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At wrestling practice on Thursday, they had a special guest coach. His name is Anthony Robles, he is 20, and wrestling at ASU. He went to Mesa High, and was wrestling the same time as Kevin. He was born with only one leg. He took 2 High School State Championships, and 1 National High School Championship. He is currently ranked 10th in the nation in Freestyle, and is expected to make All American this year. He came and talked to the kids and showed them some of his favorite moves, and then jumped in and helped coach them through the moves. He was only able to actually work with a couple of pairs of kids, but Jon was one of them! It was pretty cool.

Gone Camping....

Lenard went on his first Deacon's quorum campout this weekend. Apparently it is the first of many....I am told they go camping about once a month?? LUCKIES! :o) He got a new 20° mummy bag since he is going to be needing it! He was really excited to go...even though he knew they were going on a 5 mile hike today. I hope he is still excited when he gets home!

Getting him packed up made me look forward to the summer and camping at Greens Peak or ????wherever!! Lets start making plans!!

The Scrap Review....

I know, I know, I have not been scrapping much lately, HOWEVER.....it is never far from my mind, LOL!! I will, one day, find a way to work scrappy time back into my schedule.

I am afraid that, as I am currently taking a bit of a scrappy break, I will miss so many fun things that are coming into the scrappy world. This is why I am so happy to have found a new scrappy site called THE SCRAP REVIEW which will be launching next week!!!



They are going to have real product reviews by real scrappers, and that is what I need to see. I want to hear all about the new stuff, so I can be dragged (ever so willingly) back into actively scrapping!!

I cannot wait to see what they have to show us!!

4th Grade Patriots....

Last Friday, the all the 4th grade classes at Jon's school put on a Patriotic presentation for the parents. It was obvious that they had worked very hard on the songs and speaking parts. I was so happy that I was able to go and see it. Here is just a tast of the program, but the whole thing was GREAT!!

WRESTLE!.....

On Feb 9th Jon started wrestling. I have been looking for something active to sign him up for that he would truly enjoy, and I think we have a WINNER! He is LOVING wrestling. They have practice 3 times a week for an hour, and he is doing great (well as far as my untrained eyes can tell). He seems to be quite strong for his size. His first match is March 7th - he weighs in at 8AM, and I think the wrestling stars at 9am!! Can't wait.



Go JON!!

I *heart* Sadie's hair!....

This was Sadie's Valentines Day hair. Unfortunately I didn't actually do it ON Valentines day, LOL! But she still LOVED it. I cannot take credit for the idea though....it came from a fun hair blog at http://www.shedoeshair.blogspot.com/

I was excited that I can still play and do fun styles now that it is shorter!!

More than just a little trim....

It was bound to happen sooner or later.....Sadie's hair has always been long and all one length, she basically started growing it out when she was 8 months old . She has always enjoyed it (and so have I)....until recently. Shortly after she started kindergarten, she started telling me she wanted it cut "to her shoulders", and asking for a haircut. I tried to discourage it, but then one day a couple of weeks ago she took it upon herself and cut herself some bangs!! It was not as bad as it could have been....she really didnt cut that much, it was just a bit short. So after thinking on it for a bit I decided to let her have her haircut....it is just hair after all. SO yesterday was the day, and she LOVES it. She swings her head and flips her hair and cannot stop looking in the mirror and smiling. It is, of course, absolutely DARLING (we are still talkng about SADIE, lol)....but it will take some getting used to....(and I want the bangs to grow out just a bit). :o)

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