Time Out For Women

   My Sister and my two Nieces and I went to Time Out For Women in San Antonio this weekend. It was the most glorious experience I have had in a long time! We drove down Friday night and had dinner at our friends Ian & Jehn's and then we went to the Conference. Sherry Dew spoke and Dallyn Vail Bayles sang and also spoke. It was really awesome! Sherry Dew spoke about focusing on the finish line of life and not getting distracted by things that aren't ideal. It was amazing!

The next day we had to get up super early because when they scheduled TOFW the city hadn't yet scheduled it's Race for the cure marathon so they ended up being the same day so we had to get to the conference center early before they closed the roads. It was really cool though because the conference center is right on the Riverwalk so we were able to walk around and we went to breakfast and got to visit a bit.     When the conference started we heard from Amanda Dickson she spoke about how we need friendships and making it a priority to maintain them. Then we heard a performance from Jericho Road, Then Emily Watts spoke about mothering and praising good behaviors, and creating simple meaningful traditions. Then we heard from John Hilton III who spoke about not comparing ourselves to others and magnifying our strengths.

After those presenters we went to lunch at the mall. It was so crowded between the 2,000 TOFW ladies and the race for the cure people. We barely had time to get our food and eat it before we had to get back. 

After lunch we got to hear from Jericho Road again and then from Matt Baldwin who spoke about teaching our children to be non-conformists when it comes to being out in the world. After him we heard from Jericho Road again and then we heard from Kris Belcher who is a woman who lost her sight about 7 years ago when her boys were 1 & 4 years old. She talked about learning to laugh through your trials and looking for the Lords' polishing that is occurring while you are going through the trial instead of looking back at it after the trial. She was seriously hilarious but I also learned a lot by listening to her. 

All in all the weekend was so relaxing and amazing. I have still be struggling quite a bit since my second miscarriage and have been feeling very dark and depressed so this was just the thing I needed to feel uplifted and refreshed. I hope that I will be able to keep these lessons in my heart and use them because it was such a golden opportunity!

Thanks so much Diana & Aaron for providing me with this experience you have no idea how much it means to me!

Kennadee's Zoo Field Trip

On April 28th I got the opportunity to go on Kennadee's field trip to the Austin Zoo with her. It was really fun. Kennadee was kind of nervous riding the bus because she wasn't sure how fast the bus would go and she was nervous to ride without a seatbelt. Luckily since I am a District Employee I was one of the only parents who were allowed to ride the bus so she didn't have to be too scared. 

 All ready to go!

 When we got to the Zoo we stopped and took a quick class picture. Aren't they so adorable?? Mrs. Schnell asked us to send a white T-shirt for her to tie-dye. They turned out so great!

 We finally got in the zoo and the kids got to see the animals!

 When we were about to leave a couple of the Mom's bought snow cones for the kiddos to share. It was so nice of them!

 Once we got back on the bus Kennadee and her friend Caitlyn wanted to see what they looked like with blue lips. It was so funny!

 Kennadee wanted to take a picture of me. It's a little fuzzy because the bus was really bumpy.

Easter Bunny Visit

Well this year we decided that in order to be able to fully celebrate the true meaning of Easter we would have a chat with the Easter Bunny and ask him to come Friday night instead of Saturday night. He agreed and Kennadee woke up to find her Easter Basket and a note from the Easter Bunny that said he had hidden eggs around the house for her to find. It was so awesome to hear her read most of the note on her own! She is getting so good at reading! She was so excited to go on an Easter Egg Hunt and squealed with delight every time she found one! It was so cute!  

Easter Egg Hunt

Well technically it was a "throw a bunch of candy in a field and go find it" hunt but it sounds better the other way. This is the third year we have done this Easter egg hunt. I don't know why we go every year. They have horrible candy and there's always way too many people there and parents who don't listen and go out in the field with the kids when they aren't supposed too. But I guess we do it for the experience right? Kennadee went out and found her candy and then she was ready to go home so we didn't get any pictures with the Easter Bunny or the Firemen that always come to it. See post from 2 years ago. We also had to leave in a hurry because we may or may not have been illegally parked and wanted to make sure we didn't get a ticket!

Coloring Easter Eggs

Here are some fun pics of us coloring Easter Eggs. Some are kind of blurry but you get the point. Kennadee and Russell enjoyed putting the eggs in many different colors to make fun colors. We also did a Boise State blue and orange egg because whenever we find anything with blue and orange they have to go together! LOL! 

Okay Mom I'm ready!

 First Dip

 Mom & Kennadee

 Now let's try orange

 Daddy & Kennadee 

This is fun!

So proud of all her hard work!

                                        

 

                                        

 

                                        

 

Glasses

Well unfortunately Kennadee didn't take after me with my perfect vision. When we went to her doctors appointment she failed her vision test there so they referred us to an eye doctor and they discovered that she is farsighted and has 20/30 vision. They said that getting glasses will help her with seeing the board at school and also with reading. We went and picked up her glasses today and she looks so cute! They have already made a huge difference in her homework. She got it done so quickly and was able to read really easily! Hooray!

Prom

Russell and I got the opportunity to chaperone the Prom for his school this last weekend. It was an eye opening experience to say the least. Kennadee will NOT be going to public school prom when she gets in high school!! I was excited however that I got Russell to take a picture with me and I was even more excited when the guy let us have it for free instead of paying 15.00 for 2 5x7's! For some reason my dress is hanging weird so I look like I'm pregnant and I look really short!!! But other than that it turned out pretty good.