Girls weekend

This weekend I attended a fabulous Girls Weekend. It was two days of all girls being wild, young, and crazy!

Friday we attacked Cedar City with a scavenger hunt. We ran wild through the streets and businesses collecting the necessary items. We even had a petition to end winter. (Some refused to sign this :( ! ) Then we had a delicious dinner. We did skits. To end the day, we played Rock Band until all hours of the morning. When it came time for bed, I decided to sneak home. ha ha. I snuck out the garage and ditched my sleeping bag on the floor. (Yes, I actually snuck out to see Nate. Is this the same old story or what) Anyway I was back by breakfast. After breakfast we had a few more fun things we did before we took off to St. George for the day. We went to the temple. I had to sit by my self and not by my friends for fear of giggling during the session. I made it! Then we went to lunch and tormented our waiter at IGGIES. We tipped him well for putting up with us. We were not acting our ages that was for sure. Then it was off to laser tag! My laser tag name was twister, and I got the highest points!! It was great. After laser tag, we hit the stores. It was shopping time. We ended up home around 9 pm.

That was when I remembered I had the lesson in primary and had promised treats. We have 9 am church. I presented my class with a wonderful surprise. To go with the dark circles under my eyes, they got to watch a MOVIE!! What is better? They had no idea why I didn't have a lesson.

Girls weekend was a blast. It was their 5th annual one. I am a first year, so I got to sport a hot pink Duh-nce hat. I will be going again. I encourage all who want to attend next year to join us.

What is this?

What is this? Where are the spring flowers? This was what we woke up to at our house. Our kids were not excited to walk to the bus. Just looking at the pictures makes me cold. I did give them a ride to school. If you look at Annette and Greg's blog, those pictures look much warmer!! (Just a different side of the world) We get snow and fog, Annette, Greg, Becky, and Ryan are in St. Lucia (island), Alicia and Dane are in sunny Florida, and Rick and Tarah are in Hawaii!! I want it to be WARM!

Birthday pictures

I made a cake for Aubrie and Uncle Dane. Dane's birthday is in April, but we won't see him in April. It was my first time playing with fondont.




I made sure each of them had their own candles to blow out.

This is a cinderella card that moves when you tip it. I am sure she will save it forever!
The jerky has a story. When I was preparing for Nate's baptism dinner, I asked him what he wanted to serve. His reply was Jerky. Aubrie thought that was great. She told me that was what she wanted for her birthday. So I bought jerky for Nate, Aubrie and Uncle Dane. We couldn't leave him out.
Mom did give him gum to go with the jerky!

$6.00 for a six year old, whose birthday is on March 6th! Pretty special.
Uncle Dane got presents too of course :)

It was a fun evening. Happy Birthday Aubrie and Uncle Dane.

The picture that I do not have is of Aubrie and her new baby dolls. I thought she would like them. I was wrong!!!! She hates them. She informed me that we can wrap it up and give it away to someone else. It has been days now, and I thought she would forget. Wrong! Still hates them. Refuses to look at them or play with them. The next little girl to send a birthday invitation very probably will receive two darling twin baby dolls.

I did it again!

It was Aubrie's 6th birthday yesterday. Yes I did it again. No pictures. This time there was nothing to blame it on. I just forgot to take my camera with us. My mom did have a camera phone. I hope at least one or two will turn out. We will see. I am planning on making her pose for some pictures later. We'll pretend I took some.

Her day started out with a new birthday outfit to wear to school. She got to take treats to her class so her backpack was bulging with brownies. She liked that. Then in the afternoon, we had a wonderful party at McDonald's. She invited 10 little girls-all girls was her theme. We had such a great time. Everyone was very generous in the gifts they brought. Aubrie really got a lot of very nice gifts. Thank you. McDonald's provided everything; happy meals, cake, hats, placemats, thank you gifts for coming, ice cream cones, and plates, forks, and candles for the cake.

After McDonald's Aubrie got a visit from her grandparents. She has loved her gifts.

To end off the day she threw what could only be described as the biggest birthday tantrum ever! She covered all tantrum bases; Kicking, screaming, throwing herself down, you name it.

Because she is loved so much by her Grandma and Grandpa they agreed to let her go home with them for a special sleepover. She turned her tantrum off like a light bulb, packed a bag and ran out the front door without even a wave to her mother. See ya Aubrie! Now I am home alone and blogging. Ha Ha She thinks she won.

I will post pictures when I get her home to pose for them :)

Nate's Baptism

On Saturday Nate got Baptized. It was a wonderful event. As a mother I, of course, thought my boys looked wonderful dressed all in white. We had a good turnout of family and friends to support him. He felt very special and loved. He has been glowing ever since. Today he got to fast for the first time. He did it! He didn't even complain. He was relieved when we told him it was time to break the fast and he was done.

At the end of our get together last night, just as our last guests had left, we did get the phone call that (Big) Nathan's Uncle, Heber Davis had passed away. It is of course always sad news to hear of a family members death. It was not unexpected on this day. We had been listening for such a phone call all day.

Announcement

Saturday Feb 28th at 4:00 pm, Nate is getting baptized! His dad will be baptizing him and confirming him. All are invited of course. We will be having a potluck dinner afterward. I will be making BBQ beef!! Bring something to share if you want to or can, and we will have a great get together.

New Moon Widget

Yes it is a little early to put on a Widget. Sorry. I found this and had to try it out.