Kacie's Friends and Family Week...

Wednesday the 26th Mom and I picked Brady up after school and then the three of us headed to Rexburg. Kacie started beauty school at Paul Mitchell on January 13th and this week is her friends and family week. Earlier in the week she did stuff for Taylor, Ashley and Madison. We got to Rexburg around 8:30. I was so excited to see Cole and Kacie. Thursday she gave me a weave with lowlights, shampoo, trim and style. I thought she did a great job even though she was so stressed out about it. I love how it turned out.  Friday she gave mom a gloss and she said she enjoyed that more and wasn't quite so stressed.  Mom said she loved the shine and how soft her hair was.  Then it was Brady's turn for a haircut.  Kacie was stressed again but did another great job.  While she was shampooing him Kacie's teacher told me how much she has loved working with Kacie.  She loves how sweet and teachable she is plus so talented.  She added she just needs more confidence and she will do great.  After Brady's cut she did my makeup and that summed up everything she had to do for the week.  It was fun getting to see where she will be finishing up her hours before she gets her license.  On a side note when I first told Brady weeks ago Kacie was going to give him a men's haircut he thought I said mental haircut. haha!  We all thought it was cute.

Saturday morning I helped Kacie hang up all of these frames.  I loved how it turned out.

I love seeing these three hanging out together.  Every night we went out to eat and then came back to watch a movie.  We saw Midway, The Peanut Butter Falcon and The Zookeeper's Wife.  They were all great movies.  We ate at Applebee's and the Outback Steakhouse.

Saturday we also went to lunch with Nicole Gahley and Taylor Talbot at Costa Vida, then we went to see Call of The Wild. (Nicole wasn't able to go to the movie)  We all loved it too!

It was fun to see Taylor so happy.  I'm so glad she is loving school!

Saturday night we just picked up Pizza Hut for dinner.  Cole had a fun day of snowmobiling but he was pretty exhausted from the day.  Sunday we went to church and Kacie got a new calling as one of the nursery leaders.  We had a yummy roast beef dinner before heading home.  It was so nice to spend some time with both of them.  I wish they were a little closer but I can't complain too much five hours isn't too bad.  It could be worst, haha!  It was a great trip!

President's Day...

This President's Day it worked out that Brandon's annual review was on the same day so Scott Brady and I headed to Meridian to talk to the staff at Tomorrow's Hope about Brandon.  When we got to the office we were shocked how happy Brandon was so we took some pictures.  I couldn't decide which one was my favorite so I shared them all.  They said he is doing really well and has even lost about 12 pounds to 135.  They were worried that he was headed for diabetes so they put him on a low carb diet.  After we were done with his meeting, we followed Julia to to his future new home.  It is nice but not as homie as where he is now.  I hope he adjusts okay.

 I sure love this boy...if he was like this everyday we could bring him home with us permanently.  We took Brandon and Brady to get some food at Chick-fil-A and then Scott and I got some food at Firehouse Subs.

We then went to Krispy Kremes.  It was a fun day with the boys.

After we dropped Brandon off at his home we then went to Best Buy and Costco.  We sold our 2005 Acura to Wade Johnson so Scott decided we needed/wanted an upgraded TV.  We decided to order it through Walmart so we didn't have to pay shipping or sales tax.  He has done tons of research and decided on another Sony Master's Series, 65 inch.  It cost $1798.00.  I hope we like it.  I also gave in and let Scott put our oldest TV in our bedroom mounted on the wall.  It will just have an AppleTV hooked up to it, but we can still watched Netflix and Youtube on it plus listen to music.

Valentine's Day & More...

Mom and Dad gave us the pretty flowers and money to go out to eat.  This was Brady's Valentine's and Scott's is below.  We gave Cole and Kacie gift cards to Olive Garden and Red Robin.

I had it all planned for Brady to bring over some friends for a little Valentine's Day party but some of them couldn't come last minute so we decided to postpone it.  Scott and I then went to a C of I basketball game with Jason and Tawnie.  We met them there.  It was fun!  They have a great team this year and are undefeated so far!

 Saturday morning when I stepped outside I saw all these snow geese in the field just behind our house so I told Scott.  Two to three hours later he came back wanting me to take his picture. haha!  He said he only shot three times and got twelve.  He was pretty happy!  We then went to watch Lindsay and Joshua play in their basketball games in Ontario.

Cole and Kacie spent the weekend in McCall with some of Cole's family snowmobiling.  They are so cute!  Sunday they came by our house and we had some roast and mashed potatoes.  It was fun getting to see them for a little bit.

February 8th & 9th...

Saturday we went to Deseret Book and Scott got another white shirt and I got a couple of study companions to the Book of Mormon.  We then took Brady to eat at the Cheesecake Factory for the first time.  He really liked it.  We had to get some cheesecake of course.  Scott and I split a white chocolate raspberry one and Brady got an Oreo one.  We all loved it.  When we got back home Brady and I watched Toy Story 4 on Disney+ while Scott finished writing his talk for church.  It was a fun Day.

KnR Photography was at Lindsay's last basketball game and got some awesome shots of her in action.  She is a great little player. 

Sunday the 9th we went to Church and Scott did a great job on his talk about Truths. He also sang with the impromptu choir. Brady helped break the bread for the Sacrament. He does a good job. I'm hoping he will feel comfortable blessing the sacrament soon. After church Scott and I fixed a yummy spaghetti dinner at Mom and Dad's house. We are going to start eating together once a month. Brady was suppose to go to a youth fireside that night but came down with a fever. I knew something must have been up for him to take a nap. He never takes naps.

New Wall Decor...

I asked Bobbi Goodfellow to make the sign for me and I ordered the canvases.  I thought it all came together really nice.  I sure love all these people!

National Girls and Women in Sports Day...

February the 5th I posted all these pictures of me playing sports in high school.  I said it's National Girls and Women in Sports Day.  I have always loved playing and watching sports.  Softball was one of my favorites but they didn't have it in high school then.  I would like to think that I helped get it started but unfortunately it wasn't until after I graduated.  Ronald Reagan declared the first #ngwsd back in 1987.  I love watching the Oregon's women's basketball team.  This is their year.  They will be in the final four and win it all!  

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