instagram pics

Here's a few of my recent Instagram pictures (by the way, I'm @hope2adoptbaby on IG).

I went with my parents to a BYU hoops game.  It was a great game, but BYU fell short.

We celebrated my birthday with dinner at Johnny Rockets and treats from Sweet Tooth Fairy.

We've been painting.  We got the family room done, and now are working on the upstairs hall.

(I hate tape that peels...so annoying!)

 

This is by far the cheapest I've ever gotten out of Costco.  

For real.

Its finally spring!  Hallelujah!

 

I did dental health classes to all of the 1st grade.  We talked about brushing, flossing, etc. and I made these toothbrush charts for all of the kids.

 

Bosten and I had a lunch date.  He loves Costa Vida, and he and Daddy got me a gift card for my birthday.

 

Looks comfy.

 

kaden's baptism

This cute little boy got baptized on Saturday.

We just missed our stake's day for February, and it was a long wait until March.

He's been pretty excited and a little nervous about the whole thing.  We got to the church a little early so we could take a couple of pictures and get dressed.

He was pretty excited by those who came to be there and those who participated:

Mimi and Papa (Mimi bore her testimony)

Bluths

Sheffields

Lagas

Grandma (gave closing prayer)

Ryan and family (Ryan and Tanner were the witnesses)

Ottleys

I don't know why I don't have any pictures of anyone else.  Weird...and a little lame.  There's a picture of Grandma and Kaden on Facebook, if we're friends.

When it was time to do the actual baptism, he got a little freaked out by everyone looking at him.  It probably was only a minute or two (but felt like at least an hour), before we talked him into closing his eyes so he didn't see people watching.  Kyle turned his (Kaden's) back to everyone, and then he was good to go.

He had a huge, happy smile on his face as he was getting out of the water.

Kyle did the confirmation, with Ryan, Papa, Cory, Logan, Dave and Bro. Homer in the circle.

We had cookies at the church.  He thought having everyone over to the house would be too loud and crowded and crazy.  Cookies were good.  

We are so proud of him.

happenings

Bosten and I worked on a project together last week.  

I needed to get this quilt hung on the wall. 

Bosten took a couple of pictures of me holding it up so that I could see a couple of different heights.  They were blurry, but I wish I wouldn't have deleted them.  They actually were pretty helpful, blurry and all.

Here it is:

 

Pretty good work.

Bosten was really sick for about a week.  They thought it might be pneumonia, but thankfully it wasn't.  

 

Our little helper making pancakes.  He thinks he's big stuff doing it pretty much on his own.

 

This is a big week for Kaden.  He's getting baptized on Saturday.  

 

We are so proud of him.  

mission call

My parents got their mission call on Thursday afternoon.  

They waited until everyone could be there before they opened it.

 

They were called to the 

Adalaide Australia Mission

reporting July 8, 2013

Everyone is pretty excited.  Kaden is super excited because he wants to go visit them and see real kangaroos.  Bosten wants to go on a big airplane.

swimming and celebrating galore

There are three February birthdays on my side of the family, so we decided it would be fun to go swimming to celebrate.  

Here's the group.  We were missing the twins (obviously) and one more.

They had a great time, and it was even more great that a couple of the Dads swam too.

We went back to my parents house for pizza and cake/ice cream afterwards.

This year the request was chocolate cake and chocolate frosting (homemade) and minecraft cupcakes.  

He is really into Minecraft, and was thrilled to open this from Mom and Dad:

I'm not kidding when I say he's worn this almost every day.  Uncle Ryan made him a minecraft shirt too, so between both of them he's worn one or the other every day.  Funny kid.

hanging out

I'm not officially taking a picture a day this year, but I guess looking at what's on my phone lately is kind of the same thing.

Bosten has been on an apple kick lately.  He doesn't want it cut up though, he wants it big so he can eat it with two fingers.

We've been having a lot of movie/popcorn/snuggle nights.

 I switched days to volunteer at school.  Now Bosten and I go on Thursday mornings.

We had "baby oranges" for lunch one day.

 

Kade lost another tooth.  Pretty exciting!

 

Kaden is obsessed with Minecraft these days, and really wants a Minecraft birthday party.  They don't have any birthday supplies, so I made my own.

 

Bosten and I made treats for Valentines Day.

 

Bosten informed me he was full "up to here" so he couldn't eat any more dinner.

We went to the temple to take pictures of this cute little boy for his baptism announcement/invitation.  

We haven't decided which one to use yet, so you get to see the goofy one for now.

eight is great

 Happy Birthday, Kaden!

Its crazy to think that 8 years ago today you were this little.

It seems like yesterday that we got "THE call" and rushed to Utah to meet you.

Here's 8 things you may or may not know about our favorite birthday boy:

-His nickname is Shuggie/Shuggs

-He has a very tender heart

-He loves babies

-His favorite foods are salmon, broccoli and ribs

-He is crazy about Minecraft

-He hates jeans, as in won't wear them

-He knows more about my iphone than I do

-He's excited to get baptized in a couple of weeks

We've been celebrating his birthday all weekend. 

We are so grateful that he's in our family.

Happy Birthday, Shuggie!  

We love you!