Easter!

Yep, I made that! I'm pretty proud!

This year for Easter, Casey and I spent it with both our families. We really are blessed to have both families so close so we can spend holidays with both of them! We started out the day going to my parents' house in the morning around 10 to watch all our little nephews, Kylee, and my little cousins Alex, and Anya on their Easter Egg Hunt! It is too funny to watch the little ones! Tate would shake the eggs and make sure there was something inside, and when it didn't make a noise he would open it up to see if anything was inside, these ones would be the ones with dollar bills insided, but he needed make sure! I thought this was pretty funny! The Easter Bunny was pretty good this year and brought the kids those yummy different flavored milk boxes from Gossners, and some Cache valley string cheese! I don't remember the Easter Bunny bringing me stuff like that!! After they all found their treats, we all hung out outside since the weather happened to be amazing that day! We were expecting it to rain all day, so it was a nice surprise when the Sun came out!

Dax Man with the Basket Aunt Amy gave him!

T-Bone hunting easter eggs!

Casey and I

I love my siblings! I'm so fortunate that all four of us are so close! I really feel sad for all the siblings out there who aren't as cool as us! I know we would do anything for eachother! I love you guys!

Later on Casey and I went home to relax for a little while before we were expected to dinner at his parents' house at 3. When we got there both sets of his Grandparents were there, and his Aunt Susie who I love!, was there, his brother Cory and wife Kira and their crazy dog, and Tyler showed up a little later. We had an awesome meal of some yummy grilled chicken, funeral potatos, salad and jello! After dinner we all watched a video of Cory being tazered for his Officer training, which I found rather funny, becuase of his reaction to it! I totally get it freakin hurt, but is was pretty funny to watch! After that, Casey's dad brought out the old family videos, and I got to see how annoying Casey was when he was twelve, and how adorable he was when he was two! It's funny to watch those, becuase I always think, ok where was I when he was that old, who knew that would be my future husband! After watching videos for a while, we were due back at my parents' at five so that we could do some skeet shooting! Not to brag or anything, but I'm pretty good at it! Casey didn't know he had such a talented wife who could shoot clay pigeons in a dress! My dad graduated me to the big shotgun, and I did pretty good with it, but I do have a tiny bruise in my shoulder! I told Casey he could get me a shotgun for my birthday, let's see if he comes through! All in all, it was such a fun day that we got to spend with family, and we were exhausted by the end of it, but what a super fun day!

CFSC Dinner and Auction 2011

Some of you may know that My Mom and I volunteer at the Child and Family Support Center in the Circle of Friends. The Circle of Friends is a voluteer organization that comes together to organize all the fun Fundraisers! The most recent one we organized was last night at the CFSC's annual Benefit Dinner and Auction. I thought of the theme this year, and I chose "Wild Wild West!" Last year when Casey and I went on a ride with my parents to Promintory Point, they had lots of pictures set up of old saloons and things like that, and I thought hey! What a fun theme for next year's auction! Everyone loved it! Let me just tell you a little about the Center and what they do!

The Child & Family Support Center recognizes the prevention of child abuse and neglect as a community endeavor and views its services as collaborative with other local efforts. The CFSC has also established reliable stand-alone resources for the specific population—vulnerable children and families—that our nonprofit organization was created to serve. The CFSC considers its foremost focus and priority to be the safety and well-being of children and their fortifying family structures. The CFSC asserts that every child should have the privilege to grow up in a healthy, secure family environment within which to realize his/her full potential. However, families often need intervention, supportive community education, therapeutic programs and other services to assist them with the challenges of raising their children and handling the problems that arise. The CFSC believes that accessible crisis and respite care, evidence-based and well-researched prevention activities and proactive education represent essential, measurable and cost-effective strides toward viable resolution of abuse issues. We are committed to: preventing abuse and neglect of at-risk children protecting abused children from further harm and danger stopping cycles of violence and promoting stability to the greatest extent possible by facilitating and reinforcing development of healthy family systems.

I really Beleive in what this Center does! It's such a great place for kids to go to feel safe, but also that it is committed to Strengthening families is so Awesome! My family is so close, and how wonderful it would be if all families could be like that!

Now here's the fun stuff from our night last night! There is so much that goes into this Dinner and Auction. So many great people and businesses donate so many things for us to auction off, and it's amazing the money the Center brings in for this! This year we had Michelle Andrews, and her mom Joyce Murrey, and Daughter Hailey do the Decoration, and they did awesome! Everyone kept saying how this was the best auction yet! My mom gathers all the Auction items in her Basement and puts them all together into baskets, and other things. The night before my sisters and I helped wrap all the baskets, and that is quite a job! I was in charge of photos this year, So I took pictures of everyone one that came in that wanted their picture taken with John Wayne! It was fun! I dressed up as a Saloon Girl, and Casey was my Outlaw! My whole family dresses up every year, and it's so fun that we can do that together! My mom recieved an award for Volunteer of the Year, and I was so proud of her! She really beleives in what she does, and truely loves what she does!

We started going to these events in 2007 and I think this has been the most fun so far! I'm sure we will go for many years to come! Now here are some fun pictures of our evening!

Cake Crazy!!

Well Jaydale, Kylee and I have been taking some Cake Decorating classes, where we learned to frost and fill cakes and cupcakes, make different kinds of flowers out of roses, and types of boarders. We have been having alot of fun with this class and I have been practicing at home a little bit. I made a cake last week for practice will all the different flowers I have been practicing, so I just put them all on one cake, turned out very colorful! But I took it to sunday dinner, and made my family support me by eating it! I told them they will probably be eating a lot of cake for a while so I can practice! Casey was not thrilled by this, becuase he is shaping up for his Triathalon in May, but oh well, he will probably eat it anyways! This week we are starting the Fondant class, we'll be learning out to work with Fondant and Gum paste. Hopefully we can become really good at this so Jaydale and I can make her wedding cake in october. I'll keep you all posted on my Cake decorating Adventures, Hopefully I get a little better than the pictures below! But those are just fun practice cakes that were nummy to eat!

My third cake.

My second Cake

I didn't show a picture of my first, because it was before I knew how to do flowers or boarders, so it is pretty ugly, and also it was amanda's birthday cake! Sorry it didn't look as good as these ones!!