Aubrie's Barbie Party

Aubrie's 7th Birthday Party!

Opening presents

Barbie Cake

Marshmallows dipped in Pink Chocolate and sprinkles

Flowers in Bloom Box

Golden Oreo's dipped in Pink Chocolate

Popcorn Cones

I made all of the treat stands and candy jars by gluing candle sticks to china plates or glass bowls!

Barbie magnets.  One of the party favors.

Tulle Wreath

Party Favors.  It contained a ring pop and makeup.

Coloring Barbie pictures and then we made beautiful bead bracelets.

I also painted all of the girls fingernails!  It was a fun barbie party for Aubrie's Big Day!

Halloween

 

 

 

 

Hailee was a girl pirate!

Emilee was a beautiful bride and Aubrie was a Geisha!

Christian was Spiderman.  He has a mask that he wasn't wearing during this picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The kids had a great time parading around town with their school.  They don't have Halloween parties but they love Trick or Treating at many of the down town businesses! 

On Sat. We went to Sandy to take part in the Trunk or Treat in my brother's neighborhood.  It got rained out though so we just ended up taking the kids around in the rain.  I think a lot of people felt sorry for them and ended up giving them handfuls of candy.  We went back to my brother's for dinner and then the kids headed out for more trick or treating.  I was worried that they would hardly get any candy but they ended up with more than they've ever gotten! 

Family Pictures!

We all got together on Conference Weekend to get some pictures of all of us.  Taking pictures with this many kids wasn't easy but they turned out pretty good!

Alice In Wonderland Party

Emilee had an Alice in Wonderland party for her 9th Birthday!

They Played Croquet!

 I made the croquet sticks out of a pineapple can and the cardboard insert from wrapping paper and a little paint.  I also bent hangers and hot glued Alice character pictures for the half circles to hit the ball through.

This is the food table before the treats were set out.  They were chocolate and would've melted in the hot sun!

Painting The Roses Red and Playing Card centerpiece.  Also the Drink Me! bottles in the back ground!

      The Giant Tea Cup centerpiece!

                                                 

Flowers with eyes in a stack of Tea Cups and a Playing Card Guard!

                               

Eat Me! Cupcakes

                                                                  

 

Playing Card Banner!

I wish that I got a picture of the Edible Tea Cup's we made.  After they made it we filled it with some coconut ice cream and then they ate them!  We also played a tea cup relay race and Toss the sugar cube into the tea cup game.  It was a really fun party!

White Hill

We did it! We finally closed on property! We sold our house in Oct. 2009 and have been actively searching for our dream property ever since. Our poor kids are so sick of looking for property! This was our 15th offer (including counter offers). They've all fallen through for different reasons. It's been quite the journey! Now that we have property the real work begins. It's amazing how many different permits we'll need in order to start building. Well, road, building, septic, wilderness interface, fire and on and on. To make it even harder is the fact that we want to do alternative/green building. It's always harder to get things approved when you're one of the first. We bought 90 acres and ended up putting most of the money we got from our home sale into the property. It makes our payments for the ground much lower but now we have no money for actually building our home. We have some things that will hopefully come through for that! I do realize that the journey has just begun. I have no idea how many years it will take to build but I think it will be worth it in the end!










South view from the property.














My step dad, Ren, and Hailee at a rock outcropping.














Some people from Safe Haven testing the soil.














A map of our property.
















Founding members of Safe Haven! We're at the "Waterfall". Well it's a waterfall during winter and rain runoff. We plan on making this into a full time waterfall! This picture doesn't do it justice! It's so beautiful.


We plan on first putting in a minor subdivision and then later a major subdivision. Our community is named Safe Haven. We plan on having a green subdivision, community center, and wallapinis (underground green houses for year around growing). We have over 90 people interested in our project. Not all of them will move there but they want to be a part of it in some way. It's exciting that's it's finally all coming together!

Here's a link to the blog my husband is doing about building our home:
http://www.allanssustainablehome.com/2010/04/purchased-white-hills-90-acres-water.html

Guru

Last night we were having dinner at Guru's (in Provo). We were with most of Sterling's family because we haven't seen each other since Thanksgiving and it's about time we all got together again. Thanks for planning it McKaylee! We always have such a great time and there's always a ton of us! I'm sure every restaurant we go to regrets having us there cuz we have so many kids and we take up sooo much room. Hey at least they get a good tip, right? Anyway I was talking to my sister-in-law and thought I caught a glimse of Milo Ventimiglia. For those of you that are Gilmore Girl fans he plays Jess.










But I was wrong it wasn't Milo it was Mark Ballas






















and Derek Hough!





We both were very excited because we love Dancing With The Stars!
We decided to go over and get a picture with them and talk for a little bit! They were both very sweet and let us get a picture with them. They told us that they were doing to show at The Covey in one hour and there were still some tickets! After rearranging our schedules we headed to the Covey to get some tickets. We were happy to get some even if they were back balcony seats. It was such an amazing show! We had such a great time. After the performance we went and got another picture with them and got their autographs.





Chelsie Hightower was also there. It was so much fun to watch such amazing performers dance live.
















Mark also played the guitar and he and Derek sang. Those two are entirely too talented!


















We had such a great time! It was a night to remember!

Christmas!

Christmas before opening all the presents! The kids actually got up at 4 AM on Christmas morning, but we were mean and made them go back to bed, "Until you see the sun out your window". They fell back to sleep at about 5 AM and got up at 7:30 AM. Much better!


We let the kids open one present on Christmas Eve and they all got PJ bottoms that I made.
We had a great Christmas morning just taking it easy. I made yummy cinnamon pull apart' s, soy sausages and orange juice. In the late afternoon we headed to my Dad's house and had an enjoyable family dinner. Christmas is so much work but it's all worth it when I watch the kids opening their presents!