Charlie and Jack's Soccer Season

"EYE" Love Drugstore Makeup

I'm a proud DRUGSTORE DIVA. I love playing with makeup and trying new things but I don't want those experiments to break my budget. Walgreens is the place I love to buy new makeup to play with and stay with. Every week Walgreens has a sale on a different brand of cosmetics that offers a buy one get one 50% off. What a great way to try 2 different items and get a deal. I have to say I've kept and continue to use many more of these steals and deals than what I've put away for Halloween.

The eyeshadow shown above is always a deal. $.99 for a compact holding 12 colors! Yes, you read it correctly, under $1. It is such a fun way to try new colors as liners or shadows and they have about 20 different compacts to choose from.

(Another reason to love Walgreens is every other week they offer Coke product 12 packs 4 for $15. On alternating weeks it's Pepsi so stock up on the Coke weeks!)

Sam's Achievments at the end of the School Year

Cairo's 11th Birthday is Celebrated in Royal Style

Cairo's Birthday fell on Easter this year. Since we were celebrating in Salt Lake and Orem with family we postponed her party until the following weekend. That weekend happened to be the wedding event of 2011. The Royal wedding of Will and Kate.
I remember staying up all night to watch the wedding of Charles and Diana hmhm...30 years ago (before the benefits of DVR and TiVo). It is still such a great memory and really takes a girl back to the days when she dreamed of the prince that would someday come along and make her a princess. Cairo invited a few friends to watch the event which I had recorded at 4am that morning. The girls spoke in English accents and made fascinator hats to wear in honor of Kate having made them so popular. When the girls finally got see Kate get out of the car they screamed and began snapping photos of the TV with their cell phone cameras. It was such a laugh. Some of the girls spent the night and awoke to English scones and juice for breakfast.

I had downloaded some official photos of the wedding and had them printed at a 1 hour photo shop and decorated the walls with them. They turned out to be the highlight of the party. Each girl wanted to take a few home. They also were sent home with an English Tea cup that had a cupcake (wedding cake) inside to enjoy later that day.
My hope is that Cairo and her friends will always remember watching this wedding with friends and celebrating, laughing, and screaming together at the beauty of the bride and the tradition of the monarchy in England. It was really memorable.

Cairo as Sally Ride in the Wax Museum

Every year the 5th Grade does a Wax Museum where the students portray an individual who has impacted history. Cairo was Sally Ride. After a week of preparation we finally were able to enjoy the exhibit. The process was that when you went up to a "wax figure" you would snap or clap your hands and they would come alive and speak as that individual.