Snow Brrrrr.......

This was from the really big snow storm we got on New Years Eve. Noah was shoveling the stairs and sidewalk. He was having fun playing in the fresh powder. It was up to his knees.

Noah's #11

My son turned 11 on Thursday. I'm feeling so old and wondering how he can already be this old. With each birthday, I keep reminding myself to cherish those everyday moments and simple pleasures of these growing up years because they are quickly being taken away and won't be there to enjoy. On his actual birthday, I took him to Red Robin for dinner and then he had basketball practice that night. On Saturday, I took him to Fat Cats for his friend birthday party. He had 7 kids come including Josh, Skyler, Cody, Nick, Frankie, Tyler and Trevor. They all bowled 2 games, had pizza and played arcade games. They all seemed to have fun and I can't believe how hyper eight 10-11 year old boys can be. lol. Today, my family came over and we had dinner and cake. I told Noah that he got to have a birthday weekend. I hope he had a nice birthday. I'm proud of the sweet young man he is becoming and am so proud to be his mom.
Noah getting ready to blow out his candles and closing his eyes..lol. I forgot to buy birthday candles and my mom brought over the two that she had so we just made the candles into an 11.


Grandma gave him a BYU jersey...Lloyd insisted on being in the photo..lol

Noah's friends at Fat Cats. They all had to pose.



Cody and Tyler

Skyler

Spelling Bee

Before Christmas break, Noah had a class spelling bee and was in the top 3 in his class so he got to go to the school spelling bee which was last Friday. He had a list of about 275 words to learn. Some of them he already knew. There were some pretty tough words on there, some that I had never heard of like, bibliothecarial???Who has heard of that or knows what that means? I made flash cards for him and we tried to study a little each night. He was pretty nervous but I told him I knew he would be okay. He knew most of the words on the list pretty well and there were a couple he still struggled with. In the first round, he got "warrior". As soon as I heard them say that I knew he had it made...then I heard him say "w-a-i"...I was like what? He got out in the first round. Warrior wasn't a word we studied. It was one of the easier words so we didn't really practice it. He felt bad and I think he was caught off guard that he got that word. I told him not to feel bad and to be proud that he even got to go to the school spelling bee. I'm so proud that he even made it as far as he did. Maybe he'll have better luck next year.

Cousin Sleep Over

My brother, Kenny's two kids, Jaxon and Abi came over on Friday for a sleep over so their parents could celebrate their anniversary. They were so fun to have and so cute. They were so well behaved. Jaxon kept following Noah everywhere. He adores him. They both slept on the floor in Noah's room. We watched "Shrek Forever After" and had popcorn. It was good times. This is a pic I got on my cell phone so the quality isn't that great but isn't this adorable?

Christmas

Another Christmas has come and gone again. I feel so old. We had a pretty quiet Christmas this year. I had Noah for Christmas eve and Christmas morning so that was nice. We actually did a progressive dinner this year. We didn't have Kelly's family or Tara's this year. Tara was with her in laws and Kelly and his family were in Ethiopia. We missed them a lot though. We started out at Kenny's house for appetizers and they shared a Christmas message. Then we came to my house for salad and rolls. I had Noah read the M&M Christmas poem for our Christmas message. Then we went to my parents house for the main course of ham and potatoes. We also did white elephants there and let the kids exchange their gifts to each other. Josh had Noah's name and he got him a basketball which he loves. At the end of the evening, we went to Kristi's and had dessert of yummy cheesecake and watched a short clip of the Saviors life. It was a nice night. Christmas morning, Noah woke up about 745 and I made him wait until 8 to go open presents. He loved everything he got. He got an Ipod, books, movies and some gift cards. I got some pictures of Christmas morning but sad I didn't get any at the different houses for the progressive dinner.

Milk and cookies for Santa with a note.


The Ipod




Making sugar cookies...so messy!



Gingerbread house-they never look as good as they do on the box...lol

Football Banquet

We finally had our football banquet. Mind you that it was only 6 weeks after the season ended. It was totally disappointing compared to ones from the past. There were some issues between the coaches and team mom that I will spare the details of on here. The banquet was at Incredible Pizza which was a really fun place for the kids. They had an awesome all you can eat buffet. It was a little strange not having any of the coaches talk and present them with their trophies but the kids seemed okay with it. They got a tile with their football picture and number and a blue football beanie.

Spotlight

Noah got spotlighted in his class last week and he was so excited about it. We had to make a poster with pictures of him and his family and things that he liked. We had fun making it. It turned out pretty good. He got up in his class and told about the things that he had on the poster and then the poster got to hang in his classroom all week long. He was pretty proud of it.