Girls and Jim head home

This is the last of our super busy weekend. Jim and the girls both flew home today. I took Jacob and Hailey to Mom's Hailey went with mom to Valerie's Vacation bible school presentation, My dad was nice enough to keep Jacob with him at the house so I just had Benners with me to get the girls on the Plane.

While we waited on the plane the girls took Ben on the moving sidewalk over and over again. He thought it was great. It's always really hard for me to let them go home. I get to spend such little time with them, and I'm very selfish and want to keep them with me.

Benners was not happy when they got on the "fly" as he calls airplanes. But he sat there and waived Bye Bye until the plane pulled out of sight. We will miss them very much.

By the time we got back to mom and dad's house, Dad and Jacob had taken Jim to the airport to catch his flight too. Then I ran home mom helped me get everyone ready for church and a quick lunch and then we ran to church. Is so great watching Hailey be presented to the ward, and when the girls sang their song again I felt kind of bad for the other moms because Hailey was so close to the Microphone she was the only one you could hear. But she sounded great.

Baptism food prep

Mom came over to help us make food for Hailey's baptism party. Hailey really wanted to make 8 shaped sugar cookies, so Grandma Jammie made us a batch of sugar cookie dough and mom and i rolled it out and Hay & mom cut them out. I'm not sure what we did wrong but no matter what we tried they either fell apart or stuck to the cookie sheet. So it didn't make Hay very happy but we had to scrap the cookies. We still made chocolate chip cookies and Hailey's other request was cheese balls. Hailey & Jacob really wanted to help so they both got to help with cheese balls and cookies.

I enlisted the big girls help Cyndi pitched in, but Shell wasn't feeling well I'm not sure if it was a gluten attack or the stomach yuck that's going around my family, but either way we let her sleep on the couch.

My girls

I love my nieces. My brothers girls come and visit us every summer for the last 4 years and the kids and I love the time with them.

Jacob crawled up and was snuggling with shell and i told him to stop cause he was my boy. So with that sinister smile he says to me "nope I'm Shell's boy" little stink


Ben loves anything electronic so when Cyndi lou had her game boy out Ben was right there in her lap.

Girls Night out.

We got a rare chance tonight to have a Welch's girls night out. The only one that was missing was Valerie but She was a little too young for the movie we went to see so she stayed home with her Daddy.


Me, Mom, Hailey & Sam, Cyndi, Shell.



We went to Cheese cake Factory for dinner which use to be one of my favorites but since the Celiacs I hadn't been there. Well it came out to be somewhat difficult for Shell and I. Have I mentioned my oldest niece has found out she has celiacs too? Well anyway ALL of there salad dressings have gluten in them, so we ended up having Burgers with no buns. Having Celiacs sucks but I can't imagine how hard it is to have it and be 14. And having to constantly be the odd one in the group saying oh I can't have that. But she's a strong girl and the one good thing is she found out early in life so she isn't as set in her ways as I am so she can get on a better diet.

Hay taking pictures with Grandmas phone.



I know I'm silly, but I asked one of the Movie theater people to take our picture. Who knows when we'll have a chance to have a girls night out with all of us. We saw Letters to Juliet which was super cute and I loved. It was a little to big for Hailey she got a little board at points and I would have to shush her but I'm still glad we took her, it was fun to have her there.

My girls

For the past 4 years my brothers girls have come to stay with us for a couple of weeks during the summer. They usually come at the end but I wanted them to be here for Hailey's baptism. So they came at the begining of the summer. They were so tired from getting up early, driving to denver to catch the plane, so after dinner the layed down on the couch's and both crashed and fell asleep. So like the good Aunt I am I took pictures of them and posted them on Face book.