THE PEARCE FAMILY: November 2008

TOP TEN OCTOBER 19TH-31ST

10. Jaxon has a field trip to the firestation. Grin goes with them and becomes the hero of the class the whole class insists on holding his hand while they walk, the girls decide to call him tall man so everyone did. He stayed and ate lunch with them and played at recess becoming the human jungle gym for practically the whole 1st grade. Jax at some point turned to his dad and wispered " Dad you famous". He then after school ran home as fast as he could so he could tell me all about tall man and the success of the day. Their are a lot of reason's having Grin gone on the weekends that drives me crazy but Jaxon or my self wouldn't have traded that day for a hundred Saturdays. I love that he gets to experience such fun interaction with his dad. However I will now and for ever be the "boring one" oh wait that has always been my title:)
9. Gavin and Ella go to play group in there costumes they were so excited
8. Grin wins another football game in Logan I thought we were done but I guess we just start playoffs this Tuesday.
7. Jaxon's school has a halloween carnival. I had to take the kids without grinner he was working they had a blast and played tons of games and won tons of prizes. They do an awesome job puting it together. It reminds me of the carnivals in the good old days at Barratt Elementary. Except the food I remember great loving the sloppy joes at Barratt. Burton's dinner has something to be desired. One slice of cold pizza and a warm can of coke. yikes
6. I get my house cleaned thanks to Grinner just in time to have the family over and mess it up again. However the guest bedroom finally got cleaned up after being the kitchen storage room thank goodness for having company.
5. The kids have a ball trick or treating (see halloweeen post)
4. the whole family stay over night at my or my sisters houses and we have a suprise breakfast for my mom's 64th birthday. WOW!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
3. I sleep in an miss my run becuase my family keeps me up till 2 am watch some show called Ransom. very intense
2.. I spent the whole day saturday trying to get my flyers done for the vendor bender you all should come!!
1. I teach young woman's "loving ourselves" now I am off the hook for 10 weeks yeah the best part about having such a small young womans.

UPDATES ON THE VENDOR BENDER

FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR CHRISTMAS SHOPPING

Introducing the “Vendor Bender”

Saturday November, 8th 2008 10am-2pm
Kristie Pearce’s Home
938 Raymond Road Fruit Heights
547-0163

What better way to spend a Saturday morning than to hang out with friends, eating good free food, playing games and getting all of your Christmas shopping done at the same time. So bring your friends and check out all of these great unique products.
There is sure to be something for everyone on your list.
If you can’t come and would like to order product please visit the websites and contact the vendors individually. Web sites and contact information are listed under each vendor. The shows will all close Wednesday November 12th 10pm.

PAMPERED CHEF: Absolutely fabulous kitchen items including the must haves the chopper, (I can't function without mine), baking stones (everything comes out so evenly baked) all in one measuring cups (only one cup to wash), and so many more. The perfect gift for mothers, daughters sisters, and of course those men in our life who love to cook (bless them all!) visit www.Pamperedchef.com contact Teresa Winegar at terrifickids5@msn.com or 801-784-2223 Pampered chef demonstration 11-11:30am
CLOSE TO MY HEART: Stamps with acrylic blocks. They are great because you can see where you are stamping! And they take up so much less room great for those scrap bookers, and card makers on your list. Visit www.closetomyheart.com contact Mary Champlin at bemarymaker@yahoo.com.

SENTSY: Wickless candles, a fabulous way to make your house smell wonderful without the worry of hot warmers or fire. www.scentsy.com/amandaday you can order straight from her website or contact her at newmomamanda@hotmail.com or 801-302-7889

SIMPLY FUN: Tons of fun, different games for the people on your Christmas list who love games and a unique variety that you can’t find on the store shelves. geanettebrown.simplyfun.com contact Geanette Brown at 801-390-0943.

USBORNE BOOKS: These are my favorite books, they teach your kids lots and are so fun to read. My favorite are the touchy-feely board books (I have collected most of them all) and the picture books.(stories like “What’s under the ground” teaches kids what they will find layer by layer under the ground until you come out on the other side of the world). My kids love them and they have tons of easy reads for Jaxon to read himself. Plus older kids chapter books, Internet linked Encyclopedia’s to help all ages with there homework and so much more. www.ubah.com contact Melissa Bain at (801)450-2430
DISCOVERY TOYS: FUNDRAISER Toys will be sold at their cost- no shipping or tax added to price- all proceeds benefit The Pingree School for Children with Autism- My Friend Amanda will be running this fundraiser she is giving her discount to you in order to sale as many toys as possible and earn free toys for her neighbor Tricia Nelson whose son, Riley, attends the school and was diagnosed with Autism at 18 months- he is now 6. She is hoping to supply his class and the school with many wonderful learning toys. A great way to help these kids and still get your shopping done at a discount! www.Discoverytoys.com contact Amanda Day at newmomamanda@hotmail.com or 801-302-7889

Fun Filled Halloween!

I am sure that lots of you feel this way but since having kids I have developed a love for Halloween. I love to have theme costumes for the whole family and watch the kids get so excited for trick or treating Jaxon was counting down for weeks and then when it got here he said. "I can't believe that Halloween is here it came so fast this year"! So the theme as you can see below this year was star wars. This was stemmed because Jaxon wanted to be a Clone. I new the day would come when they would have strong feelings about who they should be. Thank goodness Gavin didn't seem to care so off we went with Star wars. I wasn't real excited but after finding costumes for everyone I got really excited. However the day before Halloween I got an email from the costume store I had ordered my costume from that said that they had canceled my order and sorry for any inconvenience. So I have to admit that I wasn't as on top of it as I should be but I ordered it the same day as the babies and they arrived 4 days before I got that email. To say the least I was not happy. So there I am as a "clone" with Jaxon. Such it life right. With or without the right costumes the kids had a ball. Ella quickly understood that if she went up to the door people would let her pick out candy and she started to insist on going herself dragging her bag behind her too cute! We then had a party with my family at our house eating good food and playing a hilarious game called cursed. All in all it was a great Halloween but it will take me the rest of this next week to clean up after it.

PRINCESS LEI

YODA

CLONE CODY

DARTH VADOR AND HIS TEAM

THE KIDDIES

ELLA TRICK OR TREATS LIKE A PRO

Half way through the year Grin changed Jobs. He still works for Ken Garff but is now the Used car manager at the Ken Garff Nissan dealership in Riverdale. He is loving the change and has started going to Auction to buy used cars. He is really enjoying this new aspect of the job and has had the opportunity to travel to Pennsylvania a few times to an exclusive Nissan Auction. He is now the 1st counselor in the Elders Corm and loves spending time playing with the kids and teaching them sports and watching as much sports as he can football, Basketball, Baseball, Golf, Hockey, Tennis, Poker, Soccer, (did I miss any) pingpong? if it is on Espn it is worth watching am I right?

As for me. It is pretty much same old same old. Clean house house the house by 10 am the next morning it is dirty again. I have Jaxon in joy school with the neighborhood kids and will be the teacher next month. We "remodeled" the storage room it started out putting some shelves in then I decided that we should put floor in, then we put in a water softener and a new water heater. My quick small project ended up a huge major project and cost way to much money but in the end my glasses come out of the dish washer clean for the first time and I am a little more organized which makes me happy. I got a new calling a few weeks ago and am now the primary chorister yikes never complain about your calling because it could always be worse. Teaching relief society was torture but at least it was only once a month now it is every week. The kids are a true joy though.

Jaxon started the 4th grade this fall and is doing amazing . He is crazy smart and can read at a 6-8th grade reading level. I gave him my old alarm clock after Grinner won me an Ihome and wakes himself up every morning. He gets up, gets dressed, makes his bed, unloads the dishwasher, reads and sometimes gets his piano done. This of course doesn't always happen smoothly but he does pretty good. We went to his SEP conference however and learned that he doesn't turn in his work that he does. He read probably 4 books that quarter at home and he had turned 1 in and it was the one I had read to him. My little brother was like that and almost didn't graduate because of it, what a nightmare we are working hard to rectify that situation as quickly as possible. He is playing on a competetion basketball team (The Davis Starts) and a comp baseball team (The Sox) and has practice or games almost everynight year round but he loves it and is always happy to go and willing to get his other jobs done to do it most of the time it makes for great leverage. He is getting so tall and before I turn around he will be taller than me. I bought size 10 pants for him for school last spring and we got them out for school and they are too short so he has been flooding around for months new pants "Merry Christmas Jaxon". It is so fun to watch him grow and develop into who he is going to be.

Gavin is now 6 years old! He is in Kindergarten and having a September birthday the oldest in his class. He is not "in love" with school but I don't have to convince him to go everyday either. He has discovered video games and I have had to spend a lot of my time monitoring how much time he has spent playing them. He still has middle child syndrome and you would think that I being a middle child myself would do better at making sure that doesn't happen but he still seems to be the kids that doesn't get his homework done and isn't reading as well as he should at no fault to his own but because mom seems to be running around after everything else. His sweet little personality I am afraid is reflecting this and he spends his life looking at the world with "the glass half EMPTY" I actually put a glass in front of him and asked him "Gavin, when you look at this glass what do you see, is it half full or half empty." his response, "half empty". I am praying that it is a 6 year old phase some of his friends moms say the same thing that the girls will cry in a drop of a hat etc. Gavin doesn't cry that quick but he lashes out yelling not nice things at us like "I hate you's" and "your the worste mom in the world" or this is the worst day ever" "stupid idiot" well you get the idea. I don't want this to be negative but want to write how he actually is so that someday we can read back and laugh at this funny faze our sweet Gavin went through right? On the switch side (it is kind of like living with Dr. Jeckle and Mr. Hyde) he is the cutest big brother to Kennedi and to Ella most days to. But he will spend hours playing with Kennedi from the day she was born giving her kisses, and talking to her in baby talk. Now that she is 10 months he pushes her around the house on her push toy and sits around playing with her for hours kissing and loving her. He is truly the best baby sitter and my heart just leaps out of my chest when ever I watch him. He is going to be the best sweatest dad. My sisters little girl has been his favorite for ever now and I kept wondering if we would be as cute with his own sister as he has been with her but he is just as sweet and loving. How so much love and tenderness and hate and rage can come out of the same child in a matter of hours is beyond me but I am learning quickly that he just "feels" more than the rest of us and we will all adjust accordingly and search for ways for him to utilize that gift.

Ella is now 4 years old!! I was so excited when we found out that Ella was going to join our family I really needed a little more estrogen in this house full of boys and boy did we get it. There is no "tom boy" in our little Ella she is Girly Girl to the core. We have a trunk full of dress-ups in her room (however rarely are they "in the trunk") and a Mirror above it were she spends hours admiring herself and "possing" in front of it. Then she keeps asking things like. "Do I look beautiful in this mommy" or "am I more beautiful in this mommy", or "do I look cute or no?" of course the answer is alway "Yes Ella you look beauiful in everything". but she just keeps asking. We are constantly in a state of imaginary play, princesses and mommies, dances, and tea parties. She loves to dress up in moms shoes and wear princess dresses. She is constantly wanting a friend to play with and they will play house and pretend all day. I LOVE IT!!! it is such a great balance from the "lets wrestle, fight, shoot each other etc." we just eat her up. She is in preschool and loves it. she can write her name so well and knows every letter and its sound ( and has known them for over a year) and recognizes them all the time when we read. She loves to pier over my shoulder when Gavin and I read and she hurries and repeats the words after him like she is reading right along and truthfully she does about as good as he does. That's a girl for you right!

Kennedi Rose Pearce came into our family on February 11th 2011. She became the 3rd Hone Grandchild to be born on that day (strange). She has grown so fast and becoming such a fun and integral part of our little family. She has such a sweet demeanor and is always smiling at people. She is really quite the flirt and we spend most of our outings with people standing around talking about how cute she is and telling everyone around them things like. "Have you seen this baby", "come look at this baby", "She is the cutest thing, you have to see this baby", "look at those big blue eyes" While she just smiles and smiles like she is telling them "I know I am cute and you should all notice". It is really quite fun for me and Grin because we reallyh get a say in how they look or act right! She is crawling all over and getting into every thing she is a typical 10m old baby and we wouldn't trade her for the world.