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Primary Spotlight

Every Sunday the Primary Presidency spotlights one of the primary children.

Today was Estefan's turn!

These were the spotlight questions and his answers...

1. What do you like best about primary? Saying prayers

2. What is the best thing about your family? Eating dinner and having Family Home Evening

3. What's your favorite thing about school? Recess

4. What food do you not like at all? Strawberries

5. What do you want to be when you grow up? A hiker and an artist

6. What is your favorite scripture story? Nephi

7. What is your favorite primary song? Scripture Power

8. What do you think would be the best thing about being a missionary? Teaching people about Jesus.

He was so excited to be the spotlight and be the center of attention for a little while. They had him stand at the front and we all sang his favorite song, Scripture Power. Then they gave him a little certificate saying that he was a very important part of primary!

Hope you're all having a great Sunday :)

Make it Work!

Some how every Christmas I always end up buying way too much wrapping paper. Then throughout the remainder of the year I don't want to buy more wrapping paper for birthday presents. So I use the Christmas paper for birthday presents!

But what? Can Christmas paper be used to wrap birthday presents??
YES!
How??
As my man Tim Gunn says,

That's right... improvise! Make it work!

Would you believe that on the other side of this cute paper are pictures of Ralphie from a Christmas Story?
You'd never guess.. right?!

All you have to do is...
1. Wrap the present with the paper facing wrong side out.
So you have a nice clean looking white surface to work with.
2. Then with a stencil (or free hand if you are awesome!) draw different size circles on a piece of fun colored paper.
3. Cut the circles out and glue them to the wrapping paper!
And voila!!
You get a cute birthday present with your old Christmas wrapping paper!!


Also with left over circles you can make a matching card to stick on the present!


***P.S. If you aren't feeling up to drawing and cutting out shapes, let your kids draw pictures or write messages on the paper before you wrap the present. Grandparents love the personalized grandkid touch!!***

Busy Busy Busy

With school wrapping up and summer on its way we've had a lot happining at our house! Its starting to feel like a ZOO!

See what I mean?!

{Estefan the monkey and Allie the tiger!}

Stuff that's been happenin' this week....

1. I died

Yup I died and went to heaven after watching this New Moon clip. Watch it and then call me so we can be dead together!

2. Estefan's had his 1st Piano Recital

He played a duet with his grandma/teacher!

3. Love that look
He's saying "enough pictures" with his eyes!

4. Estefan and Grandma
She does a great job and is so patient with Estefan, so he loves going to piano lessons! Thanks Gaye!

5. Handsome Boys
Estefan, Will and Caleb looking quite dapper in their suits!

6. Colorful Confections
Estefan has a summer birthday so we had his very Merry Un-Birthday at school the other day. He wanted "rainbow" cupcakes! So I made these tye-dyed wonders! Thanks for the idea Emily T!!

7. Day-light Savings was how long ago?
I just change our last clock to the correct time... yeah, I dunno what took me so long either.

8. Funny/Crazy/Silly/Awesome Book
I switched out Mansfield Park for Alice in Wonderland.

9. I'm gonna make one of these!!
I found the tutorial on my new favorite blog, Make it and Love it! I'm sew excited to make one I've got grocery bags everywhere!

10. I'm a Sorority Girl
I'm the assistant camp director this year and our stake theme is University Eternity. So our ward is doing a sorority theme!! Its going to be a blast! And I found this super cute digi-scrap book kit called Sisters for Life that I'm gonna incorporate!! Yay, for pink and girls camp goodies!!

Now we're off to the library for more fun!

TTFN :)

i may be blonde but i'm not stoopid

We're trying to sell this black beast and get a new four-wheeler. Our old one was stolen during fair week.. yeah don't get me started on that.

Anyway I thought it would be a great idea to list the bike on Craigslist. So I did, and after I had finished up the post I was milling around on the computer looking at a little of this and a little of that when I get an email from a guy named "Shade Bent," yeah... that name sounds a little shade-y.

But I checked the email anyway. It was as follows...

OkGot it i will like to purchase as it is,there is nothing much to know
than the year of produce and to know if its still in a good condition and the
warranty and like to make the payment asap and the
payment we be via Certified cashiers check thati will send to you so get to me
with your name and address,phone number, to write the check out.And
concerning the shipping i will handlethe shipping via my shipping company
so all i need to do now is to send you a check of excess fund so you
can deduct yourmoney and send the excess to my shipper who is currently in
bay area for the pick at your residence after the check clearsto my house
here in Florida so get back to me with the info to send the check
out.please contact me now for immediatearrangementThanks

Yeah... so let me get this straight... You want to send me a cashiers check, eh? You want me to ship the bike to you, eh? Through your "shipper" eh? You live in Florida, eh?

Yeah... NO!

If anyone has a legit offer please leave me a comment, email me or call me.

Please no shade-y-ness.

Thank you very much!

ABC's of our Weekend

For Memorial Day weekend our family took a little trip to Cannonville. We took a ton of pictures! Check Dustin's photo blog for the beautiful scenery pictures!

These are the fun family pictures. Here are the ABC's of our weekend...

A: An adventure in the hills

Our hike at Tropic Reservoir

B: Brotherly Love
C: Can't breathe!
Allie gives the best neck squeezes!
D: Don't know about the look on her face..

is she's gonna smell the flower or rip the petals off?

E: Errr...
I can't think of anything "e" for this picture. But isn't it a cool picture? I got mad photo skillz!
F: Funny Allie
G: Gorgeous Scenery
H: Happy Boy
I: Interesting look
Allie likes to wear my sunglasses. She says, "Now I'm a hot mama, like you!" Love that girl!
J: Jump on Dad
K: Kisses for Da-do
L: Look out mom, attack of the kids!
M: More pictures at the Nelson store building
We always take a couple of pictures here. Its pretty cool to see your last name in huge red letters on the side of a building ;)
N: Nelson Boys
O: {my} Other parents
P: Please don't get shocked!
Dustin and his dad put up an electric fence for Grandma Bonnie. Doesn't sound too crazy.. except they did it in the rain! I thought electricity and water didn't mix. Apparently its ok as long as you wait to plug in the power til it stops raining... silly me!
I think Jack did get shocked though!!
{note: this isn't the actual the fence they put up. I wasnt' gonna stand out in the rain and take pictures and risk getting shocked myself!}
Q: Quite the handsome pair
R: Rounding the corner
On the way home we hiked around at Zion
S: Such tall mountains
{in beautiful Zion}
T: Take it easy down the hill, Allie!
She slid down the side of this hill and got a cactus in her bum :(
U: Uhhh....
I'm drawing another blank on this picture...
V: Very beautiful landscaping
When we got home Dustin put in this curbing in our front yard. It looks SO good!
W: Wonderfully red tomatoes
And when we came home we found delicious ripe vegi's in the garden!
X: {e}Xtremely weird looking plants
Onions kinda looks like the alien baby Will Smith delivers in Men in Black.
Y: You just have to rip their tentacles off
and then they look normal
Z: Ze End
{Spoken with a French accent!}
Hope ya'll had a fun weekend too!

silly things we do

I have a pretty awesome family. We all do and say some really silly things. Here are some examples...

Estefan:
Well the picture says it all. But anyway.. every night when I tuck Estefan in bed I ask him what his favorite part of the day was. He always replies, "Dinner!"

He also has a tendency to say things mixed up.. like lowing the mawn and talkie walkies. Too funny, too cute.

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Allie:
Allie always calls me Mother. She says things like,

"Oh mother, you are so very odd." and
"Mother will you please help me? Mark is being ridiculous."

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Mark:
Mark is developing a funny personality. When he's mad he drops his fore-head to the floor with his bum up in the air like a little stink bug and cries.

He also waits patiently in the bathroom while I shower. When he hears the water turn off he opens up the curtain and hands me my towel. Its like I have my own little butler.

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Dustin:
Dustin will wear silly hats like this that I make for our kids' birthday parties. He does that not because he's silly but because he knows it'll make me happy. One silly thing that he does do, is he never calls me by my name unless I'm being "snooty" and then he says it all fancy like.

He'll say, "Yes, Law-wren."

Drives me nuts. And he knows it...

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Me:
I'm the mom I have to be silly or I'd go crazy.
Yesterday I had my little sister (who is a licenced cosmetologist) re-pierce my ears. After not wearing earrings for 5 years I thought it was time.

So I'm sitting there and she has the earring in the piercing gun and starts to come at me with it. I was so scared!! I tried to be sneaky.. I just slowly started sinking lower and lower in my chair. I wasn't so sneaky.. so she told me to sit back up and hold still. Then she comes at me again and I start shrieking and crying. Really wouldn't you shriek and cry if someone come at you with a gun?!

She looks at me and says, "Oh, Lauren, I'm sorry. I thought you were an adult."

After that process repeats itself for a half an hour I have two new holes in my ears with cute little black earrings. Yeah I can deliver at 9lb 10oz baby but I'm scared to get my ears pierced.

That was some of the silly little things our family says and does.

What are some of the silly things you, your spouse or kids do?