Happy Birthday Tyra!

Tyra turned 4 going on 16 today! She is such a sweet little thing. I love being able to be home with her and hear her cute little voice all day long! She keeps me laughing that is for sure. Kennedi and Stetson were so cute. They wanted to start her day out with panCAKES (we even put candles in them) and all of her presents wrapped and waiting for her when she woke up! Tyra thought she was pretty special she got to wear the "birthday hat" today. We only get it out on birthdays!

Notice the Mickey Mouse pancakes. She had to have two baby ones. Am I a pancake artist or what? The kids tease me because i am not as good as Justin, (he really is an accomplished pancake artist, I will have to do a post with some of his art work).

After breakfast we opened up presents! Tyra got a new baby that breathes. It is really cute. She loves it! She also got all of the baby furniture (stroller, high chair, swing etc.) to go with it. They played house all morning. It is fun to see all the kids in imagination play mode!

Later we went bowling and to the arcade. It was fun, and long. It would take FOREVER for the kids balls to make it down the alley. At any rate we all had a great time, especially Maverick.....

The first few turns he wouldn't let me help him get his ball to the line to roll it. He would push it and scoot along on his knees the whole way. Finally he got frustrated that it was taking so long (and believe, me so was I) that he picked the up the ball and waddled all the way there and chucked it down the lane. He was so funny! He would sit there FOREVER and watch his ball creep it's way down the lane, and then laugh and cheer when the pins would fall!

After bowling we went to the dollar movie to see "Wally". It was just ok, It didn't keep Mavericks attention, but the other kids seemed to like it well enough. The best part was hearing Mav say Waaaly.......and Eeeeeva, all night long.

After the movie we came home and had cake and ice cream. Tyra wanted a princess cake.... so I made this one that turned out pretty cute! Tyra wouldn't let us cut it, so we ate the left over pieces I had saved.

What a fun day!

WE LOVE YOU TYRA!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Fire Safety at Preschool......

Our wonderful firefighters came to Tyra's preschool to teach all about fire safety. The kids were loving it! The firefighters were really cute with the kids. It is good for them to see the fighters in full gear, especially with their masks on so they aren't afraid of them. Some of the kids were still petrified. That is all you would need is a kid to run and hide from a fire fighter if they were in a fire! The Fire Fighters did a great job, and the kids loved it!

They let them go out and walk through the Fire Truck.

Maverick got to go too! He didn't want to get out of the fire truck.

The secret to Tyra's table....

After many questions about how I refinished Tyra's table (see previous post) here is the big secret....Mod Podge! If you have this stuff and scrapbook paper your possibilities are endless! I just decoupaged the paper on to the table. Then to protect from spills I used Envirotex Lite. This product is my new favorite! It is the same finisher I use for the tile boards. I just poured this over the top and let harden. Super Easy to use, and the results are fabulous! You can get both of these products at Roberts Crafts.

Tea Party Anyone?

I decided to finally get Tyra's (bought it 8 years ago for Kennedi) tea party table refinished. It has been out on our patio staring me down for months. It was one of those projects that has been in the back of my mind and that I have wanted to get done forever. So I finally got to it this week. It feels so good to get to some of these unfinished projects finished!

Here is before....... After.....
Tyra absolutely loves it and wants to have several tea parties a day now. Her birthday is coming up, I think we will have a princess tea party for her birthday party!

"Time Out for Women & Hopscotch!"

Justin has been gone hunting in Montana the whole week! I am so glad to have him home. We had a fun week but it seemed a little long and tough doing EVERYTHING myself. I took the kids to the football game, to the movies, to the park, and had a fun time. The highlight of the week was being able to go to Las Vegas for Time Out For Women with a bunch of my friends. I was gone all day Saturday, being spiritually and emotionally fed. The conference was wonderful. There were six different presenters, most of whom are LDS authors and have some great books published. My favorite though was listening to Hillary Weeks sing. Her music is absolutely wonderful and really touched me. She has several albums out that are all great! Amanda Dixon was my favorite speaker. Her best one liner I loved wasm, "If the horse is dead GET OFF!" She hosts a radio program on KSL in the mornings and has written several books. She was so funny, in her own quirky sort of way. Thanks for a good time ladies, I really needed the "time out" this week. It was fun! L to R Chris Jensen, Chelsie Kennedi, Me, Susan HafenSusan, Sheri Peterson, Shondi Bohni, Klea Marchant, and Jill Jones.

Kennedi Won the Hopscotch Tournament!!!!!!
Kennedi competed in the finals this morning. I didn't even know how to play hopscotch~ so we pulled out the sidewalk chalk and Kennedi and Stetson taught me all the rules. Here is a web site with all the rules in case any one is intersted. http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home2004/HEND0004/cs227/project_1/rules.html. It is so much fun! The kids just finished up this unit in P.E. Kennedi was so nervous but did great. The score was 7-6. Great job Kennedi!

Kennedi on her way back bending down to pick up her hoppy taw, (yes we all have our very own hoppy taws, we are professional now!) ha ha ha.

She had to compete against one of her very best friends, Emma Marchant.

New Ward Enrichment Blog

I finally got up the pictures of all of the crafts we are doing in October for our Fantastic Friday! You can check them out here http://seventhwardenrichment.blogspot.com on the new blog I made for our ward Enrichment! We are doing some very fun and cute things!

New Calling....

Hello everyone in blogger wolrld. No, I did not fall off of the face of the planet. I am the new Enrichment leader in my ward! I am really excited! We are planning a huge Fantastic Friday (craft night), and have been crazy busy getting all of the samples ready for this Sunday. We are making some really cute things with practical uses. When I get a handle on things I will post some pictures of my samples!

Girls Weekend!!!

I lost my camera for a few days, hence the delay in my post from last weekend. I drove to American Fork on Thursday and from there my Mom, Jenny, Cami, Lauren, and I set out for a fun weekend, (to say the least). We go to Midway for Swiss Days every year. We spent the better part of Saturday shopping all of the craft booths (which were disappointing this year, I only bought 1 roll of wrapping paper). Me, Mom, Cami, Jenny, and Horton, (Lauren~sorry, Tyra's nickname for you has stuck!)

We had the famous Swiss Days Navajo taco for lunch, Yummy!

What is a trip to Heber without stopping at the Dairy Keen, for their orange sherbet cones and fresh shakes? My mouth is watering right now.

Right next to the Dairy Keen is the Swiss Alps Inn. It is a little hotel that Mom would take us girls to stay in while Dad and Bo were hunting. Not too much has changed, Dad and Bo were hunting, but we were lucky eneough to added a new sister. It was so fun having Lauren with us and getting to know her better. She is such a sweetie! What great memories we had, (and are still making) on our annual Heber/Park City trip. We had to get a picture for old times sake.


THE COASTER!

Lauren, Cami, Me

After we were all sick of shopping, we went to Park City and rode The Coaster here is a link to watch it on Utube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm_pQmU3NJU. This is fairly new, and so fun! You sit in these little cars much like the Alpine Slide only you are attached to the track. A pulley runs you to the top of the mountain and then gravity does the rest. You can still break or floor it the whole way. I rode with Cami, the wild woman didn't break once. We went so fast I thought we were going to come off the rails! It was seriously so fun. Everyone needs to try it at least once!

Jenny and Mom rode together, we were going up and passed them as they were coming down. Both of them were screaming their heads off, it was hilarious to put those two together.

After The Coaster we had to get a picture, our legs were shaking so bad.

Then we were headed home through Provo Canyon and I said I thought we should float down the river. I don't think anyone thought I was serious, but I'm a spur of the moment kind of gal. I pulled off and we rented a raft and floated the river. We were changing in the back of the van into what ever we could find in the suitcases to get wet in, and away we went! It was so fun. The canyon is absolutely beautiful. I took it for granted growing up in American Fork. I think it was the highlight of the trip. Mom went home to stay with Cami's kids, we missed ya Mom, it just wasn't the same without Mom~ next year! We finally figured out how to steer the stinkin raft at the very end. Let's just say Jenny needs lessons in rowing! We laughed and laughed, and had the funnest trip ever. It was great to bond and reconnect with sisters! Love you girls thanks for an amazing trip! Can't wait until next year.