This was Hayden's very first pinewood derby.
Hayden placing his car on the track.
Do you see the black blur! That is Hayden's car. This was the only picture that I caught it in. Most of the time it zipped through so fast that I missed it. 
Hayden waiting anxiously at the finish line. He was so excited. He and the other boys had so much fun tonight.
Hayden being awarded 1st place. He received a black hat with a racing flag on it also.
This is the new floor. Kassidy has fun riding her little bike around on it. I have fun sliding across it in my socks. Kassidy and I play a game doing that. I am trying to pick out some rugs and that will end the sock sliding. Darn! We absolutely love this floor. It goes from the entry way through the kitchen to this little family room and then down the hall to the 3 bedrooms. 
Hayden was in Star Wars Heaven when this Storm Trooper came walking down the street. How awesome is this costume? He looks like he was in the movie. He said that he ordered it and it was quite pricey. I bet, but it was so cool!
These are a couple friends from work. Laci is a Vampire (Twilight fan), Carlen had this shirt on that the heart blinked. She thought it was funny because she has a pace maker. She had me write on the heart and it said, "Carlen's pace maker." Then there is me and I was supposed to be Pippy Longstocking.
Jasmine loves to cook and bake. Seems like she must take after someone that I know. She is in a foods class at school and she is keeping her own cookbook. Her assignment was to make churros and then present pictures to her class. She is going to be a great cook.
Pat always has to give a crazy pose for a picture. Rocker and tounge hanging out like the rolling stones. Hayden just looks like he is trying to stay warm. I like the tax train in the background. I think that looks really cool. They also got to witness a bunch of cops with their guns drawn out yelling at someone to get out of the car and walk slowly backwards. That's a lot of excitment for one night.
Last night Pat took the well children downtown to Temple Square to see the lights and take a carriage ride. We were all dressed and ready to go when I kissed Kassidy's head and she was burning hot. Dabnabit! Everytime we have planned to go someone is sick. Back on the 8th Kassidy threw up, then a week later Jesika puked and then this last Thursday Hayden threw up. Kassidy is running a high fever with no other obvious symptoms. This must be something new that has nothing to do with what we have already had. I ended up staying home with Kassidy and watching movies. 
One night I told Kassidy to go to bed and when I went to go to bed myself, I found her in my bed and she climbed into Pat's pajama pants and fell asleep. Although it is no surprise that she went to my bed instead of her own.
Today is Jasmine's birthday. 14 years ago at 12:10 pm my first baby and my first little girl came into my life. How I anticipated her arrival and dreamed of what she would be and look like. She is everything I dreamed of and more. She is growing up to be such an amazing young woman. I am her Mom but we are also friends.
Jesika had this great idea to trash Jasmine's room for her birthday! She stringed it with yarn and toilet paper. We heart attacked it. Jesika also hung up before 14 and after 14 photos of Jasmine. It was funny because the after 14 picture was of an old woman with huge over sized glasses on. Jazz's first reaction when she walked into her room was, " WHAT THE HECK!"
This is a better shot of her room. 
Pat asked her what she wanted for breakfast and she said, "cakes" (pancakes). He made her pancakes and sausage. 
We had cupcakes with creamy melted chocolate center and of course, CHOCOLATE FROSTING!!!The other night Hayden decided to play guestures. I had to grab the video camera to show everyone my funny little Kassidy. She cracks me up! She has such a fun and zanny personality. Hayden is quite the crack up also. He is every bit as funny as she is. They play together so well. Everyday Kassidy can't wait for Hayden to get home from school.
I have four kids and it ends up that our first visit to get stitches is my baby Kassidy!
Her and I were riding around the block on scooters having a great time. Kassidy kept telling me to go faster. I kept telling her to be careful. On our third trip around she wiped out. She hit the sidewalk and kind of slid a little forward. My heart sunk because I knew there was going to be damage I just didn't know what kind. I wasn't expecting this. I thought maybe a broken tooth (I hope not), or bit lip or tongue. After comforting her I looked at her mouth and when I didn't see any blood there I looked lower. There was a deep red line on her chin and then I saw the gash! I picked her up, left the scooters of course and ran for my house.
Her neck was covered in blood and so was I by the time I got to the house. My sweet neighbor Amber drove us to the Dr where Kassidy ended up with 5 stitches. She was so brave. She hardly cried and she laid so still while the Dr stitched her. She got an Oreo sundae for being so brave and the Dr praised her for being so good and gave her 3 prizes. The Dr said the last 3 year old she stitched up kicked and screamed the entire time. Kassidy said ouch and whimpered a little when they stuck the shot in to numb the area. That is it! Today she has had Motrin twice for pain. If you ask her if her chin is better she will say, "not yet." I have had to remind her a couple times not to pick at the stitches. What a trooper. She is fascinated with the pictures because it is the only way she can see what it looks like.
I took Hayden to see the eye DR. and found out that he can't see all that well. I think he could only read about the 2nd or 3rd line down from the big E. He's still a handsome little guy in his glasses.
Pat and I went on Hayden's class field trip to the zoo the end of last year. It was raining that day. Kassidy was excited to see all the animals also. There favorite thing was this big metal elephant that makes these noises when you touch it. Hayden said it was farting and then he'd laugh so hard I thought he was going to fall over. Typical Boy!
For Hayden's birthday back in May he went bowling at Fat Cats. The boys were very silly and did so crazy bowling that got the ball stuck in places that it shouldn't have been. From left to right is Garreth, Wyatt, Connor and of course Hayden.
Hayden's first grade teacher Mrs. Anstadt who is the best ever! She was a true wonder for my little boy. She loved him and he knew it. Even tonight he was crying telling me how much he misses her. Thank you Mrs. Anstadt! The picture to the right is Mrs. Ashton she was Hayden's reading teacher. She also loved him and kept him in the program a little longer than he needed because she didn't want to let him go. She shared with me how unique and how much he stood out and what a sweet boy he is. Thank you to such wonderful educators that blessed Hayden's life. I will forever be grateful. The world needs more teachers like these!
The Kids and I went to a free concert in Park city. The music was okay. It was free after all. You can't expect much. We had fun making silly faces. We had to ride this tram type thing from the parking lot to were this area is. The kids thought that was fun and Jesika and jasmine kept trying to get me to let ride it down and back up. Of course the answer was NO!
Jasmine & Jesika lighting thier sparklers with Hayden in the background. They were dancing in the street.
We partnered our fireworks with one of our new neighbors and had a great display. We were trying to see how many we could get lit at once. At one point we had about 4 going at once.
