Jenna Turns 8

I got her a Justin Bieber life-size stand up.


Which one is real? :)


This is Justin in our room (Jenna and I), and I'll admit that for the first couple of nights every time I opened my eyes, I thought there was a real person staring at me. And yes, I added that mustache. I just thought is was funny.

Singin' in the Rain

Jesse went with his choir group from school to a festival in Seattle! Am I jealous? totally. Here's what he had to say about it...

"We went to Seattle, Washington, and the drive up there was about 17 hours. We stayed in the Marriott Hotel and it had a pretty nice indoor pool. Our first day there we went to the Science Museum and ate at Red Robin. Then we went to a Museum of Music. The next day we did our performance, then took a ferry to an Indian Reservation where they served us fresh salmon. We took first in every category that we performed in, and scored high enough to be invited to the Festival of Gold competitions in New York City, Chicago, and Anaheim. The next day we went to a session of General Conference, visited the Space Needle, and went to the Aquarium and Pike's Market. Then we had our long drive home again. It was way fun!"

Last Teenage Year

"Grease is the word..."

Adam decided he wanted to dye his hair black, so he bought some dye and my mom played hairdresser. As the dye was setting, I thought he looked like someone from The Incredibles or maybe Meet the Robinsons.



Here he is with his newly colored hair. All he needs now is some grease and a flick comb!



Jesse has started baseball and here are a couple of shots...





And lastly, I made some green crepes for St. Patrick's Day complete with HOMEMADE WHIPPED CREAM. I am so addicted. I can feel my eyes going wide and get hyper every time I make it. I know I sound like a freak, but it is just soooo good.



Just for kicks, 'Adam in the treetops'. Along with Grease, I also seem to be channeling Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. (That is the title of the score in the movie for when the character Adam gets kicked out on his wedding night.) I'm on a roll!

Student of the Year!

A couple of weeks ago, Kate was chosen as the Student of the Year! Quite an award. Last night we attended a ceremony at Orem High School for this very thing. The ceremony awarded all the winners from each of the schools in Utah county. There were yummy orderves and a nice ceremony followed. There were a couple of dance numbers and an elementary school choir provided some music. They spotlighted each winner and gave them a plaque for their win.





*On a side note, a little while back I made a heavenly chocolate mousse pie, with homemade whipped cream (I am obsessed with that stuff). It looked cool, and tasted REALLY good. I can't wait to make it again!

I'm Officially a Pro at Catch-up Posts

A while back, I tried my hand at making a 'rainbow cake'. Funny story- so I thought in order to have enough batter for 6 layers, I'd better quadruple it. After about the 2nd or 3rd ingredient, the beaters died. Awesome.
My solution = pretend I'm a pioneer of sorts and stir it all by hand. My arm felt as though it was ready to fall off, not to mention the bowl with the (quadrupled for goodness sake) batter weighed like 40 pounds. At least it tasted good.


Anna's 10th birthday


Before grandma left for Cali, we had a girls-only book club :) We discussed "The Goose Girl" and had Ugly Ducking Cake. It was very fun and would have been fun to do more often.


Kate's V-Day box for school (she's definitely related to me)


Anna's


and Jenna's


And lastly, my contribution to "The Day of Love"