Family Pictures 2010

Alyssa's 12th Birthday! Today was our little pretties birthday! The Beehives and the leaders came and took Alyssa to breakfast this morning to welcome her into Young Women's. She had a great time at breakfast, but could not wait to get home and open her presents. I told her she at least had to wait until David got home and until the battery for the camera was charged. She is sufficiently spoiled by her father who can not say no to her!! All she has to do is give him the look and he melts faster than a birthday candle:) David bought her some balloons and a little rose bush flower! This has become the tradition this year! All the girls getting flowers from their Daddy. After opening her many gifts, we decorated her room with all her new stuff and then headed off to the pool, where she used her new beach towel and swimsuit. Then it was home to get ready for baptism at the temple with the young men and young women. Here she wore one of her new outfits! Alyssa did not want a cake so I tried to make a cake roll and failed miserably at it. It still tasted good, although it did not look very desirable. It was a very hot day and this causes some great thunderstorms in the mid-west. I was talking to my mom on the phone and looking out the window I could see that the wind had picked up quite quickly and so I opened the door to see if she could hear what was going on and realized that the tornado sirens where sounding. I got off the phone and turned on the news to see what was happening and they said it was do to the high winds involved with the storm, I was relieved! The next thing I know there is a knock at the door and the missionaries are hugging the door to stay out of the rain! They ran to my house for protection:) I think they knew we had food!!

July 3rd

Today the lakeview ward did a fourth of july breakfast and bike parade with all the kids! Alyssa had her friend Sorya spend the night, as her and her family were passing through Omaha to move to Ohio! We were so glad to have her with us!! They have been great friends since kindergarten. Haylee and Addyson were so excited to join in on the bike parade. They got to decorate with balloons, flags and stickers!! Tyler was so excited to be up early on a Saturday morning doing a flag ceremony with his troop. And we can't forget the missionaries, Elder Hemingway and Elder Bailey the Giant!!