THE PEARCE FAMILY: July 2011

A "Fairy" Fun Birthday!

Ella opening her presents. She was so funny did not take 2 seconds to admire a present before she was on to another.

the cake a fairy mushroom house the cake I got the idea from had made a fairy out of frosting but I wasn't doing that so I looked for one to buy and this is all I could find she was a little large for her house but such is life:)

Blowing out the Candles the wind kept blowing them out so she had to be quick

The girls playing with all of the great gifts after the party.

The gifts were so fun fairy barbies, fairy blankets, etc!

Ella Turned 4 years old on the 16th of July. Holy Cow how time flies. I cannot believe she is getting so big. This was the first year that she got to have a "friend" birthday. And the first year that she really knows whats going on and has an opinion on things. We decided on a "fairy" party a while ago and then she changed her mind and wanted a "swimming" party but I told her I had already got started on the fairy party she was pretty good about it and it turned out so fun. Because of baseball and the crazy life I have right now we didn't get the party done until this last Weds. the 20th (I put the 19th on the invite is anyone surprised?) anyway we got tutu's, wings, and wands all from haloheaven.com (I LOVE that website) and I made "elf "hats for the boys we only had too little boys and they weren't sure how they felt about the fairy party but they loved there hats! The kids came and we dressed them and painted there face and nails (done by my niece and neighbor both 11 and both very excited to help). My sister Millie then had prepared a "fairy hunt" for there wands. We practiced "flying" by playing with a parachute and then my niece taught a quick "fairy"dance. then we played freeze dance as they danced around doing what ever they wanted until the song stopped (the boys just stood there at this game) pretty funny anyway then we opened presents and ate cake and ice cream. I put a table low and we decorated with big flowers. This is when I wish I had tons of money so we could have created a whole "fairy world" but thanks to Grandma and little things windows we did pretty well. it was so fun to watch these fairies and elf's run around. I love dress up at parties it makes for such great pictures and then they take home their "outfit" instead of a bunch of candy or cheep toys. I am however glad that we are done with birthdays for the year. Gavin has this year off from a "friend" party I just can't do one every year for everyone. Ella loved it and can't stopped talking about it so that is what matters right!

"STATE CHAMPIONS!!!!"

"Kaysville A"

Our All Stars Team!

the Cheer after the game!

Jaxon checks out his trophy ribbons would be better

4-5 trophies later and there is NO MORE ROOM!

getting his trophy from Coach George

up to bat! He his so many home runs I stopped counting!

(That is the fun part about going from kid pitch to machine pitch.)

Our Kaysville A team went undefeated this season!!! They Won 1st in District and 1st in Regional's then went on to Win 1st in STATE! all not loosing one game. It was so much fun to watch these 8-9 year old boys playing such GREAT ball! I really can't believe that they have the ability to be aware of all that is around them fielding and hitting so so well they even made several double plays. They play off each other so well and got along so well both on the field and off. I am so proud of them and of course especially my Jaxon he did so well and truly loves the game. You know they love it when they NEVER bock about going to practice or games but they go to "warm up" 1 1/2hours before the game then play a game for an hour or so and then go right back on the field and throw around with each other for hours longer until the parents have to go out and physically take them off the field and they do this sometimes in 90 degree weather. What cute boys!!

4th of July 2011 and more Baseball!

Our 4th of July this year was not really our own. Grin had to work the weekend so we didn't get to go camping like we usually do and Jaxon's baseball team entered to the Firecracker tournament. So The Weekend went pretty much Grin worked and I watched baseball. The boys did great all weekend and won every game which meant games on the 4th. Grin did manage to get the actual 4th off so we all headed to Park city and watched baseball. We played two games and in the end we took 2nd place! only loosing to the infamous Marshall's who are funded and are kids taken from the entire Salt Lake valley. After the games we came back home and went to fireworks in Kaysville with the Neighbors. We find an off the beat spot where nobody was and it made for the best spot no smokers, or people running over your blankets it was right below the fireworks and we had a blast.

Watching the fireworks at home after the fireworks!

The boys favorite part in lighting them another strange thing they seem to be born with.

Jaxon

Ella and her good friend Ava

At the fireworks our favorite aunt Millie spent the day with us the rest of the Hone family were camping without us:(

The Boys in Midway after the game we went and did some looking around and found a bison??

Getting there trophy's after they won 2nd place

BASEBALL!!

What little of My life I called my own ended with summer with baseball. However who knew I would become such a baseball FAN! Our DC Sox team has been doing AWESOME during the regular season our coach ended up having us play 9u teams so the kids would grow and not get lazy because they were doing so well at the games. At the Tournaments they do pretty well too. The last tournament was the Firecracker tournament over the fourth of July (not my idea and not a big fan) anyway they took second only loosing to one team twice:( but they are a funded team and there coaches are college coaches. we were the only team who made them sweat and we only lost the first game by 3 and the second by more like 7. we are going to the Tournament of the Champions in Heber next week and should be the end of DC Sox for the season YEAH!! and a little sad:)

The coaches got the kids doing "cheers"/chants it is very cute!

Jaxon has a good little arm on him the power is there we just need to work on the consistency

The little kids are troopers putting up with all these games

Ella of course is right in there when ever the camera is out.

Kennedi however is especially good you truly couldn't ask for a better baby

ALL STARS

All stars "State" starts tomorrow we are undefeated in All Stars and one first place in two tournaments. State however will be tougher so we will see how it goes. I am so so proud of Jaxon and how much he has improved this year. They are truly a fun team to watch and it amazes me how good 8-9 year old boys can be. what will I ever do with myself when the season finally ends????

Region Champions!

Getting our trophy can he even see to take it???

So So Funny!

Kennedi 5 Months old

HOLY COW I hate how fast time goes. My baby is getting bigger everyday and I am finding myself trying to hold on as tight as I can. I am so going to be one of those moms who follow there baby around pulling the legs out from under them in hopes that they will just stop!! It is so strange thinking "that is the last first smile" or "the last first feeding" etc. She is now eating cereal, sitting up (for about a minute or so), laughing, sleeping in her own room (as of Monday mostly because I am afraid she might fall right out of the bassinet since she is almost longer than the bed) and rolling all over the place. The kids adore her (maybe a little too much) especially Gavin who is in her face all the time and who has taken to calling her "Kennedi shommy" in baby talk and it for some reason drives me CRAZY! I try to ignore it but can't seem too do a very good job so instead I call him "Gavin Boo Boo" in a baby voice and he screams at me"I not Gavin boo boo". "good times" and yes a very mature way to deal with it. p.s. he still calls her Kennedi shommy, and just takes to calling me "mommy boo boo". Kids: 1 mom: 0. consequently we are having a ball with our beautiful little baby and want her to stay little forever. But at the same time can't wait to get to the point were we are all potty trained and can dress and feed ourselves.

They start to roll and we find them in all sorts of predicament's

quick pics not the best but taken on her 5th month birthday

Kennedi 4 months old

OK so truthfully Kennedi is 20 weeks yesterday but these are her 4 month pictures it just took me a month to get them on here and they make me laugh because her outfit is so over the top but I love it and that's what happens when your mom runs a baby store right? P.S. she is a pretty good saleslady too:) My little sis. Millie took them she is getting so dang good! Thanks mill

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.