Party Party

We were able to go and see some family 2 weekends ago. Mark's brother farewell was that weekend. He is now in the MTC. (I can't believe he's that old. He was almost 11 when I first came into the family). It was really fun to see them all and catch up.

I have a sister that is getting married and so we got together to go dress shopping with her. It was fun, but do to some unfortunate events were not able to see too many dresses with her :(. However, we did meet up at Jamie and Michelle's. We did get to see Lisa, but her kids were sick and we missed Bryce. So we ended up eating lunch with everyone else and Betsy made a darling cake for Lissie for her birthday. Here it is. She was in absolute heaven. We have been counting down for her birthday since Brigham's. When everyone started to sing to her she just grinned and grinned. See her birthday was actually the next day, so she was stoked.

Here she is. She also wanted to go dress shopping. We were going to leave as it was getting later and we had to do supper and baths and bed so the kids would be good for the next day and it was suppose to snow and be icy. (Our van does terrible in those conditions). Well she was so bummed not to be able to go to the dress appointment, as that is where we were originally going before lunch. So I talked Mark into driving to the dress shop and staying in the car with the boys for 15-20mins while we saw Betsy in a couple of dresses and she got to try on a flower girl dress. He agreed.

Here she is with Aunt Betsy and Mykenzie. She loved it. She started to dance and twirl with Mykenzie. She said "I'm doing balet." And she had pretty good form with it too! Those girls were cute. We only wish Sophie was there to twirl with them. I had to pull her away from the dresses and leave, much to her dissapointment. We had so much fun seeing all that we were able to see. And Lissie enjoyed being around lots of girls.
The next day we had Jon's farewell. It was really nice to hear his testimony and I think he's pretty excited to go.

It was also lissie's birthday! After the festivities we made a cake and sang to her. Here we are making her castle cake!

And here she is blowing out the candels. She was really lucky to have 2 parties and she was spoiled by everyone. Thanks! It made it special for her.

Alex has officially finished basketball for the season. He made one basket the 2nd to last game and was really close to making some baskets the last game. He is pretty good at it and really enjoys it. He's good at defense and defending and rebounding and dribbling. I enjoyed watching him. (Brigs and Lissie got a little bored though :)).

Here he is trying to shoot the ball. His coaches were trying to get him to shoot since he usually passes.

And here he is dribbling. What a fun season.