Dancing the night away!

On Saturday we went to a youth dance festival at Taco Bell Arena. They had all the stakes in Meridian and a few from Eagle, so about 6 or 7 stakes! It was really fun and the kids loved the music and the dancing.

Random story: So we're at Taco Bell Arena which is right next to BSU's football field. Logan looks over at the field and says, "BSU BOOOOOO!!!!!" Cory was so proud.

The kids hamming it up.

All the stakes:

These two were so cute! I think they are in High School still. They did great!
Our stake:

Some of the kids in our ward....hard to see sorry!

Room Makeover

I've wanted to paint Brooklyn's room for a while and I was going to do a blue and purple, but her bedspread has a bunch of purple and I didn't want it to be purple over load. PLUS the flower stickers that are on her wall are purple and they kinda blended into the purple test spot I painted on the wall. Whew! After that explanation here are the before pics:
Under construction: HELLO GREEN! It's very bright but it's ok....we make fun of my in-laws room for being a bright green so what do I do? Paint Brooklyn's room the same color! Oh well it matches the colors in her bedspread.

I'm going to do something with her headboard, cover it in fabric or something. I also have a light blue sign to hang up with vinyl lettering saying "All you need is faith and trust, and a little bit of pixie dust"
close up of the fairies-sorry it's kinda dark....
Brooklyn loves it and she was so happy to get her fairies back up on the wall!

Kindergarten

Why do they call it kindergarten? What is kinder and why does it have/need a garten?

It's German, (literally means "children's garden") --is a form of education for young children which serves as a transition from home to the commencement of more formal schooling.

So, kinder is German for children but here's a cool thing...it's also an Italian chocolate. yay chocolate!!

And if it means children's garden...with a "d" why isn't it kindergarden? instead of "t"? These are the things that keep me up all night....

Anyway, I took Logan to the school today to register. The little "tests" they do are pretty funny, stand on one foot, hop, bounce a ball....can your kid move? Why does your child wear glasses? Ahh it's a fashion statement....

He was looking at the letters I had on a paper that you give to the teacher and he was naming them, no problem and then when we go to talk to the teacher, he gets all shy! Logan's never shy! He was whispering the letters to her --it was so cute. He's so excited for school and doesn't understand that he doesn't go to school yet.

He got a "goodie" bag with a name tag, a booklet with numbers and letters in it, a sequence game, and a froggie book.

Easter Fun

Here's some of the things we did over the weekend. We colored eggs and did our own little egg hunt in the backyard. The kids are little enough that they don't care about going to an egg hunt somewhere. I watch egg hunts on the news and it's crazy!!! I don't think we'll ever go to one and here's why-- Brooklyn would never leave my side and Logan would probably get trampled by the other kids and not get any eggs and end up crying--why put my kids and myself through that?!

Sunday morning the "easter bunny" hides the kids baskets and they get to go find them. It was the first year we did this and it was pretty fun watching them look around the house and get so excited when they see their baskets.

We play Wii!!

Here are the kiddies playing the Wii, Raving Rabbids-oh yeah! Logan was giggling like crazy! almost as much as he does when we watch funny videos. Brooklyn didn't really know what she was doing, she looks like a pro though!
Gotta love the Wii!

Brother and Sister

I've been a little bored lately-here's what we did last night!
Took pictures of the kids all night!

I love this one. Brooklyn loves her brother so much! She'll be sad when he goes to school this fall.

What a cheese ball!

That boy's glasses are always so filthy! I don't know how he sees out of them.

Brooklyn's face is priceless: she's like-ok mom leave me alone, you're a freak! :)

Let's see what we can grow!

Over the weekend we got up early and went to Freddy's (Fred Meyer) to their fushia sale. We got some extra dirt and some peat pots for the seeds we want to start for our garden. We are

going to plant strawberries, cilantro, tomatoes, peas, a chive plant, zucchini, onions, jalapenos, green peppers, and beans! Hooray for a garden!! Here are some pics of us planting our starts:

Logan and Brooklyn making a hole for the seeds: Now for some water; we actually did this wrong, we were supposed to put the dirt in, water it and THEN plant the seeds, but that's ok! I don't think it will hurt anything. :)

Target

So I've been trying to get into the whole coupon thing, I have a binder with different catagories and sheet protectors that I can slip my coupons into. I've started to go to walmart on Mondays because I can get TWO Sunday papers for 5 cents less than ONE subscription. These are the sites I visit, krazycouponlady, athrifymom, and fabulesslyfrugal. Some times they all have the same things on there, but they also have different ways of running the coupon deals. ANYWAY>>> I bought cereal a while ago (from Albies) and my "before the coupons" was 23.62 and only paid 3.32. So that was really good! well I went to Target (yay for Target!!) and bought:
2 things of wipes, 2 shampoos and lotions! Price before coupons, $16.06--I paid: $3.00! Most of that was tax too! I'm starting to get the hang of it but no where near the ladies where their before bill is like $200+ and only spend $2-4. --One day though, one day!