I LOVE THIS KID!!

This is Taggerts cake for the Blue and Gold Banquet last month. The theme was "Resourcefulness". With just a little help from Mom and Addie and friend it turned out pretty darn cute!

This kid has had quite a week.  A touch of the flu, missing 3 total days of school, with just fever and aches, and a lost battle with the playground. These pictures did not do the bloodiness any justice.

Fortunately the doctor was able to glue it instead of stitches, but it was borderline. This kid is so brave I tell ya, only screamed on impact, and remained calm the rest of the night, and had to show it off at scouts an hour later. To top off his week we went to Parent/Teacher Conference and he has been invited to do the gifted program. What a kid!!

And the pics are in!

Addie just leaving Cheerleading practice at Airtime.



Addie and Tag getting in a little homework and snack after dance and before cheer.



Drexton doring his chore after a full day of preschool, then dance class.



Tag and Drex at dance class, putting their incredibly good rhythm to use in their latest interest Hip Hop.

Tag at the Blue and Gold Banquet for Cubscouts with his awesome leader Brigham. Yes, notice he is not wearing his uniform, as the busy mother totally forgot till we got there, but totally remembered the awesome cake Tag and Addie and her friend Mikaylah helped create.  More pics of that later.





Typical Tuesday!

After sending 3 kids off to school, and a full day of helping my sister teach preschool in Santaquin till 2:30 this is our schedule:
3:15 Dance-Taggert and Drexton
4:00 Game at Seven Peaks-Logan
5:00 Private Training in Orem-Logan
5-6:15 Cheerleading in Springville-Addie-also friend who needed ride.
5-7   Open Soccer Play at MMHS-Logan
7:00  Pack night-Taggert who needed to bring decorated cake.
9:00 Watching Parenthood while holding Brad's hand. (This is a must for me to bring the day to an end.)

There are pics to prove this, but blogger is not letting me download them right now. More than frustrated, since I finally had a minute to sit down and blog in the first place.

FINALLY!!

"I finally got my own trophy!"
Funny story: For Christmas Drexton made Brad take him Christmas shopping for me and had him walking all around Kmart looking for a trophy to get me and was sorely dissappointed he didn't find one.  Brad finally asked him, "Why do you want to get mom a trophy?" Drexton says, "because Dad she is the best one at field day at school when we play that game where you hold hands and call a persons name and you have to run through them.  She doesn't let anyone get passed her!"
Hmmmm.... maybe I'm a little too competitive. Red Rover with a bunch of preschoolers? (Maybe it has something to do with my Dad coaching me all those years in softball, and if I didn't run he would be running down the sideline with me with clipboard in hand.)
So guess what I gave Drexton for his birthday? His very own trophy! Labeled:
Red Rover Award
Drexton Brower
2nd place after mom

This is his cake. YES, I made this! Why did everyone keep asking this question? Do I not come off as the crafty type? As long as I look at a picture I think I can figure it out, I'm a visual adult getting better with the Adult Onset of ADHD. (self-diagnosed)

Somebody Smiled!

Christmas Eve dinner with the China! New tradition-now that the kids are old enough.

Betcha can"t guess who I'm talkin' about.

Do you like SUGAR?

Is there sugar in sugar cookies?  Then YES!!

Thanks to our wonderful friends around the corner we had a fun FHE with a talent show and cookie decorating.  Some of the kids were competing who could come up with the most clever cookie and I think others were competing who could add the most sugar. Logan decorated and ate 4 before we left and thus did not even make his other 2.  Yes, each person had 6 cookies each, so sad to say this was not all we had.

Bring on the Holidays!

The cutest new Wolf Cub Scout you ever did see!

Logan practicing his SKILLS with the big high school boys.

My only girl who loves to have arts & crafts time with mom.

The not-so-baby  trying to being the center of attention.

"Now why the heck are they blinking?"
Brad usually sits back and watches, but this year scored some ungrinchable points.



Shortly after this pic taken, Addie and I almost performed an ELF moment,
us shorty's getting higher up the tree.