3 Months in a Swing

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3 months

School Days

Olivia had to make a 3-D statue of a main character in her book report book.  

She read Harry Potter and chose Hermione.  

We all had our own run in with her in the middle of the night in the dark.   She lived the rest of her days shut in the cupboard. 

And we hit the 100th day of school.  Drew made the traditional kindergarten 100s poster . . . Yankees. 

(He was trying out a face like Liv's.)  

He taught himself how to write his name in cursive.  

Daddy Daughter Dance 2016.
It was a 20's theme and we just happened to have a flapper costume in the basement.



Olivia invited Sadie to tag along since her dad was out of town.

March Happenings

Three might be a crowd . . . 

Addie had a late night Friday night and then Olivia had a late night Saturday night to watch the new Fuller House.  Olivia has a pretty fun gang of kids she's been hanging out with this year - there's girls AND boys (only girls are pictured though). 

Drew and Eden are still besties.  The kindergarten playground is in it's own fenced area.  Eden comes to say hi everyday and they make play date plans "at the fence."

The Mia Maids decorated cakes for Mutual and then delivered them randomly.  I got one because I was their favorite leader.  I try . . . I felt like I won the lottery to be named "Favorite Leader."  I LOVE my calling with the Young Women.

 

Ruby is seriously all the rage around here.  

I came in from the garage to find Drew "hiding" with the bunny.



And Ruby got chubby this month.

We're going to party like it's your birthday

We planned a more "grown up" party this year.   The plan was to let the girls go to dinner and hang out . . . BUT Cafe Rio was re-modeling so we sat outside . . . I stayed . . . with Ruby . . . and we ate quick since it was cold.  They came to Walmart with me to get the rest of the S'more supplies.  

I became a "pinterest Mom" for a minute with my S'mores bar.  

They started a movie . . . we were lucky to find a PG movie, they hadn't all seen it . . .  but were interested in . . . #score

We made S'mores (fire pit dreams coming true).

And played "What are the odds?" where Ansen came out for a go and lost immediately and became "King of the dirt hill!"

And then Ashley, Avery and I played out our April Fools trick we had worked out all day.  Beehive Advisor = Co-planner of jokes. 

They made "dog poop" cookies, I planted it, we got Ansen to dare Ashley to eat it, they guessed the same number and she had to . . . Then we dared Avery to eat 1/2 of it for money . . . everyone contributed until she was up to $25 and she did it.  

Addie was threatening me to never be invited to parties again, she'll never have friends come over again, I am so disgusting, etc . . .  

APRIL FOOLS.

Pretend Photographer

It was good lighting, my bed was made and she was happy.
(Do you see the red hair?!)

And look who tries to sneak in a kiss here and there . . . maybe they'll be friends after all - if Ruby ever even notices her.  

Addie, My Girl

We have a teenager!  A true, legitimate teenager.  

Addie turned 13 this year and we seriously wonder where the time went.  

I won't say I've "mastered" birthdays, but I did step it up as Mom . . . which is this year's main goal.  

We went to dinner at Pizza Factory and opened presents.  She wanted all art supplies, which was fun.  She also got golf lessons . . . that someone is super thrilled about (Ansen).   

And this is a girl after my own heart - she picked cheesecake. 

On her birthday we went to the Temple with the Beehives (at 5:00 am) to do baptisms.  Second year in a row . . . it seems like a nice, new tradition. 

Cheer - again.

We survived another 2-day competition.  

Ruby stayed buckled into her carseat, sleeping for almost a straight 5 hours on Day 1.  Day 2 . . . not so much. 

I took a few pictures of Olivia before I realized there was no flash photography .  

They always finish strong and then immediately look at their coaches . . . their reactions will tell them everything . . . did they do good, bad or terrible?!  

and then none of Addie.

Luckily I picked the most expensive competition of the year to enforce that Drew come to support his sisters and hang out with me. 

It was Addie's last chance for a Summit bid.  And again, they did awesome on Day 1 and then just lost it on Day 2 and there was no Summit bid (or jacket).  Poor Addie.  They've worked so hard and then do so bad at the competitions this year.  

Olivia's team has been awesome and she came home with another jacket.  

Easter 2016

Ansen had early morning church meetings so the Easter Bunny left a note that he'd be there after church this year.

But other than that . . . he had it going on.

He did come while we were at church and left his strings all over.
I got a cute Easter skirt from my new favorite China website for Addie.

 

Banna made Liv this cute skirt

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And then the Easter Bunny hit the jack pot with a target for Drew's bow and arrow . . .  it's a blurry picture - but look at that face.

Gel pens for the girls, an adult coloring book for Liv and a shirt (she might have picked out) for Addie - seriously, I'm doing so much better as Mom - I'm even taking pictures.

And everyone got their own hanging hammock chair for the backyard.



Only glitch  . . . Drew smacked his head on the brick outside while he was following his string.



And where might the cutest baby in the world have been all this time?!  Just hanging with Dad looking darling and being sweet.

And then we headed to Banna and Branda's where Michael Ann the Easter Bunny hid the eggs more aggressively than ever before.





I brought a new Quinoa salad for dinner - which was not appreciated.  I ate it for the rest of the week. 

Indexing

Our ward was seriously suffering in the indexing arena . . . like zero names indexed in the 4th quarter of 2015.   So . . . we taught the young men and young women to index and initiated a friendly competition.  

If the girls won . . . the boys would provide dinner and a 5 minute musical performance.  

If the boys won . . . the girls would provide desserts of all kinds and wear "special clothes."  It was a slip of the tongue and it was meant to be "Sunday clothes."

We indexed over 28,000 names in one month and the boys won.  

We took "special clothes" to the most obnoxious level we could.

These 3 came into Beehives close together and were the tiny girls at camp last year.  I can't believe how fast they change in these years.
(There is never a normal picture with these 3) 

I really love being in Young Womens right now and I love being there was Addie.