Imagine That!

Emily and her friend Leah were dressed all in black...this led to being puppies, then to being spies!

Shoveling Snow in Idaho Falls-BRRRR!

Emily and Aunt Erika started out the day with a little snow shoveling. In Idaho Falls that can be a big job, but Emily just thought it was lots of fun.

Wearing Uncle Nick's Hat

Finally got a picture of Cody looking up!

Riding Horses in Utah

While Cody was at EFY I took the girls to visit family. It was so great to be able to see everyone. The girls loved riding the horses at Uncle Larry's and would ride as often and as long as they could. They spent the trip home coming up with names for the horses they want. We are in trouble now!

Just getting started

There are so many of you that I want to keep in touch with and I never seem to have enough time to really do that very well. I am hoping that this will make it a little easier for me to share the exciting things that go on in our family.

Slumber Party

Two friends and I thought it would be so fun to surprise our girls with a girl's day out and end with a slumber party. The boys went on a scout campout so the time was right! We knew this was going to be so exciting for our girls because none of us allow sleepover for our children. But since we (the moms) would be with them (like camping with friends) we were ok with it! We knew our girls would flip out! We also made it a surprise late birthday party for Payton (since she had not had a friends party yet). All we told our girls was that we were all going to go do something fun with some friends. We piled all six girls and the three of us adults into the car and we headed to the theatre to see Kit Kitredge: American Girl Movie. We all loved it! The 3 moms were crying at one point because of the sad state of the economy (it hit a little too close to home)! Next we headed to Fuddruckers for dinner!

Then, back home for Payton's little surprise! We all went in before Payton did and had just enough time to get into position and shout "surprise"! The girls pitched in and got her a cute doll and her dad made her cake...pretty amazing cake. We let the cake give the girls the clue that they would get to have a sleepover! When they realized that -I've never heard louder screams! Check out the picture of Abby-Tammy caught her reaction as soon as they found out-priceless!

We wanted to play charades and keep the girls guessing what our next adventure would be so Tiffany and I started dancing the YMCA motions- yup- we took them swinning at the "Y". It has 3 huge indoor pools and a great waterslide. So much fun!

We left the pool, because it was closing, and headed back to the house. Payton blew out her candles and we had her yummy cake. The girls put on a song and dance show for us. Tammy taught them "Have you ever gone fishin' on a hot summer day". This was so much fun for us moms to watch, we laughed until our sides ached. The girls were hilarious and so into their performance!

We finally got the girls to settle down after hours of playing. I don't think we moms got to sleep until about 3:00!

The next morning Tammy's sweet mom, Donna, came over and made us a good ole biscuit and gravy breakfast. It was so yummy and such a great reminder of the south. After attempting to put the house back together we said our goodbye's. The girls were so sad, you would have thought that they were never going to see each other again. But they all live right down the street! It was sooo much fun, we all hated to see it end (expecially the moms). We needed our good dose of girl time, now we are better prepared to handle life again. I am so lucky to have such great friends and so happy that my girls have good friends too!