Last year on June 1st I challenged the kids to try and go for a year without candy.
I told them they would get $100 if they could make it.
Everyone except for Anna agreed to try
(Anna said that candy was just too precious to her :) )
I told them if they messed up, then they could start their year over from the day the messed up.
Noah accidentally messed up on June20th when he was at Strawberry days, so he started over.
Grace made it for about a month and a half...but Girls Camp ended it for her.
Isaac lasted a few more months, but decided to end his try as well.
Noah, Dallin and I all made it.
(You might have noticed birthday wishes this year included eating candy, so I guess we each had one cheat day...though to be honest, on our cheat day we only ate one or two things.)
Noah and Dallin were excited to get their $100!
I'm proud of them for completing this challenge!
Below you can see the contract I had them sign.
As you can tell...there were still plenty of sweets they could have.
This was by no means a completely sweet free year!
But, it was still a challenge :)
Our youth participated in a fun service activity with the special needs youth group.
It was a 50s theme activity night.
I think they look great!
Isaac told me that he kept getting compliments all night :)
Dressing up wasn't a requirement, but you could do it if you wanted to.
Dallin went to the activity too, but chose not to get dressed up so he didn't want to be in the picture.
I'm glad that my kids like to serve and help others (usually)
From the report I got after the activity, it sounds like they all had a great time!
Isaac got the first aid and coin collecting merit badges and he got 2nd class and 1st class rank.
Dallin got his Duty to God and Varsity letter and pin.
Noah got a Varsity bar. For some reason Noah escaped getting a picture. I think it's because I took them at home and he didn't come home with us, he went to see a movie with friends.
For his birthday breakfast he wanted a tall stack of homemade pancakes.
Some of his birthday wishes
No chores
Game day
Ride shotgun
Go to Dairy Queen with Mom and Dad
Eat candy (he's still going strong on the no candy for a year)
He didn't go crazy with candy, he just wanted to eat this sucker that his friend
gave him, and I think he had a few other pieces of candy too...but not much.
Leave his water cup in the fridge water dispenser place.
Kind of a funny wish. He says it makes it easier to get water when he wants it :)
Light his birthday candle
Eat in the living room
I had been at my Grandma's house earlier that day with my mom and my sister Marcy. We were cleaning some things out and my mom thought it would be funny for me to take this bunny birthday wreath home and tell Dallin it was a present for him. He thought it was hideous and was only slightly amused :)
He wanted a pizookie from Firebird for his birthday "cake" so we ordered several of them.
I'm not exactly sure what the pose was about in the first picture, but I'm glad I captured it, ha ha!
He also wanted to put his candle out with his fingers - I think that was one of his wishes
One of his cards, his treat and
his book choice by his favorite author
This was his big gift and he absolutely LOVES it!
So glad I could find one that fit him, thanks Amazon!
It's a replica of the jacket that Clark Kent wears in the last season of Smallville
While I was gone to visit my friend LeeAnn, Noah and Dallin went to Comicon and Mike took Isaac and Anna to Pleasant Grove Promenade. (Where was Grace...I don't know, probably hanging out with friends)
They listened to a band called Bonne Nuit, most of the band members go to our church.
I think they had fun!
Like I said, Noah and Dallin went to Comicon. They made their own costumes. They are characters from Magik the Gathering...don't ask me what their characters names are because I don't know.
They had a great time!
Noah even got me a sweet gift.
He met Cary Elwes and got me an autograph! I love it!
Sorry for the blurry picture of it, I'll have to try and get a better shot of it.
I've been helping out with some cleaning and stuff at my Grandma's house and my uncles house in Ogden. I was happy to have the chance to get some of my Grandpa Elmer's ties. My boys each wore one to church yesterday. They never got the chance to know him because he died when I was about 14. I always felt a closeness to him though because I was born on his birthday. He was such a great man.
Dallin had his Spring orchestra concert last night. He did a great job of course.
After the concert his teacher told all the parents to take their children out for ice cream...so we had to!
I took the kids to Macey's for ice cream cones. Everyone had a Baby Kong except for Dallin, who got the Ultimate Kong...it's huge, especially for only 1.89 :)
At our troop's court of honor at the end of January both Noah and Dallin received the LDS-BSA Commemoration Award of the Buffalo.
Noah also received his bronze palm (which I can't figure out why I didn't get a picture of) except I guess you can kind of see it on his uniform in the above picture, pinned onto his Eagle medal.
Dallin also had earned the Thomas S. Monson award, but he had to wait to actually get the award until last Sunday because they like to award them in the quorums.
We are so proud of all these boys have accomplished and continue to accomplish.
They really are growing into fine young men!
