Happy Happy Birthday!!!!

Happy Birthday to the best, cutest, hard working, funniest, sweetest 14 year old in the world! Happy birthday Thomas we love you!!!

Freedoms Foundation Luncheon

Today we got to take Maddi to the luncheon for the Freedoms Foundation where she won the scholarship to attend their conference in Pennsylvania. All of the kids who won from all over Utah were there with their parents. It was a really nice luncheon and it was nice to finally get all the details about the trip! She will be leaving on April 22 and it looks like they will have a great time! She has already found the cutest Utah boy and is excited to see how cute the boys are from the other 49 states! Ha Ha maybe we shouldn't be sending her!

Mission picture

Mitch has to send in a picture with his Mission papers. Maddi had the school camera home this weekend so I made her take a good picture of Mitch that we can use. I thought it turned out pretty handsome! Now everything is done and as soon as he has his wisdom teeth out on March 23 he will be ready to send everything in and find out where he is going to serve! Just in case you were wondering... the answer is no, I am still not ready for all of this!

Service Project

Saturday our Ward had the opportunity to go to the Humanitarian Center in Salt Lake.
They had recently sent out all of their hygiene kits to Haiti and needed help re stocking their supply. It was great to go and help and it was really fun to be able to go with the whole Fam! Even Jake had a great time stuffing toothpaste and soap in the kits!

Ninja Thomas

Maddi asked a boy to the Valentines dance tonight but wasn't sure where he lived. She got an address and some directions from friends and her and her friend Sarah went on their way to ask him to the dance. We made a cake that was all decorated cute and had his name on the top of it(forgot to take a picture)and her name was buried inside the cake for him to find. Well on the way out the door the girls decide that they need Thomas to go with them in disguise so that one of them won't get caught at the door. This is the outfit he came up with. They still were not sure they had the right house so they send Thomas up to the door to knock to make sure because Thomas knows some of the family members and would be able to tell if they were in the right spot. So Thomas rings the doorbell and the Mom answered and probably had the daylights scared out of her with a masked man on the front porch. Thomas said it was really scary but I am sure the Mom was more scared until she figured out what in the heck he was doing there! What a good little brother!

New kid in the house!

We decided that things are just not crazy enough at our house so we decided to adopt a new child! Meet our new baby Avatar from the planet Pandora!!! Maddi is just having too much fun editing pictures!

Maddi wins!

Maddi applied for a scholarship from the Freedoms Foundation to attend their Conference back in Pennsylvania. She filled out the application before Thanksgiving then got a letter saying they wanted her to come for an interview after Christmas and then she just got a letter saying that she was chosen as one of the kids from Utah to attend the conference!One of her past teachers wrote the most awesome letter of recommendation for her that I was sure would make her win! So she will be flying to Pennsylvania in April for 4 days to attend the conference with kids from all over the country. The scholarship pays for most of the cost, she just has to come up with 300 bucks for the trip. She is very excited and looking forward to going. So if anyone needs a babysitter in the next little while give her a call!
Good job Maddi!!!