THE PEARCE FAMILY: April 2009

Easter 2009

This is a random blog of our Easter I started a month ago and have added different events at different times and there for it is so out of order I am not going to take the time to organize it all so they all happened within a week of each other and I am calling it good.

The Dyeing of the Eggs the kids really are getting big enough that they just have at it. they did a great job with the exception of one spilt dye by my Gavin. We put Ella to bed I just wasn't going to go there especially since Grin was at work and I had to help Gavin (I didn't do so well did I?). Jaxon was the last to finished (this included aunts and cousin's)he sat there being so meticulous I couldn't believe it he never does that usually it is in out scribble, dunk, on to something else.

Jaxon all on his own working on his eggs

The Easter outfits. I love this part! I was so excited about Ella's dress I just couldn't wait and she couldn't either every time she saw it in the closet she said "dress, dress" and wanted to wear it. I didn't really do to good on the pictures before church it was too late and after Ella was tired and so she went down for a nap so we didn't get any of all of us together and after her nap she didn't cooperate at all but here they are and I did get one of the dress anyway so so so cut!

The Boys

The Girls

Easter morning the kids and their baskets. We stayed at Gma and Gpa Hones house the Easter bunny comes there and we spent the day playing with cousin's and going to church the kids had a blast finding eggs and of course eating there candy Ella wouldn't put hers down and pretty much had it all eaten before breakfast I know great mom hu? But I figure it is one day a year right.

The whole cousin gang minus the Holmes group who hadn't arrived yet!

On Saturday we went to an Easter egg hunt at the Presbyterian church in our city it was a great egg hunt they also had prizes for all the kids and did a light lunch I was very impressed the kids had a blast looking for eggs and emptying them out afterwards they had us empty them after and put the eggs in boxes for next year a genius idea I thought I never know what to do with all those eggs they usually get thrown away. We joined several friends from the ward and had a great time.

My good friends and Neighbors all these little ones are all within a month of each other so fun!

We started out the Easter season making Sugar cookies to take to Grandma Pearce's the weekend before Easter. The kids really got into it and did an awesome job. Gavin was more interested in eating the dough and about half way through his mound he said "I am done" and I said what about all of that dough" he said "I am going to save that to eat later." I am just glad he didn't get a tummy ache.

We went to Grandma and Grandpa Pearce's house the weekend before Easter and had a blast with our cousin's finding eggs, making nests and frosting cookies we just love it when our cousins are there they live in Wyoming so we don't see them too often. I will add pictures if I can ever figure out how to get them off of Grin's phone we forgot the camera.

So that is Easter in a nut shell!

Loosing a little more of my space?

So I moved Ella's Kitchen up into the already too small family room. She loves to play in it but neither Gavin or Ella seem ready to spend the day in the basement playing while mom is up stairs and I cannot spend all day in the basement so I moved things around and fit it in. Hopefully in the not so far future things will change and I can move it back down stairs but right not even though it throws off my "space" I really like the upstairs toys to have good hiding places selfish I know I can't help it. It just isn't as important as the fun this little girl and her brother for that matter have playing in "their" kitchen and in this Kitchen dressing for dinner is optional.

Relief Society Birthday!

So at our relief Society Birthday party this year they had people sign up to decorate tables. I didn't sign up at first I feel that there are probably others who would like to express themselves and they are tired of me. But in the end they needed another Table so I teamed with another designer in the ward and we did the first table above. Laneel had some plates with butterflies on them and since the whole theme of the party was something like "In life there are always storms the trick to learn to dance in the rain" we thought that this was appropriate. I am usually a little nervouse when two designers especially two that have very different thought about design, work together but it turned out pretty fun. I did the center piece and she did the place settings so so fun. I also added some of the other tables it was so much fun to see everyone's personalities come through and the variety was awesome!

Why get dressed why not just wear lotion!

This along with all the posts I will be posting tonight is old this happened about the 14th of March but I need to get caught up and get these in so it is easier when I go to scrap book this year so sorry for the large number old posts. I leave her alone long enought to go get her comb or a onzie or something but I left the cetaphil cream bottle open. she decides its lotion time and of course this is the $12 dollar a bottle lotion that is only meant for the exema spots at $12 bucks a pop her legs are worth about 5 bucks right there.

where did march go?

So March came and went and I haven't even been on this computer. After we got back from Hawaii I got this itch to freshen up my house maybe it is because of the fun pics that I want to put up or the beauty of Hawaii but I have been obsessing over it ever since and have found no time to do my regular work ,like blogging and the basic cleaning instead I have been fixing nicks and dings in the walls and painting the main color of my house a happy creamy butter yellow. It has been a bit of a trial but I am getting there and loving it. I will post pics if I can ever get it done. I am going to try and do catch up on the last month but for now I am starting from here it is way to overwhelming for me to go back that far. So look for the Pearce family happenings hopefully to be coming soon but for now check out my poll on the right hand side and pick a pineapple.

(P.S. please feel free to give me details on your choice of pictures to I am really intrigued by how you will respond)

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.