I'd love to hear what every ones

guess is. So leave your comments.

Clearfield Mini Cheer Clinic

This year Riley wanted to try out

the Mini Cheer leading Clinic at

Clearfield High school.

She is really shy and has a hard

time doing things in front of people.

So I left the decision up to her and

she said "YES". There were

three nights of practice and then

a performance at the basketball game

half time. The first night she came

home from practice she was cheering

all night. It was nice to remember the

cheers from when I when there so I could

help her.

All of her aunts, uncles and Grandparents

came to see her perform. What a lucky girl!

I'm know she was terrified performing

in front of all those people but she did

so good and we are so proud of her for

not chickening out. I'm sure it helped to have

her best friend cheering with her.

I'm sure she'll want to do it next year.

For weeks she had the words to the

cheers taped up on her door. And she

still does the dance and cheers around

the house.

She was so excited I did her hair

in a darling up do with curls and shiny green

ribbon that she decided she wanted mascara on

along with the shadow, blush and lip gloss.

I was surprised she let me curl her eye lashes

and put mascara on. She gets nervous with things

getting in her eyes. She looked so cute!

Getting the girls hair cut.

We are so lucky to have a hair stylist in the family.

My brother Michael married Skyla not too

long ago and now we get to take advantage of

her awesome talent. She is so sweet. One Saturday

she was down here visiting from Idaho she Bleached

my hair, dyed my sisters and cut all of my girls hair.

I think it was Sierra's first hair trim except when I've

trimmed it and she was not having it. I'm not sure why

she was so upset and scared. That is not like her. We

even let Riley and Paige go first. I think she was

really tired.

Riley thought it was so fun that her Aunt used

her sprayer from her play salon to get the

girls hair wet because I did not own a spray

bottle at the time.

Ogden Fest

This year we made it up to the Ogden Festival.

They had Snow Mobile races, people getting

pulled by horses on their skis and boards,

human bowling, and some other things.

It rained a little so we did not stay long.

The night before my brother in law, Mikel

entered into the boarding contest and made

it to the finals. But decided to head home

when his sweet baby was ready to go.

It was fun to watch and it was all free.

Maybe next year it will be better weather.

Riley's Valentines Party

I was also able to help at Riley's

party. Riley does not like the attention

all on her. But she played, "Pin the heart

on the Cupid" anyway.

They decorated cookies which Riley never

usually eats the entire cookie.

Her favorite part was passing out valentines

to all her friends.

Riley loves having her best friend, Hallie

in her class.

The last of the snow men

With the last of the snow Paige and

Sierra built a snowman, with my help

of course. Paige had the bottom of

the snowman all rolled before I

got dressed and ready to help.

These are one of the few reasons

we like the winter.

But we are ready for the sun to

start shining!

Paige's Preschool Valentines Party

Paige had her Preschool Valentines Party

which I was able to help at. Sierra had to

tag a long which was not a big deal. She

fit right in pretending she was already

in preschool. I guess it's good for her since

she will be going there in the fall for school.

Paige and Sierra liked play time the best.

They never get sick of dressing up!

Sierra tried to be so big like the other

kids and sit quietly for story time.

It was then time to decorate their cup cakes.

Mrs. Katie gave Sierra one to decorate too,

but she did not like getting her hands dirty

from the frosting.

Paige loves being in the same class with

her best friend, Riley Tidwell.

Stomach Flu & Pure at Heart

We all hear that children at a young age

are innocent and pure. And sometimes we

argue that when they fight with their

siblings and sometimes say mean

words. But I thought a little more

about children being innocent and

realized that yes they are innocent and

pure at heart but not perfect. I guess in

my mind I associated those as the same. When

in fact they are not the same. None of us on this

earth is perfect. But last night at two in the morning

this just gave me another example of why my children

are pure in heart. Riley woke up puking her guts out

and in between puking and trying to breath she blurts

out that tomorrow is P.E. day and that she did

not want to miss school. I'm sure that will change

in a few years when she hates school. I got her all

cleaned up and settled on the couch with a bucket, when

she said something else so pure and innocent. I remember

mentioning this to her once before but I guess she

remembered it clearly. Riley said, "I can't wait until

Jesus comes again." I asked her why and she said, "so

we can all be resurrected and never get sick again."

I'm glad she associates Christ's coming with

being well and happy.

I'm so grateful for my children. They teach me how

to see the good in things and that life is not really

as complicated as we make it.