We had a great month!! Not that we went anywhere fabulous, but it was good!!
WE have been playing a game with Paige and Kaden we made up...called The Manners Game...
The name says it all, it is to encourage use of manners , which we forget to use at times.....
We use tokens, and we start the week out with an equal amount and if you have to be reminded to use your manners, then you lose a token to the one who had to remind you, at the end of the week, the one with the most tokens gets to pick from a list of activities (that all of us made together)and we do that activity as a family.
It has been a fun as well as useful for all of us!
We spent 2 weekends in St George, hiking and having fun in the outdoors ...we dont have any pictures due to leaving our nice camera at one of the locations we were taking pictures at....bummer.....but someone else must have needed it more than us....YA RIGHT!!!
We went to lunch and a movie with Jory, Jaci and Callan, Paige and Kaden...by default, we saw "Confessions of a Shopaholic...LOL...it was not the most favored movie the boys have ever seen ...
My Grandparents both turned 80 this month, and celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary..D and I went to Fillmore on the 23rd to celebrate with them.
Paige and Kaden started Horse riding lessons with Cindy Lewis in Edgemont, at the Roney barn...they are loving it! Paige started in a performing group called Up With Kids, and Kaden started Karate at Bushi Ban, both are enjoying the new routine...It is fun to see them grow and gain more confidence in themselves.
LIFE IS GOOD..........
This was my parents home.... Saturday March 21st someone set it on fire....It took 12 fire trucks from 3 neighboring towns to fight the blaze and keep it from consuming the main house. Thankfully, the main house which is just 10 feet away from the fire, had only cracked windows and melted blinds. It doesn't even smell of smoke! The CSI team confirmed it was arson and they are investigating leads. A BRIEF HISTORY: My parents bought this 150 year old home in Fillmore Utah, 10 years ago. My Dad had an instant love and interest in this old building behind the house...they called it "The Grainery". It was made of red pine from the mountains around Fillmore, and was put together without a single nail or screw. The pioneers had a method the used called mortise and tenon....The joints are formed to fit snug inside of each other. It had a cellar that they used to keep food storage items in. My parents gathered bricks from the school house in Scipio that my Dad attended as a young man, they placed them on the dirt floor, and formed a clean floor for storing things on. Dad had all of his tools, and Mom had all of her keepsakes in this grainery. Eventually they made a living space with a loft in the grainery, and built a nice covered deck on the front of it. Inside they placed all of their keepsake items, and made it very cozy~ they loved to bring friends and family into the yard and enjoy the hot tub and grainery. All of the Grandkids loved to sleep in the loft. We all enjoyed time around the fire infront of the grainery in the evenings. Our heart goes out to Mom and Dad, for this loss...It was a loss for all of us because all of our childhood memories , some of their memories, as well as our childrens memories in the way of photos, videos,geneology books and hand made articles were lost in the fire. It is a very surreal feeling to know that the largest part of your past, no longer exists...only in the memory. It is difficult to pass that on to future generations. The good news is that no lives were lost....