I've been tagged!

My Jenni tagged me so I'm supposed to tell 6 things about me and then tag 6 people.

1. I love my kids more than anything. I love their faces, their laugh, their personalities and every thing about them. I cry when they are sad and laugh when they are happy and when something extra special happens in their lives, I get more excited than if it was happening it me. I am so blessed with my 6 little ones that grew up better than I could have ever hoped or prayed for. I feel like I'm bearing my testimony but what can I say, the church is true!

2. I am ecstatic about having grandchildren. I can kiss their little faces even if theirs chocolate or cookies or any kind of smudges on them. Their eyes tell all their feelings and their smile and giggle lights up my world.

3. I love my Dave and feel so helpless about his MS. He hurts all the time now and I never know what to do for him. And still, he makes me feel safe, loved and needed. I'm happy he brought kids into our family. They are wonderful!

4. I hate having headaches and I try not to say to much about them but you can usually tell when I have a bad one I'm told, because my eyes look like they hurt or something like that. I worry or stress a lot is what the doctors tell me. What I would like to do is stay in my room for a week and get off the medicine.

5. I feel guilty, ALL THE TIME!!!

6. I love my calling in Relief Society as the "Teachings of Our Times" teacher . I taught yesterday and it is so full filling to me. I love it when they laugh at the things I say and also get tears in their eyes when it's spiritual. I feel very blessed.

I would like to tag Cindi Braby, Jennie Grangroth, Tiffany, Juli, Robyn, and Erin. I know that's not six but that's all I know!

Q's Birthday Party

Dave and I went to Quentin's birthday party and it was so much fun. Here's a picture of his happy smiley face. Lots of people came to his party including his grandma and grandpa Ottley, grandma Jackson and lots of cousins and friends.

Little Kennedy is holding the bat in this picture after hitting the pinata and being very happy about it. She did a good job!
Quentin is hitting the pinata in this picture.
This is a gift for Q from the Beesley family. Ryan was having loads of fun with it and we all cracked up. Juli got even a better picture that I hope she will share. Ryan is so much fun!!!
Here's a happy Porter.
Cute Kennedy posing for a picture.

Afton had a lot of fun hitting the pinata too. She really did a good job.
I didn't get a picture of the cake but it was from Cold Stone and it was huge. Thank you Erin for all your work and thanks Q for having a birthday and thanks Ryan for making us laugh!

Green River Parade

Here are some fun pictures of the kids at the parade. I tried to get everyone so if I missed anyone, I apologize. What a fun day. Dave and I just enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. Thank you to Arik and Juli for bringing chairs for Dave and I to sit on. Thank you Jenni and Burke for having us all over and invading your home. You always make everyone feel welcome.

Green River Pageant

Friday Dave and I packed up and drove to Green River. We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express, got all settled in and went to Burke and Jenni's house. We visited there for a while and then went to the park and had dinner. I had a HUGE Navajo Taco and Dave had a ribeye steak sandwich. We had a nice time walking around until Dave got very tired and we went back to our hotel. I met the girls at Jenni's house to go to the Green River Beauty Pageant. We had so much fun and loved listening to Juli sing "Stand By Me". She did such a wonderful job. I didn't get any pictures of her singing but I took a video of her until I goofed it up and handed the camera to Jenni. We now have a wonderful video of Juli singing on stage with her guitar except for my silly take. Jenni saved the day! Here are a few pictures of my kids and their kids before the pageant started.

Fairy Princess Party

Here is our Fairy Princess party. I hope it was as much fun for everyone as it was for me. I loved seeing all the kids be so happy. We had German hotdogs, German bread with unsalted butter and Havarti cheese, Tiffany's YUMMY SALAD, Robyn's Jiggerlers. Juli brought home grown tomatoes that I forgot to serve, Jenni brought a 15 pound watermelon and another melon. All the food was so great! Jenni also brought little cut-out crowns for everyone to decorate and wear. Tiffany brought fingernail polish and they painted their fingernails and their moms fingernails. Juli brought her guitar and sang a beautiful song that Jenni asked her to sing. They frosted cupcakes and decorated them and took home lots of prizes. My camera died so I wasn't able to put everyone's pictures on our blog but we do have a 35 minute movie for everyone to watch when they come over. Thanks to everyone who made it so fun! We decided to make this a tradition and do a girls party every year. Maybe we can watch the year before on DVD and make more memories. I love you all!