The Current Happenings of our Sweet Jada Babe!

March 13, 2010

So, I have a night once a month were I get together with some of my friends to visit and hang out. Jada always wants to be with us, but I always tell her that it is my special time with my friends. So she got smart, and decided to have her own girls night with her friends :). Very smart girl! She was so excited. So she had 3 friends over. They each brought a treat to share (this is what my friends and I do). Dave was a very sweet Dad, and made them Strawberry/Banana smoothies at Jada's request. They played games, and visited. Jada had a lot of fun. Here is a picture of their fun night!

March 18, 2010

Jada has an awesome Activity Days Leader who is very creative, and always does great activities. So this activity they got to make bunny cakes. The cakes were so dang cute, and Jada had a blast making it. I had to post just how cute it turned out! I am so grateful for great leaders. Thanks Barbara :).

I can not believe how grown up Jada is. It is so crazy that she will be leaving Activity Days and going into Young Women's soon.

April 1, 2010

Jada has been taking piano lessons for about 4 months now. She had her first piano recital this month. We were so impressed with her. She played so well. She did not make one mistake. I was really surprised by how calm she was. I think that I was more nervous than she was. There were 22 kids playing at the recital. So there were a lot of people attending. Even with that many people in the room, she was so calm. I am so happy that she is enjoying playing, and wish that I had stuck with it. I really think she has a talent with piano playing.

Here is some footage of our talented Jada Babe!



Jada you played so beautifully, we are so proud of you. You are a very special daughter, and we are so blessed that you are in our family :). Keep up the good work with the piano. We love you!

Update of the Life of our Teenage/Rockstar Daxton

February 15, 2010

Wow.... Daxton is now the proud owner of a new, very nice electric guitar! It only took us 3 hours at Guitar Center to get it picked out :\. It was fun to watch Daxton and Brayden get so excited. They both said they had died and gone to Heaven when they walked in.

Trying out different guitars!

Poor Brayden... he was getting very upset that he was not getting a new guitar :(. He was having fun at first, but as time went on he got a little more sad. I felt really bad, but not so bad that I was going to spend a big chunk of change to make him happy. Daxton had been saving his own money for quite a while.

Here is the guitar that he finally settled on :)
It is an Epiphone Les Paul Standard!

Daxton has now been taking lessons for a year and a half, and he is doing awesome. I think he was born to play the guitar. The funny thing is you can always tell when Dax is mad, he goes in his room and turns up his amp really loud, and goes crazy. Good thing Dave and I both like rock music :).

March 3, 2010

Well, Dax is sure growing up. He just got his first paycheck! What in the world.... where has the time gone? One of Daxton's friends got to stuff envelopes for money, so she got some envelopes for Dax to stuff. He earned $20! Unfortunately they had to be stuffed by 7 am the next morning, and at 10 pm he wasn't finished. So Dave and I went to work :(. We all finished about an hour later. I was glad to help Dax earn some money :). He even got them turned in on time.

March 12, 2010

Daxton is now very busy. He is constantly hanging out with his friends. Lucky for us he has a very good group of friends. We decided if we wanted to see him, we would have to invite the whole gang to our house! Yes we had 10 of his friends over to watch a movie. Not only did we have his 10 friends, Jada had 2 friends over, and Brayden had 1 friend. Our house was so filled with kids, that it freaked Dawson out. He would not come in the TV room were all of Dax's friends were :). It was so funny.Well Dave and I had rented Old Dogs, and Dax wanted to watch it with his friends. I said that would be fine.... if we could watch it with them. Daxton actually agreed to this arrangement. It was very fun! Although we learned the hard way that teenage girls do not know how to be quiet during a movie :(. It was still very fun to hang with Dax and his friends! They all said I throw a great party... that must have to do with the $40 of treats that were purchased. Okay, I admit it I was trying to buy my way to being the coolest mom ever :) Ha...Ha.... Thanks for letting us hang with you guys Dax :).

Here is the group crammed into our TV room!

March 20, 2010

Daxton had another guitar concert/recital. It was very fun, and he was so great! Two of his cousins (Sarah and Emily) also take from the same teacher. They are all doing so good. They have such a great teacher.

He is definitely on his way to being a rock star!

His teacher is the one with the red guitar.

Two cousins getting very excited to perform!

Three supportive siblings :)

One awesome Aunt Wendy, and one crazy Dad!

I never got a picture of Grandma H., Aunt Laura or Uncle Matt and Aunt Liz :(

One excellent teacher, and three very happy cousins!

I love my family!!

These are all of Ethan students!

This is Sarah and Emily playing their solos.

They are awesome!

Finally... One handsome, talented son!

Daxton is a great son, we love him very much. He is very talented! I am very proud of all his many accomplishments, and happy that he is growing up. Even if it is hard for me to watch him changing so much. Love ya Dax!

Here is some awesome footage of Daxtons concert: