Powder Puff football

Shannon played on the Junior team and the Juniors won 28 to 6. Shannon was pretty aggressive on the defense. She pulled those flags like nothing else!! Go Juniors!

She's legal, going solo!!

Yesterday we tried to get Shannon's license but the DMV system was down state wide. She was NOT happy! she thought she was going to DIE to have to wait ANOTHER 24 hours! She was so upset, I wouldn't let her drive home, I didn't want to get in an accident.....ok, I was teaching her a lesson that we need to control our emotions and if they are too intense we really shouldn't drive. anyway. I picked her up after school today and we went straight to DMV. She was very nervous but did a great job and passed with flying colors. I almost didn't let her drive home because she was so EXCITED and couldn't calm down! Silly girl! Spencer just sent her on her first SOLO errand to JC Penny. She is a bit nervous but I'm sure she will do fine.

Bye Bye Shan!!

She just called to tell me she got there safely.....whew! Wow, it's so weird how fast they are growing up...sniff sniff....ha ha just kidding!! yippee!! It is so exciting to see them pass major milestones.

Primary Idol update

It is going FANTASTIC!!! Better than I could have hoped! The kids are SOOOOOO into it! The judges are great! The Singing Squirts are even coordinating their outfits (thanks to their amazing teachers) by adding accessories that make them uniform. Orange construction paper ties for the guys and orange paper corsages for the girls. The following week they all had missionary name tags. All of the classes are really stepping up and it has been a blast! I'll keep you updated!

New Life

Lots of new plants poking their heads above the ground!! Spencer LOVES going out each day to check on them all. It makes me laugh because I have to twist his arm to get them all planted but he gets such a kick out of watching them grow and stuff!

We planted a whole box of green beans cause we all love them so much! hopefully these will grow into produce. Our last try failed miserably! Not one green bean, not one!So we didn't do so great the first go round so we decided to try try again!! We planted many "new" things this time and are excited to see how they do. The little plants are very thankful for the shade that Spencer has made for them.

The countdown is OVER!

She is FINALLY 16!

Rachel got up early and started decorating. This is what she did first.While they were at the "morning side"

Jenna and I went and got 16 balloons and tied them to the banister.

Here she is with her cake.....

(I know, not a fabulous super man cake or anything like that) thank goodness they grow out of that and just care about the taste of the cake!
She went to a morning side a the church and thanks to Michelle, who told Presidents Riggs (who has quite a sense of humor)He made Shannon stand up (she was in the youth choir on the stand) and announced that it was her 16th birthday today. (it was a multi stake fireside) anyway, the speaker Brad Wilcox from BYU was talking about dating and things pertaining to it so he asked Shannon to come up to the stand by him and then he had Brandon Halls (who had sung a solo in the choir) come up and he had Brandon demonstrate how to ask a girl out on a date. He told Shannon that all she had to do was day four words..."yes! I'd love to!" so he asked her and she said those four words. They are going on a date this Saturday. They were assigned to take President Riggs cookies as part of their date to prove they actually went on one. Needless to say she was embarrassed but inside she was thrilled and loving the whole thing.

We had her birthday dinner and cake when they got home and opened presents and then later in the evening she had a few friends come over and play games and such. I think she had a fun day.

We tried to get her license yesterday but the state dmv system was down state wide so we will try again today. She wasn't too thrilled to start driving Brad's "yuck mobile" as his friends affectionately call it but she soon realized it was WAY better than NOTHING!! She is doing great driving a stick shift. I think humility is KEY in raising teenagers!!

Eagle????

Here he is waiting to be interviewed The shirt and sash are a bit too small

(what can I say it was HUGE on him when we bought it!)

Brad had his Eagle board of review this past Thursday and he PASSED!!!!! He did it! 2 years past his project and such but it is done! We have to wait for the official certificate to come in the mail and then have the Eagle court of honor. I think he is really glad that he finished it up. It will mean alot to him later on in life.

He went....SKYYYYYY Diving!

And........here is the shirt to prove it!

One of Brad's buddies got a big group together to go sky diving. It is something I have always wanted to do but been a bit too chicken to do it. I really thought it was all a bunch of talk since he hates repelling but true to his word, he went. He said...

"it was ....awesome....amazing.....words can't describe it......ahhhhhhh......I'm going again when I get back from my mission!"

I text ed him when I though he was done but he was on the way up in the airplane due to a delay. He said that going up was the worst part, the anticipation. He had nothing but good to say so all you who want to give it a try, we'll plan on July of 2012!! we can all go together!