Talent Show

Corban and I went to Kristi's school to listen to her play "Spring" from "The Four Seasons" at a class talent show. She played her violin with three of her friends (Kiarra, Tess, and Hannah). Here is a little sample of their talent:

First Soccer Game

Cameron signed up to play youth soccer. Tuesday he had his first game. His coach asked him if he would be the team captain. He was happy about that. For about an hour, Cameron did alot of running as he chased the ball around, trying to get it towards the goal. He did a great job and it was fun to watch him play. I decided that someone should make a mom muzzle (for me), because it is sooooooo hard to watch without giving "encouragement!" Cari, Trevon, Kristi, and Elise were also there to cheer Cameron on.




GREAT PICTURE...







GOOD EXERCISE.......



GOOD GAME!!!

Corban Makes a Sandwich

After going on a little walk, Corban and I headed home to make some lunch. He wanted a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. No problem, I've made those before....BUT....then I noticed some weeds in the yard and I started to pull them. Corban helped some, then played with the chickens, and finally reminded me it was time for that sandwich. As we headed inside, I remembered one of the school secretaries had called yesterday with a question about an immunization date. Before forgetting to get back to her, I began looking up the information she needed. So, Corban decided to take matters into his own hands. I watched as he buttered two pieces of bread...



...then ate some of that butter.



I explained to him that we do not eat butter by itself, and certainly never put a knive in our mouth. He said, "oh."



I took the knife from him and spread out the butter he had on his bread. He was not happy that I was helping him and almost began to cry. He wanted to make it by himself. Sorry bud, WAY TOO MUCH BUTTER! I cleaned off the knife and gave it back to him so that he could put on some peanut butter. MMMmmmmm.....I love peanut butter.



He asked me to get the jelly for him and then gave me the knife and said, "Now, you do it all by yourself." He wasn't sure he knew how to spread jelly, so I did it for him. He said, "Mom, spread all of it around." Then, as I went back to what I was doing I heard him say, "I have to help you." Then, to himself, "no more things; just put the top of this on." As he put the pieces together (both slices covered with butter, peanut butter and jelly), he said "uh oh." But he did it. He brought his sandwich to me and asked me to cut it up in triangles.



Finally, it was time to eat it!



He ate......some....



...and then he started to fall asleep!




What a cute kid! I love how independant he is becoming. He is so much fun. I cleaned him up and laid him down for a nap. I don't ever make a sandwich with butter inside of it. I think he saw the butter on the counter and just decided to use it because it was there, and at his fingertips. I spread peanut buttter and then jelly or honey on one slice, then cover it all with a plain slice of bread. I'm ALMOST tempted to take a bite out of HIS sandwich - but I know he wouldn't be too happy to find a bite missing. MAYBE ANOTHER TIME!

Before/After

On the last day of Spring Break it rained! Elise decided to do some painting to pass the time.

I had given her a haircut at the beginning of the break (as well as Cari, Cameron, and Corban too). Trevon said he wanted his haircut right before going back to school, so we waited to give him his. He wanted to see how long he could grow his hair. It was pretty shaggy. I'm positive it was the longest it has ever been in his life. The longer it grew, the more curly it seemed to become. We took some before and after photos. I definitely prefer the after! Haircuts in my opinion, are HANDSOME (on a man).

Bake Sale

Sadie and her friends had a bake sale to earn some money for a trip to Disneyland. On Friday, she and Emily made the posters. They baked cookies, bread, cupcakes and had pecans there to sell too. All Friday night, Sadie was in the kitchen. I didn't help her with anything she made. Mike and I had a date night. When we returned, I was so pleased to walk into the kitchen and see she was making bread all by herself. Saturday morning, the girls set up a table along side the road and waited for customers. They were able to sell most of what they had made in four hours. I think they may do it again in the near future.

...and the ANSWER

Trevon received an answer to his PROM question! He asked Courtney Humphries, a girl who is in his chemistry class at school (ha ha ha). His answer came in the form of a dozen "sweet" eggs.



The egg shells were made out of white chocolate; under the shell was a vanilla cupcake frosted white and topped with a dollop of lemon filling.



They were yummy!



Once the eggs were lifted from the carton, the mesage Trevon was waiting for was revealed. Each egg cup had a word written on it, together saying, "I will not lie... I'm EGG-cited to go to PROM with you!!"



Trevon was very happy to get his answer and I think he is "egg-cited" about his upcoming date too!

How Does Your Garden Grow?

As part of our spring break, we worked on our garden. I helped Mike plant some seeds of squash, green beans, peas, buttercrunch lettuce, and swiss chard into small pots to germinate before transporting them into the garden.



Trevon planted beet seeds directly in the garden. He and Mike also put eighteen tomato plants in the garden. We have bell pepper and jalepeno plants too. We plan to plant corn and pumpkin seeds at a later date. We LOVE having a garden. Part of our garden has a strawberry patch in it too. Nothing tastes as good as food straight from the garden. Planting and harvesting is something we look forward to every year.

Gone Fishin'

The weather is warmer and it is SPRING BREAK! Trevon wanted to take advantage of both and took his brothers fishing on Tuesday along the Virgin River and at Grandpa's Pond.








When they returned, Corban informed me that they did not see any fish - only ducks. They had a good time even though the fishing wasn't good. It was a nice day.

Asking for a Date

It is nearing that time when the high schoolers start thinking about PROM! Trevon decided who he wanted to ask (to be revealed later), and then couldn't rest until the asking was done. We sat around the dinner table on Monday trying to give him some good ideas. He wanted to do something simple and turned down most of our ideas. Finally, he decided to put pieces of his question inside hollow chocolate eggs, and leave them on her doorstep. We cut into the egg, pushed in the paper, slightly melted the slit we had made - smoothing it over and covering it up.





He had a total of forty eggs, five of which had the paper slips in them. (I noticed that if you shook the egg, you could feel the paper moving inside it. That might make the question easier to find....if she shakes them.) A tag on the bag of eggs indicated to her to look inside the eggs for a question. I didn't take a picture of the final project, but it was colorful as the eggs were each wrapped in a bright colored foil wrap. After making his "delivery," Trevon was able to rest and decided to take his little brothers fishing.

Spring Orchestra Concert

On Thursday night, Sadie played in her school orchestra concert. Her teachers wanted her to be heard (louder than she can be on her own violin), so she used her student teacher's violin during the concert. Sadie played FUGUE IN G MINOR (Johann Sebastian Bach) in an ensemble group and had a solo part, playing LORD OF THE DANCE (Hardiman) with the orchestra too. She was also given the honor of being the first chair violin. We enjoyed all the music that was played and had a wonderful time listening to Sadie share her talent. She did a GREAT job! Other numbers the orchestra played at the concert included: THE ARETHUSA (O'Carolan) TOSS THE FEATHERS (O'Loughlin) AMADEUS! From Symphony No. 25 (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) MOUNTAIN CHASE (Silva)

A visit to the Utah State Legislature

On Tuesday, Cari woke very early so that she could catch a 5:30am bus with her AP Government class. They were headed to Salt Lake City to tour the capitol building, meet with Senator Brad Last, and watch the legislature in action.



She took a lot of pictures on her field trip. I have included a few of them:










This room has items in it from around the world: tapestries from Italy; mirrors and chandeliers from France; a table (made from wood of a now extinct tree) from Russia; and more.



In the courthouse, she saw where part of the second Legally Blonde movie was filmed.



She saw people protesting a house bill.



She watched the legislature in action.




She even took a picture of the bathroom. The stalls were marble and just as beuatiful as the rest of the House. She loved it!

She ended up being on the news too. Channel 2 questioned her and some of her classmates about how they would grade their school. She was a little nervous to have a microphone put in her face, but she answered the question and her Grampa Matheson happened to see her on the news that night!