Dropping the ball

I used to be so fabulous at updating my blog all the time, but I have totally dropped the ball this month.  We have been so busy working on the house (we should be done in less than a month!), Connor has had baseball, we had a tournament in St. George last weekend and another one next weekend, Kadence has had Cheer and Gymnastics and Kinlee has had gymnastics.  Needless to say it's been crazy.

Connor's Angel's red wall

Connor has been playing baseball 3-4 times a week and had a tourney in St. George (or around St. George) last weekend.  We only won one game, but it was a good experience and the boys learned a lot.  Connor didn't really pitch much, but he played the outfield and made some great plays.  Last night he competed in his last Pinewood Derby and took 1st!!  He was so excited!  All he wanted was to beat his really good friend Gavin (who has won every year) so when he won he ran up to me and said, "Dreams really do come true!"  it was so great and a memory we won't soon forget.

Kadee has continued to do gymnastics 2 times a week and has delivered all her girl scout cookies.  She got to walk in the St. Patrick's day parade with her scout group then stayed at the Peace Gardens and sold cookies.  She has been begging me to let her do cheer so I put her in Helper Flare for the last six weeks.  She has caught on so quickly and comes home from school and practices all night long.  I'm super proud of her and so glad she has finally found her groove.

Kinlee has grown so much this last little bit.  I can't believe she only has about 6 weeks left of preschool.  Tomorrow they are going on a field trip to the dinosaur museum and Friday she has Kindergarten round up.  She still does gymnastics and loves it, she is a busy little bee and practices her head stand constantly, the other day I couldn't get around her in the hall because she was practicing and wouldn't let her legs down.  Last week Brittnee and I took Kinlee and Kaydree to the CHS Drill Team Princess Tea Party.  The girls loved it and were so excited to meet all the princesses (especially Belle).  While waiting for the fairy godmother they enjoyed cupcakes and danced to the Disney music playing in the background.  It is such a fun tradition, I will be sad when she is too old for it.  

Matthew is starting to talk so well!  I can tell speech and preschool are really helping him.  We also do ABC Mouse and I make him practice his words.  He is so excited about his baseball room, but I'm not sure how he feels about the new house.  Every time we go down there to work he says, "me go home now." 

Dinner at Denny's after a long day of games.

Dads and Donuts

Living Room

Mud bench

Kitchen

I'm so excited things are coming together with the house.  Our brick will be finished this week and Rory is going to start on flooring this weekend.  His dad has done our electrical so he's going to finish that up and I still have so much painting to do, but should be done within a week or so.  We are really pushing to be moved in by the middle of April, fingers and toes are crossed! 

Although we are super busy with the house, life goes on.  This week was dad's and donuts at the elementary school.  Rory went early with the kids and read with them and found some dads to talk baseball with.  Kinlee and Matthew were a little jealous that they didn't get to go, but Kinlee will be in Kindergarten next year and it will be her turn.  We've also been busy (as always) with gymnastics, scouts, baseball, and everything else life throws at us.  This past weekend Kadee, Kinlee, and I went up North and stayed with grandma and grandpa Curtis.  Grandma Bet babysat Kinlee while Kadee and I went with the girl scouts to the University of Utah gymnastics meet.  It was a lot of fun!  I've never been to a meet before and I must say I was very impressed.  Those gymnasts are amazing and I think it really motivated Kadee to work even harder at gymnastics.  The meet went pretty late, by the time we got back Kinlee was fast asleep.  The next morning we took grandma and grandpa to breakfast then headed home to work on the house.  Love quality time with my kiddos.

Brick is almost complete!

House update

We started painting this weekend and are almost done, all we have left is edging and along the trim. Here is a sneak peak of Matthews and Kinlee's rooms:

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Today we celebrated Dr. Seuss' Birthday.  The kids got to wear pajamas to school, then we had green eggs and ham (pork roast) and cat in the hat strawberry shortcake for dinner.  We also colored Grinch pictures and could only talk in rhymes at dinner.  It was a really fun day.