Fun With Jenn and Brandon

On Sunday (April 3) Jenn and Brandon took me home with them to babysit Jennah on Tuesday. I had a BLAST!!! On Monday we went shopping; I got three new shirts and a Easter dress. Thanks Jenn!!!

Trying on a hat in Claire's:

On Monday night we went to the Myan, and watched the cliff divers!

We made these cute little can things:

On Tuesday I got to babysit Jennah!!! She was WAY good, and I would do it again anytime. :)

After babysitting we went to Color Me Mine. I painted a cute star box and Jenn did a cute little vase.

November Fest - November 27, 2010

                                                                Dance to Black Bird:

                                                                          Dance to Lipgloss:



Friends

I have been blessed to have such great friends!!! :D
Robin, Me, Whitley

Firt Day of School- August 26, 2010

I am in Seventh grade and get on the bus at 6:45:

Kyle is in 5th grade
Kaitlyn is in 4th grade
Hannah is in 2nd grade

Trevor started preschool too!!!

A Post for Rachel From her Mom

OK I know I haven't been on this blog for several months now, and Rachel has done a great job with keeping it updated. I only wish I had turned it over to her earlier, but today I will make a special entry all about her!

Rachel will turn 12 years old on Friday July 23rd. She has been looking forward to this day for nearly a year. Oh to be twelve and get to be in Young Women with all her friends! While I have not exactly dreaded the day, I must say there are times I wish I could stop time from rushing by so quickly. During Sharing Time today Rachel was at the front of the room singing one of my favorite songs- "If the Savior Stood Beside Me." And tears came to my eyes-just because I love her so much. Then during Closing exercises I had all six of my children together in primary for one last time. I remember when Rachel went to Kindergarten, and it was the end of my time as a mother with all my children home with me. Then she went to White Pine, and it was another end of an era of having all the kids in Lewiston Elementary together. Now we end another era of having them all together in Primary. Now I know that this is somewhat minor compared to some steps like her learning to drive, and moving away from home, and getting married. It just seems that those next steps will be hear so quickly. And I often feel overwhelmed with all the things I need to teach my children before they grow up completely. But then I look at how much she has learned and the beautiful young women she is becoming and I feel at peace, and suddenly I am excited to see her grow and change and learn and become the amazing woman I know she will be.

SO- Here's a list of Twelve things about Rachel:

1. She is so supportive of everything I try to do-she prays for me and my success every night.


2. She is so smart- and has a great memory. When she was a Sunbeam she gave a talk about President Hinkley with no help! She can memorize the words and notes to any song with little effort.


3. She loves to take pictures-I am so glad that Rachel takes pictures, because I have been so busy lately, but we still have oodles of pictures of Casen's first year.
4. She is very good help-I probably am too hard on her, but she does do allot of work at the barn and in the house.
   
5. She loves order and schedules, which I am not very good at, but she is patient with me.


6. She is creative and a great writer. She has won most any essay or story contest she has ever entered.


7. She loves to read.


8. She is a blog stocker-she mainly looks at photography blogs, but she has a few other random families that she checks up on regularly.


9. She has a strong testimony and wants to do what is right.


10. She is a great friend, and thinks about other people's feelings.
    
11. She tells me everything! At least I think it must be everything-and I love to hear it!


12. She is beautiful- inside and out!

OK Well I need to hurry because Rachel wants to do some blogging today too. Here are a few pictures I took of her today. Plus a few of my favorites from her younger days!

Dance Recital June 4, 2010

Last Friday I had my dance recital. I had a lot of fun doing dance this year and look forward to dancing next year on Elite 2. (that's the team I will be on)

Sewing Camp!!!

Orchestra Consert May 19, 2010

On Kaitlyn's birthday I had a orchestra concert. I had so much fun and will really miss all of my friends from there. Anna, Hayley, Robin, Me.

New Headbands!

My aunt Katie crocheted these ADORABLE headbands for us!!! We LOVE them and and Kaitlyn and Hannah wore them all Saturday, and I took some pictures of them.

Kaitlyn Marie

Hannah Kristine.

I LOVE these pictures!!!

Babysiting April 20, 2010

Last week our cousins Emma and Aspen came to visit Grandma Hall. They are so cute! On Tuesday night I babysat them. We watched Dora, colored in coloring books, and played a game in witch I was the mama duck Emma was the sister duck and Aspen was the baby duck. I had a lot of fun! Thanks grandma for letting babysit!Emma
Emma was like the little boss, she told us what we had to do and we did it.(In the picture above Aspen was protesting that she could be a big sister too.)
Such a sad face.
Cute Aspen.

Rachel Takes Over the Blog

Hi, this s Rachel. My mom has totally turned the responsibility of the family blog over to ME!!!!
Because she has another blog to update! For those of you that don't know, my mom has started a new business called VINYLIZEit. Visit vinylizeit.com for more info and details. (that is my favorite thing to say these days) Below are some vinyl projects that I have done for some of my friends. I did this one for my friend Robin. It says Be Loyal to the Royal Within.
This one says Kammie.
This is a frame with the be loyal thing in it.

Rachel Goes to Writers Fest - March 18 2010

Hi, this is Rachel and on Thursday I got to go to Writers Fest. I wrote a story called "Permecavill"

and turned it into my English Teacher. She liked it and chose me to go to the Fest!

I had so much fun, some of my friends went too and my mom came for most of it. I went to three different stations. The first one was my reading round, at that station I read my story to a group of kids and listened to their story's too.

Next, I went and listened to the Author, Obert Sky, he rote the Leven Thumps series. He was a really good speaker and told us the four secrets of Foo, that's where his books take place, the secrets are HAVE COURAGE, THINK BIG, BE GREAT, and WATCH CAREFULLY.
Last I got to listen to a group of boys from Cache Valley. They are brothers and can all play different instruments. The youngest brother was eight and played the drums really good, Kort was 12, he and Bradon, who is 16, sang and played lots of instruments. They were really good and let us come on stage and dance.
I had a lot of fun, it was a great day!

Rachel got her ears pierced.

Rachel Dressed Up for Decade Days