Logan's latest

Logan played his second year of Jr. Jazz and really enjoyed it.  He tried hard and really improved his skills.  Like Trevor was, Logan isn't very competitive when playing sports, but did enjoy playing defense.  His coach taught them how to stay in certain areas and pass the ball to each other, which helped everyone to be involved and have chances to shoot the ball.  Logan made a few baskets, most of which Pete missed seeing as the games started at the same time he got off work and Logan inevitably would score early in the game.  Pete did get to see one of them in the last game.  Kylie enjoyed cheering Logan and his team on.  And I enjoyed having a good camera and zoom lense to take pictures with (my new Nikon DSLR), since gyms are notorious for bad lighting and the bleachers are a bit away from the court.

Logan has also been busy with cub scouts since they started a Tiger den in the area this fall.  He has now moved on to the Wolf den, and lucky me (sarcasm), I'm his den leader.  This is my second time around as I was also Trevor's den leader for Wolves and Bears.  At least this time they have a manual that guides you with each den meeting so I don't have to come up with ideas on my own.  We have a full group of 8 boys, so I have my hands full.  Logan is of course the one who gives me the most grief during our meetings (now I have an idea how his teachers at school must feel...we've been having issues there lately as well). 

They had their Blue and Gold Banquet in February and had a cake auction fund raiser as part of it.  We made the following cake:

It was so easy, if the Boy Scouts have their annual spaghetti dinner and cake auction this year, we'll probably make the same one for Trevor to take.

overdue update

This post is long overdue, but sometimes life just gets busy....

Kylie got a new bed for her birthday, and we finally got the curtains hung and the new bedding on (which she promptly wrote on in PEN!), maybe someday we'll put a little paint on the walls too (but my room is first on the list).

Logan has been busy playing Jr. Jazz basketball for the first time. He really enjoyed practices and warm ups but was less enthusiastic about the actual games. He preferred to watch but did do well to guard his man and focus on the action when he did play.

A few of my favorite Valentines.

Pete & I rarely do anything special for Valentines Day, but this year we went out the night before just the 2 of us and had a very nice dinner. I love having Trevor old enough to babysit the other two.

Trevor has been busy with Scouts and just received the rank of First Class. They have a large group of boys and a wonderful scoutmaster. Pete goes with them on all of their campouts. The scouts just had their annual spaghetti dinner and cake auction. This was Trevor and Pete's cake, it won for favorite cake made by a boy.

Kylie just got her first official haircut last weekend. She did very well. I think girls are easier because they want to be pretty, are used to sitting still for their hair to be done, and no noisy clippers are used that could scare them. It turned out cute, a little shorter than I would have liked but that was due to her cutting one side of her hair herself weeks earlier so we had to go that short. Quite the sassy little 'do for a sassy little girl!