Easter Continued

As our weekend continued-the fun just kept on a comin! Did I mention, we love Easter!
Here is the kids decorating easter eggs. We attempted the tye-dye look-with lots and lots of glitter.


My friend Deanne (Dean)and I put together a neighborhood Easter Egg hunt at the last minute. It was so much fun, and we decided that next year is going to be even bigger and better. So watch out Easter Bunny because here we come!

Before the hunt-


Everyone brought picnic lunches, goodies to share, and the kids brought their bikes, balls,and kites.

Mikayla, Meg, Erica, and Amanda having some fried chicken.


We have this nice big, wide open field to fly kites and where does our kite end up. Nice Stevie buns!



One more post to come.

Let the Easter Festivities Begin--2008

Easter has caught me off gaurd this year. It has come so quickly! One of my friends (Brooke) was telling me (as she is a trivia junkie)that we will only see Easter this early every 97 years. Interesting....

Our weekend began by doing something we have never done before. It was a riot! AND I think it will become a new tradition in the Scoresby household. Our good friends Tyler and Maleen hosted their annual "Crack Off".

Whats a crack off?
-Eggs must be hardboiled
-Decorated
-Nothing on the shell that would interfere with the strength of the shell (beads, gems, jewels, apoxy)

We were to each bring three eggs decorated and ready to go.

Maleen had brackets ready for the crack off, and we had our eggs out for the voting of the BEST egg.


I personally liked the "Ker loves Steve" egg the most, but I couldn't vote for my own. The "Purple Haze" was pretty cool too.

The actual winner of the "Best decorated Egg" was Heather Ure's egg- "Mr.Sp"eggtacle". (She did undress him to race-the naked egg!)



But it really didn't matter how cute your darn egg was! It's the matter of how strong your egg is. Did you know that if two eggs are rolled together only one egg cracks? Another bit of trivia I did NOT know until this week.

So we drew numbers for placement in the brackets and the crack off began. Two people face each other and roll their egg into one another. You get 3 chances (hence the 3 eggs). The cracked egg loses the round.

Here is Tyler attempting a win....



Kiss that egg for luck Dean!



Steve's "Rainbow Sparkle" did NOT win--as you can see he is very bummed.



"Ker loves Steve" is going up against the "King" (a lovely purple and gold egg rolled by Darin)

And the winner of winners tonight is "The King" and Darin Moses!



Very fun night! We spent the rest of the evening playing "Curses, and Mafia" and eating lots of Easter sweets. Thanks for the fun evening Maleen and Tyler a.k.a the "Raging Stallion". We had an awesome time!

BYU Nationals

Here are some photos of Nationals at BYU this past week. It was so much fun. The kids did a fabulous job! We watched the video after their performance at a birds eyes view, and their lines were so great. I was so proud of them. It is always so fun to see them succeed after all of the hours of practice. We love Miss Auti-she has done a great job with "Pre-teen Millenia" this year. Thanks Auti! Our team took third. We are proud of our team!


Casna, Myla, Kiersten, Miss Autumn,and Megs

Our Geo-Caching Adventure

Our kids get out of school early on Fridays. We have been so busy lately with dance, work, church etc. That I decided to take a few hours and play. So, I pulled up a few caches in the area, and I hit a jackpot! It was such a cool cache. It was up in the foothills of the Lindon/Orem area. We took our friends the Miranda's and had a blast. The real estate was amazing first of all, and the wild life was even better. We saw three deer in the front yard of this home. We were all freakin out! I stopped (yes in the middle of the street)to take a photo, but was too late. We then had to hike to the top of this hill to find our treasure. Here are some photos of the cache-and some photos of the awesome view of Orem, Provo, and Utah Lake.
Anthony Miranda found his first cache! Let me tell you he was excited and caught the geo-caching bug! (Sorry Heidi!)



View of the valley. It was a little dreary, and quite chilly. Freakin Mother Nature. It was nice when we left!



The "Caching Crew"- Heidi, Camille, Megan, Mason (whose bum is bent over), Anthony, Izzy, and Mikayla.

The Lucky Leprechauns!

I am the bomb mom this week! It's nearly St. Patty's and we just have to get ready and catch all those sneaky leprechauns! At least at my house. Let me start this story back a few years ago.

My nephew Brennan was really sick during this time 3 years ago. I went to my sister-in-laws house to help her tend my niece while she was at the hospital with him. Well with mom away-the kids play (with their favorite auntie). Ash and I made this amazing leprechaun house/trap. I intended for it to be a one night thing to keep her occupied. Little did I know that it would keep her entertained for months to come, and still carries over every St. Patricks time. Gotta love Ash's imagination.

Well, this excitement carried over to the cousins-which actually was pretty funny. Because all the kids were enamored by the leprechauns by day--night time came and my niece Rilee and Spencer became nervous. Which caused my sister in law Amber to NOT like the leprechaun game. Infact, she wanted it to just go away! The funny thing was, whenever we were all together, the kids would start playing leprechaun and we adults would feed the need, by moving objects around, leaving little tiny hand written notes, and quarters. The kids LOVED it! Except for when night came for Rilee-the mere thought of anything in her house stressed her out (ie. Santa, the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy, and leprechauns). We were kind of naughty brothers and sister, because we thought it was hilarious and we kept feuling the fire. I think it was just for the reaction. Who knows, it was fun though.

Even last year Stephen wanted to go to the cousins houses and deck out their yards with gold treasure for the kids--but I stopped him. (Now they are all into Harry Potter and wizard classes)

Anyways, Mason and I are getting ready for St. Patty's day. He and his friends Warren and Teague and I have been busy for the past few days building our traps in hopes of catching a leprechaun. It's become magical for them. Listening to them make their game plans, has totally cracked me up. I cant wait to play on this little game with our son. He loves it-and it thrills him to try and catch the little sneaky guys.



Here are our cute houses being assembled.


So if any of my brothers and sisters are reading this-post your memories of this event.

AND if any of you have any cool St. Patty's Day traditions, I would love to hear them.

Can my week get any more crazier than the last one?

My last week was CRAZY! I've decided that motherhood is not for the fainthearted, and the out of shape. I swear that there are some days that I do not know how I made it. I feel like I am running a freakin marathon. This week was one continual race.

Monday brought dancing at Mountain View High School for the schools baseball fundraiser. It ended up being terrible because the sound system was so bad. I couldn't get a decent photo of the girls, because they were always off! Grrr!



Mikayla could have cared less, she was with her friends and thats all that matters in the world of "tweens".

Tuesday and Wednesday brought classes to prepare for. Which meant late nights for me.

Wednesday also brought a special invitation from Close to My Heart to attend the presentation of an award to our CEO Jeanette Lynton. She earned a business ethics award. It was pretty cool, and I am so glad that I was invited to go and hear her speak. I think that she was glad that some of the directors were there to share in her day.

Friday---This is where it all began. Mikayla "hyper-extended" her knee this week. Nice huh. Well needless to say, she was in some pain. We were concerned about her competing this weekend, so the doc put her in a small knee brace and told us that she needed to wear it. "wear it" is the operative words here.

Friday evening she and her partner Jill are to compete their duo- "Jeans On". She was told to wear her brace-so that she could be strong enough for team events on Saturday. The little knuckle-head, she didnt wear it! Grrr....we werent too happy with her. She did a super job though. She and Jill took 1st. We were proud of her.

On Saturday it was filled with "Horton Hears a Who!"


We were sucked completely in by the media! Mace and Meg conned their dad into taking us to IHOP. Where we were sucked into buying this junk! They loved it, and had fun--and decided that we need to go to breakfast at least once a month. Dad was all over that one!
Mikayla and I spent the afternoon at the dance comp. America Onstage that was held in Lehi.
Saturday night we pulled an all nighter as we were slackers all week. We had to prepare our primary lesson and we had to prepare sharing time, and get a talk ready for Megs. Sheesh! I am tired! I hope that this week slows down, but it isnt likely in my little world. BUT I am grateful to be busy and to have the greatest kids in the world!

One of My Most embarrassing Moments....

For some people who know me well, you have already heard this story.

For some odd reason, when I was asking Steve-O about my most embarrassing moment last night-His reply was, "Um you don't get embarrassed!" Hello! I do too, I am quite sure I do.
But,one incident that has always stood out in my mind is when I was a sophmore in High School-1983. Steve took me to the Jr. Prom at good old Madison High School. Go Bobcats! He was a "senior"-and I was cool because my friends and I all dated Seniors (We all married our Seniors too!). Anyways, it was time to announce the King, Queen, and all the royalty. Everyone was standing there waiting around. It is usually customary, that the royalty go out and have a dance. Hmmm well no-one went out, so Steve grabbed me and took me out into the middle of the dance floor and started dancing. Um, noone else joined us, and every eye was upon us. I wanted to die! We were both pretty embarrassed, but he wouldnt get me off the dang floor. So, finally the royalty came out and danced, with us. Nice huh. I guess instead of royalty we were the peasants.

*Goal-find my Jr.Prom photo of 1983 and post it this week. LOL!