A Pink Baby Shower!

I pretty much decided that I have the best friends ever. Brookie and my Mom got together and through me a baby shower for our first little girl (thank you, thank you!). It was the funnest shower I have ever been to (and not just because it was for me;). They had it be an open house style, where people could come and eat lots of great food (thanks everyone), and visit. For my present from Brookie she bought a bunch of headbands and hats for the baby and anyone who wanted to could make either bows or flowers to clip on them, what a great idea huh. So basically you could either eat and visit, or be crafty and visit.

Here are a few pictures of my wonderful friends. I wish we would have been on the ball and got pictures of everyone, sorry.

Crafty and visit


or eat and visit, don't you just love it.

We got so many presents, James couldn't believe how much we got. He told my mom the next day he couldn't believe their husbands let them do so much.
My mom said "What makes you think they even asked."
Then I had to inform him, "You wouldn't believe how generous we are." His face was priceless:).

Look at all the flowers and bows I came away with. She will have the best dressed head ever.

Thanks Everyone! You all made it such a wonderful day. I am so much more prepared then I expected. I love you all!

I Hope They Call Me on a Mission

For our primary activity we decided to do a missionary theme. We split the kids up into three different groups and asked three people to tell the kids about there missions. We gave the kids all "official" mission calls on church letter head and called them to either Taiwan, Italy or Spain. After they were done in one group we had "transfers" and sent them to the next mission.

We all met in the MTC (primary room)where Brother Redd the seminary teacher told them what to expect and how to behave on their missions, he did an excellent job. The kids were listening so well and laughing.

Bryant went to Taiwan

Then we took the traditional picture of the missionaries in front of the map pointing to their mission.

Conner was called to Spain




Then the kids went on the airplane. We had to girls be flight attendants and hand out juice and gummy treats.


So I have to tell what happened. The person who was asked to tell about Spain didn't show up (even with the reminders). We were stressed and didn't know what to do, then I remembered that for family home evening we had a lesson on missions, and showed a slide show I made of James' mission a couple years ago for Father's Day. So I told Marci I could get that to show the kids.
I ran home and luckily knew just where to find the slide show then I went to grab our portable DVD player we have for trips (we don't have a key to the library), but realize we only had a plug for the vehicle not one to plug in the wall. I ran downstairs to get some things from James' mission and as I was grabbing things I saw a plug, so I grabbed it and ran upstairs to see if it worked. I called James during all of this and he told me to be careful because the wrong plug could short it out and break it. I said we would have to just deal with it latter.
We told the kids that their mission was changed to the Honduras mission and then I showed them the souvenirs and told them what I could about it. The slide show worked, and everything went very well.
When James came home he asked me where I found the plug, I told him it was just on his desk downstairs. He informed me that it was the plug for the pocket pc which we haven't used in at least 4 years, he was so surprised that I found a plug that wouldn't hurt the DVD player, I was surprised that I was even able to find one at all.
I know Heavenly Father wanted this activity to work out for the kids, and things lined up the way they did for a reason. If we didn't have the FHE on missions I wouldn't have known right off where the slide show was (or even think to use it). We had just returned from a trip and still hadn't put up the DVD player but James is the one who knew where it was for that trip in the first place, and I really can't believe I found the plug so quickly. I am thankful for the small things that make a big difference.

Bryant's Patriotic Program

Bryant had his patriotic program last week. He had been practicing for a while, and did such a great job.


Mrs. Johnson called me a week before the program and told me that she chose him to be George Washington, my job was to track down tights for him to wear with his costume, luckily LeAnn Bowring just sent a pair with BrinLi. Mrs. J said when he saw them he held them up, gave a weird look and said, "These are not going to fit, they are way to small." She smiled and said, "Oh, they'll fit." Then when he put them on he went and hid under the little playhouse in her room and didn't want anyone to see. She asked if he wanted her to tell the kids why he's wearing them. He told her yes he wanted her to tell them why he was so weird.

He was the best, cutest George Washington ever. He did a great job. He was so happy to get those tights off, and James and I were happy he didn't like them;).

The Funny
I have to get his latest funny on record. I had locked the computer and the boys were trying to figure out the password. I told them it was a secret word only Mommy and Daddy knew. Bryant kept trying so I told him to just leave it alone, then he said he knew it and said what he thought it was. I didn't understand what he was trying to say so he pushed enter. It went to a page that said, "The user name, or password is incorrect." He was trying to put "incorrect" for the password.