Zach The Boy Scout

Sorry it has been so long since I last put anything up. Hopefully now that we are moved in I will be able to be more regular on posting. About 3 weeks ago Zach became a by scout. Zach is having a lot of fun in boy scouts. about a week after we moved. Matt and Zach went on the Klondike campout. Zach had such a great time doing the races and camping out. Matt was a little cold. I did try to talk him into taking another sleeping bag :) Oh well. Zach is really looking forward to the next camp out. Here is Zach being presented with the troop number.

Zach taking the walk across the bridge from cub scout to boy scout.

I am feeling that we are almost settled into our new house. I will be glad when we are done with dentist and orthodontist. Isabella had to have two teeth removed. She did great. Zach will also be getting the bottom braces on this week. We also have an appointment with the neurologist for Zach next week. Josh is finally attending his primary class with out mom. Yeah! Josh is also enjoying play group with some kids from church.

Moving

I thought I would update everyone on why I haven't posted for awhile. We recently moved to Pennsylvania. We drove from Louisiana to Pennsylvania in three days. We have been in a hotel now for a whole week. It is getting really old. The movers called and said they are going to be a day late so we have to wait until Thursday to move in. Poor Matt that is also his birthday. I hope it all works out. I still haven't been able to get the kids into school because I don't have 2 proofs of residency. Hopefully next week. The joys of moving. I will post pictures once we get unpacked.

Josh

I thought I would update you on what each of the kids have been up to. I thought I would start with Josh. He has been enjoying speech and is really doing well. We also go to story time and go to the park for a play group(if it is to hot we go to Chic-fil-a. Josh loves it. He has also informed me that he doesn't want to go to school. I guess well have a little while to get him motivated. Silly guy.

Josh riding his dragon. We went to the zoo on the one Saturday Zach and Bella didn't have a soccer game. We had perfect weather (83 degrees) love it. Josh loved the fact about the Kimono dragon about if it spits on you it can kill you.

Josh loves finding interesting things to do at soccer games. On this particular day he was putting leaves on a stick. He also had to get the cute skeleton jacket.

Day at the park it was Read for the Record day. Curious George read The Snowy Day. They had several games for the kids to play. Here is Josh throwing "snowballs" through the hole. He had a lot of fun. We didn't stay long enough this year to see Hugo and the Hornet cheerleaders, but we did check out the Insectitarium exhibit. Josh was so into it. He loved watching the scorpions. It was pretty active.

Halloween

For Halloween this year we did Trunk-or-Treat at our ward on Friday and we just handed out candy on Sunday. I made a fun dinner of monster mashed potatoes along with a pumpkin bread pudding. For the monster mashed potatoes I made the potatoes into a circle and then put broccoli around the top for the hair and cut carrots for the eyes and corn for the mouth. This is one of Bella's favorites. Even though we didn't go trick-or-treating this year the kids had fun handing out candy and seeing all the fun costumes. We only had two trick-or-treaters come once the Saints game started.

Zach as a Storm Trooper.

Josh as a knight

Bella as a Gypsy. I took her a while to get use to wearing the eyelashes.

Matt dressed as a desert prince and Amy went as a witch to the ward party. Matt won a prize for the scariest costume. I should have taken a picture. I totally spaced it. Next year!

What We Have Been Doing

Sorry it has been over a month since I last posted. I have been busy getting back into the school schedule. The kids are now in school, and Josh is still doing speech. Josh is doing really well in speech he recently took another speech test and he scored in the average range for both articulation and sounds. He is also finally doing much better with the potty training. He can be so stubborn about it. Zach and Isabella are both doing soccer this year. I am ready for it to be over. The two games on Saturday is tough to handle along with the practices during the week. I think it would be fine if it wasn't so hot. Oh well, only 1 month left. Bella is doing the violin at school and Zach is learning to play the trumpet for band. He is doing great. We are also geat ready to start Zach's science fair project.
Matt and I have also gotten some more callings in the ward. Matt is now an employment specialist for the ward and I am now Isabella's primary teacher. We both still work at the store house also. As many have also heard Matt traded in his Mini Cooper for a Ford Mustang. Sorry I don't have a picture yet. The new car is pretty nice. Both Zach and Bella have gotten to ride in it. I still need to.
Here are some fun pictures of the kids playing some ping-pong. They like to play with everyone having a ball and a paddle at the same time. It gets pretty crazy.

Zach showing his awesome facial expressions.

Zach, Matt, and Josh, Matt took Zach to a preseaon game in August when the Saints played the Chargers. They got some great seats. Josh was a little sad he didn't get to go, but he can't quiet handle staying for a whole football game. Zach didn't even mind missing soccer practice.

First Day of School

It is school time again here in the south. It seems like summer goes by so fast. Here are some first day of school pictures.

Josh wanted to have his picture taken too. After we took the kids to school Josh went to speech. He is doing so good. He is currently taking and test to see how much he has improved. He loves his therapist. He is alsways wanting to go to speech.

Zach is in the 5th grade this year. He is also going to do band this year. He is going to play the trumpet. He is very excited about it. I love that he is going to play an instrument. I started in 5th grade with the flute and played through high school I really enjoyed it. I love that Zach is willing to play an instrument. Matt just hopes he gets his practicing done before 6:00. ( That is when he gets home).

Isabella is in the 3rd grade this year. She gets to do the morning announcments and moring meeting on Monday's and help with other things during the meeting. She loves this. She is also going to try the violin this year. She is also going to take soccer this year. I hope this works out. She still pracitices her ballet moves from last year, but she decided she wanted a break.

It is hard to believe that my baby is now 4. He is such a wonderful easy going boy. We are so luck to have him in our family. Josh wanted to have a dragon theme for his birthday. I bet everyone is surprised to here that:) He loved going to the store to pick out a cake.

Josh opened presents first. He got some Lego's ( he loves the little guys that come with them), Dino race track for cars and some dragons of course.

Here is a shot of the cake. It was a How to Train your Dragon cake. We had special sparkling candles. They were kind of fun.

Josh with his viking hat on. He wanted to have cake first. We tried to have him eat some dinner first but that really didn't happen. No wonder he has a hard time gaining any weight. He had a great birthday and loved the cards from everyone. He is looking forward to using his gift card from Grammy and Grandpa, Thank you.