You Arrrrrrr Invited....

To Gabby's 4th Birthday Party!!
This year Gabby wanted a Pirate Party! It was actually a nice change up from princess and Tinkerbell!

 This is just a few of her little friends that came.  We had a few more come late, but the hats and patched only stayed on long enough for a photo!

 Then we colored some Pirate color pages while we waited.

 I love how her tongue is sticking out!  She is like her dad, when she is concentrating really hard, the tongue comes out!  She is trying really hard to stay in the lines!

 We played "Pin the Patch on the Pirate." Please don't judge my art work!! :) ....the kids loved it!  If you can't tell, it is Izzy from the Disney show, "Jake and the Neverland Pirates."

 Then we had a scavenger hunt that took the kids outside and around the house to find clues that lead them to the garage where there was a box/treasure chest of goodies for them to take home!

 Then pizza for lunch.

 Opening presents, and then cup cakes before sending them home!

This girls is crazy, and hilarious, and sweet!  I love my Gabby Girl!  I hope your birthday was everything you wanted! I can't believe she start pre-school in a few weeks!  She is just getting too big!

Water Baby

This girls LOVES water!  We were at the Provo splash pad, and she was running around to every water spout!

Schrammparents Send-off

It was an emotional morning.  We were lucky enough to spend an extra week with the Schrammparents, but it had come to an end. We said our good-byes and then I took them to the airport. It was sad to see them off but they will do great things!!! 

Happy Fourth!!

 (Dani fell twice, two days in a row, and scabbed up her face.)

The 4th of July was a great day.  We spent the morning at our annual neighborhood kid parade.  My parents were still here and were able to come.  Then we BBQed at our house and Schrammpa & Schramma were able to come up and visit from the MTC.  Later that evening Ben and I were able to go to the Stadium of Fire.  We went with Ben's cousin Nicole and her husband Nate. They had extra tickets that we bought from them.  But we got to see Carlie Rae Jeppson and Kelly Clarkson!!!  It was awesome!

July 3, 2013

On Wednesday, July 3, 2013 we all took Lexi....or Hermana Zendejas, to the MTC. Good Luck! She is going to be an amazing missionary! Argentina is one lucky place!

July 2, 2013

The night before Lexi went into the MTC we decided to go to the Mount Timpanogos Temple.  It was a great way to spend the last night.

Officialy in Nursery

 Today was Dani's first official day of nursery.  She has been in nursery since she has been born...because we were nursery leaders for the longest time.  But today, she was actually old enough for her to go by herself!!!  She was old enough last week, but we were on the road.  However, us being in nursery didn't help her at all.  She cried the whole time.  Schramma ended up staying in there with her. We will have to work on her staying in there!! 

These are just a few cute pictures of her after church. She has a little obsession with hats and shoes!  She can walk pretty good in them too.

Schramma & Schrammpa

 We got kinda lucky.  We got to spend an extra week with Schramma & Schrammpa before they entered the MTC.  We even got to spend Schrammpa's Birthday with him. 

 During reunion Dani had a hard time going to Schramma & Schrammpa.  However, this week was different.  Maybe it was because she didn't have a bunch of people around her, or she was in her own environment, but she finally became buds with them.  Saturday we went up to the canyon and ordered pizza and shot Ben's new guns.

 See those two bottles Schrammpa is holding?....they were filled with colored water and Schramma hit them both! She's a good shot!

 Schrammpa with the 9mm.

 Last night before the MTC, everyone is on the porch eating ice cream!

They enter the MTC tomorrow (July1, 2013).  They will be done Friday, but fly out Monday, so tonight wasn't the real good-bye, we will get to see them next weekend.  But then they will be off to Vina del Mar, Chile!  They will be there for 2 years serving the people down there as Missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Good luck to Elder & Sister Schramm!

Schramm Family reunion 2013

It is pretty hard to get back to reality after coming from a place like Topsail. The week was perfect.  We got to spend some pretty good quality time with some really cool people at a pretty cool place.

The annual Schramm Family reunion was a few weeks ago.  We flew in NC on Thursday night and drove out to the beach Friday and were there through the next Friday.  Ben's parents bought their beach house to have a place for their family to get together, and so we have our reunions there every year.  This year was especially fun b/c everyone was there.  We all wanted to spend some quality time with the Schrammparents before they left on their 2 year mission to Chile for our Church.

Some of the highlights:
~the girls playing with cousins
~cousin's puppet show
~GNO favorite things party
~movies
~The Big Fish Schrammpa caught
~fireworks
~smore's
~desserts every night & 20 + lbs of candy....seriously.
~Throwing a big log (Schrammlympics)
....and i may have to add more later as I remember everything.

We started the drive back Friday morning.  We flew there, and drove the Schrammparents car back to UT.  We are going to sell Ben's car so we can buy the Schrammparents car.  We made it to TN the first night and stayed with Courtney's family, the Bronson's, at their new pretty house.  Then Saturday we left TN and drove to NE to stay with my parents.  Some of my siblings came to town to listen to my sister Lexi give her farewell talk in Church, so we decided to stay for that as well. .....which was a great talk.  She really is going to be a great missionary.  We left right after church to head back to UT. We go in Monday morning at 3am.....so tried!  But the Schrammparents flew into UT Monday afternoon.  And will be here until this coming Monday when they enter the MTC.

We are pretty lucky to get to spend an extra week with them!

They will go into the MTC Monday, and then that night my family will come in to drop Lexi off at the MTC on Wednesday.

It is a busy missionary week.

PS....thanks to all my sister-in-laws for all the pictures.  :) 

Strawberries

This is our first year planting strawberry's and I didn't realize that birds also like strawberries!  We had a few strawberries eaten by birds, and I was so annoyed.  So I bought some netting to keep them away....and we finally got some to eat some!  Our first little strawberries!  They were so tiny! I let the two older girls eat them, but they told me they were really yummy and sweet.