Happy Birthday to me

Zannie made the cake, Andrew the frosting

The Candle is a do over from Gr. obray b-day. It is an emergency candle our ward handed out for Mothers Day. We were desperate.

Today I am 35. I'm getting soooo old. This weekend has been exhausting. My Grandma Obray and my B-days are a day apart. Grandma turned 80 this year so we had a big party for her at my house. It was meant to be in the backyard. We spent all morning getting it set up. Big white umbrellas,bright festive tables and decorations,Frank Sinatra playing in the background. It was a beautiful morning. The wind kicked up about an hour before the party blowing away all of our hard work. Needless to say the party was relocated inside. There was about 60 people squished inside. We still had a great time. Grandma has some great friends and neighbors. You can see why I was actually looking forward to my b-day this year because even though we had a great time, it meant the stress of the party was over. Zannie and Andrew wanted to make me a cake. Yellow cake with chocolate frosting, my favorite! They asked if we should play games and I said YES! I told them my favorite game was mom lays in bed all day and the kids and husband clean the house. Thats not what they wanted to hear. Oh well I tried. Heidi, Paul, and Gracie are staying for a few days. I can't get enough of Gracie. She is hilarious. This has been a fun quiet relaxing day. Happy birthday to me!

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Does it seem like we have a-lot of dances around here? We do! Zannie was invited to Las Vegas High School Junior Prom by a friend of hers Ryan. She was very excited to go since she hadn't made it to Dixie High Prom. We spent all of Saturday preparing for the dance. We hit the MAC counter at Fashion Show Mall for makeup and eyelashes next was to our favorite hairdresser Colette for hair then on to the chop shop for nails and toes. We made it to my nieces house with moments to spare for the pickup. They had dinner and dancing at a friends,Gondola ride at lakes of Las Vegas,and watching 50 first dates to round off the night. Fun Times. My little baby girl has grown up too fast. Time flies when your having fun!

With our powers combined

Dixie High has a dance called El Cheapo. Girls or boys can ask and usually the one asked has to pay. So its a mad rush to ask someone so you don't have to pay. The point is to go on a date for as cheap as possible.{hence the name} The theme this year was superheros. Andrew and his date Annie were Captain Planet. Zannie and her date Kadin made up their own. Zan was Zan-da-man and Kadin was fadin kadin. They had some fun cheap dates. Andrew went skimboarding at the river and Zannie and her group went to Zions for a hike. They both did fast food for dinner. Pretty cheap, but fun. The pictures are my favorite. We were rollin on the ground at Andrews.

Good times

Sorry another bad picture. Zannies cell phone this time. There is a joke in our family now that I will take a picture of anything and blog it. Zannie walked by Andrew and his friend Will a minute ago playing risk and told them to watch out that I might come and take a picture of it. Ha ha she's hilarious isn't she! Shes my favorite daughter (and only might i mention) in the whole world. :D <------ zannie just added that last little tidbit. I asked her what the D was. Am I the only one that didn't know that was a smiley face. So anyways back to the picture. Grandma bought us a tree for our backyard to make it pretty for her party. We needed a few stakes to hold it in place and the twins were forced to come with me since Andrew and I had just been at the phone store and we picked Zan up at work. Zan decided she needed to sit in the wagon and text, so Andrew and I took turns pulling her. On one of my turns she decided she would use the point of the stake to draw happy faces on my bum. It is quite a large canvas and she was able to fit quite a few. Good times. Sorry if I'm rambling tonight Jeff has worked till 11pm all week I'm lacking in adult conversation. Love ya.

Funny Garrett

Garrett and I were on a hunt for a backpack today since his is falling apart. I can't believe how hard backpacks are to find this time of year. The wheels in his brain are always turning. Here are a couple of our conversations.

Mom: "Oh look there's Kohls, they will have backpacks"

Garrett: " No No not Kohls"

Mom: "Garrett I'm sure they'll have backpacks"

Garrett: "I'll believe it when I see it except for Jesus I'll believe it without seeing it"
{by the way kohls does NOT have backpacks right now}

Conversation 2

Garrett: "Mom who made up Santa Clause"

Mom: "I don't know Garrett"

Garrett: "Did they make it up just to hurt kids feelings when they found out it wasn't real?"

Mom: stunned, didn't know how to respond.

P.S. Mom and Candice I know I have a ton of grammar mistakes, please try to ignore them.
Hair by Zannie

Working 9 to 5

On Easter weekend every year St. George has an arts festival downtown in the Historic District. Since the place Zannie and I work is in this area we always end up working. Its a fun weekend and the store is always packed. Hayden and Garrett had the opportunity to run the shave ice booth. You would have thought they had died and gone to Heaven. They probably would have done it for free, but Tiffany paid them and they got free candy and soda. I included a picture of Andrew working at his job Hungry Howies. Don't be decieved by his face in this picture he actually does like his job. Sorry the pictures are so bad I used my Camera phone. It was all I had with me and I had to capture the moment. I'm not a true blogger yet I don't carry my camera everywhere I go.