Emma's hero

Emma absolutely idolizes one of my Young Women, Kimberlee. She says that Kimberlee is her "best friend" and always talks about how Kimberlee is going to teach her how to be a cheerleader (yes, she's already started on that). Well, Kimberlee is on the diving team for her school so we went to her diving meet on Thursday. Emma now wants to be a diver. I'm telling you, she LOVES Kimberlee.

Kimberlee is so good with Emma. At her meet, she was showing Emma how to roll out for a dive on the ground. It was so cute!! I did get some pictures of Kimberlee diving but I promised I wouldn't post them on the blog....so here's a picture of her from church. I am so glad that I have such amazing YW to be a good example for my daughter. Thank you girls!! LOVE YA!!

Holy COW!!!

Today for Emma's preschool, we went on a field trip to a local dairy farm. We took my niece, Kaela, with us and the kids had a blast! Emma and Kaela were really funny in the car on the way there because they were playing the "my Mommy" game. For instance, Kaela would say, "My mommy says that......(insert wisdom from a 4 year old)" and Emma would reply, "Well, MY Mommy says......(insert wisdom from a 3 year old)". It was pretty funny to listen to.

Anyway, the farm was actually really cool. It is one of the largest dairy farms in the world with close to 12,000 cows. All us moms were AMAZED by the milking machines. All the cows get milked 2-3 times a day and each one produces about 12 gallons of milk. The kids didn't quite understand what the machine was for but I thought it was pretty darn amazing.

The best part was a tractor ride for everyone! Everyone piled on a trailer with hay bales and we got the grand tour of the farm. I never realized how much work goes into a gallon of milk. I was also amazed at how clean everything was. They really work hard to keep the cows as clean as they possibly can. Did you know that the milk is tested for about 50 different things (like diseases and what not) and if ONE thing is found in it that isn't supposed to be there, they dump the whole batch? And I'm not talking about one gallon, I'm talking about 50,000 gallons!!

The kids absolutely LOVED stopping to see the new baby calves. The calves were only a day old and were so cute! Some of the kids got to grab a bottle and try to feed the babies.

I was really impressed with the whole operation! Plus it was really fun for the kids and they were pretty excited to see all the cows.

SURPRISE!!!

I have a new Beehive (one of the girls at church turned 12 so she gets to start coming to Young Women)....HOORAY!!! I wanted to make her first "official" activity memorable so we planned a surprise party for Teryn. I got together with her mom and we worked out a plan to get her to the church for it. Poor Teryn had NO IDEA what was in store. I think she was really embarrased when she walked in and everyone was there (this was right at the beginning when the boys were there too) and we all sang her, "Happy Birthday." Then we kicked the boys out (literally, they were all drooling over the cake) and started the PARTY!!

First, I gave each of the girls a pack of Bubilicious gum and told them to start chewing. They had to put all 5 pieces in at the same time. When they got good and gummed up, I had them say the Young Women's Theme (a theme we say every Sunday that explains the purpose of Young Women's) with their mouths full of gum. I think the best part was hearing everyone slurp up the slobber before it dribbled down their chins. :-)

Then we had a bubble blowing contest with our GIANT wads of gum. Lisa and Sasha were by far the best at it! They both had bubbles that went in their eyes when they popped.

After that, I had each of the girls write down something unique about themselves and put it into a balloon that they then blew up. All the balloons got thrown into the center of the room and kicked around so no one knew where their balloon was. They all got one and had to sit on it to pop it then they had to guess who the balloon belonged to based on the piece of paper inside. They had more fun popping the balloon then anything else we did. They thought it was hilarious!







I had also gotten some punch ball balloons so of course the next item on the list was a punch ball balloon fight!! They went crazy!! Lisa and I fought so hard that our balloons actually popped on us. I couldn't get a really good picture without getting my head wacked!


Last, but certainly not least, we sang to Teryn and had some cake. Since we can't have open flames in the church, I got a battery operated candle and had her "blow" it out. I thought the party turned out really good and I am SO EXCITED to have Teryn get to be with us!! She is really cute and I can't wait to get to know her better and better!

Stuck....in more ways than one

Poor Lucas. He is really trying to get the hang of this crawling thing but Mom and Dad are so mean!! They went and decided to live in a house with tile and wood laminate flooring downstairs. He is really trying his hardest to figure out how to crawl in the forward motion but the floors are too slippery and he ends up scooting backwards. I will be in the other room and hear him freaking out, come back in the front room and he is stuck. He is really good at scooting in between the couch and the wall. It's pretty funny. This morning he got himself stuck under his play pen.

I especially like the food caked around his mouth, don't you?

Mom's been busy...

I saw this cute fabric at the store the other day and thought to myself, "That would be really easy to make into a princess/fairy dress for Emma." It was already gathered and hemmed so all I had to do was close it up and add some ribbon for straps. She thinks it's really cool! Plus, it was REALLY easy.

For anyone wondering....yes I am obessed with sewing now. I'll move on in about a year. Until then.......be prepared for LOTS of posts about sewing.

I am WOMAN, hear me ROAR!!!

So I know that to everyone but me, this looks like a pile of fabric on the floor. However, let me inform all of you that this represents HOURS of labor on my behalf. What is it??? A skirt. That I made ALL BY MYSELF!!!! I know, I know, you can stop all the applause. :-)

I did make a few mistakes but overall, I think it turned out marvelous. By the way, can anyone enlighten me on the trick of sewing in zippers?? That part just about made me come unglued!! I will be making another one again (in a few months when my fingers heal from all the pin pricks) so keep posted for "The Skirt Returns"...

While my pretty one sleeps...

I love it when Lucas falls asleep. He is such an easy baby that all I have to do is lay him down in his crib and he hangs out for a few minutes until he falls asleep on his own (sorry Rachel, I don't know what to tell you). I love it because he and Emma are so used to each other that they will sleep through each other...ie if Emma is upstairs yelling, it doesn't even faze Lucas and if Lucas is fussing, Emma keeps on snoring. He actually gives me hope that there may be more little Osborne's running around here one of these days...