Happy Birthday Zach & Other Random Stuff

I'm sort of playing catch up on my memory card...

I wanted to mention that Zach had a birthday the end of March.  We didn't get to "do" a whole lot with him, but he did come over so we could wish him a happy birthday!  And he did let me take his picture ( he doesn't like his picture taken!)  Over all, I think he had a good day, Happy Birthday, Zach!



Lately, any picture I take with these two,
they hug and kiss each other!  Too Cute!!



Emily had her Orchestra Spring Concert on the same night as Pack Meeting.  So we had to divide and conquer.  Doug took the kids to Pack Meeting and I went to Emily's Concert.  I did leave early to catch the end of pack to help with kids since Doug was conducting!  This was Aaron's first Pack that he didn't "earn" any award since he's been in the pack.  My bad.  I just lost track of  time and didn't work with him last month.  He did get a mention that he and one other boy were the top Scout O Rama Ticket sellers in the pack, each sold 30 tickets on the kick off day! 



I thought this was funny, Nattie watching
the awards at pack!



Emily also had a fun mutual activity where they had a sock hop.  She didn't tell me she had to dress up until about 20 minutes before she had to be there!  I found Doug and her looking up 50's style skirts and stuff.  I looked at her and said, you're supposed to dress up???  She smiled her dazzling smile, and said yes!?!  So I suggested rolling up her jeans and a button shirt with a pony tail!  It turned out Great!!  Not bad for last minute!!

General Conference

Wow, what a weekend!!

The 5 youngest kids started the weekend off with a sleep over with GG at her house!  They had a blast!  It's been a while since those kids have been together and they loved it.  That meant that Doug and I were alone for Friday night and Saturday morning!!  Conference was quiet, the morning session anyway.

We were surprised by Melanie, she showed up to watch conference with us.  It was a NICE surprise.  We haven't had much time together and ended up talking through most of the first session!

 

Then Holly, Garrett and Andrea showed up about half way through!  We knew they were coming.  Holly ran a 10 miler in Salt Lake that morning.  She took 2nd place!  She ran it in an hour and 15 minutes!  Way to go, Holly!  It was sure fun to see everyone and visit for a little bit!  I am so glad conference is not only printed in the Ensign, but I can watch it on the Internet as well.  It let me really enjoy these great people!!  Holly stayed with us until Sunday afternoon! 

Right after Doug left for the priesthood session, we got another great surprise!  Shawn showed up from Price for a surprise visit!! He had to run to the priesthood session, so it was a quick hug and I'll see you later.  Then we got to visit afterwards.  Doug brought back cold stone ice cream!  Yum!!

I was amazed at both Sunday sessions at how much I needed to hear.  What a spiritual Feast!

Shawn left this morning!  It was fun to see him and visit with him.  I don't think I got one picture of him though!  Ugh!!  Come to think of it, I really didn't get very many pictures at all!! 




We have our spring break this week, Should be fun!!  Hope the weather cooperates!!

Temple Riders Association

I just came across this cool video put together by KSL on the Temple Riders Association.  It's a motorcycle "gang" that rides all over the US and Canada on motorcycles attending temple sessions! They meet together monthly for trip planning and firesides and then go on these temple excursions! 

I think it's way cool and we just might have to get us a motorcycle!!

St Patricks Day, Part 1

We started the Day with 4 leaf clovers on their heads!  Too fun!!  I got the idea on the hair blog I found a couple weeks ago!  I wasn't sure it was noticeable enough, but people seemed to see it and the girls had a few compliments.  I did do three heads that morning but was running late and scooted them out the door before I could get some good pictures! 

While we don't really do the typical irish dinner, we do have a traditional green dinner!  Funny how being green doesn't always make it look appetizing, I usually have to remind them it's only food coloring!! 

We had a green tuna macaroni bake, green vegies, green pistachio salad, green rolls and green milk.  For dessert we had green pistachio cake and mint chocolate chip ice cream! 

Stay tuned for hilarious dinner reactions!!

St Patrick's Day, Part 2

I just had to put these pics in as well!  These were taken during dinner!!

They sure look like my dinner didn't go very well, don't they?!! LOL

My disclaimer, all of them (except for Doug) were trying to eat the vegetables! Lol I guess the cake looked good enough to torture themselves enough to choke them down!!  What troopers!!

Yummy cake and ice cream, makes it all worth it!!

Being goofy!!

Like Father, Like Daughter!!



Giving my dinner a thumbs up!!



Another Teenager in the House!!

Chocolate Caramel Gooey Cake!

Emily turned 13 years old on Wednesday!  I can't believe we have yet another teenager!!

She asked for scrambled eggs, bacon and toast for breakfast, egg salad sandwiches for lunch, and chicken stuffed lion house rolls for dinner.  My kids loves these not only for dinner, but for lunch the next day in their lunch boxes!!

She had a donut party in her first period class and tried to get all her teachers to sing her happy birthday, some did, some didn't.  She even had one tell her there wasn't time??  What ever!!

She sure was wired and crazy most of the day, but it made for her having a fun day! She didn't ask for much, so she was pretty happy to have gotten pretty much all she asked for!  (All except for her own room!) 

Being silly!

Happy Birthday, Emily!  We Love You!!

Happy Birthday, Kimberly!

I'm running a little behind in posts.  Kim's bday was actually last Sunday!  She was so excited, she said she was waiting for this day for 6 months!!  I had to laugh!!

She made me a card, kind of like an invitation, that had her birthday wish list of things that I could choose from to buy her, as well as her bday menu.  It also had some activities she wanted do for FHE the next day. 

Breakfast - Poached eggs on Toast, I think she said she ate 5!!  She was stuffed!!
Lunch - She was too stuffed from breakfast!!
Dinner - Pizza was first choice (her bday landed on a sunday, so we ordered pizza saturday night)  Sunday we had her next favorite...Lasagna!

She also asked for brownies and ice cream instead of cake.  Most of my kids are not cake eaters!

We had her open her presents after breakfast and after showers.  She played for a little while, then we had to go to Stake Conference.  Then had dinner and brownies!

She was a happy camper!  It was fun to watch her excitement all day!!