Cousins

All smiles....

Brynlie and Sadie are such great friends...it is great to have family close by and to let our kids grow up together. Every time we pull into the Bond's neighborhood Sadie knows where we are going and will yell Brynlie's name over and over....it is so cute. Go greatful for family!

Salsa anyone....

She thinks she is so funny....

Drinking the salsa....yummy!

This chick is crazy...I have never met a kid who loves salsa "dip" as she calls it more than Sadie. I had given the kids a bowl of salsa and chips for a snack and I came into the kitchen to find Sadie on top of the table drinking the salsa....You are one crazy girl.

Service project

For FHE we packed all of our teaching supplies into plastic boxes.

Yea....we finished or teacher boxes! Disneyland here we come.....

Half Day

The posers...the little girls are always will to take a picture!

Sadie in the background tagging along

Paige looking thrilled I want to take her picture :-)

Basketball on the trap

Tumbling...

Sierra, Halle, Sophine and Hayley

Getting ready for dodgeball

Is it just me or are there way to many days off and half days...hee hee :-)

Yesterday was half day and we had a blast. Riley had friends over and they played dodge ball, had a water fight and played basketball. Both girls had a few friends over too. They passed out flyers for our treasures 4 teachers and played games and did tumbling. It was fun just to have a day to hang out with the kids but WOW I more tired than when I work all day. Glad I have the opportunity to be home with my kids and I love to watch Sadie try to get in the mix of all the older kids friends, she is much cooler than most normal 2-year-olds!

Treasures 4 Teachers

The Bond family is doing a school/teaching supplies drive for teachers in need for Treasures 4 Teachers organization in Tempe. We will be collecting school supplies and/or teaching supplies of any kind (glue sticks, pencils, crayons, markers, dry erase markers, red pens, etc.) to be distributed to teachers in need in Arizona. Anything is greatly appreciated! We will be collecting the donations in a basket near our front door from now until Sunday February 21. If you are unable to get to the store we are also taking donations and will purchase the supplies for you. Remember even $1 can purchase some greatly needed products for some teachers in need. The community is providing these boxes to show support to teachers that would not otherwise have classroom supplies to teach with.

Thanks for your support, Love the Bond Family
Questions call 480-632-7357

Great pics

They are so clear....amazing!

A friend in my ward is a great photographer and took these pics at church. She is so amazing...I can't wait to have her take our family photos this year. Her website is amyfraughtonphotography.com

President's Day

Nice signs...

This is the future of banking right here...he has $2.25 already

Paige K and Paige B...with arms folding waiting for me to go home :-(

I love goverment holidays...because literally there is no work (typing) so I don't have to get up early, constantly be thinking how I can fit an hour or two of work in and still hang out with my kids....I just get to chill all day long so fun! Today we had our cousins sleep over last night, the girls got the Areobed out and slept in the living room and stayed up to 12 or at least that is when I gave up :-). We got up and had breakfast and cleaned up a bit and then rode bikes to Subway and to the park and played for a while....Sadie was wiped by the time we got home so she hit up a nap, which I could have done but decided to update 3 months worth of my blog :-) and the other kids had a lemonade (2 liter soda) stand. In between blog postings I came out of my office to check on things...my kitchen looked like a bomb hit from making signs, and when I walked down to the corner they had 4-12 packs of soda in addition to the 3-2 liters I said they could use. Crazy kids. Riley said they were not having any luck...he thinks its the economy and Paige thinks that her mom checking up on her is scaring away all of the business and that I should go home quick! Real funny...I think I will get a chair and camp out down there.

My pantry is cleaned out from having kids over all day but its so worth it and they are having fun.

Camera thief

She took this herself...might be a little close


Wow, what are your eyes doing

Can't find your camera or your phone...just ask Hayley and be prepared to have a bunch of random photos...this girl lives to take pictures with my phone and my camera...here are just a few, Thanks Hayley we could always use a couple extra photos :-)

FHE

Not the greatest photo, but its at least proof that we had FHE at least once this month :-)

For family home evening this week we got a bunch of families together in our ward for a family kick ball game. It was pretty fun and the kids really enjoyed it. Hayley was over it pretty quick and helped take care of all the babies...Thanks Haha...you are a great babysitter. I think aside from Steve Anderson I am pretty much the best kickball player....NOT but it was still fun anyway.

I'm back...

Where have I been....LIFE, need I say more :-). 4 kids, a job (multiple jobs if you count activity coordinator, laundry doer, carpool driver, lost shoe finder and AR reading enforcer, my least favorite out of all) , Saturday games cheer leader, a few birthdays, etc....WOW I am tired just typing this but I think you get the idea of where I have been the last few months...no different than every other mom out there trying to raise a family. Sometimes having a family gets in the way of documenting your family but I have an entire afternoon today to get caught up and hopefully stay that way the rest of the year! The funny thing about getting behind is that if you are not thinking about your next post you really don't take as many pictures.

Valentine's Day

Humm...wonder what she was eating maybe a ring pop?


really wish I could crop this photo to be closer....

Are they sisters?

For some reason I absolutely love Valentine's day...maybe its the romantic in me, all the red or all the candy or that it is exactly one week away from my birthday (its like a prebirthday celebration) but I always look forward to it. I got me and my girls these really cute matching shirts and we all wore them on Friday and we got Riley a shirt that said "All the Ladies Love me". He was a great sport and wore it for his party. Sadie got to get up early from her nap and make the rounds to all the class parties and get a treat at every stop...she loved that as you can tell by the pictures. Then after school a bunch of kids came over and hung out for a while....my living room looked like a candy Christmas. It was super fun...and I am starting to love this life stage as the kids get older and friends are hanging out more and more, so fun!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Paige's 9th Birthday

Who doesn't love movie theater popcorn...Yummy!

Who are all these sassy girls...so cute!

Wow are we getting old or what....my cute little Pager is turning 9! She decided to take a few friends to see "Tooth Fairy" and go to Dairy Queen. It was super fun with one minor glitch....we showed up about 20 minutes early and the movie was sold out, stuff like that always happens to her...so I got on my trusty iPhone and found another theater although we got there quite a bit early it gave us a chance to get all the snacks we could ever want. She got a few webkins, CDs, necklace and had a cookie dough blizzard. It was a great time. On her actual birthday we got Krispy Kreme for her birthday school snack and ate Somburros for dinner...that a girl who knows where to go on her birthday...yummy my favorite place too!

Happy Birthday Pager...we love you!

Alex's baseball game

leading off first...

Uncle Alex (my brother) played a baseball game at HohoKam Staium this week so we went and watched...it was so fun. I can't wait for my kids to get older, hopefully they love sports as much as Ryan and I do. He is really good and plays for Gateway Community College. The pitcher on the other team had a total melt down cusing up a storm, yelling, etc....after the incident was over we were all laughing at how rediculous he looked and Paige says "I recorded it on my iPod" Uh oh wouldn't want anyone to see that....it was pretty funny though. My 9-year-old has the technology and knows how to use it and I can barely up load my camera photos :-)