Sarah's Sweet 16 Birthday Party

Some of Sarah's friends gave her a surprise party for her 16Th birthday. Her Dad made the sub and homemade root beer. Her Mom did a lot of work behind the scenes (as always).

We let them use our back yard.

Rebecca was helping out with a game Natalie (Sabrina's mom) brought. You kiss a 3x5 card guys and girls and you have to guess who's lips?

Candy kiss prizes.

Sabrina made these colorful cup cakes

Friends at the Party

More friends

Sister's Trip 2009

This year we went to La Jolla Ca. We were all ready for a little time together. Some More than others. We always bring a prize for each other and this is what I made for the girls.

"What-not BagsI forgot to take a picture of the other "prizes"but they were all fabulous.

This was the first night after dinner

Next day all day on the beach

Chick flick at night (Theater was hot)

After a session at the San Diego Temple

• Some of the Highlights
• Not so Awesome Pedicures 10-15 min. tops
• Treats at the quilt store just Me and Amy
• "You 5' 3"--Joni"
• rotten Queso Dip
• Amy stressed out for 10 min
• Pizza and Cheesecake in the room

Macey's Birthday #2/ Father's Day

Lisa made a giant Cup Cake for Macey's birthday
Cute little 2 year old Macey

Father's Day all the family came over and Rebecca and Emily wanted to make it more of a party for the Dad's.

They out together some hair kits (ponytail holders, ribbons, hair clip etc.)
The Dad's had to do the hair of one of their girls. We had a vote and I cannot remember the winners.

Steve doing Kelly's hair, Brent and Andy busy.

Cole and Jeremy fixing Abby and Kate's hair.

Kate with her finished hairdo

Brent's model Sarah make any hairdo look good.

Mitch working on Halle's hair and she is loving it.

Andy pulling Loryn's hair

Cole and Abby, What happened?

Even Andy and Seth got a hairdo.

The girls also wanted a dance off but the men requested no pictures. Andy did his back walk over and the centipede. A picture of that would have been great.

Pickle Bucket Garden

I have been thinking we need to do some kind of a garden. I told Steve we needed to get some containers so we could plant a patio garden.

He said why not use the empty pickle buckets from the shop.

We drilled holes in the bottom and we filled them up with potting soil and planted plants already started. So far I have harvested two tomatoes, 4 grape tomatoes and 4 banana peppers and 1 bell pepper. Not what we call a bumper crop but it is a start.

Sunday Night Challenge

Back in the day this is how Mom made her bread. 10 pounds flour, 3/4 gallon of water etc...She made bread this way every week until she got her new Bosch.
Amy and Lisa have new bread makers and it is now a "challenge". The family is now trying to find the best Whole Wheat Bread Recipe.

Sunday 4 different recipes were tried. All were good but they are still making changes to make the best loaf of bread.

It was fun and we added some chili and we had Dinner.

It was great!

Sunday Night Fun "Flip Flop and Pillows"

I was working on a project tonight and the Granddaughters wanted to make something also.

I had some flip flops and fabric left from a Humanitarian project and just enough for the girls that were over Sunday Night.

So we got started!

Dollar Store Flip Flops and 1 inch X 6 inch fabric strips. Tie each strip in a square knot and you get these cute Flips


The Girls were about half way finish with our project when the boys wanted to make something.
I went into my Sewing room and found some boys sports fabric and we were first going to make cubes. That would take longer than one night so they decided to make mini pillows. They stitched three sides of a 5 inch square and I reinforced them on the machine.
They turned them and then stuffed with batting and stitched up the end.
This is what they got.



Not to bad for a Sunday Night activity with Cousins.

May 23, 2009 Wedding Day

Beautiful Couple, Beautiful Wedding