The Knowles Family

Sunday, July 31, 2011

Maddie Starts at AVEDA

Maddie's summer came to an abrupt halt a few weeks ago as she started

at the AVEDA Institute the beginning of July.

Maddie has long 10 hour days at school but it's only on MTF and she has

Wednesday and Thursdays off. She's really enjoying it and we can't wait to be her

"guinea pigs" at school as she learns. It's going to be great to have

our hairdresser so handy!

The first week of school she got an ipad as part of her tuition.

Then last week she came home with all her fun supplies!

The mannequin where she will perform many haircuts!

Dave being... Dave :)

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Happy 15th Birthday Talbie!

Yesterday was Talbie's 15th birthday!

I don't know where all the time flies to. My kids are getting old :(

On Thursday my parents took Talbie out to lunch. Talbie was the

first one to drive in grandma's new "Smart Car"

I was lucky to get to with them this year :)

Talbie with Grandma and Grandpa's at "JCW's"

Then last night Dave and I took Talbie to Brick Oven for dinner.

We are so proud of Talbie! She is such a hard worker and wonderful

member of our family. An example of Talbie's ambition is that at the beginning

of the summer, she found a job as a nanny, tending an 18 month year old little boy. She works on MWF and she makes $100 a week. She has been budgeting her money each week into

envelopes - $10 tithing, $40 savings, $20 spending, and $30 for school clothes.

She already has a darling wardrobe to start 10th grade with her

school clothes budget - never once asking if we are giving her any money for school clothes. She's a "go getter!"

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Restoration Project

Bronson and Dave starting restoring a gun this summer. It was a gun

that used to be Dave's dad's - in fact it's the 30/30 rifle that Dave was using the

day he shot his eye out when he was at the Sheriff's Department.

They did the bluing on the steel

The finished product. What a fun project for a boy and his dad :)

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Girls Camp 2011

Talbie was the only one that went to Girl's Camp this year.

She was so brave and was really excited to go, even though our Stake had to

make other arrangements because it was still too snowy at

Camp Mia Shalom. Then ended up at a camp site just up Spanish Fork Canyon.

Dave helped drive the girls up and helped them set up camp. That was fun

for Talbie. He also went up on the last day to help take things down and drive home.

Talbie had a blast. Her cot broke the first day so she tried to duct tape it

back together. It worked like a charm!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Emmie LOVES Soccer!

Emmie absolutely loves soccer! She played for 1 year when she was

3 and I was her coach but then I never signed her up again because none of my

kids had ever been very interested in it when they got older.

She begged me to sign her up so I did and she starts games in the fall.

But during the month of June they do a soccer camp to get kids ready.

She has loved it and plays circles around the other kids.

I can't believe how athletic she is. She's really good too because she's

used to playing with her cousin Logan, who has been playing competitive

soccer for along time.

I wanted to start her out just on the city team this year to see if she really liked it as much as she thinks she does. Next year we will have to bite the bullet and pay the big bucks for the

competitive - competition teams.

Beautiful Mt. Timpanogos

a perfect view from the soccer fields.

At soccer camp they play a game called "hand ball" where you run with the ball,

then drop it and kick it in for a goal. Emmie made 2 goals in 5 minutes :)

Look at that look on her face!

I guess when Emmie gets a little bigger my days of sitting at dance recitals and school plays will be over and I will be replacing them with soccer games! It's going to take some getting used to!!