Oh my how you are growing.....

When AB was a baby and dressed in her blessing dress, it was spring and the Phlox in front of the house were in full bloom. We set her in the Phlox and took her picture, she was only 2 months old. Every year since then we have taken her picture when the Phlox was in bloom. These are just a few of the pictures that I could locate quickly. Where has the time gone?

RACE FOR THE CURE

A few weeks ago we drove up to Salt Lake to run in the Race for the Cure - benefits go to help find a cure for breast cancer. It was amazing. How cool to be there with my cousin and 4 beautiful daughters and about 18,000 others all uniting for a cool cause. Below are some of my favorite pictures of people on race day!





After the race we got together for a girls, girls, girls day and went up to This is the Place State Park - just a note, it doesn't get into full swing until the last part of May, but it was still a fun day.

Newbery Award

The school gives out an award to the children who read 50 Newbery books - the award includes a cool trophy and $50! AB has been working on this for a while and although it came down to the wire, she made it. She was very proud of herself and so was I - it is quite an accomplishment. Way to go AB!

The Prom

Ahhhh spring is in the air and Doodle has been feverishly sewing a dress to wear to Prom. I was sceptical at first and not as supportive as I should have been but her persistance won me over and in the end, the dress worked out and she looked beautiful as always. Apparently it was a lovely evening, the perfect final dance of her school career. When she got home she said, "It was so perfect. I don't want to go to bed, I'm afraid that I will wake up and find that it was all a dream." Ah to be 17 again!

Up Up and away in my beautiful, my beautiful...

Friday Doodle had the opportunity to take a ride over the valley in a hot air balloon. I thought it was a cool opportunity and a great blog moment so I got up early and followed them to the park to get some pictures. Lucky girl!

You are from Yurimaguas?

I got a call the other day from a woman that grew up in Yurimaguas(a jungle town in Peru) - Elder C is teaching her extended family the gospel. This woman is currently living in the United States and only lives about 1 mile from us. Of course we had to have her family over for dinner - her sister is feeding Elder C in the jungle! Anyway, it was a fun afternoon and she brought lots of pictures of the jungle to share with us.

AB's Business Venture

AB needed to earn some money for an upcoming Youth Trek this summer, so for a couple of Fridays in a row she woke up at 4:00 am made cinnamon rolls and sold them on the corner! She had a sign which read, "FRESH CINNAMON ROLLS - NEED TREK MONEY!" She got the money and our family got another big cinnamon roll order - we baked 80 cinnamon rolls for a man's business it was definatley a FAMILY PROJECT!

SPRING BREAK????

This spring break we thought we would stay home, read some good books, sew a prom dress and enjoy the beautiful Utah weather. Well, the weather in Utah is crazy - this is what it looked like during Spring Break. Maybe we should have gone to Mexico - oh no then we would have ended up with Swine Flu.



Casey starting on her prom dress.

Mr BB KING

For Christmas I gave Mr T a couple of tickets to the BB King concert - I knew he would love the chance to see the famous Blues Guitarist playing his famous Lucielle. It was an amazing night - one of my favorite concerts! BB King is 83 years old and he is still going strong.

Spring Fling - yet another dance!

Doodle and her friends went to Spring Fling - I guess the theme was DECADES, so they decided to dress up from the 20's. It looks like a fun night.

Happy Birthday Dear AB!

Where has the time gone? AB just celebrate another birthday. We had a wonderful day celebrating. A bunch of her friends surprised her early in the morning and then we had a fun breakfast at IHOP! This child had been a delight in our family and is always ready for some fun. I can't believe that you are 12 already!

Valentine's Day

OK I know it is way past Easter but these pictures have been on a different camera and that is why I have been so delayed in posting.... We had a great Valentine Date, snowshoeing up the canyon. It was so spectacular that we had to take the girls up on the following weekend. What a beautiful winter!