the beck family: Spring Happenings

We got dumped on again in March and enjoyed the snow while it lasted for about one day. Carter & Parker were great helps to clear the walks along with the rest of the boys. I love how they enjoy shoveling and are so helpful. (Carter, blue; Parker, red)

Bradley had an "It's All About Me" poster to fill out for preschool. He took this assignment very seriously and spent hours coloring and writing about each thing. I loved how much attention he gave to the details and wanted to make it so colorful. The poster says: I am 5 years old! I live in Lehi. My friends are: Cadan, Kamry (Jessop), Eli (Wilcox) & Porter (McArthur). I want to be a dad when I grown up! My pets: Viento, Tierra, Fuego. My favorite color - green, orange. My favorite book - "The Night Before Christmas." My favorite foods - macaroni and cheese, ramon noodles.

We had a joint family party with Tanner & Bradley on March 9th. Bradley had this cool cake that I was really impressed at how cool it turned out. I would say it is one of my favorite cakes to make and one of the easiest. Bradley helped me pick out this cake from many pictures online. Then we went to the store and bought 3 cars that he could put on his cake. He was pretty excited about it and his nice sister even made him a party hat. Tanner had a cream cheese cinnamon cake - it didn't look the best but was absolutely delicious. Since one of Bradley's favorite things to do is cut papers into any shape he can, we made snowflake and had a contest between whoever wanted to participate. We laid out a sheet and let the kids go at it with the scissors. There were some really cool snowflakes. We also played the candy bar game at Tanner's request. It was a huge hit especially amongst those that got to eat some of the chocolate:).

Carter

Myles

Melissa

Ashlyn

Rose, Cadan, Bradley & Myles eating their cake.

The next day was Bradley's birthday. He was so excited to get legos from Byron & I. He also got some cool lego figures of Toy Story. He has really been into building things lately and spent a lot of time making cool creations with his brothers.

I am so glad Byron is with the youth so I can get a glimpse every once in a while at what happens at the Joint Activities. This particular activity was they had $10 to buy a whole meal and make it for the Bishopric to taste. The adults couldn't help at all by encouraging to do a certain way or to buy certain foods. There were 5 groups. Byron's group bought hot dogs. Camille & Tanner's group did a chicken pot pie, a salad and butterfinger. It was a fun activity for them. Pretty fun to see what great concoctions were put together.

Tanner was in track at Lehi Jr. High in the Spring. He really enjoyed it. Every day he practiced after school and then was able to participate in 4 meets. Two of them were in Lehi and it was fun to watch. He was in the 800 meters and 1600 meters. A lot of Tanner's friends were also on the team - Michael & Austin Hinckley, Sam Wilcox, Thomas Heaps, Mason Draper, and Kobe Mickelson. Luckily Mason's mom, Angee, took some awesome pictures of Tanner while running (one day I will get me a nice camera that can take photos like this:).