THE PEARCE FAMILY: October 2009

Ella wakes up!

So Ella has pretty crazy hair sometimes. We can't seem to get her hair in tight enough that it last through her nap. This day was particularly bad. The poor poor child!

10. Grin Goes to Pennsylvania again too the auction. It is starting to become a regular thing. I keep telling him that he needs to start taking me:)
9. Feeling so uplifted after a wonderful conference. I just love our presidency!
8. Grin takes the boys to the REAL game and they have a blast eating cotton candy and watching the game.
7. Grin takes work off on 13th not by choice but necessity. I wasn't feeling well and he stayed home to take care of me and the kids what a great Hubby!
6. Grin is going to Logan for Football again this year. So he heads to Logan every Tuesday night. We haven't gone much because the games have started too late but Grin took the kids without me this week what a great dad.
5. Jaxon finishes his first rock collection at school the "Igneous rocks" he is so excited mom is not so sure since we started collecting rocks he brings home every rock he can find. We have a whole new meaning to "bringing the out doors in" we might have to start living outside there would be less rocks.
4. Ella starts potty training we only started on Friday but she has only had one accident.
3. We stop and visit my good Friend Hancey (Mindy Frost) and her cute family it was so good to visit her. I can't believe we live 15 minutes away from each other and never hang out it is very sad I should really do something about that.
2. I teach Relief Society again. I swear that I just did that but it went better than I thought that it would. I truly never feel prepared enough. (I wish I would have gone on a mission)
1. We have sad news for the past month or so we have been going through a miscarriage but I'm relieved to report that it is all over now and I am finally feeling better. I will write the whole story maybe soon.

New Kiddie Pictures

So the kids yearly pictures were suppose to be done in July. Well here they are only 3 months late that's not too bad right! I had a new photographer and she did great and was great priced. Thanks to a new friend Brooke who referred Korie.

Picking pumpkins

Our yearly trip to Grandpa Hone's pumpkin patch. The kids look forward to picking there pumpkins out of Grandpa's patch every year. We went on conference weekend and Jaxon had a fit that we made him wait until after the last session of conference before we went out. They now can't wait to make them into Jack-o-lantern's. I have to keep reminding them if you carve them too early they will not be cute by halloween.

Fall windows

So here they are the fall "Little Things Window" We used real Cornstocks and then found out that the woman who work their have allergies. I hope it calms down now that they have dried out a little more.

top ten September 20th -October 3rd

10. I teach Relief society something that I truly only like when it is over it was on the relief society though and wasn't too bad.

9. Gavin goes to the dentist for the first time. (I know bad mother) I have been scared because I can see the problems and although there were several cavities it wasn't near as bad as I thought it was going to be and he filled 3 of the cavities right then without even numbing him and Gavin was a champ. He just sat there and let them work what a kid I am not sure I could even do that.

8. I do the fall windows at little things I will post pictures soon.

7. Grin coaches Jaxon's soccer game as a sub coach and they win there game both of my boys (Grin, and Jax) seemed pretty proud of this because it is the first game they have won this season and they seem to think they had something to do with it:)

6. Woman's conference my family come to my house so we can go to my stake they were doing dinner before and babysitting so I thought so I drag my kids because Grin is working and no baby sitting. How embarrassing! So I brought them home and there uncle came and got them thanks Bob.

5. Grin has football in Logan again and we have only been once they keep being late night games so we have to send dad on his own.

4. Last day of the month lands on Weds. so Grin doesn't get his day off. I don't function very well when I don't get his day off.

3. The kids are out of school for UEA so we attempt Gardner village they were doing a whole bunch of fun activities but holy cow there were a ton of people. See upcoming post and pics.

2. I get the kids pictures taken for there yearly pics. (that should have been done in July) it went pretty well I think we will find out in about a week. I used a new girl that a friend in the ward recommended I think it should be good.

1. Conference weekend we went to Grandma Hones house for dinner and to pick our pumpkins from Grandpa's Pumpkin patch.

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.

Ella wakes up!

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New Kiddie Pictures

Picking pumpkins

Fall windows

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