Well it has been awhile so hang with me on catching up. Easter was great we all had a blast.
Preslie snuggled up with grandpa clark.

Stetson is very timid on his dirt bike which is fine with me but watching everyone else he began to get a little brave. He started to jump .

Kaylie rolling her Easter egg.


Tanner with his Easter loot.

Then lainee had her spring and end of the year dance recital. She loves to dance and loves being the center of attention.
Lainee with Grandpa and Grandma clark.

Lainee with Grandpa and Grandma MacIntosh (sorry the picture is blurry sometimes my camera will do that since the dirt incident (sheena).

Lainee with mom and dad.


Thanks to the Grandparents who both traveled to be there for their little lainee. She loved it and was very excited for the whole week before counting down the days until they could be there to see her dance. I know it is a lot to travel for an hour of time but it means the world to her and to us thanks we love both!!

And next was an early mothers day. Which totally surprised me. Ron always has me get what I want he never just goes and gets things so this shocked me and thrilled me and showed me how much he thinks of me and loves me. I have been wanting a kitchen mixer for awhile but will never break down and buy one. So while I was away working this week ron got a bonus check at work. Well if you know ron .usually if he gets money he has it spent before it hits the bank on something for hunting. But he took his WHOLE check and took the kids to wal mart by himself and gave them each five dollars to pick me out something. They all picked jewelery and tanner picked a twilight key chain. I loved every piece they picked they done a great job. Then they decorated these little brown bags and had their gift inside it. And ron picked out a mixer for me all by himself. When I got home the kids were itching to tell me I knew something was up but I was floored when I seen what they had done. ( the house was all cleaned too) I just started to cry. I was so floored and happy. It meant so much to me for him to put that much thought and time into me. Thank you ron I will never forget it. I love you so very much and I know I married the best one out there. Thank you thank you thank you!!! I love you !!


All my gifts. This was definitely the best mother day ever!!!

New post

I will be doing an update soon I am having trouble downloading from my camera. So next week i hope to get a new post.

To race or not to race?

OK so steph said I should do a post on our poor sports at the Pine wood derby. I have been so bothered by this that I think it is a good idea to just voice it. As you all know we are seriously into racing it is just deep in our blood. So when stetson joined boy scouts last year we learned everything we needed to know to produce a fast race car. Isn't that what every parent and their scout does. work hard on your car and take it to win. Whats the point of the derby if you don't try to win. I know you can't always win and learning that is good for kids. But don't you at least try? Well last year we took the car not knowing what to expect I was so worried that Stetson wouldn't win and would be heart broken I had the speech all prepared for afterward. But ... that thing was dirty fast and I mean dirty fast. no one could believe how that thing..I couldn't believe that thing! So as the year passed and we all forgot (OR SO i THOUGHT) life moved past the derby. Then as the new year came and went so did another derby approach. Stetson grew excited as it got closer and I took the exact same knowledge that I had and we helped stetson create another derby car.
So on derby night we again worried and I told stetson that if he didn't win it was ok. He was especially worried because all week the boys at school in our ward were harassing him and saying that they were gonna kick his butt this year. It was relentless all week long. everyday he would come home from school with things the boys had said. so I told him that he did his best and that no matter what it was ok whatever happened. Little did I know what we were in for. The parents were awful I don't want to go into a lot of detail but I felt like we were stoned. Stetson was threatened that if he won again he would lose friends and they tried to cheat him out of a race saying he had lost one and shouldn't be where he was. I fought that and then saying that where his car came of the track because the track had a bolt sticking up he should lose that race. We also fought that. It was incredible the way the people acted. Stetson did win first place again and I was so proud of him. he was ecstatic.
As we left stetson said mom I hope none of my friends will be mean and not be my friends anymore. I told him he should never feel bad about winning he should be very proud of himself and if someone wasn't his friend because he won them at something then he doesn't want those type of people for friends anyways. I was so mad about the whole thing.
So my dilemma do We:
1. Buy stetson out and not do the derby next year and take him to do something else fun.
2. Fix stetson's car so that he will lose to appease all the jealous sorry losers.
or
3. Take what we know and make the exact same car as we did the first year and this year and go to the derby and try to win. And to heck with the rest of them. If they can't take it then that's their fault.
That's what I think we should do. I don't want to teach stetson that you should not excel at something if it hurts others feelings. If it was baseball would he strike out because his friend did and he doesn't want him to get his feelings hurt? Their will be things some of his friends will be better at than him and vice versa. But is it worth all the drama of the people who would like to stone us out of the neighborhood and call us cheaters because we won the derby...
What your opinion. Put yourself in the situation and answer honestly.

Down and Derby!

Last week stetson had his Pine wood derby. He was so excited and tried really hard to put a good paint job on his car. He new it wasn't what he pictured in his head but I thought I looked great anyways. There were a lot more kids this year than last year so he was really nervous. This picture is really dark but his car getting ready to race. It's the black one with the green paint.

Another race. The car coming to the finish with a good lead. He is on the left. This was a good car one of the challengers but just not good enough.

Stetson and His first place trophy. He was so excited to take first place. I was so proud of him for winning and for his good sportsmanship. He congratulated all of his friends after wards on their cars.

AHHHH..... I am glad it's a full year before we have to do this again.

Same picture a few changes.

Thanks tiffany. I used her blog and got a few ideas to try. I am still learning but it is helping
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This is another one I am playing with.

Picture for steph

This is the picture. I would like to play with it still but this is the first draft. Let me know what you think. i think I will play with a few other pictures and different colors and see what happens. let me know if you find anything out. (me and steph just bought the adobe elements 7 an are trying to figure out how to change a picture to black and white or antique and then pick the colors out that you want to show up if any of you smart computer people know how to do this please let us know).

Vegas!!

We went to Vegas this past weekend for the Nascar race and to visit Ron's dad and step mom. We headed down about 7am on Saturday. We had told the kids we would take them up to boulder city to ride the train. They were so excited they could hardly wait. It was a really nice day and the train was really neat.

This picture is us in front of an old union pacific train.

Ron his dad and the kids in front of the train we were going to ride on.

They had an open car so we sat there for the first half of the ride it was really cool.

Then for the second half we went into the closed car. We wanted to experience them both. The kids were really excited about this they said that it was just like the one harry potter rode.

Just watching out the window.

Stetson kicked back.


Lainee and Grandpa relaxing.

Tanner chilling.

Me getting ready to head to the race!

The kids were staying with grandma MacIntosh. They were having a fun time playing dress ups. In fact lainee talked Grandma out of these cool hats.

At the race. Jr's car coming into turn 4 where we were sitting. We seen two really great wrecks in front of us and Jeff Gordon's tire blow. it was cool.

There's my man during driver introductions. He placed in the top ten. It was a great race they set a new track record for the most cautions. I love cautions because I love the restarts. It is so awesome to sit close to the track and hear and feel the rumble of the engines when they are starting out.

just a little video I did with my camera.

Thanks to grandma for taking such good care of the kids. They had a blast. They keep begging to come back. Every day it's can we go back tomorrow. And to grandpa for taking us on a train ride on Saturday they will never forget that. It was a great weekend and hard to come back to reality.