So I had my ultrasound with the specialist yesterday. The doctor said everything looked just the same as the other ultra sound. The baby is big and there is a lot of amniotic fluid, the kidneys are slightly dialated, but all are within the limits of normal, just the upper limits of normal. So, I guess it doesn't mean anything at this point. He said I should be fine seeing the normal doctor here on base and that I should be fine to travel across the country at 34 weeks. I guess you never really know for sure, but hopefully everything will go well on the trip across country and I won't end up giving birth on the side of the road in the middle of Nebraska. At least I'll have a pediatrician with me ;) If the pioneers could do it . . . . ha ha ha!
Today was my last day of teaching joy school. It was crazy, but good. It's nice to be done. The people who are taking our dog just picked her up. Samantha and Michelle started crying. Michelle was really dramatic. I have to admit though, that of everyone in the family, she probably loved Lucky the most. Samantha, however, didn't really do much with the dog. She was just being kind of silly. With everyone crying though, I shed a tear or two and I saw John hiding his face for a few moments. I hope all goes well with the new family.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Sunday, May 09, 2010
468 cinnamon rolls, 420 chocolate strawberries, 4 loaves of bread, 7 young women, 4 leaders, 2 toddlers and 1 elementary school cook
Yep, that was our lineup on Saturday and miraculously everything went smoothly. We got to Grandview Elementary around 8:30 am and worked continuously till about 1:30 and got it all knocked out. It actually wasn't too bad with such a large kitchen and so many people helping. I was really nervous that everything was going to fall apart, but thanks to Sister Chick (the elementary school cook) and everyone who came to help we got it all done relatively quickly and easily. Let me just tell you, that industrial mixer, oven and dishwasher are awesome. So is Sister Chick! She really did a great job helping the yw roll and cut all those rolls.
Friday night, I was a little panicky. Justin and I were taking the boys to see Alice in Wonderland here on base while a friend watched the little kids. Just as we sat down to start the show, my 1st counselor called me. She was in Boise at Costco, she was supposed to pick up all the strawberries there, had gone a week before, checked everything out and was assured they would have plenty of berries for us, but when she got there Friday evening they were completely sold out of strawberries. We were both dying! I sat through a few minutes of the show, but was freaking out, so I had to ditch my dates and run to Mountain Home and check out the stores there to see if there were any berries. The first store I stopped at had only 6 lbs left on the shelf. We needed about 40 lbs. I was completely freaking out. I then ran to walmart, grabbed the 10 pounds they had (mind you half of these had visible mold on them) and ran to Albertsons where I met Lisa (my first counselor). The strawberries there were selling for $3.50/pound and they didn't even look that good. Luckily, Lisa told me that she had called the first store I went to and asked them to pull 20 pounds off the shelves for us. We went back there and they let us into their cooler where we were able to pick and choose enough strawberries to finish our order. Disaster averted! Thank goodness! All the berries we bought came to $1.50/pound. Which was really a pretty good price. I missed Alice in Wonderland, but got home about the same time as Justin and the kids. Actually our friend offered to watch our kids a little longer so Justin and I could have some time together, so we went to the bowling alley and ate ice cream, played a round of pool, and played miss pacman. Thanks Connie. We really have some great friends here. I will really miss them when we move.
Unfortunately though, I missed the boys last soccer game. They won 3-2 and Joey made the winning goal. It would have been nice to be there, but Justin and the others were able to go so it all turned out well.
Friday night, I was a little panicky. Justin and I were taking the boys to see Alice in Wonderland here on base while a friend watched the little kids. Just as we sat down to start the show, my 1st counselor called me. She was in Boise at Costco, she was supposed to pick up all the strawberries there, had gone a week before, checked everything out and was assured they would have plenty of berries for us, but when she got there Friday evening they were completely sold out of strawberries. We were both dying! I sat through a few minutes of the show, but was freaking out, so I had to ditch my dates and run to Mountain Home and check out the stores there to see if there were any berries. The first store I stopped at had only 6 lbs left on the shelf. We needed about 40 lbs. I was completely freaking out. I then ran to walmart, grabbed the 10 pounds they had (mind you half of these had visible mold on them) and ran to Albertsons where I met Lisa (my first counselor). The strawberries there were selling for $3.50/pound and they didn't even look that good. Luckily, Lisa told me that she had called the first store I went to and asked them to pull 20 pounds off the shelves for us. We went back there and they let us into their cooler where we were able to pick and choose enough strawberries to finish our order. Disaster averted! Thank goodness! All the berries we bought came to $1.50/pound. Which was really a pretty good price. I missed Alice in Wonderland, but got home about the same time as Justin and the kids. Actually our friend offered to watch our kids a little longer so Justin and I could have some time together, so we went to the bowling alley and ate ice cream, played a round of pool, and played miss pacman. Thanks Connie. We really have some great friends here. I will really miss them when we move.
Unfortunately though, I missed the boys last soccer game. They won 3-2 and Joey made the winning goal. It would have been nice to be there, but Justin and the others were able to go so it all turned out well.
Friday, May 07, 2010
Journal time
Ok, this Sunday I'm supposed to give a lesson on journal keeping to the young women, so I feel that in order to not be a hypocrite, I need to write in my journal. Right now, this is my journal. I love it because I cannot lose it, everyone should be able to read my hand writing, and it's so easy to add pictures to it. The down side however, is that I always get distracted when I write in here, visiting other people's blogs etc. Also, I probably don't share all of my intimate emotions/experiences in here (unless they're positive) because of the public nature of the blog. I do love being able to share and connect with others so easily though.
So here is what is going on in my life right now. We are moving in 5 1/2 weeks. This week we got rid of the piano and got someone to agree to take our dog. Those are 2 major accomplishments. It feels good to get those 2 monkeys off of my back. The family that's taking Lucky seems really nice and they have a 1/2 acre fenced in back yard. Sounds like the perfect home for her. I've also been decluttering and scrubbing walls. I've made just small steps in those directions. All the walls will probably have to be rescrubbed in 5 weeks anyway, but at least I can get some of the stuff off now so it won't be so overwhelming at the end. My mom and dad have offered to come take the kids for a few days after school's out and Justin's mom is coming out to help clean and drive cross country. Aren't mom's great!
In other news, our yw fundraiser is tomorrow and I actually feel pretty prepared for it. We've already collected most of the money. YAY! Most of the ingredients have been bought and paid for, the packaging is all figured out. I just have to copy off the lists so we have multiple lists for people to look at as they are preparing and packaging everything we need. Girls have volunteered to help, multiple leaders will be there. I think it will go well. I'll let you know though. We are making 31 1/2 dozen cinnamon rolls and 28 dozen chocolate covered strawberries. Should be fun.
Kid news: Soccer is almost over. Samantha's last game was on Monday and the boys last game is tomorrow. I will probably have to miss it because of the fundraiser :( I'm bummed, but Justin will be there and it's the only game I will miss. John has been playing goalie all season. A few weeks ago the other goalie sprained his thumb, so John has been playing goalie the entire time for the last couple of games. I've been really proud of him. He's been doing a great job. Joey has looked really good this year too. The coaches have him playing forward (I think that's what it's called) he's in the front and is pretty aggressive. I think he's even made one or two goals this season, but he's best at assists. He gets the ball up there and then usually passes it off to one of the other players who get it right in the goal. It's been a really fun season to watch. They've only lost one game, and if that game had one more quarter, I think they might have won. The kids really didn't play their best the first quarter, but ended really strong.
The rest of the year is getting full of end of year picnics, field trips, BBQ's, piano recitals, temple trips, recorder concerts and family visits. I teach joy school for the last time next week. YAY! Still not sure when I'm going to get released from my calling. I hope the next presidency likes what I have planned for them. . . . camp is coming up so some plans have to be made.
I'm both excited and scared to move. Even though we've only been here 2 years, we've made some pretty great friends here. AFB are great places to move to because everyone is looking for friends and it's easy to fit in. I'm pretty sure we're going to stick out like a sore thumb in connecticut. oh well, it will be fun.
My doctor just called, I almost failed the diabetes test yesterday. I got a 135. Here they don't make you test again unless you're 140, but I guess other places the cut off is 135. I had to retest with John because I was 135. He wasn't going to make me retest, but after talking to my hubby decided to err on the side of caution and make me take the 3 hour test. Curse that man! I also had an extra ultra sound on Wednessday because it looked like the kidneys on the baby were a little dialated. The results came back normal, but on the upper limits of normal. The baby's size is also measuring in the 98th percentile and her amniotic fluid is also measuring high (indicators of diabetes). He wants me to go to Boise for another ultra sound with the specialists. He says they are just being cautious. I guess it's good to make sure eveything is ok, but it's still a pain in the neck. Cross your fingers that everything turns out ok.
So here is what is going on in my life right now. We are moving in 5 1/2 weeks. This week we got rid of the piano and got someone to agree to take our dog. Those are 2 major accomplishments. It feels good to get those 2 monkeys off of my back. The family that's taking Lucky seems really nice and they have a 1/2 acre fenced in back yard. Sounds like the perfect home for her. I've also been decluttering and scrubbing walls. I've made just small steps in those directions. All the walls will probably have to be rescrubbed in 5 weeks anyway, but at least I can get some of the stuff off now so it won't be so overwhelming at the end. My mom and dad have offered to come take the kids for a few days after school's out and Justin's mom is coming out to help clean and drive cross country. Aren't mom's great!
In other news, our yw fundraiser is tomorrow and I actually feel pretty prepared for it. We've already collected most of the money. YAY! Most of the ingredients have been bought and paid for, the packaging is all figured out. I just have to copy off the lists so we have multiple lists for people to look at as they are preparing and packaging everything we need. Girls have volunteered to help, multiple leaders will be there. I think it will go well. I'll let you know though. We are making 31 1/2 dozen cinnamon rolls and 28 dozen chocolate covered strawberries. Should be fun.
Kid news: Soccer is almost over. Samantha's last game was on Monday and the boys last game is tomorrow. I will probably have to miss it because of the fundraiser :( I'm bummed, but Justin will be there and it's the only game I will miss. John has been playing goalie all season. A few weeks ago the other goalie sprained his thumb, so John has been playing goalie the entire time for the last couple of games. I've been really proud of him. He's been doing a great job. Joey has looked really good this year too. The coaches have him playing forward (I think that's what it's called) he's in the front and is pretty aggressive. I think he's even made one or two goals this season, but he's best at assists. He gets the ball up there and then usually passes it off to one of the other players who get it right in the goal. It's been a really fun season to watch. They've only lost one game, and if that game had one more quarter, I think they might have won. The kids really didn't play their best the first quarter, but ended really strong.
The rest of the year is getting full of end of year picnics, field trips, BBQ's, piano recitals, temple trips, recorder concerts and family visits. I teach joy school for the last time next week. YAY! Still not sure when I'm going to get released from my calling. I hope the next presidency likes what I have planned for them. . . . camp is coming up so some plans have to be made.
I'm both excited and scared to move. Even though we've only been here 2 years, we've made some pretty great friends here. AFB are great places to move to because everyone is looking for friends and it's easy to fit in. I'm pretty sure we're going to stick out like a sore thumb in connecticut. oh well, it will be fun.
My doctor just called, I almost failed the diabetes test yesterday. I got a 135. Here they don't make you test again unless you're 140, but I guess other places the cut off is 135. I had to retest with John because I was 135. He wasn't going to make me retest, but after talking to my hubby decided to err on the side of caution and make me take the 3 hour test. Curse that man! I also had an extra ultra sound on Wednessday because it looked like the kidneys on the baby were a little dialated. The results came back normal, but on the upper limits of normal. The baby's size is also measuring in the 98th percentile and her amniotic fluid is also measuring high (indicators of diabetes). He wants me to go to Boise for another ultra sound with the specialists. He says they are just being cautious. I guess it's good to make sure eveything is ok, but it's still a pain in the neck. Cross your fingers that everything turns out ok.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Our new home
Here's a picture of the house we are going to be renting in New Haven:
I'm pretty excited. I think it will be a really good fit for us. It is on a nice little cul de sac in a pretty nice neighborhood in Hamden. The elementary school is a couple of blocks away and I think it will work really well for us. The rent is great for the neighborhood and there is a little forest behind the house. Around the corner is a Christmas tree farm. Anyway, I think it will be a lot of fun. I forgot to take pictures of the inside of the house, but it's pretty comparable to what we have here. It's about 2200 sqft, four bedrooms upstairs and then a living room, family room, kitchen and dining room on the main floor. THere is also an unfinished basement. It is a little more run down than some of the houses we looked at. Run down is not really the right word, The house is about 30 years old and it's obvious that none of the cabinents/bathroom tile etc has been updated in that time. It's clean, just old. The carpet looked good though (it's been replaced), and the rent is amazing for the area, so I think it will work well for us. We looked at some pretty crazy houses on our house hunting trip. One was built in 1760. It was absolutely gorgeous, except for the wavy floors and cielings. Also some of the carpet was pretty trippy. It was really neat though because the fireplace had a place for hanging a big pot on to cook and a little bread oven built into the side. It had a lot of other cute period woodworking pieces as well, like an actual water closet that was probably an actual closet at one point. It was just a little too old for a new baby, but the five acres it was on were beautiful too. I'm not sure Justin will ever forgive me for putting the ax on that house, but it had to be done for the safety of the children. Another house we looked at had a mouse in it that attacked our real estate agent. It was pretty funny (after all the screaming and Justin managed to lock the mouse in the bathroom. ) Another one literally reeked of urine and other pet odors. Anyway, I think we made the right choice. I'm getting excited for Connecticut,but I will really miss all of our friends here. I can't believe we only have about 7 weeks left here. We are going to be so busy up untill the minute we leave. Every single weekend is already booked with sleepovers, soccer games, dance recitals, temple trips, garage sales and fundraisers. Whew! I hope I can get everything done before we have to leave.
I'm still serving as the young women president and we are doing a fundraiser May 8th for girls camp. We are selling cinnamon rolls and chocolate covered strawberries for mother's day. I thought this would be pretty low key, but we already have 28 dozen cinnamon rolls orderd and 21 dozen strawberries. That's more than I thought we would get. It's great because we will make more money, but wow it's going to be so busy getting all those orders filled. We are just now realizing that we might not be able to just run down to the store the day before and pick up that many strawberries. Eeek! My 1st counselor is going to talk to the people at Costco and see if they can make sure thay have that many for us to buy from them. Luckily, my secretaries mom is a cook at a local elementary school and has offered to let us use their kitchen, huge industrial mixer and recipe that makes 200 cinnamon rolls at a time. Wow, this is going to be crazy! I'm excited though, I think it will go well. I love young womens, but it is so busy. It seems like I'm constantly doing something for it either preparing a lesson, planning a stake dance, visiting our inactive girls, planning a mutual activity . . . . the list is endless and it always seems like I could be doing more. I will really miss it when we're gone : ( The girls are so much fun.
I'm pretty excited. I think it will be a really good fit for us. It is on a nice little cul de sac in a pretty nice neighborhood in Hamden. The elementary school is a couple of blocks away and I think it will work really well for us. The rent is great for the neighborhood and there is a little forest behind the house. Around the corner is a Christmas tree farm. Anyway, I think it will be a lot of fun. I forgot to take pictures of the inside of the house, but it's pretty comparable to what we have here. It's about 2200 sqft, four bedrooms upstairs and then a living room, family room, kitchen and dining room on the main floor. THere is also an unfinished basement. It is a little more run down than some of the houses we looked at. Run down is not really the right word, The house is about 30 years old and it's obvious that none of the cabinents/bathroom tile etc has been updated in that time. It's clean, just old. The carpet looked good though (it's been replaced), and the rent is amazing for the area, so I think it will work well for us. We looked at some pretty crazy houses on our house hunting trip. One was built in 1760. It was absolutely gorgeous, except for the wavy floors and cielings. Also some of the carpet was pretty trippy. It was really neat though because the fireplace had a place for hanging a big pot on to cook and a little bread oven built into the side. It had a lot of other cute period woodworking pieces as well, like an actual water closet that was probably an actual closet at one point. It was just a little too old for a new baby, but the five acres it was on were beautiful too. I'm not sure Justin will ever forgive me for putting the ax on that house, but it had to be done for the safety of the children. Another house we looked at had a mouse in it that attacked our real estate agent. It was pretty funny (after all the screaming and Justin managed to lock the mouse in the bathroom. ) Another one literally reeked of urine and other pet odors. Anyway, I think we made the right choice. I'm getting excited for Connecticut,but I will really miss all of our friends here. I can't believe we only have about 7 weeks left here. We are going to be so busy up untill the minute we leave. Every single weekend is already booked with sleepovers, soccer games, dance recitals, temple trips, garage sales and fundraisers. Whew! I hope I can get everything done before we have to leave. I'm still serving as the young women president and we are doing a fundraiser May 8th for girls camp. We are selling cinnamon rolls and chocolate covered strawberries for mother's day. I thought this would be pretty low key, but we already have 28 dozen cinnamon rolls orderd and 21 dozen strawberries. That's more than I thought we would get. It's great because we will make more money, but wow it's going to be so busy getting all those orders filled. We are just now realizing that we might not be able to just run down to the store the day before and pick up that many strawberries. Eeek! My 1st counselor is going to talk to the people at Costco and see if they can make sure thay have that many for us to buy from them. Luckily, my secretaries mom is a cook at a local elementary school and has offered to let us use their kitchen, huge industrial mixer and recipe that makes 200 cinnamon rolls at a time. Wow, this is going to be crazy! I'm excited though, I think it will go well. I love young womens, but it is so busy. It seems like I'm constantly doing something for it either preparing a lesson, planning a stake dance, visiting our inactive girls, planning a mutual activity . . . . the list is endless and it always seems like I could be doing more. I will really miss it when we're gone : ( The girls are so much fun.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Wing ski day at Bogus Basin
Once again we went to the wing ski day this year. It was Feb. 5th. Justin took the boys up on the bus that left at 7:00. They skiied all day and then met up with the rest of us to go tubing at 4:00. This year everyone was tall enough to go, but Michelle just refused. Each kid has to be in their own tube. She might have gone if she could have been in my tube, but she was not into it. Nathan went though. He had a lot of fun. Justin and I took turns walking around with Michelle. After sledding we went out to eat at Applebees. As we were pulling in I heard Joey mumble from the back seat. " I guess we could eat at Craplebees." It made me laugh really hard, because it was a direct quote from Uncle Danny. What a bad influence! J/K. Joey's never eaten there before, and we consider it a "nice" restuarant. Especially to go to with all of the kids. It was a really fun family day, and I think Joey wants to go back to "crapplebees" again. (Not that I endorse that kind of language. ) 
Michelle making faces. She did not want to go down the hill.
NAthan throwing snowballs. I think he thought that was more fun than actually tubing.
Joey and John getting ready to go backwars spinning down the hill.
Family picture at the top of the hill. It was a fun day.
Michelle making faces. She did not want to go down the hill.
NAthan throwing snowballs. I think he thought that was more fun than actually tubing.
Joey and John getting ready to go backwars spinning down the hill.
Family picture at the top of the hill. It was a fun day. Birthdays!
I'm still in catch up mode. We are almost finished with birthday season at my house. YAY! Joey's was in November and John and Samantha both have February birthdays. Joey had a football party, John a lego star wars one, and Samantha had a high school musical one. I love throwing parties, but have to admit they wear me and my budget out. Each year I keep trying to downsize, but my kids and hubby love the fun so we get caught up again.
I'll start with Samantha's party because hers was the most recent. She wanted a high school musical theme. It's so funny because she is so girly. She insisted on making her own invites. They were really cute. We made little backstage passes with all the info for her party on them and hand delivered them to all of her friends. I made her limit it to 12 and only invite girls. That was hard for her. It was a total girl party. We brought out all of the girl costumes and I borrowed a few from my friend Connie. When the girls arrived they got to pick out a beautiful dress and then came in for hair and makeup. They got to wear makeup and put some temporary streaks in their hair. (which they loved). THen we made picture frames out of foam and took a picture of each girl on the red carpet. Then we hooked up the karaoke machine (thanks again Connie) and sang through the high school musical sound track. Most of the girls sang and danced, but a few ran off to play. It's funny to see all the different personalities in kids. After the singing we ate pizza and corn on the cob, then had a bling hunt and did cake, ice cream and presents. It was actually a pretty low key party (especially compared to John's party a few week s before. Girls just behave so much better than boys).
Nathan sporting a blonde wig, purple cape and glasses plays with the high school musical tent and dance pad that one of my friends lent me. Thanks Amber! It was a hit!
Making picture frames. I happened to have a bunch of foam in my craft closet. This was a great project to get rid of a lot of it.
The birthday cake. Samantha had very specific instructions on what it should look like. She really wanted red and purple, but pink was the best I could do. I'm actually very proud of this cake. My decorating jobs usually don't turn out so great, so I was really pleased with this one. 
Here's my football cake. Yes I'm proud of it! I know all of you cake masters could do better, but I'm happy with it.
I'll start with Samantha's party because hers was the most recent. She wanted a high school musical theme. It's so funny because she is so girly. She insisted on making her own invites. They were really cute. We made little backstage passes with all the info for her party on them and hand delivered them to all of her friends. I made her limit it to 12 and only invite girls. That was hard for her. It was a total girl party. We brought out all of the girl costumes and I borrowed a few from my friend Connie. When the girls arrived they got to pick out a beautiful dress and then came in for hair and makeup. They got to wear makeup and put some temporary streaks in their hair. (which they loved). THen we made picture frames out of foam and took a picture of each girl on the red carpet. Then we hooked up the karaoke machine (thanks again Connie) and sang through the high school musical sound track. Most of the girls sang and danced, but a few ran off to play. It's funny to see all the different personalities in kids. After the singing we ate pizza and corn on the cob, then had a bling hunt and did cake, ice cream and presents. It was actually a pretty low key party (especially compared to John's party a few week s before. Girls just behave so much better than boys).
Nathan sporting a blonde wig, purple cape and glasses plays with the high school musical tent and dance pad that one of my friends lent me. Thanks Amber! It was a hit!
Making picture frames. I happened to have a bunch of foam in my craft closet. This was a great project to get rid of a lot of it.
The birthday cake. Samantha had very specific instructions on what it should look like. She really wanted red and purple, but pink was the best I could do. I'm actually very proud of this cake. My decorating jobs usually don't turn out so great, so I was really pleased with this one. Next, I'll describe John's party. I couldn't find my camera at the time so you'll just have to use your imagination. He had a lego star wars birthday party. We put out our huge pile of legos and gave the kids 15 minutes to build a star cruiser/ racing pod. I set up our folding table to be a ramp so they could race. That was a bad idea because Michelle kept usig it as a slide and broke a part of it. I think it still works, but it's a little less stable than it used to be. The kids made some pretty neat things. Once again, it's always so interesting to see which kids really love that kind of thing and which ones are ready to move on to the next activity after 5 minutes. After the pod racing we made light labers. Each kid got a 3 ft piece of insulating foam for pipes, it looks kind of like a swimming noodle only a little skinnier. They then got to choose red or blue duct tape to cover their light saber with to make it a light saber. I also had metalic or black duct tape for the handle. THose that really got into it made little buttons to put on it as well. They turned out really cool, however anyone who knows 9 year old boys, should know better than to give light sabers to 8 boys and expect them not to hit each other. I expected them to hit each other, but not to hurt each other. I let them run outside and fantasy play, but ended up having to run out and stop and take everyone's light saber away as one of the kids was getting hurt and obviously not having fun anymore. For the next game, Justin dressed up as Darth Vader (thanks again Connie for the costume). Each Jedi was supposed to take a turn being blind folded and trying to hit Darth Vader with his light saber as he ran around and taunted them. Justin was a really good sport. He got hit a lot. I had to hold onto the sabers except the kid whose turn it was, Even so, it seemed like every time I turned around some group of kids had managed to get their light sabers back and were hitting each other with them. Finally we just put them all up high and ate padawan pizza and gungan grapes, kenobi carrots and yoda soda. I made a cool cake that looked like a light saber. I was really proud of it. We ate cake and ice cream did presents, and the boys played football outside until their parents got there. Boys are so rowdy. But, they had a great time. Grandma and Grandpa Stoker had come up for the weekend, so they helped with the party too.
Next we have Joey's party. He had a football/sports party. It was an excellent fit for that group of boys. THey have so much energy. As they came in they each made a jersey with permanent markers and cheap walmart t shirts. Then they played all sorts of different sport games. They did an obstacle course, the dizzy dash, chicken wrestling and shooting bottles with nerf guns. The best was chicken wrestling. We put duct tape on the carpet in the living room to make a ring that everyone had to stay in. Then each person had to grab onto their ankles with their hands and try to knock people over or butt them out of the circle. It was pretty funny and not very violent because you couldn't use your hands or feet. They asked to play that over and over. After food and cake the kids went outside and played football. I bought flags at the dollar store for them to use, but of couse they wouldn't. They are all about playing tackle. I don't allow it, but it seems they are always playing it whenever I turn my back. There's a big field behind my house so there is often a group of boys out there playing football.
Here's my football cake. Yes I'm proud of it! I know all of you cake masters could do better, but I'm happy with it.Here's a little clip of Samantha's birthday party. Notice the girl in brown who looks like she's being forced to be there. It cracks me up. She is much more of a tom boy and this party wasn't really her thing, but Samantha loved it. It was exactly what she wanted.
sledding with the young women
Today I'm playing catch up. I use this blog as my journal/scrapbook. I just don't have enough time to do a traditional one and eventually I plan on making a book of this blog. So, here are some photos from our YM/YW combined activity for January. We went sledding up in the mountains towards Fairfield. It was only about 45 minutes away which is amazing because there was absolutely no snow in Mt. Home on this day. We actually really lucked out. The weather in Mt. Home was awful, cold and windy and threatening to rain. I almost cancelled, but luckily the mountains sheilded us from the wind and for the 3 hours we were there, there was no precipitation. It did start snowing just as we left, but that was it.
In addition to the sledding we had chili and hot chocolate thanks to the huge stove the ym brought. They also chopped wood and made a fire for us. It was great. The day was really perfect! I think everyone had a lot of fun.
Joseph, John and Dallin Brown. I konw, they're not ym or yw, but my first counselors husband is deployed so she had to bring her son, and mine just begged to go. I'm glad I took them. They probably had more fun than anyone else there.
Brother Powell tending the fire. As you can tell, we just set up right on the side of the road. We were at Little Camas, a public area for hunting etc. Our ym leaders are avid hunters/outdoorsmen. It's so handy having them around because they know the area and are great fire builders.
A few of the young women eating chili and hot chocolate. MMMM! It was a great day!
In addition to the sledding we had chili and hot chocolate thanks to the huge stove the ym brought. They also chopped wood and made a fire for us. It was great. The day was really perfect! I think everyone had a lot of fun.
Joseph, John and Dallin Brown. I konw, they're not ym or yw, but my first counselors husband is deployed so she had to bring her son, and mine just begged to go. I'm glad I took them. They probably had more fun than anyone else there. 
Brother Powell tending the fire. As you can tell, we just set up right on the side of the road. We were at Little Camas, a public area for hunting etc. Our ym leaders are avid hunters/outdoorsmen. It's so handy having them around because they know the area and are great fire builders.
A few of the young women eating chili and hot chocolate. MMMM! It was a great day!
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