Grandpa and Grandma

My dad and step mom come down every so often with their 5th wheel and stay for a while. We had a fun time with them being here for 2 whole months. We have gone down to visit in their 'little house' to go swimming and just hanging out. They also made the journey up to visit us for Sunday dinner a few times as well. They stayed down in Mesa just a few miles East of the Temple. We thought it was funny that the South side of Main Street there were RV and Motorhome dealers and the North side was all the retirement parks. lol

We also met up with them at the Botanical Gardens when they had their free Tuesday. The girls had fun showing grandma and grandpa all the plants and flowers they liked. And we got to go into the butterfly exhibit too. This is the second year in a row for us to go in the spring time and Savannah tried desperately to get a butterfly to land on her, and no such luck...TWO YEARS IN A ROW! She was very sad since they landed on everyone else. Next time we will have to squeeze an orange on her skin to attract them I guess.

All in all we had a great time and I wish I took more pictures. Grandpa and Grandma are gonna head back North to Idaho and hope that spring is on its way up there.

Hello from Rapunzel and Flynn Rider

When I was at Walt Disney World back in February I got a little message to send back to my girls from two of their favorite characters from the new movie Tangled.

They both LOVE it, and Charlotte was excited that they know her name!!

Follow the link to view the little video. I couldn't get it to post on here.

HELLO FROM TANGLED

Girl Scouts

Troop 1460 at their first meeting at the beginning of the year

I think a few people got extra sick of me posting things about girl scout cookies on Facebook, so I think I will come back to my blog to write things. Then it isn't jamming up peoples main feed there.

Savannah officially sold her last box of cookies today. Chad took the remaining 8 with him to the orthodontist and they bought them all. Hooray! She sold a total of 237. She really wanted to get to 250 to get the next prize but oh well. Maybe I should be a good mom and buy another 13 boxes to hit it, but I don't need the extra dimples and my waist line is getting thicker from the 10 I already bought.

Girl Scouts have all sorts of prizes they get from selling cookies. So she earned, a cookie patch for her vest, a bandana, a kangaroo stuffed animal (they do a different one each year), a little clutch type purse, a tee shirt and a reusable grocery type bag to deliver cookies in. The next prize she wanted was a journal set. I am okay with her not getting it since she already has 3 different journals.

Two weeks ago her troop had a daddy daughter dance. A few of the mom's pitched it to get two limos so the girls could ride in style there. She was so excited and the limo was a surprise to the girls. They had a great time. They had a dance contest with the dad's and they would get tapped out. Well Chad made it to the final 3, then they brought the girls to dance with them. Chad started to swing dance with Savannah and they were crowned King and Princess of the Night. They did a victory dance to 'Butterfly Kisses', which Chad said was hard to not get emotional dancing too. They also got free pictures too. (I don't have them back yet).

Then they did a raffle. The tickets were $.50 a piece so Chad bought 10. There were 7 baskets to be won. They won 2 of them! One had a variety of past years cookie prizes and the other was a love sort of one, with chocolates, candles, etc.

With her Bestie Alexis

Savannah thought it was the best night EVER! I think for her it was too.

We are alive

Well it has been FOREVER since I posted last. Savannah is in the 1st grade and loving it. She is also a a girl scout and just finishing up selling cookies. She sold 237! She has had so much fun. Charlotte keeps saying she wants to be a daisy scout too. All in good time she will be as well.

Chad started a new job last month with Wells Fargo. He is a business banker at the Scottsdale branch. So if you need a loan, new account or whatever go to him :) He just finished up 4 weeks of training and will do 2 more at the end of the month. Chad has been going back to school online for almost a year now. Time to get that degree to help out with the job market. Better late than never right?

I have been busy with making aprons and also doing glitter toes. And of course being a mom. Charlotte is such a funny kid and keeps me on my toes during the day. I am also going to start the journey of finishing my degree as well. I have always had a nagging feeling that I need to finish. With only 30 credits away, it is so close I can almost spit on it. lol. So since Chad is going, I can actually get a grant to finish off mine. I should be able to finish off in 9 months. Once I take the introductory class I will be able to take 2 classes at once. They are 6 weeks each so I will be busy.

Here are a few pics we had taken in January, you probably all saw them on FB but I love em so I will put them here too.