Girl Cousin Sleepover

Last weekend I invited all of my adorable nieces who live in the area over for a girl cousin sleepover! They all brought a princess dress to wear and then we made princess crowns. Don't they look so cute!?!

Then we painted nails

...and made homemade pretzels (recipe here), which were so stinkin' yummy!

Then our cute foreign exchange student Rina (I'll tell you all about her in future post--we love her to pieces!) taught us how to make origami cranes.

Zyan and Rina totally hit it off and were joined at the hip the entire night.

We played some night games and a few other games and then the girls snuggled up in our furniture-less basement to watch a movie before dozing off to sleep.

I love these girls so much and loved getting to spend some quality time with them. 

Thanks Heather and Rachel for staying to help. It was a great time!

Favorite quote this week:

“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at will change.”  -Wayne Dyer

Life rules.

halloween fun

Saturday night Bryson and I helped my sister throw a fun Halloween party for all of our friends from the ward we grew up in. Mike missed out on the party because he had tickets to the BYU slaughter. Not a fun night for him, but a great night for us!

Posing with some of the girls...


More posing with a fun cutout...




The cute kiddos....


The infamous "dice game"....

To play, put a pile of loot in the middle (candy, prizes, cookies, toys, etc).


Pass several bowls around with dice. Roll a 3 or a 5 and you get to pick something from the middle.


Once everything is gone you set the timer and the real fun (or should I say "fighting") begins! This time when you roll a 3 or a 5 you get to steal something from another player. When the timer rings you get to keep everything you have in front of you.

The loot...








Playing the game Wolf....



Drawing on pumpkins....



Mr. Incredible (AKA Ryan) off to save the world...

Such a great time!

Big thanks to the fabulous Angie for the pics.

Girls Night Out

Last night I got together with some of the girls from my ward growing up. I was blessed with such a great group of ward friends (girls & guys) and getting together with them is always just like old times again. We went to the movie Taken, which was awesome!!! Then we went out to eat and laughed ourselves sick as we reminisced about the good ol' days.

As we were chatting over dinner we got talking about one of our guy friends (Ryan) from the ward whose wife is very, very sick with multiple inoperable brain tumors and decided to walk over to a grocery store to buy them a card (that's what they are holding in the picture) to let them know that we were thinking about them. Our hearts just ache for him and his little family and we are hoping and praying for the best. Please keep them in your prayers.