This is now my favorite commercial. Celeste thinks it's gross but I can't stop laughing.

Birthday Girl!!!

Kirstyn had her 8th birthday on Wednesday. It's hard to believe that our youngest is now 8 years old. Her teacher had her make an "all about me" poster that she displays in the classroom the week of her birthday. She was also allowed to bring in some treats on Friday to celebrate.

Of course, she asked to have her picture taken with every present she opened (while showcasing her present like she was on "The Price Is Right"). I think she's easily the biggest ham in the family. Rayanne may be taking Drama in school but Kirstyn doesn't need any classes, she's a natural. Every emotion is exagerated beyond belief.

8 years old also means she will be baptized soon. Her date is scheduled for March 1st at 1:00.

Well, it's official. Rayanne has reached that magic age where her parents are old, uncool, and a big embarassment to her. Unless, of course, we're taking her shopping and buying her stuff. Then we're the best. She did say that I would be more cool if I started wearing Hollister. I guess at that age your clothes help to define you. I never thought we'd reach a point where we have to bribe our kids to gain their approval (not that I'm all that influenced by what she thinks). She is definately searching for that teenage independence and she wants a cell phone to go with it. I don't think a day goes by where she doesn't pull out a cell phone ad from somewhere to show me and tells me how much she REALLY, REALLY likes it. Her tastes are becoming progressively more expensive and trendy. I guess that's to be expected.

Celeste graduated from Jet Blue and has started working her normal shift. We still have to get things ready for her here at that house by running a network cable to our bedroom from the basement. That will still be a temporary solution. We plan on moving the boys to the basement and making their room into an office. We still have some prep work to do in the basement by sealing the floor and setting up some temporary walls for privacy.

Sunday is her first night working her shift. She won't be done until midnight. She's excited to be starting work but we'll see how she feels about it after she gets home tonight. It won't be so bad once she's working out of the house instead of driving down to SLC.

The weather is starting to warm up here and that means "mud". That's right, we don't have any kind of a yard yet so when the snow melts we're left with several inches of mud until the ground dries out. There's a lot we'd like to do but not much can happen until we have a solution for our San Diego home. At least we've had a lot of potential buyers looking at it over the last couple of weeks. Still, we going to have to take it off the market soon and look at renting it if we don't get a decent offer. We're still hoping and praying that it sells (We're hoping that you are too! :)

Sibling Rivalry

A couple of weeks ago Christian broke his thumb and he's had it splinted since and will continue to have it splinted for a couple more weeks. Not to be outdone by his older brother Alec went and broke a couple of bones in his foot last night while running down the stairs to the basement. I know that Alec likes to do everything that his brother does but I didn't realize that sibling rivaly extended that far.

Here's a picture our accident prone boys.

Hopefully neither of the girls will get any bright ideas.

BTW: we need some kind of image for our blog title. Any ideas anyone?

This has been a pretty busy week for our family. I had lots that I learned at the jetBlue University and of course we test at the end of every week. Boy am I glad that this week is over. I have two more weeks of training and there is still lots to learn.

Jim was called to serve in the Young Men's program as an assistant to the Scout Master and an Deacon Assistant Advisor. So that means that Jim will be at the church house on Tuesdays with the Young Men and at camp outs and stuff. Jim is pretty excited about this calling especially since Christian will become a deacon in March. I think Christian is pretty excited to have his dad in the Young Men's program with him too. Jim really likes the scouting program, so this is exciting for him to be working with Christian.

Some really neat news...Alec is going to the Davis County District Science Fair at the end of this month. His science project is on Electromagnetic Levitation. His was the coolest project at his school. The science teacher told us that she had to babysit his project all day because there were so many kids around it. Alec had some hands on stuff that the kids could do, and I think that is one of the reason's his project was so popular. We will see how popular his project is with the High School AP kids. If you call the house make sure to talk to Alec and ask him about his project.