J-Dawgs & Living Legends

Today was a good day.  I was able to spend a little girl time with Charley and Gabby.  Ruben had his Living Legends show today.  For work, with Title VII, we were able to get tickets for a bunch of our Native families to the matinee show.  I thought the girls would love it, since they love hoop dancing and pow wow's, so I took them along with me, where we met up with my sister, Lexi.  Plus I thought it would be cool to see their uncle dance. I took them to J-Dawgs before hand for lunch.  I had a gift card there, and thought I would introduce to the girls the awesomeness that is a J-dawg!  If you do not live in UT, you would not understand...but this hotdog is in it's own category all by itself!!  The girls loved the show.  However, Gabby was getting tired toward the end, and when she gets tired she can get cranky!  She refused to be in any pictures.  But she loved the show. And so did Charley.  I am glad I took them. Then afterward we stopped off at the outlets by our house, and stocked up on winter clothes for the girls for next year.  The Children's Place was having a HUGE winter clearance sale...nothing was over $2.99, and I had an extra 15% off coupon....I tried not to go too crazy!

...I have some pretty cool siblings doing some pretty cool stuff! So proud of both Ruben & Lexi, not only do they do cool stuff, but they are great examples for our girls, and they sure do love their Aunt Lexi & Uncle Ruben!

BYU Basketball

 Tonight we went to the BYU v Utah St. basketball game.  Ben got greats seats from a guy at work!....we were on row 8!! The girls were a little antsy.  I had to take the girls to the bathroom twice, but we made it.  It was a good game, with a good ending!  70-68!!...it was a close one!

And I had to post this picture.  My mom made this comparison of my sister and Gabby.  ....The picture of Jordan was taken a year or so ago....and of course the one of Gabby a few weeks ago.  This isn't the first time Gabby has been compared to Jordan! 

Called to Serve

 I never served a mission, so I have no idea what would be going through my head after getting a big envelop in the mail like this.  My little sister is amazing.  She has always known she wanted to serve a mission for our church.  I don't think she ever had a doubt in her mind. A few weeks ago she filled out her papers, and turned them in.  Today, she finally received her call.

 The poor thing had her envelop for almost 10 hours before she was finally able to open it with the whole family watching.

For 18 months, Sister Alexis Zendejas will be serving the people of Buenos Aires, Argentina! She enters the Provo MTC on July 3rd.

boys...

I know that Charley is a cute girl.  She already has little boys thinking she is cute, and wanting to be her girl friend...true story.  However, until today, she has been clueless to it all. 

Today is Valentines day.  She came home from school and showed me all of her valentines she got from all of her classmates.  Then she pulls out a home-made heart valentine, and tells me that is is from a boy named Jett.  She then tells me that Jett has a crush on her??? How does she know what that means?.... Anyway.  She tells me that someone in her class told her that Jett liked her, and that is why he gave her an extra valentine.

A few hours later we get a knock at the door, and it is her friend Michael from across the street.  He had stopped by to give her a valentine.  After he leaves, she turns to me and says, "I bet Michael has a crush on me too."

Oh Boy, here we go...

Girls & Boys day

 Monday we had a boys and girls day.  The boys day consisted of Ben and Calvin skiing at Sundance.  For Girls day we went shopping at Hobby Lobby, and got a few things for some projects....including a headband making kit where after our shopping we decorated headbands for all the girls.

 We even went shopping at the new outlet malls by our house....this was in the grand lobby.

 The girls with their new headbands and Uncle Cal.

 Then when the boys came home we went to Estes with Courtney's siblings, Parker and Jeff and Karlee.

 Best pizza and wings in SLC!!!

 All the girls with our cool new headbands....yep, we all wore them to the restaurant...we are cool!

Gabby....nuf said!

 We have had lots of family in town the last week, and that is just the beginning....we have my family coming in next week!  But Ben's parents came intown last week and spent a few days with us before visiting with their parents in Ogden.  While they were here my in-laws kept themselves busy by fixing my house!  My father in law put in new lighting above and below the kitchen cabinets.  And my mother in law rearranged my living room.  I love it when them come! I always get a lot done!

 We also had Calvin & Courtney stay with us.  They were here for Courtney's sisters wedding, as posted previously!  It was a good thing our church is really late, because we needed that extra sleep the next day.

A Bronson Wedding

I didn't actually get a picture of the newly married couple!....but I did get some of our fun family that was there!  It was a fun day.  We got to go to the sealing that morning, thanks to my sisters mother-in-law who watched the girls.  She lives a few blocks from the Bountiful Temple. Then we spent the day in Ogden with Schramma & Schrammpa who were visiting Granny & Grandpa Schramm.  Then we all came down to SLC for the reception then back home...it was a busy day, and we were all tired by the end of it. But it was a good day.

Sledding

A few weekends ago we had the perfect day to so sledding.  It has been so miserable here with the inversion, and the freezing temperatures, and so much snow it has been hard for us to take the girls.  But on this day, it was perfect sledding weather.  It had just snowed the day before, but the temperature was in the 40's....and it was a rare occasion that the sun was shinning.  The girls had a blast, even Dani.  Ben took her down once and she was laughing the whole way.  But it was a little dangerous, so we only took her that one time, but she got so frustrated not being able to go again.  We kept having to chase her from going down herself.!