WHen they Get ahold of your Camera

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Mrs. Fortune's Famous Fabulous Firsties

This is Alex and his awesome first grade teacher Mrs. Fortune :).  So tonight they had a little concert with the   "Cowboy Buck and Elizabeth (ventriloquist)".  It was a really cute concert and this year the first graders got to sing with them.  Alex's class sang a fun song with their own lyrics and Mrs. Fortune busted out in a solo act with her inflatable guitar.  It was so cute! I have a video but it won't let me download it.  Must be too long or something.  I was hooting and hollering while Mrs. Fortune jumped out... haha, it was rather cute :).

When Cowboy Buck announced his class he must of pronounced it wrong because Alex turns around and tells him that he wasn't saying it right.  So Buck gave him the microphone and told him to say it out loud to everyone.  So loud and clear he says, "Mrs. Fortune's Famous Fabulous Firsties!"

And Alex lost a tooth today at school!  I love it when the front teeth come out.  It always gives me a little laugh :). So cute

Today I hooked up the baby swing our friend gave us a long time ago, and Craig LOVES it.  He actually cried when I took him out the first time.  Had to put him back in right away.  Made me laugh and that's when I got the camera.  He was swinging for almost 30 minutes.  I even brought a book out while he chilled in there :). 

And it's that time of year! Jeremy put together some garden boxes and now we just need to work the soil and get some stuff planted.  

So I started digging. (Carson wanted to take some pics so I let him). This soil is some of the rockiest I have EVER worked with! 

Craig joined us outside... and he LOVED it, of course :)

Eeeew!! Dirt... they always have to taste it

I can't wait until the whole garden is put together :)

New Tricks

He's walking! And the fun thing now is, that he's starting to prefer it over crawling.  Which is perfect timing, because I love going to the park with the kids.  But I don't like it when I have a baby wanting to crawl everywhere.  YEAH CRAIG!

It had to go

It had been 2 years since the last cut.  It was time.

Wonderful :), now Craig won't be holding on to it like a rope.

Conference

We don't have cable, so every conference we all crowd in our room to watch conference on the computer.  It's cozy :).  What a blessing it is to have the words of our prophets and apostles so available and in our own homes!!  I love conference and look forward to it every time.

To help our kids look forward to it and enjoy conference we motivate them with fun snacks.  My friend gave me this idea last year.  For each session we pick a few key words for them to listen for.  And when they do hear it, they get to grab the specific snack or candy in that bowl.  It's so fun for them and surprisingly they get more out of conference then we realize!