The 4 That We Adore

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Glow

At Grovecrest the 2nd Graders put on an original play called GLOW. It's a cute play about how everything has a place in the world. We were excited to watch Liberty perform. She did great. She had a solo, and nailed it!

Check out how cute she looked, and her whole class was awesome!

I love that she enjoys singing and performing.

Where does the wind go? After it rains?

Lib as part of the chorus. She was fun to was so funny to watch, she was like a mother hen making sure the kids that surrounded her had all their props at the appropriate times.

Butterfly #1 singing her solo. She was awesome! But I could tell how nervous whe was.

She was all smiles when it was all over and the nerves went away.

Showing off her wings

Liberty with some of her friends from her class.

Grammy and Papa came to watch her

The boys both had scouts and missed the play.

She did a great job!

Sunday, April 10, 2011

General Conference Weekend

You know it's General Conference Weekend when...

you wake up to unexpected snow...

Liberty begs to sleep on the bean bag so she can have that spot during the first session.

It sort of is the coveted spot in our family.

Brit plays with his trucks and cars all through every session

Black paper is put over the windows so we can see the screen clearly.

I use almost a 1/2 ream of paper to print the many different Conference Packets to keep the kids quiet.

At 12:01 the phone starts ringing for the Bishop

Zach is happy when he gets the coveted spot.

Caleb gets cozy on the couch while listening

Brit snores through the last session

Zach tries every conference to get a photo that looks like he is singing with the chior.

and at the end of the day...a wrestling match takes place. All the cooped up energy is let out.

the family room looks like a pile of blankets, pillows, snacks, toys and who knows what

One of our favorite weekends of the year. We always look forward to being able to listen to Conference and enjoy being together all weekend.

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Experiences

Craig's brother Todd was able to get tickets for the boys to go to the Conference Center for Priesthood Session. I love that Caleb (and the others) had the experience to go and sit at the feet of the Prophets. It can only strengthen the testimony that is growing within him. It still is hard for me to think that my first little man in old enough to go with the big boys.

Here are Caleb and Hayden just before the session started.

(look at them...they are growing up to be handsome, good young men. I LOVE IT!)

Brit's Big Day

Last Tuesday I had Parent Teacher Conferences, Craig had a ton of work to do so Brit had a chance to spend the day with Grammy & Papa. He was way excited. His day was of course fun. They went to the mall, ate lunch, played in the treehouse slide and had the chance to go to Build A Bear. He made a dog and named it DOG. He's a clever one isn't he? I was so happy to see that Grammy and Papa took photos of the fun day. It was so cute to listen to Brit tell the older kids about his day. He kept saying slide...tree...dog over and over with a big smile on his face. A big thanks goes to Grammy and Papa for making the day so much fun. Look at the smile on his face in these photos. I think it shows how great of a time he had.

Getting ready to slide down into Grammy.

Papa helping fluff DOG after making it...so cute.

Thanks Mom & Dad for helping us out!

Thursday, March 24, 2011

St. Patrick's Day Fun

A Leprechaun visited our house again this year...(highlight of my day, actually happened the day before, when Liberty excitedly asked Zach if he thought the leprechaun was going to come again like last year!) Our day started out with rainbow waffles, green milk, and Lucky Charms. We all sported green to school and work, except for Zach who once again was the rebel and said..."don't worry mom, if anyone tries to pinch me they will get into trouble!" he wore jeans and a BYU shirt and later at school drew a green shamrock on his hand. Too cool...whatever!

Sure enough while at school the leprechaun visited the house and decorated it with shamrocks EVERYWHERE! He left green balloons, green streamers on the outside of the door blowing in the wind for all the neighborhood to see. (Caleb asked me if next year the leprechaun could possibly stay inside the house so everyone didn't see....TEENAGERS!) Of course we had our green dinner. We had, sloppy joes (NOT GREEN) on green buns, green & orange jello, green bagged chips, cabbage salad, deviled eggs, green apple soda pop, and green rice crispy treats for dessert. As always it was fun...we had a guest, Liberty's friend Evrest over. I don't know if she thought we were fun or crazy...but she was jazzed when Craig gave her his bag of gold. (everyone got a bag of gold on their plate). Good times...even if Craig sometimes shakes his head at me, and Caleb is getting "way to cool for it". I look forward to it EVERY year! Check out our fun night!

Breakfast is served! Aren't those waffles to die for?

The gang just before eating.

Brit chewing on his green straw.

The green meal...if you look in the background of most of the photos you can see how the leprechaun decorated with tons of shamrocks.

Added this one to show the cute green pins that Lib and I made for the big day. So easy and so cute!

My boys are getting WAY TO BIG! (and they really need haircuts)

Everyone dishing up

Zach's "green" for the day.

Cute pot of gold at the end of the rainbow center piece.

Hope your St. Patrick's Day was fabulous! Until next year!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Vegas Baby!

Craig and I took the chance to go on a little getaway. It was fabulous! We decided to head to Vegas to see The Lion King. We really enjoyed the play, felt totally out of place on the strip, ate at the same places we would have at home (McDonalds, Chili's), went and saw Hoover Dam, got upgraded to a very cool suite at Mandalay Bay, visited/stayed with some amazing friends, and loved every minute of it. We were able to stay in touch with the kids via texting, and it was great to come home to children who sincerely missed us and were very happy to see us. That will make any mom & dad feel loved. The hardest part is waiting until we can do it again!