Girls Camp

I bet you thought we died! Well not to worry, we're still hanging in there. We've just been really busy. Now that I'm in the stake young woman's presidency I get to go to all the activities. I was so excited to go to girls camp this year. I didn't get very many pictures, so you'll just have to use your imagination.


The main group of leaders and young women went to camp on tuesday. They drove for a few miles on a bumpy dirt road hoping to get to our stake campground. Unfortunately, there was a misunderstanding of schedules, and the road was torn up, and new gravel and dirt blocked their way.


I'm not sure what happened exactly, but I know there were some very upset leaders. Our stake YW secretary sent me a text warning me to wait because, 'tensions were high'. Luckily, we had a back up campsite. So our secretary made some calls and the girls were off once more to camp.


I got to camp the next day, after everyone was settled and feeling better. (Everyone liked the new camp spot better) I left Amora with Grandma and Grandpa Johnson, and Aleksia got to come with me. We had so much fun together. There was a small playground by our site so Lexy hung out there most of the day. And, of course, the young women adopted her almost immediatly. Someone was always willing to take her out into the sun and play for hours and hours.

The first night, Lexy was so tired from playing in the sun all day, she could hardly keep her eyes open. I was holding her while she attempted to each lasagna with a spoon (not enough forks). She probably would have done just fine, but every time she tried to get the spoon to her mouth, she'd fall asleep and dump it over her shoulder! When she did fall asleep, I put her on the table to rest.

Lexy and I put Amora's twin size mattress in the suburban and slept in the car. It was great! We were cozy, no bugs and we were safe from pranksters. Almost, one of the wards snuck out at night and TP'd the car, and all of the other wards. (We weren't really asleep... Lexy is good at pretending.)

The food was great. All the wards are assigned a meal to feed the stake leaders, so I didn't have to make anything. I just had to show up. This helped so much, since sometimes making food makes me sick because I'm pregnant.

I love my calling. I had so much fun getting to know the girls. I can't wait to go back next year.

Mom's Day

I want to wish all the mothers a Happy Mother's Day, especially those mothers that are important in my life - my own mother, the mother of my kids, and the mother of my wife. I sent the following video to my mother for Mothers' Day and wanted to share it here for fun.

Inauguration

I thought this was a pretty funny comic on the day of the Inauguration of our 44th President.

The big #5!

I know it's really late, but we celebrated our 5th anniversary last month! Since it was the big 5 we decided to do something really fun. We went for 2 night to a condo in Heber, right next to a beautiful lake. It was very romantic. We watched tons of movies and spent all day Saturday at the Park City outlets window shopping. It was so nice to be kid-free for the whole weekend.

I still can't believe we've been married for five years already. Then again, as I think about all that we've been through, I'm surprised that it's only been five years.
So what have we done? Brandon finished school, we had our sweet Amora, then two and a half years later we got our little love, Aleksia. We've lived in two different apartments and two years ago, we bought our first home. We've had large incomes and been super poor. All the while enjoying the journey Heavenly Father has blessed us with. Life is so wonderful! Brandon and I look forward to where tomorrow will bring us, and spending forever together.

Piano Recital

I had my winter piano recital last week. This was Amora's second recital! She was so darling. She went up to the piano, and got too shy to introduce herself, but once she sat down to play, she did great! It was her best performance. She played 'Once there was a snowman" from the Primary songbook. I changed the key to make it easier for her, and we played it as a duet. All my other students are getting good. It's so much fun to finally feel like my teaching is paying off. I love having intermediate students. I think overall it was a wonderful recital. Everyone worked very hard on their songs and it showed.

The Making of 'Gingerbread House'

Needless to say, we have not been keeping our blog up to date very well recently... There are a number of things we still want to blog that happened a while back, but we just wanted to get this one out there even though it is much more recent. And since I had all the pics and vids on my phone, I get to be the one to post it...

Ayrial wanted to do something fun with a Christmas theme for the girls, so we decided to get some stuff to make a gingerbread house. We figured it would be much cheaper to get all the stuff separate than it would be to buy a packaged kit. So we got some graham crackers, cake frosting, licorice string, dots, life savers, and some other candy. Well it came out to be a little more expensive than the pre-packaged gingerbread house kit. So much for trying to be frugal, I guess... But that's okay, because they had all sorts of fun making this gingerbread house.








Ayrial had a lot of fun starting a sort of food fight with the girls. She kept smearing frosting on their faces and sticking candy on them...

Amora kept saying that she was going to be the "Gingerbread girl" and mommy was going to be the "Gingerbread mommy".

Lexy kept trying to eat the candy off the house before it was finished.

I contributed to the project by putting some half-eaten candy (okay... I was the culprit) on the top and also helping to eat the thing when it was all finished. Hey, that was the hardest part of all...






THE END

Lexy on the slide and more pics

Amora in this cute cow car. Amora had fun on the train.

My sister Taylor, and Lexy in the pig. Lexy loved the train ride.

The girls just got their pumpkins, and we're on a tractor ride through the farm.

Lexy is buried in corn kernels She thought it was really cool. It freaked Amora out, so she refused, hence, no pic.

Lexy followed Amora up to the slide, but panicked when she got up there. So we helped her out. Once she went down, she had fun. I couldn't stop laughing as I watched her go down, cause she looks like a rag doll.