week April 19th - 25th

Well the big deal for this week was Mike and I celebrated our 16th wedding anniversary which was on Wednesday the 21st.  We did not actually celebrate Wednesday because we had too much going on.
Amanda had a soccer game that night in Salt Lake in the pouring rain!  Poor girl!  This is the first year that she has played competition soccer and the hardest part is the travel and how it rules your life for awhile.  She was asked to join another u12 team in addition to her current team and after pondering it we decided it would be way too much!  So she will just stay with her current team.

The rest of the week was full of Amadas Soccer practices, games, Josephs scouts and gymnastics, Natalies young womens and flute choir. And then Saturday the 24th we went into Salt Lake again for another soccer game for Amanda.  It was such a beautiful day!  Her team did a great job although they did not win.  We stayed in Salt Lake and Mike and the kids went to the dollar movie while Danielle and I went shopping :-)  She makes going to movies impossible!  after that we dropped the kids off at Grandma Logans while Mike and I  finally went out for our anniversary.  Due to the fact that we are so poor right now this would not have been possible if Mike had not recieved a generous gift card for the Cheese Cake Factory from one of his clients at work.  It was so yummy!  I have never eaten there before and I could not believe how good the food was and the cheesecake was to die for!  Thanks lady for giving us  a nice anniversary dinner who ever you are!   And I am glad that I am not on the strict phase of my diet right now so that could eat it! :-)

My liitle seedlings are growing beautifully! 

I had to thin them out this week and it made me sad :-(   They were all growing so good it was really hard to choose which ones pull.  I also prepared my kiddie pool gardens this week so they will be ready to put my seedlings in a week or two.  I did actually plant carrot and pea seeds in one of the kiddie pools already because you can plant them early.  

Our chicks are also growing and filling out nicely with their cute feathers. 

They are starting to look more like chickens :-)  Soon they will be ready to go outside!

As always there are many more things I am leaving out that happened this week, but these are the high points. 

weekly update #2

This has been a busy week for me!  Mike had Tuesday off because he had to work on Saturday so we ran a couple of errands and Then he worked on his other job the rest of the day.  While at Wal- Mart we picked up a mini green house that cost about $5.00 and it had enough room for 50 plants.  I already had seeds so I planted them that day and they started popping up on Saturday.  And this is what they looked like yesterday. (Sunday)

I had 3 kiddie pool gardens last year.  I am going to add one more this year.  I am so excited!  There is just something so rewarding about growing your own garden and doing these kiddie pool gardens is the only way I can handle staying sane doing it=a garden.

The kids seemed to have a good week at school. Natalies band teacher started a flute choir this week and they are hoping to eventually do some performances  in the community.

Amanda is involed  in competition soccer.  She has practice 2 times a week and 2 games a week.  She had a game in Bountiful Friday night and was supposed to have one in Layton Saturday, but it was canceled.  So we went to the library instead and stocked the kids up on new books and then we also went to Cal Ranch to get some soil for my gardens and then we ended up doing something crazy!  We saw all the chicks and we ended up picking up 4 of them!

  I have been interested in having laying hens for a couple of years now and decided to try it out this year.  I hope I know what I am doing!  I am doing it partly because of our grasshopper problem we have had the last couple of years. and I am excited to have my own fresh eggs!

I had to give my first lesson in R.S. Yesterday.  It was a little stressful because we were having Ward conference and the Stake R.S. pres. was  there.  All I can say is I made it through it and hopfully the Spirit guided me on what we needed to focus on because there were several  concepts we did not cover that I had prepared.  At least I was over prepared!  We did end up going overtime too which I hope I improve on next time around.

We also were able to enjoy a fun Family Birthday party for my nephew Matthew at my sister kari's house in Bountiful.  We also finally got to meet Cami (Russ' new girlfriend).  I hope it works out!  I really like her!

There is so much more I could say about the week but these are the high lights.

The Logan weekly report!

I decided that a good way to keep up with my family blog was to make a goal of writing each Sunday and giving a glimpse into our week. 
So Monday for our F.H.E. activity (Being the huge Tolken fans that we are) we have a  yearly tradition of watching "The Lord of the Rings" 

We have been watching a little each night this week after everyone gets all of their other stuff done.  We are up to the middle of the last movie now and will hopefully finish it for Tomorrows F.H.E.  :-)
Amanda is involved in competition soccer and had a game in Roy Wednesday night which happened to also be Mikes Birthday so we celebrated by going out to dinner as a family after the game.

This was a big treat because we have not gone out to dinner as a family for months due to finances and probebly we still can't afford it, but I guess we did not care it was Mikes Birthday so there!
Amanda was selected to be a part of a regional charter school  honor band.  They had to learn 5 musical pieces in 2 days (Friday and Saturday at Jordon High school)

 Then they had their performance Saturday Afternoon.  While she was practicing Saturday morning we went over to Ikea and dreamed a little and also purchased some new cups and glasses so that we can get rid of our mis matched cups we have now.  After that we went back to watch

Amandas Honor Band  performance.  (she plays the trumpet by the way).  She is the only girl who plays trumpet in her band. She was also the only girl trumpet player in this Honor band and she is proud of that :-) I can't believe how good they sounded for only learning the songs in two days!

After her performance we went over to Wheeler farm and fed ducks and geese and looked at all the farm animals.

 It was Danielles first time there and she loved it!  Especially the ducks :-)   So it was a fun filled weekend and now that it is Sunday we are ready for a nice day of rest and spiritual rejuvination!

Long time no write!

I have not posted on this blog since November! It is now April and its about time for an update.  The kids had Spring break last week and we just stuck around here since we are too broke to go anywhere, but it was still fun! Some of the highlights were Our family and Natalie had a big day with friends going laser tagging.  Mike was able to have a couple of days off to play and we went to Salt Lake one of those days.  I went to Thrift town and big Lots while the rest of the family went to the dollar movie.  Then we had a nice evening with grandma Logan.

We enjoyed Easter and General Conference.  Easter Sunday we had a big family get together at the Coopers and Most of Mikes family was there.  Grandma McBride, Grandma Logan, Aunt Leora and a couple of her kids Spencer, Andrea and her two kids.  It was a nice break from life for a few days! 
The only set back to the week was the wheather.  If you notice in the family pic there is snow on the ground.  It seems winter wants to linger here in Utah and it is out staying its welcome!