Taylor is 5 :)

Taylor's birthday was going to be a day at the church property with swimming, boating and archery but the rain made it into a day at chucky cheese.

Taylor was very serious about the shooting games.

I made her cake: Hershey Chocolate cake with Mrs. Robinson's fudge in the center and whipped Hershey fudge for the frosting, sprinkled with Hershey bar shavings. Talk about suger overload!

Overall I think Taylor had a great birthday!

Fast Trip

Sal couldn't get a ride from Bremerton to BYU Idaho so mom and I drove him down to the middle of nowhere: Battleground WA. There we promptly got lost trying to find the house of the girl Bud was getting a ride to Idaho from.

Right off his mission and riding 12 hours with a single girl? He's never gonna last in college.

We spent the night at Gene and Shelly's. The girls got to ride horses and follow the white cat everywhere. She's a really nice cat but Taylor's constant holding got the best of her temper and she scratched Taylor. Still didn't stop Taylor. Poor cat...:p

We stopped off at the Portland Temple for pics. I'd never been there. Very beautiful. The girls started dancing to the music of the lawnmower. Yes, their a creative bunch!

Picnic in the Park

Nothing's better then Hamburgers in the Park! I told the girls to get there sandals on and even fought with Charly to get her out of her long sleeve sweater. We settled on her bring her light jacket Grandma Martin gave her. So when the sunny day turned into a downpour Charly was the only one not shivering. I think this is what my mom refers to as "Murphy's Luck."

Bike Ralley

It's a "Walley!" The girls got to clean and dress up their bikes for a bike parade. Then they put their numbers on their plates to the test, with a race! I doubt they had any idea of what the race was supposed to be. Most of the kids just looked at the cheering moms in confusion. But oh was it fun! And the drive through lady was awsome! Mmmm Astro Pops!

They also went through an obstical cousre which became adventurous after the older kids started moving the cones while the younger kids were trying to figure out where they were supposed to go. Little buggers!

My Birthday

We just celebrated my birthday with a murder! A Muder Mystery that is... One I adapted from one I found on the internet. It is actually a book of mormon story of all things! We had a blast playing. Rex turned out to be the murderer but no one believed him. Even when he was confessing my Dad kept trying to point the blame on my Mom. My parents had never seen the theatrical side of Rex so this was fun:

Then we set off firworks at my house. Rex and Brad had a battle with tanks. Rex blames his failure to dominate on the fire starter I gave him. I guess he can't cope with the fact he's a slow fireworks starter. his tanks got fired on before he could even get them lit. But our neighbors drove by and smashed most of brad's tanks so Rex claimed victory by his suprise crushing tank (a Saturn View).