Alina`s Baptism

My beautiful girl turned 8 on the 20th of July and she got to be baptized on the 14th of August. My whole family came out for this special event, along with James parents and sister Jacquie. We had so much fun finding the perfect white dress for her and I have a friend that lives in Winnipeg that has a flower shop, she custom made a flower band for Alina out of pink wire with little silk flowers and crystals on it. She was baptized here in the stake center with four others, I gave a talk on the holy ghost and yes I cried through it. After we had ice cream sundaes. Her best-est little friend was able to come and share this day with her too. We felt very blessed to have so much family there to support us.

Grandma`s 90th birthday party.

During August we got to celebrate my Grandma Moore's 90th birthday. It was a busy day as it was the same day that we baptized Alina. We tried very hard to make this a special day for her. We got as much of the family together as could come, had a nice little lunch and socializing time for her. Only my one uncle didn`t come (to bad for him thinking that he is busier then the rest of us!)I got family pictures of all the families with her and made them into a keepsake book, that I need to get to her. I made up a paper cake with jelly bellies inside them for the center piece. She told me how special she felt that we would go to all that work for her and it made me feel special too.

Custom dresses by lilblueboo

I have a couple websites that have become a religion to check out everyday, among them is a site called lilblueboo.blogspot.com She makes dresses out of t-shirts or jersey material. She does custom orders, screen print and sometimes finds great shirts and turns them into the most cutest dresses. Janelle is modeling her ladybug dress. The best part is that she loves to just play in it, and they are just great for that. I need to get a picture of Alina wearing hers and post it.

The spray park

We were lucky this summer to have my whole family come and celebrate Alina's baptism. It was a very special day for her, one I know she will remember for ever. Dustin and his family came out first so we headed to the spray park. It was one of those days when there were clouds in the sky and it would rain on and off but that didn't slow us. Now granted we didn't last that long being cold and all when the sun would hide behind the clouds but for the time we were there the kids ran , laughed screamed with pure joy and got very.....very wet. Even uncle Dustin got into the action.

A warm summer day hanging out

I love beautiful summer days when we can hang out together as a family in the backyard. This past summer we didn't have the hottest of days but when the sun was shining we did our best to be out there soaking it in. One of my happy memories was the day Greg and Janelle were double dutching on the swing set, their laughter filled the yard well Alina lazily vegged in the hammock. Spencer was busy puttering around and refused to let me take a picture of him. I think that this is how summer days should be spent.

My review of the Mockingjay

Since I moved out west I joined a book club with a great group from church. We go see movies together, go out for dessert together and read lots of books together. Now anyone who knows me well knows that I am one to speak my mind so I always have a lot to say about everything that we read. For September we read The Mockingjay the third book in the Hunger Games. I for one was very upset with how she chose to finish off this series, she had a main charter hiding around and never discovering herself. I didn't feel that she should end up with Gale or Peeta and thought that Katniss should have died in the end, I think that to often a author gets to involved with their characters and then has to find a happy ever after for all involved. The problem is that in this story I don't think there is a happy ever after. The capital is defeated and their districts now have to find a way to live after all the crap that has been their life up til now, all those kids that died through out the years, their everyday way of life is forever altered and yes I think for the better. I however think that Katniss went against the law in yes the only act that she thought trough for herself but should have had a rightful punishment. Yes if I was a teenager I might have been happy with the ending but I was left feeling unsatisfied.

Birds of Prey

My girlfriend Ang wanted to take her boys to the birds of prey center, and me being me wanted to go too. So off we went one beautiful summer day to check it out. It was amazing there, you could feed the ducks and watch a falcon fly for food, plus all the poor birds that can't ever leave because too much damage had been done to them. They had barn owls that you could hold along with a great horned owl. which was a whole lot of feathers and about 5 pounds of bird. Alina and Janelle needed help holding him up because their arms are so small that big of owl. My Spencer is more of sit back and watch kind of guy so he didn't hold or touch anything well we were there. The Court family is always fun and so I don't think my kids could of asked for a better family to spend the day with.