Cress Creek Trail

I love to hike and I am hoping to get at least one kid that will go with me, my kids are too lazy!!!  So Cierra and I made a plan to go hiking, she took her friend with us and off we went.  We packed a picnic and had a nice morning!

Taking a rest (this was the first bench!)

Waiting for Cierra to rest

First picnic table in the shade we sat and had lunch, we could have gone at any time of day and they would have been hungry at THAT picnic table!!!  

Playing in the water, it comes from a hot spring the water was pretty warm!

Can't remember what they were looking for, I think we just saw a picture of a certain flower and they were looking for it.

They did not want that picture taken they were ready to go!!!

Another place to play in the water, a scout troop was there too.

Boy she's a cutie!!!!  We had a really nice time I wish there were more things like this closer to our house!!!

Cierra's 9th Birthday

Cierra is now 9!  I can't even believe it!!!  Kids grow so fast, I hate to even blink or I pass a new milestone for them.  Cierra is so fun and happy but I think she's heading toward those pre-teen years because she is getting to be quite emotional.
She had a fun birthday, grandpa and grandma christensen came up and she got Zhu Zhu stuff, Bill, the kids and I gave her the green chair she's sitting in, the skateboard and the Barbie with a bike.  Grandpa and Grandma McCammon gave her money and she bought spy gear night vision goggles and a mood ring from the toy store.  Since we were going to have a party for her we made mini brownie cakes and had ice cream. It was a good day!!!

For her Birthday party with friends we couldn't resist the Spy Party theme!   You may look at the pictures and think wow, but it looks way better on the blog!!  Parties for my kids never turn out the way they seem like they should in my head. Bill say's I plan and expect 120% kids only expect 40% and I delivered 80% so they got more than they expected so be happy.  It just seems like the activites will last longer than you thought or the ones you thought would be fun are a huge bomb!!!!  

What cute spies in their hats and glasses.  I took these pictures and made spy ID wallets with a little getaway money!!!  When they got to the party we had a bowl that had nouns and one with adjectives and they drew out one of each to get their spy name.  Cierra was Green Headband!

Here are the invites, they didn't work out as well as planned.  It explains the Mission on the front but for details you had to turn it over and scratch off the stuff to reveal the details (where and when) of the mission.  I found  a cute idea online making your own scratch off cards, and it worked great for us when the paint was dry but after it hardened apparently it didn't scratch off too good.  The idea is here.  Its calls for 2 to 1 paint to soap maybe I really should have added more soap. Oh well.

Got the idea for the cake here, Abbie and Hailey were the decorators.  I think they did a stupendous job for their first cake!!!

One of the game ideas was making a Laser beam challenge This was the original idea but this below is what we ended up doing.  The kids played it outside while I was hurrying to make the wallets, they didn't play in it very long,but the big kids said that the girls had fun. 
They played another spy kids game, but I don't have pictures of that.  They then came in a found that the presents the kids brought had been STOLEN!!!  A ransom note was left in their place so I issued their spy bags so they could donn the gear and find out where they were stashed.  They then followed clues and carried out tasks to figure it out.

Striking a crazy pose while searching for the gifts.

Found them hidden in the bath tub in the basement...they made a great team....what awesome spies!!!!

Cierra then got to open her gifts...Thanks everybody for the gifts she loved everything!!!!

Our repose of blowing out the candle!!!

What a great crew, we are so lucky and feel so blessed to live in such a great place where our kids can have such great friends who live so close by!!!  We love it here!!!!   Happy Birthday Cece!!!!

Playdough Creations

My girls, especially the big one, have become obsessed with shows like the cake boss.  She's loves watching all the fun things they come up with and hopes someday to be able to be just like them!  Enter Playdough!!  They use rolled fondant all the time on those shows and one day she was begging me to buy her some.  I looked at her and said "no way...why don't you just use play-dough?"  Oh YEAH!!!!  That'll work!!!!  So began an afternoon of creating.  She would love to take a class.  Maybe one of these day's we'll take one together!!!

Fake an Injury Day

I am the worst at taking pictures, especially if I am behind in blogging and scrapbooking!  The end of January we had spirit week at school.  The only day I took pictures was fake an injury day.  We had a bit of a fight at our house because the one and only pair of crutches was in demand that morning!  Abbie had them last year so Cierra got them this year.  Abbie decided if she couldn't have the crutches she wasn't going to participate, she ended up wearing a lab coat and said she was the doctor for all the injury's but wouldn't let me take her picture.

Activity Days Awards Evening

In October (2010) I was called to serve as an Activity Day's leader for the 8 year old girls at Church. The very first Activity I went to was the award ceremony. It was very cute they had a luau theme and the girls got flowers for their hair and leis. Cierra decided she needed a coconut bra on and since Jesse had made her one for Alivia's birthday this summer she had what she needed! Alivia and Cierra with Morgan and her mom Nicole right behind. Cierra is licking the 'sand' from her plate! Tina, Holly, Erin, Jody and Karen enjoying the fruit of their labors!! Karen hanging with the girls enjoying the cute flip flop sugar cookies she made. Isn't she adorable?!?! Livy and Cierra laughing it up....these two have a pretty great time! Abbie and Lacey posing for the camera! They are such posers!!! Lacey, Abbie, Tristan and Aubrey...such cute girls! It such a great program for these girls and a great time for us as leaders to watch them grow and progress through the program.

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!!