We aspire for greatness

It seems to me that for a while products were being shrunk..ie mini oreos, mini nutter butters, dips ice cream. We lately my kids and I have noticed the new trend is making things bigger. The other day at Bashas we saw the biggest bag of huge marshmallows. We are talking the size of 4 jumbo marshmallows together. I suppose they will make big graham crackers now so we can make gigantic smores. We also found giant cheetos cheese balls. My son took it upon himself to see how many he can stuff in his mouth. He holds the Bailey family record of 4. I am sure his dad could beat that but it's just not that appealing.

what a ham

We went to the summer movie yesterday. Harkins has a great deal for the summer. 10 movies for $7.00.... Any way we saw Madacasgar 2 and it reminded me of this video I took of Nickola over spring break doing her Alex the lion impression from that movie. If you have seen the movie you will get it if not just enjoy.

Just had to share this cake

We had a swim party here to celebrate the end of the Rockhounds Season and I just had to share this wonderful cake that one of the boys grandmas made. Each player and name is made out of white chocolate candy. It was amazing

Dry ice fun

Well when I got back from Scout camp, I had extra dry ice from taking ice cream to camp so the kids and I decided to have alittle fun. I got this idea for preschool. Fill a container with warm water and add dish soap (you can add food coloring but I haven't tried that yet) and then drop in the dry ice. It causes lots of bubble and when you pop them the smoke comes out. It is very cool.

THis is before we added the soap


This is after

Scout camp

Now that we are back from LA and finishing up baseball, Zackery and I got the chance to go to Cub Scout Day camp. We had alot of fun. I got to go all three days and we had wonderful parents come and help each day. They learned knots, did games and obstacle courses, skits, shot bb guns and did archery, swim, crafts and water fights. They are great kids and it looks like they each had a great time. Zackery is quite the bb gun shooter. He has wonderful aim! I also got to shoot some arrows (one of my favorite things to do) I learned when i went to girls camp as a youth.

What a face...nice and wet


I got a bulls eye!

Crystal, me, Rush, Linda and thanks Branden for all these great pictures

The Bears balloon skit

Learning our cheer. Cub scouts is all about cheers!

Running through the mud during the obstacle course

Rockhound Rock!

Conner and Zackery played baseball this last spring. Zackery was on the Cubs and they did okay. It was a learning experience for everyone since he played his first year of minors (kid pitch). He has a beautiful swing and a good eye but he rarely hit the ball in a game, he is really timid still. He had fun playing and wants to be a pitcher so we will work on that for next season. Conner played his first year of Coach pitch and Darin was his coach along with Zackerys assistant coach. They went undefeated all season and lost in the semi finals. It was a hard blow for everyone. Darin was chosen as manager of the year at closing ceremonies for being such a great coach!! We can't wait to bring our team back next year for another shot at the title!!

blog phobia

I have sat down many times with my head full of events and happenings but can not get myself to blog them. I think I am in a funk.... I haven't even looked at anyone elses I just can not do it. So I am making myself sit and post so bear with me over the next few days until I get it all recorded for posterity!!