These lovely ladies and I have started walking every day (kinda) together. We haven't been the best at it the last week. Anyway, one day we were out and about and we were walking by this huge field and April was in a hurry to get home so she talked Tricia and me into cutting across the field with her, with a promise that there was a trail through the field that led right to our neighborhood. It was a "shortcut".
Only problem was, she couldn't find the trail. So we went climbing and scampering all over these rocky muddy mounds of earth trying to spy a trail of some sort.
Finally, after some time, April spotted the trail far off in the distance.
Yes! We made it to the trail that led us safely home! I don't know that any time was saved using this "shortcut", but we did have a fun adventure.
Addison started a business called Just Art. She has employed her sisters (she gives them paid vacations and everything). She has hung signs all over our house. She now has a menu of items you can order for your picture she draws for you. I don't have a picture of the menu, but it gives a sample of a design element and a price for each element. Depending on how many elements you choose, your custom picture can get pretty costly really fast. But don't worry! She offers free credit cards! She is quite the entrepreneur. She has been rakin' in the dough too. Mostly from me and my mother. She has been begging me to post these pictures in order to drum up some more business. So here they are:
I edited out my phone number, but if you are interested in ordering anything, you can send me a message.
Emily had a Sports Banquet at her school. Steve and I went with her. Here they are recognizing the Volleyball Team.
Last year Zac went to AFY for the first time (Adventure for Youth). He wants to go back this summer and Emily is old enough to go now as well. So I was looking at the daunting price of sending 2 children on this fun summer adventure. I noticed a contest on their website, just a few days before the contest entry deadline. AFY is located at a place called Badger Creek. One of the contests showed this picture of a beaver and had contestants send in their best beaver imitation. I just knew one of my kids could win this!
Here is Zac's beaver impersonation. They chose the best 3 entries and posted them on Facebook. The two pictures with the most likes and shares won free registration. So we started spreading the word and asked our friends and family to like and share his picture. In just under 2 days he had 122 likes and 43 shares. Those numbers were well above the other two entries. So he won! WOO HOO!!!! Thanks Zac for the creativity you showed and thank you to all who helped by liking and sharing his picture. You helped to cut our registration costs in half!
We had our Relief Society Birthday Party. It was the most fun I have ever had at a Relief Society activity ever. For real. It was a blast. These are the ladies I was fortunate enough to share the evening with.
I won't even tell you the kind of things that came out of this pinata. It was hilarious though.
And after the party, we topped the evening off with a massive Bag It! That is where we put a meal together (in a bag) with all shelf stable items.
I put together a little video for the evening. We went around the neighborhood taking funny pictures of the ladies in our ward for the video. We wouldn't tell them what the pictures were for. They were all (for the most part) so willing to bust out a funny pose for us on the spot. I live in a fantastic ward! Here is the video:
If you've been in my kitchen and seen my orange retro bar stools, you will be so happy to know that I finally purchased new stools!!!! I'm so excited about it! I have waited so long. I could never find a stool I liked that went along with our decor that was anywhere near a reasonable price. I finally found these at Sam's a few weeks ago! (that price pictured is not the price of the stool!)(this was just a picture I took to send to Steve before I bought them. I'm so excited about the new stools, but that normally wouldn't warrant a post about them, except that we saw the movie Divergent the other day and our stools are in the movie! So if you go to see it, look for them! They're famous!
March was full of fun around here. You can see other March posts by clicking on these links:
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