Our little Chloe Dawn

Our little baby girl is now 3 1/2 months. I didn't even realize how big she had gotten until I was looking at the pictures of her as a newborn. She is such a sweet little thing. She's been sleeping through the night for a while now, although she occasionally still wakes up for a bottle, but then it's right back to sleep. She always wakes up in the morning with a big grin and loves to be held and talked to (but who wouldn't-right?) We feel so blessed to have Chloe in our family. She definitely helps to make life a little bit sweeter.

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It's Logan the Scouter!

I know there are some of you who are thinking, "Don't they have a little boy, I never see him on any posts! " Yes we do and he hasn't been in too many posts because the kid is always off doing something. I was hoping to do a post with Logan at his Blue and Gold Dinner for Scouts, but I was once again having camera issues. So I'll just tell you what he earned instead. He got a new belt loop and two more silver stars at the Blue and Gold. We are really proud of him. So in honor of Logan the scouter, here are his pictures from last summer. He participated in a flag retirement ceremony. It was really interesting. I didn't even know how they disposed of the old flags. It was really neat to watch, especially how they retire the huge giant flags.

Check out our new "do's"

The girls had been begging me for a few weeks to let them cut their hair (thier friend cut hers so monkey see, monkey do), so finally I took them on Saturday to get their new cuts. I got a kick out of watching how they are both so different when it comes to how they act in similar situations. Megan is over in her chair just chattin in up with the stylist. She put the clips in her hair and Megan told her "I look just like Princess Leah." She kept telling her, "My teacher is just going to love my new hair" or "Hello, aren't I supposed to be watching something on the little TV?" Maddie on the otherhand is in her chair and there isn't even one little peep coming out from her little corner. They are both so funny!
Well here they are before:

It's Princess Leah
Quiet Maddie

Ta Da... Two cute girls! (Megan is getting so tall!)

Presenting... The Norris Family Singers!

Last night our ward had a talent show. Jared and the kids decided to follow in the footsteps of the Hanzel Family and lip-sync to the "Primary Jamboree" song. Everyone did a great job (check out Jared's moves). I was thrilled that all the kids actually got up there, but the best part was our little Janie actually did her part! Well, she mouthed, "I'm so glad I came to primary today" After that she stayed up there, but wouldn't really move. Oh well! She did exactly what we needed her to do. You can't see her too well, but if you listen to the crowds reaction, you can tell she did a superb job!

The video is blurry, (Torrie you did a fabulous job of filming!, you even got me in the corner coaching Janie- I do exist!) it's only because I'm still trying to figure out how all the settings on our new camera work. But you get the jest from just watching, again check out the Bishop!

Who Let the Dogs Out?

We've had such nice weather lately (those of you inflicted with snow, I'm not trying to rub it in-I promise) that the kids have been having so much fun outside. I took Chloe out for a walk around the cul de sac and decided to film the kids racing. The kids in the court love to race down the street. But this was just too funny (well to me anyway) I just had to share!

Now anybody who knows my kids, knows that they are just a teensy, weensy afraid of dogs. Hmm.., I wonder where they get that from? But the girls wanted to race and the following is what transpired. (The first video might look like it won't load, but it will.)

Too funny! Anyway if you notice in the first video, Megan totally takes off at the very beginning and I'm too busy filming that I don't even realize she's run away and is terrified of something. I know, Mother of the year. Maddie is completely unaware that the dog is behind her, she just keeps looking in Meg's direction and wondering what her problem is (and why she has jumped up on the electrical thingy) and Janie's just crying.
Usually the kids aren't too afraid of the dogs in the cul de sac, but our neighbors just got a new puppy, Harley. The little boy in the video is Aiden and it's his dog. He was probably wondering what the heck are the kids so worried about?

Swiss Family Norris

Today Jared came home earlier than usual and I got a nap. 2 1/2 hours!! I do have a great husband! While I napped the kids watched one of the videos we let them watch on Sunday, Swiss Family Robinson. I added it to our Sunday video list because when they reach land after their shipwreck they offer a prayer of thanks, so I decided it counts! I also added Pollyanna because of her glad game and the happy texts!
After my nap the kids were begging me to let them play outside. But on Sundays we don't let them play out in the front and I didn't want them in the back because we've been having issues with our back fence and the scary aggressive dog that likes to try and knock our fence down.
ANYWAY, Jared thought the dog wouldn't get loose and said that they'd be okay to play. They were all thrilled to be playing outside. I went to check on them and they informed me that they were playing "Swiss Family Norris."
So sorry for the super long post, just to explain one picture. But I had to post it. It's a rarity for them to all be playing together without any fights!

The Secret to Maddie's Donut Dozen

On Thursday night Maddie told me she just knew that she was going to be picked for the "Donut Dozen" at school on Friday.
The Donut Dozen is where the principal picks 12 students on Friday morning to come and eat a doughnut with her in her office. (Throughout the year the students can get an "Eagle Excellence" (the blue paper Maddie is holding) for good behavior or for helping. All the eagle excellence papers go into a big bin in the front office and the principal picks the names from that). I told her I hoped that she would get picked too, but that their were a lot of kids that had gotten eagle excellence's and so maybe their was a chance she wouldn't get picked. But she told me she just knew that she was going to go to the donut dozen.

So imagine my surprise when she comes home on Friday and had actually been picked for the donut dozen!!

The first thing that popped into my head was "it's like the Secret" (probably because I had just read Angie's blog about the secret and finding her pirate cling).
So I'm going to take a page from Oprah, Angie, and now Madeline and I'm going to believe that we are going to sell our house (maybe I'll believe we are going to sell it for half a million dollars) and it might actually happen. At least it's worth a try!