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Monday, May 4, 2009

Avery's 12th Birthday

Avery turned 12 on Saturday. How did that happen? We celebrated with a Movie Premiere Party. First he got breakfast in bed. Crepes with nutella, stawberries and whip cream. Avery's favorite. The rest of us were getting ready for the 5K. Avery came up with most of the ideas for the decorations, I just bought them. The family room was transformed into a movie theater, and the front door was the red carpet. We even had security. You definitely did not get in without a ticket. We even had a party crasher and security had to get rough. After your picture with the host, we played games, ate pizza in the green room, made our own stepping stones on the walk of fame, ate cake, opened presents,(Avery thought that was the best part) and then watched the premiere of " Hotel for Dogs". Everyone got popcorn, licorice and sour patch kids to tide them over during the movie. At the end while waiting for parents they played musical chairs again and again. Who Knew. The party was definitely was a big hit

Here are those willing to take a picture. The rest were getting ready for the Antelope High 5K run.

Red carpet with security

Here's Avery with one of the bouncers.

Looks like someone doesn't have a ticket to get in. Security!!!

Movie Theater aka family room.

Here are the guests with their entry ticket. You didn't get in without one. We had a couple of party crashers. Security was very busy.

Alyssa Reinarts, Drew Vaterlaus, Ajit Ramdava, Josh Bourgeous, Joseph Williams, Kayla, Craig Mortensen, Paige Mortensen, Symber Canepari, Avery and Emily Golthorpe

Making their stepping stones on the walk of fame.

Hey, How did this guy get in here!! Security!!!

Pizza was served and Jarrett helped serve the food. He was multi tasking today

Happy Birthday sweet boy! I can't believe that you are 12 already

Antelope 5K Run

On Saturday Morning we got up nice and early. It was Avery's 12 th Birthday and 4 of us were running the 5k Run for Antelope High School. We were promised no rain by the weather people but to no avail, it rained anyway. I am a fair weather exerciser outside so I was not happy. Luckily, I wore a hat and that seemed to help alot. It ended up not being so bad. Devin got third overall ( 19:30 estimate) and Brian ran it in 27:13. I jogged, walked in before 40 min.

The starting line behing a new 2009 Honda Civic that is being raffled off in November. That would be fun to win.

Here I am in my funny hat. Paige ran for her soccer team but not very many of her team came out.

There were a lot of people from our ward out to support the school. That was really cool. We probably would have had more people but the weather kept many away.

Next year I hope to jog the whole thing. I am not planning on trying to beat Devin. Maybe we will get Avery and Jarret to come next year, too.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Blue and Gold Dinner

The Cub Scout Blue and Gold Dinner(this is to celebrate the birthday of the cubscouts) was last night. It was lot more relaxing for me since I am no longer a den leader. The theme was American ABC's. So they had each boy pick a state to represent and make flags and info about that state for the dinner. The boys also had to make a cake with their dads, no female help at all. I bought the ingredients but that was all. Jarrett had picked Arizona. As you can see they really got into the frosting of the cake. Jarrett was very proud of the final product.

These are some of the other cakes that the other boys brought. Jarrets' is the one in the upper right hand corner. Zachary thought that we could get the cake when we first got there. He had his plate all ready. He was disappointed when we told him that we needed to eat dinner first. So of course he said let's eat right now.

We also had a special guest. My uncle Ron had a conference here in Sacramento so we had him come with us to the dinner while he was visiting. It was good to see him. He reminds me alot of my grandfather.

Science Fair Project

Jarrett had his science fair this past week. So far he is the only one that was bugging me to help him get it done before it was due. We had it all done by Sunday night and the Science Fair was Thursday night. It was nice not to have to stay up late to get it all done. Jarrett pretty much came up with the idea and worked on it all by himself. He had water, salt water, and colored water and froze them. Then he saw how long it took for each to melt. I was very impressed. Way to go Jarrett.

Sunday, March 1, 2009

Pinewood Derby 2009

This year I am not a cub scout leader so it was fun to just be able to watch. There was popcorn and cotton candy to eat while you watched the races. Jarrett came in third and you would have thought that he won by the way that he acted. A fun night for all.

Jarrett won this race

Pismo Beach 2008

As you can see I am posting old pictures but I am just getting this blog thing down
and my mom wanted to see these pictures. Every couple of years the Haynie Family goes to Pismo Beach. We stay in condos for a week and just enjoy beach living. I know there are more pictures but my sister Claire and brother Richard have those. Hint, hint. We went kayaking, quading, fishing off the pier, shopping( the girls like this the best ), playing in the water, playing in the sand and just relaxing. Each night a different family made dinner and that was fun and delicious. We can't wait until next time.

The Grandkids

This was so cool.

Grandpa making crepes for breakfast. He is the expert at it. First, a hot crepe, nutella, strawberries, bananas and whiped cream. Roll it up and eat as many as grandpa will make.