Friday, April 25, 2014

Easter and Days off of school

Since I'm still playing cath-up, I thought I'd share some pictures from Easter Sunday, and some days that we had off of school, when we visited the Salt Lake Temple Grounds, and had a picnic at the Gilgal Sculpture Garden, and enjoyed a beautiful spring day!
Sure was beautiful!
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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Afton is 16!!

Afton turned 16 on President's Day this year...which meant NO SCHOOL! She had a surprise birthday breakfast, with about 10 of her friends. We had cinnamon rolls, and chocolate chip pancakes, and they all had a good time visiting with each other.
After her friends left, we opened presents, and got ready...
to go to the Grizzlie's Hockey Game...which was packed! Who knew! It was our first time at a hockey game. We had a good time, but it wasn't as exciting as some hoped it would be.
We then headed up to Midway for the Ice Castles...it was supposed to last a lot longer, but since we haven't had a very wintry winter, it was going to be the last day. We stood in line for what felt like hours! It might have been only 90 minutes, but it was still long, and then the snow went down, and it was cold!
The ice castles were really pretty. The big highlight was getting their pictures with Anna and Elsa from "Frozen", but I'm not sure where those pictures went! It was fun! We were glad we got the opportunity to go.
We had a fun day celebrating Afton's 16th Birthday! I can't believe how fast time has gone by, and what a beautiful, smart, wonderful young lady Afton is. She has determination. She has a testimony. She makes herself giggle, and us too! And I'm so glad I am blessed to be her mother.
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Tender Mercies and The Prom

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Do you know that Heavenly Father hears and answers your prayers? And blesses you in ways you didn't even think of? Well, I do. I know He answers our prayers, no matter how silly in the whole scheme of life, they are. Kate was asked by Jordan Jenkins to go to this year's Prom, he is the Student Body Historian, which is really fun, since she is Senior Class Historian. He filled her car with balloons, and had the letters of his name, in them. With a poster with "PROM?" It was really vute. They stole her keys from her bag, during their student government class. She thought I already knew, since I was at the school subbing that day, but I had no idea! Heavenly Father answers our prayers, even when we think he doesn't. Jordan was recently called to serve in the Toronto Canada Mission, CHINESE speaking, he leaves sometime this summer. They had a group of only 2 couples, but they had a really good time. They had pizza on the golf course, then drove to Provo, and did a rope's course. They then went to Ikea, and did some version of hide and seek. They didn't get home until about 5:30, and left again around 6:45. Kate found her beautiful dress at a local store called "My Best Friend's Closet", they sell both new and used clothes. We had another beautiful dress, but it was white, and not "poofy", not what she wanted, so we decided it would be fun to go and look, and we were blessed with a very tender mercy. They had some dresses, outside, that we saw first, she saw this one, and loved it. It was marked $150.00, not bad, I guess, but still...there were other dresses out there that were marked $10.00, we took all of the dresses she liked, and some she didn't, and took them in, to try them on. We were then also directed to the brand new dresses, which she looked at, but really had her eye on that raspberry sparkly one. She tried on the raspberry sparkly one, and it fit beautifully! It was also altered a little bit, to be more modest. She loved it! She tried on other dresses, but she already knew she found the one! The one was only $10.00!! There were some beads that were pulled off, and the extra piece, on the back, to make it more modest, was coming loose, but those things we knew we could fix, and for $10.00, we figured she could change her mind if she wanted...but she didn't. She was happy with it, and it is beautiful!! Another tender mercy...we'd been looking for shoes, nothing was quite what we were looking for, until we stopped at Wal-Mart one day, there were some silver sparkly ones, but they were a kids size 6, she tried them on anyway...they fit! $7.00, on clearance. We are blessed. We decided we could splurge on hair, so I bought extentions, and clipped them in, with the help of a professional,we had them blended in, and she looks so beautiful with long hair (with short hair too, but long hair really is nice!) I spent a lot of time fixing those beads on her dress, putting extentions in, stressing out, and in the end, it was all worth it. She had a wonderful night and looked like a million dollars, though really I know it's her inner beauty shining through. She is the hardest worker I know. She has such integrity, she is kind, thoughtful, and always willing to help. She is wonderful, and amazing. They hold the Prom, at the Capitol Building in Salt Lake.
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