Jack turned ten! Ten!!!
Thomas turned 12! That was a pretty exciting birthday for him. I miss having him in Primary though. When I was called as Primary President all five of my boys were in Primary. Now I am left with only three!!
Jack finally won a show award in the Pinewood Derby. He has tried every year, but his cars were always too fast and took speed awards, so they wouldn't let him win for show. He was glad to finally win a show award his last year.
This was Drake's first Pinewood Derby year and he took the top prize - - first place in speed. His car was simple. Last year, we tried to get Jack to use an Ipod sticker we had to make an Ipod car, but he wouldn't, so Drake told us to save it for him. We did and that flat little car was super fast! This was the 10th car that Jeremy has helped the boys build. Only five more to go!
I snapped this picture of the boys putting together their Valentines.
And speaking of Valentines, I snapped a few pics of our Valentines decor. I just used the same stuff from last year and it took about ten minutes to put it up. Plus - it was a good excuse to dust off my hook shelf. I am telling you, Arizona is, by far, the dustiest place I have ever lived.
We also hung up the banner that Tad and I made last year. I still need to show you this fireplace in its entirety now that I have finished decorating it. I will try to get to that soon.
Finally, Jeremy brought these pretty flowers to me on Valentines day. He knows I love having fresh flowers in my house. I am still enjoying these. They still look great, thanks to what we learned from Thomas's science fair project. We tried a bunch of the popular methods for keeping your flowers looking fresh longer, and the clear winner was to add some citrus soda (like 7-up or Sprite) to the water. We couldn't believe how much longer those flowers lasted over the other things he tried. His science fair project was one of the winners at his school, but I couldn't get there that day to take a picture. Maybe I will set the board up one of these days and take a picture to share. It was a good project and he did a good job.
I came home from Dallin's basketball game the other night to find this on my couch. I love how close my boys are. Everyone loves to comment on how I must be crazy to have had my kids so fast, but moments like this make me realize that there are definite advantages to having my boys close in age.
One of my goals for this year, was to get more pictures of the house up on the blog, for anyone who might be interested in seeing it, but lives too far away to visit. As you can see, I am failing miserably at that goal. But, I did manage to take some pictures of my boys bathroom the other day, so hopefully I will get them up on the blog before too long.