Uncle Greg's Suprise Birthday Party

This morning I went to my uncle Greg's work and we had a surprise 40th birthday party. He had one for my aunt Julie and this was payback for that. It was a lot of fun. They made a huge sign, here Julie and Aubrey are hanging it up.

Balloons and fun

Brooks was ready to eat!

Tatum is so cute.

Everyone waiting for him to come in.

Greg just coming in, he was totally surprised he didn't think anything would happen until Saturday
LaNece getting the kids dished up and ready to eat. Julie had Kneaders cater french toast and fresh fruit. It was yummy yummy.

YW Homemaking olympics

On Tuesday we had the Homemaking Olympics and had Fondue for refreshments. It was great to see the girls get excited and work together as a team. They had to sew a button on a shirt, iron the shirt, sort laundry, get a stain out of 2 pieces of kids clothing, grind wheat, and make butter. Everyone got involved and it was a lot of fun. It was Karley's birthday and we sang to her and put a candle in cream puff. It was a great night!

Grinding the wheat as fast as they can.
Karley shaking the cream into butter

Ashlan sewing on a button

McKayla and Syd on stain patrol.

Sarah and Saydee ironing a shirt

Megan and McKenzie's distress over losing.

The winner's with their prized trophies

Karley's Happy Birthday Cream Puff

Gerika eating a ginormous strawberry!

Birthday Dinner

My Cousin Connor is on a mission in West Virginia. He has been missing home lately and missing coming to birthday dinners at Grandma's house. So we decided to take pictures of everyone at birthday dinner and send them to him, so he will be with us without us.

Grandpa, Dad and Jonathan, cooking on the grill.

LaNece, Hanahlee, Whitney,Julie, Brooks, Lynn

LaNece, Timmy, Julie, Whitney, Clara, mom

Grandpa and Julie

We were talking about the 2nd coming and we had a really nice discussion about what will happen and the signs. We them read about it in the D&C

Clara's New Suit

So I saw this cute suit at Costco and had to buy it, the monkey, the polka-dots and the ruffles on the butt totally got me! I think she looks pretty cute!

Happy Birthday Dad

So my dad's birthday was last week and he wanted the "usual" German Chocolate Cake. I baked it in my new square pans, and it was delicious.

YW Jewish Purim

A Couple of weeks ago for YW we celebrated Jewish Purim. It is when the Jews celebrate the courage of Queen Esther for her to go before the king and plead for her peoples' cause. For those that don't know, they dress up and wear mask's and walk around the church reading the story of Queen Esther and using noise makers to say "Yeah" everything Morticiah or Esther is mentioned, and Booing when Haman is mentioned. We started with making masks and then walked around the church, we got some pretty funny looks. We then came back and had traditional refreshments of Poppy seed cake and "Haman's hat's" which are dough folded around chocolate formed into a triangle like "hat". I learned a lot that I didn't know about the Jewish faith and had a lot of fun doing it!

The girls making their masks

Me and Sarah and our mask's!

Everyone ready to start our march around the church.



The girls walking around the church.

YW Region Basketball

So our YW made it to regions in basketball. Their game was on our activity night so we cancelled and made signs and went and cheered them on. I think the girls had a lot of fun They made some pretty funny signs.

Catching up Game Night #3

A Couple weeks back we had our monthly game night. We played Nerts the whole time and had a blast. Mom set up a competition for the kids and they won prizes. Overall it was a lot of fun! Laurel had greatly improved her Nerts skills she even won one of the hands! It was so good to see everyone, see you in a few weeks!

The kids got all dressed up in the play clothes, we had to take a picture.

Several of the things for the kids to do!

March Madness Success

So it is official, I finish the Book Of Mormon last night. I read the whole book in 1 month. This is crazy, I do believe that this is probably the only reason I am dealing so well with what has been going on at work. I know that the Lord has strengthen me in ways I don't fully understand. I am so grateful for the challenge and for the appreciation that I have for the Book Of Mormon.

Today while waiting at the temple I opened up to Alma 14, when Alma and Amulek were imprisoned and watched as the lawyers and judges burned everyone who was a believer. I wept as I came to the realization that there may come times that we will have to stand up for what we believe in even at the cost of our lives. Even now just writing this the tears are flowing as I wonder if I am strong enough, if I believe enough, if I have enough Faith that I could accept what is dealt to me. Could I??? Would I???

Life is about choice's and I believe I could and would stand up even unto death if that was what is required. What about you? Have you asked your self where you are in the journey? Are you ready to die for what you know is true?

Thanks for all your prayers, I feel the hand of the Lord in my life daily!

Babysitting

On Wednesday I had the opportunity to watch Garrett and Clara while their parents went to dinner with friends. This is the first time I have seen Garrett with his glasses and he is so cute and handsome in them! We played several games and had lots of fun.

Old MacDonald game, Garrett loves this game!

Clara like chewing on the pieces.

We then moved on to a game called "Hang in There", the kids seem to gravitate towards this, they really like to play it!

Garrett trying to move his animal from tree to tree!





We then had dinner, Garrett wanted some cheese for his potatoes so he learned how to grate cheese! He is getting so grown-up and learning how to do so many new and exciting things.