Ward Easter Egg Hunt and Usery Pass Picnic....2011

This year it was at 8 instead of 8:30.....I know you say it's only 30 min later...but seriously I NEED that extra 30 min in the morning to get up and get going...really it takes us that long just to load up everyone in the car....we always forget something! Gunnar and Bella had so much fun....Gunnar wasn't quite sure what to do...but then he got the hang of it and especially when he saw the football egg...he KNEW exactly what that was...except it made noise...funny! At Usery Pass it was fun too...especially the little hunt then also...and the crazy guy who picked up a snake and had the kids touch it!! But it was really nice out and a good time to hang with the fam and bbq and picnic...Some fun pics of us!

love the plumbers crack...ha!

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Test Taking SuRvIvAl KiTs for the kiddos:)

If you know me...then you know that I LOVE making these kits! I can find SOME reason or excuse to make these and they are SO MUCH FUN!!:) I have done these for my kids for a couple of years now and it seems like they just keep getting bigger and bigger....so this year I decided on the brown lunch bag and thought it fit cute with the school theme and all:) I am going to try my hardest to upload to scribd so everyone can download if they like but in the mean time send me your email and I can send this over as an attachment if you'd like!

I swear its gotta be SPRING FeVeR!!!!!

One of my favorite times of the year is coming up...this weekend is General Conference...and I love to do our traditional favorites and adding new ones that I saw from years before!! There are soo many talented created woman out there that I love it when I have an idea and its put together already and BEST of all......SUPER CUTE!!! Cuts my time in half!! Anyhow I wish I could have a name for the blog I found this on....I only saved the actual link and she has no name on there anywhere......so if I come across it now that I am slowly adding blogging to my life again:) I will give credit where credit is due! This is a Conferance Jar....inside are 4 stacks of question slips laminated, and a overhead projector pen (expo va voz). Each stack is color coded for each session of conference (4). Each session each member of the family will get a card to write down thier question and then they put that card back into the jar. Next FHE get the jar out and divide family into two teams, go through questions and whichever team gets the most answers correct gets to serve the OTHER team Ice Cream Sundaes complete with all toppings!! How fun is that!!

Made one for my VT sisters and my family........FUN!!

A HaLLoWeEn Post..!

Ok so instead of multiple posts I thought I would do them all together.....I have to get busy on my girl's costumes, I only have a couple of days left..lol
We made Monster Cookies and put them in these cute bags I did up for our traditional "Booing" in our neighborhood...that was fun!


We carved pumpkins last Mon...for FHE...poor Sabrina got knife happy and her pumpkin became the "faceless" pumpkin lol!

We love pumpkin seeds...YUM!

I made a bunch of ties for Gun...and they turned out soo cute, they are double sided so this one is his "halloween" tie...

This we were on our way to the Pumpkin Patch.....

And this is my door wreath I did awhile back.....I love it...I got the sign at the dollar store and I used black jute, and all kinds of different fabrics for the rosettes! I am in love with lace now! Can't you tell!?:)

{I LoVe To SeE ThE TeMpLe...}

This month we were able to take off to see the Gila River Temple in Arizona and then the Salt Lake City Temple in Utah.....going inside the Gila Temple before being dedicated was amazing! The spirit I could feel there and it was sooo beautiful inside and out. My kids enjoyed going inside, and I felt the emotions as we stood in the Bride's room looking at my girls, knowing that I would see them marry in the temple one day! At both temples, My heart was filled with joy as I reflected on my blessings for living my life to the fullest and teaching my family about the Plan of Salvation. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world, and I embrace my knowledge and happiness and true joy that I feel whenever I enter into the House of the Lord...I KNOW and BREATHE its truthfulness and try my best to be the best I can, at the end of the day I KNOW my Heavenly Father is proud of who I am and who I have become.....

first a pic of my little man....:)

Gila Temple

Gila River Temple, Az

BeAuTiFuL..!!

These pics are from Gila River Temple before its dedication....

{{LoVe NoTeS Family Tradition....!}}

This we did for YW beehive class act. and thought it was really cute for the girls to be excited to share this fun tradition with their families! I originally saw this idea over at
http://www.beckyhiggins.com/blog/labels/post-it%20love.html she even has the downloads if you didn't want to do your own labels.

I just tweaked mine a tad. Our family has enjoyed this new tradition...it's fun to see the little notes everywhere! I plan on doing this for my VT too...with the message inside....FuN!!

Lunch box {Valentine Notes}....!

I love to make my kids' lunches fun by putting cute notes inside....and since it's close to {{Valentine's day}} I have been looking for some cute valentine notes and wanted to post them for you and future use...my favorite of all is this cootie catcher valentine...the kids can cut this and fold them and use them with thier friends...love this idea!! I will be posting more as I find them..!
http://pumpkinpetunia.blogspot.com/2010/01/valentine-cootie-catchers-free-download.html

http://peptogirl.blogspot.com/2010/01/free-download-print-valentines.html

http://www.classroomjr.com/valentine-mad-libs/
I love this site she has a compialation of some really cute printables and ideas....!
http://www.livinglocurto.com/downloads/valentines-day-free-downloads/