Birthday Round 2

Birthday Round #2 was a friend birthday party. Dagen chose to do it at the gymnastic gym. It was filled with rope swings, a foam pit, uneven bars, balance beam, tramps, and the whole floor was springy. It was a great place for 11 rambuncious boys! It was so much FUN!!

Lonely

Challenge 30 - Somone that I miss....would have to be Pam's family. We used to do everything together in Logan from rodeo, animal day, too even going grocery shopping. I miss my playmates. Tear Tear Tear. Good thing they are close enough to visit. YELLOWSTONE HERE WE COME!!! LOL

Smiles

Challenge #29 - Something that makes you happy! I would have to say hands down I love to have family get togethers. Sorensen's may drive each other crazy but we have so much fun together. We play hard!!! This is only some of the clan all party poopers not pictured. lol

Scary

Today's challenge was something that scares you. Mine is definately hobos!!!!!! Creep me out they were giant in Logan. No joke I thought it was a mouse. Yikes!!!!

Challenge 27

Challenge 27 was a picture with you and someone in your family. I chose Dagen because he is the Birthday boy! He refused to take a picture with me so I had to use some Mom force. lol
Dagen is
D - Daring
A - Aggresive
G - Giggly and Goofy
E - Energetic
N - Never a MaMa's Boy wink wink
Love you ACE!!!!

Birthday Round 1

Well Dagen's birthday celebration started yesterday. He took star wars cupcakes to school yesterday, and they got to watch a movie for it. Today, he woke up at 5:30 am and wondered if he could open presents. After much negotiation he agreed to 6:50. lol If you know the rest of the boys you know this was a killer!! However, knowing Dagen he has to pack as much fun into his Birthday so like I said this is only Round 1.

He finally got a big bike, because did you know that he is the only 2nd grader he knows that has a small bike. We have been hearing that for months. He was very excited and we had to take it out for a bike ride bright and early.

Birthday to be continuted.....

4th Grade Program

Colton had his 4th grade program this week. He volunteered to be Robert Fulton, steamboat inventor. Yes, Colton will roll his eyes if you didn't already know that. Anyway, Colton has been working hard on singing, and memorizing his lines, we even had to create this costume for him. (Thank heavens Grandma made it back in time!!!) This is his fancy costume.

So those of you who know Colton know he is a shy boy and does nothing in public. So when I heard about the fact he had a main part I started sweating bullets. Not that he didn't have his parts memorized but that he would get there and refuse to do it. Well it floored us when he just got up and did it like such a big kid. I was so happy for him!! Well done kido!!!

They did a program on Go West. It was very well done. Even Grandpa said, "We've waited 10 years for that." It made his Mama and Papa so proud!

A lot

Challenge was something that means a lot to you. I would have to say my religion and a temple marriage.

That is what makes this a forever venture.

My Day

So today was a very rare quiet day. We really only had to pick up kids from Scouts. So we made a giant batch of chocolate chip cookies and plan on watching American Idol. You learn to love quiet moments in a house full of boys. lol

Change

There are two things I would love to change in this world. They are on two opposites of the spectrum.

#1 - Neglected Children- It breaks my heart to see these kids that no one takes the time to love. If I could do it I would take them all home with me.


#2 - Elderly Lonely People - I wish that people would stop to listen to these amazing people. It is almost like once they stop working and raising their family the become a background. If I could I would stop and have lunch with all of them.

Read

The challenge for today was to post your favorite read. Many of you know that I didn't really start to read until I was 25. Crazy I know. I never learned phonics and let me tell you reading was always a huge struggle. After I had Colton and quit working I got very bored so I thought maybe I would try reading again. Now I cannot stop reading. I read multiple times in a day!!! Love IT!!!! The Glass Castle is my favorite read because it is amazing how to my your perspective on where you are determines how you view your world. It a great read!!!

Better

Challege #22 - Something you wish you were better at. I would have to say gardening. I like to look at all the stuff and plant but for some reason I lose interest in watering, weeding, and fertilizing. lol Kindof important stuff.

Forget

Challenge day 21 - Something I wish I could forget. Well one night about midnight Ryan was out of town and I had a genius moment. I thought well I can see some gray hair I think I will try and color it myself. So being a awesome thinker I picked out a color and whala 20 minutes later I was the color of orange autum leaves.

So the next morning I thought well hello that didn't work I will try that again. This time with a little different color.

The second time I turned out gothic black with a few spots of orange. No lie I looked like a gothic cheetah. It so sucked. I couldn't even leave my house to go to the store or church, etc...

Needless to say I had to call in an expert....Debra. And boy did I hear all about how I knew better then to pull a stunt like this. ONE THING I WISH I COULD DEFINATELY FORGET!!!!

Oh Baby

So the challenge for yesterday was a picture of your youngest photo. I had to have Grandma send it to me via phone message. lol As Grandpa kindly reminded me I wasn't born in the digital age. lol rudeness. This is my oldest picture at 2 months old. And yes i see it is turned funny back off I can't figure it out. I have to say I get better with age. lol

Places you dream about.

Challenge #19 was a place you would like to go. I picked two things I would love to do. Things I did once before when I was in college, but something I would love to do with Ryan.

First, I would love to go back to Turkey. It was the most beautiful, vibrant place I have ever been. It was such a contrast to what I live in. I remember the smells, colors, people so vividly. I would love to see it all again.


Second, I would love to go back to Europe and go castleing. It was so fun to see the old places and explore. It was such and adventure.