The Girls at Wicked

We had been dying to see Wicked in New York for a few years now.... and lo and behold our family moves to Chicagoland and Wicked is playing here!

We decided that called for a girls weekend. Everyone came in from Arizona and Utah to see our new house and go to the city to see the play!

Masey and Deyja were thrilled to be considered part of the "GIRL CREW"! We really enjoyed having them come along. Beautiful and grown up.... not a good combination. At least for us moms.

Here are the girls inside the Egyptian theatre. It is such an amazing theatre, so beautiful and ornate. But nothing compared to the play! It was AWESOME! So, so, so good, man, we absolutely loved it.

Conference Sunday

You would think this crew would give us some trouble on conference sunday....but....we are not above using games, candy and bribes.

Brooklyn is hoping for one more word here and using all her self control to not eat the game pieces.

Here they are playing some Conference Bingo. For some reason Kate is using 2 boards for better odds but no one could beat Serph. Candy is a strong motivater and he had lucky bingo card #7. Everyone wanted a shot with that card. For some reason the words Love, Prayer, Prophet and Jesus Christ were used often by the General Authorities. Go figure!

Chicago Marathon

Chrisy and her best friend Erin DID IT!!! They ran the Chicago Marathon in 5 hours!! They ran for World Vision which helps children in Africa....cant think of a much better cause. Chrisy flew in for the weekend from Arizona just to run it (her friend Erin is in Chicagoland).

Here we are celebrating her finish! We were all so proud of her and all her hard work.

Eli kept asking her to come home with us and have a sleep over. The kids love their Auntie.

Kate rides a 2 wheel bike

Kate decided she was going to ride a 2 wheeler and so....she did.

Being headstrong has its advantages!