At the elementary school, they have an annual talent type competition for drawing, painting, picture taking, singing, and playing an instrument. My Safia won second place in the 1st grade painting category. Good for you Safia!

Ever Heard of Flat Stanley?

This is Safia's Flat Stanley. The back of the picture states, "In School we have been reading the story of Flat Stanley. This Flat little boy was able to see many places by going through the mail. Please write me back and tell me about where you live and what you and Stanley did for the day. Our class is anxious to see how many places Flat Stanley can go. If you would like to copy him and this letter and send it on for your 1st grade friend, that would be great!"

So if you feel so incline to help our my Safia and do this, please send pictures to: mattamy9@gmail.com if you don't already have my current personal email address. This email address I listed is my email address I give to businesses. Thanks!!!

Service Project - Michael's bike

This is Michael's bike. They don't have a bike pump so I offered to bring it home. Fixing his bike turned into quite the service project. It had sand and dirt in it everywhere. We had to get new tubes for it and Matt picked up the thorn resistant kind. I'll just glad when it's all done, Michael will be able to ride his bike home from school again.

Here's the after picture of Michael and his newly tuned bike!

Homemade Chicken Nuggets

I blogged once sometime ago about making homemade chicken nuggets, but I'm doing it again because it was cute watching the kids insist on helping and doing an assembly line dipping the chicken in flour, them buttermilk, and then the homemade breadcrumbs and then passing them to Beau to put on the half sheets. We actually made enough for two meals so I stuck all the left overs in the freezer.

Safia's Hair Style for Valentine's Day

I am not one for doing fancy hair styles, but Safia wanted her hair done a certain way on Valentine's day and I did it!

Valentine's family dinner

This is our Valentine's dinner on the china and we used the nice flatware and goblets. We had steak, mashed potatoes, asparagus, grilled mushrooms, and salad. We drank a drink I made simply from Shasta Club soda and Apple kiwi Stawberry concentrate. I will do that one again!

Heart Attack!

On Valentines night, the children Heart Attacked our bedroom.

Family Home Evening Valentine's Eve Feb 13th

For Family Home Evening I gave a lesson on Testimony and then Matt and the kids made snickerdoodles, With whole grain flour and reduced sugar, and the kids decorated them.

It snowed Feb. 13, or Valentine's Eve. This is my early spring garden. I planted Broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbages last fall and now they are finally starting to grow. I just recently planted seeds of turnips, beets, carrots, radishes, lettuces and spinach. I also planted onion bulbs.

Jaren's Scout Blue and Gold Banquet Dinner / Cake decorating

The boys are: Jaren, ? , ? , ?, Levi, Kel, ? , ?, Nick, Ben

It was time for the cub scout Blue and Gold Banquet again. Matt and Jaren made this beautiful cake with custard between the two layers and chocolate pudding mixed with whipped cream for the frosting and then decorated it with sliced strawberries and mini chocolate chips. The dinner was a taco bar. Yummy and a good idea!

Bedroom floor carpet GONE! New Vinyl wood planks

We are sooooo done with having carpet in our bedroom! We put down Adura Vinyl wood planks and we love our new floor! We also removed the "bump" in our room. It was a waste of space "catch-all".

Celebrating Safia's 7th Birthday!

Safia had a birthday party with her school friends. Angelique and Jileigh were in charge. I just made the banana chocolate chip muffins.

The girls are: K.D. Mary Jane, Elise, Kaitlin, Alyssa, Brooklyn, Safia, ? , Sariah (Cousin)

Friday night birthday pizza party with Grandma H and Michael and his dad Abraham.