Cub Scouts

A momentous thing happened last night! We now have a BOY SCOUT in the family! I cannot even tell you how excited Riley was to put on his uniform, have his dad show him how to put on a neckerchief, and have me drive him to his first scout meeting!  I am so ready to start this next chapter in our lives of being the 'scout mom' and helping him with projects and pushing him to receive his Eagle...yes, I am going to be THAT mom and proud of it! I want to be involved with him in this!

As Elle & Emery and I were at the Scout shop, I got a little teary eyed as I was picking out all of the things he would need to start this journey out! The guy at the scout shop that was helping me probably thought I was completely psyco because I told him I didn't know anything about where to begin, so he went through everything that our Riley would need to start cub scouts out. He even told me to buy a much larger shirt than what Riley needed so that he could grow into this shirt because he will be using it until he is 11!!! WHAT?

I am super proud of the fact that Regan is an Eagle Scout and that he followed through with this program. Now it is expected that Riley follows in his dad's footsteps!

Isn't he the cutest scout you have EVER SEEN???

Scotty & Lisa's Wedding

The 4 McKell Sisters

{Angie, Andrea, Chrissy & Ashley}

 My dad's speech, he wanted Riley to come up because he likened Riley to what Scotty used to look like

 The Best Wedding Musical Number Ever even if I do say so myself! Lisa asked if I would put something together for the wedding dinner, so I thought how cool would it be to do a flash mob type thing for the musical Number! We started out by playing Pachelbel's Canon, then the music turned into Nat King Cole's LOVE song! We had 4 tables stand up when their letter was up and sing their line! It turned out PERFECT!!!

 Us with our PROPS!

 My cute family at the wedding reception! Can you tell that Emery's tie is larger than his body, Riley's hair is all crazy from running around and the lovely flower girls hair is done for the day!

 The Bride & the flower girls

 The Bride with her sisters and her new sisters! Her sisters are known as the blonde kardashians, so what can the McKell sisters be known for with our dark hair?

 BEST wedding idea I have ever seen! In the corner was a kid table that had a wedding barbie and ken with wedding coloring books and bubbles! My girls were at this table for more than 1/2 the reception!!!!

 Regan & Andrea--going on 11 years!!!

 Pinterest Inspired Wedding---SO CUTE

 The kid table!

Happy 8th Birthday Riley!!!

Happy Birthday to our Cute Riley Boy! He turned 8 today!!! Cannot even believe how fast time has flown by with him! We love our Ry Guy so much!
*Riley is the smartest boy I know!
*Riley LOVES to read {reads a chapter book in a day and can't wait to take the AR test on it the next day}
*Riley is Super Funny!
*Riley is so social & outgoing
*Riley is amazing at the violin
*Riley loves sports
*Riley's loves playing with friends
*Riley loves video games!
*Riley loves hanging out with family!
*Riley LOVES the tres leches at cafe rio!!
We love our 8 year old and can't wait to see him get baptized! He is so so so excited!

Valentines & Violin

 Just can't get over how cute this little 3 year old girl is!!!

 Elle just started to play the violin 2 weeks ago! Her and I get along very very well when it comes to a student teacher relationship, so I have decided to start out teaching her myself and continue having Riley & Sunny stay with their awesome violin teacher and just help them practice everyday! Elle can tell you all of the parts of the violin, hold her violin up for 3 minutes, and play tucka tucka stop stop on the a and e string! She loves that she can finally play with her older brother and sister!!!

 2 cute little violin girls

 Happy Valentines Day! Chocolate & books!!!

Violin Recital & Ward Talent Show this weekend! Riley played Humoresque at the talent show and recital, Sunny played Allegretto, and Regan and I performed the Devil went down to Georgia {our signature we leave in every ward we have been in} I love the fact that my kids are really good at the violin, and they actually enjoy playing!!!

Before Picture

This is the before picture of our family room! Pretty, but just no color! The rug was taking up the whole room!

New Family Room

 Why can't I just be content with the way things already are in my house is the question, but for some reason I have this design bug in me and I don't even have real experience in design! All I know is that whey I see an idea and like it, I kinda feel like I have to do it! I sold 2 rugs on ksl and used that money to start this project! I was super nervous about painting a stencil on to a rug, and Regan was too, but he never said no so I went for it! I ordered a houndstooth stencil online, painted it onto an ikea rug and this is what you get! I saw this idea on vintage revivals website and LOVED it! I brought some blue and yellow's into the room as well! It was fun to feel like I was going shopping in my own house because we have not used that coffee table, end table and lamp for years!

 I am making a cute wreath to go above the double doors!

 Love the distressed look of the table and rug! Love that I found cool books to go on my table!

 My cute Sister Ashley made me this flower pillow and the F pillow below for Christmas! Aren't they awesome! I got the cool blue pillows from my amazing friend Manon!

 K-fell in love with this chair from the 1st time I saw it! I honestly think it pulls everything together!

 Love that my bookcases don't look cluttery anymore! I still wish that tv was not there but hey, it was free and was already mounted to the wall when we bought the house!

On top of the piano-the pray, read, obey and smile are a young women thing but Love that it can help our family out too!!! I still need to paint the lamp shade and put a few more extras in, but this is it!

Happy Valentines Day

 When things are too large to put in Sunny's school book, I take a picture of them and then throw them away! I know that is harsh, but I can't keep this huge valentine and Lincoln hat forever right?

 I don't know what was going on with Elle, but big Sis Sunny was right there to comfort her during our routine twinner outfit pic!

 I was in charge of Riley's class Valentines Party and the craft in Sunny's class party! Rounding up 48 cans for this crafts was not easy but a lot of my friends came through for me and gave me what they had, and we ate progresso soup and green beans for a week!!! I made up this idea of making valentine robots with the cans because boys and girls would like it and it turned out to be a hit! I had parents and teachers coming in the classroom to check out how cute they were and the kids loved decorating them!!!

 These are the extra cans that we made on Valentines Night!!!

Welcome Home Elder McKell

 Middle of January was a shock because we found out that my cute brother who is serving a mission in Mexico had to come home for surgery because of some pain he was having! It was fun to wake the kids up at midnight and go to the airport to welcome him home from his mission! My kids were SO excited to see their uncle! Emery had never met Robby, so that was fun for them to see each other for the 1st time!

 Elle says. "bless uncle wobby on his mission" in every single prayer she says which is 5 times a day! She loved seeing her uncle!

                        Emery has really taken to Robby and loves to be held by him! Robby had surgery and is now just recovering and working at the MTC while waiting to go back on his mission!

 I organized a Book of Mormon Read a thon with all of the youth in my ward in January and Robby was my surprise guest!!! It was cool to hear him read the scriptures in spanish and I could just feel the spirit as he read.

 Regan was the hit of the read a thon! He did voices for the people in the book and made the scriptures exciting! He helped wake up the youth!!! I will say that telling 20 teenagers to read scriptures for 2 days straight is NOT EASY!!!! Even though there was a lot of complaining and kids not wanting to be there, I just hope that they got something out of this amazing accomplishment!!!

 Here we are after reading the last chapter out loud together!!!

Riley really got into reading the scriptures out loud!!! He loved this experience and he is 7!!!