YW Cupcake Decorating

Tonight for our Young Women's activity Karen Phillips and her daughter, Brandi, were teaching us how to decorate cupcakes. They had four different designs -- a beach theme, rainbow, unicorn, and one where you made a design in chocolate to top off the cupcake. They were super organized and so we finished the whole activity in under an hour. The cupcakes turned out really cute and the girls had a great time!

Janelle had a "whirlpool in the sky." The girls were giving me a bad time because I put my little bear in his tube and a fish on the beach instead of the water and the bear on his towel in the water instead of on the beach. Oh well, I wasn't really paying attention to that. I was just proud of myself for my cute cupcakes, ha ha!

Jenna: SEP and Music Performance

This morning I went to Jenna's SEP. She had great reviews, as always, and it is always fun listening to her have a conversation in Chinese with her teachers. I stayed at the school since her music program was in a half hour. I enjoyed visiting with some of the other moms while we waited. That program was good too -- they actually did pretty well with their recorders! Jenna gave me a big hug and said that she was so happy that I came.

Madrigal and Band Concert

Tonight Josh and I went to Janelle's Madrigal Concert at the high school. I was surprised that Josh wanted to come but I was glad for his company. Jenna wanted to come also but she had fallen off the William's hover board and had hurt her tail bone and was dirty and scratched up and so I suggested that she stay home and take a nice bath and go to bed early. I really enjoyed the concert. Rick would have liked it too. Both the Madrigals and the Band are very good and the band played a lot of popular 40's songs like those Rick performed to in his Sunburst days at USU.

Colonoscopy

So, I finally bit the bullet and scheduled an appointment for my colonoscopy and today was the big day! I will spare you all of the dirty details from the cleanse but included it all in my journal for future reference. It is a good thing that I went in because they found five polyps and one of them was a big one -- 2 cm. Luckily it was on a stock and easy to remove. They sent them all in for biopsies and I will get the results next week. The colonoscopy itself was no big deal at all (I was asleep and so I don't remember anything). The cleanse was a bit of a pain, but worth it in order to catch problems early before they become cancerous. So if you are fifty or over and haven't gotten a colonoscopy yet, go and do it!

 

More Snow!!!

The kids were so excited at the prospect that school might be cancelled due to snow today. Well, it wasn't cancelled, but it was delayed by two hours. So we still got to sleep in and the kids still got to play in the snow. My job, however, was cancelled. I was very relieved because it was at Dixie Tech up a big hill on the side of a cliff. Normally it isn't any problem, but I was nervous about driving up it in a snowstorm!

 

 

 

Jenna's coat was too soaked to wear it to school and so I was looking for another coat and found this fun jacket that was given to us years ago. I thought she might have fun wearing it this cold snowy day!

President's Day SNOW!!

We woke up to a couple of inches of snow this morning!! Snow is always a rare and exciting event in  St. George! The girls and I helped put up flags for President's Day and then the kids had a ball playing in the snow! Notice Josh still wearing shorts!!

 

Josh's tournament soccer game was cancelled (sort of). They decided to do Penalty Kicks to decide the winning team. Josh's team won but he was very disappointed that he didn't get a chance to kick.

Rick and I went out to lunch at the Pizza Factory Express with Janika and Brandon and Jenna and Anna worked on making a snow man. By this time the sun had come out and was quickly melting the snow. Jenna moved her snowman to the shade to keep it a little longer!

Then we got to skype with Jared!! All in all, this was a fantastic day!! 

Preference (Janelle)

This year I went to Preference with Seth Compas. It was super fun and I'm glad I went! For the day date we went hiking and then got into groups to make cookies without using a recipe. Ours weren't actually that bad! We used KitKat pieces instead of chocolate chips. Then we picked up lunch from Jimmy Johns and went to a park to meet back with our group. We played a whole bunch of games there and then went home to get ready for the dance. Janika was in town and so she did my hair and makeup!

Later that day we did pictures and had dinner at my friend, Trina Lang's house. We played some games and then headed to the dance! The dance was held at the Gardner Ballroom at DSU. It was a lot of fun. After the dance we went back to our house and hung out for a little bit and then dropped everyone off! It was really fun. We had a big group, ten couples. Although not all of them were able to go to everything, so it wasn't too crazy. It was super fun and we had a great time and I'm really glad I went!

 "My dress matches your plates!"