Alivia's 5th Birthday!

It is crazy to think that Alivia is 5!!!  She is such a sweetheart and we just love her so much and are so thankful she is part of our family!  She wasn't sure what she wanted to do for her birthday, so as we were talking she mentioned she wanted to go to McDonald's.  I am pretty sure she meant that she wanted to have lunch there, but as we talked about what kind of party she wanted, I suggested we have the party AT McDonald's and she loved the idea.  I was also excited, because I figured it would be pretty easy to pull off!  We made invitations and included a list of Happy Meal options so they could RSVP with what they wanted to eat.  We did the party on her Birthday during lunch time.  She doesn't have preschool on Fridays, so it made it easy to invite kids from her class since they wouldn't have school either!  Nick was also home from work that day, so it was helpful to have him there.  We left Preston with a babysitter to make it even more enjoyable.  I got some balloons and got there a little early to claim the long table and it worked perfect since we were the only ones there at the time.  All of her friends came and had a blast!  They played in between eating, opening presents, and having cupcakes.  We got the cupcakes from Smith's.  She had picked them out the day before when we saw them while finding a treat to take to preschool.  She wanted the Minnie Mouse pink and purple cupcakes.  Cupcakes made it easy to serve and even though they were messy, they were yummy!  It was a total hit and the best part was I didn't have to clean up when we were done!  (Other than take our balloons and throw our garbage away!).  Here are pictures from the party!

Sawyer, Mercedez, Taybree, Alivia and Jazzlyn.

Jazzlyn & Livy.

Mercedez, Alivia and Sawyer.

Taybree & Livy.

Gracie & Livy.

Blakely and Livy.

Emily & Livy!  Eowyn & Livy!

Tillie & Livy!  Eli, Lilly & Livy.

 Journey & Livy!

She got a lot of fun toys and was so excited to play with them all when we got home!  She spent the afternoon playing while we waited for the older kids to get out of school so we could go to dinner and celebrate even more!

Daniel Boone

Carson has been working really hard on his report on Daniel Boone and he got it all finished and turned in on his poster.  The next big thing to complete this project was to dress up as Daniel Boone and participate in a Wax Museum as Daniel Boone.  With a trip to the DI and borrowing some stuff from friends, we got a costume put together and on Wednesday, the 16th, I was able to go see him and his class mates in the wax museum.  It was so cool to see them all and they looked fantastic!  

 I had left the kids at Brittany's house while I went to the school and when I picked them up Alivia showed me her awesome wig she had found.  Adorable!

 After school, I dropped the older kids off at Dance and the younger kids and I went to get a few things from Smith's and enjoyed a donut with green sprinkles!

 It was St. Patrick's Day on Thursday and we got tricked with some green milk!  It made our cereal, chocolate milk and oatmeal pretty interesting!

 Alivia had a green feast that day and so she took pickles to share with everyone.  She also took some birthday muffins to celebrate her Birthday.

The weather was so nice that afternoon, the kids spent time helping dad pull out more rocks and move rocks to the vacant lot across the street.  They loved using the fourwheeler and new yard trailer. 

Biking, Bowling and Pie!

The Saturday after my birthday, the weather was nice enough that we were able to go out for a bike ride!  Brittany, Danielle, Jentri and myself all went.  (Dan was also there and made a great photographer!)  We are all doing the Spudman Triathlon in July so we are excited to get training!  I got home to find the kids and Nick putting together the trailer they had bought that morning while I was riding.  They plan to use it to haul rocks, dirt, and anything else they can think of to get the yard ready for grass.  Carson was as excited as a kid at Christmas.  

 We got cleaned up and were headed out the door to go bowling at a Modern Woodman chapter activity when we saw Brother Shaw with his alpacas walking down the street.  We got to say hi and check them out before we left.  Such a funny thing!

 We bowled at Weber State's bowling alley.  We invited the Jeppson's to come with us and some of the McConkies were also there.  Preston skunked us all and ended up winning!  It was a fun afternoon.  We haven't been bowling for awhile.

 After we bowled, we headed down to Woods Cross to visit friends and to sell some of the Little Caesar's Fundraiser cards that Kaylee is selling.  We met up with the Tanner's and Youngberg's for dinner at Panda.  It was so fun seeing every one!

 That night we got home pretty late, but I still had to make a bell chart for the Easter songs we were learning.  It made for a LONG day, but such a fun one!

 On Monday, we enjoyed family home evening and then pie for dessert since it was pie day!  (March 14th).  I made cookie pie and we enjoyed it at the McConkies.

What a Thursday!!!

Thursday was a very unexpected amazing day!!  It started with a good day at choir that morning!  Then I took Preston to Danielle's house so I could take Alivia on her field trip to Ifly!  It was so awesome!  I had paid ahead of time to have Alivia get a chance to fly and she was so excited!  When it was time to suit up, they needed extra help with the kids, so they offered me to help and in return I could fly for free.  It was so fun!!  It was so great to get to have that experience with Alivia.  The kids were all so brave and did a great job!  

 When I got home, I met Nick there who had picked up Preston.  For my birthday he offered to watch the kids while Brittany and I had a day of shopping.  We left right after lunch and I got my eye lashes done while Brittany ran errands, then we continued to Farmington station where we did some shopping and had way too much fun trying on clothes!  We had dinner at Zupa's, my favorite!  Yum!  Then did more shopping and met up with Danielle for even more shopping and dessert at Twigs.  It was seriously the funnest day and I am so grateful to have such good friends and a husband who makes it possible to have days like this.  Between the ifly field trip, lashes, shopping, and food, it was just the perfect day.  I can't wait to do it again soon!