Nothing is Impossible...

So tonight we, as a family, had a really neat opportunity to drop off "care packages" to some homeless people in our town. We made it a Family Home Evening activity. Afterwards I was asking the kids how they felt and what they thought about it. We had already pointed out (to our hungry, pre-dinner kids) that these people were hungry most of the time. We talked about how cold it was outside. One of the boys mentioned Christmastime and presents. I told them that those people wouldn't get ANY presents. Dane disagreed. "You never know...NOTHING is impossible..." (we waited for something about Santa) he continued, "except not being tickle-ish...I know, I have Uncles."

Oh, Dane! Gotta love that kid!

Peter Pan and Associates

Dane's "wave pool"

Curly or Straight?

Curly or Straight? Which do you like better?

Dressing herself

I think the title and the pictures tell it all! Hilarious!

Reunions

I love being able to see "old" friends. This summer I was lucky enough to see two that I don't get to see very often. The first was on of my best friends, Ranisa, who moved to the mid-west a while ago. I did get to see her in Chicago when I was pregnant with Mackenzie (two years ago). But, our visits are few and far between. It was the first time all our kids had been together.

The next was one of my room mates from BYU, Tracey. She too has moved all over and I haven't seen her in about 4 or 5 years (when she happened to come to San Diego). This time she was driving through Vegas on her way to San Diego again. They only had time to stop and say hi and take a picture of all our kiddos together too. Fun times! (Getting all the kids in the picture was tricky.)

Love you girls!!

Dane's 7th Birthday

It was a Pool Party (because that means I don't have to come up with party games to keep them entertained).

We ended up with 12 boys (and Mackenzie) because all the friends Dane wanted to invite had at least one brother who came along. It was crazy! I think its funny to watch them enthralled with the gift opening.

Yaya gave me a icecream cone cake pan. The cake is the cone with a scoop of icecream on top. Hard to eat but so cute.

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Sleeping Brice

Brice has never been a good sleeper. Bedtime, every night, is a nightmare for me. He won't stay in bed, he won't go to sleep and he stopped taking naps a long time ago. So recently his sleeping has made me laugh. He has fallen asleep in strange places and strange positions in his battle to defy me. He has even fallen asleep in the middle of the day. Not my typical Brice. So each time it happened I had to take a picture.

(This is not the first time I have found him asleep on the bathroom floor.)

Great American Bake Sale

We went over our goal by almsot $200. We ended up with so much food (donated and homemade) that we also got to split it between a couple churches to donate to their families in need.

This was one of the things I made..."cake on a stick" thanks to my grandmother (Tutu) who sent me the random cake pan. It was fun to make these...they were definitly unique among the cookies, cupcakes and loaves of bread.

Before and After

Living in HOT, HOT Vegas means summer haircuts for all...I think I prefer everyone's longer but it will grow back and in the mean time it will be cool and easy to do. You can't really tell much difference with Mackenzie because it isn't sticking up in the pictures. Before her "First" haircut her hair was always sticking straight up looking greasy from sunscreen. Now it isn't quite so long on top (or behind the ears) so it doesn't look so gross with all the sunscreen.

I couldn't resist posting the crazy morning hair for Dane's "before"...If you look at my earlier posting of our recent Photo Shoot you will see what his hair looked like styled. I am not real happy with his "after" cut. Hello! I said 5 clippers on the bottom/sides (this is at least a 4 if not shorter) and the top was supposed to be 2-3 inches long at the finish. Argh! I miss his "California boy" blonde hair!

Brice can be bald and still have the sweetest face.

I thought I had a "before"picture of Dan but I guess he was wearing a hat...but here's the "after":

Didn't want to forget Lexie's summer cut. She is so much cuter when she is fluffy but I am sure she feels much better without such a heavy coat for the summer.

And you should have already seen mine...but if not: its here.