THE PEARCE FAMILY: February 2010

Firestation Field Trip!!

Our cute Joy school headed to the Fire station for a Field trip. The kids were so cute and excited to see all of the gadgets on the trucks. The Firemen let them try on there hats but one of the firemen mentioned the cleanliness of the hats and none of the girls would put one on. Gavin only put one on because they gave him a "clean" one too funny.

Our whole class and an extra sister

The boys

The Girls

Future Firefighters of America

Climbing in the trucks

Valentine Fun!!

The table

Valentine Dinner

Ella what a cutie she sat on the chair and her Aunt Millie kept saying "do this do that" and she just kept posing for us so so cute!!
Valentines was full of good and bad this year. We did manage to make cookies and take them to our dads work and have our annual Valentine dinner we had ham and potatoes and of course red jello hearts. But Ella and I got major colds and weren't up to much. Because it was Sunday Jaxon had to sit around all day without his "Valentine" by the time dinner came around his patients were about shot. Lucky enough Grandma Hone had given me Valentines with strict instructions to "Kick" them on Valentines Day. So I did that in the afternoon and that held him over until dinner (sort of)
Kicking Valentines is apparently something that only my mother does we grew up thinking that this is what you do on Valentines. You bake cookies and then take them to your neighbors and knock on the door and run away. We really got carried away with the task of not getting caught and now it is the highlight of Valentines for my kids and there cousins. To the point that We didn't kick them this year because I was sick and my poor Nieces and nephews sat around waiting for us to come and we never did so sorry kids, next year.

Making Valentines

Cookie fun

Valentine Windows

Better pictures YEAH!! "Little Things Mean a Lot" windows you can actually see!!

Better Picture

Girls day in!

So a few weeks ago we had a Girls day!! with my family. We have tried in the past to do this once a month or every other something like that. And we do good for a while but mostly talk about what we will do. We have been talking for a long while about making some of these cute retro aprons that are so popular. So finally we got together and made a valentine apron it was so fun. We had ALL the girls even the little ones they didn't sew much but still got into the act. Now the goal is one for each holiday fun fun fun!!

All of us with our cute new aprons

Sewing away!

The cute little girls!! we put paisley in the doll stroller Edyn wasn't sure she wanted to share her stroller but we got a pic anyway.

Football, Blessings and Birthday's

So this weekend we decided why not cram as much into one weekend 9make that a day) that we can. So we headed to Logan on Saturday night and spent the night with Grin's parents so we could make it to my little Nieces blessing at 9am Sunday Morning then we had lunch there. She doesn't have T.V. so after lunch everyone (the Hone family and my Brother in laws family the Tim's) headed to our house for a Superbowl party. So we did what you do at super bowl parties ate and watched the game. It was really fun especially with so many people the more people the louder and wild it gets right so so fun. We ate fondue both chocolate and cheese and had a great time visiting the kids had a blast playing and we thought that wasn't enough so we threw a few cousins birthday celebrations in there and really had a party. It was a great fun day and somehow I made it all the way through and not one picture to show for it sad sad sad.

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.