It's Official

Brendon's mission papers are in! We received confirmation from President Hoyt that they had been accepted from Salt Lake. So now the bets are on. We had a joke that we should take $5.00 for every guess and the winner would get half. The other half would go towards Brendon's mission. Not a bad way to earn a little extra money for the mission. Pres. Hackwell even offered to make an announcement at church for us. Just kidding :o) We really are not the gambling type and would not ever encourage others to do so also.

Although we are welcoming guesses. Maybe I can even come up with a fun prize who ever comes close or even gets it right. We'll take a family poll tomorrow.

We were told that we should know in about 2 to 4 weeks.

Kyla and Mackenzie Celebrate

Mackenzie and Kyla had their friends Heidi and Hannah Hoyt over to celebrate their birthdays. They made their new favorite treat that we had at Craig's parents house in Idaho. I have no name for the recipe but it's good!



1 package of Jo Jo's... these are not the potato kind that you pick-up at your local truck stop. They come from Trader Joe's and are similar to Oreo's but much better.
Ice cream- we used chocolate this time, about 1 gallon
Whipping cream

Crush the Jo Jo's and add just enough melter butter to have them clump together. Put in a 9x13 pan. Cover with ice cream. Whip the whipping cream and top with that. Freeze over night and top with your favorite chocolate sauce.



We plan on making it at Christmas time with peppermint Jo Jo's and peppermint ice cream.




The girls also made their own
individual pizza's and then watched
Becoming Jane.

And they all lived happily ever after....Not

The girls watched Becoming Jane for their birthday with friends. Craig and I had took the boys to a friend house for a barbecue. (Nothing is worse then watching a chick flick with little or big brothers around.)

When we got home the girls were pouting about how they did not like the ending of the movie. Since I wanted to watch it myself I asked them not to spoil it. Well I could see their disappointment because it was not the "fairy tail" ending like her books.

To add to the disappointment Kyla googled Jane Austin and they fabricated the story a bit. She thought if they are going to change the story in the first place why not give it a happy ending.

The next night I took a carload of girls down to Mt Vernon for a best of EFY. The girls started to talk about the movie and how once again they did not like how the story ended. Finally one of the girls, Amanda, said "Well if they are going to change the movie they might as well make it a happy ending and just turn it into a Disney movie!"

I still liked the movie and found it fun to see how the people in her life mirrored the characters in books. Especially "Pride and Prejudiced."

Brendon's mission pictures

So we needed to take Brendon's pictures to send in with his mission papers.

It's pretty cool everything is done on line. We now just have one more paper to sign and next Sunday he has an interview with our Branch President. Once he updates on the church web site it will send an email to the Stake President that he is ready for the next interview. He sould offically have his papers in by the end of September.

He was being pretty silly and his 2 sisters didn't help.









This is the final picture we sent in.