Primary and Pinewood

Stake Primary Leadership Meeting. Our theme was "D.O.T.S." (Depend On The Savior) It was great to see and connect with our wards again. They are really fantastic primary leaders! Elise lent me her video she made for New Beginnings, (incidentally where we totally copied this theme from) and it fit perfectly with our night.

It was all about the depending on the Savior with pictures, video and music, then she had over 6000 pictures of kids that panned out to make dots which turned into a picture of Christ at the end. I appreciated borrowing her talent for the night! :) Karen Gillan lent me all the tablecloths from New Beginnings and we had a lot of fun coordinating the food. My presidency spoke and President Goodsell gave concluding remarks which was a great ending. I love primary and working with a such great women!

Pinewood Derby!!!! Jacob and good friend Isaac showing their cars. This was the coolest track system we'd ever seen, very slick and quick!

Spring Break!

Spring Break this year was just that, a much needed break for us all. We spent the week in Vegas enjoying general conference and celebrating Easter and doing some fun shopping. We had a fantastic dinner at Aunt Linda's Easter Sunday and a fantastic stay at the Wisers, which is always wonderful!! We got together with lots of aunts, uncles and cousins and really enjoyed ourselves!

We also visited Uncle Alan's office for teeth cleanings and Elise had a milestone- her first cavity and experience with laughing gas. It was such a groovy experience she wrote about it on her blog that very night! I wish I had been there to see the "show." I hear she was quite hilarious. ;) It took her forever to come off the high... she could never do drugs.

A big thing for Jacob and Lynn was going to the store location where "Pawn Stars" is filmed. We love that show. Jacob got his picture taken with "Rick" and visited a bit. It was "oh so cool." He bought a hat, he laughed, he cried, it was better than Cats. :)

The "Easter Bunny" per se, did not happen to visit this year... Several months ago Jacob was torturing me about the validity of Santa. After a lengthy talk and Santa finally emerging with his validity still intact (so far) Jacob moved on to the Tooth Fairy. He said "Come on Mom, tell me the truth, I know the tooth fairy's not real." I finally said "you're right, there's no little fairy that flies around and leaves money for your teeth." I went on to say, It's just like the Easter Bunny -there is no big bunny that hops around house to house hiding eggs at Easter--- "Wait" he says... "Huh? What are talking about!?!? NO EASTER BUNNY?!?" "How could you tell me that?!? Yep, I'm up for Mother of Year for sure now...

We had a fun "Girl's Night Out" dinner during the Priesthood conference session with aunts and cousins. I think we stayed for over 3 hrs!! It was a ton of fun. We were serenaded as well. I think Casey directed him over to Elise which was hilarious. :) He did play some awesome "Santana" hits for us.
Elise and Katie
Jacob with Rick from the TV show "Pawn Stars" on the History Channel.
CRAB LEGS FEST... ooohhhhh... delish.......
I think we ate our weight in crab legs... It was heaven!!

"Piano Girl"

Elise has been teaching piano for the last few years. It's been a wonderful experience for her and she has loved the kids she teaches! Pictured below are the students who could come to the recital. She had two recitals back to back on a crazy busy day (of course) She'd been gone to school since the wee hours of the morning and after school was helping interview for new candidates for next year's student body officers and the alloted signup time for BYU housing online was at the same time- of course. She was a bit stressed doing it at the same time while texting me. If she was the interviews she couldn't talk on the phone, if she took her laptop into the hallway she lost internet connection. And, she'd been so busy, she hadn't fully decided on where she wanted to live yet.... and the clock was ticking. Ahhhh.....

I had visions of us sitting down at the computer, having a mother daughter moment choosing housing.. uh no. Elise's schedule can be nuts. She did a great job, got it all done, felt prompted to choose a certain dorm, signed up and was home a few minutes before the first recital started. The recitals were darling and her students performed wonderfully. It was fun to visit with their families too! I took care of the desserts in between texting with Elise about housing, doing primary stuff and handling Jacob who had just broken the neighbor's window... and running to the store for papergoods at the last minute because I hadn't even thought we might need cups and plates! Ahhh...don't we love days like this? It ended up being a very fun evening though! We were really proud of her!

Beauty and the Geek...

Beauty and the Geek School Dance. Elise's date Matt is actually a very cute guy underneath all his "geekness." Fun times-she's had a very memorable Senior year. :)

MaRCh MaDnEsS

Pre Jazz pump up-before going to the game. Lynn took Jacob to a BYU basketball game not to long ago and painted his face then as well. Jacob kept getting on the jumbo screen ('cause he was so spirited and cute) At one point he got so excited being on the big screen again, that he suddenly jumped up and lifted his shirt WAY up to bare his chest. Ok... I think he'd seen someone do that on tv once. The crowd cheered and got a big kick out of it. I think Lynn was in shock.

Jeff, Julianne and kids came to visit over their winter break. So fun to play, catch up and see them again! We all fought over baby William though!
"Sibling Lunch Out" with my brothers Scott, Jeff and Chad. It was really fun- I have such wonderful brothers!! We were missing Dave and Jenna A LOT though!

"UNDER CONSTRUCTION"

Before the stampede of boys to the lunch table!

Annual 11yr. Boy's Stake Activity. Our theme was "Under Construction" "How do you measure up?" It's all about preparing for the priesthood. The great thing about this activity is that we can use the same theme every year, since we have a whole new batch of fathers and sons each year!
It's always a good event and fun to be involved. We had a great guest speaker and President Goodsell spoke as well. This year we had to switch buildings at the last minute due to a funeral at the stake center and then we had a HUGE snow storm on top of that. It all worked out and we had a great turn out thankfully! The room is decorated construction style and we serve lunch to the fathers/sons in hardhats. Each boy receives a key chain measuring tape from Home Depot with the theme on it. Those boys are so cute. I have a great stake primary presidency and love the women I serve with so much! We all have way too much fun togther...

February Fun

I have not blogged in quite awhile. Life gets in the way, but I'm determined to keep some sort of record of family events!! Below is Lynn's mom Betty and her birthday celebration out. It was fun to catch up with everyone! Winter brought basketball season and Lynn coached. Lots of fun and indoors- yah! Jacob had a great piano recital too with his piano (and primary) teacher "Connie" Elise designed a poster with 2010 theme to be displayed in all the highschool classroom and around the halls.