Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Update

Here are even more pictures for the past monthish time. Okay, here are even more pictures for about the past month. There.

This was mutual 2 weeks ago. We learned the basics about how to take care of cars.


All gathered around Sydney's car.

Sadie being her usual self. Actually, I shouldn't be talking...

...Yeah, that would be why.

We appreciated Brother Delaney for his helpful tips!

Everyone through the sunroof!




For mutual this last Tuesday, we did Mormon Gladiators. It was amazing!


Only in our youth would you find someone with Scripture Power and someone else about to beat a guy with a bat in the same picture. That's how crazy we are. Don't forget the tricycles!
All the youth...

...Against the gladiators (Imagine I just said that in a really deep, loud, and booming voice). Left to right are: The Tree, The Colonel, Super Sheila (with Alyssa Tomblin's peace hands back there), Giddy Up Gladiator, Grid Iron, and Human Puma.

No, there is no one holding them up other than Kama. Yes, Kama is amazingly strong like that. (Noelle, Sadie, and Kama)

Poor Kirsten (Larson) had to leg wrestle Super Sheila. Look at that evil look on her face!


Kama had to go up against The Tree in this baby bottle drinking contest. They had to finish the bottle of juice first to win.

The Tree with his back up beat boxers, Human Puma and Giddy Up Gladiator, rapping an 8-line rap made up in one minute.

Alyssa belting out her rap. We totally beat the gladiators with this one. (Jacob Meyers beat boxed for her.)

Lyndsey Meyers and Grid Iron pillow fighting. Poor Lyndsey just got stitches out of her head, so that didn't feel very good afterwards.

Sydney had to go against her mom, Super Sheila, in a contest where they had to find a whistle in the plate full of whipped cream and blow it. That's Alyssa pushing Sheila's face into the mess. Super Sheila still won.

Giddy Up Gladiator and Super Sheila posing for a photo shoot.


This was last week when we walked to Honeysuckle and hung out there.








A couple of weeks ago, we went to The Falls in Post Falls for FHE. We had a jolly time!

Photo shoot time!...
Hmmm...

Model poses!


These are our hero poses for later on in life. Yeah.

This is like totally the coolest picture like every! Totally! Not. I was just being a silly little girl...well I'm not that little anymore.




This was our fashion show for mutual about a month ago. We had to use newspaper, bubble wrap, tissue paper, masking tape, and items like that. It was really fun! We were all split into our classes and each class had 2 models that we had to "dress up." The funniest was probably James. He was the pope and even had "Paula," one of the judges, kiss his ring. :)


This was one of our super models. We dressed Austin, Abbey's nephew, up as a super hero with a crown. He loved the attention!

Noelle with her amazing modeling skills.


Our judges. From left to right are "Paula" (Brother Mike Murphy), "Simon" (Sister Judy Simon), and "Randy" (Sister Calie Tomblin). I'm still trying to figure out how we had American Idol judges for a modeling show, but I still had a blast!


Easter Sunday...



Sunday, April 5, 2009

Spring Break

Okay, these are all the things we did during spring break. Good luck getting through all of the pictures.

This is when we went skiing during break at Lookout. Noelle and I went with my dad. We listened to Britney Spears while speeding down the freeway and had a great time going down some hills that we had never tried out before.

Just about ready to go.

Zoom, zoom. This is on Quicksilver Lane, or something like that.

We have to take this one every time.

Just another one of my many, many pictures.

Noelle and her faces.

Before Bonanza.


For the first 5/7 of Spring Break, we went to Boise and Melba, Idaho. Here are some shots. Well, a lot of shots.

David and our other cousin his age, Lily, always fought over Nana when she started dancing with one or the other. They loved it.

The day before April Fool's, we ate fried turkey, so for April Fool's Day, my grandma sent out e-mails to all of my aunts and uncles, telling them that my mom got 400 degree burns from the oil in the frier. To make it more real, my grandma also told everyone that my dad had drilled into the main water pipe at their busines, a retirement home, and that my great grandma was in the hospital, both of those being true. So, my mom had to play along.



We went to my great grandma's house to help her out by cleaning up outside, trimming her giant pine tree, and replanting her beautiful fake flowers. This time, we made sure they looked pretty real. Afterwards, we climbed the butte about two acres behind her house with my grandparents. I had a wonderful time.
All my siblings and me with my great grandma, Grandma Ball. She isn't doing too well and might be passing away soon, so Noelle and I got to ask her some questions about her childhood and stuff like that. It was a great experience.

Alrighty then, next picture. Don't look...please.

Steven and my dad taking some tree branches to the burning pile.

This is one of the many very old sheds in my great grandma's yard.

Um, yeah, see that huge hill thing called a butte behind the shed? We got to climb up that bad boy.

The edge that Noelle is on is about one foot wide. One slip of the foot, and one of us would have been...well, either dead right after landing fifty feet below, or a miracle could happen and we could jump right back on our feet and keep climbing. That probably wouldn't happen though.

The view was breathtaking, and we will somehow hopefully get my mom in this one, don't worry, 'cause I know you were.

I was supposed to look like I was all mighty and majestic, looking down upon the other side of Melba, Idaho while I'm on the top of the world, ruling the earth, but instead, it just looks like I'm catching breath and looking away from the camera while wearing my beautiful, roasting hot, filthy sweats. Phew, what a breath taker!

Nana, Pops, my sisters, and me at the top of the butte.

This is a National Treasure 2 moment. You can't tell, but my hand is in a hole and "something's" got ahold of it.

Yeah, it was pretty steep. I almost fell, and my 67-year-old grandma climbed down this thing with an arm she couldn't move (she tore her rotator cuff). Oh, and my 70-year-old grandpa climbed right down like it was no big deal. They're pretty much studs.

Steven surfing down "Devil's Slide."