My Baby Girl is 2!!!!!!

Well, Natalia was actually sick on her birthday. But we celebrated it on the 9th when all of the Arnold family was in town for graduation. We had so much fun and so many people here. I filled our whole front room with 144 balloons and put the gate up and locked the kids in there with the balloons they had a blast.

I love this picture. She literally climbed inside the bag to make sure she got everything out and then realized while her head was in there that she missed something! What was it? A giant smarties! She loves the things and discovered that Joann's carries them and has been a pill in the check out line ever since.

She is feeding her smarties to her doll in her new high chair.

 Look at those giant smarties. She was in Heaven but she shared with everyone though. What a little sweetheart. Her favorite candy is Smarties.

Check out her birthday cake on my cake blog Elise's Sweet Creations. I plan on making her another little cake for her actual birthday but like I said she was sick so I will be making it another day. Maybe for Easter.

Alexa Graduated!!!!!!!!!!!!

What does this building look like? Did you say the conference center? That would be wrong if you did. This is the new BYU-Idaho center. It is the same exact floor plan as the conference center just a bit smaller. It's about a third of the size.  Looking at it and being it you would never know. It's an amazing building. I remember when they announced that they would be building. Women's choir had the opportunity of getting to sing at the meeting. Now it is done and thankfully I have already had the opportunity to sing in it with a choir when Sis. Beck came and spoke. What an amazing experience!

Here is Alexa graduating. She graduated in Animal science and some minor that I don't remember. Isn't she so cute and pregnant. Congrats Lexi. We are so proud of you the only down side is now you are in Boise and we can't hang out anymore and Diamonds best friend is gone.

Spud Feed

This is the only picture I have of our very large fundraiser. This is Lynda. The band teacher that I work with. She is an awesome lady and so funny. Anyway, we had our annual spud feed at Shelley High School this year (our mascot is the Russets, so a spud feed fits). We had 400 pounds of potatoes donated this year and at the end of the night had about 50 pounds left. It was so successful and packed the whole night. It went so much better than last year and we made almost double the amount of money this year. We are still learning and made a few trips to the grocery store down the road for low supplies but as we get this under our feet and have more and more donated I can't imagine what it will be like the future. It's a lot of work but so rewarding in the end. This year we used it to help the students pay for lagoon. So many made enough to pay for lagoon and the rest made almost half of their lagoon fees. I am so proud of our students and all the faculty that came and supported us. We couldn't have done it without them.

Semi warm day

 Isn't she so cute. It was semi warm outside so we went and swung on the swing outside for a little while.

 Tyson, Jaden, and Jorge played on the tramp. Which has had snow shoveled off more than once since it's been put up.