First week of summer fun!

Summer has been a bit of a gloomy one so far. Overcast and drizzly in the morning and burning off late in the afternoon. So I hope we soon get the heat wave before Ellie goes back to school and stays all day long as a new First Grader!!!!

Here is what we have been doing:

Edible, puff able painting! This stuff is real puffy paint!

  paint and create then pop it in the microwave and

you’ve got a real puffy paint picture!!! This was fun!

This is what we have been listening to:

This is the best thing on earth! We have memorized the first two CDs I bought (Book of Mormon and Old Testament) that I had to go out and buy two more!!! This is a super fun way to learn about the scriptures!!! And Family Proclamation!!!!

A Baking Birthday Party!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For Ellie’s Sixth Birthday Baking Party, she and her friends all became exquisite little bakers compliments of these super cute baking hats!  

We dipped strawberries in chocolate then decorated them

 

We made delicous chocolates with easy candy molds

       

We mashed, cooked, jellied and filled our jam jars with sweet strawberry jam!

Decorated cupcakes. One for taking home and one to celebrate!

From left: Kiana, Addy, Kate, Bella, Ellen, Hallie, Caitlyn, and Akemi with Ellie

Everyone took their own sweets home to share!

It was so much fun! Happy Birthday Ellie!

Inspiring

This article is amazing! I want to print it out and hand it out to everyone so that they too may read and be taught the real importance of promoting and preserving the FAMILY! No matter what religion you are, if you value your family then this article will motivate you to do so ever more!!!


http://lds.org/ensign/2011/06/defending-the-family-in-a-troubled-world?lang=eng

Saddleback Half Marathon

This was my favorite race ever! And I owe it all to the last minute decision to run a half marathon without even training for it! I decided on Saturday to register, and then come Monday morning I was up at 5:30 getting ready to run 13.1 miles! Crazy!!!

This is what made it so much fun!

1) no training involved

2) stress free (didn’t have time to!)

3)Didn’t have to keep a certain race pace to finish at a certain time because I never did #1

4) probably got the best sleep ever before a race because I wasn’t worried about it

5)Got to run with a really fun gal, that made running 13.1 miles look easy

I will definitely do this next year, and hopefully not train for it either because let me tell you, it was a whole lot better just showing up and running it to finish then trying to race it!

I think I have aged a lot just in this post….