MS Walk 2009

This is a video of Zack, Nicole, Madison, Kenzie and Colton at the MS Walk on April 11th. The website: iwalkbecause.org helps those who cannot attend the walk feel as though they are a part of the walk and can see the difference that we are all trying to make. Our team logo was the MS fighters so the kids decided to say that they are fighters and it is the reason that they, and all of us were walking that day. We hope that there will be a cure for MS in the near future, not only for our very own Mike Cravens but for all those who are affected by MS.

Homemade Wheat Bread

Ever since I attended one of my good friend Jackie's bread making class, I have been determined to never buy store bought bread ever again. I do not have my own wheat grinder yet, (although I will be getting one soon) so I had Jackie grind me some wheat (thanks Jackie). Here is how my first batch turned out. It was a great success! Not as good as Jackie's but good enough to continue making. It probably could have been better if I had the fancy Bosch mixer but until my Kitchen Aid blows up, I will continue to make it this way.

Babysitting

We got the opportunity to babysit our little nephew, Trey, overnight on Saturday, April 4th. As being the Auntie, I got to spoil him by giving him this yummy sucker. He is enjoying this a little too much. We had so much fun with Trey this weekend and can't wait for him to come over again.

2009 National MS Society Yard Sale

Our Yard Sale for the National MS Society was a great success!!! We made $600.61!!! It was AWESOME!! We had a lot of people come to help, and a lot of buyers that came to buy. We sold almost everything. We only took Scott's truck and Mike's truck to Deseret Industries with all of the items that didn't sale. It was so much fun and felt so good that the money is going to a good cause. Thank you everyone who came to help and support!

MS Fighters

We are doing a yard sale at our house (3397 South 2700 East) tomorrow, March 28th from 9am-2pm. All of the proceeds are going to the National MS Society in honor of Scott's brother, Mike, who was diagnosed with MS almost 2 years ago. If you can come, please do!!! This is our team logo and shirt that we will be wearing for the MS walk on Saturday, April 11th. For more info, I have attached a MS link just under CUREMSUTAH.ORG (which is the Utah MS website)if you want to get more information about MS or the walk in Salt Lake City, UT.

Happy Birthday Michael!!!

Uncle Michael (which is what our kids call Michael, Jennifer Ellen's husband) had his 35th birthday on March 25th. We missed the party but made up for it the next day with this yummy homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing. We love having Michael as a part of our family. Here's to many more years to come.

Kenzie's 3rd Grade Science Fair Project

Kenzie had her first Science Fair Project in the third grade. She put nails into different liquids and over a one week period we watched to see which liquid produced the most rust on the nails. We put the nails in Diet Pepsi, water, Hydrogen Peroxide, Rubbing Alcohol, milk and orange juice. Water made the nail rust the quickest but it was kind of gross with the Diet Pepsi. It not only rusted the nail, it ate away at too. GROSS!!!
It was a pretty fun project! I can't wait for next year with Colton's Science Fair Project! It is a mystery what we will do.

Beautiful Arizona Sunset

The sunsets are soooo beautiful in Arizona. Here is Kenzie in Chad's back yard with the amazing sunset in the background.

Arizona trip

Scorpion hunting

We went on a scorpion hunt in Arizona. We found eight scorpions and kept two. We would find them by using a black light. It makes them glow in the dark. Here is a picture of the glowing scorpions. YUCK!!

Me and baby Ashton

Here is little baby Ashton. He is sooooo cute!! He looks like both his mom and dad. (At least that's what I think)

Lots of fun at the pool!

Here is Kenzie chillin' out at the clubhouse pool!

On Chad's boat in Gilbert, AZ

Here is Kenzie and her cousins, Sabrina and Sierra on the boat.

Kenzie in Gilbert, AZ

If it wasn't swimming, it was fishing. She is wearing the hat because it was 90 degrees and she got a little sun burnt the first day.

Arizona

Here is Colton at the Club House pool in Gilbert, Arizona. The kids had so much fun!! They just loved being at their cousin, Chad and Bridget's house. We all went down to support Samantha who is being deployed to Iraq. It was so good to see her before she leaves, we will miss her.

This has been another busy week!! This is Kenzie with her mobile book report that she presented in class on Wednesday. The book she chose was, Georgia the Guinea Pig Fairy. We had fun coloring and hanging all of the pieces for the mobile report. I am sure that she did a great job as usual.

This is Kenzie on her birthday as "STAR STUDENT" in her class. We got to do a fun poster of some pictures of when she was growing up. This way it makes going to school on your birthday a little more fun. She did get checked out early to go get a pedicure and a manicure though. (How spoiled is she?)

Here is Kenzie blowing out all 9 of her birthday candles. She turned 9 on March 2nd. Yep, that's right only 2 days after Colton's birthday! It is so fun to have Colton and Kenzie's birthdays so close together!! Colton loves being the same age as Kenzie for 2 days, he feels so grown up. Kenzie doesn't like it that much though. She likes being the older sister.

Colton wearing his Happy Birthday Glasses and making a funny face!!

Here is Colton blowing out all 8 of his birthday candles!!!

Colton turned 8 years old yesterday (February 28, 2009). I can't believe that our baby is 8!!!! We had 10 boys and 2 girls over for a birthday party and played lots of games. This game is where you are blind folded and use a spoon to transport as many cottonballs from one bowl to another. It looks easy but is actually pretty hard. The cottonballs are so light that you can't tell if you have one in your spoon. The most cottonballs that anyone had moved into the empty bowl, was 2. It was really fun to watch an empty spoon be put into the empty bowl over and over with the kids thinking that the spoon was full of cottonballs.

We had the fun opportunity to see Celine Dion in concert at the Energy Solutions Arena on February 22, 2009. We had the tickets since they went on sale in November of 2007, so it was a long time coming. It is the second time we have seen her in concert and we still love her. She has such an AMAZING voice!! We did have some additional entertainment this time though. We had this guy in front of us that had long hair and was just rockin' out to Celine Dion. We just laughed and laughed. Who knew that Celine Dion was hard core rock 'n' roll?? We must have missed the memo. It was really fun seeing him rock out though. Lots of fun memories!

Here is Colton posing after his victorious races at his first Cub Scout derby competition. Colton took first place 3 times out of 4 races. Scott and Colton spent several hours working to make his derby car look just right. It was so fun to watch and see how intense the derby competition can get and there is already talk of what the next derby car will look like.

Kenzie had the fun opportunity to serve hot lunch at school for the first time. She wouldn't even take time to look up at the camera to smile because she says that she was too busy putting cookies in each basket. Keep up the great work Kenz!

On Valentine's Day every year (for the third year running), we decorate the kitchen really fun and have a fancy dinner with the kids. Since our anniversary is so close to Valentine's day, it is so exciting to spend Valentine's day with the them and see how excited they get. They now look forward to it every year and we are so glad that we started this fun tradition.

This year on February 10, 2009, we celebrated our 10th anniversary. To celebrate we spent 4 days in Sunny California (although when we were there, the sun was not so much there). We did lots of shopping and for some excitement, we went to Six Flags, Magic Mountain Amusement park. We had so much fun and can't wait to spend many more years together. This is a picture of us, when the sun did decide to show, at Manhattan Beach.

A little family GUITAR HERO!

Our Sunday afternoon consisted of a little family Guitar Hero World Tour!!
We are just having too much fun! (We are still on the easy setting but it is still soooo FUN!)

PTA Fun

On Friday, January 23, our Elementary school, Upland Terrace had the opportunity to decorate checkstand #5 at Harmon's grocery store on 3300 South 1300 East. Our school has the chance to earn up to $1,500.00 on February 10, 2009. (It is based on how much money customers spend that day)
I was the lucky one to make all of the decorations for a GO GREEN theme. Here is how it turned out. My sister, Laena and my cousin, Sabrina helped me set up. It turned out to be a lot of fun! So if you have a chance to go on February 10th to support the Upland Terrace PTA, that would be great!
GO UPLAND TERRACE!

What a fun way to start off 2009! We had so much fun sledding!!!
Scott was the one behind the camera this time.

We started the day off by sledding, then we went to a movie and afterwards we played Boggle all night long (which is our newest favorite family game).

2009 New Year's Day Sledding Trip