Cairo is Running for Class President

The elections are this week. Cairo is allowed 2 posters so she is hanging them up today. Good luck Cai!

We just returned from one of the funnest trips we have had as a family. While we have traveled to many wonderful and beautiful places around the world, we all agree that Lake Powell is one of the most breathtakingly beautiful places on earth. Great thing is, it's only 3 hours from home and we have incredible family that invites us to share their comfortable houseboat.
What more could we ask for...Good food, good fun, great company, perfect weather and beauty surrounding us day and night. There was loads of laughs and fun cousins and friends for the kids to play with. Late nights shooting the breeze with friends and family. My kind of vacation.

The Wondertwins Get Baptized

It's hard to believe these two little guys are getting so grown up. We had a great day, shared with friends and family on Saturday, June 4. Charlie and Jack were baptized. We had a house full of people who have loved them from the moment they were conceived and have grown even more crazy about them since. They are at such great ages. Different personalities and interests but still best friends.
Thanks to everyone who has helped to shape their lives this far!

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.

Cairo Performs...Always...But Officially in the School Play

Remember those Saturday morning shows we all loved to watch..I'm Just a Bill sitting here on Capital Hill...
They were little vignettes that were shown between cartoons. Learning about the use of nouns, verbs and punctuation was part of my Saturday morning TV.
The South Elementary School did a musical this week that was called School House Rock. They covered many of those old time favorites.
Cairo was part of the cast and did a fabulous job.

FAT TUESDAY DINNER

Our Fat Tuesday dinner menu...for info on how to create these fun, chalkboard place mats check out www.dollar3eighty.com