Jessie Loves Animals and Insects too!

Jessie painting and playing with snails at school! So Gross!

I think this is a gerbil?

She got to pet this big guy at school. He is actually a movie star from the movie Evan Almighty!

A stray dog she decided to roll in the dirt with. That's our girl!

Motocross

Finally a boy post! Here are some cool pictures of the boys riding Jacob is #17 and Justin is #7

So Cute!

Yeah! I got a special gift in the mail today! All the way from Illinois! It is so cute I love it!

It is a designer camera strap made by friend Valerie. I was so excited I put it on my camera as soon as I opened the mail then I thought I am going to take a picture of it for my blog, but oops I couldn't because it was already attached to my camera! LOL! I use my camera all the time so it will be so awesome to have the cutest camera strap instead of the old yucky one that my camera came with. She has so many cute designs it was so hard to choose just one. Check them out at
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12102312

Jessie Riding her xr50 dirt bike

Jessie rode her motorcycle for the first time by herself a couple weeks ago! Michael is wearing a helmet because he had to to ride with her to the area where she could ride by herself. She was so excited to ride then she got little scared at first but after just a couple tries she got it!

Jessie Riding Her Big Girl Bike

Her are some pictures of Jessie riding her two wheeler without training wheels she has been able to do this for a while but I finally took some pictures today. I think Michael actually taught her in November right before she turned 4. She wasn't able to ride it much after she learned how because it was winter and then she preferred to ride her tricycle, till I ran it over (opps). Now she's a pro on her two wheeler. Pretty good for a girl!

Digital Scrapbooking

I spent a lot of today(and night) working on digital scrapbook pages so I thought I would share them. I'm starting with February 2007. It is so fun and easy! The best part is all your pictures are nice and organized for you right on the computer for you. ALso it is free I searched out tons of free digital scrapbooking kits!

Florida! Go Twisters!

Jordan's Cheer Nationals in Orlando Florida!

The Junior team placed 2nd the first day and 3rd the second day!

The Senior team placed 6th and the Senior team won the Sportsmanship Award over the whole competition over 100 teams!
From http://www.i-cwt.com/

"The highlight of the weekend was both our Junior and Senior teams being nominated Sportsman of The Year. With only approximately 15 teams being nominated out of hundreds, the senior team took home the honor!! They've been inducted into the 2008 Sportsmanship Hall of Fame and $500 has been donated in their name to stopping children's cancer. This was an incredibly moving moment that we'll always remember! Congratulations to both teams!!"

View more competions of that Jordan competed in on you tube

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cwt+cheer&search_type=

most of these are from last year and the year before.

Mother's Day Tea

They had a special Mother's Day Tea at Jessie's preschool and all the kids in her sang this cute version of I'm a Little Tea Pot!

I'm a little teapot short and stout

Here is my handle here is my spout

When I get all steamed up hear me shout

I love you Mommy inside and out!

I also had to plan a Mother's Day tea for my class here are a couple pictures and my class sang the Cuppycake song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Z6pWhM6TA

Open House

Tonight was open house at the elementary school where Jacob and Justin go to school! They had some really awesome art work and we took lots of pictures to share!

We had a special visitor!

Friday afternoon we were packing up to leave for the races and we had a surprise visitor! He slithered into our dinning room from the garage at first I thought it was a toy but then it slide under the china cabinet! Yuck it was a GARTER SNAKE! He looked like this!

So gross we live in the city not the country for reasons just like this. Luckily our neighbor stopped by and Jordan asked him if he wanted to catch a snake and being 12 he said "sure." Thank goodness he caught it for us. I couldn't leave for the weekend with a snake in the house!

Introduction

I thought I would start a family blog so that it would be easier to keep family and friends updated on the happenings of our busy family!

This weekend the boys will be racing at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma CA. http://www.winecountrymx.com/ There hasn't been motocross racing there in a long time so this race is kind of a big deal. There are lots of other motorcycle events going on there this weekend too! http://www.infineonraceway.com/

Here is Jessie today in her new Gymboree Cherry Baby Dress and matching bow and clippies. In this posed picture she is saying "Fabulous!" (way to much High School Musical 2) It was so hot today she needed an umbrella! LOL!

This week it was her preschool teacher Robin's birthday and she just loves flamingos

so we made made her a special flamingo gift

and treat

Another big event this week was Jacob's fourth grade Mission Project! He did an amazing job and worked on it for about 3 months!