Girls Camp Here I come! Again!

My very most favorite part of being a young woman was going to girls camp. I LOVED it! We went to Rock Creek Girls Camp in Idaho. I remember my leaders (who became some of my closest friends) and I remember all of the girls. The pranks, the skits,the spirit, the scarry stories and just being in the mountains. It was thrilling too me. I hated to see it end. It didnt end too soon for me, as I have gone to camp for MANY MANY years as a leader, as a stake leader, as a young womens leader, as a regional leader. I have done it all. I love the whole experience. I had actually gone 19 years in a row (minus the summer I got married) since I was 12! Yeah that is how much I love it! I then had a few year sabatical and went for a few years after Mikayla was born. I believe I have been 21 years to girls camp. That would mean in my lifetime that is over 5 months of camping! HOLY COW!

I enjoyed the break but knew as soon as my girls were old enough too go, I wanted to be there. I could not be there last summer with Mikayla as I was still in recovery, BUT I just got called to be our ward camp director for this summer. I am way excited to go! I think it will be a thrill to be with such a large ward and to be with my little sweetie girl.

Shut Up and DANCE!

Yes we are huge dance finatics at our house....At least one of us is, and she is almost 13 and loves anything to do with dance and music. Her director Jessie Thacker is in the Odyysey Dance Company in SLC. We went last night with a bunch of the students from Senior, Teen, and Junior companies to see them dance. Also Natalie Reid and Gev performed as well. Well to put it mildly, it was AMAZING! They did a fabulous job and our kids had a blast!
Might I add, that before the performance we went out to eat and who freakin knew that these dancers could put so much food away. Holy Cow! They can dance and EAT!

We had a great time, and it is so fun to see these kids that spend so much time together, get along so well and love each other. Mikayla is blessed to be around some pretty great kids!

I was really bummed about this photo! The kids were all excited to be dressed up, and I freakin had to take the photo by the window with the glare! Some of the comments of the night were-"Wow" you guys really look great outside of workout clothes! OR my fave by Marquett was -Hey we dont look like hobos!

Here are some of Mikayla's girlfriends from many years of dance.

And here is Mikayla and Jessie after the performance!

We love our dancer and friends!

Happy Spring

Spring has simply got to be my favorite time of the year! I love the newness and the freshness! I love all of the babies and the new buds. I just love it. I am also a huge blog stalker and I love to see what people are doing--especially in the spring around holiday time. Here are a couple of crafts that we have done recently to prepare for Easter. I got them off of be different act normal website. LOVE it!

And here are our cute eggs in the grass.

Watch for our upcoming "Crack off" coming this week with our cousins.

A huge OWIE!

Lately Mikayla (La) has had a few accidents. Accidents that seem a little weird to me-because she is a dancer and she really does seem to have it together and is poised and graceful. Lately she has lacked the grace. She fell down her Aunts stairs and banged her knee up pretty good... Which totally stressed the dancer girl out. Then she was climbing up on the washer to get something and slipped. She landed on the floor with the ironing board ontop of her. I tried not too laugh. So when on Saturday evening the kids announced that they were going on a bike ride I said-"Hey Mikayla be careful that you dont fall off your bike"..I think it kind of ticked her off. Sorry La. Anyways about 5 minutes later screaming errupted in our house. BUT it was not La it was the middle kid. She had blood streaming everywhere. She had hit a crack in the road going full force and flipped over the top of her scooter. Yeah nice I know. She really looked like the road got the best of her. Especially the teeth. Chipped both teeth as well. Darn it Meg! Her poor little face was swollen and her nose and lips were scraped up. Shanked up her knee pretty good too. On Sunday we were able to get her teeth fixed. Thanks to Dr. Dave.

Here is the wounded
Here she is with fixed teeth and a bandage across her nose.

I'm back!

Yes after a LONG break from blogging, I am back. The real story is this-My home computer crashed and so I was resorted to our many laptops, and yeah well it was a pain, so now I have a new home computer and I have all of my stuff reset back up-and so here I am once a again back on the blogging wagon.

We have maintained business since January 1st-We had two birthdays.

Megs turned 11~ It seems like yesterday when we were snuggling that cute little black hair black eyed baby. She is turning into a beautiful young lady. She wanted an ipod cake. Yes that is my attempt!

Next Mason had his big birthday. Birthday #8!

He was baptized in January by his Daddy-o!

It was a special day for him, his grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles and friends all joined us for his big day.

La-has been busily training, practicing, and rehearsing for her very first dance solo. She performed it at our company showcase and did fabulous. And this past weekend competed it for the first time at a competition. She got a high gold and first place! She was excited and happy. Of course we were thrilled and proud of her. It is fun to see her succeed in something she loves.

Really? I am a slacker- part two!

The holidays are suppose to be relaxing! How many of Megs concerts did we go too? It seems like 20 but I think it was 11 or 12. It was great though. She loves it and did very well for her first experience singing and dancing.


We enjoyed an afternoon at Color Me Mine... a new tradition that we love! Mace was ecstatic that he got to go this time. He made a very colorful Christmas Tree Plate that sported- "Go BYU"! Yes he is truly his fathers son.


Baking got put off until the week before, but my girls loved dipping chocolates and making goodies. Megs is a natural in the kitchen. Mikayla-well yeah, she needs a little help.

We were able to pull off our annual Christmas party. We had some of our good buddies and family members join us for a little christmas cheer. Note to self--Do not play the Santa's Beard Game. No one really liked vaseline and cotton balls on their faces.


The Traditional Scoresby Family Home Evening came off without a hitch. This was Dad and Mom Scoresby's first year since they were married that they were going to be home alone. Lucky for us, they were able to join us for our Family Night. Everyone was here except Blake and Jenna and kids. We totally miss them, especially at the holidays. It was fun playing games, telling stories, decorating cookies, singing and being together. Steve has a great family. We are blessed to have so many of them here near us.
Um yeah-I tried the santa game with the kids too-Make another note to self that kids hate it just as much as adults.

Hey I thought it was fun!

Christmas Eve was a different one for us. In the past we have always gone out to our best friends the Ereksons and celebrated, and the past 2 years I have been with my family as it has been hard since my uncle passed away. But this year (Mace was not totally over a bug) we spent it at home with just our family, and it was FUN. I think we will do it again. We ate a fabo dinner, and sang songs, watched the video of Luke 2 and played games all night.
Grandma Preece always makes the grandkids jammies. They love them!


Here is Megs and Mace spreading oats for Santa's reindeer. I am sure that Santa found our house.


Let the games begin!
Our Christmas was Merry, and we are very blessed. We love our family, our friends, the gospel and each other.

The Holidays can now begin!

Actually, our holidays have begun-BUT I have been so busy that I have not really gotten things ready! BUT I am done working for the rest of the month with CTMH so I can settle down and enjoy the fam, the parties and the festivities.

Dugan our cute little elf brought our Christmas package right on time December 1st. The kids love doing the activities each day and both Steve and I actually LOVE spending the time everyday with them.

I havnt gotten a lot of photos of the festivities, but here is the run down for the first two weeks. I have decided that the best gift you can give is the gift of time. Especially to your kids.
December 1st- We got our package.
December 2nd- We wrote a letter to Santa.
December 3rd- We made gingerbread men.


December 4th- We went to the festival of Trees. I took the kids out of school and we went and watched Meg perform with her singing group, but we also had a blast looking at the trees, and playing in the kids area. Here are my cute little ones having a blast in the bubble machine.

December 5th We celebrated St. Nickolas Day. The kids stuck their shoes out by their bedroom doors, and the next morning they recieved their shoes full of goodies. They love this day.
December 6th- We played games with our friends. Spoons and pit was the favorite!
December 7th- We started a new Christmas puzzle. This year I bought an Eric Dowdle hometown Christmas puzzle. The fam loved it, and had it put together in 3 days, and have started a new one.
December 8th We went to the mall to visit Santa (and watch Meg sing too). Mikayla was mortified that I made her sit on Santa's lap. I informed her that as long as she lived at home that there would be a photo of that year on the mantle of her on Santas lap. I got a big Grrrr.


December 9th-Make and deliver some cookies to neighbors. BUT we ended up eating them all.
December 10th- Was our pizza night under the tree. Steve is the bomb daddy when it comes to the pizza. Kids love this night!
December 11th-It was an early out day for Megs and Mace, so I checked Mikayla out early and we went to "Color Me Mine" to paint Christmas plates. It was fun. Mason loved getting the chance to finally go. I had to give him the pre-activity talking too because I didnt want to have to pay for any broken ceramics. He did great.
December 12th- We went to our ward Christmas Party.
December 13th-today we celebrated St. Lucia day. We made sweet bread in a braid. It was pretty chill for the day.

The Christmas cards are out, the traditional ornaments for the friends and neighbors were just finished today-so bring on the shopping and the parties!