Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.

It is suppose to get warm next week, so I got to work. I have been turning holey pant into shorts. I liked the results of this so much last year I have been saving their pants all winter.

We figure Lizzy has a pant life of about 4 1/2 months. In her defence, three of these pant actually got to short instead of ripping out in the knee. Not in her defense 7 pairs are for Lizzy only 3 for ShiAnne. I guess if you don't count the ones that got to short that is only 4 to 3 ratio between the girls. I have at least one more pair for each girl that is just starting to rip out.

Have a Fun Weekend!

Story Telling Festival

So this happened a while ago and I really wanted to blog about it but I don't know what happened to the last month and a half. The Girls Grade school decided to have a story telling festival. It was there first one and each grade approached it a little differently. In Kindergarten if you wanted to do it you could but if you didn't you didn't have to. Lizzy said she didn't want to and I didn't push it but after ShiAnne's experience, if they do it again next year I am sure she will want to do it. Any way back to the point ShiAnne's teacher first turned it into a writing assignment, to write a true story about themselves, rough and final drafts. After they finished with the writing part of the assignment any one in the class who wanted to could stand up and tell there story. They had to tell there story from memory. Of course, ShiAnne got up and told her story. The story was about when she was little and fell in the pond in Grandpa's back yard (she is not the first and probably won't be the last). After everyone got done telling their stories her classmates vote one boy and one girl to go on to the second grade competition. ShiAnne was voted to go on. Parents were invited to the second grade competition, so of course I went and listened. One boy and one girl from each class told there stories in front of all the second graders and a panel of judges. This time the judges critiqued them and decided who got to move on. Out of all the girls ShiAnne was picked and about a week latter got to tell her story in front of whole school along with one boy and one girl from each grade. This time it wasn't a competition just a performance. It was really exciting for her and she did awesome. I just love to watch this girl shine.

Baptism

Had a pretty Great Saturday!

On Saturday May 1, 2010 ShiAnne was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

She was the only one from our ward this month so the program and the crowd was all ours.

Before the baptism she told her Dad she just couldn't stop smiling.

She was baptized and confirmed by her Father.

All in White

Our Family

mom and daughter (and a not so happy gideon who only wanted mom)

some of our guest

After the baptism at the church we all headed back to our house for Hamburgers, hot dogs, and salads. The only thing we didn't get done on our list of a million things this week was to make sure we had enough propane for the barbecue, so of course the it went out right after starting it. A quick run to the gas station fixed that and we had an awesome time eating and visiting with everyone.

The only picture I have from the after party was actually taken before. I was to busy hosting to take pictures. So here is the cake I made for the occasion.

Thanks also to the J* side for sticking around and playing Apples to Apples. ShiAnne has been wanting to play it forever.

It was just a great day!

Thanks to everyone for coming, supporting ShiAnne and bringing food.

Guest: ShiAnne, Shiloh, Ina, Lizzy, Gideon, Grandma Ina, Grandpa Tom, Tom, Traci, Spencer, Brandon, Derick, Carson, Caleb, Daxton, Karl, Jocelyn, Kalli, Meri, Kiah, Ahnika, Maylia, Kade, Grandma Debbie, Grandpa Blair, Micah, Amber, Tage, Phylicia, OrLynne, and Nyle