MUD FOOTBALL & BBQ

So yesterday we had a Stake Mud Football and BBQ out at the UofA Farms here in Maricopa. We had no idea what we were in for because we'd never been or seen anything like it. We were warned that our clothes would be ruined and that it was family friendly. I can tell you this much the only football being played was in the furtherest mud area with the grown men...the majority of mud-goers walked and played in the mud without footballs.

During the mud playing a couple of Mom's were pushed and taken down into the mud as you can see Mandy Malan (my visiting teaching partner) didn't go down easily and ended up getting the paid culprit worse then he got her. Yes her husband who has a cast on his foot paid the boy $10 to do it so I'm sure he'll be on the couch for a few nights. :o)

Calvin & Will loved it getting all sorts of muddy! McKenna and her friend Sierra decided to walk around which was some serious exercise because the mud went to almost their knees. They walked for almost 1.5 hours out there! I did get in but made sure to keep my camera handy so no one would come and push me down into the mud....I just stood near the shore which was to my knees almost!

After we had muddy fun we headed over to the grassy area for the BBQ....wow Brother Knight can bbq like none other! He cooked the meat for several days and then made his own bbq sauce which was outstanding we had a ton of side dishes and watermelon and sat outside enjoying the 85 degree weather until dusk.

It was a lot of fun! We're so glad we went and will be attending this annual event from here on out!!! Enjoy the slide show and if you want any of the pictures just email at Leslie@GotGilbert.com

Fashion

McKenna got these out shopping last weekend along with many other things but she absolutely loves these boots and wants to wear them all of the time. (before we cut the tags off) So Cute!

Just Us Girls...continued...

Ok so here's what we've done so far:

Friday we went and had Pizza came home and were going to watch a movie but ended up watching Olympics & 48 Hours mystery. We were too full for popcorn but did put on our pj's and then Kenna wanted to sleep on the big blowup air mattress in my room so I had the king bed to myself and she had a queen to herself.

Saturday we:

• Slept in til 8am
• Went over to the Scoresby's for a few minutes to visit
• Came home got ready & headed to town aka Chandler
• Went to the bank
• Hit Old Navy for the jeans sale $12 for adults & $7 for kids we stocked up for all 4 of us
• Then went to Target for a couple of hours
• Lunch break
• Then we went JC Penney's for their big sale
• Onto Ross

Our FEET were worn out and so we headed home and didn't get home til 8:30pm! We shopped til we literally wanted to drop! McKenna is getting into this sort of thing and wanted one of every dress, outfit, shoes and purse she saw!!! I've created a monster! ha I spent all of my birthday money and then some. Now we are going to have some left over pizza while we watch Cheetah Girls "One World" movie on Disney and I think we'll skip the ice cream and go straight to bed! We're both excited about all of our new stuff, the stuff we got for the boys and the Christmas gifts we bought today but too tired to put it away. Oh yeah we jammed out to the Camp Rock CD all the way home gotta love the Jonas Brothers! :o) FYI - Flip flops aren't serious shopping shoes so we highly recommend comfy sneakers with arch supports!

So am I doing the Girls Weekend up right or what???? Tomorrow I think we'll do pedicures at home, I have a singing practice at 9am, put away all of our stuff & clean up the house a bit, visiting teaching at 11am and church at 1:30pm afterwards I think we'll play a game or something until the boys get home. McKenna has said several times that she misses the boys so I'm hoping that she truly misses them and that I'm not just boring! I'll take some pictures if we decide to have a fashion show in our new clothes :o) Ok ok I'm missing the movie and you know I'm dying to watch some more Disney!!!!

August 21st

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Thomas S. Monson is going strong at age 81, celebrating his birthday Thursday, August 21st. "I'm doing fine," he said when asked about his health.

I share a birthday with this incredible man....I thought that was cool hence the post. I hope he had a very happy birthday like I did. :o)

Just Us Girls..........

So Will & Calvin took off to go hunting today so it's just Kenna & I for the weekend. Any fun idea's??? We should clean house, do laundry, go grocery shopping but that just doesn't sound like much fun. hee hee

The Elephant Bar

We enjoyed a night out to dinner at The Elephant Bar with friends, Tomas & Kathy from our ward. The food was good and the out of Africa theme was appreciated by all. :o)

Calvin & McKenna love the waterfall elephant so of course I said stay there and I'll take a picture!


My cute hubby by the elephant probably wishing that he was in africa hunting some wild animal.


Our waitress was kind enough to take our picture at the table.

First Day of School 2008-2009

Today it was back to school....McKenna is in 5th grade and has Mrs. Garoutte and Calvin is in 1st grade and his teacher is Mrs. Jenkins...both seem really nice. The kids were very excited last night and both slept with me which meant Will slept in Calvin's bedroom. (he prefers that bed honestly) Half way through the night Calvin decided to join Will and wanted to talk to him and expressed some nervousness about school. Will said Calvin must have said about 20 prayers to have a good first day. :o) McKenna was nervous but that girl can sleep. :o)






This is Conner a friend & class mate of Kenna's they walked to their line together so I could walk Calvin to his class which was on the other side of the campus.





They both said they had a great day! They got to see old friends and make a few new ones and are ready to try it again tomorrow.