SOLD

On Wednesday we received an offer on our house. It wasn't quite what we wanted so we countered. They came back with another counter that was what we were looking for so we accepted. I can not believe that this happened so quickly. Kevin got pretty stressed that we were going to be homeless on July 31st first when we close so he started looking for a rental. We were greatly blessed to find a couple that has a house they need rented until they move to Boise from from Burley at the beginning of next year. The girls are excited for the new home but leaving our ward is going to be hard for them. We only have a month to be out. This next month is going to go so fast. I am excited to see what the future has in store for our family.

Allison Swim lessons

Allison finished her 6th level of swim lessons today. She did not want to do swim lessons this summer at all but I am so glad that I made her finish all the levels. She went into swim lessons knowing how to swim beautifully but she needed to work on her diving. It was fun watching her swim all week because she does have a beautiful stroke and she makes it look so easy. She has defiantly come so far from when she started out at 4 with swim lessons.

It was also fun to watch her dive because I know that she was trying but it needed a lot of work.

The instructors did a great job with her and she was diving much better by the end of the week.

Alli's first Young Women's Project

Allison started working on her first Young Women's project today. Her plan for the project is to plan our menu for the next two weeks, make a shopping list, do the shopping and cook for the next two weeks. It is quite a big project to take on but I am sure she will do a great job. It is kind of fun to teach her how to do this. She started today out by picking her meals and making the shopping list.

We had some people coming to look at our house today so it worked out perfectly that we went shopping while we had to be out of the house. We had to bring the dog with us so Kevin stayed in the car with her and Ashley playing with his new phone that came in the mail today while Alli and I shopped. We had a good great shopping. I have Allison some types on how to shop and get the most for your buck. At first she looked at me like I was in charge but I told her that I was following her around. I don't think she thought that I was going to give her so much control but it is her project not mine.

I tried to help her bag but she said that it was her job. She even came right home and put everything away. I think once she figured out that I handed the control over to her she liked it and wanted to do it all.

Once everything was put it away it was time to cook. It was getting late so she picked one of her easier meals to cook. Hash brown and eggs with toast.

I look forward to this next two weeks working with Allison and helping her learn her way around the kitchen.

House For Sale

Our house went on the market this morning. Thirteen years ago when we bought this house we only had one child and only thought that we would be in the house for about 5 years. Well now 13 years later and 2 more children we have reached a point that we feel that it is time to upgrade to a bigger home. We have found a builder that we like and home that we would like build. For the past two weeks we have been preparing our house to sale. The girls have been amazing and have worked hard with me to to get it ready.

We are very motivated to sale so we have taken our house down to bare bones and filled a storage unit.

I am excited for our new adventure it will be interesting to see where it takes us.

Dairy Days Parade

The girls were so excited to hear that they were doing the Dairy Days Parade this year. The streets downtown have been under construction for the past couple of years so they haven't done it. The girls sure have missed it. Madison had plans with to go with one of friends so we let Alli and Ashley invite their friends. When we found our spot along the route we happen to sit next to one of Ashley's friends. There were many people around us that we knew. We also knew several people that were in the parade. I love living in our little town of Meridian.

It was a fun night and we are glad that it is back.

Madison's Summer Basketball

This years Summer League has been a whirlwind of a two and half weeks. The season started June 3rd and Madison has played at least one game 6 days a week since that day. We have also been very busy working on our house getting it ready to sale so these last two weeks have been a fun blur. Monday through Thursday Madison played in the high school summer league and then Friday and Saturday they would in a series of five games in a tournament. It has been a lot of basketball but it has been fun watching Madison grow in her game. She started the season out on JV and ended the season playing for both JV and Varsity. She likes Varsity more because she feels that the girls play cleaner and she doesn't get hurt as easily. She also feels like the team works better as a team and encourages everyone to be better. I am not sure what this means for next years season but she sure had fun with it these last two weeks.

Summer ball for Allison

Tonight Allison played in her first Summer league game. Her team from this winter has been working hard over the Spring to get better and work together. Tonight it was fun to see how much better they have gotten and how they work well together as a team. It will be fun to see the girls play together over the years.

The girls did in their first game they won by 10 points. They are off to a good start.
Madison also played a game tonight and I thought they both looked cute in their matching jerseys.

I love watching them both play and have fun.

Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day today. The girls are so lucky to have Kevin as their dad. He is such a great dad. He is always there for them and supports them in all of their activities.

They made him a candy gram. It turned out so cute.

We also spoiled him of course with with one of his favorite meals and then dessert. After dinner it was Kevin's turn for Family Home Evening and he thought he would be funny and offer for a game night.He thought they were all packed and in storage. Well Allison was a little tricky and left out a few when she packed them up. The joke was on him. We had fun playing Telestrations. It always offers a great laugh for us all to see how everyone interprets everyone else's pictures. Everyone were quite serious while they were drawing.

I have never been an artist but I was quite impressed with my picture for Hawaii.

Madison guessed it right. It was a fun night. I love family time.

Varsity

Madison has been playing on the JV team this summer but this weekend she was ask to play up on Varsity. I was so nervous for her because we were not sure how much she was going to be playing or just sitting the bench. We got there and they had only had 8 people so we felt a little better about how much time she might play. Then during warm ups one girl ended up injuring her knee. She tried to play but it hurt to bad and she had to sit the rest of the day. Madison ended up playing more then we ever thought she would get the opportunity too. The first time that she was put in I was on the edge of my seat. At first she even looked a little nervous and like she wasn't sure where she was supposed to be. The other girls on the team did a great job helping her out and before long she looked like she always belonged on the team. They played three games and won them all. It was a fun day watching Madison.

Family movie

Dad is loving his new job. There were a few adjustments at first with working from home but he has figured those out and loving it. The company is great to its employees. Today they shut the offices and took all the employees to go and see How to Train a Dragon. When Kevin got the email about it he was bummed since he wasn't in Salt Lake but at the end of the email it said that all offsite people could take their families with them to see it on the company. It was a special treat.

Ashley's last day of school

Today was the last day of 2nd grade for Ashley today. It has been such a great year for her. Mrs. Lemmon is such an amazing teacher. She has reached Ashley in ways that other teachers haven't been able too. Ashley has excelled as a student this year.

Ashley also had her best friend Kinnlie in the same class with her. These two get along so well and there was no girl drama this year like in years past with other girls. I hope they get to be in the same class next year too. There is nothing better then having class with your best friend.

Ashley was not ready for the school year to end. She is also sad because Mrs. Lemmon is not coming back next year because she is having a baby. We will miss her so much.

Ashley finished her day by camping in the backyard with Allison. They pulled the tent out and set it all up by themselves. I wasn't sure that it was going to work out but they did end up falling asleep. At 2 in the morning they did end up coming in though because they got cold. They had fun and made great memories.

It was great end to the school year for Ashley.

Feild Day

Field day was today at Ashley's school. I signed up to help and Alli wanted to come along. It was fun going around to each station. Alli was a real help too she would join the teams to make it even since we had an odd number of kids .

Ashley had fun and her and Kinnlie were partners at all the games. It was fun watching them together.

Ashley also showed us that she still has her hula-hooping skills. No one could beat her.

Kinnlie's sister Bri Alli's best friend showed up half way through so Alli had a friend their too.

Alli got a little more chatty then helpful but it was fun watching them. I love helping out with field day especially when the weather was nice like today.

Apple Pie

Allison came home from church and wanted to bake an apple pie from scratch. Kevin told her it was too hard and she couldn't do it. She wanted to show prove him wrong and ended up doing it. She made the crust and everything.

She always amazes me. It was yummy too.

National Donut Day

Kevin took the girls out to Krispy Kreme tonight since it was National Donut Day. They always jump at the chance to get fresh donuts. They said that it was crazy at the store but it was a fun little outing.

6th grade awards

Last week we recieved a letter that Allison was going to get an award at the 6th grade assembly. I knew that she had received straight A's so I knew that she would be getting an award for that. She worked so hard and was motivated to keep her straight A's. She makes us so proud with how hard she works to be a good student and pave a great path out for her future.

The teachers also picked students for P.R.I.D.E awards. Allison was picked by her English teacher for responsibility. She also got received the excellence award from her typing teacher. She is an amazing little girl and I am proud her and all her accomplishments.

Madison also did an amazing job at her first year of high school. We got her report card and she is ranked 90th out of 412 students in her grade. I am so proud of all my girls and how focused they are on school and how they work their hardest and push themselves to do their best.

Ashley's play

Mrs. Lemmon thought it might be fun to do something fun with the kids since school is almost over. She found some little puppet shows for them to work on in groups and preform. The kids loved it so much that she invited the parents up to watch them. Ashley was the main character in her little group and she did such a great job with all of her speaking parts. She always seems to amaze me with how adventurous she is and that she tries everything by just jumping in and doing it. It was a cute little play about a red bird. It was fun to watch.