Girl's camp

So girls camp is always fun. Even when I have the flu... I couldn't stay the whole time because I was so ill, and Justin was home sick as well, but I made it there for the first two days... Thursday night consisted of some really great skits... you see the YW dressed in their respective costumes for our Dancing With The Stars skit. They stole the show!!! And the picture of the Latrini sisters who make an appearance every year... It is the Lafayette Adult leaders and change from year to year. We dress in camo and do songs about camp to popular songs you hear on the radio. All courtesy of Jill (our YW Pres) who is so creative and writes all the words to the songs and the skits every year as well... I want to be just like her when I grow up!

Surprise party

This weekend was Vicki's birthday and her mother and sisters held a surprise party for her. It was great! She had no idea! There were several of her friends from the ward that came and all of her family was there. The food was amazing... as usual... the cake was divine... and there were games and prizes! Justin won a gift card to Casa Ole and I won a gift card to Quiznos! What a great treat!!! The best part was just being with good friends outside of church. It was pretty cool. We all just ate and talked for a couple of hours without the kids. Lately all I have been hearing is "Mamma, Mamma, Mamma!" And I was ready for a little adult conversation.

Just a Cutie

I just wanted to put some cute pictures of Lorelai on here so you don't forget what a little sweetie we have in this house! i cannot believe she is going to be 2 in just a couple of months! Less than that!

Camp stuff

Been busy working on Girl's Camp stuff. We completed the script for our skit. We are doing a Dancing With the Stars spoof. The theme this year is Keepers of the Light. So we are having the Dancing With the Stars contestants have to compete using the guidelines from the For the Strength of Youth book. The first couple is Edward and Bella. They are breaking the "Serious Dating" kind of rule thingy. They can't get enough of each other and spend way too much time single dating and need to start group dating. Our second couple is Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro. Their dancing is too suggestive and Napoleon needs to tone it down a bit. The third couple is Hannah Montana and Lola. They dance great, but their costumes are inappropriate. The final couple is Molly Mormon and Peter Priesthood. They do everything perfectly and Molly even gets to count this as a Value Project for Personal Progress! It has been great fun working with Jill and Emily on camp stuff! I cannot wait to go! I am going to be teaching a class. One of the Gospel classes on Word and Language and Charity and Spirit. I need some good ideas for an activity to do with the girls so it isn't just me talking for an hour. And we go in less than 3 weeks! Crazy!

Broken Foot

So, yesterday at about 2:30, I was bringing the garbage can from outside. For those of you unfamiliar with our door, it requires serious strength to close and open. In order to get it completely closed, it must be SLAMMED! So, the phone rings, I pick it up, it was Jill, the YW Pres... I start chatting with her and go to close (slam) the door shut and for some reason my foot was in the way. It hurt like crazy... kind of like stubbing your toe. I was brilliant on the phone. I am pretty sure Juill had no idea that anything even happened! And that was all I thought it was at first. I thought I had a little stubbed pinkie toe. I was cut a little so I put a band-aid on it. As the afternoon went on I was thinking, I definitely broke my little toe. So I called my Mom and Vicki to find there is absolutely nothing to be done with a broken toe. When Justin came home he tried to assess the situation... he barely touched it and I screamed! I have an extremely HIGH threshold for pain, so this scream surprised both of us. He told me to move my toes. I could only move 2. Then he asked me to move my foot. Wasn't happening. So this morning, went to the doctor, got a couple of x-rays, had a ride in a wheel-chair and found out that I have to wear a big air-boot for a little while. Just a minor fracture. May have to get another x-ray next week... but I will live. I wish my story were a little more exciting or even entertaining... but nope. Just a boring old door slam. And my first broken foot, ever!

What excites me?

Cookies. Chocolate chip cookies excite me. The smell. The taste. The texture. I will eat almost any chocolate chip cookie. I really will. Even like the store bought Keebler cookies. They don't have to be fresh baked, although, fresh baked excites me even more. Having diabetes kinda puts a damper on the whole cookie eating thing. My friend, Vicki likes cupcakes. No, she LOVES cupcakes. I think cupcakes are nice. I can take or leave a cupcake. But a cookie... I just can't leave it alone. I can resist sugar cookies. I can resist snickerdoodles, and gingersnaps, and oatmeal lace, and molasses, and even chocolate crinkles... but there is something about a chocolate chip cookie that I just cannot resist. If there is one in my vicinity, I cannot just let it stay there without being eaten. There is something about a chocolate chip cookie. When you take a bite into it, you have the texture of the cookie accompanied by this explosion of chocolate that can only be provided by the chip. That melt in your mouth sensation of the chocolate chip is unparalleled. My mouth smiles when I take a bite of that special combination of eggs and sugar and flour... I love cookies. Any and all cookies. I really will eat any cookie that is put in front of me... but the chocolate chip cookie is what really excites me.

When will it be over?

A week of Spring break has passed. I think I am done. I have had it with the children. There has been so much drama in this house you would think we were on a set of Days of Our Lives. Having a tweenage girl is really getting old. Of course, there are days when she is wonderful and helpful and fun! But when you put her little brother into the mix, it is just the worst of all possible scenarios. I remember when they would play so well together, making forts and playing house and school. Now it is just fight, fight, fight. I wish I knew there were an end in sight, but it doesn't seem like that will ever happen. She also is constantly complaining about not having anyone to play with. Who can we invite over? When can we invite them? Ummm, how about you be grateful I don't lock you in your room all by yourself for the entire week and go play outside with the neighborhood kids? But the neighborhood kids are brats and way too sophisticated for their own good. And not sophisticated in a good way, either. They know too much and I don't like it. Why can't my kids just play nice?

Easter

I did not have the time or patience to get pictures before church... and by the time I got the camera out, the baskets were already taken apart... But at least there are pictures of the Easter dresses for posterity. Right?

My cousin Nicole introduced me to cute artwork that is girlie and adorable! Take a look at Tollipop!

Miss Vicki should be Auntie Vicki!

Hilton wants me to go to his field trip to the zoo. I don't want to. I have had a headache since Sunday and there is no way I am going to put myself through that torture. When I shared this with him he asked if Justin would go. I told him Justin has to work. So then he asked if Miss Vicki could go with him... What? I guess that is his order of importance... Mom, Papa, Miss Vicki. I hope the Waihi's don't mind that my kids consider them as important as their parents! We love them like family. I did not know my kids felt the same way!