Geocaching/ Letterboxing

Okay, finally, we are ready to go! We have been very excited to go Letterboxing and Geocaching but just have not been able to get all the necessary items put together. In Letterboxong you need a hand carved stamp to stamp the notebook in each hidden letterbox. For Geocaching we needed a small treasure to leave behind at each cache we find. We are very excited to try  both so we have been working on all of it at once. As a family we decided that our trail name would be Summer Warriors because we love summer so much. Both our stamp and treasure carry our name in them. In the stamp we put the initials S.W. in the center of a sun and all of our hand made key chains have a version of the sun in a bottle cap. Now all we need is good weather and healthy kids to go hit the trail. In our favorite links section we have added links to both Geocaching and Letterboxing web sites for any one interested in joining one or both of these great outdoor activities.

Spring Break 2011

So many books so little time!

Self Healing Art. You can walk all over it and it returns to it's original form.

We were not happy when our spring break was rained out but we found some great fun to do indoors. We started out with the Carl Bloch exibit at the BYU Museum of Art. Then stopped of at the dollar theater for Gnomeo and Juliet in 3D. It was a good first day of Spring Break despite the weather.

Super pooper

Much to our surprise and excitement Cassie decided diapers are out and potties are in. She is doing an amazing job at knowing when she needs to use the toilet and we haven't had a wet pair of panties since Friday (that could be due to the fact that we cant keep any clothes on her and she has been naked since Friday).  We are now dreaming of all the ways we could spend our diaper budget each month...... mmmm, Jamba Juice!

Joey's Loose Tooth

The excitement at our house, the next morning, when Joey not only found that the tooth fairy had left a golden dollar coin but pixie dust as well was almost unbelievable! By the way, the tooth fairy doesn't leave enough pixie dust behind to make you fly (Joey tried).

Locks of Love

Okay, so it took two years but we finally got our hair long enough to donate.  This was Anna's dream from the first time that she heard of Locks of Love.  She was absolutely certain that it was something that she wanted to do.   We were planning on waiting until school was out to make the cut but due to some unforeseen circumstances involving Cassie, Lisa's hair and a razor, we bumped things up by a couple of months.  Anna was a little unsure about her short style for a couple of days after losing her hair but she was all smiles when she got her certificate of appreciation in the mail.