Cub Scout Advancement

Thursday was pack meeting and Mason earned his Arrow of light and Aiden earned his wolf. Dallin helped out with the ceremony and did a great job acting as the great chief Akela. No picture of him only video. Here is Alaina wearing the chiefs hat after it started falling apart.

Junior rose parade

Alaina, Gideon and I got to go to the junior rose parade today. We even managed to stay dry. I thought Covington did an amazing job they were one of the best bands there.

If you click on the picture to make it bigger you can see Hunter he is in the middle in the second row.

I also got to see my nephew Nicklas play the trumpet as well he is the second trumpet from the end behind the drums.

A day at Sandy's

It was a beautiful day on Saturday and we headed up to La Center to clean out her car, cut some grass and have some fun. Here is Andreas Martinson on Todd's bike.

Nathan Martinson with Todd.
And Gideon who by the way loves the grass.

Truly Puzzled

I finally got Gideon to go 6 to 8 hours without eating at night and For about 4 days I was finally getting about 4 to 6 hours of sleep in a row. The last two days he has foiled my plans of getting good rest by not going to bed until 3 am. I can not figure this kid out. Last night at 2:30 I was trying to get him to go to sleep and something I did made him laugh and he spent the next 5 minutes giggling. That was more laughing then he ever does during the day.

Of course because of my lack of sleep Todd has been a saint and lets me sleep in in the morning by getting the boys off to school. This morning Alaina woke up and came in and told me to get up at 10:50. I jumped out of bed and started running around like crazy. I had on my calendar that two of the boys had a dentist apt. at 11:00. I called the dentist and asked if it was still ok if I bring the boys in only to discover I had it on the calendar wrong. There appointments aren't till next week. whew.

I think since it is Friday and his crying won't mess with Todd and work, my cute little baby boy is going to go to bed at midnight. I know he will be most unhappy about it but Mom needs to get to sleep earlier.

This is why I laugh when people say "I bet you have it all figured out," after hearing how many children I have. I always respond, "Well I would if they all came the same."

Gideon has me stumped!!

Memorial Day

I have been really behind in posting lately so I have a whole bunch of posts. I hope you enjoy them. Monday we went and cleaned and visited the graves of our relatives. This has been a tradition I have done since I was a kid and love it. We spent four hours traveling around to the different grave yards. The group is getting bigger. There were 30 of us this year traveling from grave to grave.

Alaina bit through her lip on Sunday and had to have one stitch. She was a trooper and didn't even cry. Although her eyes did water a bit when they gave her the shot to numb it. The doctor said she was better then even the big kids meaning the adults.

We start the kids riding motorcycles young.
Alaina enjoying her new umbrella from Grandma Kestner.

I had to post this picture because of how funny it was. I'll explain. Baby bunnies nurse once a day usually at night or early morning. As soon as the bunnies can jump out of the nesting boxes they try and nurse constantly. The mama's don't like it and are continually trying to hop away from the bunnies, kind of hard in a cage. Anyway this picture was taken on mothers day. This mama rabbit had it figured out. On mothers day she was going to take a few minutes just for herself.

Catch up

While I was in Florida my mom signed Alaina up for dance. It's the same dance I had Hunter and Dallin in years ago. She loved it!!