Birthdays and Easter...

Scott had a track meet and Kacie went to a softball game so Mom and Brady went with me to Brandon's 23rd birthday party at his home.  They had pizza for him with cake and ice cream.  It is always nice when we get to spend time with him even when it's not for long.   I got him some balloons with candy and some more pop and of course the pop is always his favorite. 

 I can't believe my miracle baby is 23...

 

 Friday after work I went to get Brandon for a couple of nights.  Saturday we went to Grandma Joan's for her annual Easter Egg Hunt.

 

 

 I can't believe Brady is old enough to hide the eggs now...

What a cute bunch of kids!

 

 

 I got these shirts from a good friend that is trying to raise money to adopt a down syndrome girl from Vietnam.  I thought they were perfect for our family.  We might have one of the most unique families but we know that Heavenly Father loves us each the same.  (cerebral palsy, kidney transplant & autism.)

 We had a birthday party for Mom and Brandon plus had a nice Easter dinner.  We had tons of food and everyone enjoyed themselves.

 Brandon was so cute with these two watching the game together.  I even noticed that he was holding Ron's hand for a little while. 

 Sure love these two!

 Brandon's gifts...we are giving Mom flowers for her yard and helping her plant them if it ever decides to warm up.  It has been such a cold spring this year.

Just a few of the many pictures we tried to take together.  It is always such a challenge for us to get a good picture. 

Graduation Preparation...

Saturday after our Easter egg hunt, Kacie and I met up with her friends and their Mom's to start planning their graduation party.  (Madi and Colleen Mitchell, Mallory and Dana Jensen, Kaley and Karla Rindlisbacher)  We took these cute pictures together to put in their slideshow.  I can't believe it's almost here. sniff, sniff!

I thought they all turned out so cute!!!

Hopefully they have a fun party...

Stake Daddy Daughter Hoedown...

I made these signs for the food tables and the invitation plus we had menus on the tables with questions for them to discuss with their daughters.

Michelle and Ron Jacobs

(Stake Presidency First Counselor over the Primary)

Jason and Bella Johnson...

Lee and Avonlea Long

We had another incredible Stake Daddy Daughter activity. We put up ten tables and had to set up two more so we figured we fed around 100 people.  We were a little short on salad but had plenty of everything else.  We served pulled pork sandwiches with a barbeque salad, (romaine lettuce chopped, cherry tomatoes sliced in two, shredded cheese, bacon bits, one cup of barbeque sauce and one cup of mayonnaise) chips and Texas sheet cake for dessert.  (we had 20 lbs of meat, 96 hamburger buns, two large salads, 4 bags of chips and 4 or 6 sheet cakes) We feed them dinner then Brother Solon Wolf spoke to them about cowboys and then tied it into the gospel then we taught them two square dances and then let them dance on their own.  It really was worth all the work that goes into these activities.  Seeing the girls having so much fun with their dad's is always so fun to watch.  Rachel out did her self again on the decorations.  She did this wooden fence you see in the pictures and then had silhouettes of cowboys all over and green cactus, plus on the long outside wall she put green paper along the bottom and used brown paper to make it look like a fence.  For the center tables she had boots with white and yellow flowers.  Everything was darling.  I absolutely love working with these ladies...I'm really going to miss it, we will be for three years this coming July.