Every year the Youth in our ward have a Where's Waldo night where we get members of the ward to dress up and the kids have to split up in groups and find the Waldo's. This was my first year that I got to dress up, I usually was in Young Women's and was in charge so this was a blast dressing up and being on the other end of it all. Kevin usually dresses up and even Mitch did last year. Thank goodness for the D.I!!! I got some super cheap clothes there and bought a Halloween wig on sale. The funniest part was there were 3 other wards there doing the same activity so it made it harder to find the Waldo's from your ward. Super fun activity, it is one the kids look forward to each year.
Right before Mitchell left on his mission we were able to go and have family pictures taken. Our good friend/other daughter and her assistant Tyler (ex assistant now) was kind enough to do them for us. It has taken me over a month to post these! We are not the easiest family to photograph because no one will do anything seriously or smile normaly when you need them too. Jess did an amazing job and got some wonderful pictures of the fam. She also took Mitchells missionary pictures that are on his blog. She took SO many great pix, here are a few of my favorites. Thanks Jess and Tyler you did an amazing job and I don't think you should have been fired Tyler! Everyone watch out for Jess Healey Photography!!! And yes Parents we are sending you copies!
Girls Weekend Out! Maddi and I went to St. George this weekend with my sister ( who would not let us get a picture of!!!) We stayed at my Mom's house and Friday night we went to see Tarzan at Tuacahn. That was the only thing Maddi wanted for her birthday was to go see that play. The show was AMAZING! The best one we have seen down there by far!Maddi was so embarrased because Grandma just kept saying how handsome Tarzan was! We also realized that Maddi's fav dancer Thayne (who we have been known to stalk a bit) was in the ensemble and that he was also in the play the next night. He didn't come out after Tarzan to get a picture. We were going to go back after the play the next night and get his picture with Maddi but we didn't have a car and no one else would take us back so she will just have to see him next time. The next day we went shopping at the outlets of course and then went and picked up one of our friends that just went down to Dixie for school.Maddi is going to hopefully room with her next year. We went to dinner and then the girls went swimming while my mom and I put up some delicious raspberry jam! Thanks Mom!!!! It was a super fun weekend it just was over too quick! We are so excited for next summer because we found out that Tuacahn just secured the rights to bring The Little Mermaid in next summer. So we will be making another Tuacahn run next year!
Since Monday was a holiday and we had nothing to do we decided to spend the day at Lagoon. It was super fun we had a picnic lunch and of course went on roller coasters and even got Kevin on the sky ride! I told him he will not be able to be my partner on Amazing Race if he can't even handle the sky ride at Lagoon, so he went but was not happy about it!It was the perfect day because it was not too hot or too cold (unless eating lunch in the shade). The most fun is just seeing all the weird people that are there, like the guy that has his ears gauged but one of his earlobes had broken so he just had this big ol dangley thin as an earlobe...gross! It was so nice to have a long weekend. I can't wait for tomorrow.....I think it is P day in Peru!!!!
Last Saturday the wind was whippin it up and Thomas and Jacob had a great idea to fly their kites. We drove over to the school and got the old kites out. I think it was too windy, the kites would get pretty high and then nose dive to the ground. Once the kite caught air the string spool would go crazy and spin out of controll. I had a few trips the the car for bandaids for Jake but other than that it was a fun windy day!
He didn't have very long layovers in either place today but when he landed in Florida he had a few minutes that he could call before he had to board his plane. He sounded, tired and excited at the same time. Poor kid has been up since 3 am and probably didn't sleep very good last night. He said he was hungry but didn't have time to go get food because he wanted to call. That made me sad of course because as a Mom I wanted to make sure he was fed, but as a Mom of course I wanted nothing more than to hear his voice for as long as I could. He said he had lot's of granola bars and snacks in his backpack to keep him going. Hopefully they will feed him something on the way there. Elder Sheridan is on his way to Peru! Lucky Peru!!!!
Well today Mitch is heading to Peru! As I write this he is en route to Dallas then off to Orlando then all the way to Peru! I am waiting patiently by the phone today as we sent him a phone card and have heard that they get to call during their layovers. So don't call my house today. If you are not Mitch I may hang up on you!!! I am so excited for him, yet miss him like crazy!!!
I am married to the most awesome man in the world who keeps me laughing every day. We have the BEST 4 kids EVER. They are growing up WAY too fast!!!! They always make us proud, they are amazing! I spend most of my time in the car driving them around to their various activities! One day my dream is to not have to drive a big old mini van and have a tiny little red convertable bug!
