8th Grade Graduation

We have a tradition in my family that when you graduate from 8th grade you receive a ring with your birthstone in it. Mindi received a pink flowered ring and a necklace with a few diamonds and pink stone in it that is a high hill. As most teenagers she was very excited and showed enthusiasm about receiving something so speacial. More will come Not working right now.

Bailey's Baptism & Isabell's Baby Blessing

May was a busy month. Bailey DeVroom was baptised and her sister Isabella was blessed in Sandy Utah near their home. The weather was great and several friends and family were there to celebrate this special time in David and Clare's Live.

The DeVroom family. Bailey and Hadley such beautiful girls.

The Luce Family Great Grandma Rogers was there for the grand kids. There were several cousins.

David and Ethan, family gatherings around the chapel. David and his kids.

The Snow family. The Babcock family was there but I was the one taking the photos so I usually don't get to be in the pictures. We were grateful to be involved in the gathering of family events like these. Congratulations DeVroom's.

Mothers Day

Mothers Day is always so much fun. I love to see how many things the kids make from school. Damon he is so creative he made a game for the family to play on. He made players, board, cards and instructions. He wrote me a song, a poem and made 2D pop out cards. Devon gave me a book of his journals from school. I love to read what he thinks. I asked Mindi what she made me. Now being 14 years old she wished me Happy Mothers Day on face book. How thoughtful. We went out to dinner at Texas Road house and everyone had a really enjoyable time being together as a family.

Soccer Tryouts

Soccer Tryouts for the Boys!

We had a gap between soccer games, there was a sign right down the street from our house for competitive soccer tryouts. So Devon really wanted to try-out not wanting to do football this year. So prior to Damon's soccer game that we coach he wanted to come over and try out. Within 20 minutes he had 4 coaches look at him. They were pretty impressed especially sense Damon never stops running around the field. He was asked to come back for call backs. He played a full game on a full size field. We received a call this week and Damon made the team. He said "I was surprised I was that good" I said he had done really well and loves to play. He is so excited to start. They will be having practice 3 times a week and travel to play other teams. We will know more for Devon in the next 2 weeks weather he will play or not. Damon ran really well and is competitive with the other players. He mentioned to me "Mom these guys are really fast!". He really wants to do something different this year. I guess the coaching for indoor and outdoor for the kids have paid off.

Indoor Soccer Coach

Ben & I were indoor soccer coaches for Devon and Damon's teams. We had a great time and the kids really did well and learned a allot. As the gift for the last game I gave the kids these Water bottles with their names on them. Both teams did really well through out the season. It was a great experience and fun to be involved with the kids activities. Sense we were coaches there wasn't much time for picture taking for video recording so the memories and experience will just be those we can share.

Devon is a Scout

Devon is now 11 years old which means he is a Scout. He is so excited to earn as many badges and do as many outdoor things as he can. We had a Court of Honor for him already and he was able to wear his whole uniform. We bought one large enough that hopefully we don't have to buy to many. He is such a loving kid but we sure have to buy several sizes for him to grow up in each stages of his life. He will soon be 12 this summer. I can't believe how fast the time goes. I can reflect on when we had him home in our 2 bedroom apartment in Rancho Cucamonga being almost 10 pounds out of the hospital and eating 12 cases of formula a month. He loves to eat and sleep as a child and it has continued as he has gotten older. He is very active and adventures and will do really well in the Scout program. Great job Devon!

Weekend Get Away to Las Vegas

I was given a Friday off from work. We had not been any where out of Utah for quite sometime so we drove to Las Vegas for the weekend. The boys went with us while the teenager Mindi had other plans with friends. She wanted to come but couldn't do both. So she stuck with he friends like most teenagers would.


It was so nice to lay out by the pool having the warm sun shine on you. This winter in Utah it has snowed and rained almost every day. It was nice to run away to a warmer climate.

The boys were able to pick one show to watch for a night. They picked "Chris Angel" the allusionist. It was an awesome show we all really loved it.

The boys and I went around taking pictures and become a mummy in the Lexur while Ben took a nap sense he was out all night enjoying his time.

We really had a great time being together and getting away from reality. It will be nice to plan something like that again.

Damon recieved his Bobcat Award

Damon could not Wait. He received his first award in Cub Scouts his Bobcat. He is anxious now to get them all. Ben and I have been called into the Cub Scouts and are are the leaders for the Bobcats and Wolfs which are the 8 year old. We have 9 boys currently for all levels of Boys Scouts and have been working with the Bears, and the Weblos as well. For those who have been in Scouts that is very tough especially for someone who new nothing about Scouting. We we had to learn fast. It has been great each boy so excited to come every week. We had our Blue and Gold dinner on Feb 23rd and turned out fantastic everyone attended with their parents.

We had two other boys receive their award.

We are so proud of you Damon, great job on you Bobcat award!

The Begining of 2010

The kids made an igloo and we were watching Nathan our nephew the one night and they were building more and more walls he wanted to help and join in the fun. I can't say being out in the cold playing with snow is fun. Its to cold for me!

So we have all been busy with new jobs, new sports that we are playing, and also getting into trouble. In the fist two months of 2010 these are some of the events that took place.

Jr. Babcock was baptised in January. I can't believe how much he has grown you can see him with Damon & Devon. They also had a new addition to their family and now they have 4 kids. So they have their hands full. We were able to have Nancy and Larry come visit from Oregon where they are living now so we had some get together while they were here.

Jaden Luce my sister Laura's oldest was also Baptised. We were able to attend his as well. IT was nice getting together and seeing one another when we can at these special times.

Devon wanted to grow his hair out long and shaggy like a skater only his hair is so thick and grows so fast that he finally let us cut it all off. He had so much hair I think it was the first time it was this long. I do hope the last. He looks so much better with his cut shorter. Thanks to Ann Snow his aunt she took it cut it all off for him.

Devon is paying Basetball this year and is doing pretty good. He is strong and quick at taking hte ball down makes some lay ups and shots even has had some 3 pointers but he is still learning to be on the defensive side, hands up and getting the ball back or even getting a turn over while being defensive. He loves to shoot hoops all day long. Its been fun watching his games each Saturday. Devon and Damon will both be playing indoor soccer next. Ben and I are are the coaches for both of their teams this year. Yea us!

As far as trouble well I hate to label and mention it but Devon is trouble. He gets around trouble and becomes trouble. The last two months we have been working with him tiring to figure out what the change was that came about at school. He is such a loving, kind, helpful kid but the last two months he became a whole different person. We were able to figure out a little about what went on. He received 3 pink slips from school one after the other. Now a pink slip at school is not good, you go to the office talk to the principle and have to have a parent sign them to return back the next day. He with several other boys would talk back, Devon being more mouthier then the others was sent to the Principles office for two months to eat lunch until it changed. Then he had a sub for two days and he just gave it to him and was so rude and disrupted that finally the next time his teacher had a sub he was suspended for two days and almost not wanting him to return back to school. I was beside myself. What is the change? What can we do to help him through this. My older sister mentioned puberty its the age. Then I was besides myself I didn't know what to do. With Devon it doesn't phase him. So I sat down with him, calmly and just asked what is going on what can we do to help, is something happen at school that we don't know about? He just started crying, no words and really upset. So I used the Spiritual side of things, well you are the only person who can help yourself. We are here for you and help you daily no matter what. I suggest if you don't know what to do and if you are upset they way you are channeling your anger is not working and hurting others around you so I suggest you saying a little prayer each morning or stop and think about what you are doing while being mad before you act upon it. He has been grounded for over a month now, in his room no TV, radio, computer, games etc. He is to read all day long in his room. He even tried getting out of it once he said he was bored and hated being home. I said next time your choices will be different then hu, there are consequences for your choices. Let me tell you its the hardest thing to ground a child and be so st ricked because the whole family gets grounded. We found out that Devon needed more love, more attention and more one and one with all that he does. He is an emotional, loving kid and wants us to tell him all the time how good he is doing, getting rewards when he is doing well. We worked out a program that he does well that once a month we have one on one time with him, a date night a place he would like to go to. My older sister shared a story with him and the minute you want to KILL your child is one you should sit back think, and be calm to see what you can do together. Now it doesn't work with every child and usually nothing works with him. I will tell you that his grades are better, he had a sub today at school and did well, the Principle is getting him out of his office and can eat in the cafeteria with his friends again. The biggest thing is that we are working together on his needs. I put allot of Faith & trust into this one. We needed to start now sense he will be 12 a teenager. I don't want it to be later. I want to thank you my family for their thoughts and ideas, sometimes you have to look outside to look in.

Devon we love you and you are doing well. Great job keep up the good work. As far as the other 2 Mindi and Damon as much as we don't like to label again, they are both straight A students. They work hard sometimes but love to do well. Mindi has been asked to do AP English next year for 9th grade. We are proud of her and Damon just received 3rd place in his school class by sharing a story he made up and told it in front of the class its called "Story Telling". I must say he had so many expressions and large words that I didn't know it was one of my kids. He has such a large imagination.

So if you haven't heard from us we are not lost of gone we were pulling it together! Love our friends and family.

The Babcocks