Teagan's Piano Recital

Teagan did so awesome at his piano recital!  He got another 100 this year on his two songs and is so sad to be leaving Sister Searle, his teacher.  She is heading off to go on a mission so we're starting with a new teacher, Lenae Hale.  He has learned so much in the last 3 years and is becoming a fabulous pianist.  His judge said he is the "King of Dynamics" which is so true.  Teagan has a gift for making any song exciting with dynamics!

Family Dinner

Grandma and Grandpa Daniels got us a house warming present, a new kitchen table!  It is so beautiful and we are all in love with it.  This was our first family dinner at the new table.  We figure there will be years and decades worth of memories sitting around it.   Here's to many happy memories (and unhappy food battles) to be had sitting here.

Random

Playing dress up and dancing around the house is about 75% of what Adeline and Eloise do these days.  They have so much fun together!

The other day I was walking Eloise to the bus and Adeline decided to cut herself a piece of bread.  I am so grateful that she didn't cut herself!!!

Adeline loves to hold Everly...and poke her and push her and lay on her and pull her arms and pull her legs and squeeze her head and give her the binkie and take it back away....having a three year old with a baby is a full time job these days.  Luckily, Everly is so goodnatured and patiently endures the attention.

Thrush

Me and Everly have been struggling with thrush.  Okay, I have been the one struggling.  She is fine.  In our many attempts to rid ourselves of it's grasps we broke out the gentian violet.  It is a dark dark purple (looks black in the bottle) liquid that you put inside baby's mouth to get rid of thrush and it stains EVERYTHING.  She looked like she had a goatee because it would leak out of her mouth with drool.  It stained several outfits and blankets as well.  

One of the times I put it in her mouth I didn't twist the lid on all the way.  I actually had the thought, "you should hurry and put that lid on before you forget."  Well, I did not listen to that prompting and at some point it was knocked onto the ground and was not discovered until the entire contents and had had plenty of time to soak deep into the carpet.  This picture was taken after I soaked through about 20 rags that I would rinse and soak up again. When I first discovered it, it was a black spot.  I finally borrowed my friend Stacy's carpet cleaner to try to clean it up.  It was seriously a disaster.  It stained all the brushes on her carpet cleaner and spread the purple into a much larger region.  After several hours and changing the water tank about 20 times, I got it to the point where it is just a dull purple.  I learned an important lesson.  Listen to promptings the first time!!!  And if you don't, there is always repentance, but it takes a long time and can be really horrible, so just do the right thing in the beginning.

First Manicure

With Eloise and Teagan at school, Adeline, Everly and I have a lot of time during the day.  Adeline has been begging me to paint Everly's nails and we finally did it.  Everly held still and just watched, calm as ever, per usual.  She is such a peach.  

Idaho Falls Aquarium

Idaho Falls put in a new aquarium and we went to it over Christmas break.  It was so fun and there were so many interactive exhibits!  The kids loved seeing the fish from Finding Nemo and watching Zac fearlessly touch all the animals.  I'm so grateful that he is there to teach our kids to be brave, because it was creeping me out!

Happy 10th Birthday Teagan!

Happy birthday to our old and wise Teagan!  He is so much fun and has a way of cheering up everyone around him.  He wanted a batman cake and we tried to make it a tall building, but it didn't really work out, but it was chocolate and cream cheese deliciousness.  On his birthday we went out to Chuck-o-Rama for lunch and then came home for cake and ice cream.

This year Teagan got to have a birthday party with his friends.  He requested a treasure hunt that went all around Shelley.  It was a fun group of boys and they had a lot of fun running around and being silly.  The places they went were: The basement, the Heath's to drink pop, the backyard to shoot balloons with BBguns, the laundry room, Mr. Pizza for pizza and pop, Arctic Circle for ice cream cones, Broulims for cupcakes and back home for a treasure box full of wrapped presents that they got to play white elephant with.  I think the party was a hit, happy birthday buddy!

How old are you: 10
Who is your best friend: Quinn Dixon
3. What is your favorite thing to do? play football
4. What is your favorite color? Green and Hazel
5. What is your favorite food? Chicken Cordon Bleu
6. What do you like to do with your family?  Go on Bike rides
7. What is your favorite toy? Space Rover with all the little guys
8 What is your favorite sport? football
9. What do you want to be when you grow up? Some sort of Doctor
10. How old will you be when you get married? Hopefully 22 or 23
10.5. Who do you have a crush on? Mary (so embarrassed)
11. How many kids are you going to have?  I don't know, 2 or more
12. What is your favorite book? Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone
13. What is your favorite show or movie? HP 7
14. What makes you happy? Dad
15. What makes you sad? Mom, no hahahaha.  When I don't get to do stuff and have action
16. What do you think about before you fall asleep?   I usually think about adventures.
17. What is your favorite part of your birthday?  When I chugged two cups of soda (at the Heath house)
18. What is your favorite scripture story?  The Brother of Jared and the special stones
19. What is something that you think you will accomplish before you are 11? To become a better Left Corner and make interceptions and tackle better.
20. What is one word that describes you?  Amazing