GIVEAWAY!

I have an AWESOME blog I follow! Go check out her most recent giveaway! It's from the promotions team at CSN from their store www.allmodern.com so go see Julie's blog to enter! http://not-to-shabby.blogspot.com/2010/01/giveaway.html

-Cath

Father Daughter Dance

Well two of my sweets got dressed up for fun tonight. It was the annual Girl Scout Father Daughter Dance and this year's theme was square dancin'! They seemed to have a pretty good time and I'm glad because this has become something Emma looks forward to doing with her dad every year now. I'm glad she's enjoying the scouting program as much as she is!

We were INVADED!!

It was a CRAZY past week here in the Squires home. We took delivery of 78 cases of Girl Scout cookies which I sorted that afternoon so they could be picked up by the girls/parents after their meeting as well as sorting the 160+ that Emma sold for her to deliver mostly to Dwayne's office the next day! Of course in my horrible procrastination, I had found what I thought were the cutest valentines idea Luv Bugs from Oriental Trading Company. They arrived Wednesday (same day as the cookies) so they had to be made Thursday to deliver to class Friday. Well it would've been nice to have had more specifics, they came with all the pieces and I mean ALL THE LITTLE PIECES! Yes it was definitely an assembly required project with lots of tacky glue and tape. We made enough for Peyton's, Emma's and my preschool classes!! Was it worth it? Yeah ....of course it was! It was a crazy week but a fun week and we survived the invasion of cookies and Luv Bugs!

I'm baaack!

I know, I know I'm HORRIBLE at posting here and I vowed I would be better in the new year. Here's another try. So we've been busy as usual. We've been ice skating together for the first time which was fun and funny all in one. It was something we did with Emma's brownie troop and it was so much fun we've (read: kids) been begging to go every weekend since!

I also took several videos which are fun and I will try to post those later.

Family Pictures

While we were in Georgia for Christmas we had a wonderful photographer Suellen Kay come over to Mom and Dad's house to get the big family portarait as well as lots of others, Suellen has updated her blog with a few of the images from that day. They are of Peyton, Meghan (one of Lauri's girls) and Brock (Jenn's stepson), they are awesome I can't wait to see the rest! Thanks again Suellen!

http://suellenkay.wordpress.com/

The second grade gingerbread man

Okay, here's the story. The entire second grade was sent home with a blank gingerbread man and told they had two weeks to do whatever they wanted to these guys/gals and that they had to have a story and to BE CREATIVE! They will all be hung up at the school, this is Peyton's...

Hi, my name is Noah. I started out as a piece of dough. I got cooked in the oven at my house in Germany by Peyton. Once I was out of the oven I was terrified!! That's why I had this crazy idea, I had to escape far far away from Peyton and his family so they wouldn't eat me! The furthest place I could think of going to was Hawaii. Now I live the aloha spirit. I surf, box, play beach volleyball, tennis and golf. I still have to be careful and sleep with one eye open so that Peyton and his family don't ambush me!

Okay, I have to work on this...

I know I know, it's been a while and I have SO MUCH I could've posted but life gets so busy feeling sometimes!! We had Peyton's birthday mid October, then his baptism which Nana and Papa Matteson were able to come up for YEA! It was a completely awesome experience and Peyton was SO HAPPY and EXCITED to have his very own scriptures (which by family tradition were given to him by Nana and Papa) and which we have been reading as a family together every night YEA!!!!! I'm so proud of us! We hit up Cox Farm while the Nana and Papa were here too which is good ol Northern Virginia yearly Fall tradition. Then of course Halloween SO MUCH FUN! Now November is upon us, yesterday we spent Veteran's Day at Mt. Vernon with Peyton's Cub Scout Den where they layed a wreath IN George Washington's tomb. Yes, they unlocked the tomb for them to lay the wreath inside. VERY cool experience, one I hope he never forgets! And today I spent the afternoon in .... you guessed it COOKIE TRAINING after work!!! I am the cookie mom for Emma's troop and WOO HOO I'll be talking COOKIES until April!! YIKES! What we do for the ones we love. But I really truly crazy do! I guess my next post will be all pictures of these things I have slacked in updating! For now a few of our family pictures we took while walking the trails out behind our houses with the Jensen's. Yup, you guessed it again, you'll be seeing one of these on our Christmas card! hahaha