It's snowing again....

I was totally going to put a snowflake background up just to show my dislike of Utah weather. But when I went over to LeeLou blogs to find one - I found she had totally cute new spring stuff up so I gave in and put a new spring one up. But it is snowing here in Utah. And yes it's April 28th. And yes it was warm enough to sleep with the windows last night. Go figure.

Here fishy fishy fishy.....

We took the younger kids up for the first fishing afternoon of the year a couple weekends ago. They had a blast. And yes Breanna was invited - she didn't want to come. And yes I also notice that my finger is in both pictures - dang phone camera.

Breanna's 15th Birthday Party

Breanna pretty much planned her own party this year. I was just the facilitator. She wanted to have a cookie party. We made these great invitations that were giant chocolate chip cookies - I'm working on getting a picture as the one I took got deleted. So she invited a bunch of kids over and they broke into groups and made 3 different kinds of cookies. Then while I moved cookie trays in and out of the oven - they sat at the table and decorated sugar cookies we had already made. Several of the kids said how much fun they'd had and a couple suggested they do this once a month. So I think they were surprised at how much fun it was.

Seth

Whitney and Tonya

Bre and Seth

Hillary and Megan

Seth (pretending to work. He realized all the pictures I was taking were of him just sitting there drinking soda)

Like this.

That is Jayden with his back to the camera. He came late and didn't help make the cookies.

Decorating cookies.

More decorating - more of Seth drinking soda.

Seth actually did decorate some cookies. These are his. And Tonyas are on the right.

Whitney showing us one of hers. And a front view of Jayden.

Finished white chocolate chip macadamia nut cookies.

Finished peanut butter cookies. I didn't get a picture of the chocolate chip ones. Sorry.

Hillary decorating cookies after the big kids were gone.

I didn't get a picture of their boxes full of cookies. Everyone took home all the sugar cookies they decorated/wanted and some of each kind of cookie that we made. It was a huge success.

I Won!!

I won a contest over at The Handy Hausfrau. What did I win you ask? A great bag with oilcloth lining. No I won't give it to you so don't ask. But feel free to head over to her site and check it out. She does awesome crafts and tutorials. Her link is also on my sidebar. I'll even try to remember to post a picture when I recieve it. Thanks again Sara!

Just a quick post

I'm working on a couple of awesome posts covering Connor's 5th grade program and Breanna's 15th birthday party. But for today - Here is Breanna's first time behind the wheel after getting her permit last week. She has since driven quite a few times. Yes it's scary.

We went over and flew kites on Sunday. Hillary was the only one I could convince to go though. Sadly the wind was not as cooperative as I would have liked - but we got a kite up for a little while. And Hillary had a grand time so it was worth it.

Hillary has more dolls than she has doll beds. No this is not a plea for more beds Grandma Tinka - we don't have room for more beds. But Hillary is very good at improvising. She simply cleaned off two of my book shelves and made beds for her girls.

Note also that she felt the need to make name labels so I would know who was supposed to go in each bed.

She would also like you to pay close attention to Lindsey's hair (she's the one on the bottom). She spent a long time doing it last week.