Girl scouts go ice skating

Me and my two favorite girl scouts.
McKenzie and all the Brownies.
Dulce, McKenzie and Cali

Kenzie trying a few tricks while on the ice. Amazingly she didn't fall.
Me and all 11 of my girls ranging from 2nd grade up to the 7th.


So I have been McKenzie's girl scout leader since she was in 1st grade. She has been in it since Kindergarten however. I have had my share of frustrations and my share of fun with the girls over the years. The troop keeps losing and adding girls. I have had 4 of the girls for 3 yrs and the rest have just been added within the last year. Cali joined my troop last year and has been having a ton of fun. she is especially happy to have a whole group of girls who are her age.

This was our first big activity of this girl scout year. We got to go ice skating. This is the 3rd time I have taken my girls ice skating. Needless to say this is one of the favorite activities because they keep wanting to do it. Over half the girls that were with me on this day had never actually been on ice skates before so needless to say I was a bit nervous about someone breaking their ankle or something. I am very happy to report that while quite a few of the girls fell a few times not no one was seriously hurt. They all had a blast and are already planning another trip.

I love being able to be part of my girls lives in this way.

She's twelve and in young womens how did that happen?

Kenzie mixed in with her beehive class and leaders Sister Blanquie and Sister Collazo
Kenzie with one of our laurel's , Erin
Kenzie, Eliza and my mia maid, Bethany

So she is twelve years old. Wow I can't believe it. Twelve years have just flown by and now she has joined me in Young womens.
SO this is her first activity. She got to go to an activity before she joined them in class. ON the day after her birthday. We had a combined young women activity. Ice cream social. It was a lot of fun. McKenzie had a blast and is extremely excited to be part of young women's.

Our crazy Sunday

So my Sundays are usually pretty relaxing. They usually consist of me and the family going to church and then coming home spending time with my family. We will usually do our family home evening on Sundays because we are all actually at home on this night. That is usually what goes on in the Colborn house on Sunday's and it is great.

However today we had to break away from that routine. It Started at church. CAli tried fasting today and ended up not feeling well because of it. I had to leave half way through my lesson to go take care of her. Thanks Jenny for taking over the lesson and Tammy for letting Cali have the goldfish. I very much appreciate it. I went to BYC and then stayed later while my oldest, Kenzie, had an interview with Bishop Keith. Wow I can't believe today was her last day in primary and that tomorrow she will be twelve. Talk about crazy. I now have a child in young womens. Anyway while i was waiting for her i was listening to the ward choir practice. And I got noticed. CAmeron Knudson made the point of asking if i could be in the choir. Sister Shurtz of course said yes and Me not being able to come up with a good excuse not to participate said sheepeshly ok. So I guess i have been recruited into the ward choir. Thanks Cameron. Actually it should be fun I think.

Anyway to further mess up my Sunday routine Cali while I was in BYC hurt her foot. I was hoping it was nothing but after a few hours she still burst into tears to put the tinest pressure on it. Yeah so we got to go to urgent care to find out she sprained her foot. Yeah she is going to be on crutches for at least a week. thank goodness though it isn't anything more serious.

Halloween

Sammy carving his pumpkin
His finished one eyed alien
Nelson carving
His scarred alien
Cali carving
Her and her princess pumpkin
Ken hard at work
His space invader
you can tell she is really concentrating by where her tonge is
Her howling wolf

Sammy as spiderman
Nelson as the leader of the storm troopers (rex)
Cali as the beautiful bride
Kenzie as the scary ghost


Today was a fantastic day. I always love being able to spend time with my family. And the days when we have fun together make our days together all the better.

Everyone had fun carving their pumpkins today and putting their ideas into action. This evening everyone had fun dressing up and doing some trick or treating. Even Ken and I dressed up. Ken wore the cape i made for him a year or two ago and went as a jedi again this year and I went as a pink lady. This has been a very fun Halloween.

Kenzie's birthday party

Vampire cupcakes



The present she was most excited about this night. She Loves hot tamales!
Eliza,Sam, Mckenzie before the movie.
McKenzie, Sam and Eliza after the movie.

McKenzie is turning 12 on November 2. Wow I can't believe it. So she had invited a few friends over for what was originally supposed to be a Halloween party but when only 2 girls could come we switched to a movie night.

Sam came first. I had the opportunity to meet her mom. The two girls have been wanting us to meet for a while. Apparently she has the same attitude i have in wanting to meet the friends parents before turning our kids over to them. Which is fine with me. The world needs more parents who take an active roll in thier kids lives. Anyway I guess I passed the normal read, Sam was able to stay and enjoy the party.

The girls came and we had pizza then had the vampire cupcakes and ice cream. Afterwards Kenzie opened her presents. She got a scrapbooking kit, a game of clue, a couple of dresses (which she desperately needed), a i tunes card and her favorite gift of the night was the huge bag of Hot tamales. That girl adores her hot tamales. It is really funny how much she loves them actually. I had one of the young women say once that for secret sisters for girls camp she will be easy and she will be, get her hot tamales and she is a happy camper.

I then took the three giggling girls to go see Cloudy with a chance of meatballs in 3-D. They had a great time. That is a fun movie. I really enjoyed it along with the girls. Kenzie said she had a great time even if we didn't get the whole Halloween thing going. And I am glad about that.

MArysville ward trunk or treat Halloween party

Ken as the Charlie Brown ghost
Cali on the Hayride
Nelson On the hayride
My prize winner Mckenzie
Me, Jenny and Tammy as the Pink Ladies.


On the 24th was our wards Halloween party. Everyone had a lot of fun. Kenzie went as a ghost. Cali went a bride. Nelson went as the storm trooper leader, Rex and Sammy was Spiderman. Ken went as the Charlie brown ghost and I was a Pink Lady. Mckenzie won the most unreconizable award in the costume contest.

The party had many fun activities that consisted of a bounce house for the kids, the annual chili cook off, a spook alley put on by the young men , doughnet eating contest, a hayride and face painting done by the young women. Of course there was a trunk or treat done as well at the end of the evening which of course all the kids enjoyed.

During the trunk or treat we had a permanite addition to our decorations for a while. We have a decoration that opens and screams as a zombies pops up. The little girl I am not even sure who she is could not get enough this item. She kept pushing the button over and over and screaming along with it. It was really funny and I really wish i would have had a video camera to capture it on film.

All in all a great time was had by all.

School board meeting

Cali's class waiting to sing.
Cali and her friend Madison H. With nelson in the background.
Cali and Nelson after the song.

The kids singing 40 hour week.

I absolutely love Cali's second grade teacher. her name is Mrs. Anderson. She was also Nelson's second grade teacher. She is wonderful with the kids. But one of the biggest things I love about her besides her doing a wonderful teaching job is she incorporates music into almost everything they do. Every morning the say the plegde of alligence then sing some sort of song ( usually some sort of patriotic thing). I also love that especially now when you see so many songs about obama that she isn't teaching those songs. She keeps her political opinion to herself and teaches them good songs.

Anyway this was there latest performance. They went and performed at the Marysville school board meeting on October 13th. She was missing some of her class that night so she recruited some alumni from her class to come and join them. Yes Nelson was among the 3-4 she recruited. The funny thing about the video is apparently i was singing along and didn't realize it till i watched the video. Oops!!! Thank goodness the kids still can be heard more.