Sam's Baptism

This has taken me awhile to get up but the picture was on a different camera.  On Easter weekend Sam was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  It was a good time.  We had a lot of family come and support him.  And what a great weekend for a baptism.  I am very proud of him and how much he has learned.  He is a great role model for his sisters and brother. 

We did try to get a family picture that day, and this is the best we got.  There is everyone!
Congrats Sam and thanks to everyone who came and supported him.  For those who helped with the confirmation, I have to tell you Sam was filling out a journal sheet that asked who was in the circle, his answer: a lot of old people.  Now you know what he truly thinks of you all.  :)

Sam's quilt

This is my first finished quilt, ever.  And it only took five years!  The fabric was picked and pieced long ago (hence the little boy kind of feel to it).  Then I very slowly started quilting it together.  I know you can't really se the quilting.  That was done on purpose because I thought the fabric was so busy I didn't want to quilting making it even more so.  Each block is hand quilted with a picture of a car, truck, tow truck, or front loader.  Here's my hint to anyone attempting their first hand quilting project, pick a simple design and go with that.  I LOVE hand quilting.  I really do but this was definitely my learning project.  It's finished up with the yellow "lanes" down the denim sashing strips and the binding is th backing fabric to make it easy for me.  Sam loves it, of which I am glad, and I am extremely happy to have a quilt that is completely finished. 

There are several tops that are waiting in line to be quilted and finished, hopefully they don't take five years.  :)

Sam's SPY birthday party

Sam decided he wanted to have a spy party this year.  He invited several of his friends to come to a spy training camp at our house.  We started with some decoding practice (side note-there are three boys in this picture that are left handed!!), secret messages with lemon juice and map work.  At each thing they recieved a portion of a marshmallow shooter.

 

This is the "laser" course.  On the far window sill was the biggest section of the marshmallow shooters.  They had to crawl and climb through our crepe paper lasers to retrieve it.  This was a huge hit until they were torn down in battle.
 

They assembled the shooters and had a great time rearranging the pieces and shooting all the marshammlows that I would give them, recyling any that they found.  We also did rockets which I will have to post some time because those were a huge hit with the party and then when we did them with the cub scouts recently, and super easy.

Happy Birthday Sam!
 

Start of March

A couple of different pics for the month of March.  To start off we celebrated the birthday of Dr. Seuss with green eggs and ham for dinner.  Remarkably this went over fairly well, although Hannah's face doesn't look like she was convinced.  Yes this was dinner, we often do breakfast for dinner at our house, it's less complicated that way.

 

I had to include this picture just because it is so funny and so my kids.  Ben wanting Hannah to not hold on to him and then the girls just being funny.  Love it!
 

And then we had Sam's birthday.  Wow, I have an eight year old!  And he is very excited to be in cub scouts.  I have been doing pack meetings for a couple of years, and Sam is excited to be coming as a scout now.
 

Can you see his excitement here?  He was absolutely thrilled to get a glove and ball.  Now everyday as soon as Dad gets home he gets asked to play catch.  Or soccer, or tag, or chase Daddy, or anything really.

There's a couple of pictures of the start, up next, Sam's birthday party.