Sam's Wedding

Cousin Sam got married. We kicked him out of the cool cousin club.

One day I'll take the time to learn how to rotate this but that day is not today.
but.
In between Sam's wedding breakfast and the ceremony we found a great way to pass the time in our church clothes!

We were the best dressed ones there.

My favorite people.

Conference Weekend

I made a new friend and she is my new favorite person.

She's as short as me!!!!!!!!

 Amazing.

 We went to a friend's cabin for the weekend- it was great! And we even went for a walk in the afternoon, I am turning into my mom :)

AAAAnnnnnndddd...... my dad bought a new bread maker, because his old one leaks a little bit. so they gave the old one to me! So now, I am going to make bread all the time until I get as good as it as my parents are. Mmmmmm.

March is for birthdays

 Abbi's was birthday #1- Ell made tots delish cupcakes and then Abbi beat up all the boys.

Another day Abbi and I went on a hike- it was..... wellllll... we slipped on ice and mud. a lot. Adventure!!!!

Happy Easter

~Butter Lamb~
Every year my mom makes this butter lamb. I was so excited I started looking forward to it a week ago.
I got to make it this year!

 I love butter lamb. 

 Easter party and these 3 ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ all have birthdays so we sang and they blew out candles. (Then an argument broke out from all the other March birthdays and then there was a fight for the bowl of trifle)  
I love all of these people :)

Later....the cousins had our annual home run derby. 

My favorite quote of the night was Will: (Ty came and sat on the bleachers. He was being his cute 3 year old self and started cheering for Will [6]). Will was on second base and he very nicely said, "Ty, dude, I gotta keep my head in the game so I need you to stop cheering for me." 

Then Ty cheered for me instead. Perfect.

Why I love Ellen and Abbi

We dyed Easter Eggs!

aaaannnnnnddddd Happy Birthday today Mom!

Gawkability

Went to Arizona to go visit friendles. First stop: Korean BBQ. yum. but mostly just cool.  We cooked out own meat, and despite Mary's fears, none of us got food poisoning from under-cooked meat.

Painting Day! It only took a whole day of shopping and broken down cars to finally get to paint :)  Katie painted a peacock and the finished product is UHMAYZING.

Sedona. GORGEOUS. Some people who were just setting up to paint these rocks took our picture. Very artistically I might add.

I love it here

The lady at the ranger station told us which hikes to go on. She said they have great gawkability from the get-go.

She did not lead us astray, the views were 360 degree beautifulness.

My new best friend
he lives by Katie's front door

Mesa Temple

Until we meet again Arizona.

Halloween

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 this is out of order but Nikki was just so excited about her sucker from A&W kids meal. You don't even know.  (p.s. I feel like getting woopie cushions really excited is always a little sketchy, don't want to get them too excited).

just making rootbeer in our bathtub looking like a witch. the fog was flowing out of the bathroom. it rocked.

roommates: Nikki (woopie cush), Becky (Jackie kennedy w/o the hair), Liz ( i just can't find her), the scariest robber you'll meet.

why i ever thought this costume was a good idea is beyond me.

the queen of hearts and a mad scientist

maybe i bought a baby shirt and maybe i stapled the bottom and maybe i painted a dollar sign on it and maybe i filled it with socks.

soccer players! their costume is very believable.

roommate liz and her sister.

hard day.

i don't know how to rotate it but this is us at the end of the night, being all hyped up on Nikki's AMAZING homemade rootbeer. mmmmmmmmmmmm.