Hudson Gets His Bobcat Award in Scouts!!!

On Tuesday night Sept 15th, 2009 Hudson had his frist pack meeting and was awarded the Bobcat award for doing a lot of hard work and was able to move into Wolves.

Jason was unable to be at the meeting because of work which stunk. Hopefully he will be able to be there next time!!!

It was a really neat ceremony. Deb was instructed to paint certain symbols corresponding to the color of feathers that we put into his headband. After all of the symbols were painted, Hudson then painted a white line down his mom's nose.

We are all looking forward to all of the fun that he will have in Scouts over the years!!!

Walking over the bridge to join his den.

Hudson and his den mates!!! He is together with a really great group of boys and two good leaders. He is very excited about it, which is what is important to us the most!

Emily and Hudson Get Baptized :)

On Saturday Sept 5, 2009 Emily and Hudson were baptized.

They were baptized and confirmed by their dad Jason.

The elders who taught Emily were Elder Mooso and Elder Pierce. They are great guys and we all got to know them pretty well :)

Gram, Grandpa and Uncle Ty came to the baptism. Auntie Katie was out of town on her Alaska cruise so she wasn't able to be there.

A friend of our family as well as one of the primary teachers Sundee Neff gave the talk on Baptism and another of our friend and the ward mission leader Mark Nielsen gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. They both did an amazing job!!!!

It was a fantastic day and we were all really excited about it!

The kiddos with Gram and Grandpa Thomas

Deb and her turkeys!

Tori and Max waiting for the baptism to start!!! (nice smile Max, haha)

Hudson's 8th Birthday!!!

Hudson asked for a Star Wars birthday party at home for his 8th birthday!

We had a lot of fun getting things ready for this. We made light sabers for each of the kids to take home made out of pool noodles and duct tape(yep one more use for duct tape!)

We put some balloons in the trampoline and put some droid stickers inside and then if they popped the one that had the droid sticker (droid plans) then they got to pick from the bag of prizes. Usually for birthdays we fill the trampoline with balloons but it was just too hot and as it was the balloons were popping in the heat!

We had lightsaber wars, pin the explosion on the galaxy in 3D (that is what the goofy glasses they had on in the first picture were for) and then of course the pinata!

Originally Hudson thought he had wanted a baseball party so I picked up a baseball pinata for him. Of course, being a kid, they change their mind every ten seconds so in a way it worked in my favor. I took all the little white baseball tissue paper off the outside of the pinata then painted it grey and then Jase detailed it to look like a Deathstar. At least when the kids came to the party they knew what it was so it wasn't a total failure!!

Overall it was a great day and I hope everyone had fun!!

The kiddos eating pizza dogs and Yoda punch!!

The cake!!

Blowing out the candles with bunny ears!!!

The Deathstar! They first hit the pinata with their lightsabers and then we brought out the pinata bat!!

Emily beating on the Deathstar!

Max giving it to the Deathstar!! I see some breeching of the outer structure...

Hudson and his Star Wars helmet that he got from his Nana and Papa!

My New Family Home Evening Board!!

For a while I have been meaning to either buy or make a Family Home Evening Board/chart so that my kiddos can know who is responsible for what on our FHE nights. It has been a little hairly lately since Jase is crunching for his game so our FHE night moves weekly, haha. Hopefully that will change soon!

I decided to make one for myself. I went to Hobby Lobby and bought my wood, pegs and stars and picked out the colors I wanted to use.

I went online and ordered the vinyl lettering from a lady in Utah (go figure!!) and then one day Emmy and I proceeded to create our board!

I used the drill to make the holes for the pegs and the holes in the stars. My dad would have been proud, haha.

Emm and I then painted it two different shades of burgandy to give it the color that we wanted. I used the olive green color on the stars because I wanted them to accent the colors that I already have in my kitchen and living room on my window treatments.

In the end she and I were very happy with our end product and finished it off with a quick spray of lacquer(sp) which i did inside...not a smart move! It was too hot outside and I didn't want it to dry too fast or attract any little bugs which would have been immortalized on our FHE board forever, haha.

It was a fun project to do with Emily and I hope she had as much fun as I did making it. I will always smile when I look at it, remembering who I made it with and the fun we had. To me that only makes it more special.