Fun with the Family!

I love my family!  And I love that it is always a party and a huge gathering when my parents come to down!  Everyone always makes their way to St. George and we love it!  This happened to be on the baptism weekend but it's like this every time and it's the best! 

I planned a little craft for the kids (matt's included) that I saw on pinterest.   Designing their own ceramic plates!  Here are Micah and Matt planning their designs.

ALL THE PLATES... Sealing them in the oven!  It was a fun little project!

Grandpa and Brock just chillin'!

Brock is a climber and got stuck up here during our plate making... we heard crying coming from the playroom and found him stuck on Halie's doll station!

Braxton kicking Brock in the head.. J/K  These two are little buddies... they were so cute walking all around!

The girls.. matching again!  I found them these cute little shorts and they just had to wear them!  They are too fun!

At Texas Roadhouse with the whole family! We are quite the crowd!  It was my dad's birthday so we had to celebrate... what better way than..

making him ride the saddle!  He was a good sport... I think he was horrified!  But he gave us all a good laugh!  Love my dad!  Happy Birthday!

COUSIN TIME!

With Marc and Janelle living far away it is now even more special when we get everyone together!  We had to get a picture of all these cute little cousins... Micah was still in beaver but here are the rest of the cousins!

Braxton, Brock and McRae

Brock and McRae

Halie, Millie and Ruthie (notice Ruthie and Halie are matching.. always!  Millie is malled by these two girls!

Trying to get all three to smile at the same time.. impossible!

Love these cute cousins! SUCH A FUN WEEKEND!

WEEK at GRANDMA AND GRANDPAS!

 I have the BEST PARENTS EVER!  My kids are pretty lucky in the grandparent department!  Right after Micah's Baptism weekend my parents loaded Micah and Halie into their car and they took them back to California for the week!  And boy did they have fun!  I couldn't keep up with all their fun activities!  Here are some phone pics my mom sent me during the week!  THANKS MOM AND DAD!  My kids are already talking about next year!

 Cupcake wars! (I heard Halie's were pretty tasty considering she licked the knife after each spread!)

 At the Beach!

March Airforce Base

March Airforce base.. they missed this last year so they were so excited to go see all the planes this year!

The Mall!  Eating Pretzels!

My mom made this doll house so cute with wall paper and got the cutest little dolls  for it!  Halie obviously in heaven!

At Great Grandma/pa McRae's House!

My mom carried on the tradition of taking each Kindergartner school shopping!  Here is her outfit!  Halie is a little difficult to shop with my mom learned!

Cup cake wars

Making homemade Jam

More Jam!

FUNNEST WEEK OF THE SUMMER!

Micah's Baptism DAY!

My little family... all ready for the baptism!

My dear friend TENNILLE and I made all these 8 Cookies for the baptism!  They were so cute and yummy!  Amber and Tennille are the best friends EVER!  They got all the food and drinks ready while the baptism was going!  They set it all up so nicely!  What would I do without them?

Micah playing "When I am baptized"  he did such a nice job!  I was proud of him.  He played it all the way through once and then the cousins sang the second time through

The Rosell Cousins.  I feel so lucky to live in St. George!  It is so fun living next to my cousins!  So glad cute little Ruthie was here to sing too!

The Arrington Family!

The Smith Family

The Spencer's!  THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP!

The man of the HOUR!  So glad they came... did I not get a pic of you four?  Maybe it's on the other camera...

The Anderson Family

Matt and Becky

The Micah's... a year or two ago Little Micah was debating on who should baptize him and her thought that Uncle Micah should since they had the same name!  It made Jeff a little worried.  Good thing when it came down to it Micah picked his dad!  But Uncle Micah if Jeff hadn't of made it you were totally next on the list! Ha!

The "It's Great To be 8"

Micah's a pretty lucky boy!  3 of his 4 teachers came to his baptism.  I have pics of his preschool teacher but on my other camera... I'll post those later!  HE HAS SERIOUSLY HAD THE BEST SCHOOL TEACHERS EVER!  Love his teachers!  Mrs. Turnbeaugh (2nd grade)  Ms. Webster (1st grade)

Cleaning up!  It was a perfect day!  Love all these kids!

The Hyde Family.  So glad Jeff's parents came!

The McRae Family

Micah decided he wants to get baptized again!  He scored big time!

It was a lovely day ... thanks to all who came and all who helped!

Haispray with the Girls!

I am so glad I live where I live!  I am lucky to have two cousins and a sister in law close by!  Cara had tickets to hairspray and it just so worked out that we could all go!  What a fun night!  The show was awesome and it was so fun to go out with no kids!  So glad and lucky to have family close!

Setting up for the Baptism...

I have the best mom, sister and sister in laws ever!  They were troupers helping make my vision come to life the night before the baptism!  It was alot of work with 6 kids under the age of 5 running around!  But we got it all set up and it turned out darling!

The banner in the back had the words It's Great to be 8 added to it the next morning.  Micah's handwritten testimony was my favorite decoration!

Center pieces.  The table covering was brown mailing paper so the kids could color on it with the crayons while eating.

The program

Entry table

The program