Scott Rides A Bike

After weeks of fighting with Scott's previous teacher, the assistant superintendent of the district was able to get the teacher to relinquish Scott's bike to his new classroom.

Scott loves his bike it is so much fun to watch him, and so exciting that he can actually petal. We are hoping to be able to borrow the bike from his school for the summer.

Happy Mother's Day

"Brutal" Dog Attack

Okay so maybe brutal is the wrong word since I did have a bite sleeve on, but it was still very freaky! I weas just grateful that the dog only attacked the bite sleeve and left the rest of me in one piece. My brother, Jason, was the guest speaker at Zac's Cub Scouts meeting on Tuesday. There are now eleven little boys in our ward that want to be police officers when they grow up. When Jason volunteered me to help demonstrate how his dog, Onyx, attacks bad guys, I refused. In a real emergency I would take great comfront in having my brother with me, but allowing his dog to attack me in an entirely different story. Another mom said she would do it, but when here three year old got scared I volunteered to take her place. Just another one of those things we do for our kids that I would have never thought would be required of me. Still, Zac got to be the cool kid with the cool Uncle with a police dog and a police car, not to mention a super cool and brave mom!





Jason did an excellent job with the kids. He even had one boy call 911 dispatch to report a fictitous emergency. If you happen to see and very large and very tall bearded man, with long red hair and pointing ears going around banging on people doors with a 16 inch knife, you too should call 911!

Pirate Ships, Carnivals, Foam Letter Mishaps, and the Election.

Brycen lately likes to turn our bed into a pirate ship. Of course he waits until the bed has been made and then very sweetly asks is he can mess it up to turn it into a pirate ship. What's a mom to do? It is important to let him develop his imagination after all.




These may look like common foam letters, but they are actually very costly. Just three of these letters cost $240! Well, okay, if your son, named Zac, tries to use them as target practice in the toilet and then flushes them down, it will cost $240 to have a plumber come remove the toilet, turn it upside down and shake the letters loose and then reinstall the toilet. Never a dull moment I tell you! (Just to let you know, those are not the actual letters that spent a week lodged in our toilet)








On a happier note, Brycen's school had a fun Spring Carnival this past Saturday. Zac with thrilled that cotton candy cost just one ticket. Brycen spent much of the time in the bounce house. I was hoping to score big during the raffle, but no such luck. I must admit there is a snobby little part of me that really enjoys going to elaborate private school parties. I guess what is really nice, is that no one is actually snobby at the school. They like us even though we don't drive BMW or Lexus!





Brycen and Zac both refused to ride the horse until it was time to go home, then suddenly they became quite brave. They both absolutely loved it. Zac's lovely pink balloon did get caught in a tree however. Lance seemed quite pleased to be rid of the girly balloon.



Zac and Nana watching the Broadway Bound performance.



Zac wrote an adorable essay about the qualities a president should have. To sum it up:
A President should be able to read and write. He should wear a shirt and a tie and if she is a girl she should wear a suit. He should be pretty smart and he should let it be known all across the country that people should listen to their parent and be independent workers.

Sounds pretty right on to me!