A New Calling

I have been officially called as the 2nd counselor in the Young Women's in my ward.  We had our first class activity and worked on Personal Progress.  At the end of the activity, I received these pictures on my phone. 

Apparently while I was being quite focused on our objective, the girls were having fun with their phones.  

Go Beehives!

Juanito Bandito

Troy and I went to a play at the Pickleville Playhouse up by Bear Lake. We loved the play and decided to bring our girls back the following week so they could see it too.  The play was called, Juanito Bandito Rides Again.  Pretty funny story and the main character, Juanito, was hilarious.  The girls liked him too.  In fact, they had me buy them mustaches during the intermission so they could look like him.

We snagged him after the show for a family pic.

Grandma and Grandpa went to the play too.  Then we headed back to their trailer for some Uno and popcorn.

The next morning, Grandpa and Grandma made us breakfast.  Breakfast with them is never just breakfast.  My girls always get a bit spoiled.  You can see from the order sheet below that the grandparents go WAY above and beyond what I ever do for breakfast.

As you can see, you can pick a flavor for all of your Minney Mouse pancake features.

Here are the results.

Gracie - brown bow, brown eyes, brown nose, orange mouth.

Aeva - brown bow, orange eyes, brown nose, orange mouth.

Maddie - orange bow, brown eyes, brown nose, orange mouth.  

WOW.  Thanks Grandpa and Grandma...you saved them from having plain old circles.  That's my personal specialty - plain circles.  If they are lucky, they get syrup :).

After breakfast, it was off to the craft department.

  Grandma is fantastic at having little crafts for them to do.  By the end, we had 9 different bracelets.

Then the pipe cleaners showed up.  Aeva's interpretation of a bug...or an alien?

That afternoon we headed down to the lake for some Hobo dinners.  I LOVE a good hobo dinner.  I should make them more often!

It was a bit chilly for the first half of our lunch.

Then the sun started to shine and the "self lighting" briquettes were brought out for our s'more feast.

How many matches should it take to burn "self-lighting" briquettes?  It took a whole box...and they still didn't light.  No s'mores for us...at least not until we got back to the trailer and cooked them in the microwave :).

This is our little Juanita Bandita the next morning.  Her mustache was a little crooked from a good nights sleep.

Thanks for a fantastic weekend, everyone!  We hope to be back very soon!

The Cherries and the Dragons

Soccer has started once again for Ms. Aeva.  Her soccer is yet to be year round and she waits and waits for the day when it is HER turn to have a game.  Troy is her coach this year.  During their first practice they decided to think of a team name.  They didn't have their uniforms yet but Aeva thought they should be The Cherries.  Troy told her that if the uniforms were red, that would be a good name.  What were the odds that the uniforms would be red anyway?  

Red it was.  Keep in mind that this is a co-ed team.  All the girls loved the name Cherries.  All the boys...not so much.

The boys decided they should be called the Dragons.  

What to do?  Fans weren't sure what to call them. 

In the end, I think I have decided to call them the Cherry Dragons.  Diplomatic, right?

Everyone seems to be getting on just fine with a variety of names.  In fact, as long as the treat shows up at the end of the game, we can call them about anything we want.

Crazy 8's

Soccer is still in full swing at the Haun House.  Aeva got her latest uniform...seems like there is a popular number at our house.

Might have to start calling them the Crazy 8's.

A Sunday Surprise

Grandpa Gordon and Grandma Carole surprised us by having Sunday dinner up at the nature center. After we ate, Grandpa announced that he had a scavenger hunt for all of us to do.

Grandpa had come up to the nature center earlier that day and taken pictures of objects that he saw along the pathway.  The kids had to go and see if they could find the same objects and mark them off their paper.  My kids LOVE scavenger hunts.

They also got a bag to pick up any garbage that they might find along the way.

Off they went.

Danny isn't sure what he is looking at but Aeva is quite focused on her next object.

We couldn't find this on our scavenger hunt paper but it was a random lady walking around in a unitard type halter top and shorts.  Ohhhhh...how I wish certain things didn't come back "in style."