School break

I have a week off school this week so I finally got around to organizing the hall closets upstairs. It has been on my list but just have not found the motivation to do it until this week.

It is nice to have them done. It will make things a lot easier to find things up there. I don't think I am ever going to fill up all the storage in this house. It is nice to have too much now instead of not having enough like in our old house.

New project

Last week work started on finishing our basement. We had a few things that needed to be framed and that was finished up today. When we moved in last February, I never thought that we would have the opportunity to finish the basement this quickly. We have definatly been blessed since our move. I hope the girls can see how we have been blessed and that by moving we are where Heavenly Father wants us to be.

Prom date

Kylee has decided to graduate early so this will be the only year that they can go to prom together. Madison really wanted to go with her so she decided to ask a long time friend McKoy. She found a creative way to do it and ask him today.

She is so nervous of what his answer is going to be. I am sure that he is going to say yes.

Faith project

I have never been much of a gardener but I want that to change. I am excited for our garden this year and thought that it might be fun to grow our tomatoes from seed instead of buying the plants like I have in the past. On Friday, I bought the stuff for it and Allison ask if she could help with garden for her faith project for Personal Progress. I said yes of course. It will be fun to do this with her and I am glad that she is working on personal progress again. We didn't get around to planting the seeds yesterday and I didn't want to put it off much longer so before bed tonight we quickly got them planted.

Broken down

A few weeks ago we sold our Chrysler to get a more sensible car for Madison to drive. The Chrysler had too many blinds spots and bigger than most cars. About a week ago Madison came home from school and said that it took a few tries for the car to start but it eventually did so I didn't think much of it. Then yesterday I was volunteering at school and when I went to leave the care wouldn't start. Kevin was busy on a call so he couldn't come right away but by the time he got there he was able to get it to start. I seriously tried right before he pulled up and it didn't start for me. I think cars hate me.
Today I had the suburban and I was out in Kuna scrapbooking when Kevin text around 8 to let me know that he was stranded at Lowe's. Megan and Dawn rode with me so we started packing up so I could save him. He called AAA and a tow truck came out and didn't have any luck either getting it started so he had it towed to the mechanic and I picked him up there.

The starter went out. The car is a nice car and think this will be a lone incident or at least I hope.

Birthday dinner and Celebration at school

Today Ashley's birthday celebration continued. I brought a treat into school and Ashley's class sung to her. She is not shy but she doesn't like being the center of attention. She was so cute standing at the front of class as they sang.

After school I picked her up but we did not head home. I had a surprise for her. We headed over and picked up Kinnlie and then went for frozen yogurt.

It has been a while since these two have had the opportunity to hang out especially now they aren't on the same soccer team. To end the evening we went to the Olive Garden to finish the birthday celebration.

It was fun to make Ashley's birthday so special. Our family would not be the same with out this spunky loving sweet little girl.

Ashley is 10!

Today Ashley woke up to the house decorated for her birthday.

It is conference Sunday so Ashley got a special treat for breakfast. Dads dutch over breakfast. We all love it but it isn't normally a birthday breakfast but it is a conference breakfast. It made Ashley's day.

She also caught me feeling generous and got to open a gift at breakfast. I guess it would be mean to have her look at them all day and not be able to open one.

We had a great day watching conference.

Macie was a little annoying at times when she wanted to play but everyone was focusing on watching conference.

Before dinner the doorbell rang and it was a surprise for Ashley.

Grammy decided to come surprise Ashley for her birthday. She has been in Utah since Aunt Rachel had the twins and she thought it might be fun to surprise Ashley. I think that it is funny that she didn't notice that I made 6 bread bowels. I am glad that she didn't catch on and was surprised. Ashley picked her favorite for dinner tonight. She loves cream of broccoli soup and bread bowels.

She was one happy girl. She ask that I make extra so she can have it in her lunch. She really loves that soup.
After dinner it was party time. We opened gifts. She has been so patient all day.

She has now reached that age that it is getting hard to know what she will like but thankfully she loved it all. She even ran and put one of the outfits on which gave me the idea to take her annual pictures and the other twos. Things have been so hectic that we haven't found the time and I didn't want to miss this opportunity. It was a quick photo shoot but I am pleased with the results.

After pictures we had cake and then the day was over. I think it was a great day for the birthday girl.