One Reason I Love Conference Week!!

Ok, so I really do love to listen to conference! I love the messages we hear from the leaders and the council that we are given. I have to confess, however, that there is another reason that I love conference week! It is the semi-annual Memories scrapbook warehouse sale!!! I have an addiction, it is true. I LOVE to buy scrapbook supplies! I used to love to scrapbook but now I just take pictures and collect supplies (who has time to sit and scrapbook??) I always go and I always buy! The sale runs Wed-Friday the week before conference weekend. It is a tradition of mine that I love. I really don't need anymore but I can't resist! Ok, so this looks like a lot of stuff but when I went (which was the last hour of the sale) and everything was BOGO! I couldn't resist! So I bought a bunch of cute stuff for my sister and called her and told her that I had her Christmas present already! I got rub-ons, ribbon, embelishments, stamps, albums, storage items etc. I got all of it for $75....not bad since if I would buy it full price at Roberts it would be at least $350! Anyway...this is one of my hobbies and I love it! If any of you need some cute stuff, come on over, I'd love to share (since there is NO WAY I will ever use it all!!!)

Trying Again:)

Ok, I am going to try this again and add some more pics of my other children..yes I have 2 more kids, it just seems like I am always posting pictures of Kaitlyn. Maybe that's because she is involved in so much that I take lots of her lately. McKay and Lexi are really cute too:) McKay was just selected last week to be a 6th grade peer leader. That means he gets to help with school activities and show new kids around the school. I think it is kind of like a student body officer except he was selected by the teachers instead of being voted in. He is doing AWESOME at school (straight As) and is so good about getting all of his homework done without being asked. Now if I could just get him to clean his room as diligently as he is about homework. Lexi is on a comp team for dance again this year and loves it. She is still into Hannan Montana anything and knows the words to every song she has ever sung. I hope Miley Cyrus comes back to Utah in concert! Lexi has really developed a love for reading and is reading all of the time. She is such a fun kid to have around! Friends are really important to her and she is always planning "late night" activities for her and her friends. It is a riot to have them around and watch them be so girly! Ok, enough about my cute kids!

Blogging Loser continued

Ok, so now it is confirmed that I am the blogging loser. I don't know how to add more pictures on my other post so I am adding another post....it won't let me add more pictures!!! I don't know what is up. So I'll end this dumb post and try again later (hopefully not 3 months from now!)

I am a blogging loser!

I have decided that I am a blogging loser. I really don't enjoy blogging on my own blog, I just like reading everyone elses blogs. But since I haven't posted for like 3 months, I decided to at least post some pics of some activities this summer. We finshed the yard the first part of July and had a fun summer with grass instead of dirt! We really didn't do a lot this summer except let the kids play with friends and hang out. I had lots of good intentions to get my scrapbooks all organized and I think I only did like 4 pages all summer. But we had a busy summer nevertheless. I'll try to give a brief update on each of the kids. Kaitlyn had a very busy summer! She went to EFY the week after we came back from Georgia. She also went to Girl's camp and Youth conference. She spent lots of time cheering and has had a blast. She went to cheer camp and had an absolute riot! We had team pictures taken at Hazen this summer.....really pricy pictures but they did hair and make-up for all of the girls and did a real "photo shoot". Kaitlyn's pictures turned out so good that I had to buy the blasted CD with all of them. I have included a few of them for you all to see.

McKay was seriously the party man this summer. He had more sleep overs and "late nights" than I can count. There was always at least one or two boys here this summer hanging out. I am so grateful for his good friends! He has got some great ones! McKay played baseball this summer and went to Webelos camp. He was excited for 6th grade and is loving it so far. He was selected to be a peer leader for 6th grade and is loving school.

More Georgia Pictures

Ok, I'm a Slacker!

Ok, I know that I am a slacker when it comes to blogging. I have good intentions and then I get sidetracked with life in general. The kids and I finished school on May 23rd and on the 24th we left for Georgia. We had an amazing vacation and it was great to see Ken's sister Terie and her family. We went to an Atlanta Braves Game on Memorial Day, went to Stone Mountain (a civil war battle site), and then went to Savannah for two days. We even made a little side trip to Hilton Head Island, SC just to say we had been there. We also went to Tybee Island, GA and visitied Fort Pulaski, another civil war site. Kaitlyn went to Especially for Youth the week we returned and we have actually had a week without any huge commitments. I have been trying to "organize" my scrapbook supplies that have been boxed up for the past year since the move. I think I have a serious illness with collecting stuff. Now I just need to start scrapbooking again! If anyone wants to come over, I have lots of room and lots of stuff you can use!!! Ken has been working on the yard and I think we will be ready to start the sprinklers in a week and hopefully we will have grass by the 4th (that is my hope anyway!) I really want a yard! The dirt pile is not as much fun as grass! I'm not sure what we will do with our time once the yard is done! I posted some pics of the trip so you can see how pretty Georgia is!

OK, OK, I know it has been a long time!!!!

Ok, so I know it has been over a month since I blogged last. I should be folding laundry and scrubbing my bathrooms but instead, here I sit updating my blog site. I am afraid no one will lurk anymore if I don't get on the ball! Thngs here at the Banta home have been crazy as ever. I swear May is every bit as busy as December anymore! Here are some pics to prove the insanity! We have had induction ceremonies for cheer, National Jr. Honor Society, Jr. High Awards Night, piano recital, dance competitions (we took first again :)) and dance recital on Saturday. Not to mention fieldtrips, work, cleaning and church stuff. And in the spare time we Ken is trying to work on the yard to get ready for grass. We finish school on Friday and 23rd and then we board a plane for Georgia to visit Ken's sister. Then the fun actually begins! We are going to a Brave's game on Memorial Day and then we are off to Savannah for a couple of days to play at the beach. It will be way fun and pictures will be coming! Well, that's it in a paragraph about our crazy month!!!! Have a great day!