A Name and A Blessing

Today was a big day (the first of many) in Baby Brody's life. Our families came from out of town (not too far) & spent the morning /afternoon with us. Today was Baby Brody's blessing day. For my non-member friends, it is like a christening except there is no water involved ;). We are so grateful & thankful that they made the effort to be here & a part of his special day. We know 9 am church is early, especially when traveling 2 (plus)hours. Thank you for coming! John & other men holding the Priesthood participated. My Dad, John's brother Ruben & some friends from church were in the circle. It is where they take the infant (Brody) in their arms & give him a name & a blessing which he will be known by on the church records. Brody was not named after anyone if particular. My brother Brandon had a best friend named Brody. John has always liked the name, so Brody it was! His middle name Shore is my Moms maiden name & we thought is sounded good with Brody. Brody Shore. There are several grand kids in the family that have Shore as their middle name. We figured, with four boys, we should have at least one boy with the family name. This sweet, calm, mellow baby of ours cried during the entire blessing. Out of all of our boys, he was the only one to cry during his blessing. I swear our good friend Scott must have been pinching him (I am totally teasing). The blessing was beautiful despite the microphone issue & Brody crying. After church, everyone came back to our house for lunch. It was a nice day. My nephews Malakai & Kannon are staying with us for a few days. We are excited to have them here & are looking forward to the next few days. I will have 6 boys in the house. It is going to be an exciting few days. Stay tuned!

Good Friday

The boys would tell you that this was a GOOD Friday. Soccer camp has come to an end. They had a great time. 5 days of soccer camp was heaven for Tanner & Carter. They both felt like they learned a ton. They have been practicing all of their new moves. They even wanted to sign up for another week. They were able to attend camp with some good friends of ours, Kelsey & Jake. After camp today we let them run wild @ a new water park in town. Can you say "FUN"! Water squirts from every direction at this park. They had water wars & just had a great time running thru the water. Our "Carter" funny for the day was when he looked at Jake's soccer jersey (which is blue when dry) and says "blue & water makes black". He was commenting how how Jake's shirt was black when he got it wet. I don't think his little mind ever shuts down. Always thinking. We hope your Friday was a good one.
If you're in the neighborhood tomorrow, Green Tangerines is having a garage sale this weekend. There will be lots of stuff @ great prices. They open @ 9am. I just might see you there. Happy Shopping!

Exhausted

Okay, I am so exhausted that I'm not going to even try to fiddle with my pictures. Sorry!! They are all over the place. Just got home from the scrapbook store about a 1/2 hour ago & am waiting for laundry to finish. The boys have soccer camp in the morning & all of their soccer socks are STINKY! I figured I would update the blog. Tonight was the VIP event @ Green Tangerines. It was lots of fun. We had 52 ladies rotate thru ten tables & in the end they went home with a fun little mini album.This was our first VIP event. I think for he most part it went really well & next time it will be even better. We can work out all of the kinks. Hopefully all of our manufacturers will ship our product on time :). This was a night to introduce our teachers to our customers & let them get a feel for each teachers style/personality. Kelly is such a great boss/store owner. She does a great job!!!! She goes the extra mile for everyone, even the cranky, unhappy people. For those of you who did not get in on the fun this time around, we will be holding two more VIP events in August to create this same book. Watch the store calendar. The top picture is of Tanya (photography teacher) & Kelly (the owner). The next picture is of Eve & Denise. They are a loyal customers & I am lucky enough to call them my friends. Super sweet & super talented ladies. Love these girls. Hi girls!!!!

Garrett has been missing the older boys this week. He cries when we drop them off @ soccer camp. He wants to go too! He even puts on the boys old soccer cleats (on the wrong feet I might add) & gets his ball. We keep telling him that his turn is coming. Hard for a three yer old to grasp that. I had my camera out today & Garrett wanted to be in all the pictures with Brody. He would tell Brody to say "HAPPY"! That's what they are, HAPPY BOYS!

2 Day Recap

We are enjoying the days of summer. Last night for Family Home Evening we met the Jones Family over @ the Parker's to swim (thanks Lisa) & to eat pizza. Between the two families, we have a total of 8 boys. It was lots of fun & good times were had. The boys had a great time diving, trying to surf on the boogie boards, being tossed & flipped in the air by John, & many noodle wars. Oh, the life with boys! It was fun to visit with my good friend Stephanie. She is such a good soul. I really enjoy her friendship.

Tanner & Carter are loving soccer camp this week. They are coming home totally exhausted. Three hours of running around can really wear a boy out. Maybe I need to enroll Garrett to join in on the fun :). In the mean time, Garrett continues to enjoy the mud & trucks in the backyard. Endless hours of fun for this boy. I should have taken a picture before bath time. He was covered from head to toe in mud & was so happy :). Garrett had his three year old well check today. He weighs 37 lbs. & is 39 1/2 inches tall. He had to get one shot. He was such a good boy. He didn't even cry. He didn't even flinch either. I think that lollipop made the shot seem not so bad.

I am busy working on layouts for next months baby class. It will be a late night for me. What I really want to do is crawl into bed & read my new book. I think I am the only person on the planet not reading the new Harry Potter book. I am reading Twilight. It came highly recommended off of a few blogs that I like to read. I am 100 pages into it & am really enjoying it.

I am getting excited for our VIP event @ Green Tangerines on Thursday. There is lots to do between now & then. It should be a fun night. I can't wait!

I hope everyone is having a great night!

Busy Weekend!

I don't have much to say today. We had a busy weekend. Tanner attended a birthday party & went swimming. His face has been glued to his new Harry Potter book this weekend. We attended a baptism of a friend from church. We hit the mall & John got a new suit. For those of you who know him well, you know that this is a BIG deal:). The man hates to wear suits. It was time. We are blessing Baby Brody next weekend & he needed one for that. He looked great yesterday (Sunday). I hosted the Scrappy Hour @ Green Tangerines on Saturday night. I was there from 4:30 pm to 12:30 am. Totally paid for it on Sunday. I could not keep my eyes open during Sunday school.
The fixture in our closet fell. I'm not sure if I just own too many clothes or if it was just not installed correctly :)? You can stop snickering now John :). I'll leave you with a photo from a layout I just finished. Another baby layout for my baby class @ GT. I used the KI Memories Baby Line. The title reads Sweet Baby Boy. I am loving all of these yummy colors in the baby line. It s hard to see, but those strips of paper have words on them (Miracle, Bundle of Joy, Sweet, etc...). I inked them & put them over circle punches. This layout was originally done in the girl colors with Bazzill flowers as accents. The flowers just weren't working for the boy layout, so I used the circle punch. My talented friend Amy took the pictures of Brody Brody. Thanks again Amy!

Have a Happy Monday!

Is he the Zoo Keeper?

I have had this little outfit for a while now. Just waiting for it to fit Baby Brody. Well tody was the day. I put it on him. It fits. It looks cute. I sit him on the brown leather chair to shoot some pictures. Carter comes walking in & says "Is he the zoo keeper"? This boy totally cracks me up. We went to the park this morning & had to cross a little bridge to get to the park. In the creek below, there were a ton of brown ducks & two white ducks. Carter looks up at me & asks "Are those two ducks (the white ones) the ones from the commercials"? He wanted to know if they were the A-flack (sp?) ducks? Too funny!

One Happy Harry Potter Fan

Well, if I didn't win Mother of the year tonight...I never will. Tanner, Carter & I stood in line at our local Wal*Mart so Tanner could have the latest Harry Potter Book @ midnight. He has been looking forward to this for months. It is all we heard about today. We stood in line with about 300 other Harry Potter fans. A few were even dressed up. It made it kind of fun & exciting. We got home just after 12:45am & Tanner was chomping at the bit to read tonight. I let him read the first chapter & then sent him to bed. So...maybe I didn't win that Mother of the year award after all :). I think he's pleased. He has already said thank you @ least a dozen times. It makes it all worth it!
P.S. We even ran in to some old family friends, The Pickett's.