A Happy Home is Filled with Love and Laughter

Cub Scouts

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When we first got into the ward I was called to teach in the primary, I then got put into Cub Scouts, went back to the primary for 9 months, and are now back into Cub Scouts ;)

I taught Wolves for a few years and am now helping with the Webelos and are teaching the same boys I taught in Wolves.

These boys can be rambunctious, but they are so sweet at the same time. A few of them bore their testimonies at church this last Sunday and I had never been more proud.

Here are a few pictures of the boys 'holding fire'. We were working on the scientist and was able to go to one of the local High School teachers classroom where he taught the boys a ton while having fun!

Hunter Adamson

Isaac Phillips

? Can't tell who this is

Tristan Rodabough

Brennen Coons

One of the other leaders- Miranda Nielson

Michael Haroldsen

Braxton Haslam

Garcia

I believe this is Porter Wright

Some of my other scouts include: Kelson & Bryson Trump, and one of our new boys Alex

Sickness

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Angela's sweet Camden came down with RSV and Influenza and had to stay two night in the hospital. So scary. We are so glad he is feeling better now and back to his spunky self.

Kaylee and Connor stayed away from RSV and the Influenza, but hit about every other little 'bug' that was going around this winter season. We definitely spent a lot of time at home, but are finally on the mend now and hoping to stay away from sickness for awhile!

Connor

Sweet Kaylee on one of her sick days- you know she is sick if she takes a nap on the couch while watching a movie. This was definitely a snugly day.

Swimming!

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Since the knee surgery was so hard on the family and took a lot from the kids, we had promised them as soon as I was feeling better that we would take them swimming!

We gathered all of our stuff and stuffed it in a Macey's bag lol. I of course made daddy carry that bag ;)

Isn't that little bum the cutest thing you have ever seen?!

Update on my knees: My knees have been doing a lot better. I was really discouraged at 9 weeks post knee surgery because the pain and swelling was worse than before surgery. When I went to the doctor for a follow up appointment they were hoping I would be doing a lot better than I was so I got nervous that the surgery did nothing to help. I left the doctors in tears.

A few weeks later I realized I had cleaned the whole house without needing to wear my knee straps or having to stop due to pain. It has been a slow process, but I do believe the surgery had helped and I am so happy to report that I have even been grocery shopping without wearing my knee straps (this is a miracle). I continue to go to the gym and have been using the bike to strengthen my muscles as best as I can. Feeling very hopeful!

New Years Eve

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New Years Eve we spent at Grandma and Grandpa Scott's house. Uncle Nate had to work until midnight so it just wasn't the same without him. We are sure going to miss him these next few years!

Playing 'Wacky Six'

Uncle Johnathon and Grandpa Scott playing Risk on the Ipad

BJ- The KING of Wacky Six!! He is so freaking fast and good at this game!

Kaylee stayed up the whole night without a problem

New Years Selfie

All the kids (that were awake) followed the tradition and hit pans with spoons outside

HAPPY NEW YEAR

The only traditions I made for the 2014 year was to: Improve on my scripture reading and knowledge and to have more Confidence

New Years Day was spent sitting around watching movies ha ha The kids and the parents were both exhausted to say the least

Random

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Uncle Ryan and Aunt Tiffany had been trying to get pregnant for a long time, and after a lot of testing they ended up having to go through IVF in order to get pregnant. IVF costs a lot of money and is really hard on your body but it is a miracle for many people. We were over joyed when we heard that the IVF Ryan and Tiffany did = a pregnancy!!! They held a small party to announce that Tiffany was pregnant with a GIRL! We can't wait!!

For Christmas the family got a 'Just Dance' Wii game. We have taken many video's of the amazing dancing talent we have in this house :) This game has been soo much fun!

One of the CNA's took my phone and snapped a picture of me at work. lol

Our neighbor Miranda just had a baby and then found out she was passing kidney stones! We quickly picked up her son Takota to come play with us. We had such a great day and even snuck out to Costco for some "Cafe's" as Kaylee calls them.

Christmas Day Cont...

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After playing at the Grandparents for awhile, Connor's fever broke and he was as happy as could be. So we decided to take the kids to go see the movie 'Frozen'. The kids LOVED the movie and enjoyed taking pictures inside the theater afterwards.

After the movie we went home for naps. After the kids had a good nap we got the dress ups out and all the new toys. The kids were acting like the felt great, but with Connor throwing up that morning we were too afraid to go see Papa Bruce and Grandma Sherry- but we really missed going to see them!

The kids had fun dressing up, and were as cute as ever. Luckiest parents right here :)