10 year Anniversary!

Yesterday was our 10 year wedding anniversary! The time has flown by. So, I thought I would share the ROMANTIC way we spent it. First, we went to Peter Piper Pizza for a soccer party. Then I went to book club for 45 minutes. That was followed by watching the Office (our favorite) and Survivor. Thank heavens for DVR. :) Are you all jealous?
Luckily we will be going to the temple on Saturday, not to mention our celebration cruise to the Eastern Caribbean coming up shortly.

Hereditary?

This weekend Ainsley decided to make some money. Using water bottles, food dye, water, glitter, and rose petals, she made "snow globes." She set up a stand outside our house and sold them for $1 a bottle. I've got to know if this trait is hereditary. Her dad used to sell homemade bread for $5 a loaf door-to-door, and from what I hear Grandpa Mike used to try to sell rocks to the neighbors. :) The Sims' great entrepreneurial spirit!
Brandon, however, is more like his mother. He not only helped her make them, but felt so inclined to spend all of his own money buying from her. He just wanted to make her happy.
I wanted to take a picture to post, but I think Ryan threw Brandon's 2 bottles away! I hope he doesn't find out!

Soccer Super Stars!

I know it's been a LONG while since I've updated, but I had to start getting organized again. Ainsley has had such a great soccer season this year. Her team was just invited to play at the ASU girls soccer game (during the halftime.) She was lucky enough to have grandpa and Lori here, too. Although it was an honor, it was actually an unorganized mess. If you know Ainsley, that is unacceptable. :) They played another team that was the SAME uniform colors (smart!) and didn't even have goals set up. "Pretend this line is your net." Also, they sent all 12 girls on both teams out at the same time. It was horrible, but so fun to watch! Ainsley is a fantastic soccer player and we are so proud of her. Those ASU girls are huge!

Brandon's team is called the Tigers. We make goals with the kids for every game and Brandon's are like touching the ball 5 times with your foot. Or not crying during the game. This last game he forgot all about chasing the ball. The opposing team was full of girls (unusual) and he was preoccupied with this. He kept chasing them and pushing them. He thought they were cute, I guess. He is learning and doing a great job!!!! We'll see if the January season holds more soccer for him. We're thinking of switching to baseball?

Thanksgiving Day

Thanksgiving was very fun this year! We decided to skip the whole turkey thing and go to Disneyland. We had a blast! Brandon is tall enough to go on all the rides now, so he and Ainsley had to do Space Mountain a few times (her favorite). Buzz Lightyear is still Brandon's favorite. It's a Small World is Whitney's favorite, especially at this time of the year when it's all Christmas-y. Ryan loved all except for Teacups. He hates the spinny rides. We thought Thursday was busy - that is until Friday came. Thursday was nothing. Friday was a mad house, but we were lucky enough to have Sally (Whitney's sister with us.) Saturday we got to see Cassidy (the kids' cousin) and the entire trip was just wonderful. However, a couple of months ago our friends wrote about their trip to Disneyland and how one of their kids threw up the whole way home. Well we laughed about that (sorry Britt!) and on the way home Ainsley started throwing up! I guess she and Cassidy ate a whole can of olives right before we left. I learned never to laugh at others misfortunes. Yuck!

Halloween

Okay, so it's been forever since I updated this thing. Sorry. I thought I would give a little update on Halloween. We had a wonderful trip to Utah, and loved seeing our family and friends. For Halloween, Ainsley was a Fairy and Brandon was Superman. They had fun trick or treating with daddy, but it wasn't the same without all the family home waiting. We always had our little party after and definitely missed it. (And Chili isn't the same when it's still warm out.)

Soccer and talents

Saturday was Ainsley's first soccer game. The score was something like 85 - 3. Ainsley's team is called the Pink Panthers and even though they lost, she was thrilled to make the last goal.

Brandon had a talent show at school. It was very low key. Some kids did smiling or sommersualts for their talents. Brandon wanted to show that he was good at sharing. He brought his favorite toy, but when he saw all the kids and their parents there, he got so nervous, he didn't do anything.

9/4/06 - Labor Day

This was a week of firsts for Ainsley. She learned to blow bubbles with bubble gum, whistle, and she counted to 1,000. That was really fun for Whitney to listen to all day long. :) School is going great for her. She is doing different classwork than the rest of the class because she is ahead. Friday was PE and they joined together with a class of 2nd graders and practiced hula hooping. Ainsley was the only one in both classes to do it (and she did it with two hoops!) Everyone was way impressed.
Brandon is just my happy boy. He likes to go grocery shopping with me and just hang out. What a sweetie. He went into the doctor for his swollen glands. They've been REALLY big for about 3 months. We are going to have to bring him into an ENT sometime this month.
We also let the butterflies go on Saturday. As one went flying happily into the distance a bird flew out of a tree and chomped it up. Thank heavens the kids didn't notice.
Whitney is busy getting ready for the Primary program this month. It's the chorister's busiest time of the year! Ryan was hoping to get a call in Young Mens this month but was sorely disappointed. The CubMaster was sent to Iraq and Ryan is now in charge of all the meetings. If you know him at all, you know this is WAY WAY WAY out of his comfort zone. I think it is hilareous. He's not exactly sure how to handle boys this age.