Senior Ball

WOW!!! The last dance!!!!!! Mitch and buds attended Senior Ball Saturday night at the Capitol. I can't believe that was his last high school dance! He looked really handsome in his tux and his date looked very beautiful! They spent the afternoon going paint balling and he came home with big red welts all over his body! Good thing the tux covered them all up!( Except for the one on his finger that has now turned in to a blood blister! ) Then they went to the Rodizio Grill for dinner, Mitch was in Heaven because it was all you can eat meat! He even tried eating a chicken heart... GROSS!!! Then off to the Capitol to dance the night away and to a buds house to watch a movie! I am still recovering from waiting up for him until 2:30 in the morning! He had a great time and it makes me cry every time I think about this group of kids! They are such good kids and in a few months they will be graduating and going off on missions and off to school! What an awesome time they have had in high school! At least a few of them will be around and at the U for a few months!! Anyway... don't they all look so cute!

Senior Bawl

While Mitch was at Senior Ball.... Maddi and her BFF Sarah got together after their dance recital and had a Senior Bawl! They both are in the same boat and can't date until they turn 16 in August, so they got together and spent the night doing their hair and dressing up in ball gowns and eating cake and taking pictures! It was really fun for them! It is so awesome that the kids have such great friends! But yikes.... they will be able to go to all the dances for real next year!!!! It was so funny, the theme for the real Senior Ball was "Here With You" so the theme for the Senior Bawl was " Here Without You" ! What funny girls!!!!!

Take me out to the ball game

Jacob had his first machine pitch baseball game on Saturday. His team is the Twins. He hit the ball both times he got up to bat even though it was his first time ever batting with the pitching machine. He did awesome and we are so excited to get back to the ball park!

I know I am a bit partial but he is a great baseball player! He smacks the ball so hard and catches pretty dang good for a 7 year old!

A WICKED dream come true

We just returned home from the show and I can't begin to tell you how AWESOME it was!!!! We went with our best est buds Julie and Jess. We went to Olive Garden for dinner and then over to the theatre. Thank goodness Jess hooked us up with her hubby's parking pass at his work so we parked really close! Thanks Tyler!! The show was incredible, the witches were amazing and we LOVED every minute of it . Jess even stayed awake the whole time!!! I could watch it again and again!! Every night they hold a lottery for 25 dollar tickets...... maybe we will try that so we can get to see it again! We have waited So long to see it and we were not disappointed!!

THE WAIT IS OVER!!!!!

Maddi and I are so excited for tonight!!! We finally get to use her Christmas present and see Wicked tonight at the Capitol Theatre!! We have been in LOVE with the soundtrack for years and didn't think we would ever be able to see it! Well it finally came here and thanks to my great(and smart) friend Julie we were able to get tickets. Julie talked me in to buying a four show season pass that had three other shows besides Wicked. We ended up paying less for the tickets and went through much less stress than just trying to wait in line and get tickets for just Wicked. Kevin and Julie's husband had to sit (or sleep) through two of the boring plays so that Julie and I could take our girls to Wicked! Thanks boys!!! They got the bad end of the deal!! Ha Ha, so anyway we are ..... off to see the Wizard!!!!!!!! More later.....

SPRING BREAK!!!!

We packed up the car and headed to sunny St. George for the week. We wanted to head down to sunnier San Diego too but Kevin had a test to take in his class at the U so we were only had time to make it to St. George. We had a couple of good weather days and a few of us even got sunburns! We swam, ate, hiked in Zions National Park, ate, shopped, ate, went to the arts festival, ate, went to see Monsters vs. Aliens and , oh yeah, ate! We are so lucky to be able to stay at my Mom and Dad's and get to enjoy my Mom's yummy cooking! We also had our favorite cousins down there staying at a condo so we had extra fun! We dyed eggs and did all the fun Easter stuff and then headed back to home where it is sunny but not as warm! It was a very fun week and went all too fast! Thanks Mom and Dad for putting up with all of us!!!!

The annual picture on Mema's rock! The rock seemed so much bigger when they were little!

Enjoying the sun and even each other

Can you tell which one of us didn't get sunburned?

Mema and Grandpa and all the kids

We hiked in Zions up to Emerald pools. It was really fun and....

We even got Mema to go with us! Jacob told her good job you made it after we were done.

Mitch was pretending to be falling off a cliff to scare me but I caught on to his tricks years ago!!!

Waiting for the shuttle bus to take us to the hike.