What Smart Kid's I have

B and Paris both got an award this month at there assembly

B's was for best Writer (I'm assuming creative not penmanship cause no one can read his chicken scratch)

And Paris was for Most improved reader as well as participation

Both kid's were so excited about it, As was I, and Blaze was so excited he got carried away and walked right into the middle bar between two open doors on our way down to the assembly. (hehehe)




and here is our little knox in a sweet hat from my friend Mellissa.

My 10 Hour projects

So I'm the Beehive advisor, and the Young women got a revamped Personal Progress program. The leaders are encouraged to do it if they would like, so i decided to do it. So for my first 10 hour project i got the Little boy's memorie book's done as well as a memorie book i did of the Wolsey reunion (which i gave to Scott and Falene for Christmas).


I did these all at artscow.com It's a super site and you can get tonnes of stuff for free but shipping is kinda expensive so i only order when i've got alot to order so it's a bit cheaper. but for example the books are 9.99 but shipping is another $10 per book. But still a super good deal I think , they have tonnes of different themes for books.

So for my second one I'm compiling a Hough Family cook book! Yep that's right. I think it will take more then 10 hours but I'm excited to do it. I found a company that publishes them and it's only like $7 per book.

So I'm super into the personalizing stuff off the computer that's way easier then scrapbooking kind of stuff. So Noelle did these Calenders that are so fun! I was so excited to get ours!

It's On

So This weekend we sat down and had a family meeting. The topic of the meeting was Blaze. We love our 2 year old beyond word's, But we all have a problem not calling I'm a pain in the butt(which he is most of the time these day's). So we gave the kid's as well as ourselves a pep talk on being kind to Blaze and not say out load what a stinker he is. Don't get me wrong we really do love love love him but all that know him personally know what I'm talking about. He's got a little spunk.



Anyway so while we were discussing that we decided to get the kid's going on chore chart's again and attitude chart's. We did this a while back and i can't remember why we stopped cause it worked great.

So they each have 5 chores per day with one Bonus chore. They also have a "only asked once" chart.

So there reward for doing the chores and walking the dog and listening and being nice they get "Buck's".

So we have a chart hanging up that has the prizes they can by for X amount of Bucks. For example 10Bucks for 1/2hour of Wii time $35 for a ice cream with mom or dad. and tonnes more.


So the kid's are so excited! They went to bed with no problem last night, Woke up this morning with no fights and bed's made and lunches made! Oh life is good for today!

Now we'll see if Blaze gets his chores done. He already earned a polite mark for saying thank you with out me telling him to. I think his biggest chore that's he's going to struggle with the most is getting dressed (he really does not like to wear anything but undies) also him being Kind chore. Hmmm We'll see!

This is how our monday started

I was busy getting things done this morning. I went out to the living room to check on Blaze, And this is were i found him (instead of were he was, watching cartoons).








This is him after i took the big bag of sugar away!


Yep that's our monday morning! I'll leave the rest of our day up to imagination but it consist's of Spilled paint and yelling.

Olympic Flame

So the Olympic flame ran it's self though Lethbridge last night. So away we went to check i out. B and Paris have been into learning about the Olympics and was so excited to see it. It happened so quickly Blaze missed it all together or did not catch the excitement of it all. It really did make me a proud Canadian to see if run past.

Mom Brad and the kid's waiting in the chilly weather for a glimps of the torch


Oh there it is!

Did Brittany Millers pictures for her engagment. They turned out cute i think.