Wedding Dresses

Tonight at Young Womens we made Modest Wedding Dresses out of toilet paper! We gave them the guidelines that the dress had to go to their ankles, needed sleeves, and it couldn't be too low in the front or the back. Then they were able to design the dress for their friends. Morgan and Carissa were paired up, Alaina, Christina, and Emily were paired up. The girls had so much fun as did Laura and I! The girl's did an awesome job creating dresses. We were getting a little pressed for time so everyone helped dress Alaina and Christina! Then we did some posing for fun! Everyone had trouble at the beginning getting the dress to stay on! But the results were awesome!

Easter

Our Easter started off with a celebration at Riley Jo's school. They sang a couple bunny songs

Went to the dance room to dance! They did the Hokey Pokey!

Of course there was an Easter Egg Hunt!

Then we decorated eggs at our house and had and egg hunt on Easter morning. (Disclosure: Kyle desperately needed a haircut, but refused to get one. He has gotten one now. And Michayla wanted a cheesey picture!)

Disneyland

We took the kids to Disneyland. Rather, I took the kids to Disneyland! Chris, Bobbie (Chris' mom), the kids, and I all drove to Disneyland on Saturday. We left at 6:00 am and thought the kids may sleep a couple hours of that. Nope! They all stayed awake the entire drive. Including Riley Jo. They all stayed pretty entertained by movies and music, except Riley Jo. We had to stop a couple extra times because she needed the "potty." Yeah right! But we stopped anyway. After the 3rd stop in an hour. I finally told Chris that he needed to stop listening to music and making the kids use the headphones for the movie. So that Riley Jo could at least listen to the movie, she doesn't like T.V., or movies and won't leave the headphones on. At least with the sound coming out of the speakers she will at least pretend to watch it. We finally make it to the hotel. Bobbie and I take the kids swimming while Chris rests! On Sunday, Chris and I had to attend a presentation on a time share for Shell Vacation Club, then we were given 2 tickets to Disneyland. By attending that presentation, they also paid for our hotel room. Bonus!!! Then after the meeting, Chris flew home and Bobbie and I took the kids to Disneyland for the next 3 days. That's right, Chris drove us all the way to Disneyland just to attend the presentation so we could take our kids to Disneyland! He won Father of the Year for that trip!!!

We usually have breakfast with Minnie Mouse and friends, but this year we decided to have lunch with the Princesses. Riley Jo was in Heaven! We were able to see Ariel, Cinderella, Belle, Aurora, and Jasmine. Tyler even volunteered to be in all the pictures! It was a great lunch. Cinderella and Belle were Riley Jo's favorites!

Kyle's baseball game

Last night at Kyle's game he played 2nd base. The 1st kid hit the ball up between 3rd base and shortstop and Kyle ran to try and get the ball. It was great. We told him to watch the ball and he tried to go for it. With a little more instruction he played his position well. He stopped all the balls that went past him it was amazing! One even bouced right in front of him and then he caught it. The look on his face was priceless, he put his glove out to catch it but I think he thought it was going to bounce over him. It was a high bounce. He even threw it perfect to 1st base for an out. Then the 2nd inning he played catcher and was able to make 2 outs at home. He had a great game and was very excited by it!

Busy but Fun Weekend!!!!

This weekend was extremely busy but we had a ton of fun! Friday night Tyler was able to go to the Giants and A's Bay Bridge Series at AT&T park in San Francisco with his friends Chase, Sam Albertson and Chase's dad Mo. They had seats 3 rows up from behind the Giants dugout. They were so excited! Tyler was able to catch a fly ball and get his ticket signed by the A's catcher Suzuki (I don't know how to spell this, sorry A's fans)! I was surprised I didn't get a phone call, he was so excited he ran up to me Saturday morning all excited. While Tyler was at the game, Chris had to work late Friday so I let Kyle have his friend over and Riley Jo, Kyle, Joey, and I made our own mini pizza's for dinner. We did this for Valentines Day and it was such a kick for the kids that we decided to do it again! Then my brother and Jeannine came over to play Partini again. My brother and Chris had 2 games left to win of our 20 game challenge so they thought they could finish it. Well, we played 6 games and the boys only won 1. Chris was definitely off his game!
Saturday Kyle had a baseball game and Chris had to work. After the baseball game, Tyler went back over to Chase's house and I put Kyle and Riley Jo down for a nap! I had a couple hours to myself which was very nice. Then Saturday evening Chris and Tyler went to the Priesthood session of conference (Tyler's first one!) and the moms and kids had a potluck in the park. It was a beautiful evening at the park and didn't even start to get cold until we started to pack up at 7:15. Then my brother and Jeannine came back over to try and finish up our Partini challenge. The guys won their last game in 1 game. Then we had dessert and played a game called Pop 5. It's a cranium game and lots of fun! We played until 1:15 a.m. WOW!
Sunday was conference day and Sheri, Brittani, and Abby came over to watch it with us. Then they hung out for the rest of the afternoon and left about 5:00 pm. We just couldn't get enough playing time in I guess because Steve and Jeannine came back again to play more Pop 5. Good thing they provided the dessert to help keep us awake! We are still tired but had fun so it was worth it.

Official Teenager!!!

Michayla turned 13 on Monday so we have a teenager in our house! Luckily she isn't the one with the attitude. Yet. She is sweet in nature and the fact that she spends 1 week at a time at each house hopefully we won't see much attitude. To celebrate her birthday our family went to dinner at Chevy's and rollerskating. Kyle lasted all of 5 minutes before he called it quits. He couldn't get the concept of moving one foot at a time. I told him to walk, you don't move both feet at the same time to walk right? But with the wheels on the shoes he thought he had to move both at the same time. Chris and I both tried to teach him but neither of us could. Riley Jo had decided she wasn't even going to try so she and Kyle both pretended to play video games for the 2 hours. Chris and I switched off to stay off with the little ones. I don't know how long it has been since I actually roller skated, luckily you can rent roller blades too. I ask the kids if they want roller blades or roller skates they both said roller skates so Chris said "Let's just all get roller skates." I had to admit that I don't remember how to roller skate. He proceeded to make fun of me in front of the entire line how I don't know how to roller skate. I know Chris was doing that? Ha Ha. Anyways, the kids had a fun time and now want to go back at least once a month. I had great fun and it's good exercise. My legs were sore the next day. Maybe I shouldn't be admitting that, that just shows how out of shape I am and need to exercise my muscles more. Next time we go we will leave the little ones behind.

New Beginnings

We had an Emma's Awards Show for our Young Women's New Beginnings this year. We all had to come dressed in fancy dresses and the dads wore suits. We stayed late the night before decorating the room. We put white lights around the room and hung up plastic sheets of paper to make it look like they were drapes all around the room. It looked wonderful! We came early to set up the tables and put on the centerpieces. We gave awards for each of the 8 values of the Young Women Recognition Award.

Laura and I were in charge of introducing the new Beehives. We made personalized Magazine Covers for them that showed their interests and talents.

Here are the new beehives with their magazines.

The current Beehives made a video to accept their award of our trip to Utah last year. I filmed it and edited it for that evening.