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Sunday, May 12, 2013

Happy Mother's Day!!

So I tried to get these photos in the right order... but I'm having issues doing that so they may be shuffled... which is extra fun!!

This is a beautiful flower growing in my sister's yard... she has the best eye for picking out plants and landscaping!! She always has cool exotic plants that just pop up out of no where!!

My FAVORITE flower ever... (mostly because it always blooms the week of my birthday.. or sometimes a little before... but I love lilacs!) We gave my mom this plant like 5 years ago and how pretty is it?! (if you find yourself answering out loud that question was meant to be rhetorical...)

Happy Mother's Day!! I am lucky and have the most awesome and wonderful Mom's of all time!! She is always around to help me out when I'm in a bind..and is usually the first to offer to help me when I am stubborn and not admitting to myself that I'm in a bind! This year was the best day for mother's day... seriously I haven't seen such perfect weather in forever!! We all sat out in the back yard and watched the crazy nieces go wild!!

Being the perfect Mom and Grandma... my mom purchased a blow up ball for the girls to play with... and I might have jumped in also...

My AMAZING Momma!!

Not only is my mom awesome anyway... but she also let my ward go up to my parents cabin overnight!! We had so much fun and stayed up way to late giggling!

This was a very serious NERTZ game... they took it very seriously and some injuries did incur!!

Awesome Callie was in charge of the activity and had STREP throat but she did everything anyway and never even complained!! I guess she doesn't know that you get no pity if you suffer in silence!!

Yes the serious NERTZ game was still going on... notice the very serious faces!!

We were trying to do a jumping picture...

Notice everyone looking... except ADAM!!

I got tired but everyone else wasn't ready to go to sleep yet so I made me a comfy bed in the closet and slept like a rock... and probably still would be asleep if Joni and Callie hadn't come and woken me up at... 10AM... I have no idea how I slept in that late?!

We had so much fun!! It was just laid back and lots of relaxing!!

Monday, May 6, 2013

May... the best month of the YEAR!!

It is the beginning of the best month of the year... or at least that's how I feel about it!! I've been trying to be better about keeping up with the happenings of life. Strange and a little sad that blogging is now the new form of histories or journals... haha I'm sure our ancestors cringe... but they are also probably super jealous of how much we can document. Anyway... Lots of fun been happening...

Went to the park with Avery, Ellie, Melanie, Cindy and my Mom while Alana got her piano lesson from Amy. This was the picture that didn't make Avery look angry.

Our good friend Rick offered to do a cooking class for us.. since some of us are more challenged than others... (I'm definitely one of them...) So we learned how to make orange rolls... and let me tell you they were for real from scratch delicious!! We even juiced our own orange juice for the flavor!!

Celeste and Rick

Joni

Haha how we all love being around Callie!!

TA-DA!!

Cherie

Allyson is very scandalous and ordered Indian tea at Taste of India... which by the way was the first time I have had Indian food.. and it was amazingly good!!

Be impressed I did that!!

Our ward was doing a decades dance... so you got to dress up in your favorite decade... Yes we were the 80s girls!!

Alana got to come... sometimes I think we might be warping her childhood.. Oh well hopefully she won't remember how awkward and weird her aunts are!

I was fit testing people at work last week... and this is what they have to wear to do it... HAHA I wish I could have taken pictures of the whole group of people wearing them!!

And some random pictures of spring!!