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Isabella

It's great to be eight!

Calvin turned 8 on Wednesday. Tonight was his big family party and we decided to have an upside down and backwards party. It was a blast! This "thank you" card was the invite. We started the party with cake and ice cream & sang happy birthday ("you to birthday happy" hurt our heads too much to sing!), then we did presents ,then games, and ended the party with dinner. We played pin the donkey on the tail and a mixed up version of musical chairs. You start like normal, but no one gets out! You just keep taking chairs away. So in the end you have all the kids on one chair! They had so much fun and it really (surprisingly) worked out well! The only problem with a backwards party is it really threw me off! I have just figured out the flow of a regular party, so I'm not stressed or forgetting things. But switch it around and I get all messed up! But it all went off without a hitch and if I ever get a second I will post the pictures!

I also have a new niece I have got to post pictures of!!! John & Penny do not find out the sex of their baby's until they are born and Penny was so sure she was having another boy, so I just went along with that. Well, it was such a surprise to hear that the baby was a girl! But I am so happy that they did have a girl! She is a cutie! Shawn & I went to see her yesterday while the kids were at the babysitting co-op. We were just going to stop in for a sec and then go and run errands for the party. Well, we ended up staying the whole evening and then was crazy running errands WAY too late last night! Oh well! It was worth it to cuddle with little Isabella Demery!

Anyway, I will post picts soon! LOTS to do this week! Wish me luck that I can get it done...
Tootles!

So ask me how pictures with the kids went yesterday...

It was such a headache!! You would think that my kids had NEVER had their picture taken before! Fortunately I was able to get a few, but 5 good ones out of 258 pictures is ridiculous! But check out Missi! OH MAN, I am going to be in SOOO much trouble!! She was totally playing, but still... I am NOT looking forward to teenage years!

Here is one of my favorites! I can only show one because the others are for Mother's Day (so Mom if your reading this act surprised).



Have a great weekend and a GREAT Mother's Day! I will be in a tent in Fremont, Utah at a family reunion (fun). I hope to have a ton of pictures and hopefully more good ones than this last shoot!

See ya!

Kids do the darndest things!!

Owen is watching TV and I am at the computer (it's in my bedroom). He comes in and here's the conversation:

O- "Mom don't come in the living room."
Me- "Oh really, you say it like that and I think that I should go in the living room."
O- "You can stay in your room and have your privacy."
Me- "Oh, OK?"
O- "Mom are going to stay in your room? Don't come in the living room. I have a surprise in the living room for you. Stay in your bed room."

So I gave him a minute, but of course I HAD to go in the living room! And the best I can tell is he wanted to watch Lilo & Stitch and I usually don't let them (there are much better things on TV). Too funny huh!

Shhhh...

Don't tell anyone yet! But I just got asked to be the YW camp director!! **SQUEAL** I am SO excited I can't even believe it!

Ok, now the scary part! I haven't been to girls camp since I was , umm... 17 or 18. And OH MY GOODNESS! I have to pull off a BIG event! (at least it's big for me!) I am soooo glad Cyndi is over her wards girls camp too and is going before me! BUT, big time scary stuff! Wish me luck!?