Alli's first Young Women's Project

Allison started working on her first Young Women's project today. Her plan for the project is to plan our menu for the next two weeks, make a shopping list, do the shopping and cook for the next two weeks. It is quite a big project to take on but I am sure she will do a great job. It is kind of fun to teach her how to do this. She started today out by picking her meals and making the shopping list.

We had some people coming to look at our house today so it worked out perfectly that we went shopping while we had to be out of the house. We had to bring the dog with us so Kevin stayed in the car with her and Ashley playing with his new phone that came in the mail today while Alli and I shopped. We had a good great shopping. I have Allison some types on how to shop and get the most for your buck. At first she looked at me like I was in charge but I told her that I was following her around. I don't think she thought that I was going to give her so much control but it is her project not mine.

I tried to help her bag but she said that it was her job. She even came right home and put everything away. I think once she figured out that I handed the control over to her she liked it and wanted to do it all.

Once everything was put it away it was time to cook. It was getting late so she picked one of her easier meals to cook. Hash brown and eggs with toast.

I look forward to this next two weeks working with Allison and helping her learn her way around the kitchen.

House For Sale

Our house went on the market this morning. Thirteen years ago when we bought this house we only had one child and only thought that we would be in the house for about 5 years. Well now 13 years later and 2 more children we have reached a point that we feel that it is time to upgrade to a bigger home. We have found a builder that we like and home that we would like build. For the past two weeks we have been preparing our house to sale. The girls have been amazing and have worked hard with me to to get it ready.

We are very motivated to sale so we have taken our house down to bare bones and filled a storage unit.

I am excited for our new adventure it will be interesting to see where it takes us.

Dairy Days Parade

The girls were so excited to hear that they were doing the Dairy Days Parade this year. The streets downtown have been under construction for the past couple of years so they haven't done it. The girls sure have missed it. Madison had plans with to go with one of friends so we let Alli and Ashley invite their friends. When we found our spot along the route we happen to sit next to one of Ashley's friends. There were many people around us that we knew. We also knew several people that were in the parade. I love living in our little town of Meridian.

It was a fun night and we are glad that it is back.

Madison's Summer Basketball

This years Summer League has been a whirlwind of a two and half weeks. The season started June 3rd and Madison has played at least one game 6 days a week since that day. We have also been very busy working on our house getting it ready to sale so these last two weeks have been a fun blur. Monday through Thursday Madison played in the high school summer league and then Friday and Saturday they would in a series of five games in a tournament. It has been a lot of basketball but it has been fun watching Madison grow in her game. She started the season out on JV and ended the season playing for both JV and Varsity. She likes Varsity more because she feels that the girls play cleaner and she doesn't get hurt as easily. She also feels like the team works better as a team and encourages everyone to be better. I am not sure what this means for next years season but she sure had fun with it these last two weeks.

Summer ball for Allison

Tonight Allison played in her first Summer league game. Her team from this winter has been working hard over the Spring to get better and work together. Tonight it was fun to see how much better they have gotten and how they work well together as a team. It will be fun to see the girls play together over the years.

The girls did in their first game they won by 10 points. They are off to a good start.
Madison also played a game tonight and I thought they both looked cute in their matching jerseys.

I love watching them both play and have fun.

Father's Day

We celebrated Father's Day today. The girls are so lucky to have Kevin as their dad. He is such a great dad. He is always there for them and supports them in all of their activities.

They made him a candy gram. It turned out so cute.

We also spoiled him of course with with one of his favorite meals and then dessert. After dinner it was Kevin's turn for Family Home Evening and he thought he would be funny and offer for a game night.He thought they were all packed and in storage. Well Allison was a little tricky and left out a few when she packed them up. The joke was on him. We had fun playing Telestrations. It always offers a great laugh for us all to see how everyone interprets everyone else's pictures. Everyone were quite serious while they were drawing.

I have never been an artist but I was quite impressed with my picture for Hawaii.

Madison guessed it right. It was a fun night. I love family time.

Varsity

Madison has been playing on the JV team this summer but this weekend she was ask to play up on Varsity. I was so nervous for her because we were not sure how much she was going to be playing or just sitting the bench. We got there and they had only had 8 people so we felt a little better about how much time she might play. Then during warm ups one girl ended up injuring her knee. She tried to play but it hurt to bad and she had to sit the rest of the day. Madison ended up playing more then we ever thought she would get the opportunity too. The first time that she was put in I was on the edge of my seat. At first she even looked a little nervous and like she wasn't sure where she was supposed to be. The other girls on the team did a great job helping her out and before long she looked like she always belonged on the team. They played three games and won them all. It was a fun day watching Madison.