Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving this year was a little different because I had to work. My parents came over and we ate about Noon, then I had to leave. We had lots of extra food even though It was a pretty low key event.

Katrina's looming projects

Katrina has been busy working on some baby hats the last few days. She used a loom for these but she does know how to crochet and knit. She does not get that talent from me:)

NAC

This last few months alot of exciting things have been happening. I took my Nursing Assistant Certified classs that I LOVED and did really good. I took my state written test and skills test and PASSED. So I am now certified with the state of Washington as a NAC. I am pretty excited to have this under my belt as this was one of the last big things I needed to accomplish before I can apply to the RN program.
Now that I have my certification under my belt I decided to apply for a position at a facility in town to earn some extra money and get some job exsperiance in the Nursing field. I applied for and got the job all in one day. I start Friday. After my initial training I will start working weekend afternoons. Im so excited since I really have not had an opportunity to work with so many little kids at home and Brians busy schedule and traveling.

Pumpkin Patch!

Court of Honor

We had another court of honor in Sept and a few of our boys were able to receive their rank advancements in front of the whole stake. They have great leaders who put alot of time into helping these boys advance. David(the tall one) got his Life rank and is ready to start planning his Eagle project
Connor( next to David) Got his First class rank. Half way to Eagle now.
Andrew( the midget of the group) Is now a Star rank and the 2nd highest rank in our troop


I am so proud of all our boys and all the hard work. I am especially proud of Andrew who only has 1 more rank before he can start planning for his Eagle and has 11 Merit badges at the age of 12. Only 21 are needed for Eagle :)

So as many of you know I have been in school for the past 9 months with very few breaks between classes. I am currently taking a night Nursing Assistant Certification class and a day time Anatomy& Physiology class. So I am basicly living at the college. When you spend 9 hours a day at school you have to do something fun, right? So because of my nature to have fun I planned a pizza/Birthday party for the night before our 2 big exams. One of the Gals from our NAC class was having her 40th Birthday so I suckered my good friend Ashley into helping me make this AWESOME cake. Here is my night NAC class. It is a small group and 4 of us have A&P together so we study between classes. It's like a family away from home.

Did I mention I have a 4.0 in this class. 2 more weeks left and I will be ready to take the state exam and skills test and get my certification. After this only have to finish my A&P classes before I can apply to Nursing school :) YAY me!

Today was Quinton's first day of Pre-school. He is a little on the younger side but since he is so advanced I figured he would do just fine ;) JK. He actually is around adults all the time so I thought he would benefit from some social interaction with kids his age. I can't believe I sent my baby to school. It's always bitter sweet.

He is lucky enough to have his buddy Sawyer in his class so it made the first day easy already having a friend

He did a great job, he didn't cry and he LOVED it. They have play-do, puzzles, blocks and cars. All of his favorite things.

My lego creator

Sometimes I forget to blog about the little every day things that my kids do. This is Andrew and One of his best buds, Drake. They both have a love for legos and building things. This is their monkey they created. I just wish there were not legos covering the entire rec room floor all the time:)

Happy Birthday Quinton

I can't believe that my baby has turned 3. We had a pretty low key birthday(again) and I made him a tractor cake. He was giddy with excitement as we worked on this cake together(all of 5 minutes). He is such a blessing to our family and he is always happy with the little things in life. I always seem to load the pictures backwards but you get the idea. He shoved the cake in his face and it ended up going up his nose.

You can see the pure joy in his smile:)

I am glad I didn't have to spend hours decorating a cake. we frosted it, put the tractor on it, poured rock candy and crushed cookies for the dirt. I think I i'll make him a cake like this every year.

First Class Scouter

Andrew is now a First Class scout at the age of 11. We are very proud of all the hard work he put into progressing in scouting. Pack 326

Andrew getting his rank advancement and 4 merit badges:)

Quinton looks up to his big brother so much!

I love my Scouters!!

Brianna's First Date :)

So the day has finally came that Brianna was able to go on her very first date.... Here she is with her two best friends Lakota and Shianne and her date Kyle. A Prom date would not be the same without a trip to Wal-Mart.

She was very excited to have a date to prom.

Brianna getting her makeup done.

camporee

This year the Scout organization put on a Camporee at the fairgrounds. There was a Friday night campout and events all day to keep the boys busy and a nice campfire ceremony to end the day on Saturday. I loaded all the pictures in the wrong order but you get the idea. Notice the fire is in a plastic swimming pool filled with sand. Yes, It did melt the plastic:)

Andrew getting his dinner ready. They gave the boys a plastic bag withtin foil, a hamburger patty, carrot, potato, and onion. Andrew rolled his patty out to flatten it with his carrot and then proceded to eat the carrot that rolled all over the raw meat!

Here are our killer scouts at the tomahawk throw.

Andrew was pretty proud to hit the wood with the tomahawk.

Andrew with his best friend Garrhet with the rockets they made.

Their troop flag.

They cut those wood blocks and then branded them.

The flapjack flip was alot of fun for the whole family.

There was even a donkey Quinton got to pet.

Jenna did pretty good climbing on the rock wall.

The rope climb was pretty fun too.

Andrew branding the spoon he made.

Andrew made that spoon and a pop can stove.

This was their tent that the wind blew over and the water soaked.

The boys had a great time and were worn out by the time we got home.