Scouts, Valentine's

The big boys had a Boy Scout Court of honor last night.
Here is Max's favorite part. I love how he stabbed the cupcake and then ate it like a lolipop.Here is Brendon receiving his ASPL. (assistant senior patrol leader)Here are both boys swearing in their positions. (Brendon 3rd from left, Wesley 2nd from right)
I love how they called Wesley up in between 2 of the oldest scouts so he looks tiny.

Wesley is now an offical BoyScout. just 6 more ranks til eagle.
Brendon is 1st class. just 3 ranks for him.
B is ASPL which is a pretty big job. The SPL runs all the meetings, campouts. Pretty much a Scout Master but a Scout. And Brendon is one of the 2 assistants this term (6 months)
W is Scribe, Librarian & Historian. I am not really sure what any of these does. But with Wesley's handwriting I laugh at scribe.

So after Valentine's day I hit up the clearance stuff for cheap candy that the boy's would like. I bought WESLEY a large hersey kiss. It is solid chocolate. Max found it when Wesley set it down for a minute. Since it is solid Max could only nibble at the edges and tops. I love all the little teeth marks around the whole bottom and top.

Here is Maximilian at BlastOff -again. -I know it seems we go there alot. But it's inside and fairly cheap. This time we went with his playgroup. He was still kinda sick so he couldnt run and be as crazy as normal.
Max has actually started showing an interest in going to school. So I printed a few pages for him to work on and told him he was doing school work. He did really good. I think he colors better than Wesley.

Here is the Valentine's Day card Wesley wrote for us.


to: Paranets

from: Wesley

happy valentines day
theirs hate and happiness but the emotion I feel about you is love.

Sick kids, pets, and baby envy.

So Brendon has a really bad cold and missed Wed, Thur, Fri of school. (which means he missed the snowboard trip for school.) Wesley and Max are also coughing so I'm sure this weekend will be full of fun :P. With the big boys being sick they also missed this months Scout camp.

So I go to Brendon's school this afternoon to pick up his classwork/homework that he has missed these last 3 days so he can do it over the weekend and not be slammed Monday with it all. I asked for this work yesterday. And by the end of school today only one class, algebra, had been dropped off. He is the best in math and would have no problem doing 2-3 lessons in it aday. Oh well I tried to make next week easier for him but that failed.

My odometer :( seems like I just bought the car and now its got 70K? wow

Here are a few cute pictures of Max.

Softy finally has decided he shouldnt be scared of stripes and wants to "play" with him. But here is a picture of before he decided that.

And here is a picture of Softy laying in the sun. Max has decided that "Softy is my best friend". "there is my best friend softy", as max pets him and plays with him. Its too cute except softy really isnt a people person and tries to hide. But softy does put up with Max alot more than he lets anyone else do.

Here is a pic of Stripes in one of his tubes connected to his cage. I think its too cute he's curled up in it. Love seeing the little feet.

Let me start this next part by saying I am perfectly happy having 3 boys and I wouldn't trade any of them for the world.

But our friends the Perkins just had a new baby (#7 for them) and she is a doll. I was invited to Onala's baby shower and it was great fun. I made some burp cloths for the baby and re-fell in love with baby girl stuff. When Iwalk into a fabric store I can actually see myself making things for a girl. When I make stuff for the boys either I have to let them help or just accept whatever the store sells(except for Thomas stuff).

Anyways I would love to have a girl to be able to make things for so I'm adopting thier baby and have already made an outfit for her. Its a bit big yet but I'm sure she'll grow into it soon.

How cute is that? And don't ya love the little paisleys on the fabric? And guess what? Her name is Paisley Mae. I saw that fabric and HAD to make something for her with it.

I have also made some burp cloths for our new nephew Fox. I can't show a picture yet because I haven't mailed them out.

Not much going on around here

Well not much has been going on around here.
It has been snowing alot so no going outside (at least for me and Max)
Brendon & Wesley have been busy with school - And I think they both have actually been doing all of their assigned work.
Max has been going to a few play group sessions. and Having lots of fun at home playing Thomas and watchig Thomas movies.

The boys are going skiing/snowboarding Friday night so maybe I'll have some pictures to update from that.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH
I did get my hair cut. I dislike all of the pictures I have of it yet. Maybe I can get Daniel to take a decent one this weekend.
I got almost 20 inches off. its right around my shoulders now. It was long enough to sit on.
I mainly did it to try to relieve some of the horrible headaches I have been getting. (No, it hasn't helped)
The pony tail that was cut off was donated to http://www.locksoflove.org/ .


So since my headaches are still horrible I guess that means I need to go to the Dr. I just need to find a new one. Since I dislike the one I have been seeing. -- Anyone around here know of a good general practice doc?

Anyone want ..............

Offer...... either of the following.

1) Wesley with 2 F's and 1D.... No computer/video games until they are at least C's

2) Max who puked all over me and himself while we are at Pebble Creek for the boy's skiing. So I had to take Max and myself to Pocatello (30 mins each way) to go to a store and buy new shirt for me and an outfit for him (extra 30 bucks for just the clothes).

Let me know which one you want and we'll see


I am totally kidding here. But I am/was so upset at both/either of them. - Espically Wesley GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

oh Max is fine, he had just tried to swallow an over priced Life Saver candy and it didn't work.

Band Concert & Boy Scout Snow Badge & randomness

Brendon was in a band concert Thursday. And since he is a trumpeter he is towards the back so we never see him. If you look in the first picture and you see the blue and white shoe thats Brendon! and for refrence the legs standing in the front is his teacher/coductor so you can maybe see where he is in the 2nd picture.

A lcoal ski resort had a Boy Scout merit badge day Monday and both boys went. Brendon got his snow sports merit badge and Wesley took his first ever less on skis.

There were a few news stations there filming/interviewing. Here is the one article I found http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=9698393

Brendon on right Wesley on left

Wesley fell and Bren sat down with him.On the way home we saw a mountain with an I on it so the boys kept saying keep your "I" on the mountain.
A random self portrait of Brendon. He just took the camera turned it around and took the picture. Shows how pretty green his eyes are. and conviently doesnt have his upper lip or the cute 'stache that is growing.In this house even the cats are obsessed with trains. Here is Softy watching Thomas on tv.After having stripes (hamster) in plain site for almost a week Softy finally found the cage. He just stands there watching it. He hasnt really made any motion or effort to harm it.

15 dollars

just so ya know that everything we bought was alot more than 15 dollars. He bought the Hamster and a bag of food with the 15. And a very nice mommy type person bought the rest. So I have a hamster cage and bedding, treats, toys, and whatever else. And Wes has a hamster.

But will Wesley read or color his homework? NOOOOOOOOOOO UGH i'm SOOOOOOO tired of trying to get these 2 to read or color. and it's hard to get Max to want to do much else at times.

And Wesley hasnt been working on his spelling work at school. 20 points of each week is just writing his words 10 times each. how freakin hard is that? well obviously to Wesley it's very hard.

Wesley's new pet.

Well Wesley has wanted a pet bunny for years. So when he happened on 15 dollars he wanted a bunny. Well bunny cages are about a hundred dollars for a very basic just metal wire cage. So I asked him if we should look at a smaller animal to start with. So we go to Petco and Petsmart and look around and he falls in love with the hamsters. So after looking at all the hamsters and cages at both stores he picks a dwarf hamster from Petco and the cages are cheaper at petsmart (of course - make me have to go to both stores twice to verify prices and such). Well we get the little guy home and all set up and start searching for the perfect name. Wesley has settled on Stripes. look in the pictures and tell me whats wrong with that name. lol. That is a chewtoy on a regular popsicle stick so you can see how small he really is.

Yeap Stripes only has one stripe. but oh well I guess it works. Max loves the "little guy" and is constantly bothering it. He is very gentle with it just its constant lets play with stripes or "little guy".

It is very hard to take a picture of a tiny ball of fluff that moves 100 miles an hour.