Tidwell Family

Its been long enough since I posted on here. So here is an update.

Chelsea started the first grade this year, she loves school. She is smart and loves her teacher. She was definitely ready to go back to school.

Elgen is growing fast, and talking all the time. He doesn't make much sense to anyone but himself, and he jabbers random words. We are slowly learning Elgen-ese and finding new ways to communicate with him. It has been nice to have some effective communication with him for a change.

Scott starts school for business management tomorrow, he is taking online classes to begin with. He is excited to go, and I am sure he will do great. :)

As for myself, I have my first month of school under my belt, and will be starting the second month tomorrow. I am going for Graphic Arts. It's pretty exciting. But even more exciting is the fact that I passed my GED and got a certificate in the mail just a couple days ago. Its so funny how a little piece of paper can instill so much pride in a person. I am happy to be part of the 3% that actually go back and test. :)

And that's it for the family.

Here are a couple of updated pictures of the kids. They both show their personalities so much. Chelsea is a huge cheese, she loves to make people laugh and smile. She is very happy and very focused on being happy and making others feel happy. I hope she will always stay true to herself, and always keep her personality intact. She is such a fun little kid to be around, and brightens even the gloomiest days.
Elgen is MR. Fixit. He loves to help Scott with making stuff and fixing things. He has also gotten really "in" to trucks. He has always really loved things with wheels. I swear he is going to be an engineer or something, he loves figuring out how things work. I think he gets that from me. He is a cutie, and a really great baby. He has also figured out how to get whatever he wants by saying "please". Its so fun, and he is learning so much right now.

I don't know how we did it, but Scott and I have both been so blessed to have such wonderful kids. I just hope it stays this way, and that they won't be terrible teenagers. :)

Sorry that it has been so long since the last post. Life has gotten a bit crazier than usual, but nothing we can't handle.

Chelsea took her Kindergarten advancement test on the 12th. She is officially ready for first grade. I am so excited and so proud of her. She did great. Her last day of school will be the 29th. She will have fun this summer, and can hardly wait to start school again cause she will be there all day. Its so funny.
We got he a bathing suit the other day. She has worn it outside everyday she can. She loves to be outside in the water with the other kids from out apartment complex. Its funny. And she is already SO tan, I am jealous. I never tan, ha ha ha ha.

Elgen will be 21 months on the 1st of June. He has hit the terrible 2's already. He just finished a temper tantrum today that consisted of 30 minutes of him crying and telling me no at every thing I attempted to distract him with. I thought perhaps some SpongeBob would cheer him up, but he wanted nothing to do with it. It really isn't too bad yet, it only happens once in a while, and its usually just a little fit. Today was an exception. :)

Scott will graduate the academy in July, and started firearms training and scenarios. He likes it, but is taking the whole thing with a new degree of seriousness (and he was already VERY serious about it!). He has been studying the Utah Criminal Code book nearly every night and working hard to get as much memorized as he can without over-studying. I honestly couldn't possibly be prouder of him, he is going to make one of the best police officers.

We will be going down home this weekend. Scott's mom has arranged for all of "the kids" to come down and put a yard sale together. Its a wonderful thing because I have SO MUCH STUFF!!! So, if anyone is reading this and needs clothing for kids, we have loads. Most of it is still brand new. I even went through my closet and cleared out all the stuff that I don't wear or doesn't fit me anymore. Some of it even still has the tags on it. Kinda funny. I didn't even know I had some of that stuff.

I also went through toys and all kinds of other things. It will be nice to de-junk our closets and get rid of the things we don't use. There is no reason to hang on to it if we don't use it and someone else might.

We got up early with the kids and they went through their easter baskets. Chelsea got a stuffed bunny, The Secret of NIMH (which is like one of my favorite movies EVER), an apple and banana, and a little bit of candy. Elgen got a stuffed frog that he has been carrying around and kissing all day, a book about duckies, an apple and banana and a little bit of candy as well. They both got easter outfits from Grandma and Grandpa Tidwell, that I still have to take a picture of.
We were sitting around after the kids ate their bananas wondering what we should do today, and Scott suggested that we go to the boat harbor and take a look at the lake. So we got in the car and drove down there. Chelsea and Elgen had a lot of fun chasing the ducks around, and there were planes flying overhead from the nearby airport. We also saw some geese and a pelican. Elgen thought they were pretty cool. We were walking around and we went over to the little beach that is near the marina and let the kids play. I will post a whole bunch of pictures I took while we were out there. It was a lot of fun, we were there for a little over an hour. When we got home the kids had lunch and Elgen napped. It was a really fun morning.

Here are the photos, enjoy!

It was nice enough outside today that the kids went outside to play with the chalk. I remember how fun it was, and I am glad that the kids are getting the same experience. :)