Fun day

Last year we took the older two girls skiing and they loved it. Makenzie has been begging us to go again and we finally went. Josh was pretty bummed he couldn't go due to accident stuff still. So he stayed home with the two littles and us big girls headed up to the mountain. At first I was a little nervous thinking how am I going to get these girls up the lift by my self but I am so glad my cousin was there to help. Makenzie snowboarded last year and wanted to try it again. Hannah wanted to ski again this year and I decided I would ski this time too. I was so proud of them.

This was probably the second or third ride up. Makenzie and Matt are on the lift in front of us.

This is at the end of the day when the girls were tired. Every time I would pull out my camera the low battery light would flash and i would get one picture before the camera would turn off, sadly I did not get very many pictures. I did get a ton of video on my phone but can't figure out how to transfer them.

All of us before we headed home. I have to say how proud I was of my girls Makenzie rode the lift with my cousin a few times before he had to go teach a lesson and then she was able to ride it by herself all afternoon. She would get off the lift and not fall and let me say that I have gone for so many years on a board and I fell so many times coming off the lift unless I was holding on to someone.   I would watch her struggle on the mountain to try different turns or the many times she would fall because she caught an edge and every time she would get back up and keep going.  I know how hard it can be to learn to snowboard and to see her trying so hard to learn was a lot of fun.  She is definitely not my baby anymore.  Hannah took a little bit to remember what she did last year but once she figured it out she only fell one time on the mountain.  As soon as we would get off the lift she was ready to go and did not want to wait for Makenzie to strap in.  I would tell her she could go until she couldn't see me anymore and then she needed to wait and off she would go.  Its times like these that I think I am so lucky to make such fun memories with my girls.  I enjoyed every minute of it and the girls are already asking when we can go again. 

I dare you...

For Family Home Evening we talked about having faith and courage to do what's right. So with that we played I dare you. It was a lot of fun and the kids had fun trying some different drinks as well as trying some other tricks.

Kaitlyn's face after she tried Lemon Juice.

Makenzie had been sick for five days and joined us by laying on the couch she only drank the pear juice and I don't blame her for not trying anything else. 

Spencer made this face after every thing he tried.  We had Soy Sauce, Lemon Juice, Pear Juice, Hot Sauce, and a blue Soda. 

Hannah getting ready to try one of them.  Of course they could make the decision of trying it or not.  At first no one wanted to try anything but eventually they started trying things.  We talked about how friends can say "I dare you" and what can happen if you choose to follow that dare or not and most of the time it will take courage and faith to do what is right.  I love these kind of activities because I think my kids remember them the most. 

Hannah had a birthday...

Hannah turned Seven!

I can not believe how big she has grown.  We measured her on our wall and she has grown almost two inches.  It is crazy how fast the time has gone.  We love our Hannah she is the most quiet and shy of all my kids and it has been fun to see her come out of it a little bit through school and friends.  She is very thoughtful of your feelings and wants to be around those she loves. 

This year Hannah had some friends over for her a party and we choose to do a Hawaiian theme (cause lets face it we all wish we were some where warmer right now).  The girls made their own flowers to tuck behind their ear out of crate paper.  They were given a flower necklace when they came in.  Some of the games we played were hot coconut and we passed the real coconut around and then after they got to drink the coconut milk and taste the coconut.  I don't think any of the girls liked the milk and a few of them liked how it tasted. 

We also played a relay game.  They had to put on swim shorts, sunglasses, floaties, and a towel and run around the couch.  It was pretty cute to see them putting it all on. 

Hannah's one request that we have at her party was a pinata.  They each took turns hitting it the first round and no one really hit it very hard but the second round everyone was hitting a lot harder.  We also played the limbo game and man are those girls flexible.  They ended with red velvet coconut cupcakes.  Its funny when I asked Hannah what kind of party she wanted as I was giving her different ideas she would say sure to everything.  She was so easy going about all of it but I am so glad she had a fun time.  Later after her friends left some of her cousins came over and we had pizza and more cupcakes.  I am glad it was a fun day for her.