Silk Rope

Here's a picture of Jordynn and Matt after gymnastics at their silk rope class.

Tennis Match

In between school and Prom, Jordynn had a tennis match.  This is her first year playing.  It's fun to see her improve and learn something new.

Today she played one game of doubles and one game of singles.

Chase's Birthday Party! Airsofting of course!!!

Chase loves having air soft wars with his friends! He let Taige invite some of his friends as well to go airsofting so they would have more people.  They played several games of Capture the Flag and Protect the President.

Everyone seemed to have a great time.  No injuries, so that's always good! Eye protection was a must!

Quinn kept Hallie safe near my van.

Thank you Mickelson's for the binoculars!

And Jeremy Hansen for the football!

His friend Cole Clark made him a really neat wallet.  Chase loved it and it was great to have for his birthday money and gift cards!

Storybooks!

What could be better than falling asleep to a good book?!

Chase is 12!!!

Twelve is a big birthday!  When I realized he wouldn't be in Primary anymore, I wanted to start crying.  My little boy will change over these next few years into a young man! He has always been such a good kid.  I have enjoyed him so much.  I feel so extremely blessed to have him as my son.

Can we say DREAM birthday present! He has been hoping for this present for a couple of years now!

The Mickelson's invited us over for dinner (taco bar) and F.H.E.  Chase opened his present then.  It was the first time that day that all of our family was together! We did let him open his card from Grandpa and Grandma before school! For breakfast he chose pancakes with chocolate chips and cool whip in addition to the syrup.  For lunch, Hallie and I brought McDonalds to him at school and ate with him in the cafeteria.

Actually I'm not sure who was more excited about this particular birthday present.

Father or son??

The bow is set at 38 lbs.  He's almost able to pull it back, but not quite yet.  Daily practice and he'll have it soon!

He requested a football cake.  Mark did the actual decorating for me!

After cake we went and sat in the Mickelson's Jacuzzi - it was a great place for our FHE lesson!

12 Years Old

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General Conference!

Mark projected it on the wall and through lds.org we were able to enjoy both sessions on Saturday as well as Sunday.  We enjoyed homemade blueberry muffins and Orange Julius's Saturday morning! That was only the start of the many, many calories I enjoyed throughout this Easter weekend.  I loved all of the talks.  I thought it was an excellent conference.  There were a lot of wonderful talks on mothers as well as daughters.  Today (Sunday) after a really good talk on Mothers, Chase turns to me and in a very sweet and sincere way said,  "Well, now you know how important you are."  It definitely makes me want to take my role as mother up a notch!