Bruce's Baptism

On Saturday our handsome Bruce was baptized.

We are SO proud of him!! 

This was the invitation-  

Here we all are before:  

 This was the table we had set up:

Cousins!

 For refreshments Bruce wanted doughnuts- LOTS of them so we brought a bunch from Paula's and Tim Hortons.  We also had hot chocolate and milk.

  

These are his good friends from school who came: 

LOTS and LOTS of ward friends came and we are so thankful for them.

My friend also took some pictures and I post them up later.

Valentine's Day 2013

We feel loved!! 

On Wednesday we hosted our 5th annual Cafe Rio Valentine Party- it was a lot of fun! 

                              James was excited to get so many valentines.

 On Valentine's Day we ate breakfast and the kids all got Valentine bags from Grandma Miller:

 At school Bruce had a ice cream party.                                            Kate got lots of Valentine's too

 I did Jane's hair in a heart:

 After school we picked up Grandma and Grandpa Damstedt from the airport!! We ate dinner and then went to Cold Stone (12 year tradition)

Happy Valentine's Day!

Jane's 1st Concert & 2013 Pine Wood Derby

Last week Jane played the violin in her first concert:

She did great! 

(She was also in the choir)

On Saturday night the cub scouts had their Pine Wood Derby.

Here's Bruce and his Rocket car:

B and his car:

It was a fun time!

Boys Pictures

About a year ago a friend of mine had a daughter turning 8 and she got her picture taken with snow all around- I loved it.  So I asked the same talented photographer to take pictures of Bruce for his baptism pictures.  

He's so handsome.

 

 

Plus- she took some of James:

 This is what Bruce was doing while James was having his picture taken:

 

and even made me get in some:

   

I love my 8 year old boy!

Thank you Laura! 

Golden Birthday Party for Bruce!

Bruce turned 8 on the 8th, but last night we had the party! 

We booked the pool at the local university and invited all the boys in his school class and old Tiger Cub Troop. 18 little boys ended up coming and we had a great time.  

They swam and then we came back to the room and ate Subway for dinner.  

Then we got to go jump off the diving boards.

  They ALL LOVED this so much and jumped for a long time.  We came back again, ate cupcakes

 

 and then everyone changed out of their wet suits.  Each boy got to take home a bucket of goodness:

 

  We were going to open presents at home, but lots of the boys wanted him to open them there. 

 

 He got WAY too much stuff (half of it is hidden away :) 

He wanted Josh to see this picture and maybe it would convince him to come out and visit... 

Happy Birthday Party Bruce! 

(Now we'll celebrate his baptism on February 16th and call it all good.) 

Weather (For the Record..)

I just need to remind myself how wonderful this winter has been so far.. 

On December 27th we had our first real snow- 

Last night it looked like this:

It was in the 60's over the weekend. 

Last winter it only snowed 2 times.  Some winters we had over 3 feet of snow in March.  

We'll see what happens..

Fishing Pole..

Bruce had been "patiently" waiting for a box to arrive from Grandma and Grandpa Damstedt.  Today after I picked them up from school we drove home and there is was. 

It was a very long, thin box... what you be in it?  A baseball bat? A stuffed alligator?  Lots of long licorice?  

Bruce took it inside and wanted to open it in private in the bathroom.  

He brought it out and was so excited- A FISHING POLE!! 

It also came with an awesome tackle box, homemade flies, 

and all sorts of other things. 

 He LOVES it!! 

Thank you!  Thank you! Thank you! 

This was the mess in the bathroom after: