Career Day

Since she started Kindergarten Kenedy has been begging Kefford to come to career day. Finally, this year, Kefford agreed to do it. It was extra fun because he also got to talk about his career in Rykers class.

Of course I wanted to come and watch with Rylee and Avynlea and since Mom, Emily, Isabelle and Ben were in town, they got to come also.
Here Kefford is trying to talk a little bit about glasses and how they are made to Rykers Kindergarten class. This class already had 3 or 4 previous demonstrations on different careers and had just about had it. It was a little frustrating because they were Kindergartners and thus acted like Kindergartners but Kefford kept his cool and didn't let it phase him a bit.

After a short break we headed over to Kenedys class where the little ones helped Kefford set up his stuff.

The third grade class were really good listeners and it was a nice way to end the time. Kenedy was really excited to have her Dad there and that was a lot of fun to see.

Kefford brought a hammer so that the kids could try breaking the "unbreakable" lens but there wasn't enough time to try it out. Avy was able to get a crack at it and the little kids thought it was funny that all it did was bounce away. No breakage here!

Color Me Mine!

Heather gave us all some more bath bombs and the kids were excited because this time they were for THEM!

Avy and Rylee got to have a yellow bath.
While Ryker really enjoyed his Blue bath.
Kenedy also got an orange bath but she is too old to have pictures taken of her in the bath tub. Ryker is really pushing it and I have since decided no more bath pictures of Ryker. It was almost comical having me and Kefford directing him in twisting and turning his body to make this a clean shot. I think we succeeded but no more!

Rylee girl

Isn't she a cutie? I love going to get her in the mornings cause she is usually so happy to see me and always so generous with her cuddles.

Then it is time to comb her hair
or as we like to call it...the taming of the beast!

Some fun randomness

OK these two pictures are not so fun but a couple weeks ago Rylee woke up with a really high fever. She was throwing up a little, would not eat, or drink and absolutely would not let me leave her sight all day long. So after making sure the other kids could take care of themselves I sat on my bed and held Rylee all day long. I did manage to sneak away a couple times when she fell asleep so I could check on things downstairs and do some laundry. But for the most part I sat on my bed with Rylee.
This weird flu thing only lasted one day and of course by the time Kefford came home Rylee had been able to keep down her medicine so she was feeling great and was happy and alert. Seriously Kefford, she was sick and I couldn't do anything all day! Thanks Rylee couldn't you have pretended to still feel sick so I wouldn't look like a slacker Mom?

Oh the poor Baby!

While in Utah my niece and nephew entertained us by putting pots on their heads after they cooked us some yummy food!

Here I am with my slice of cake, while Ashleigh got the entire cake...minus my slice of course! :)

Funny thing, I asked Isabelle (my niece) if she would cut me some of the cake we got for Ashleigh's graduation and much to my amazement this little 5 year old jumped up and did exactly that. The piece she brought me was so huge there was no way I could have ever finished it. She served everyone else normal sizes so I guess mine was the experimental slice but it was fun to see her being a helper and a good hostess!

Cute little Rylee riding the tractor.

Kefford told her he would let her ride the tractor but she had been in only her diaper so I threw on her the first thing i found which happened to be Kenedy's sweater. She loved it!

Temple Trip

While we were in Provo those of us who could took a little trip to the Temple to do a session. It was really neat because it has been a loooong time since I have done a session with anyone in my family. I really love what the temple represents and being in the celestial room with my Mom, sisters and brother was an incredible feeling!

Erin, Mom, Joshua, Emily and Elizabeth
I have never been inside the Provo Temple so of course I had to document this trip with a modeling shoot!

So happy to have been at the Temple this day!

No I did not jump off the fountain, I really can jump that high! :)

Erin says "Yippee for the Temple!"

I had a good time and could really feel the spirit inside the Temple, I hope to be able to do this again soon with my family!

Ashleigh Graduates

So I went to Utah for my sisters graduation and Thursday was the big entire university commencement thingie. It was fun watching all of the graduates march in and we even got to get a small glimpse of Ashleigh before she disappeared from view. President Uchtdorf was the main speaker and it was really neat to be able to listen to him in person.

I got his picture taken from the big monitor. You could hear all the old ladies in the audience give a little dreamy sigh when he got up! :)
Here are the siblings with the cute graduate!

Ashleigh the graduate with her proud Mama!

Oh baby!

Friday morning was the College Convocation and it was so great to see Ashleigh get her certificate. I have to admit I got a little teary eyed as she walked across the stage. I am so proud of her!

Elder Oaks was the guest speaker at this little graduation. He is one of my favorite Apostles and it was so cool to be sitting less then ten yards away from him. It was kinda comical to see all of the flashes going off when he stood up to speak so I went against the grain and took a picture of me instead! LOL

OK but then I took a picture of Elder Oaks. He is such a great man and so easy to listen to. I was hoping I could get my picture with him but that was not possible. They shut the curtains on the stage while we all filed out. Later as I was coming out of the bathroom I saw him down the corridor outside the glass doors getting a picture with some kids. I got so excited and started skipping/running/hopping to him with a big excited grin on my face, frantically pulling out my camera so I could ask for a picture. Maybe he saw the crazed girl coming to attack him cause right when I got to the doors he turned and went in a secret room. Oh how disappointed I was, but it's OK I did get to see him.

Elizabeth, Heather, Mom, Joshua, Ashleigh, Erin, Andrew and Emily
So excited for our little graduate!

Of course we can't be serious all of the time!

Good Friends

I went to Utah this weekend for my sisters graduation. While I was there I got to hang out and reconnect with two of my good friends from my first year in college.
Alice "Rita" and I met because she lived a couple doors down from me and we were in the same ward. There was an instant connection with this girl and we had so much fun and so many laughs. She was and still is one of my favorite people and I am so glad that we have been able to stay in touch all these years.
My family had planned on staying the night in Provo because of my sisters graduation and when my Mom expressed concern about fitting all of us siblings in the hotel room, I jumped at the chance to stay at "Hotel Alice". We had so much fun talking, laughing and making a late night run to Sonic in our pajamas! Thanks Alice for letting me crash at your place and for the good times. Love ya girl!

LynnMarie and I became friends at Ricks because we were both dance majors and most of our classes were together. My fondest memories with her were, of course dancing together, but also the little road trip we took to Utah valentines day weekend. Time there was spent admiring her grandparents "foot" pedigree chart, having her little sister try to hook me up with her cousin and gagging at all the couples getting engaged on valentines day at the Temple. She moved to Utah after that first year and we kinda lost touch, but good news, we found each other on Facebook and have been able to reconnect again.

It was really cool of her to drive to Ogden so that we could hang out at my sisters house and find out what we have been up to. I had lots of fun chatting up old times and this is one more friend whom I am happy to have back in my life! Love you too LynnMarie!