Homecoming!

Homecoming is always a fun week in High school....royalty, parades, football and the dance! Hillcrest does a parade for the nearby elementary schools and anyone else willing to come and watch. Jesse is in Debate and they had a float and a jeep full of kids. The football players, cheerleaders, ballroom, swim team and a bunch of others throw candy and whoop and holler and get everyone excited for the game! Jesse loves Debate!!! The DANCE... It's all in the asking and the answering...right? Well of course I forgot to take pictures of the asking. Jesse bought a white tee shirt and wrote on the front in permanent marker "Will you go to Homecoming with me?" then underneath in smaller letter was written "wash this shirt and look on the back and you'll see who asked you. Then on the back in permanent marker we wrote the letters to his name randomly, then with washable marker filled the rest of the shirt with other letters so you couldn't tell. (I hope this makes sense!) Well she answered so the right letters must've washed off!!! No If's Ands or Butt's...I'd love to go with you! Very Cute!!! Jesse was leaving the house to go to a stake dance and wondered why I'd put ghosts out for Halloween already since it was only September! (Double take....MOM!!!!!) We all came running and got a good laugh!! Hannah and Jesse Hannah, Jesse, Brenden, and Amanda...a very handsome crew! The girls play restaurant all the time and couldn't wait to serve 'real people' so we let them! We served, Steak and baked potatoes, rolls, carrots, a raspberry salad and for dessert fresh peach pie! I hope they enjoyed it!!!

She's Eleven Now

HaPpY BiRtHdAy!!!! Love you Ab!!! One more year until make-up and shaving!!!! Yikes!!! That is seriously the things she is looking forward to!! If she only knew! She had a small birthday party with 3 of her friends. Making a wish. And when I was decorating Cierra's cake this year, she informed me she wanted to decorate her own cake! Well that's exactly what she did!! When they were done the frosting on top was about 6 inches thick! The Decor!!! This is the kind of cake that makes one want a very large glass of milk!!!

First day of School 2010

I love the first day of school...I miss the kids being smaller though, Jesse won't even participate in the pictures anymore! :-( The girls in 5th and 3rd this year, and Jesse in 11th. They grow so fast!!! It was a rainy start to the school year, but its a love/hate relationship with school anyway so its fitting!!

Firepit Patio

It never fails, whenever I get finished with a project I think "why didn't I take picture's all the way through. So I found a picture of Daken holding a snake, but in the background you can kinda see the hole they were digging! Right!?! We have a ditch behind our yard that we've been wanting to fill in, well now we've done it! When Jesse and Daken were digging the hole they dumped it in here. Now we'll see how long it takes to smooth it and make it look better! Here is the finished product. After having the boys dig the hole too deep and 13 truckloads of rock and road base to fill the hole back up. Then 3 pallets of flagstone to sort through, we'll you'd think I would look a little buffer!! But alas were finished...sort of. Now we need to decide if we should use cement to grout the rocks in or wait through the winter to let the rock settle and just use sand to fill the rest in. Decisions, Decisions!!! I think it turned out nice though!

Baptism Day!

Cierra was baptized August 7th, 2010, by her dad. We love her and are so very proud of her. It was a great day with our family. Congratulations on your Baptism!!!

Cierra's Photo Shoot!!

Cierra had so much fun at her photo shoot with Tina. And the pictures turned out so great. I haven't printed any yet because I can decide which one I like!!! There are so many more I don't think I could even stop posting!!

Sunbeam Birthday Party

At church I am the teacher of the 3 going on 4 year olds. We call them SUNBEAMS! And they are just that, bright as the sun, their smiles warm you inside and out and they have such joy about life! I love my calling and I love these kids so much they are so fun to teach. I am a person that gets really big ideas and then they end up a lot smaller the closer we get because I am such a procrastinator. Another of those faults I need to overcome!!! I wanted to do something special for their Birthdays and I didn't have the list at the first of the year and when I got it 2 kids had already had their birthdays. So I decided to have a party in the summer for them to celebrate all their birthdays at once. I had it this past week and lesson learned 4 year olds need more than 5 things in 1 hour to occupy their time!! We had bubbles, then decorated cupcakes, played games and opened presents. I tried to have them do sidewalk chalk on the driveway right at the end but they said it was too hot to be outside. So we came back in and had a drink and finished our cupcakes. I could have used more games though. I think they all had fun. I made the cutest little t-shirts. I tried to base the theme around sunbeam...so I made cupcakes with yellow frosting and they were suppose to decorate them like the sun. And then I made the t-shirt using a sun yellow t-shirt, I put a yellow and orange sun on the front with green words that read I'm a Sunbeam! Cheesy, but I think it turned out pretty cute. Don't they look thrilled to be playing Hullabaloo Posing with our shirts...they don't all look that enthused, all but one ended up putting them on. We were missing a few of our class, and wished they would have been able to be here!!!

Melaleuca Party

I think this is the first year in the 7 that we've been going to the Melaleuca Party that the weather was not blistering. It was a warm day, but one of the first I have been truly grateful for the windiness of Idaho Falls! It made for a right pleasant day!!! It really is a great day, lots for the kids to do; unlimited food, games, cotton candy, sno cones and drinks Better than slappin' the bull it ridin' it!!!!Jesse and Daken on the WHIZZER In the Swing of things!!Doesn't he look thrilled to be there??? These two boys tried so many times to get in the game and finally they made it into the three legged race. They ended up winning which was their goal, both got movie passes and $5 to Coldstone!! The summer picnic is always looked forward to by my clan! Fun times were had by all!!!