Santa: “What is it that you want for Christmas”
Tyler: “I want a pogo stick, if you can find springs”
I just love the wonder and excitement of Christmas. Traditions of reading the Nativity, singing your favorite Christmas carols and the anticipation of opening gifts.
Can you tell that Tyler is into anything that keeps him moving. This year he got a mitt and a bating stand, a skateboard, and Santa was able to find springs and bring him a pogo stick.
My sister Lori and I planned and put together a Digital Scrapbooking retreat this past January. It was so much fun. We had ladies from, Idaho, Washington, and Colorado plus here in Utah come. We taught, had workshops on photo printing, journaling and photography and had a blast doing Speed Scraps, Bingo, and other challenges throughout the two days. We look forward to many more retreats.
It was so much fun to see 3 of our Creative Team members. Amy came from Washington, Sherri, came from Colorado and Brooke is from here in Utah. They design with the kits that we design so that we can show people the versatility.
Derick is in an advanced singing group called, Bona Voce. They did a fundraiser for Valentines Day and we were able to enjoy a nice dinner and entertainment. Derick, did a great job. He did a solo to the song “Somebody” from the show Glee. I didn’t know he could sing that high. I was a fun night.
Derick was Baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints, on November 30, 2002.
Grandpa Marchant gave a talk on being baptized, he gave all the kids that were being baptized a Key. Which represented that being baptized was one of the keys to returning back home to our Heavenly Father. Grandma Marchant gave a talk on, receiving the Holy Ghost. She made Derick a white blanket which represented the Gift of the Holy Ghost and how we can feel warm when we listen and feel the Holy Ghost. Uncle Doug and Uncle Chad sang, “I am a child of God” and Derick sang, “I want to be a missionary now.”
What a wonderful day it was for Derick to be baptized by Kirk, and to have family and friends there.
Kaitlin did our Family Home Evening lesson tonight. Which happened to be on Valentines day. She did a great lesson on showing love for others. And then she broke out her cake decorating supplies and we decorated Grandma Marchant’s Sugar cookies. Delicious!
I did this layout as part of February’s Quote challenge. When I read the quote, “If there is anything better than to be loved, it is loving.” I thought of my Mom and her selfless acts of service. My Mom is the perfect example of “Loving”. Always giving of herself. Thanks, Mom For the wonderful Valentine Dinner.
Derick and Shay played ”A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief” at my parents mission farewell. Wow, was it beautiful!
{This is obviously pictures of them practicing, as they wouldn’t go dressed like that to church.}
The only way that Kaitlin could go into Tyler’s “Fort” is if she was a boy. He had her dress in his clothes and
made her put a bandana on her head to cover her hair. I’d say she makes a pretty cute little boy, for a girl.
Summer of 2006 when we lived in the Foley Home.
This is a picture of the night Kirk and I decided that we were going to get married. I am so grateful to be married to this man after almost 20 years. Love you, Kirk. I also had to share this card that Kirk gave me this year. I just love it.
For Kaitlin’s Birthday Party this year she wanted to go roller skating. The girls really had a fun time. They all got a light stick to wear around their necks which was fun for them but also made it easy for me to tell where everyone was. All of Kaitlin’s friends sang Happy Birthday to her on the sound system.
The boys and even Kirk had a fun time skating. I was so worried that Kirk would fall and break something. I was quite impressed with his skating ability, he even won Tyler in a race around the rink. I put skates on, stood up after much struggle, sat down, and then took my skates off. I knew that I would break something if I skated. I had a class the next day that I had to teach so I didn’t dare risk falling and hurting myself. Maybe next time.
I made Kaitlin a rice krispie roller skate for her “cake”.
We had a great New beginnings tonight. It was based off of a news broadcast from CTR news. Talking about the great things that are happening with the YW of the Leamington Ward. The breaking news for the evening was that we had new Beehives that would be coming in this year and they were WANTED. So be on the look out. So much fun!
The kids and I were traveling back home from Cedar City late one night and stopped in Beaver for a little break. We’ve always seen this giant rocking chair but never took the opportunity to sit in it. Well we did just that this night. I was surprised at how comfortable it was. It reminded me of that old T.V. show with Lily Tomlin in the highchair.
This layout is of my texting conversation with Tyler.
Tyler: Hey Mom, are you on your way home yet? Text back to chat
Mom: We are still here I dont think we will come home till morning
Tyler: You should come home now because it is very boring here and Bella needs food and I want to do something with you. Grandma wants to know if u r at lori's or somewhere else?
Mom: we're still at our retreat
Tyler: Well you need to come home . Please
Tyler: ='(='(='(='(
Mom: I dont like driving in the dark.
Tyler: you won't have to drive home in the dark if you come home now. But you don't have to come if your having a good time. Are you having a good time?
Mom: We are having a great time.
Tyler: K but I needed help with my talk for church tomorrow, I don't even know what the topic is. R u gonna come to church tomorrow?
Mom: look in the conference ensign and find your favorite talk. did you have a favorite one from the priesthood session?
Tyler: I didn't have a favorite talk and I still don't know what the topic is.
Mom: If you weren't given a topic then you get to make up your own
Tyler: like what?
Mom: What about setting goals since it's the new year?
Tyler: I just got it all done it is titled how can we make prayer more meaningful?
Mom: Sounds great see you tomorrow. Love you
Tyler: I love you too=x=x=x
Tyler: Are you gonna come and watch me give my talk?
Mom: I wouldn't miss it.
Lori and I had our very first Scraps-N-Pieces digital scrapbooking retreat. We had a BLAST! I hope that everyone else did also. We played a bingo game, did a couple Speed Scraps, had a recipe challenge, and had 3 different work shops on photography, printing and journaling. Here are a few layouts that I did during the retreat.
This is what we did for our first speed scrap. A speed scrap is when you get 1 instruction every ten minutes for and hour. The one below is of my cute little kids in 2000. This is from the other speed scrap.
This is the layout from the Smoosh it up challenge. Which was when you get to see two different layouts and you pick things from both of them to make one layout. This is of Derick's very first date. He had such a wonderful time. He asked out Amy Wankier and they doubled with his two friends Dan and Becky.
This is just a layout that I did during our free scrapping time. Tyler was put in a dance class when we moved to Delta this year. He ended up being the only boy in the class with about 24 girls. Thank goodness Kylee Wardle was in the class. Tyler felt a lot more comfortable pairing up with her. Dancing wasn’t Kylee's thing either. At the end of the quarter they did a dance recital for the parents to see what they learned during the year. It was really great! They did a Hawaiian dance, a chair dance, the swing, and a improv dance. Isn’t he the cutest?
This last on is what I did mainly for the journaling. I am not a very good journaler at all. I am more of a Dick and Jane writer. I so much want to be better at it. Anyways, this is a layout of me and my great friend Lisa in highschool. Here is what it says: This morning I was sitting on the bus on my way to school when I looked down, and to my surprise, I had two different pairs of shoes on. I just couldn’t go home and switch so I had to spend the entire day as a JUNIOR in highschool wearing two different shoes. Granted, they weren’t totally different, but I was in highschool! I would put one shoe in my locker and leave one out, hoping no one would notice.
What a fun/embarrassing memory.
Christmas Eve is always such a special event. The kids shared stories and their talents. Dallin played the piano, Tyler and Kaitlin read us a Christmas story, Brynlee read us a cute little poem and Tyler ended with his talent of getting and Oreo from his forehead to his mouth only using his face muscles.
Grandpa Marchant then read us the Nativity from the New Testament and the kids opened their traditional PJ’s that Grandma Marchant made for them. What a wonderful evening.
