Mother's Day

The girls spoke my love language, "words of affirmation," this Mother's Day :)

 

Mia texted me...

 ThAnK yOu M&M!!

Rob brought me red roses and dark chocolate bark, because he's awesome like that.

Cam handpicked a bouquet of flowers (from someone's yard?) and made me a coupon book, but I've been forgetting to take pictures, dangit.

During the sacrament meeting Primary program, I closed my eyes and pretended Elle was singing to me. Tears weren't even streaming down my face, ya right....

Then, during the third-hour Mother's Day fireside, Cy and Getty snuck me 2 extra desserts :)

Thanks family!

Randoms: Part Deux

My calling for the past two years has been Mia Maid Advisor. I love the girls even more than I expected. We hosted a cute tea party for new incoming Beehives. (Grandma Marie's English hat was just the ticket.)

I was in charge of a "Super Ball" double-elimination tournament for our 70 youth. We bought large plastic balls from the grocery store, printed out a bracket for 6 teams on two courts (which I immediately botched and had to wing), made some candy bar medals, and ate ice cream sandwiches while we watched the championship.

RULES
1. Three hits per side (you can double-hit)
2. Serve anywhere up to half-court)
3. Guys hit one-handed except when playing another guys' team

No other rules enforced (carries, in the net, etc.)

Play to 15, rally scoring

 Marvel (Laurels) vs. Priests (Priests :)

One-hand hit violation. Getty's disgusted with himself, haha

Babe Slayers (Deacons) vs. Missionaries (Teachers)
Love the contrast in team names ;)
 

Too many hits. Love the team's reactions :)

Grudge match: Marvel vs. Priests

Shoot—no pics of Avengers (Mia Maids) and Queen Bees (Beehives)

Sunday night cookie baking

and cookie dough stealing...

and Nertz playing

(Rob was mad at me in this pic)

Can you tell which ones are hard-boiled? :)

What about now?

Our daily vitamins and meds

 

Stirloaf

Cam decided to prank Getty with toothpaste-filled Oreos, but Mia and Rob fell victim instead...

  
...Rob didn't even notice, haha

"What are you guys laughing at?..."

Miss Miaaa

 
 Boys rugby team

Rugby players who look like Steph Curry and Klay Thompson? ... a little

After Mia's rugby game at UVU

Mel doing squats with Mia on her shoulders

I don't have a real pic for this, but Mia loves her job and got promoted to Supervisor :)

Snowshoeing with Brandon

 

 

Skylar's home from his mission!! And sitting on our kitchen stairs expounding scriptures to Mia :)

 Sending Saige off on her mission

Sending Mitchell off, too

  
And Caden

The gym: Mia's second home

Once after a workout, she decided to take an ice bath....

I stopped outside in the hall and waited to hear her reaction as she got in. She gasped and sounded like she was hyperventilating.

hahahahaha

I said, "So... how does it feel?" :)

She half-screamed, "SOOOOO COOOOLD!!"

Then added, "I just have my feet in!!"

Seriously.

About 30 seconds later I heard yelling and panting... I could only assume she got in knee deep ;)


 Most recently, Mia backed into our garage door...

(Ashdon snuck his car under the broken door) 

(... and within 14 days of that accident, our refrigerator, dishwasher, and microwave broke down one after the other :):) How exciting! haha)

Here she is out in the wild with Olivia for an Instagram photoshoot

Peace out, Mia Bomb