Memorial Day Weekend

We had a fabulouse Memorial Day Weekend! Infact for me, it was one of the nicest, most relaxed trips home I have had in a LONG time! Thanks Mom and Dad Scoresby for the hospitality. We left Friday-late afternoon, as we had to get our van worked on! (Darn cars!) We wanted to just fly home, but the traffic was terrible, and the kids (whose names shall not be named!) kept having to stop and go to the restroom and get a snack and so on and so on. We arrived in Rexburg around 10:30ish. We took Erica-Mikayla's best friend. She was in awe at the Rexburg temple as it sits on the hill as you enter Rexburg. It is a beautiful sight!
Mike and Jen were home, Suz and Brad were home, and Barb was home too-so it was a rockin fun time! We spent the weekend mainly indoors, because it was freakin raining almost the entire time. But it gave us lots of time for Rummy and Ticket To Ride. I pretty much sucked pond water this weekend in the game department, and we wont talk about Mom's highest scoring Rummy game in the history of Rummy-lets just say it was over 700 pts!


It seems that everytime the kids are together they are busy the entire weekend playing one particular thing. This weekend they started a publishing company. I think they called it "Printing Press Express". It was pretty funny. They spent all of their time on grandmas "type writer"-non of them had ever seen one before.


On Sunday we spent the day at my folks house in Idaho Falls. It was a fun day as well. Our kids LOVE playing with their "Idaho" cousins. Mom and Dad planned a big barbeque. Derek and Jess came, Trish and Dustin came and Steve and I and all the kids. It was a belly laughing day for us. If you have never experienced my family, then you are missing out! I laughed for hours straight!

Here is a photo of Mace and Lauren- they spent the entire time in the tree house! They are great little buddies.

The four-wheelers never stop when we are at home!
And the BEST treat of all was seeing my Grandparents. I miss them so much, and it is always so good to get to see them and spend time with them.
Here is a photo of me and my sweet grandpa.


It was a fabulous weekend-it went to fast. If you would like to see more candid shots you will have to visit the Morningside Meanderings, or the Preece Lightning pages.

Part 2 of "In the Leafy Tree Tops"

Mikayla and Erica took baby bird "Sam" back to the church where they found him on Sunday. On Monday after school, Erica calls Mikayla and "Sam" is still alive and is hungry. Erica takes it home and they spend the evening trying to feed him. I am sure Erica's mom is stressed at this point with a squawking baby! BUT starts feeding it cottage cheese-and Sam loves it! Monday night after dance Erica calls again and says that her parents are going to take Sam out of his misery. On Tuesday, Erica jaunts over to our house after school with bucket in hand and inside is baby bird Sam alive and flappin! So the girls feed him bread soaked in water. We decided that we needed to re-name Sam to "Rocky" because he is one little fighter and scrapper. Our bird savers are still working hard!



**Scroll down if you want the first part of the story.

Pigs in the Poke

Huh! There's not much more for me to say, than "huh" and walk away laughing. It was a beautiful afternoon here in Orem Utah. My youngest children were outside playing. Jumping on the tramp as a matter of fact with the sprinklers on-having a dandy time. I could hear their laughter....and then....all of a sudden it is
"Quiet"! Yes, I said quiet- and at my house! So I run to the back yard to give a little check on the kids. Noone was there! Where did they go? So I go to my front yard and hear them laughing at the neighbors house. So I walk over to my next door neighbor Cindy's house and I saw a sight for sore eyes.

***Thoughts running through my head**** What are they doing? I am going to kill them! I do not need this huge mess! GGGGRRRRR! So I slowly turn around, give myself a few minutes to compose myself. Then, I turn back around and smile as I walk towards my house in search of my handy dandy camera.
Here is what I got---



Here is my muddy Megan and Messy Mason and Wild Will! Oh my goodness!

William has the perfect boy yard. He has this huge tree that the boys in the neighborhood go to to make tree houses, forts, golf courses and dig trails for their bikes, army guys- you name it-whatever boys play, they play it there. Will has even started his own fire there in a barbeque pit he made (while his poor mother was getting her appendix out!). Well they had dug this huge hole, and filled it with water and wha-la! MUD POOL=a tempting place for children to have a little summer fun!

I am proud to say, they didnt make a mess of my house, and they had a fabulous time, AND I didn't freak out!

ps- check out the size of the hole and how deep that water is!

In the Leafy Tree Tops

I have this sweet little girl who loves all animals--unfortunately she is allergic to everything so having a pet around is awfully hard. Yesterday her and her friend decided that they were going to do a service project. They walked over to the church and were attempting to water all of the new flowers that were planted on Saturday. While planting they saw this dead bird. A few minutes later they heard some ruffling in the bushes. They went over and looked through the bushes and this is what they found-

Apparently there was not a nest to be found or a mama anywhere. So the little mother that she is, she brought this little baby home. She and Erica were trying so hard to get this little fledgling warm and feed it. I am sure it was just so frightened of them. Mikayla dug up worms (which gross's her out to the max) and chopped and squished as many as she could find. She sent Megs and Mace on a hunt for bugs as well.

She spent the next several hours trying to feed it and save it. Finally she asked me what I thought the percentage of it living would be--I told her not very high, because its mama wasnt around and babies need their mamas. She ran in quickly and researched the internet on everything she should do. In the end, she decided with tears in her eyes that they should take the baby back to where they got it, and hope that the mama wasnt the dead bird and that the mama would come looking for it. Not likely, but she was hopeful.
My poor little girl had to learn a sad lesson. But I am so proud of her. She is a tender hearted little thing. Good job Mikayla and Erica.

Spring Recital

Many of our friends and family have asked us when the girls are dancing locally. Usually I will tell them to come to the "Showcase" but the studio wont be doing the showcase until fall for next season. SO if you would like to come and watch the girlies perform a few of their pieces that they have competed this year. They will be having their Spring Recital this Saturday at 7:30 at Mountain View High School in the Auditorium. You will want to get there early to get a seat. If you would like for me to save you a seat, just call or email me.

Awesome Arizona!

We didn't go anywhere exciting for "Spring Break" this year because we knew that we were going to Arizona. I actually LOVE Arizona and think I could live there, at least part of the year! I love the heat, and the sun! We had a fabulous time! It was a 2-part vacation for us, and such a great time was had by all.

We left early Thursday morn and arrived in Mesa early evening. We spent a few days with our good friends the Boltz. The kids had a great time. Megs and Mace were literally up at the crack of dawn and in the pool by 8:30 a.m. I finally had to pull them all out at 4 o clock because they had been in there all day and I couldnt keep the sun screen on them. Meg was fried-but hey she loves the water.

Mikayla she basked all day on the floatie. Mason he tormented all! The funniest thing was that Mikayla was on the rock getting all ready to jump in, and Mason walked right behind her and pushed her in unexpectedly. Well needless to say, she was bawling because she was so mad, and didnt get to jump in on her terms. She got out and showered and didnt show her face for a few hours. (oh the joys of pre-teens)


Steve and Kevin left early and went golfing. Steve is in love with the golf courses there! I think he would move there just for the courses.

Later that evening we had a huge barbeque. Kev is the master cooker! He made some great potatoe salad, and huge burgers. We were introduced to twinkies with strawberries and whip cream. Yeah thats what I am talking about!

Here are a few photos of all of us! What a great time! Thanks Kev and Helen!

Rachel and Baby Logan with Mace and Megs.

The crew minus Andrea and Larry. Jacob (Rachels hubby is taking the photo)

MOVING ONTO MARICOPA-
Our journey took us to Blake and Jennas. We went for Claires baptism. We had a splendid time! We just felt bad that Blake had a nasty eye infection! We called him "popeye" and "Squint". He wore an eye patch all weekend.

The kids had a great time. They miss their Arizona cousins, and so it was party fest for 3 days. My kids were so sad when it was time to leave, but the saddest was Rafe. He had the saddest eyes and little voice. Broke my heart!

Claire looked beautiful-

Poor Blake had to take his patch off for the baptism. NO baptizing pirates in the church I guess.
We went to the pool-where Mason tormented again.


Ker and Barbs putting on the pirate faces.

Cute little Rafe!

Blake playing the wii-Guitar Hero.


Mothers Day! What a fun time we had. I feel blessed to be a mom to 3 great kids! Me, Grandma and Jenna had to sign up for pedicures and back messages from the kids that day. Plus I got my bike rack for my bike. Woo Hoo.!

If you want to see more photos, you can go to the Morningside Meanderings and check out the full slide show!

We had a great time and loved being with our family! We cant wait to come again! Thanks Blake and Jen! We love you!

Utah Dance Fest

***I have been behind in my blogging, and I am trying to catch up, being that I will be using this as my journal and in June it will be made into my 1st years blog book.
This entry actually took place a two weekends ago-but hasnt been posted yet, due to the passing of my sweet uncle.

UTAH FEST!
This is by far our very favorite competition of the year! The girls love it, the directors love it, and the parents love it! It is held in Logan Utah. Every year, we have a BLAST! This year was quite the experience to say the least.
We have always gone with Mikaylas duo partner Jill and her mom Lorraine. We had a blast (for the most part).

I was a little nervous in going, as my Uncle was so sick and things were not looking that great. BUT, I decided I needed a break from the bedside vigil and get out of town.

We arrived early Friday afternoon for the solo's, duo's and trio events. We arrived at our hotel. We stayed at the Econo Lodge because Lorraine forgot to make our reservations. It was a "dive" but we were able to upgrade and the room ended up being great for the most part. Afterall, we were hardly there. We got our girls all ready and went to compete our last duo- "jeans" for the season. Now mind you, our girls have been competing this number for 2 seasons and have always done well. Usually 1st place or queen. Their director Cassie-did a fabulous job on the choreography and the music and girls are just cute! Well, the past few comps, our girls started getting a little cocky. They just knew they were going to win. So it is their turn, they are totally not nervous, and felt that they had it in the bag. Well right in the middle of it-the music skipped about 12 counts. The girls just didnt quite know what to do. This had never happened to them before! Both Lorraine and I were in shock! They never stopped the music to let them re-start. It was the downside to the disaster. Of course they finished the best they could, and did NOT win! They were soooooo mad. Of course, we were ticked to. Not that they didnt win, but the people running the music would not let them have a "re-do". Yet, they had let others. I had to fly my mouth off several times and ended up talking to the people in charge. For the moms, we didnt care that there wasnt a win, we just cared that their scores reflected incompetence and also that we paid $70 for them to dance and be judged! Hello! So, this put a sour taste in their mouths for the rest of the evening. It didn't help that when we got back to the hotel that the pools heater didnt work, and that the hot tub was too hot. Grrrrr. Sorry Kayla and Jill!

We tried cheering them up by going out to eat. I even tried yodeling to get the waitress's attention. We took them shopping too-do you think it cheered them up? NO! Darn girls! They were sour puss's! Jill's dad Kyle was "ticked" to say the least and lucky for us he wasnt with us-he would have had the whole comp stopped! I am totally not kidding!

Saturday brought a better day! We only had one melt down. lol! They competed teams all day and did great! They got "gold" on all of their pieces. Center Stage did a fabulous job! All of our teams placed high. We were so proud of them all. That night we just vegged and went to a movie. The girls were great and all in all we had the best time together. It was the last comp of the season! Here are a few of the photos from the event.

Jill and Kayla hanging out in their room.

"Crying" (did I mention I love my new camera!)

"Dream Girls"

"Proud Mary"
Congrats Girls!

Happy Birthday Mikayla

Eleven years ago today, we got word that our sweet little birth mother had given birth to a 7lb 12 oz beautiful baby girl! After waiting for 10 years to finally have a child, you can imagine the happiness, excitement and joy we were experiencing. She was an angel, and is still an angel to our family. We love our Mikayla Diane! What a sweet girl she is. Some of the things we love about Mikayla are her smile, her laughter, her ability to choose the right, to love and accept others, she is so smart and loves to learn. She loves and I mean loves to dance, she is a good friend, daughter and sister. She loves hugs and gives great hugs. She is very artistic, neat and organized. She is not afraid to call us mama and daddy or hold our hands still in public. She is full of life and adventure. We love you our little Mikayla! You are the best, and we are so proud of you! You are beautiful!


Love that big grin!

Mikayla likes to cook! Yeah for me!


She is a great friend! (Jill, Mikayla, and McKell)

Happy 11th Birthday Princess Mikayla- I hope all of your wishes come true!