Eagle Scout Project

For Bruce's Eagle Scout project he chose to build three 8' long storage benches and two table carts for the after school enrichment program at Scholarship Preparatory Academy. It was an ambitious undertaking that took a lot of volunteer hours and dedication. We had a lot of generous help from cash to man hours. Paul Plyler, Bruce's former primary teacher and 11yr. old Scout leader was so helpful in helping Bruce choose and implement the project. He came up with the blue prints and put in a lot of time and effort to see it through. We're all so grateful! Here are a few pictures of the journey.

How is this wood going to turn in to everything we need?! Panic setting in. :)

Paul Plyler, our hero! We started of in his backyard.

The Priest group helped pre-drill holes and pre-cut pieces and load the wood in to our van.

Again, how? Everything ready to get started our garage.

It actually happened...7hrs. straight working and building this Saturday.

The following Saturday, Grandpa and the missionaries helped us paint.

Bruce, Robert, and I helped put on the locks.
Delivered! He did it. We're so proud.

Our Last Speech Graduate

Claire graduated from speech last week! She has worked very hard on her articulation and finally mastered her R this year. We're very proud of her. She's been in speech and language therapy since kindergarten. Hooray for Claire and hooray for all of my kids being out of speech now! It's been a long road. 

New Beginnings

Jane attended New Beginnings a few weeks ago. They introduced Jane and had a color run.  She is so excited to be starting the Young Women's program when she turns 12 in August. She's enjoyed the Activity Days program but she's ready to move on now that she's twice the height of all of the other girls. :) We love Jane and we're excited to watch her experience all that comes with getting older. She's especially excited about being able to attend YW camp this year. Soon I will have two girls in Young Women's. 

Here's to new beginnings. 

 Complete with colored teeth. :)

Farewell Sayre!

My nephew got called to the Colubus, Ohio mission. 

We are so proud of him for being willing to serve his Heavenly Father for 2yrs. 

We went to his farewell talk over New Years weekend. He did a great job. 

Bruce, Brodey, and Sayre

 Our little Sayre is all grown up. :)

Christmas 2017!

We had a very merry Christmas this year. We spent Christmas Eve with Robert's family. We played games, had a great dinner, had a talent show and a live nativity story with the grandkids. 

Bruce was the narrator, so he's not in the picture.
Linda was Mary.
Claire was a horse.
Jane was an angel/star.

 Jane played the piano for the talent show.
Linda played the violin.
Claire did a dance with her cousin Audrey.
Bruce did the worm in the Scott Thompson family skit but managed not to be in a picture again.

My kids are so funny. They've been trained well by their mother not to be morning people. :) So, we set the alarm for 8am so everyone could get up to see what Santa brought. The kids loved their gifts and have had fun playing with everything since. 

Merry Christmas! 

We're ready for the new year now.

Thanksgiving Festivities

This year we went to Dan and Michelle's house for Thanksgiving with the Thompson side of the family. We had some great food and the kids played donut on a string and Kahoots. It was nice, and even nicer not to have to do a bunch of cooking and cleaning.

The next day we went to Palmdale, A bunch of Robert's aunts, uncles and cousins met up at Patty and John's house. Robert, Bruce, Linda, and I went shooting(the bruise on my arm just healed), and Linda and Claire stayed back for a turkey/candy hunt. That night we had a bbq around a fire. It was a lot of fun.