Spring Break?

For the past ten days we have had a visitor at our house.  Her name is Katie and she brought lots of excitement with her so we made lots of grand memories while she was here.  She was here for her spring break.  I know it is way early, but when you go to school in Denver and the weather is even yuckier than here, you need a break now to try and get away for some warmth.  Besides the fact that now is when her term was over!  Odette was in love with her and loved to take pictures with her.  This time, she didn't want to smile.  Every time we said "say cheese" she would stick her tongue out and touch her nose.  (Yes, she will eat boogers, but not real food-isn't that a normal kid thing?)

We made lots of banana bread one day.  To be exact it was 6 large loaves and 9 baby loaves!  Why you ask?  I love bananas, but I would buy some and then end up at the hospital and no one else would eat them, so they would get stuck in the freezer.  Needless to say, my freezer was overflowing with frozen bananas!  Now it is just the bread!

We organized all of the medical bills and paperwork from the year 2009.  That was a mess!

The girls played in the tub.  This is one of Odette's favorite things, and since she has the pick line in, it is a much easier thing to do than before.

Katie has a best friend named Kya that came over a few times.  Josselyn loved her and was obsessed with her hair.  She played beauty parlor and put as many clips in as she could find!

Katie is obsessed with pictures of feet.  She and Brand went down to the lake one night to check out the ice.  Good thing it didn't start to melt until two days later!

We drove through the car wash.  This made Josselyn really nervous, but she loved it when the soap we got hit with was pink!

The park was great fun.  Brandt kept going down the slide and then shocking Katie.  In a video she made on her camera, you could hear the electricity!

Odette always thought that she was very special when she got Aunt Katie's phone.  Her goal every day was to try and get it.  She figured out that if she would cry loud enough, Katie would just give it to her!  She isn't spoiled at all!

Katie is going to school in culinary arts in Denver.  Why on earth would I want to cook while she was here?  We made a couple of yummy desserts, hence my ever growing spare tire!  One is called buckeyes and they are made out of peanut butter.  The other ones are Oreo "things".  I can't remember the correct term.  These were awesome and I am sure to make them again.  Josselyn like them, so much so that she took a bit out of each one to insure that she got them all!  (It didn't work, but don't tell her that!)

 We celebrated Katie's 20th birthday!  She is my youngest sister, and now I no longer have any teenage siblings.  I feel really old now!  She didn't hesitate to rub in the fact that I am old!

Katie taught Brandt how to long board and guess what he wants for his birthday now?  Guess I better start saving those pennies and watch KSL closely!

I forgot to take a before and after picture, but Katie helped me with something that has been bugging me for at least six months and that is my yard.  We got all the dead winter stuff cut off and raked up.  The only thing we couldn't quite finish was the trimming of some of the bushes because we couldn't reach far enough off the rock wall.  It sure does look a lot better.  Now I am in the mood to pull out all the grass that grew under the snow, just haven't figured out how and when to do that.

We delivered girl scout cookies.  This is only half of what Kathleen sold, but as usual I forgot to take the picture when we had them all.  She was so excited to sell 540 boxes of cookies, but wasn't as excited to deliver them all after the first night was over!  I still have a few more to take out, but for the most part we are done!  Hurray!!

Odette liked Kya also and crawled up on her back and just layed there.  It was very cute.

We had a grand time with my sister being here and appreciate all that she helped us do.  Ken and I went on two dates, one to lunch and the other to grocery shop.  (Grocery shopping is one thing we have always loved to do together, even though we spend way more money this way.)  We also were able to take Odette to the urgent care when Josselyn pulled her elbow out of socket and come home to bathed kids and dinner.  Having family is great and we are so thankful for the time we get to spend with them.  Thanks Katie for coming-even though the risks are great!