YW 14 Day Walk with Christ

This week we began a 14 day journey with Christ, and what better to do then make flip-flops to start the path. There was lots of fun, lots of snacks and everything went great!

Sister Lamaster our newest MiaMaids advisor!
Cathy and Ashlan are always good for a fun picture, aren't their flip-flops so cute!

Sarah feeding her flip-flops to Sierra. They are always making me bust up!


Cute Meagan and her blue and yellow creation!

The girls working hard on their projects!

Bailee picking out some fabric for her flip-flops!

When I took this picture Kelsey told me I could not show anyone, I told her I was going to post it on my blog, so Kelsey, we are excited for you to join us in MiaMaids in a couple of months! She is such a beautiful and loving girl.

Annie with her flip-flops and her packet!

Shayla's finished flip-flops and is ready to get started!


This was such a fun activity and I want to thank the beehive group for the great night! Sister Shaw and Sister Smith are great leaders.

Happy Easter

So a lot of you know that we always have a big "thing" for Easter. This year was no exception. We even had a few unexpected guest from out of town, it was so wonderful to see Aunt Carol and Uncle Merrill and get to talk with them and find out how their family is doing!

We stuck with tradition and had a wonderful meal of ham, potatoes, salads, and of course deviled eggs (I put too much powdered mustard in them) so they were spicy but yummy. We finished off with Lemon-Lime Cupcakes and a Strawberry Whip Cream Cake to celebrate Hunters Birthday the next day! We has a lot of fun with an Easter Quest, they had to find their basket and them find a certain color of eggs and a certain number of other things! it was great!
Grandpa talking with everyone!
Timmy and Tasha serving up the food!

Our out of town guest's Uncle Merrill and Aunt Carol!
Hunter and LaNece dishing up!

Jonathan, Evets, Garrett, Clara and impromptu family picture!

The kids were getting ready to go out, it was quite cold, Taylor is in Timmy's work coat! It looks a little bit huge!

Tatum bundled up and ready to go!
Garrett with a bucket on his head! Nice peace out sign Taylor!

Whitney patiently waiting

Brooks is a little topsy turvey!

Everyone out and about looking for eggs!

Tatum found another pink egg, she got to find all the pink eggs!

Garrett found a yellow egg up in the tree!

Garrett lays out all of his eggs to make sure he found them all!












Whitney going through her basket to find what cute stuff she got!

Lemon-Lime Cupcakes

So for last couple of weeks I have wanted to make these cupcakes. I found some cute key limes at the grocery store and had to have them. What do you get when you take a basic Vanilla Cupcake and fill it with Lemon-Lime curd and top it with Sweet lemon-line frosting?? Heaven on earth, tart and sweet and yummy all in one bite! I loved these and so did almost everyone who tried them. In fact my mom wants the lemon-lime curd for her birthday!

The Curd just out of the fridge ready to put into the cupcakes.

After cutting out the centers of the cupcakes, I piped in the curd.

Then I piped on the frosting and finished them off with a little lemon and lime zest! Simply delicious!

Doesn't it look so cute on my plate!

Caught Up at last

So for weeks I have been trying to get caught up on my blogging. I think maybe I was a little depressed and way too busy to get to it, but today I am officially caught up. Even posted the pictures from the surprise birthday party for my uncle Greg that I attended this morning. There are several fun posts so please take a look and remember to tell me what you think! Here's to being caught up!

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