Friday, April 12, 2024
Basketball
Monday, April 8, 2024
February Fun
We didn't have a very exciting Valentine's Day - just some candy exchanged and ice cream sandwiches. Savannah made some valentines for her school classmates.
Alex and I went on a date night a few days later with friends. After dinner, we played a game with our friends at the local Home Goods store. Between the 4 couples, we drew names. Each couple had to choose and buy something from the store, under $15, for the name we drew. Then we exchanged items, and we each had to prominently display the item in our home for one month. It was pretty funny! We got Alison and Morgan the dog picture that said, "I'm sorry for what I did." We were given a painting of 3 chicks golfing. Kristi and Jason got a golden poodle that they named "Fifi". I think it's now their good luck statue! Donald and Julie weren't too disappointed with their new yard decoration.
Savannah and I had a girls night while the boys went camping. We also were able to give our friend Becca a birthday present (which we had been anxiously holding for a few months after finding it at Costco) - a big Lilo & Stitch Squishamallow.
Jared did a prom-posal for his friend Grace. He rigged up the back of our car, so that when she opened it, confetti popped out at her. She responded with a cute Goldfish and Swedish Fish acceptance. They'll head to church prom the end of April.
Surprise Party!
We had a superbowl party at Sam and Audrey's house on Sunday evening. Somehow I only took a picture of the food and Mama Kelce's cookies that night. Audrey put together a Taylor Swift game / questionnaire, which was fun to do while watching the game.
I headed back home on Monday afternoon (arrived Saturday afternoon), so it was a short trip, but well worth it!
Savannah's First Temple Trip
Band Concert
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Savannah's Birthday Party
We had Savannah's ocean-themed birthday party the third Saturday in January. It's not uncommon for us to have the December birthday parties in January, since we're always too busy during the holidays. It was planned to be at our home, but we moved it to the church gym at the last minute due to rain. It turned out to be a good move, since we had a lot more space for the party.
We set up a craft area on the stage where the girls painted treasure chests. They got some sparkly marble magnets in their treasure chests.
We set up a table on one end of the gym for lunch and cake. I made the cake, with some fun shell chocolates and sour strips to look like corral. The inside of the cake was a couple layers of blue. I made homemade rolls, with red food coloring, for crab rolls. I used blue food coloring in the frog-eyed salad. We also had blue jello with gummy ocean candy and whipped cream. I attempted to cut a watermelon to look like a shark. We also had goldfish and some veggies. All the food was pretty yummy!
We had plenty of space to do some games in the gym. They played with balloons. We did crab walk, which Savannah won. We did hot potato with a squishy toy that looked a little like a puffer fish. Another game was a dolphin relay race, hurdling over mini waves. We did a "save the sea turtle" race, digging baby sea turtles out of the paper "dirt" and racing them to the water. They had to dig out all the sea turtles until each wave was filled on a poster board. We also played a candy game - the same one we did with family over Christmas. We brought all the candy and put them in bags. It didn't work as well this time, since they didn't want to trade very much. They all took home some candy. (No money in this game.) Our last activity was a Lego building challenge, where they had 10 minutes to build an ocean-themed Lego creation.
It turned out to be a fun party! Twelve of her friends were able to make it, and everyone seemed to have a good time. It was lots of work to get everything ready and clean up though.