Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Busy Busy

Last week was pretty busy for us! We started out with Jannika's 7th birthday. Her favorite gift was a butterfly garden (don't ya LOVE those commercials that make kids beg you for bumpits or a shoes-under? :) This was actually a very cool (and educational) gift!

She had a "J" birthday party where the girls had to wear things that started with J (jeans, jackets, etc), we had a jump-rope competition, learned to play jacks, guessed how many jelly beans were in a jar and had a J shaped cake! (This is one of those times when the horseshoe cake pan your family has had since 1972 comes in handy!)

Notice the girl second from the right wearing Jammies, a jumprope around her waist, a jacket, jacks and jack-o-lanterns for a necklace. She definitely won the prize!
The rest of the week included having about 15 young men crash our house for an activity on Tuesday, some friends over for dinner on Wednesday, crazy cleaning and baking for a baby shower at my house on Thursday and then making lunch for the faculty of the school on Friday. Whew. I know some of you are going "Is that all?" Well, that's kind of a busy week for me. Then on Friday afternoon, we packed up and headed for the desert for our first camping trip in our new camp trailer.
And what is this odd picture, you might ask? Well, it is a real live dinosaur dig. On our way to our camp spot, we stopped to see this dinosaur dig site. I think what you are looking at is a vertebre and a rib.

I just thought this picture was pretty funny of Claire drinking her 50th Capri Sun. She was absolutely in HEAVEN while we were camping. She loves being outside, getting dirty and riding her bike.

It was a great week!

6 comments:

Errol and Megan said...

I love that last picture your girls are so beautiful! Man your week sounds like mine is this week!!! Us moms hu, we needed that mothers day!!! Lots of love!!!

Marc and Lori Johnson said...

Wow! It looks like a fun week! What a creative idea about the J party. Way fun! I can't believe you have a 7 year old! Where does the time go? Your girls are so beautiful!

Alexis said...

I tried to comment on here twice before and it wouldn't let me?? Weird. Cute birthday for Jan... can you believe you have a 7 year old? It seems like yesterday Jan and Soph were eating popsicles and playing on the lawn in front of my trailer. Sniff. Miss you all! We aren't heading out that way this summer... maybe you should consider a trip to Michigan? :)

Christina said...

Love the "J" birthday idea!! You must come from Pincock stock! :)

Jessica said...

Happy Birthday, Jan! Oh, Janell you are so crazy creative! These beautiful girls are growing up so fast! And how fun was it that you stumbled upon an actual dinosaur dig?? :)

Jenn said...

Wait, Jannika turned how old? Not really? I cannot believe it - I remember watching her when we lived in the trailer court! Such a cute idea for a party! Sounds like such a busy/fun week! You ladies all look so cute!