Monday, December 12, 2016

Cakes 2016

While I try to stay out of the cake business, I am occasionally sucked back in. These are the cakes I made this year.

May - Cam's 13th Water Balloon Party Cake

June - Lex's Graduation Cake

July - Animal Safari Baby Shower Cake

October - Monkeying Around Baby Shower Cake

October - Seth's 11th Harry Potter Party Birthday Cake

November - Goon Baby Gender Reveal Cake

December - Cynjyn's 16th Birthday Masquerade Ball Cake


Scouting for food

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Every year our family helps run Scouting for Food for South Las Vegas. The boys spend all day driving around collecting boxes and eventually taking them to The Salvation Army Collection Center.


Seth is now an 11 Year Old Scout and old enough to help out too.  He came home all scratched up from moving boxes.

 

He earned his Outback dinner at the end of the night.

Mr. Brightside

November 12, 2016

Seth Rocked his drum recital, playing The Killers Mr. Brightside. He played first and did awesome. He was also included in a African Drum Ensemble at the end of the recital. He played a cowbell type instrument.

Life is Too Short to Have Boring Hair

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Lex is lucky enough is have a cosmetology major as one of her best friends. Keandie spent a Saturday dying Lex's hair BLACK.





Fall Concert - The Best of the Best

Thursday, November 3, 2016

The Fall Concert is the best of the year.  Band, Orchestra, and Choir each have their highest performing groups put on a concert.  It is short and sweet and full of great music.


Most of Cam's MS friends performed and they all did a great job and took a few pictures together after the concert.

Random Kid, Matthew, Tate, Will, Emma, Cam, Courtnie, Josie, Troy, Bailey , Lilly, & Rowdy



Eagles Soccer

Fall 2016

Lex decided to attend Utah State University Eastern and play on their women's soccer team. She ended up playing defense and did great, even though she has typically played left wing. She even got to be #17.



James (from England) was #17 on the men's team.


Rachel is from Henderson and was a bit of a nemesis of Alexis' when they played in HS, but became a best bud.

Kenadie is from Utah, like most of the team, became a fast friend too.

Lex, Tristan, Rachel, & ?

Fabio, from Italy, is fun despite (or maybe because) his less than perfect English.

USUE Eagles


Lex in action.

Fabio Day - dress to impress!

Each game started with the National Anthem and calling out the starters.


Lex had a few fans come to watch - the Sokols, the Hills (a few times), and Grandma and Grandpa.


A teammates mom was battling cancer and they had a game when they played for the people they knew that had also battled.


The team has a photographer and you can buy pictures from a site.  This is our favorite!


The team traveled most weekends and got close on the road.


Friday, October 28, 2016

We traveled to Paragoonah Thursday night and got up early the next morning to head to Ephriam to watch Lex's tournament.  The town was tiny but the campus was pretty.  The field were at a separate park.



Lex had an awesome game, sending the ball up when needed and she made a sweet save in the goal.


The team los 1-0, despite Lex's best efforts. 


It was a hard loss, but we always love to see our girl play. We had thought to spend the night at Jack's in Sandy, but with no game the next day, we headed back to Paragoonah.


We visited with my parents and the kids played with SnapChat filters.


We went to a new Mexican restaurant in Parawon (it was just ok), before heading home to make it to our ward Trunk-or-Treat the next day.


Saturday, December 10, 2016

Halloween 2016

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Lex went to a Halloween Party at school. Kenadie is a cosmetology major and was able to use makeup to turn Lex and herself into cute deer.  Unfortunately, they went to the party with some hunters.



Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Seth and I went to the Hummel Halloween Carnival. I had class that night so we were only able to stay a short time, but Seth played a few games and we had some pizza.


 

Seth and I also bought each other Ghost Grams. His message to me was so sweet.


Saturday, October 29, 2016

We got our pumpkins ready for Trunk-or-Treat. Cam made a poop emoji pumpkin.


Seth painted his blue and made a Pete the Cat pumpkin, to match my costume.



The kids have officially gotten too old to do a family theme for their costumes. Seth decided to be Napoleon Dynamite. Only older people knew who he was and they would ask him to do the dance from the movie.  He was too embarrassed to do it.



Cam and her friends planned to be "Modern Princesses". Cam was Snow White.


I stuck with being a book character and made this simple Pete the Cat costume.


The Hills

The Las Palmas Ward had their Trunk-or-Treat a few days early. 


Kade and Seth

Lex and Tristan went to the Lagoon that weekend because not much was going on in Price.


Monday, October 31, 2016

Halloween was on a Monday and our school made it a dress up day. Here is Seth with his class. I wore my Pete the Cat Costume too. The Kinders were pretty excited about it.


Cam hung out with Macy the Modern day Cinderella. They went to the Warm Springs Ward Trunk-or-Treat, then went Trick-or-Treating with a group of friends.



Seth and Joel went Trick-or-Treating around our neighborhood, then I took them to the Pirate House, which has become a tradition.  




At the end of the Pirate Tour, the boys got their picture taken with Peter Pan and Tinker Bell.  The Jack Sparrow said he loved Seth's costume. I think the hair was the clincher.



Lex went to Jack's and took pics as a hula girl. Dave and I liked the mumu better.