Go Team!

The kids and I go to every game that Kenedy cheers at just to watch her perform for 3 minutes. I feel it is important for the kids to learn to support each other and cheer each other on not matter what the activity is. So when it is game day I pack snacks and pencils, pick the kids up after school and head over to the middle school where they do their homework while watching and listening to a Basketball game waiting for the 3 minutes when we get to watch Kenedy. I have recorded a lot of her performances and this time I took pictures with the video camera while she did her thing. I really love watching her and I love that she loves cheering and she has really been working hard to learn tumbling to make her a better cheerleader. I can see an improvement in her and I hope she can also!

Exercising in McCall

Kefford put some pictures from his camera onto my computer. Among the more recent ones we found these shots of Avynlea and Ryker exercising at the clubhouse up in McCall. These pictures were from when we were there way back in November. Cute kids!

Imagine Dragons

Kefford surprised me with tickets to go see Imagine Dragons the week before Valentines Day. We went along with Keffords brother Trevor and his wife Michelle. It was a rainy night and we had to wait in a pretty long line just to get in the doors. It was cold and rainy and not fun waiting but we eventually made it in. Kefford was late in the game buying tickets and so he got seats that were on the side of the stage. We were worried that we were not going to see very well but it turned out we had some really great seats. The stage had a ramp and a little balcony on either side and during the concert the guys would run up it and play their instruments or sing on the balcony thing. This balcony was no more then a couple yards away from us and so we got to see them up close which was fun. My pictures are not the greatest because they are taken with my phone and because it is a concert and the lights are not going to make it optimal for picture taking. 

Keffords pictures from the concert

This was a really great concert and I would definitely go to another Imagine Dragons concert. I love their music and they seemed so humbled and thrilled just to be there on the stage doing what they love. 

Finally!

We know I lost my camera in December and I have been really sad about it every time I needed to take a picture. A couple of weeks ago Kefford brought home the Target ad and I saw in there that they had this camera, the Canon A3500 on sale. 

It was $100 off! Quite the deal! I told Kefford that we should get it and after mulling it over he agreed it was a good deal and said I could get it. When I got to Target they told me that they had 15 cameras and there were sold out the same day the ad came out. I was pretty bummed but she said she would print me out a rain check. That was a surprise because in the ad it said no rain checks when I mentioned that to her she said it wouldn't print if they couldn't do it so that was a lucky break for me. I checked in every couple of days to see if they had got any in with no luck. Today, Feb. 20, 2014, I thought I should stop in at Target on my way to dance and when I did I got lucky again. They had gotten one camera in on the truck yesterday and this was going to be the last one they were going to get ever apparently. It was all mine! 

This is a happy girl taking her first picture with her new camera!

Snow Day!

On Friday, February 7th Kefford and I woke up the kids at 7 so we could read scriptures and start getting ready for school and our day. It had snowed a lot during the night and Kenedy said she thought it might be a snow day with schools cancelled. I checked the district website and sure enough it was a snow day. Yay!

I took advantage of the kids being home and had them clean their rooms and help clean up around the house. Kefford did not have to go to work and so he shoveled our driveway and sidewalks  Ryker went with Kefford to the church to shovel the snow.  Kenedy went to her friends house and the other three spent some time in the yard before Avynlea left to go to her friends house. 

I stayed inside and kept warm. :)