The After Party

Tersa said not to worry about the cake. Just make one to bring to the pool. Maybe a Nothing Bundt Cake? But, Joel wanted to order one.

Cool huh? I provided the trophy on top and asked for the gold lettering, which looked as though they had melted down some metal and used it to write with. I was impressed!

They had a lot of fun at this part of the party too. We always feel so blessed that our girls have good kids to be around. Not perfect ones, but good!!

Tersa, Chase Peterson, Crawford Gates, Hannah & Gabby Spendlove, Emerald Hunsaker,

Bree Robinette and Mardi.

Krista Richardson, Jocelyn Cole, Kori Buchheister and Elyssa Cuenca

Robert Richardson, Tyler Schott, Abbi Brewer

and Ruby Hunsaker

Shinara & Mathias Baptism

Shinara was very excited about the dress we found. It fills out when she turns around. Shinara doesn't like dresses and this was the first time I ever saw her really excited about one. And she was beautiful in it.

There were three Barber cousins born in 2003 and we had talked about doing their baptisms together. It worked out to do Mathias and Shinara together and I am so pleased that it did. I am grateful that his family drove all the way down here. It made this event very special.

These are the men that were in Shinara's confirmation circle, minus Dan Hill who had to leave before we started taking pictures.

Ron Hahn (Mathias' Grandpa), Uncle Randy Hahn, Ben Wellborn, Joel, Bishop Brent Hellewell, Shinara, Kalvin Hone, Tom Cole and President Kyle Peterson.

Since Tersa's baptism, I have gotten the same cake design for each of the girls. They would choose their favorite colors. But, Costco doesn't have that design anymore. I chose these simple cakes because it looked like the sunday clothes they might wear to their baptism. So cute since there would be two cakes.

Band BBQ

Can you find her?

She's in the front...by the flag girl.

Last week Mardi was at Band Camp from 8-12 in the morning and again from 5-9 pm everyday. This past week was a bit easier since they only went M-W from 4-9 pm. And today they had a "BBQ" for the families of the band members. Aunt Cami, Aunt Lindsay, Uncle Randall and Cousins Garron and Mathias were all here. (Aunt LeAnn's plane was delayed so she didn't make it.) It was fun to have extra family members in town for this. Mardi was glad they were here to see her play.

Big Boo-boo

Evidently she was sitting on the couch and suddenly launched herself over the armrest. It just so happened that she landed on the sharp edge of our tiled stairs. Not a lot of blood, pretty good gash though. You can't really see it in this picture because I used liquid bandaid on it. It's the yellow stuff. Works like a charm. It has antiseptic in it and you just paint it on. Much better than trying to get a bandage on it and get her to leave it there. (Or having it stay while she slept.) It looks like it will scar but we can't really tell how badly. Could have been so much worse.

17th Anniversary

This is where we went for our 17th anniversary. We enjoyed our time alone together. We went to a nice place in the hotel for dinner. And then we went to see Harry Potter 7 part two. Yes, I'd seen it but Joel hadn't. He didn't want to watch Captain America in 3D and I was more than happy to see it again.Having said that, let me warn you not to stay in this hotel. Check in took much longer than I felt it should have. We had a suite on the 11th floor that faced the pool and the music pulsated and blared loud enough to make watching t.v. unpleasant. The pool closed at 7 and the music stopped then. The walls of the rooms must be paper thin because we could hear everything going on out in the hall (at all hours of the night) and also, the people in the adjoining room. (Who tried more than once to open the door between the two rooms. The last time was at 2:30 am.) I got the worst nights sleep in months. Pass it on.