Wendy Clothes

I asked Emily to get dressed this morning and this is what she put on ......................... Wendy clothes!

Sister Visit

Since we were on Spring Break this week we wanted a day we could go spend time with the Robison family. Alisha had to babysit all week, but was off early on Friday so we decided that day was the best. I needed some headbands done for Emily so we spent all morning making them. Of course when I say we, I mean Alisha did most of the work while I had fun playing with the kids.

The girls played so great together. They played with toys, played on the computer, and just had a lot of fun. Kenna is hilarious. She had us laughing the whole day.

After the babysitting girls left we headed into Twin Falls for some shopping. Children's Place had just opened and we wanted to check it out. They had such cute spring stuff on sale, so we got lots of great things. After shopping we made our way to Perkins for some dinner. Travis was helping a friend move but was able to meet us there.

It was definitely hard to say goodbye. Emily cried as we started the drive home but I came prepared with lots of activities and snacks for the car. The drive was nice and Emily and I chatted almost the entire way. Thanks again Robison family for an amazing day!

Nerd in front of NERF

Here's me at the Division level change of command. All the leadership is inside while I am out at the NERF totally geeking out.

Emily's First Dance Performance

Emily had her first dance performance as part of the dance team on Thursday. She was so nervous leading up to it she could hardly sleep the night before. They danced to the song Shake Your Groove Thing by Peaches and Herb and did such a great job. After it was over she told me it wasn't bad at all. She said she actually had a lot of fun out there performing and was excited to do it again at their competitions next month.

I thought it was so cute that her dance teacher gave them all this before their performance. It is a note attached to some Peeps.


This is them running through their formations on the gym floor before the program started.



Micha took some great pictures of the girls waiting to perform.

Wendy's Fourth Birthday

My little girl just turned four, I can't believe it. She is growing up so fast. She already wants to do all the things that her older sister can do. She keeps begging me to put her in dance class and soccer! She is going to have to wait a little longer for that.

We had so much fun celebrating her big day. She and Emily spent a couple hours making signs and decorations to hang up all around the house. She got spoiled by her grandparents and loved playing with all her new toys. LeeRoy made a point to stay up till 2:00am his time so he could call and talk to her during her party. That made her day!

Picnic in the Park - Iraq Style

Today our mission was to transport some Dignitaries to the Green Zone. On our way there we passed a line of vehicles. All these people and their cars, vans, and trucks are waiting to get gasoline. The line is about 2 miles long and doubles back the wrong way into traffic.


Then, once we dropped off our VIPs. We made a little detour to the Crossed Swords Monument. Here's a picture of me and some others in the platoon. The guy not in uniform is "Tony the 'Terp." He's our platoon's interpreter that we take with us on all of our missions "outside the wire." He has never had the chance to go to this monument before, because when Saddam was in power only his political and religious party members were allowed to travel there. He was as excited to see this place as we were.



The next day we were treated to the great weather in Iraq when a dirt storm blew in for 2 days. Yay. The dirt storm blew in on a Thursday night, which is also incidentally "Bomb 'da Base night." Nobody was injured, though and the dust blew out the next day. Doesn't the dirt in the air give everything a nice brown hue?

Wendy's First Talk

Wendy was recently asked to give a talk in primary on her favorite scripture story. This was her first talk so she was really excited. She chose to talk about Noah and how he obeyed Heavenly Father and built the ark. We practiced and practiced at home and she did great. I think she was a little nervous when the time came at church though. Instead of saying Noah, she pronounced it "no one".

........."no one" built the ark
........."no one" obeyed Heavenly Father
.........I hope I can be like "no one"

The other kids didn't notice but all the adults smiled. Other than that she did a great job. It is fun watching her learn and grow and try new things.